Last updated: January 22, 2025
WorldPantry.com® ("World Pantry") is committed to protecting your privacy. The information that you provide to World Pantry (sometimes referred to as "we", "us" or "our") is utilized in order for us to (among other things) consider you for employment, retain you as an employee and to maintain employment records.
This Notice to Employees ("Notice") applies to our offline and online data collection practices, including when you submit personal information for purposes of applying for and/or becoming a valued employee at World Pantry, pursuant to California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"). If you are not an employee who is a California resident, this Notice does not apply to you.
Please note that if you are visiting our website or offline store as a customer, any of your personal information collected in that capacity is subject to World Pantry's Privacy Policy for consumers and applicable consumer rights. For more information, we encourage you to visit and review our Privacy Policy and our California Consumer Notice.
Please review this Notice periodically. You should read this entire Notice before submitting information, including personal information, to us in any form. Whenever you submit personal information to us, you consent to the collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and storage of that information in accordance with this Notice.
All personal information may be used for the purposes stated in this Notice. We may make full use of all information that is de-identified, aggregated, or otherwise not in personally identifiable form.
We collect personal information from you when you choose to voluntarily provide it for purposes of employment with World Pantry or applying for employment with World Pantry. To see a complete list of what we collect and how we use this data, please see our Annex 1.
World Pantry collects Personal Information, such as your personal email address, name, mailing address, social security number, telephone number, bank information, and your designated emergency contact information based on your onboarding for employment purpose, and to communicate with you about employment processes and employment-related issues, to ensure compliance with internal HR policies and to facilitate the employment relationship including for processing of payroll and benefits (including family health benefits), and other internal business needs.
If you are an employee, we collect information about you through your browser, computer hardware, and software. This information can include your IP address, device ID, browser type, domain names, access times and dates, number of clicks, pages viewed, one or more cookies (as described below) that may uniquely identify your browser, and referring website addresses.
We may collect Sensitive Personal Information from you including information relating to your health, disability status, veteran status, caregiving status, expanded categories for race/ethnicity, voluntarily disclosed EEO data (e.g., gender identity, race), social security numbers, driver's license, passport or other identification information, certain biometric information, including photographs and video images when you are on World Pantry properties, and other information such as union membership or other data you choose to provide in connection with your application or employment. Access to your Sensitive Personal Information is strictly limited to those with a legitimate business reason for accessing this in line with the lawful basis described in Annex 1.
We do not sell or share personal information about California employees or job applicants and have not sold or shared personal information in the past 12 months.
We have disclosed the following categories of personal information about California employees and job applicants for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months, including:
For details regarding the categories of third parties with whom we have or disclosed personal information, please see Annex 1 below.
We use Personal Information of employees for a wide range of purposes, including:
We disclose Personal Information you provide to consultants, service providers, and contractors that we use to support our business and operations who have agreed to keep the information confidential and use it only to provide the applicable service(s) such as vendors that help us provide payroll and benefits, communicate with you, as well as vendors that host our website and data, and provide security and fraud detection.
We may disclose Personal Information to outside parties (including, without limitation, governmental agencies) if required to do so by law, regulation or court order; to respond to governmental and/or law enforcement requests; to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our (or others') rights or property; to support any actual or threatened claim, defense or declaration in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; or in connection with disciplinary actions/investigations.
By law, all security feeds on the World Pantry premises are accessible to local law enforcement and may be accessed by these authorities at any and all times.
We may disclose Personal Information to third-parties in connection the sale, assignment, merger, reorganization or other transfer of our brand or company.
Under California law, as an employee or job applicant, you are afforded several rights about the personal information collected about you, and you can make certain requests with regard to those rights as follows:
However, there are several exceptions that may apply. These exceptions to the right to request to access, correct, amend, and/or delete your personal information may include our right to maintain personal information of employees and applicants for business purposes and solely internal uses reasonably aligned with the expectations of the employee, as well as to comply with any legal obligations, including maintaining proper employee records, or maintaining privilege or confidentiality of certain records, in compliance with applicable U.S. and California labor laws and legal rights.
You have the right to make requests for the aforementioned rights (Request to Know; Request to Delete; or a Request to Correct (a "Request")).
To make a Request for any of the information set forth above, please submit a verifiable employee or job applicant request pursuant to the instructions below. The Request must provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the personal information was collected, sold, shared, or disclosed and must contain sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate and respond to your Request. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to respond to your Request. We will acknowledge your Request within 10 business days and we will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.
You can make a Request in the following ways:
Once we receive your Request, we will begin the process to verify that you are the person that is the subject of the request (the "Verification Process"). The Verification Process consists of matching identifying information provided by you with the information we have about you in our records.
We will review all information provided by you to us, to determine whether we can respond to your Request. We will inform you of our decision to deny or grant your Request.
For any Requests to Know, you may make such Requests twice within a 12-month period.
For Requests to Correct, you will need to provide evidence supporting the inaccuracy of the current information, and we reserve the right to delete the information instead of correcting if such deletion does not impact you or you consent to the deletion.
We will retain correspondence, documents and information related to any Request for 24 months as required by law.
The following additional rights are afforded to you under the CPRA:
We collect and use your Sensitive Personal Information as described in Annex 1 below.
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics or for any purposes other than those set forth in Regulations Section 7027(m).
We do not sell or share your Personal Information as defined under the CPRA. For more information about our collection practices, please see Annex 1 below.
You can request access to information about automated decision making processes we use and you may request to opt out of automated decision making. We do not engage in decision making methods that rely solely on automated processing .
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act, including by exercising the rights specified herein.
This Employee Notice may be revised from time to time for any reason. If this Employee Notice changes, the revised Notice will include a new effective date, and we will notify you of such changes by posting the revised policy on this page. Be sure to check the Notice whenever you submit personal information to us.
This Notice along with our privacy practices will be subject exclusively to the laws of the State of California, United States of America. We make no representation that this Notice and its practices comply with the laws of other jurisdictions.
For information and questions about the use of your personal information or this Employee Notice or your rights under California law, you may contact Human Resources at: humanresources@worldpantry.com.
See Privacy Policy here.