The current privacy policy can be found here. The new policy doesn’t go into effect until December 1, 2025.

Work For America (“WFA” or “we” or “us”) takes your privacy seriously. We are dedicated to handling your personal information with care and respect.We have prepared this Work For America Privacy Statement (the “Privacy Policy”) to help you understand how we collect, use, share, and protect personal information though the Work for America website, www.workforamerica.org, and other websites that we operate, including www.civicmatch.org, (the “Sites”) and that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”), and how you can manage your preferences concerning our uses and sharing of such information. 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to websites or applications that do not include a link to this Policy, such as our organizational partners and third-party sites or applications that may be linked on our site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and if you do not agree to our Policy, please do not use our Services.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

From Candidates for Civic Match Roles

When you apply to create a profile on Civic Match, we may collect personal information about you such as: name, email address, telephone number, job title, employer, information about your location and availability, information about your professional background and skills, and additional information about your job search which you may choose to provide to us. If you are matched with a role with an employer, please note that the employer may require you to provide additional personal information. 

From Employers for Civic Match Roles

When you apply to view candidate profiles on Civic Match, we may collect personal information about you such as: name, email address, telephone number, job title, and employer. We may ask you to create an account, password, and/or to provide security question(s) and answer(s). 

From Other Individuals

When you contact us or request information from us using the “How Should You Contact Us” section below or otherwise, follow us on social media, or like, comment, or share our content on social media, we may also collect the following types of personal information: name, email address, telephone number, content of communications with us, username and publicly available information. 

From Users of the Sites

We also automatically collect tracking information from all visitors about how they use the Sites, including browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Sites, device type, and time and date of visit, and other information we collect through the use of cookies and similar technology. Please see “How Do We Share Personal Information?” section of our Privacy Policy below for more information about automatic data collection.

How Do We Use Personal Information?

We use personal information to provide our Services, such as processing requests to submit a candidate profile, requests to view candidate profiles, and questions or comments submitted through our Services. We may also use this information to contact you and as part of our efforts to help match you with professional opportunities that may align with your skills, interests, and background. In addition, we may use your information for any lawful purpose, including the following:

• Providing Our Services. We may use personal information about you to provide our Services (e.g., create an account to access our services, produce a candidate or an employer profile).

• Fulfillment of Requests. We may use personal information about you to fulfill the purpose for which such information was provided (e.g., create an account to access our Services, produce a candidate or an employer profile)

• Additional Communications. We may use your personal information to contact you with important information about ongoing or future projects or about Work For America content, features, opportunities, or services that may be of interest to you.

• Internal Operations and Analysis. We may also use personal information about you for our internal operational purposes, such as data analysis, audits, enhancing or modifying our Services, and other important operations.

• Fulfilling Our Legal Obligations or to Protect our Rights or Property. We may use personal information about you to comply with our legal, regulatory, and contractual obligations, or to protect our rights or property, and to maintain the security of our Services.

Consent. We may use your information with your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected.

We may use information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.

How Do We Share Personal Information?

We may share your information in the event that it is necessary to fulfill certain purposes with other parties, including the following:

• With state, local, and other municipal government offices, non-profit entities, academic institutions, and organizational partners that are helping to recruit, retain, or empower public servants or otherwise support the performance of government;

• With third-party service provider companies and organizations who work on our behalf to support Work For America and enable us to fulfill our mission and values, including data hosting services, email service providers, or with our legal or business advisors; 

• With third parties that collect data about your use of the Sites and other sites or apps over time using cookies, to improve the performance of the Sites and for analytics and marketing purposes. Your browser may offer tools to limit the use of cookies or to delete cookies. However, if you use these tools, our Sites may not function as intended;

• With law enforcement or other government agencies to comply with court orders, legal process, or respond to government or regulatory requests, and to protect our rights or the rights of third parties, or to protect the safety or security of any person or entity; 

• We may share personal information, such as contact information of candidates or other data assets, in the event of a corporate sale, merger, acquisition, or other corporate reorganization and transfer of all or part of our assets, such as if we combine with another non-profit organization; and,

With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.

We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.

How Do We Protect Personal Information?

We have adopted reasonable security policies designed to secure personal information we collect. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed secure, particularly on the Internet. Use caution in determining what information you wish to share, and how. We also rely on you to protect the safety and security of your information. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, please keep this password confidential. You are responsible for not sharing this information with anyone.

What Are Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information?

You may request that we correct, update, or delete the personal information you have submitted to us by contacting us using the information listed below. We do not sell personal information. If you have signed up to receive emails from us, you may opt out of such email communications anytime by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of these communications. If you opt out of our email marketing, we will still send you messages related to our transactions and relationship with you, such as information about your use of our Services. 

What Are Some Other Issues We Consider In Handling Personal Information?

Accessibility

We intend our communications to be accessible to people with disabilities. To make accessibility-related requests or report barriers, please contact us by using the information contained in the “How Should You Contact Us?” section below.

Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the personal information was provided to us or, if longer, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce agreements, or to satisfy any similar essential purposes and as relevant to our organization and mission. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we process personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. Once the retention period expires and if not otherwise required to retain information by law, we will delete or de-identify personal information.

Third-Party Website Links

Our Services may contain links or plug-ins to other third-party websites operated and maintained by third parties that we do not own or control. Those websites are governed by their own privacy policies, and not by this Privacy Policy. Any information you provide to a third-party web or mobile site or app will be governed by the terms of each site’s or app’s privacy statement. We have no responsibility or control over the content, actions, or policies of third-party sites.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our Services and practices. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective upon the “Last Updated” date posted on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.

How Should You Contact Us?

If you have any further inquiries about our Privacy Policy or practices, or wish to make a data protection request, please contact us at info@workforamerica.org.