Candidate Privacy Policy

This notice describes how SPAR Group, inc. ("SGRP") and its subsidiaries (collectively “SPAR”) collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process the personal data (“Candidate Data”) of individuals who apply or are considered for a position with SPAR (“Candidates”). For clarity, SPAR Marketing Force, Inc., Resource Plus of North Florida, Inc., and SPAR Canada Company are subsidiaries of SGRP and part of SPAR for the purposes of notice.

This notice does not apply to SGRP's subsidiaries in India, Japan or Mexico or to any company that was a SGRP subsidiary prior to July 21, 2024, and none of them are part of SPAR for the purposes of notice.

This notice applies SPAR’s processing of Candidate Data anywhere in the world in connection with our recruitment of Candidates for positions at SPAR.

This notice does not apply to SPAR’s processing of personal data in connection with the use of its products or services. For information on such processing, please see SPAR Privacy Policy.

SPAR may collect the following categories of Candidate Data directly from you:

• name, address, email address, telephone number, or other contact information
• resumes/CVs, cover letter, academic transcripts, and other statements of experience and education, including in video/audio format
• the position(s) for which you wish to be considered, desired salary, willingness to relocate, and other job preferences
• how you heard about the position
• prior employers, dates of employment, positions held and/or job titles
• referral names and contact information for referrals
• name and contact information for references (it being solely your responsibility to obtain consent from references before providing their personal data)
• any other personal data that you provide during the job search, application, or interview process with SPAR, including medical/disability, information submitted in connection with skills assessments, additional information regarding work or educational experiences, information about employment offers from other companies, and reason(s) for acceptance/rejection.

SPAR may also receive the following categories of information from other sources:

• where permitted by law, background check data, potentially including your criminal history records
• information concerning your prior employment, including (where permitted by applicable law) compensation and your educational and academic degrees, from employment agencies, publicly available sources, social media websites, former employers and/or educational institutions
• information provided by references that you provide

In addition, if you apply for a position in the United States, or in another country that permits such voluntary data collections, you will have the opportunity to provide information about your gender, race/ethnic origin and/or veteran status in order for us to conduct equal opportunity monitoring.

Where permitted by law, SPAR may also infer some of this information for past Candidates in order to improve our recruitment process. The provision of this information is entirely voluntary, and where required by law (including in the European Economic Area (“EEA”)), we only collect such information with your express consent. If you decline to provide this information, your application(s) will not be affected in any way. If you choose to provide this information, you consent to our using it for equal employment opportunity monitoring purposes. This information will be held and stored anonymously and will not be used to evaluate your application for employment.

SPAR uses your Candidate Data in connection with our Candidate recruitment process. For example, SPAR may use your Candidate Data to:

• evaluate and verify your education, skills, experiences and other qualifications and interests in connection with open roles at SPAR
• communicate with you regarding the interview process, and inform you of potential career opportunities
• prepare offers of employment, including as it relates to compensation
• improve our recruitment process, including by generating anonymized data and analysis using Candidate Data
• perform pre-employment background checks, where permitted by law

If you are hired, SPAR will maintain your Candidate Data as part of your employee records.

If you are not hired for the position for which you were initially considered, SPAR may use your Candidate Data to identify and contact you regarding other positions for which you may wish to be considered. If you do not wish for SPAR to use your data for this purpose, you may request that SPAR delete your Candidate Data as explained below.

In addition, if you provide SPAR with the contact information of your references, SPAR may use that information to contact your references (and not for any other purpose). Information provided by such references will be used to evaluate your candidacy, and will otherwise be treated in accordance with SPAR's procedures described in this notice.

SPAR may share your Candidate Data:

• with SPAR subsidiaries.
• with a SPAR employee who has referred you to inform them about the status and outcome of the referral.
• with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work relating to the recruitment process on our behalf.
• with customers and contractors of SPAR for whom you will be providing work or services on behalf of SPAR
• in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of SPAR assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company.
• with law enforcement officials, government authorities, or other third parties if we believe it is required by applicable law, regulation, operating agreement, legal process such as subpoenas or court orders, or governmental request, if SPAR believes your actions are inconsistent with our policies, or if we believe such sharing is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of SPAR or others.
• in an aggregated and/or anonymized form which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

SPAR does not sell Candidate personal data.

SPAR may allow others to provide online audience measurement and analytics services for us, to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet, and to track and report on the performance of those advertisements. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other technologies to identify your device when you visit our site, including SPAR’s Careers page. For more information about these technologies and service providers, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

SPAR retains your Candidate Data for as long as you are under consideration for a position with SPAR. Thereafter, SPAR retains your data in accordance with the laws in the countries where you live. These laws may require SPAR to retain your information for periods defined in such laws, or to delete it after periods defined in those laws. Unless otherwise required by such laws, SPAR will retain your Candidate Data for 6 years after you leave your position with SPAR, or SPAR will retain your Candidate Data for 6 years after SPAR ceases to consider you for a position with SPAR, whichever applies, and will thereafter delete your Candidate Data except for historical information regarding the positions for which you were considered (e.g., the position(s) for which you applied and the dates of your application(s)), and the decisions made by SPAR with respect to your candidacy (which may include the grounds for the decision). In some cases, SPAR may ask for your consent to retain your Candidate Data for longer than the period otherwise permitted under such procedures or applicable laws.

You may also request deletion of your Candidate Data at any time unless you then have a position with SPAR. Unless otherwise required by law, or where SPAR may have a legitimate interest that justifies,continued retention, SPAR will delete your Candidate Data after receiving such request, except for historical information regarding the positions for which you were considered, and the decisions made by SPAR with respect to your candidacy.

You have the following rights with respect to SPAR's handling of your Candidate Data:

• to access your personal data
• to correct any factual errors regarding your personal data
• to erase or delete your Candidate Data under the terms above • to object to or restrict certain processing of your Candidate Data
• to receive your Candidate Data in a usable electronic format and transmit it (data portability)
• to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Candidate Data prior to taking a position with SPAR

To exercise these rights, please see below to submit your request. Please note that in certain instances, exercising your rights to object to or restrict processing of your Candidate Data, or to withdraw consent relating to the processing of your Candidate Data, may impact our ability to consider you for a position with SPAR. Candidates will not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

You may submit request, questions and comments about this notice to:

SPAR Group, Inc.
Attn: Legal - Privacy
1910 Opdyke Court
Auburn Hills, MI 48326