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Privacy Policy

Guardian Healthstaff, LLC (hereinafter referred to as “Guardian” or “we” or “us” or “our”) respects the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy applies to “you” our clients, prospects, business partners, candidates, anyone using our website (“users”), suppliers and any other third parties with whom we may work or to whom we supply our services, including recruitment process outsourcing (RPO), search, and talent consulting.

This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our website.

If you choose to use our website, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the website. Because your privacy is important to us, we recommend you read this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) so that you understand our approach towards the use of your Personal Information and contact us if you have any questions. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

Our website does not automatically collect any individually identifiable information from visitors. The information collected depends on the nature of how you choose to interact with us and the services you use. In most cases, we may obtain personally identifiable information about you only if you elect to give us that information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, mailing address, and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. We collect your Personal Information both directly and indirectly.

Direct Collection: when you contact or interact with us, you choose to provide us your Personal Information, such as complete a form on the website, use our services or provide services to us, engage with us on social media, submit your resume, attend an event that we sponsor, interview or other interaction. Consent is always obtained to process and acquire your Personal Information.

Indirect Collection: we may obtain your Personal Information from publicly available resources and databases, including but not limited to social media websites, such as Facebook or LinkedIn, advertisements, public job boards, industry organizations, industry events, and contact databases, as it relates to your job title, education, and employment.

You can interact with us through social media websites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or through sharing features on sourcing platforms used for matching job candidates with potential clients. If you elect to use these websites, we will be able to access basic Personal Information, including but not limited to your name, email address, pictures, geographic location, or activity posted on your accounts.

In addition to the information you provide, or accessed through social media websites, we may collect information from publicly or commercially available sources that we deem credible.

The information outlined above may be stored in Guardian’s internal systems, including but not limited to client relationship management (CRM), marketing automation software applications, applicant tracking system (ATS), talent acquisition software platforms, on secure cloud-based servers that are not accessible by third parties. These systems permit our employees to access and process such Personal Information solely for the purposes of client fulfillment, business reporting and administration, statistical analysis and marketing of Guardian’s services.

We do not sell our mailing lists to external organizations. We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties, except with your consent or as required by law.

We may use your Personal Information for direct marketing of our services. If at any time you wish us to stop using your information for any purposes, please contact us as outlined in a section below. We will stop the use of your Personal Information for such purposes as soon as reasonably possible.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies are files with small amounts of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Guardian’s website uses these cookies to collect information and to improve our website. We use cookies to learn more about the way you interact with our content and help us to improve your experience when visiting our website.

We will not use cookies to collect personal identifiable information about you. However, should you wish to do so, you can choose to block cookies set by us or the websites of any third-party suppliers by changing your browser settings. Please note that most browsers automatically accept cookies so if you do not wish cookies to be used you may need to actively delete or block the cookies.

If you choose to block our cookies, you will still be able to visit our website but may not be able to use some portions of it.

Remarketing

Our website uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our website. Using these remarketing services allows us to advertise to previous visitors who have initiated but not completed an action on our website, such as completing a contact form. The remarketing service may be in the form of an advertisement on search results pages, social media platform, or website in the remarketing display publisher network.

Third-party sellers, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website. Any information collected will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy and Google’s privacy policies, which can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Service Providers

When you provide your Personal Information to an individual at Guardian, such as a recruiter, you consent to provide that information to the entire company. Depending on your relationship to Guardian, we may share your Personal Information with various third parties who perform functions or services on our behalf, including but not limited to:

Storage providers who process information.
Agents who provide services to Guardian.
Service providers who perform functions on our behalf.
Vendors, consultants, and other third-party service providers to help us provide services.
Clients that we provide services for.
Public authorities who make a lawful request.

However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

Guardian values your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. We have implemented technology, security policies and measures to protect the Personal Information that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Guardian’s website may contain links to other websites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be redirected to that site. You may be referred to our website through a link from another unaffiliated, third-party website. Note that these external sites are not operated by Guardian. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. Access to any other Internet site linked to this website is at the user’s own risk. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We do not intend to imply sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement with third-party sites.

Children’s Privacy

Guardian does not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under the age of 18. In the case we discover that an individual under the age of 18 has provided us with Personal Information, we will immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us so that we will be able to take the necessary actions.

SMS Alerts

Your privacy is extremely important to us. We will only use the information you provide through the Guardian website or associated job sourcing platforms to transmit text messages and respond to you, if necessary. This includes but is not limited to, sharing information with platform providers, phone companies (carriers), and other vendors who may assist in the delivery of mobile messages.

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) governs how we treat the Personal Information that we collect and receive from you in connection with the use of text or SMS messaging. WE DO NOT SELL, RENT, LOAN, TRADE, LEASE, OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER FOR PROFIT ANY PHONE NUMBERS OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THE GUARDIAN TO ANY THIRD PARTY.

Opting In

A mobile user might opt-in by entering a mobile telephone number online or sending a text message to Guardian. When you opt-in to Guardian SMS messaging, Guardian will send an SMS message to confirm your signup.

We are able to deliver messages to the majority of US mobile phone carriers. The mobile carriers are not liable for delayed or undeliverable messages. Message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to You from Guardian and to Guardian from You. Message frequency varies. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider.

Opting Out

When You opt-in to Guardian SMS messaging, Guardian will send an SMS message to confirm your signup. You can cancel the SMS service at any time. Just text "STOP" to the number that You received the message from. After You send the SMS message "STOP" to the number, Guardian will send You an SMS message to confirm that that the number has been unsubscribed. After this, You will no longer receive SMS messages from Guardian. If You want to join again, just sign up as you did the first time and Guardian will start sending SMS messages to you again.

We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the Service, such as announcements and administrative messages, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them.

No Guarantee

Guardian does not guarantee that you will receive any employment or job offers through the Guardian Site and is neither your employer nor your agent based solely on your usage of the Guardian Site.

No Warranties and Limitation of Liability

Your use of the Website is at your sole risk. Guardian strives to ensure the accuracy of the information presented on the Website, however due to various circumstances, including, but not limited to, delays caused by internet service providers, upgrades and/or changes to Guardian's systems there may be variances between the information available on the Website and other data.

THE WEBSITE AND THE CONTENT PROVIDED THEREON IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, AND NEITHER GUARDIAN NOR ANY OF ITS BUSINESS UNITS, SUPPLIERS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, LICENSORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OR THE LIKE MAKES ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES REGARDING THE USABILITY, CONDITION OR OPERATION THEREOF. No oral advice or written information given to you by Guardian or any of its business units, content providers, agents, or the like shall create any warranty. Neither Guardian nor any of its content providers, agents, or the like warrants that access to, or use of, the Website will be uninterrupted, virus free, or error-free, or that the Website (including, without limitation, any content on the Website) will meet any particular criteria of performance or quality.

GUARDIAN, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ALL OF ITS, BUSINESS UNITS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, AGENTS AND THE LIKE, HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND/OR REPRESENTATIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ORAL OR WRITTEN, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, REASONABLE CARE, COMPATIBILITY, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, ACCURACY, AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE (WHETHER OR NOT GUARDIAN KNOWS, HAS REASON TO KNOW, HAS BEEN ADVISED, OR IS OTHERWISE IN FACT AWARE OF ANY SUCH PURPOSE), IN EACH INSTANCE IN RESPECT OF THE WEBSITE. FURTHERMORE, GUARDIAN, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ALL OF ITS AFFILIATES, SUBSIDIARIES, BUSINESS UNITS, CONTENT PROVIDERS, AGENTS AND THE LIKE, HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OF TITLE AND/OR NON-INFRINGEMENT IN RESPECT OF THE WEBSITE.

Limitation of Liability

Guardian and all of its business units, content providers in each instance will not be liable for (a) any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential and/or special damages arising out of your use of, or inability to use, the Website, and you hereby waive any claims with respect thereto, whether based on contractual, tort or other grounds, even if Guardian has been advised of the possibility of such damages, and/or (b) damages or injury caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any file, in each instance whether for breach of contract, tortious behavior, negligence, or under any other cause of action.

For further clarity, in all events, Guardian and all of its business units, agents and the like shall not be liable for the defamatory, offensive, or illegal conduct of other users of the Internet. Some jurisdictions do not allow implied warranties to be excluded or modified or liability to be limited, so not all of the above limitations may apply to you. The provisions of the sections above represent a reasonable allocation of the risks under this Agreement. Guardian’s willingness to allow you to use the Website reflects this allocation of risk and the limitations of liability specified herein.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify Guardian and all of its business units, content providers, agents and the like, in each instance from and against any and all claims, suits, liabilities, expenses (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees), and/or damages arising out of claims based upon your use of the Website including, without limitation, any claim of libel, defamation, violation of legal rights of others (including rights of privacy or publicity), loss of service by other subscribers and/or infringement of intellectual property or other rights.

Links

The Website may contain links to websites operated by parties other than Guardian. Such links are provided for your reference only. Guardian does not control such websites and is not responsible for their contents. Guardian makes no representation or warranty regarding any other websites or the contents or materials on such websites. The Website’s inclusion of links to other websites does not imply Guardian’s endorsement of the material on the websites or any association with their operators. Any concerns regarding any such service or resource, or any link thereto, should be directed to the particular service or resource.

Prohibited Uses; Your Transmissions

You may not use the Guardian Site to send, upload, share, email, post, publish, edit, modify, or otherwise transmit material or information, or use information obtained through the Guardian Site, in any manner that: (i) violates any applicable law or regulations; (ii) is false or misleading; (iii) is defamatory, offensive, obscene, harassing, or discriminatory, including on any basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law; (iv) violates or infringes on the intellectual property or privacy rights of any other person, including but not limited to rights arising from copyrights, trademarks, patents, or a person’s likeness; (v) constitutes unsolicited marketing efforts, including “junk email,” “spam,” or chain letters; (vi) interferes with or disrupts the performance of the Guardian Site ; or (vii) attempts to circumvent or misuse the user authentication or security measures of the Guardian Site.

By sending, uploading, sharing, emailing, posting, publishing, editing, modifying, or otherwise transmitting content to the Guardian Site or submitting any content to or through the Guardian SIte or to Guardian relating to the Guardian Site (including, documentation, feedback), you automatically grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted), Guardian a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, nonexclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, transmit and distribute such content in any form, medium, or technology now known or later developed. In addition, You warrant that all so-called moral rights in the content have been waived. Guardian assumes no responsibility for the deletion of or failure to store any posting, transmission, documents, or information stored or submitted on the Guardian Site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this section is not intended to and does not supersede any applicable laws or separate written agreements between You and Guardian that are signed by the CEO or COO of Guardian, to the extent such laws or agreements restrict or govern Guardian’s use of confidential information provided by You to Guardian as part of a business transaction.

Guardian is not responsible for screening, policing, editing, or monitoring Your or another Registered User’s transmissions, submissions, and postings. Accordingly, Guardian encourages its users to use reasonable discretion and caution in submitting or reviewing any transmission or posting. Moreover, Guardian does not make any representation with respect to, nor does it endorse the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or reliability of any advice, opinion, statement, or other material displayed, uploaded, or distributed by You or any other user. Nevertheless, Guardian reserves the right to delete or take other action with respect to transmissions or postings (or parts thereof) that Guardian believes in good faith violate the Terms or are potentially, unlawful, or harmful to Guardian, its products, services, or goodwill.

Intellectual Property Notices

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions, together with those incorporated herein or referred to herein constitute the entire agreement between us relating to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes any prior understandings or agreements (whether oral or written) regarding the subject matter, and may not be amended or modified except in writing or by making such amendments or modifications available on this Website.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding these terms and conditions, please contact us at:

Guardian Healthstaff, LLC
222 East Witherspoon

Suite 105

Louisville, KY 40202

compliance@guardianhealthstaff.com