Pursuant to California law, we are providing additional information to California applicants. Please read this information together with our Careers Privacy & Cookie Notice.

Under California law, certain organizations need to disclose whether the following categories of “personal information” are collected, disclosed for an organization’s “business purpose”, “sold” or “shared” as those terms are defined under California law. Below please find the categories of personal information about California applicants that we collect or disclose to third parties or service providers. Note that while a category may be included below that does not necessarily mean that we have or collect information in that category about you. Wolters Kluwer does not “sell” and/or “share” (as those terms are defined by California law) the personal information of applicants that is collected and processed in connection with Wolters Kluwer careers websites.

   

   
Category of personal information collected Categories of third parties to whom we disclose
personal information for a business purpose
 
Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
 
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Our service providers
  • Data analytics providers
  • Government authorities and regulators 
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Our service providers
  • Government authorities and regulators
 
Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
 
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Data analytics providers
  • Our service providers
  • Government authorities and regulators  
 
Temperature screenings and other health information related to COVID-19 or other viruses, pandemics or public health emergencies.
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Government authorities and regulators 
 
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. Our affiliates or subsidiaries.
 
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Our service providers
  • Government and authorities and regulators
 
Professional or employment-related information
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Our service providers
  • Government authorities and regulators
Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99).
  • Our affiliates or subsidiaries
  • Our service providers
  • Governments authorities and regulators
  • Subscribing, accrediting or professional organizations

Sensitive Information Disclosure.  We may collect the following categories of sensitive personal information (as defined under California law): social security number, driver’s license number or state identification number, passport number, racial or ethnic origin, religious, or philosophical belief information, health-related data, account log-in, password, or credentials allowing access to an account and biometric information.  This information is collected in order to comply with laws, manage our business, or evaluate candidates for employment. Note that we do not use such information for any purposes that are not identified within the California Privacy Rights Act Section 1798.121.  We do not “sell” sensitive personal information or “share” sensitive personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.

Depending on the context of our relationship with you, we may use and disclose personal information for the following business purposes: 

  • Auditing
  • Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity,
  • Detecting and repairing errors, and
  • Improving, upgrading, and enhancing our services.

In addition to sharing personal information for the business purposes identified within the California Consumer Privacy Act, we also share personal information as needed, or required, with the following additional third parties:

  • organizations involved in business transfers, e.g. to a purchaser or successor entity in the event of a sale or any other corporate transaction involving some or all of our business;
  • other parties, e.g. as needed for external audit, compliance, risk management, corporate development and/or corporate governance related matters, 
  • governmental authorities and regulators, as required under applicable law.

Exercising Rights to Request Access and Request Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions, California residents have the right to request access, deletion and portability of their personal information as further described in the Careers Privacy & Cookie Notice. If you would like to submit a request or have additional questions about the personal information that we have about you, please contact us at [email protected] or 1-888-495-4772. 

When you submit your request, we will take steps to attempt to verify your identity. We will seek to match the information in your request to the personal information we maintain about you. As part of our verification process, we may ask you to submit additional information, use identity verification services to assist us, or if you have set up an account on our website, we may ask you to sign in to your account as part of our identity verification process. Please understand that, depending on the type of request you submit, to protect the privacy and security of your personal information, we will only complete your request when we are satisfied that we have verified your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty. 

We do not discriminate against individuals who exercise their rights under applicable law.   

If we receive a request from an authorized agent, we have the right to verify with the data subject that the data subject indeed wants to take the action requested by the agent and will do so by contacting the data subject directly. 

Last Updated: October 2023