Privacy Policy

Last Updated/Effective Date: June 7, 2024

Penmac Staffing Services, Inc. d/b/a Slate (“Slate,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or disclosed in the course of providing access to our public website, applications, or other products and services (individually, a “Service,” and collectively, the “Services”).

1. Personal Information We Collect

We may collect a range of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

The types of Personal Information we collect may include:

· General Information – If you submit an inquiry or provide information on or through our Services, we may collect Personal Information including your first and last name, email address, phone number, employer name, and/or job title.

· Usage Information – When you use our Services, we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP Address), information regarding the device used to visit or access the Services, geolocation of your device, browser type, browser version, the time and date of your visit to the Services, referring URLs (e.g., the website you visited before coming to our public website or other Service), domain names associated with your internet service provider, and any other information regarding your interaction with our Services.

2. How We Collect Personal Information

· Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us, for example, if you choose to contact us, request information from us, or sign up to receive updates or newsletters.

· From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties including, business partners, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers, who may provide us with Personal Information about you.

· Through Online Tracking Technologies – We may use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information related to activity on our applicable Service. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

3. How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

· To provide, maintain, and personalize our Services, including providing customer service, verifying customer information, creating and maintaining business records, and undertaking or providing similar services.

· To manage your account, including your registration as a user of our Services.

· For the performance of a contract, including undertaking and complying with the terms of a contract for the provision of our Services to you or your employer.

· For internal research and development, such as testing, verifying, and improving the quality of our Services.

· For marketing, such as sending information about our Services, including using your information to send you messages, notices, or newsletters.

· For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions, comments, and requests.

· For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and customers’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.

· As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.

4. How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

· Service Providers – We disclose your Personal Information with third party service providers as necessary to enable them to support our Services or other aspects of our business.

· Affiliates – We may share Personal Information with our affiliates, who are under similar obligations as those contained in this Privacy Notice, to make the Services available to you or your employer.

· Legal Obligation or Safety Reasons – We may disclose Personal Information to a third party when we have a good faith belief that such disclosure of Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of any agreement you have with us, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of Slate Software, Penmac Staffing Services, Inc., each of their employees and clients, or the public against harm.

· Merger or Change of Control – We may disclose Personal Information to third parties as necessary if we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any other transaction involving a change of control in our business, including but not limited to, a bankruptcy or similar proceeding. Where legally required, we will give you notice prior to such disclosure.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our Services. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our Services, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our Services that you and other users are most interested in.

We allow or enable third parties to collect Personal Information in order to provide their interest-based advertising services, and we use Google Ads and other third parties to serve ads for our Services across various websites. To opt-out of this type of advertising by Google, to customize your ad preferences, or to limit Google’s collection or use of your data, visit Google’s Safety Center and Google’s Ad Settings and follow Google’s personalized ad opt-out instructions. Opting out will not affect your use of our Services.

We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to assist us with analyzing our website traffic. These services utilize cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ websites or apps.” You may download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for each web browser you use, but this To learn more about Google Analytics cookies, visit Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.

Most browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable cookies, and your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of unique identifiers and location data. If you choose to reject cookies

or block device identifiers, some features of our Services may not be available, or some functionality may be limited or unavailable. Please review the help pages of your browser or mobile device for assistance with changing your settings. We do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals sent to us by your browser at this time.

6. How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We will retain each category of your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. Criteria we will use to determine how long we will retain your Personal Information include whether we need your Personal Information to provide you with access to our Services; we continue to have a relationship with you; you have requested information; we have a legal right or obligation to continue to retain your Personal Information; we have an obligation to a third party that involves your Personal Information; our retention or recordkeeping policies and obligations dictate that we retain your Personal Information; or we have another business purpose for retaining your Personal Information.

7. How We Protect Personal Information

We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.

8. International Use of our Services

Our Services are hosted in the United States. If you are visiting our Services from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information, it is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United States, where our servers are located and operated.

9. Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without verified written parental consent. In the event that we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us at info@simplyslate.com.

10. Links to Third-Party Websites

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Services, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal Information disclosed will be handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy notice.

11. Shine the Light

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any. To make such a request, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

12. Marketing Communications

To opt out of marketing emails, please email us at info@simplyslate.com or by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain correspondence, we may still need to contact you with important transactional or administrative information, as permitted by law.

13. Changes to this Privacy Notice

Please note that we may modify or update this Privacy Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. We will provide you notice if material changes are made. Unless otherwise indicated, any changes to this Privacy Notice will apply immediately upon posting to our websites.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our practices or this Privacy Notice, please contact us at info@simplyslate.com. You may also write to us at 447 South Avenue, Springfield, MO 65806