Biometric Information Notice & Consent
Biometric Information Notice
This Biometric Information Notice & Consent supplements the Assurant Careers Privacy Notice if you are an applicant or candidate or the Assurant Workforce Privacy Notice if you are an employee or other workforce member. Those notices provide additional information about how Assurant processes your Personal Information, including applicable legal bases, international transfers, your privacy rights, and how to contact Assurant or its Data Protection Officers. This Notice provides additional information specific to biometric identity verification. It does not replace the applicable Careers or Workforce Privacy Notice.
Purposes for Collecting and Using Biometric Information
Assurant and its authorized service providers acting on its behalf will collect, use, and store your biometric identifiers and biometric information, such as a scan of a fingerprint, retina or face geometry derived from your live image, selfie, government-issued identification photograph, or video image, to verify your identity and help us prevent identity fraud or impersonation. Biometric information is used solely for identity verification, security, and fraud prevention purposes related to recruiting, onboarding, and, where applicable, ongoing employment access verification.Biometric information is not used to evaluate your qualifications, skills, experience, or suitability for a role.
Information Collected and Generated
• A live selfie or other live image.
• Images captured during your video interview.
• Photographs from a government-issued identification document.
• Facial geometry or another mathematical representation derived from your images and photographs when biometric matching is enabled.
• Liveness, image-quality, document-authenticity, tampering, and consistency signals, as applicable.
• An identity-verification result or an inconsistency or potential fraud indicator for additional review.
A photograph alone is not treated as biometric information unless it is processed to identify or verify an individual through facial geometry or another biometric identifier.
Automated Identity Verification and Additional Review
Assurant and its service providers may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies (“AI Tools”) to analyze information, including to generate and analyze your biometric information. These tools may be used to compare your live image with the photograph on your government-issued identification document or another image of you; assess liveness and document authenticity; and detect potential fraud, impersonation, or deepfakes.
AI Tools may produce an identity-verification result or flag an inconsistency or potential fraud indicator. Assurant personnel will review any unsuccessful, incomplete, or flagged verification before Assurant determines how that verification affects the applicable recruiting, onboarding, access, or fraud-prevention process. Assurant may request additional information or offer an alternative identity-verification method where required by applicable law or Assurant policies.
Retention
Biometric information will be retained only until the purpose for collecting it has been satisfied, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law or contract, after which it will be permanently deleted or destroyed. Records showing that notice or consent was provided, and records necessary to document or review an identity-verification matter, may be retained separately in accordance with applicable law and Assurant’s records-retention requirements.
No Sale
Assurant does not sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from biometric information.
Disclosures to Third Parties
Biometric information may be collected by, and will only be shared with, authorized service providers that support identity verification and are contractually required to protect it and use it only for these purposes, or as required by law. In some cases, these service providers will provide you with their own notices and consent forms.
Your Rights
If you are located in a country where Assurant relies on your consent to process biometric information, you may decline to provide consent or withdraw your consent at any time by contacting [email protected] or your local Talent Acquisition contact. If you decline or withdraw your consent, Assurant will not use your biometric information to verify your identity and will inform you whether an appropriate non-biometric identity-verification method is available. Where required by applicable law, declining or withdrawing consent will not, by itself, result in an adverse verification or employment decision. Following withdrawal, Assurant will stop processing your biometric information on the basis of consent and delete or destroy it unless continued retention is required or permitted by law.
Accommodation
As described above, Assurant uses a biometric information for identity verification only. If you are unable to participate in this process due to medical conditions, disability, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, or a sincerely-held religious belief, you may request an accommodation. We will review requests individually and, where appropriate, provide a reasonable alternative identity verification method that meets security and compliance needs. Please note that not all accommodation requests can be granted; the availability of alternative identity verification methods will depend on the individual circumstances and applicable security and compliance requirements. Individuals seeking an accommodation should notify [email protected].
Questions
For questions about biometric consent, withdrawal, or an available alternative identity-verification process, contact [email protected] or your local Talent Acquisition contact.
