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Lighthouse Applicant Privacy Policy

1. CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT THAT YOU PROVIDE

We may collect the following information from you in connection with your application through the
Careers Site: Name, e-mail address, mobile number, eligibility for employment in the countries in which
we operate, resume, profile information (e.g., work experience, education, skills, licenses & certifications,
and memberships), professional and other work-related licenses, permits and certifications, references,
and any other information you elect to provide to us (e.g., employment preferences, willingness to
relocate, desired salary, awards, or professional memberships).

If you do not provide sufficient information, we may be unable to consider your employment application.

However, please avoid submitting the following information that may qualify as sensitive information
under applicable law, except where such information is legally required: information on race, religion,
ethnicity, nationality or national origin, age, gender identity, sex life or practices or sexual orientation,
marital status, medical or health information (including disability status), genetic or biometric
information, biometric templates, political or philosophical beliefs, political party or trade union
membership, background check information, judicial data such as criminal records or information on
other judicial or administrative proceedings, and veteran status.

If the personal information you provide contains details of the information referenced in the preceding
paragraph or your job evaluations or educational records, you authorize us to handle such details for the
purposes of your job application.

Any information you submit through the Careers Site must be true, complete and not misleading.

It is your responsibility to ensure that information you submit does not violate any third party’s rights.

If you provide us with personal information of a reference or any other individual as part of your
application, it is your responsibility to obtain consent from that individual prior to providing the
information to us.

2. USE OF INFORMATION / LEGAL BASIS

We collect and process information about you for the following reasons:

a. Because you voluntarily provide this information;


b. Because this information is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering into an
employment or internship;
c. Because this information is of particular importance to us and we have a specific legitimate
interest under law to process it;
d. To comply with a legal obligation; or
e. Where necessary to protect the vital interests of any person.

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The information that you submit on the Careers Site will be used for our personnel recruitment,
management, and planning purposes, as permitted by local law, including:

 To process your application;


 To assess your capabilities and qualifications for a job;
 To conduct background checks;
 To respond to your inquiries and communicate with you about your application, and to send you
information regarding the Careers Site and changes to our terms and policies;
 To comply with or monitor compliance with any applicable law or regulation;
 To conduct background checks if we offer you a position; and
 To preserve our other legitimate interests, for example, for our administrative purposes,
aggregate management reporting, internal training, and as generally required to conduct our
business.

The information about you will be added to our candidate database. If you do not wish us to do this,
please contact [email protected].

If we hire you, personal information we collect in connection with your application may be incorporated
into our human resources system and may be used to manage the new-hire process; any such information
may become part of your employee file and may be used for other employment-related purposes.

We may also use the information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law,
including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to
requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside
your country of residence; (d) to protect our legal rights and operations or the rights, privacy, safety or
property, and/or of us, you, or others; and (e) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the
damages that we may sustain.

3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will make the information available to personnel with a business need to know the information,
including personnel in the recruiting, human resources, and information technology departments, and in
the department responsible for the position for which you are applying.

We may share personal information with third-party service providers who provide services such as
hosting and operating the Careers Site, recruiting assistance, background check processing, and similar
services.

We also may share personal information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under
applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to
respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities
outside your country of residence; (d) to protect our legal rights and operations or the rights, privacy,
safety or property, and/or of us, you, or others; and (e) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit
the damages that we may sustain.

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We may transfer information in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment,
transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection
with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Disclosing your personal information may include transferring personal information to other countries
(including countries other than where you are based that have a different data protection regime than is
found in the country where you are based). If you are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”),
this may include countries outside of the EEA.

4. DATA RETENTION

We keep your personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which
it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include (i) for as long as we have an
ongoing relationship with you (such as an application process); as required by a legal obligation to which
we are subject; or as advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard of applicable statutes of
limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

We may remove personal information for inactive accounts, subject to any applicable legal or regulatory
obligations. Furthermore, we may delete personal information about you (including your CV/résumé)
from our database at any time and without providing any reason. Therefore, please retain your own copy
of the personal information provided to us.

5. PASSIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION: COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY

When you visit the Careers Site, we collect certain information by automated means. Cookies are small
text files that websites send to your computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify
your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Cookies allow us to recognize you when
you return. They also help us provide a customized experience and enable us to detect certain kinds of
fraud. In many cases, you can manage cookie preferences and opt-out of having cookies and other data
collection technologies used by adjusting the settings on your browser. All browsers are different, so visit
the “help” section of your browser to learn about cookie preferences and other privacy settings that may
be available.

Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on website pages or in our emails that allow
us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or
click an email, the pixel tags and/or web beacons generate a notice of that action. These tools allow us to
measure response to our communications and improve our web pages and promotions. You may opt out
if you wish.

We collect different types of information. For example, we collect information from the device you use to
access the Careers Site, your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as
well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located. Our
server logs also record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address assigned to the device you use to connect to
the Internet. An IP address is a unique number that devices use to identify and communicate with each
other on the internet. We may also collect information about the website you were visiting before you
came to us and the website you visit after you leave the Careers Site.

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In many cases, the information we collect is only used in a non-identifiable way, without reference to
personal information. For example, we use information we collect about website users to optimize the
Careers Site and to understand website traffic patterns. In some cases, we associate the information we
collect with your personal information. This Policy applies to the information when we associate it with
your personal information.

Although the Careers Site currently does not have a mechanism to recognize the various web browser Do
Not Track signals, we do offer individuals choices to manage their preferences that are provided in the
previous sections above. The Careers Site does not collect personal information about an individual’s
online activities over time and across different websites when a consumer uses the Careers Site. To learn
more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.org/. We use
Google Analytics as a third party vendor. For information on how Google Analytics uses data, please visit
“How Google uses data when you use our partners sites or apps”, located at http://bit.ly/2jXZ13Y. We
also use Pendo as a third party vendor. For information on how Pendo uses data, please visit
https://www.pendo.io/privacypolicy/.

6. ACCESS AND CORRECTION

If you register on the Careers Site, you may access, review, and change your personal information stored
therein by logging into the Careers Site and updating your account information. However, if have
authenticated your login via a mobile number or email address, such information cannot be updated in
the same login session.

We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate.

Apart from information contained in your profile, where permitted by applicable law, you may request (i)
access to personal information we collect, (ii) its modification or suppression, (iii) that we restrict its
processing, (iv) that we cease using it (objection right); and/or (v) that we transfer personal information
to you or another organization in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (right to
data portability). Please email us at [email protected] or contact us at Lighthouse, 51
University Street, Suite 400, Seattle, WA 98101 with any such requests.

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the information associated with the
particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity
before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably
practicable. Please note that certain personal information may be exempt from such access, correction,
or suppression rights pursuant to local data protection laws.

7. SECURITY

We use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal information
within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be
100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example,
if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please
immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

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We hereby disclaim, as far as permitted by local laws, any liability for us and our affiliates and contractors
for any personal information we collect in connection with your application that is lost, misused, illegally
accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed or not timely delivered to our Careers Site.

8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

The Careers Site may contain links to other websites. This Policy does not address, and we are not
responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party
operating any website or service to which the Careers Site links. The inclusion of a link on the Careers Site
does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. We encourage you to read the legal notices
posted on those sites, including their privacy policies.

9. LAW APPLICABLE TO JOB APPLICATION

This Careers Site is operated from Seattle, WA Accordingly, any personal information you submit to the
Careers Site will collected in USA and will be subject to US laws and all applicable international data privacy
laws.

The Careers Site is not intended for distribution to, or use by, any person or entity in any jurisdiction or
country where such distribution or use would be contrary to local law or regulation.

10. ABOUT CHILDREN

The Careers Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

11. CHANGES TO THE POLICY

We reserve the right to amend this Policy at any time in order to address future developments, the Careers
Site, or changes in industry or legal trends. We will post the revised Policy on the Careers Site or announce
the change on the home page of the Careers Site.

You can determine when the Policy was revised by referring to the “Last Updated” legend on the top of
this Policy.

Any changes will become effective upon the posting of the revised Policy on the Careers Site. By continuing
to use the Careers Site following such changes, you will be deemed to have agreed to such changes.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Policy, in whole or part, you can choose to not continue to use
the Careers Site.

12. CONTACT US

If you have questions or requests, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or 51


University Street, Suite 400 | Seattle, WA 98101.

13. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS APPLYING FOR A VACANCY IN THE EEA

If you are located in the EEA, you may also:

 Contact us at [email protected] with any questions about this Privacy Policy.

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 Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority competent for your country or region.

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