Privacy

Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do about it.

This covers goldengeeserecruiting.com, our contact and referral forms, and the recruiting work we do with candidates and clients. Golden Geese Ventures LLC. Questions: privacy@goldengeeserecruiting.com.

Effective November 3, 2026.

Information we collect.

We collect what you give us, plus basic technical data from our website.

You give us: your name, email, phone, and whatever you include in a message, a resume, or a referral form. If you refer someone, we collect that person’s name and contact details from you.

We collect automatically: standard web server and analytics data, such as pages visited, approximate location from IP address, referring link, and device and browser type.

We may collect from public sources: professional information from LinkedIn, GitHub, personal sites, and similar public profiles, as part of normal recruiting research.

We do not ask for Social Security numbers, government ID numbers, or payment card numbers through our website. If you earn a referral payment, we collect a Form W-9, which includes a taxpayer identification number, and we keep it as described under “How long we keep it.”

How we use it.

We use your information to do recruiting work and to run the business.

To evaluate candidates for roles and to contact them about opportunities
To submit candidates to client companies, with their knowledge
To respond to messages and to provide coaching and interview preparation
To administer the referral program, including payments and tax reporting
To improve the website and understand which pages and campaigns work

Who we share it with.

We share candidate information with client companies, and with the service providers that run our business. We do not sell it.

Client companies. We share a candidate’s profile only with companies we are actively submitting them to, and only with the candidate’s knowledge.

Service providers. Email, form hosting, analytics, cloud storage, accounting, and payment providers process data on our behalf.

Legal. We disclose information when the law requires it, or to protect our rights or someone’s safety.

If you refer someone to us, we contact them and tell them who referred them.

Cookies and analytics.

Our site uses Google Analytics, which sets cookies in your browser.

We use it to count visits and see which pages and campaign links are working. Google processes this data on our behalf; you can opt out with Google’s browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or block cookies in your browser settings. Some links we share, including QR codes on printed materials, carry a tag that tells us which campaign or campus a visitor came from.

How long we keep it.

We keep candidate information for as long as it is useful for placing you, and tax records for as long as the law requires.

Candidate profiles and correspondence: 5 years after our last contact with you, unless you ask us to delete them sooner
Referral submissions: 5 years after submission
Tax records, including W-9s and payment records: at least 7 years, as required by federal and state rules
Website analytics: kept according to our Google Analytics data retention setting

Your choices.

You can ask us to show you, correct, or delete the information we hold about you.

Email privacy@goldengeeserecruiting.com and we will respond within 30 days. We will ask a question or two to confirm who you are before we act. You can also unsubscribe from our emails using the link in any message, or by replying and asking.

If a candidate asks us to delete their information, we do, and any pending referral claim on them ends.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, the California Consumer Privacy Act, or the GDPR, including the right to know what we collect, to request deletion, and to object to certain processing. We honor these requests for anyone who asks, wherever you live. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Security, children, and changes.

We protect your information with reasonable safeguards, but no system is perfectly secure.

Access is limited to people who need it. Our site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

We may update this policy. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed, and we keep dated copies of earlier versions.