Hermeus Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 13, 2026
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Hermeus Corporation (“Hermeus”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses (collectively, “processes”) information collected about you when you interact with us and with our services, including our website at www.hermeus.com (the “Site”).
This Privacy Policy does not apply to services or websites that display a different privacy policy and do not link to this Privacy Policy. It also does not apply to information collected by any other third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Hermeus website.
Please read below for more information on how we process your information.
Personal Information We Collect, Use, and Disclose
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Data Security
Retention of Personal Information
California Privacy Rights
Third-Party Links
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Contact Us
1. Personal Information We Collect, Use, and Disclose
We may collect different types of information about you, including personal information. “Personal information” refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with an identified or identifiable person. Personal information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated.
This Privacy Policy describes our data practices for the preceding 12-month period prior to the date of this Privacy Policy, as well as our current practices, unless otherwise noted. Note that the personal information we collect about you may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us and may not include all of the examples listed below. The following are examples of the types of information that may be collected about you when you interact with us or our Site:
Identifiers, such as first and last name, alias, postal address, shipping address, physical address, online identifier, IP address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to provide the products and services that you requested (including to fulfill your order), to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and to obtain your feedback, to send you marketing materials and advertisements, to show you relevant ads while you browse the Internet or use social media, to maintain and improve the Site, to audit, research and analyze your use of our Site, and to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you (for example, when you provide your email address to receive updates about us), automatically when you visit our Site, from others individuals (for example, when your employment references provide us details about your candidacy), and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business and process our job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, such as assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, assisting us to process job applications, customer service, providing advertising and marketing services, and for other business purposes.
Personal Information described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e), such as your signature, address, telephone number, education, employment, driver’s license, and employment history.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries, to provide the products and services you requested (including to fulfill your order), to send you marketing materials and advertisements, to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you (for example, when you complete a job application on our careers site), from other individuals (for example, when your employment references provide us details about your candidacy), and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business and process job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose the personal information to the recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, including assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, assisting us to process job applications, and for other business purposes.
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as gender, and voluntary self-disclosure information regarding race and ethnic origin, veteran status, medical condition, and disability status.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you (for example, when you complete a job application on our careers site).
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose the personal information to the recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, including assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, and assisting us to process job applications.
Commercial information, such as records of products purchased or considered.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to provide the products and services that you requested (including to fulfil your order), to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and to obtain your feedback, to send you marketing materials and advertisements, to show you relevant ads while you browse the Internet or use social media, to maintain and improve the Site, and to audit, research and analyze your use of our Site.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you (for example, when you provide your email address to receive updates about us), and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, such as assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, customer service, providing advertising and marketing services, and for other business purposes.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, interaction with our website, or advertisement.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to send you marketing materials and advertisements, to recognize you when you use our Site, to show you relevant ads while you browse the Internet or use social media, and to audit, research and analyze your use of our Site.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information automatically when you use our Site and from vendors and service providers that help us run our business.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, such as helping us ensure security and integrity personal information, debugging errors on the website, short-term, transient use, and for other business purposes.
Geolocation Information, such as your location based on your IP address.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to provide personalized content to you and to audit, research, and analyze your use of our Site.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information automatically when you use our Site and from vendors and service providers that help us run our business and process job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, such as helping us ensure security and integrity personal information, debugging errors on the website, short-term, transient use, and for other business purposes.
Professional or employment-related information, such as: skills, employment status, job qualifications and ability to perform essential duties, degrees and certifications, references, title, location, pay information, discipline and counseling information, answers to behavioral or other screening questions in an application or interview, and other information that may be included in a resume, CV, application form, or cover letter.
How We Use Personal Information. We may collect this personal information to send you marketing materials and advertisements, and to support our recruitment efforts, and to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you (for example, when you complete a job application on our careers site), from other individuals (for example, when your employment references provide us details about your candidacy), and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us process job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose the personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, including assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, and assisting us to process job applications.
Inferences used to create a profile reflecting preferences, characteristics, attitudes, behavior, abilities, intelligence, and aptitude.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business. We may also create some inferences about you ourselves, based on the other pieces of personal information we have about you.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf such as assisting us to process job applications.
Sensitive Personal Information, such as racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, or union membership or your disability status if you choose to provide it to us when applying for a job.
How We Use Personal Information: We use this personal information to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose personal information to the recipient described above to perform services on our behalf, including assisting us to process job applications.
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as images, photographs, and video of you (for example, if we conduct a video interview with you).
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to support our recruitment efforts, including to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you if you provide it to us, automatically when you engage in an interview with us, and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business and process job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers, who assist us with operating our business.
Why We Disclose Personal Information: We may disclose personal information to recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, such as assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, and assisting us to process job applications.
Other information, such as background check information including drug screening, verification of employment history, verification of credentials, and relevant criminal and credit history.
How We Use Personal Information. We may use this personal information to support our recruitment efforts and to process job applications.
Sources of Personal Information. We may collect this personal information directly from you, from others (such as previous employers when we verify your employment history), and from vendors and service providers, including those that help us run our business and process job applications.
Categories of Recipients of Personal Information. We may disclose this personal information to our vendors and service providers.
Why We Disclose Personal Information. We may disclose personal information to the recipients described above to perform services on our behalf, including assisting us in maintaining our relationship with you, communicating with you, and assisting us to process job applications.
In addition to the other purposes for collection, use, and disclosure of personal information described above, we may collect, use, and disclose personal information for other internal business purposes, as required by law, regulation or court order; to respond to governmental and/or law enforcement requests; to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with our (or others’) rights or property; for security and fraud prevention purposes; to support any actual or threatened claim, defense or declaration in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; in connection with disciplinary actions/investigations; or as otherwise described at the time your personal information is collected. Likewise, we may use and disclose personal information to third parties in connection with the sale, assignment, merger, reorganization, or other transfer of any of our brands or companies, or as part of the negotiation or evaluation of such transfer or transaction.
2. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We, and our vendors, may use cookies, pixels, and other tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”) that automatically or passively collect information when you interact with the Site. For example, these cookies may collect your IP address. Cookies allow a website to recognize a visitor’s device, record a visitor’s preferences, or track pages that are popular on a website. The information we automatically collect may include the type of device you are using, your IP address or other unique identifier, and geolocation data, inferred from your IP address.
We may use these cookies for various purposes, including to provide functionality on our Site, help us route traffic between servers, understand how our Site is performing, how visitors use our Site, improve features and content on our Site, and for advertising purposes. For example, we may use Google Analytics to understand details about your use of the Site. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data it collects, visit: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To adjust your Google advertising settings, visit: myadcenter.google.com.
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default, but you usually can change your browser setting to remove or reject cookies. Please note that blocking certain cookies when using the Site may prevent you from using some of the features on our Site. Additionally, by disabling cookies, you may invalidate opt outs that use cookies to recognize devices that have opted out.
Please note that we, or other parties, may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different devices and online properties when you use the Site. Some web browsers may have settings that allow you to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Our Site is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, visit: http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
3. Data Security
We strive to maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of personal information we collect and process. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, to the extent permitted by law, we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from the Site, and you do so at your own risk.
4. Retention of Personal Information
We keep the categories of personal information described above for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise authorized or permitted by law. This generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:
Your personal information is reasonably necessary to manage our operations, to manage your relationship with us, or to satisfy another purpose for which we collected the information.
Your personal information is reasonably necessary to carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.
Your personal information is reasonably required to protect or defend our rights or property.
We are otherwise required or permitted to keep your information by applicable laws or regulations.
Where information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires.
5. California Privacy Rights
If you are a California consumer, job applicant, or one of our business-to-business contacts, you may have the right to submit certain requests relating to your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as described below. To exercise any of these rights, please submit a request by emailing us at contact@hermeus.com. Please note that, if you submit a request to know, request to delete, or request to correct, you may be asked to provide 2-3 pieces of personal information that we will match against our records to verify your identity. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf; however, you will still need to verify your identity directly with us before your request can be processed.
Right to Know (Categories). You have the right to know what personal information we have collected about you, and the right to request we disclose the categories of personal information we have collected about you, which includes:
The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
Our business purposes for collecting or disclosing personal information;
The categories of recipients to which we disclose personal information;
The categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category identified, the categories of recipients to which we disclosed that particular category of personal information.
Right to Know (Specific Pieces). The right to request we disclose to you the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to Delete. The right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct. If you believe that personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you may have the right to request that we correct that information.
Right to Opt Out of Sales and Sharing of Personal Information. We do not sell or share personal information, including the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. As such, we do not offer this right to consumers.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. We do not use or disclose your sensitive personal information in ways to which the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information applies under the CCPA. As such, we do not offer this right.
Rights Related to Automated Decision-Making or Profiling. We do not use your personal information with automated decision-making technology to make significant decisions concerning consumers.
Please note that if you make a privacy rights request, we will retain the personal information submitted in connection with your request for recordkeeping purposes.
If you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights, we will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising any of the rights.
6. Third-Party Links
To the extent links on our Site may be used to access external or third-party websites, please note that these external or third-party websites and communities are not controlled by us and, therefore, are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check the privacy policies of each such website and community to determine how your Personal Information will be used by those third parties.
The Site may permit you to interact with social media platforms operated by unaffiliated parties, for example, to “like” Hermeus or to share content from the Site on those platforms (“Social Features”). If you choose to “like” or share content or post information using Social Features, that information may be publicly displayed, and the party operating the other platform may receive certain information about you and your use of the Site. Similarly, if you interact with us through Social Features (e.g., if you “like” or “follow” our page on another platform), we may have access to information about you from that platform. Please note that if you mention or comment about Hermeus or our Site in your post on another platform, that platform may allow us to publish your post on our Site.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Hermeus website, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top. Your continued use of our Site following any change signifies your acceptance of these changes.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at contact@hermeus.com.