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Baron Payroll Inc., (collectively, “Baron”, “we” and/or “us”) are committed to protecting the privacy of the individuals who visit our website (“Visitors”) and individuals who use Baron’s Services (“Users” and/or “you”) as an employee or applicant of Baron or one of its customers.
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes Baron’s privacy practices in connection with the use of Baron’s websites, products, services, and any associated applications (“Services”). The Notice also provides information about the choices you have regarding the collection or use of your Personal Information (“PI”) and the rights provided to you, including the ability to access or update information about you.
The Notice applies to PI provided or collected through the use of Baron’s Services by customers, employees, job applicants and/or website visitors. For purposes of this Notice, PI means information collected by Baron, relating to an Identified or Identifiable natural person.
Our Customer’s Notice applies when you:
This Notice applies when you:
Baron’s websites might contain links to third-party sites for your convenience and/or information. When you access those links, you leave Baron’s website and are redirected to a third-party site. Baron does not control third-party sites. The privacy practices of third parties might differ from Baron’s privacy practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. When you share PI with third-party websites, the third-party processing is not covered by this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website or company before sharing PI with them.
Baron collects PI from several different sources, including:
Please review each of the sections below to learn more about how Baron collects PI, and what PI is collected.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
Baron collects PI about a website visitor when the visitor visits our website and when the visitor chooses to provide PI. For example, we collect information when you visit our website and when you contact us via our website, provide your email, phone or other similar information, such as the information that you provide when you sign up for a webinar.
What Is collected?
The PI collected from a website visitor includes:
We do not knowingly collect PI from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any PI to Baron. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided his/her PI to Baron, please contact us in accordance with Section 14 of this Notice, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
Baron collects PI about a job applicant when an application for employment with Baron is completed. Additionally, Baron collects information about individuals who create a profile on our website, regardless of whether or not an application is completed.
If hired by Baron following an application, additional information is collected during the onboarding process and throughout the employment relationship. We may also collect information that you have voluntarily made public and/or shared on publicly visible accounts, such as social media platforms.
What Is collected?
The PI collected from an applicant or employee of Baron includes, but is not limited to:
• Personal Identifiers (Name, Address, Age, Date of Birth, Social Security Number);
• Professional or Employment-related Information (Employment Record, Salary);
• Education Information; and
• Personal/Professional Contact Information.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
When using our products and services, our customers are solely responsible for determining what PI is collected regarding their employees or job applicants. Baron processes information solely at the direction of its customers and has no direct relationship with the individuals (our customers’ employees and applicants) whose PI we process.
The information may be collected through our SaaS solution, by members of our support team who provide support to customers, or by subprocessors engaged by Baron to provide you with the Services. For employees of customers who use Baron terminals with a biometric face or finger scanning device for employee timekeeping, please see the Biometric Data Privacy section of this Notice.
What Is collected?
The PI processed by Baron on behalf of our customers varies, but includes information such as name, company name, address, email address, time and attendance and schedule information, and Social Security Numbers. Please contact your employer or the company with whom you applied to learn more about the information they collect for use with Baron’s products and services.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
Baron collects PI about a user of our mobile application when the user chooses to provide such information. We also collect information about you through the use of mobile analytics software.
What Is Collected?
Our mobile application may record information concerning how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, your location, the type of device used, and from where the application was downloaded. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any PI you submit within the mobile application.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
Baron collects information through the use of website tracking software, as well as from your use or activity on any of our websites, utilizing cookies and other tracking technologies.
What Is Collected?
The website tracking software automatically captures technical information that is stored in our server’s log files. For example, when you visit our websites, We and our partners store and access non-sensitive information from your device, such as cookies or a unique device identifier, and process PI such as your IP address, device manufacturer and model, the type of browser being used, the web pages visited, and the amount of time spent on our website.
To learn more about our use of Cookies and other tracking technologies, please visit our Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section.
How Do We Collect Personal Information?
Our websites may include social media features, such as video links, “Like” buttons, and widgets such as “Share” buttons or interactive mini-programs, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function. Social media features and widgets may be hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. Your use and interactions with these features are at your discretion, and are governed by the privacy policy of the companies providing them.
What Is collected?
These features may collect your PI such as your IP address and which website page you are visiting.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Why We Use Your Personal Information:
Baron uses PI for several purposes, including:
• To communicate with you regarding our products and/or services;
• To fulfill the purpose(s) for which the information was collected/provided, including providing contractually-obligated products and/or services;
• To improve our website, products and services, through testing, research, analysis and product development;
• For security purposes, such as to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your PI and to allow only the appropriate use of your PI; and
• To comply with all applicable legal obligations.
Please review each of the sections below to learn more about how we use your PI.
Website Visitors
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
The PI you provide when using our website will be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice. We use your PI to fulfill requests for information about our products and services and to enable you to register and participate in events that we sponsor (including webinars).
Baron Job Applicants and Employees
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use PI of our job applicants and employees for legitimate human resource business purposes, such as:
• Payroll administration;
• Filling open employment positions;
• Maintaining accurate benefits records;
• Complying with governmental reporting requirements;
• Performance management;
• Provision of company network access;
• Authentication of individuals; and
• Security, health and safety management.
Customers’ Information (and the Information of Their Employees)
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use your PI to provide you with the services, which Baron is contractually obligated to provide to you, to improve these services or communicate with you about our products or services. For employees of customers who use Baron terminals with a biometric face or finger scanning device for employee timekeeping, please see the Biometric Data Privacy section of this Notice.
Website Activity, Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
In order to improve the content and format of our site, Baron uses website tracking software to automatically capture technical information that is then stored in our server’s log files. Baron and its partners also utilize cookies and other tracking technologies to measure the preferences of our website visitors, analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Please visit our Cookies section below to learn more.
Mobile Application
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
Baron uses mobile analytics software to allow us to better understand the functionality of our Mobile Software on your phone. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any PI you submit within the mobile application.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not sell PI to third parties. Please review each of the sections below to learn more about how we might disclose your PI.
Affiliates and Subsidiaries:
We might share your PI with our Affiliates and Subsidiaries in order to deliver a product or service or complete a task that you requested.
Third Parties (Vendors/Service Providers):
We might engage with third parties (vendors and/or service providers) in order to deliver a product or service (or perform certain functions such as enhancing and/or delivering our product and service offerings) or complete a task that you requested.
We have contracts with third-party providers (vendors and/or service providers) to perform certain functions on our behalf, and only at our direction. Our third parties are bound by confidentiality agreements, only have access to your PI to the extent necessary to provide these contracted services and are only permitted to process your PI in accordance with our instructions (and for the purposes we disclose).
Additional Disclosures
Baron might disclose your PI if we in good faith believe that such action is necessary to:
• Comply with the law or with legal process;
• Protect and defend our rights and property;
• Protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website;
• Protect the personal safety or property of our users or the public (among other things, this means that if you provide false information or attempt to pose as someone else, information about you may be disclosed as part of any investigation into your actions).
Other than as stated in this Privacy Notice, we will endeavor not to release your PI to unknown or unaffiliated third parties, and we will not cross-reference your PI with that of any other customer or entity.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Baron will only retain PI for the length of time necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which the information was collected or as required or permitted by applicable laws, (including the resolution of disputes) and in accordance with our customer contracts.
COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a small amount of data which our website stores on your computer, and which we can later retrieve. The cookie cannot be read by a site other than ours. As discussed in our section on Use of Your PI, we use cookies for a number of administrative purposes, including to store your preferences, allowing us to provide website visitors with a better experience.
How Can You Manage the Use of Cookies?
Baron Privacy Center: When you visit our website, you can make choices about our usage of cookies, by navigating to the bottom of our website and clicking “cookie consent choices” or by clicking “Learn More” on the pop-up banner. You also have the option of viewing our existing partners and authorizing or blocking their collection and use of your PI.
Managing Flash Cookies
To manage Flash cookies, please click here.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
You can monitor our use of cookies on your computer by setting your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set, or you can prevent the cookies from being set entirely. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please understand that if you disable the use of cookies on your computer, you may be unable to access certain portions or services on our websites.
Advertising and Analytics Cookies
We work with third parties to manage our advertising on other sites. These third parties might use cookies or other similar technologies to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. We use standard Google Analytics for general site analytics. To learn more about how Google uses data from sites that use their services, click here.
We have also implemented the following Google Analytics Advertising features for our paid advertising:
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting;
• Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting; and
• Integrated services that require Google Analytics to collect data for advertising purposes, including the collection of data via advertising cookies and identifiers.
If you wish to opt-out of the Google Analytics Advertising features that we use, click here.
BIOMETRIC DATA
As previously stated, Baron does not collect or control customer employee data. For customers who use Baron terminals with a biometric face or finger scanning device, the collection of customer employee finger scan data is undertaken and controlled by the customer. Our customers collect such employee data through their use of the face or finger scanning devices and related software, and either store the data at the customer controlled site or on secure space (in accordance with applicable law) made available by Baron in a cloud environment for that purpose.
This data is used by the customer for employee verification in connection with its employee timekeeping purposes. Such data consists solely of templates created from mathematical algorithms, not faces or fingerprints. Customer employee face or finger scan data, or templates as described above, may be among the customer employee data collected or stored by Baron customers.
A copy of Baron’s data security policy applicable to the secure space on which customers can store employee data can be accessed at: www.baronpayroll.com/security. Baron has put reasonable measures in place to minimize its access to customer employee face or finger scan data from its customers. On the rare occasions when Baron accesses customer employee face or finger scan data (e.g. for technical support), it is done pursuant to a customer’s instruction, and subject to strict handling procedures, and Baron permanently destroys such data promptly after the specific purpose for accessing the data has been satisfied. Customers are responsible for destroying customer employee finger scan data that they collect, control, possess or store. Any questions with regard to customer biometric or finger scan employee data, including any applicable retention schedule or destruction process, should be directed to the appropriate employer.
DATA SUBJECT RIGHTS
Baron will take reasonable steps to ensure that all PI of Baron employees, job applicants and website visitors is accurate and complete for the intended use. As previously stated, we will only use PI in ways that are consistent with the purposes for which it was collected, as required or permitted by law, or as you might subsequently authorize.
In accordance with all applicable law, we enable you to exercise some or all of the following rights regarding our collection, use, and sharing of your PI:
• Access the PI we maintain about you;
• Update or correct any inaccurate or incomplete PI about you;
• Request that we delete your PI;
• Object to or restrict the processing of your PI;
• Receive the PI you have previously provided to Baron, in a machine-readable format, allowing you to transfer that PI to another company at your discretion;
• Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you; and
• File a complaint directly with the relevant Supervisory Authority about how we process your PI.
Exercising Your Rights
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity, before granting access to your PI. Please follow the instructions below based on your relationship with Baron, and provide the requested information to allow us to adequately address your request. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Web Visitors
If you are a Non-California resident and would like to request access to your Personal Information, and/or request erasure (right to be forgotten) of PI previously provided, please click here.
Our Customer’s Job Applicants and Employees
When processing PI on behalf of a customer, Baron has no direct business relationship with the individuals whose PI it processes (applicants or employees of our customers).
If you are a current or former employee or job applicant of one of Baron’s customers, please contact your employer/former employer/company you applied with directly to exercise your rights relating to your PI. As a processor, Baron does not respond to requests from our customer’s applicants or employees unless that customer is no longer in business.
Denial of Requests
Baron may deny a request relating to a Data Subject’s individual rights as permitted by applicable law. Baron will endeavor to timely notify you regarding any decision and reason(s) for denial.
Dispute Resolution
In accordance with this Notice, Baron will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding the use and disclosure of your PI.
Any privacy-related dispute or concern that is still unable to be resolved to your satisfaction shall be handled in accordance with applicable dispute resolution procedures through our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
We strongly encourage you to raise any complaints you may have with regard to this Privacy Notice and/or our activation of this Notice to us prior to proceeding to the arbitration procedure described in the prior paragraph.
SECURITY
To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to allow only the appropriate use of your PI, Baron utilizes physical, technical, and administrative controls and procedures to safeguard the information we collect.
To protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of your PI, we utilize a variety of physical and logical access controls, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network and database monitoring, anti-virus, and backup systems. We use encrypted sessions when collecting or transferring sensitive data through our websites.
We limit access to your PI and data to those persons who have a specific business purpose for maintaining and processing such information. Our employees who have been granted access to your PI are made aware of their responsibilities to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of that information and have been provided training and instruction on how to do so.
ENFORCEMENT AND VERIFICATION
Baron will periodically assess its operations to validate compliance with this Privacy Notice.
When we have knowledge that one of our employees or third parties is using or disclosing PI in a manner contrary to this Privacy Notice, we will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop the use or disclosure. We hold our employees and third parties accountable for maintaining the trust that our customers place in us.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Notice describes our current PI protection policies approved on September 1, 2021. Baron reserves the right to modify or amend this Notice at any time consistent with applicable laws. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, you may contact Baron with questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice at support@baronpayroll.com. Written responses may also be submitted to:
Baron Payroll Inc
Attention: Privacy, Risk & Compliance
1363 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Suite 40, Hauppauge, NY 11788
