Applicant Policy

Effective Date: 26 September 2025

This Applicant Privacy Policy (“Applicant Policy”) applies to California, Alberta, and British Columbia applicants’ personal information collected by Checkr, Inc. and its family of companies (“Checkr,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) during the recruitment and hiring process. Personal information is generally information that identifies or reasonably could identify you, such as your name, email, and phone number.

If you are offered and accept a position with Checkr, the use of this personal information will be governed by our internal employee privacy policy and employee handbook. At that point, this Applicant Policy will no longer apply.

We may collect the below types of personal information during the recruitment process:

We may collect (and may have collected in the 12 months before this Applicant Policy was last updated) the following categories of personal information.

We may use personal information for the following purposes.

We may disclose (and may have disclosed in the 12 months before this Applicant Policy was last updated) personal information to the following entities.

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. Once the retention period expires, we securely delete or anonymize your information.

The rights you have regarding your personal information depend on where you live. 

If you live in California, the CCPA can provide applicants the following rights, subject to some exceptions:

The CCPA exempts certain types of information and processing activities from its coverage, particularly publicly available information and personal information processed as part of the background check process. To learn more about these exemptions, please read Section 1.4 of our Privacy Policy.

Under the CCPA, California residents can ask businesses to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information if those businesses are using that information for purposes beyond those designated by the CCPA. Examples of such designated purposes include providing a service requested by the consumer. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information subject to the CCPA in ways that would require us to offer the right to limit. For that reason, we are not required to provide that right.

Although the CCPA gives you the right to opt out of the “sale” of your personal information, we do not “sell” your personal information, as that term is defined in the CCPA. As part of the employment relationship, we do not “share” personal information for “cross-context behavioral advertising,” as those terms are defined in the CCPA.

If, however, you visit our website open to non-applicants, such as our homepage, we might share your personal information collected during your visit to those parts of the website for cross-context behavioral advertising. Such information might include your IP address, cookie IDs, and timestamps. To learn about how to opt out of that sharing, please read our Privacy Policy. There, you will also find information about how Checkr treats Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals and how to enable them from your browser.

If you live in Alberta or British Columbia, the Alberta  Personal Information Protection Act and British Columbia Personal Information Protection Act can provide the following rights, subject to some exceptions:

To the extent required by applicable law, Checkr will help you exercise the above rights for free. To exercise these rights, please contact us at dpo@checkr.com. When you make a request to exercise your rights, we will verify your identity by asking for information that matches our records. This may include your name, contact information, and details about your application.

If you would like an authorized agent to make a privacy rights request on your behalf, we may ask for written, signed permission that the agent has been authorized to act on your behalf. Once the written authorization is provided, we will review your request and respond in accordance with applicable law.

As a global company, Checkr may transfer Alberta applicants’ personal information to countries outside Canada. This means that your personal information could be accessed if required by the law of those countries.

We might use service providers outside Canada, including in the United States. Those service providers will collect, use, disclose, and store your personal information only as necessary to fulfill legitimate business purposes on our behalf. Such purposes include the following:

If you have questions about our engagement of service providers outside Canada, please contact us at dpo@checkr.com.

Like many websites, we might use Google Analytics to help us analyze how visitors use the Site. You can read Google’s Privacy & Terms to learn more about how Google Analytics processes personal information.

Checkr has adopted physical, technological, and administrative safeguards to help protect the security and privacy of the information we have about you. Such safeguards include encryption, multi-factor authentication, and other proactive security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access and disclosure.

That said, no online communication or electronic storage method is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the security of any information that you submit to the Site through the Internet or that we electronically store.

During the recruitment process, we might provide links to unaffiliated websites. This Applicant Policy does not apply to your use of those sites. If you follow links to such sites, we recommend that you review their privacy policies since they might be different from ours. Checkr is not responsible for unaffiliated sites’ privacy or data security practices or policies.

Checkr does not direct its job postings to or knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under 16.

Checkr may change this Applicant Policy at any time. We will post any changes on this webpage and update the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Applicant Policy to reflect the date of those changes. We recommend that you review this webpage periodically to stay informed of any changes. To the extent required by applicable law, we will provide a prominent notice of material changes and the effective date of the changes before making them. For example, we might include a notice on the Site or email you about the material change.

If you have a question or complaint about Checkr’s privacy practices, you can contact us at the following:

Checkr, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Questions
1 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94104
hello@checkr.com

For a faster response, we recommend contacting us at the above email rather than through other methods.

If you are in Alberta or British Columbia and find that your interaction with us has not resolved your question or complaint, you may contact the following governmental authorities: