Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

LaborCurrent ("we," "us," "our") collects only the information necessary to provide and improve our services. We collect the following categories of information:

• Account Information: When you register for an API key or create an account, we collect your email address and, optionally, your name and organization. If you subscribe to a paid plan, your billing name and address are collected by our payment processor.
• Usage Data: We automatically log API requests (endpoint, timestamp, response code, IP address, user agent) and website page views for rate limiting, abuse prevention, service quality monitoring, and analytics.
• Contact Information: When you submit a contact form or email us, we collect your name, email address, and message content.
• Payment Information: Payment processing is handled entirely by Stripe, Inc. We never store, process, transmit, or have access to your full credit card numbers, CVV, or banking details. We may receive and store the last four digits of your card, card type, and billing address from Stripe for record-keeping.
• Alert and Subscription Preferences: If you subscribe to email alerts or digests, we store your delivery preferences, search filters, and selected states/companies.
• Device and Browser Data: We may collect browser type, operating system, screen resolution, and referring URL through our analytics service. This data is aggregated and not linked to individual users.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide, operate, and maintain the LaborCurrent platform, API, and related services
• To authenticate your identity and enforce rate limits and usage tiers
• To process payments and manage your subscription
• To send transactional communications: account confirmations, API key delivery, password resets, billing receipts
• To send service-critical communications: outage notifications, breaking API changes, security advisories
• To deliver email alerts and digests you have opted in to receive
• To respond to support requests, contact form submissions, and inquiries
• To detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities
• To analyze aggregated usage patterns to improve the Service and, when the Google configuration is enabled, measure advertising campaigns as described below
• To comply with legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information or use it for automated decision-making that produces legal effects. Google advertising measurement is disabled by default; enabling the Google configuration can also enable advertising personalization, as described in Sections 4 and 6.

3. Nature of Data We Serve (Public Records Disclaimer)

LaborCurrent aggregates, indexes, and enriches publicly available government data from six federal and state sources:

• WARN Act Notices: Mass layoff and plant closing notices published by state workforce agencies under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act
• SEC 8-K Filings: Current report filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database
• LCA Petitions: Labor Condition Application data published by the U.S. Department of Labor
• H-1B Petitions: H-1B visa petition data published by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• DOL Unemployment Claims: Weekly and continued unemployment insurance claims published by the Department of Labor
• JOLTS Data: Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Bankruptcy Filings: Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings from federal courts via public court records

All source data is public record under applicable federal and state law. We are not the original source of any of this data. We aggregate it from government agencies, enrich it with algorithmic processing (industry classification, geocoding, company name normalization, risk scoring, cross-dataset matching), and present it for informational convenience.

Important: We do not collect, store, or serve non-public personal information about individuals named in these datasets. Any personal information appearing in the data (such as names of company officers in SEC filings or debtors in bankruptcy cases) was made public by the originating government agency or court, not by us. We make no independent representations about the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or fitness of this data for any purpose. See our Terms of Service for comprehensive data disclaimers and limitations of liability.

4. Third-Party Services and Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share your personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We share personal information only in the following limited circumstances:

• Stripe, Inc.: For payment processing, subscription management, and fraud prevention. Stripe receives your payment details directly; we never handle them. See Stripe's Privacy Policy.
• Plausible Analytics: For privacy-friendly, cookie-free website analytics. Plausible does not collect personal data, does not use cookies, and does not track users across sites. See Plausible's Data Policy.
• Google Ads (disabled by default): If the Google advertising configuration is enabled by a stored or manual grant, Google receives advertising measurement requests, including page-view and signup events and associated page, browser, and advertising identifiers. The configuration can use cookies and support advertising personalization, remarketing, and view-through measurement. See Section 6 and Google's Privacy Policy.
• Email Delivery: We use email infrastructure services to deliver transactional emails, alerts, and digests. These providers process your email address solely for delivery purposes and are contractually prohibited from using it for other purposes.
• Legal Compliance: We may disclose personal information when required by law, subpoena, court order, regulatory request, or when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others, or to investigate fraud or respond to a government request.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control.

5. Data Retention and Deletion

• Account data is retained for the duration of your active account and for up to 30 days after account deletion to allow for recovery.
• API usage logs are retained for 90 days, then automatically purged.
• Payment records are retained as required by tax and financial regulations (typically 7 years).
• Email alert preferences are deleted immediately upon unsubscription or account deletion.
• Contact form submissions are retained for up to 1 year, then deleted.

You may request deletion of your account and all associated personal data at any time by contacting us. Deletion requests are processed within 30 days, except where retention is required by law. Upon deletion, your API keys are immediately revoked and your personal data is permanently removed from our active systems. Residual copies in backups are overwritten within 90 days.

6. Cookies and Local Storage

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly analytics service that operates without cookies and does not collect personal data or track users across websites. Payment providers may use cookies in their hosted payment flows.

Google advertising measurement uses a default-blocked configuration. On a new page load, the site does not load the Google advertising tag or send Google advertising measurement requests unless a stored grant is present or you choose Accept in the advertising choice described below. A stored grant or the site's manual grant function enables Google's advertising storage, analytics storage, advertising user data, and advertising personalization settings. Google may then use cookies and receive the requests described in Section 4. A stored grant is applied again on later page loads.

On a first visit the site shows an advertising choice with two options, Decline and Accept, given equal prominence. The Google advertising tag is not loaded and no advertising measurement request is sent unless you choose Accept. Choosing Decline records a denial and updates Google's settings. Your choice is stored in this browser so the notice does not reappear, and you can change it at any time using the advertising measurement control on this page. When the denial is successfully stored, it prevents the tag from loading on subsequent pages unless another grant is given, but does not unload a tag already loaded on the current page; that tag may continue to send cookieless requests. Revocation does not retract information already sent to Google.

We use browser local storage for interface preferences, authentication, and the Google advertising grant or denial state. Authentication tokens are sent with authenticated requests to our servers; local storage is therefore not a guarantee that all stored information stays in your browser.

7. Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information, including:

• HTTPS/TLS encryption for all data in transit
• API keys stored as salted SHA-256 hashes (we cannot recover your original key)
• Parameterized SQL queries to prevent injection attacks
• Input validation and output escaping on all user-facing endpoints
• Role-based access controls for administrative functions
• Regular security reviews of application code

However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security and shall not be liable for unauthorized access, disclosure, or loss of data resulting from circumstances beyond our reasonable control, including but not limited to hacking, cyber attacks, or failures of third-party services.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
• Deletion: Request deletion of your account and personal data
• Portability: Request your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Opt-out: Unsubscribe from non-essential communications at any time via the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us
• Restriction: Request that we restrict processing of your personal data under certain circumstances
• Objection: Object to processing of your personal data for certain purposes

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address below. We will respond to verifiable requests within 30 days. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

9. California Privacy Rights (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):

• Right to Know: You may request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources, the business purposes for collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it.
• Right to Delete: You may request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: We do not sell your personal information. Google advertising is disabled by default; enabling advertising personalization can involve sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising. You may contact us about your privacy rights using the details below. Section 6 describes the current configuration and its control limitations.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide a different level or quality of service for exercising your CCPA rights.

To submit a CCPA request, email us at [email protected] with the subject line "CCPA Request." We will verify your identity before processing any request.

10. International Users and GDPR

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, the following applies:

• Legal Basis: We process your personal data on the basis of: (a) your consent (for optional communications); (b) performance of a contract (to provide the Service you requested); (c) legitimate interests (for security, fraud prevention, and service improvement); and (d) legal compliance.
• Data Transfers: Your data is processed and stored in the United States. By using our Service, you consent to the transfer of your data to the United States. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or your explicit consent as the legal mechanism for such transfers.
• Additional Rights: In addition to the rights listed in Section 8, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
• Data Protection Officer: For GDPR-related inquiries, contact us at [email protected].

We do not have an establishment in the EEA and are not subject to GDPR by establishment. However, to the extent GDPR applies to our processing of your data, we endeavor to comply with its principles.

11. Children's Privacy (COPPA)

Our Service is not directed to, designed for, or intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or store personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will take steps to delete the information.

12. Third-Party Links

Our Service contains links to third-party websites, including government agencies (SEC EDGAR, DOL, BLS, state workforce agencies), federal courts, company websites, and financial data providers. We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of any third-party website. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party site you visit. Clicking on a third-party link does not imply our endorsement of that site.

13. Do Not Track

Our Service does not automatically respond to "Do Not Track" (DNT) browser signals. Plausible does not track users across websites regardless of DNT settings. DNT does not control the Google advertising configuration described in Section 6.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will: (a) update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page; (b) notify registered users via email at least 15 days before the changes take effect; and (c) post a prominent notice on our website. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy. If you do not agree with any changes, you should discontinue use of the Service and request account deletion.

15. Contact

For privacy questions, data access requests, deletion requests, or complaints, contact us at:

• Email: [email protected]
• Contact Form: laborcurrent.com/account#contact

We aim to respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 30 days.