Privacy and Policy
Privacy STATEMENT
Effective date: January 1, 2025
Give Me Shelter California Inc, (GMSC) and its subsidiaries (the “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) respects your privacy and we have developed the following privacy notice (“Notice”) to demonstrate our commitment to you.
This Notice applies to personal information we collect about you on the Maximus website located at www.nextgenfederalsolutions.
Give Me Shelter California Inc, contracts with federal, state, and local government(s) to deliver health, human, and digital government services. This notice does not govern services Maximus provides for government services. Give Me Shelter California Inc privacy notices are publicly available on the individual service web page.
This Notice does not govern privacy practices associated with offline activities or websites other than this Site, or personal information collected independently by third-party content, websites, applications, platform, code (e.g., plug-ins, application programming interfaces, and software development kits, and certain cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, “Third-Party Services”), or such Third-Party Services’ privacy practices.
Residents of California: See the California Privacy Notice for supplemental disclosures required by California privacy laws, as well as the privacy rights that you may have.
Personal information we collect about you
We collect the following categories of personal information from consumers:
Personal identifiers and contact information
Name, postal address, email address, and Internet Protocol (IP) address and other digital IDs
Commercial information
Commercial information such as products or services purchased, obtained, or considered
Location Information
We may collect non-precise location information derived from your IP address when you visit our Site.
Internet or other similar network activity
When you use our Site, we may collect information regarding such use, interactions, or communications with us, our systems, and third-party applications, or other sites, applications, or content, subject to any applicable consent requirement.
This includes information such as:
- Your device functionality (browser, operating system, hardware, mobile network information)
- The URL that referred you to our service
- The areas within our services and systems that you visit and your activities there (such as browsing history and search history)
- Your interaction with emails and messages we send you, such as whether you open them or click on links within
- Your device location (if you have enabled such features on your device)
- Your device characteristics
- Device data and the time of day
Professional or employment-related information
For example, if you inquire about our business services, we may request the name of your employer and your job title.
Inferences
For example, we may infer that you are interested in particular services based on your prior business history with us, or your use of our Site.
Personal information you provide directly to us
Although much of the Site is available without registration or providing personal information, to take advantage of some of our Site’s features, you will be asked to provide personal information. This personal information is provided voluntarily by you, the user, to participate or register for a particular product or service, or when you otherwise communicate with us or the Site. Personal information will be collected directly from you on various pages on the Site, including when you:
- Submit an online inquiry
- Submit an investor relations information request
- Sign up for email alerts, newsletters, and other Maximus information
- Personal information the Site collects automatically
We use cookies and other tracking technologies (“Tracking Technologies”), as discussed in further detail below, to collect information about your device and your use of the Site.
We may use a variety of Tracking Technologies, employed by Maximus, our Vendors, and Third-Party Services, that store or collect certain information, including some of the categories of personal information described above, whenever you visit or interact with the Site. This information may be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that may be downloaded to your personal computer, browser, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device whenever you visit or interact with our Service.
Such Tracking Technologies include:
- Cookies, tags, and pixels. A cookie is a data file placed on a device when it is used to visit the Service. Tags and pixels are typically snippets of software code or images that add functionality or collect information about the use of a website.
- Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our Site’s pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies can be used to count visitors to the Site, to monitor how users navigate the Service, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many links were actually viewed.
- Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about the links you click on and other of your interactions with the Site. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Service, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
There may be other Tracking Technologies now and later devised and used by us in connection with the Site.
Personal information collected from others
We may collect personal information from trusted third parties, including Third-Party Services that collect personal information on our site and assist us with website analytics, advertising, and marketing.
How do we use personal information we collect from you?
We may use and otherwise process the personal information that we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
- Operating our business, including to support our everyday operations, including to meet risk, legal, and compliance requirements, performing accounting, monitoring, and reporting activities, and managing privacy and information security activities.
- Providing newsletters and information about Maximus.
- Providing the information, products, or services requested or otherwise respond to your inquiries.
- Communicating with you, including to provide email or text alerts, event registrations, and other notices about our products, services, events, or news that may interest you.
- Carrying out and supporting customer relationship management.
- Improving the content, navigation, and efficiency of the Site.
- Testing, analyzing, and developing products and services.
- Making you aware of benefits, products, services, or events offered by Give Me Shelter California Inc, that may interest you, including through marketing and digital advertising activities.
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and mitigating illegal, fraudulent, injurious, or improper activity related to the Site, or violations of the Maximus Terms of Use.
- To respond to law enforcement requests, as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations, and to otherwise comply with legal obligations
- As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients, or others.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
- For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your personal information.
- For our legitimate business purposes that are compatible with the purpose of collecting your personal information and that are not prohibited by applicable law.
With whom we share your personal data and for what purposes
We may disclose or otherwise make available the categories of personal information described in this Privacy Statement, including for the processing purposes described in “How we use personal information we collect from you?” above, and as follows:
- Vendors. We may provide or otherwise make available personal information with service providers who assist us with carrying out many of the purposes described above in “How do we use personal information we collect from you?” and otherwise in this Notice. We do not allow our Vendors to use the information that they receive from us or otherwise process on our behalf for any purpose other than providing us services, except some Vendors may use personal information for their own, limited purposes in relation to their services (fraud prevention, security purposes, etc.) that are permitted by applicable law.
- Third-Party Services. Third-Party Services may collect your personal information independently on the Services. Alternatively, we may directly provide them with personal information that we have collected, including in relation to Interest-Based Advertising and other purposes.
- With notice or your consent. We may disclose your personal information to third parties with notice to you, as directed by you, or, where legally required, upon your consent or authorization.
- For safety, security, legal, and similar/related reasons. We may disclose your personal information to other persons, organizations, or governmental authorities if we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary or appropriate: (i) to protect or defend the rights, safety or property of Maximus or third parties; (ii) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, or suspected fraud; (iii) to enforce, investigate, or take action regarding this Notice, our Terms of Use, and other applicable agreements and policies; (iv) in litigation or other proceedings in which we, our affiliated or related entities, or our franchisees may be involved; and (v) to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, requests from law enforcement and other public authorities. We will exercise our discretion in electing to make or not make such disclosures, and to contest or not contest requests for such disclosures, all without notice to you, subject to applicable law or other legal requirements.
- Corporate Transactions. We may disclose your personal information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing a notice to you.
We may use and share with others aggregated or anonymous information (that does not constitute personal information) that we have collected based on web usage data, surveys, or statistical information that we have compiled about our users.
We may disclose or otherwise make available the categories of personal information described in this Privacy Statement, including for the processing purposes described in “How we use personal information we collect from you?” above, and as follows:
- Vendors. We may provide or otherwise make available personal information with service providers who assist us with carrying out many of the purposes described above in “How do we use personal information we collect from you?” and otherwise in this Notice. We do not allow our Vendors to use the information that they receive from us or otherwise process on our behalf for any purpose other than providing us services, except some Vendors may use personal information for their own, limited purposes in relation to their services (fraud prevention, security purposes, etc.) that are permitted by applicable law.
- Third-Party Services. Third-Party Services may collect your personal information independently on the Services. Alternatively, we may directly provide them with personal information that we have collected, including in relation to Interest-Based Advertising and other purposes.
- With notice or your consent. We may disclose your personal information to third parties with notice to you, as directed by you, or, where legally required, upon your consent or authorization.
- For safety, security, legal, and similar/related reasons. We may disclose your personal information to other persons, organizations, or governmental authorities if we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary or appropriate: (i) to protect or defend the rights, safety or property of Maximus or third parties; (ii) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, or suspected fraud; (iii) to enforce, investigate, or take action regarding this Notice, our Terms of Use, and other applicable agreements and policies; (iv) in litigation or other proceedings in which we, our affiliated or related entities, or our franchisees may be involved; and (v) to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and, to the extent not prohibited by applicable law, requests from law enforcement and other public authorities. We will exercise our discretion in electing to make or not make such disclosures, and to contest or not contest requests for such disclosures, all without notice to you, subject to applicable law or other legal requirements.
- Corporate Transactions. We may disclose your personal information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
How do we safeguard your personal information?
Give Me Shelter California Inc, uses various technological and procedural security measures to protect the personal information we collect through the Site from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. We have documented Information Security & Privacy policies to address data protection. We regularly provide information security and privacy awareness training to our employees. However, you should be aware that, due to the open and unsecured character of the internet, Give Me Shelter California Inc, cannot be responsible for the security of transmissions of personal information over the internet. We have prepared a formal incident response plan in case of a data breach.
Tracking technologies and your choices
Below is further information on ours, our Vendors,’ and Third-Party Services’ use of certain Tracking Technologies and how to exercise choice with respect to them.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google Analytics servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google Analytics. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. You may view the Google Analytics Privacy Statement here opens in a new tab
If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can modify the cookie option in your browser’s settings. However, some Site features or services may not function properly or be accessible without cookies. For additional information on Opting-Out of Google Analytics tracking cookies, please see Google Analytics Opt-Out here opens in a new tab
Adobe Analytics
Our Site also uses Adobe Analytics. Adobe Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Adobe Analytics. We use reports provided by Adobe Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. You may view the Adobe Analytics Privacy Statement located on Adobe Privacy Center here opens in a new tab
If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can modify the cookie option in your browser’s settings. However, some Site features or services may not function properly or be accessible without cookies. For additional information on Opting-Out of Adobe Analytics tracking cookies, please see Adobe Analytics Cookie Policy here opens in a new tab and Adobe Privacy Choices, including Opt-Out, here. opens in a new tab
Ad Industry Tools: Some third parties that may collect personal information in association with your use of our online services for advertising (including Interest-Based Advertising), analytics, and other purposes Please visit https://www.privacyrights.
Browser Settings: You can exercise control over browser-based cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser, and mobile devices may offer ad and data limitation choices. Use the help function on your browser or click on the applicable links below to learn more:
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- Internet Exploreropens in a new tab
- Edgeopens in a new tab
- Safariopens in a new tab
Mobile Device Settings: You can use mobile device settings to limit mobile tracking technologies and associated activities. For instance, you can adjust or reset the advertising identifiers on your mobile device in the device settings. iOS users can visit Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Reset Advertising Identifier. Android users can visit Google settings > Ads > Reset advertising ID.
Please note, clearing cookies or changing settings may affect your choices and you have to opt-out separately via each browser and other device you use. Cookie-enabled opt-out signals may no longer be effective if you delete, block or clear cookies. We are not responsible for the completeness, accuracy or effectiveness of any third-party notices, tools, or choices.
Communications and your choices
You can opt out of receiving certain promotional communications from GMSC INC, at any time by (i) for promotional e-mails, following the instructions provided in emails to click on the unsubscribe link; and (ii) for text messages, following the instructions provided in text messages from GMSC inc, to text the word, “STOP.” Please note that your opt-out is limited to the e-mail address or phone number used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions. If you opt-out of only certain communications, other subscription communications may continue. Even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, GMSC Inc, may, subject to applicable law, continue to send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account, transactions, servicing, or GMSC Inc, ’ ongoing business relations.
Data retention
We retain personal information we collect through this site for as long as required to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected and to comply with applicable law. Actual retention periods for personal information will also depend upon various factors, such as complying with legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements, or for so long as potentially relevant to prospective or actual litigation or government investigation. GMSC Inc, follows our record retention schedule and destroys personal information when it no longer holds a legitimate business purpose.
Children’s privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and you must be at least 13 years old to have permission to use the Site. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal data from children under 13. If you believe that we have collected, used, or disclosed the personal data of a child under the age of 13, please contact us using the contact information provided in this Notice, so that we can take appropriate action.
Links
Our Site may contain links to other sites. Links do not imply endorsement by gems Inc, . Please be aware that these other sites are not subject to the GMSC Inc, privacy notice, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We recommend that you review the privacy notices of those sites when you visit them.
Changes to this notice
This Notice is effective as of the Effective Date above. We reserve the right to change this Notice at any time. We will take reasonable steps to advise you of any changes to this Notice, including by posting the revised Notice on our website. We recommend that you review this Notice from time to time to obtain the current version. You may contact us at the address, email address or telephone number listed below to obtain a current copy of this Notice.
International users
GMSC Inc, is based in the U.S. and the information Maximus and its service providers collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing the Site from outside of the U.S., please be aware that information collected through the Site may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the U.S. Data protection laws in the U.S. may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Site or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information, including personal information, in the U.S. as set forth in this Notice.
Contact information
If you have any comments or questions in connection with this Notice, please contact us by: