TADAH! Privacy Notice

Last Updated: 1/1/2025
TADAH!, Inc. (collectively “TADAH,” “we,” or “our”) takes data privacy seriously. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains who we are, how we collect, share, and use personal information, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

This Notice covers personal information we collect:

(a) In connection with our search, assessment, leadership advisory, CEO succession, board evaluation, and other services (the “Services”), whether we are in the process of recruiting you as a Candidate for a role with a Client, assessing you as an employee of a Client, identifying exceptional Candidates for you as a Client, retaining you as a Vendor, or engaging with you as a Source or Referee in relation to one of our Candidates; and
(b) When you visit our website (the “Website”) and in the usual course of our business, such as in connection with our events and marketing activities.
This Notice does not cover any other data collection or processing, including, without limitation, data collection practices of other web pages to which we provide links on our Website.

QUICK LINKS

To make it easier to navigate to the parts of this Notice that directly apply to you, we have divided the Notice into the Sections described in the hyperlinks below. While we encourage you to read the entire Notice, we strongly recommend that you review Section 1 (The Basics), Section 4 (General Information), and any other Section that applies to you: If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us using our website.

1. THE BASICS

Key terms

In this Notice, the following terms have the meanings set forth below:

• “Client” means any of our clients and their employees who are looking to recruit or assess executives and to whom we provide the Services.
• “Candidate” means any candidate, applicant, prospect, or Client employee who is considered, evaluated, or assessed by TADAH! in connection with the Services.
• “Referee” means any individual who provides employment or personal references for a particular Candidate.
• “Source” means any individual who helps to identify and provide market intelligence about a potential Candidate.
• “Vendor” means any entity other than TADAH! that provides products or services to TADAH! pursuant to a contract with TADAH!.

2. DATA COLLECTED VIA SERVICES

This Section applies to information that we collect and process about Candidates, Clients, Referees, Sources, and Vendors.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

CANDIDATE DATA

Information Candidates provide to us: If you are a Candidate, you may provide personal information to us, for example, when you upload your résumé into our Candidate Portal through our Website, email your résumé to a TADAH! search consultant, speak with a TADAH! search consultant, or communicate with us in any way in connection with the Services. Further, as described below, we may obtain information about you from other sources. You are not obligated to provide TADAH! any information or participate in any of the Services we offer. As such, we will consider any information we collect directly from you as having been provided voluntarily. If, however, you are unwilling to provide us with certain requested information, please understand that this may limit our ability to consider you in connection with the Services. The information we may collect for all Candidates typically includes:

• Contact details: such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, and telephone number.
• Résumé information: such as your contact details, employment history, educational history, professional qualifications, as well as languages and other skills and activities.
• Identification data: such as your civil/marital status, photograph, date of birth, gender, national origin, corporate identifier, national identifier (i.e., social security number or equivalent in your country, driver’s license, or national ID/passport number).
• Lifestyle preferences and personality profile: such as community involvement and memberships, hobbies, social activities, and/or individual preferences, intellectual capacity, personality, behavior, executive competencies, and/or character traits.
• Health, diversity, and criminal conviction information: where appropriate, and in accordance with local law, we may also collect information related to your health, diversity information (including racial or ethnic origin, religious or other similar beliefs, and physical and/or mental health, including disability-related information), and/or details of any criminal convictions.
• Financial information: to reimburse expenses incurred in connection with the Services (e.g., travel, lodging and/or meal costs when attending an interview with a Client), we may collect certain financial information needed to document the expense and to reimburse you (e.g., bank account number and/or credit card number).
• Other information: such as your prior military service, compensation and benefit details (where permitted by local law), performance history, details of any dependents, immigration status, and, any other relevant information you may choose to share with us. We also keep a record of your marketing preferences and our contact history with you.

Information we collect from third party sources about Candidates: We may collect any of the above personal information about you from publicly available sources and third parties, including, under the following circumstances:
(i) Sources and Referees may disclose personal information about you;
(ii) our Clients may share personal information about you;
(iii) we may obtain information about you from publicly available third-party sources (e.g., LinkedIn, news reports, press releases); and
(iv) we may source personal information about you from our third-party data providers and degree verification/background check providers. When we obtain information about you from third-party providers or vendors, we take appropriate steps to ensure that such third parties are legally permitted or required to disclose such information to us.

Information Clients provide to us: Our Clients may provide us with personal information about certain Candidates in connection with our Services (for example, they may provide us with a list of Candidates they would like us to assess through the Services). We typically process this personal information as a processor on our Client’s behalf. We use that information to provide the Services to our Client and as instructed by our Client. Under these circumstances, it is our Client, as the controller, that controls what personal information about you we collect and how we use it. If you have privacy-related questions or concerns about a Client’s privacy practices or the choices a Client has made to share your information with us or any other third party, you should reach out to the Client or review their privacy policies. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of our Clients, which may differ from those set forth in this Notice.

CLIENT DATA

Information Clients provide to us: We need to collect and use information about you or individuals at your organization in the course of providing the Services to you. We generally only need to have your contact details or the details of individual contact(s) at your organization (such as name, telephone number, email address, and job title) to ensure that our relationship runs smoothly. We also hold information relating to your online engagement with Candidate profiles through our Client applications and will keep a record of our contact with you. We may also hold extra information about you that someone in your organization has chosen to tell us.

Information we collect from third party sources about Clients: Where appropriate and in accordance with local laws and requirements, we may seek more information about you or your colleagues from other sources generally by way of due diligence or other market intelligence including:
(i) from third party market research and by analyzing online and offline media (which we may do ourselves or employ other organizations to do for us);
(ii) from attendee lists at relevant events; and/or
(iii) from other limited sources and third parties.

REFEREE DATA

Information Referees provide to us: In securing a reference from you about one of our Candidates, we may process your contact details (such as name, email address, and telephone number). We may also process certain professional details (such as your job title, occupation, academic and professional qualifications, and employment history) and your connection to the Candidate (such as your relationship to, experience with, and opinions about the relevant Candidate). We generally ask the Candidates to provide us with much of this information, but we may supplement it with information we collect about you from publicly available sources (such as LinkedIn) or by asking you directly.

For any additional questions, feel free to contact us at info@gotadah.com.