The Talent Chief | Jackson, Wisconsin Effective Date: January 1, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1. ABOUT THIS POLICY The Talent Chief ("we," "our," or "us") is a contingency recruiting firm headquartered in Jackson, Wisconsin, specializing in industrial automation and manufacturing talent. This Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement describes how we collect, use, and protect information gathered through our website and related communications. By using our website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. If you do not agree with any part of it, please discontinue use of our site. No payments are processed on this website. We do not collect, transmit, or store any credit card, bank account, or other financial information through this site. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT We collect information in the following ways: Contact Information Examples: Name, email address, phone number, company name How collected: Contact form submissions Candidate Information Examples: Resume, work history, skills, job preferences, references How collected: Application submissions or email LinkedIn Profile Data Examples: Public profile information, connections (if authorized) How collected: LinkedIn login or LinkedIn integrations Usage & Analytics Data Examples: Pages visited, time on site, browser type, IP address, referral source How collected: Cookies and analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) We do not collect sensitive personal information such as Social Security numbers, financial account details, or government-issued ID numbers through this website.
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3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION We use the information we collect for the following purposes: Recruiting Services: To evaluate candidates for open positions, match qualified candidates to client opportunities, communicate about roles, and manage the hiring process on behalf of our employer clients. Business Communications: To respond to inquiries submitted through our contact form, follow up on applications, and send information you have requested. Analytics & Improvement: To understand how visitors use our website, improve site performance and content, and measure the effectiveness of our outreach. Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable federal and Wisconsin state law, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
4. SHARING & DISCLOSURE We may share your information in the following limited circumstances: With Employer Clients: If you are a candidate, we may share your resume and professional information with prospective employer clients for the purpose of evaluating you for specific open positions. We will not submit your information to a client without your knowledge and consent. Service Providers: We may share data with trusted third-party vendors who assist us in operating our website and business (e.g., our CRM provider, analytics platforms, and email service providers). These vendors are contractually required to keep your information confidential and use it only to perform services on our behalf. Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required to do so by law, court order, or government authority, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Talent Chief, our clients, candidates, or others. Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you before your information becomes subject to a materially different privacy policy.
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5. COOKIE STATEMENT Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to operate and improve our site. Strictly Necessary Cookies Purpose: Required for the site to function (e.g., security, form submission) Duration: Session only Analytics Cookies Purpose: Track page views, traffic sources, and user behavior in aggregate (e.g., Google Analytics) Duration: Up to 26 months Preference Cookies Purpose: Remember your cookie consent choice and site preferences Duration: 12 months Third-Party / Social Cookies Purpose: Set by LinkedIn or other embedded tools when you interact with social features on our site Duration: Varies by provider Managing Cookies: You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website. You may also opt out of Google Analytics data collection by visiting: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Do Not Track: Our website does not currently respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, as there is no industry-standard response to such signals. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
6. LINKEDIN & SOCIAL FEATURES Our website may include LinkedIn social plugins, "Apply with LinkedIn" functionality, or links to our LinkedIn company profile. When you interact with these features, LinkedIn may collect data about your visit in accordance with LinkedIn's own Privacy Policy (www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy). If you choose to share your LinkedIn profile information with us, we will use that information solely for recruiting and professional communication purposes. We are not responsible for the data practices of LinkedIn or other third-party platforms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
7. CHILDREN UNDER 13 IMPORTANT: Our website and services are intended solely for individuals 13 years of age and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take immediate steps to delete that information from our records. If you believe we may have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately at nicholas@thetalentchief.com. This practice is consistent with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 15 U.S.C. § 6501 et seq. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
8. DATA RETENTION We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, or as required by law. Candidate Information: Resumes and application data are retained for up to two (2) years from the date of submission, or longer if you are actively engaged in a recruiting process. You may request deletion at any time. Contact Form Data: Inquiry records are retained for up to one (1) year unless an ongoing business relationship exists. Analytics Data: Aggregated, anonymized analytics data may be retained indefinitely. Non-anonymized data is subject to the retention periods set by the respective analytics providers (typically 14–26 months for Google Analytics). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
9. YOUR RIGHTS Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information: Access: The right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Correction: The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information. Deletion: The right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain legal exceptions. Opt-Out: The right to opt out of non-essential communications from us at any time by replying "unsubscribe" to any email or contacting us directly. Wisconsin residents are protected under Wisconsin Statute § 995.55 and applicable federal law. To exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at nicholas@thetalentchief.com. We will respond to verifiable requests within 30 days and do not discriminate against individuals who exercise their privacy rights. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
10. SECURITY We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information we collect from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encrypted data transmission (HTTPS), access controls on systems that store personal data, and vendor due diligence. No method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee absolute security. In the event of a data breach that poses a risk to your rights or freedoms, we will notify affected individuals in accordance with applicable Wisconsin and federal law.
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11. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY We may update this Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, or applicable law. When we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify you by email or by posting a prominent notice on our website. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically. Continued use of our website following any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
12. CONTACT US If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or our data practices, please contact us:
The Talent Chief
Jackson, Wisconsin
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