Chemonics ChemLink

General/US Privacy Notice

Effective Date: June 2, 2025
Last Updated: June 2, 2025

Chemonics International, Inc., its affiliates, and subsidiaries (“Chemonics,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) values your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) describes how Chemonics collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information on or through the ChemLink platform.

For additional information about the privacy choices you may have regarding your personal information, please review the Your Privacy Choices section below.

If you are a resident of California, please refer to the Additional Information for California Residents section below for information about the categories of personal information we may collect, and your rights under California privacy laws.

If you are located in European Economic Area (EEA) or the U.K., our EEA/UK Privacy Notice applies and can be found via the Chemonics ChemLink EU Privacy Notice.

By using our Service (as defined below), you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Notice. Your use of our Service and any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, available at https://www.chemonics.com/chemlink-terms, including their applicable terms governing limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes.

 

Table of Contents

1. Scope
2. Personal Information Collected
3. How We May Use Personal Information
4. Disclosures of Personal Information
5. Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms
6. Your Privacy Choices
7. External Links and Features
8. User Generated Content
9. Children’s Privacy
10. Security
11. Additional Information for California Residents
12. Changes to this Notice
13. Contact Us

2. Personal Information Collected

We collect personal information directly from you, from third-party sources, and automatically through your use of the Service. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine the personal information we collect from publicly available or third-party sources. The personal information we collect varies depending upon your use of our Service and our interactions with you.

Personal Information Collected Directly. We may collect the following personal information directly from you:

• Account and Profile Information. When you create an account on the Services, we ask you to provide basic account and profile information. This may include your name, email address, phone number, username, job title, location, skills, licenses, certifications, educational information, work experience and history, photo, prior assignments, new business, languages spoken, and any other information you choose to include in your profile. You may also choose to connect your LinkedIn account, which will pull all the publicly available information from your LinkedIn account and use it to populate your profile.
• Communications and Interactions. When you communicate or interact with us or others using the Service, we may collect your name, work or personal email address, phone number, or other similar identifiers, as well as your message, the nature of your inquiry, and any other information you choose to provide.
• Responses and Feedback. If you participate in surveys, questionnaires, or research activities or initiatives conducted by us, such as for market research, user satisfaction, or other similar purposes, we may collect your responses and feedback, and any other information you choose to provide.
• Events and Registration Details. We also may collect personal information related to your participation in our events, as well as other requests that you submit to us related to our Service. For example, if you register for or attend an event that we host or sponsor, we may collect information related to your registration for and participation in such event.
• Preferences and Other Requests. We may collect information about your preferences, including communications preferences, preferences related to your use of our Service, and any other preferences or requests you provide when interacting with us.
• Business Development Information. To assess and pursue potential business opportunities, we may collect and receive personal information about current, former, and prospective business partners, and vendors and service providers, including contact information and other similar identifiers, company and professional-related information, and communications records.

Personal Information Collected from Third Parties. We may collect and receive personal information from third party sources, such as business partners, data analytics and marketing providers, operating systems and social media platforms, public databases, customers and other users, and service providers or other third parties who provide services or perform functions on our behalf. We may collect the following information from third-party sources:

• Social Media Information. With your consent, our Service may collect publicly available information about you from professional social media platforms such as LinkedIn.

Personal Information Collected Automatically. We may automatically collect or derive personal information related to your use of our Service, including through the use of cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies. This may include:

• Device and Browsing Information. When you use our Service, we may collect browser type, domain name, page views, access times, date/time stamps, operating system, language, device type, unique ID, internet service provider, referring and exiting URLs, clickstream data, and other similar device and browsing information.
• Activities and Usage. We also may collect activity information related to your use of the Service, such as information about the links clicked, searches, features used, items viewed, time spent within the Service, your interactions with us within the Service, and other similar activity and usage information.
• Location Information. We also may collect or derive general location information, such as through your IP address.

For more information about our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see the Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms section below.

3. How We May Use Personal Information

We may collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information for the following purposes:

• ChemLink Profile and Account Creation and Management. To create ChemLink profiles and enable account creation and management, including allowing you to manage your profile and set preferences.
• Professional Opportunity Matching. To match users with professional opportunities.
• Service and Support. To enable our Service, communicate with you about your use of the Service, provide troubleshooting, technical support, and for similar support purposes, respond to your inquiries, fulfill your requests, and to otherwise run our day-to-day operations.
• Analytics and Improvement. To better understand how users access and use the Service, and for other research and analytical purposes, such as to evaluate, develop, and improve our Service and business operations, and for internal quality control and training purposes.
• Communication. To respond to your questions, send you requested information regarding the Service. We may also use this information to send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Service and changes to our terms and policies.
• Customization and Personalization. To tailor content we may send or display on the Service, including to offer location customization and to otherwise personalize your experiences and offerings.
• Research and Surveys. To administer surveys and questionnaires, such as for market research or user satisfaction purposes.
• Insight Development and Data Enhancement. We may combine personal information collected through the Service with other information that we or third parties collect in other contexts to obtain insights into how our Service are used.
• Planning and Managing Events. For event and webinar planning, and other management-related purposes, such as registration, attendance, connecting you with other event attendees, and contacting you about relevant events and Service.
• Security and Protection of Rights. To protect the Service and our business operations, and to protect our rights or those of our stakeholders; to prevent and detect fraud, unauthorized activities and access, and other misuse; where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety or legal rights of any person or third party, or violations of our Terms of Use.
• Compliance and Legal Process. To comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including as part of a judicial proceeding, to respond to a subpoena, warrant, court order, or other legal process, or as part of an investigation or request, whether formal or informal, from law enforcement or a governmental authority.
• Auditing, Reporting, and Other Internal Operations. To conduct financial, tax and accounting audits, audits and assessments of our operations, including our privacy, security and financial controls, as well as for risk and compliance purposes. We may also use personal information to maintain appropriate business records and enforce our policies and procedures.
• General Business and Operational Support. To assess and implement mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, bankruptcies, and other business transactions such as financings, and to administer our business, accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.

4. Disclosures of Personal Information

We may disclose the personal information we collect for the purposes described above and as follows:

• Other ChemLink Platform Users. To enable the platform’s functionality, we disclose personal information contained within user accounts to authorized users of the ChemLink platform. This information may also be searchable on the platform.
• Vendors and Service Providers. We may disclose personal information we collect to our service providers, processors, and others who perform functions on our behalf. These may include, for example, IT service providers, help desk, payment processors, analytics providers, consultants, auditors, and legal counsel.
• Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may disclose personal information we collect to our affiliates or subsidiaries who will use and disclose this personal information in accordance with this Notice.
• Partners. Any information that we collect and process on behalf of a partner will be disclosed to the partner and otherwise shared as directed by that partner.
• Compliance and Legal Obligations. We may disclose personal information to third parties to comply with our legal and compliance obligations and to respond to legal process. For example, we may disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, and other lawful requests by regulators and law enforcement, including responding to national security or law enforcement disclosure requirements. This may include regulators, government entities, and law enforcement as required by law or legal process. Additionally, it may include certain disclosures that we are required to make under applicable laws, such as the names of sweepstakes and contest winners.
• Security and Protection of Rights. We may disclose personal information where we believe it is necessary to protect the Service, our rights and property, or the rights, property and safety of others. For example, we may disclose personal information in order to (i) prevent, detect, investigate and respond to fraud, unauthorized activities and access, illegal activities, and misuse of the Service, (ii) situations involving potential threats to the health, safety, or legal rights of any person or third party, or (iii) enforce, and detect, investigate and take action in response to violations of, our Terms of Service. We may also disclose information, including personal information, related to litigation and other legal claims or proceedings in which we are involved, as well as for our internal accounting, auditing, compliance, recordkeeping, and legal functions.
• Aggregate and Deidentified Information. Notwithstanding anything else in this Notice, we may use, disclose, and otherwise process aggregate and deidentified information related to our business and the Service with third parties for quality control, analytics, research, development, and other purposes.
• Other Disclosures. We may disclose personal information in other ways not described above, but will notify you and, if necessary, obtain your consent.

5. Cookies and Other Tracking Mechanisms

We may use cookies, pixels, log files, APIs, and other mechanisms to automatically collect browsing, activity, device, and similar information within our Service and to target advertising and content. We may also engage other third-parties or service providers to do the same. We use this information to, for example, analyze and understand how visitors interact with our Service; identify and resolve bugs and errors in our Service; assess, secure, protect, optimize and improve the performance of our Service; conduct marketing and analytics activities; and personalize content in our Service. To manage your preferences regarding cookies, targeted advertising, and other tracking mechanisms within our Service, please see Your Privacy Choices below.

Third-Party Analytics and Tools. We use third party tools, such as Google Analytics, which are operated by third party companies. These third-party analytics companies may use cookies, pixels, and other similar tools to collect usage data about our Service in order to provide us with reports and metrics that help us evaluate usage of our Service and improve performance and user experiences. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please review the Google Privacy Notice at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Your Privacy Choices

You have several ways that you can manage your privacy choices and submit privacy requests. Some of these choices are browser and device specific, which means that you need to set the preference for each browser and device you use to access our Service. If you delete or block cookies, you may need to reapply these preferences to each browser and/or device used to access our Service.

These options include:

• Account and Profile Information. You can review, update, and delete some of the personal information we maintain about you by logging into your account and updating your profile information directly within our Service.
• Marketing Communications. We may send periodic promotional emails or other similar communications to you, in accordance with applicable law. You may opt-out of these communications by following the instructions provided to you in the communication. If you opt-out of receiving promotional content from us, we may still send you communications about your account or any services you have requested or received from us. Additionally, you can manage your communication preferences in your account settings.
• Cookie Settings. To prevent cookies from tracking your activity on our Service or visits across multiple websites, you can set your browser to block certain cookies or notify you when a cookie is set; you can also delete cookies. The “Help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your device from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to delete cookies. Visitors to our Service who disable cookies will be able to browse the Service, but some features may not function.
• Browser Signals/Do Not Track. Our site currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. However, our site may respond to other opt-out preference signals as may be required by law.
• Industry Ad Choice Programs. You can also control how participating third-party ad companies use the information that they collect about your visits to our Service and those of third parties, in order to display more relevant targeted advertising to you. If you are in the U.S., you can obtain more information and opt out of receiving targeted ads from participating third-party ad networks at aboutads.info/choices (Digital Advertising Alliance). Opting out of participating third party ad networks does not opt you out of being served advertising. You may continue to receive generic or “contextual” ads on our Service. You may also continue to receive targeted ads on other websites, from companies that do not participate in the above programs.

7. External Links and Features

Our Service may contain links to third-party websites or features or provide certain third-party connections or integrated services. Any access to and use of such linked websites, features, or third-party services is not governed by this Notice. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties, including their collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information. You should review the privacy policies and terms for any third parties before proceeding to those websites or using those third-party features or services.

8. User Generated Content

We may offer public-facing interactive features that allow you to create and publicly share information or content with others. Anything you submit or post to any such interactive features on the Service may be viewable and searchable by others. By using these features, you acknowledge that you have no expectation of privacy or confidentiality in the content you submit, whether or not it contains personal information about you.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our Service are not designed for minors under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are a parent or legal guardian and you believe we have collected your child’s information in violation of applicable law, please contact us using the contact information in the Contact Us section below.

10. Security

We have implemented safeguards intended to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee security.

11. Additional Information for California Residents

This section of the Notice provides additional information for California residents and describes our information practices pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act 2018, as amended, and its implementing regulations (the “CCPA”). Depending on how you interact or engage with us, we may provide you with other privacy notices with additional details about our privacy practices.

This section applies to “personal information” as defined in the CCPA, whether collected online or offline. This section does not address or apply to our handling of personal information that is exempt under the CCPA.

Categories of Personal Information Collected and Disclosed. Depending on how you use the Service, we may collect (and have collected in the prior 12 months) the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers. Such as name, alias, email, phone number, address, user ID username, unique personal identifier, online identifier, IP address, or other similar identifiers.
• Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information. Such as browsing history, clickstream data, search history, and information regarding interactions with our Service, mobile application, advertisements, or emails, including other usage data related to your use of our Service or other online services.
• Geolocation Data. Such as general location information about a particular individual or device.
• Audio, Electronic, Visual, or Similar Information. Such as information collected if you participate in recorded meetings and webinars, or any videos, photographs, user profile images attached to your profile.
• Professional Information. Such as job title, company name, business email, business phone number, general location, skills, licenses, certifications, qualifications, awards, publications, professional availability, work history, and other similar professional-related information.
• Education Information. Such as degrees earned, educational institutions attended, training records, and other information about your educational history or background that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
• Protected Classifications. Such as race/ethnicity, gender, age, sex, veteran status, disability, and other characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.
• Inferences. Such as inferences drawn from any of the information described in this section, including inferences reflecting preferences, characteristics, behaviors, attitudes, abilities, and aptitudes.

We have also disclosed the above categories of personal information to our service providers for business purposes in the past 12 months.

Source of Personal Information. We generally collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

• Directly or indirectly from you;
• Our affiliates and subsidiaries;
• Our business partners;
• Clients;
• Social networks;
• Internet service providers;
• Operating systems and platforms; and
• Our service providers.

Purposes of Collection, Use, and Disclosure. As described in the How We May Use Personal Information section above, in general, we collect and otherwise process personal information for the following business or commercial purposes, or as otherwise directed or consented to by you:

• ChemLink Profile and Account Creation and Management;
• Professional Opportunity Matching;
• Service and support;
• Analytics and improvement;
• Communication;
• Customization and personalization;
• Marketing and advertising;
• Research and surveys;
• Insight development and data enhancement;
• Planning and managing events;
• Security and protection of rights;
• Compliance and legal process;
• Auditing, reporting, and other internal operations; and
• General business and operational support.

Sensitive Personal Information. Notwithstanding the purposes described above, we do not collect, use, or disclose “sensitive personal information” beyond the purposes authorized by the CCPA.

Retention of Personal Information. We retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted, based on the reason we obtained it (consistent with applicable law). When deciding how long to keep your personal information, we consider whether we are subject to any legal obligations (e.g., any laws that require us to keep records for a certain period before we can delete them) or whether we have taken any legal positions (e.g., issued any legal holds or otherwise need to preserve the information). Rather than delete your data, we may also deidentify it by removing identifying details. Where we have committed to maintaining and using personal information in a deidentified form, we agree not to reidentify deidentified data except as permitted by applicable law.

Sales and Sharing of Personal Information. The CCPA defines “sale” as disclosing or making available personal information to a third-party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration, and “sharing” includes disclosing or making available personal information to a third-party for purposes of cross-contextual behavioral advertising.

We do not “sell” or “share” personal information defined above. We also do not sell or share personal information about individuals we know are under age 16.

California Privacy Rights. The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding personal information. Subject to certain conditions and exceptions, California residents have the following rights with respect to their personal information:

1. Right to Know (Access & Portability). You have the right to request:
(i) the categories or personal information we collected about you;
(ii) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
(iii) our business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information; and
(iv) a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

2. Right to Correct. You have the right to request we correct inaccurate personal information.

3. Right to Delete. You have the right to request we delete your personal information.

4. Right to Opt-Out of Sales and Sharing. We do not “sell” or “share” personal information, or use it for targeted advertising purposes, so you do not have any right to opt-out.

5. Right to Limit Use and Disclosure. We do not engage in uses or disclosures of “sensitive personal information” that would trigger the right to limit use of sensitive personal information under the CCPA.

6. Right to Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the rights described in this section.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights. If you are a California resident and would like to exercise your CCPA rights, you may do so via any of the methods described below:

• Email us at chemlinkhelp@chemonics.com.

Verification. Before responding to your request, we must first verify your identity using the personal information you recently provided to us. You must provide us with your full name and email address. We will take steps to verify your request by matching the information provided by you with the information we have in our records. In some cases, we may request additional information in order to verify your identity, or where necessary to process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity after a good faith attempt, we may deny the request and, if so, will explain the basis for the denial.

Authorized Agents. You may designate someone as an authorized agent to submit requests and act on your behalf. Authorized agents will be required to provide proof of their authorization in their first communication with us, and we may also require that the relevant consumer directly verify their identity and the authority of the authorized agent.

12. Changes to this Notice

This Notice is current as of the effective date set forth above. We may change this Notice from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any updates to this Notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we collect, use, or disclose the personal information we have previously collected, we will endeavor to provide you prior notice, such as by emailing you or posting prominent notice on our website or within the Service.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Notice or our privacy practices, you may contact us at chemlinkhelp@chemonics.com.