Terms & Privacy

1. Introduction

Welcome to ItalianExp.com! These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") govern your use of our website and any services or products offered on our website, operated by Italian Recruitment LLC, doing business as Italian Experience ("Italian Experience," "we," "us," or "our"). By accessing or using our website, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you should not use our website.

When you accept these Terms, your acceptance is recorded electronically. We log the date and time of your acceptance, the version of the Terms and Privacy Policy you accepted, and your IP address at the time of acceptance. This record is stored securely in our database and is used solely to demonstrate that valid consent was obtained, as required by applicable data protection law (including GDPR Article 7(1)). This record is retained for the duration of your account plus five (5) years. By accepting these Terms, you acknowledge and agree to this logging.

2. Use of Our Website

You may use our website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You agree not to use our website:

• In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local, or international law or regulation.
• To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material without our prior written consent, including any "junk mail," "chain letter," "spam," or any other similar solicitation.
• To impersonate or attempt to impersonate ItalianExp.com, an Italian Experience employee, another user, or any other person or entity.
• To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone's use or enjoyment of our website, or which, as determined by us, may harm ItalianExp.com or users of our website, or expose them to liability.

3. Intellectual Property

The content, features, and functionality of our website are owned by Italian Experience or its licensors and are protected by United States, European Union, and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.

4. Disclaimer of Warranties

Your use of our website is at your sole risk. Our website is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. Italian Experience makes no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, as to the operation of our website or the information, content, materials, products, or services included on our website. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied.

5. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall Italian Experience, its affiliates, or their licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers, or directors be liable for damages of any kind arising from the use of our website.

Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including the mandatory consumer protection provisions applicable in your country of residence (including, for users located in the European Union or United Kingdom, applicable EU/UK consumer protection and data protection laws).

6. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Italian Experience, its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and suppliers from and against all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms or your use of the website.

7. Changes to These Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. We will notify users of any material changes by posting a notice on our website and, where required by applicable law (including GDPR for users located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom), by providing advance notice. Your continued use of our website after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated Terms. If you do not agree to the revised Terms, please discontinue using our website.

8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

These Terms and any disputes arising out of or related to these Terms will be governed by the laws of the State of Florida, United States, without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in St. Petersburg, Florida, and waive any objections to jurisdiction or venue.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you are a consumer resident in the European Union, United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction whose mandatory consumer protection laws provide you with greater rights than those set forth above, those mandatory provisions will apply to you and cannot be overridden by this choice of law clause. Nothing in these Terms affects your right to bring a claim before the competent courts or regulatory authorities of your country of residence.

9. Termination

We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your access to our website, with or without notice, for any reason, including if we believe that you have violated these Terms or applicable law. Upon termination, all provisions of these Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive, including intellectual property provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity, and limitations of liability.

10. Service-Specific Disclaimers

Governance & Professional Standards

Italian Experience is a strategic consultancy and is not a law firm. We do not provide legal advice, immigration counsel, or regulated legal services of any kind. Any information provided through our Services is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute legal, immigration, financial, or professional advice. Employers, candidates, and other users must engage their own qualified counsel for formal compliance opinions, immigration filings, and any matter requiring regulated professional services. We expressly disclaim all liability arising from reliance on information provided through our Services as a substitute for professional advice.

Business Services Disclosure

Access to wholesale price lists and business partnership programs offered through our platform is subject to verification of corporate requirements. Italian Experience reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to select and approve partners based on brand positioning standards, stock availability from artisanal producers, and other criteria. Acceptance into partnership programs is not guaranteed, and we expressly disclaim any liability for declined or revoked partner applications.

Real Estate Advisory Disclosure

Italian Heritage Estates is a strategic consultancy service operated by Italian Experience. All real estate transactions are conducted exclusively through licensed real estate professionals in accordance with Italian Civil Code and applicable fiscal regulations. Italian Experience operates solely as an advisory partner to facilitate transparency, legal compliance, and long-term asset protection for cross-border acquisitions. We are not a licensed real estate broker or agent and do not represent buyers or sellers in a fiduciary capacity. We expressly disclaim any liability for the outcome of real estate transactions facilitated through our advisory services.

11. Recruitment Services — No Guarantee of Employment

Italian Experience provides recruitment advisory and placement services but does not guarantee employment, job placement, interview invitations, or any particular outcome for candidates or employers. We expressly disclaim all liability for:

• Any employment decision made by an employer, including offers, rejections, dismissals, or contract terms.
• The accuracy, completeness, or legality of information provided by candidates, including CVs, credentials, and references.
• The accuracy, completeness, or legality of information provided by employers, including job descriptions, company profiles, and compensation details.
• Any disputes, claims, or losses arising between candidates and employers following introductions made through our Services.
• Any loss of income, opportunity, or career progression resulting from use of or reliance on our Services.

Users acknowledge that Italian Experience acts solely as an intermediary and that all employment relationships are formed directly between candidates and employers, independently of Italian Experience.

12. Artificial Intelligence and Automated Processing

Italian Experience uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist limited parts of our recruitment process, including reading and extracting information from CVs you upload (to pre-fill an application form) and helping our recruiters organise and prioritise incoming applications. Using AI to pre-fill your application is optional — you can always choose to fill in the form manually instead — and you always review and correct any AI-extracted information before it is submitted.

We do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you based solely on automated processing. All meaningful decisions in our recruitment process involve a person. Under GDPR Article 22 and other applicable data protection laws, you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, and to request human review of, express your point of view on, or contest any output that significantly affects you, by contacting us at privacy@italianexp.com.

This AI processing is carried out through OpenAI's API, which acts as our sub-processor. Only the text of your CV is sent to OpenAI for this purpose; your photograph is never sent to OpenAI or to any AI tool. See Section 12 of our Privacy Policy for full details on the legal basis and data handling for this processing, and the Sub-Processors table in Section 4 of the Privacy Policy.

We commit to updating these Terms and our Privacy Policy to reflect any material change in our use of AI or automated decision-making, and to obtaining any additional consents required by applicable law before implementing new AI-driven processing.

13. Third-Party Links and Services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, services, or resources that are not owned or controlled by Italian Experience. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. We expressly disclaim all liability for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such third-party content, goods, or services.

Our Services rely on third-party infrastructure providers (including Supabase, Cloudflare, and Zoho). We are not liable for any service interruption, data loss, security incident, or other failure attributable to these third-party providers, except to the extent required by applicable law.

14. Force Majeure

Italian Experience shall not be liable for any failure or delay in performance of its obligations under these Terms arising from causes beyond its reasonable control, including but not limited to: acts of God, natural disasters, pandemic or epidemic, war, terrorism, civil unrest, government actions or sanctions, internet or telecommunications outages, cyberattacks, failure of third-party infrastructure providers, or any other event beyond our reasonable control. In such circumstances, our obligations will be suspended for the duration of the force majeure event.

15. Dispute Resolution and Class Action Waiver

Informal Resolution

Before initiating any formal legal proceedings, you agree to first contact us at privacy@italianexp.com and attempt to resolve the dispute informally. We will make reasonable efforts to resolve the matter within 30 days of receiving written notice of your claim.

Binding Arbitration (US Users)

For users located in the United States, any dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms or our Services that cannot be resolved informally shall be submitted to binding individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules, rather than in a court of law. The arbitration shall take place in St. Petersburg, Florida, or via remote proceedings. The arbitrator's decision shall be final and binding.

Class Action Waiver

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOU AND ITALIAN EXPERIENCE AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. If this class action waiver is found unenforceable, then the arbitration agreement shall not apply to that claim.

16. General Provisions

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, that provision shall be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions of these Terms shall remain in full force and effect.

Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and any other legal notices published by us on the website, constitute the entire agreement between you and Italian Experience concerning your use of the website and Services, and supersede all prior agreements, communications, and proposals between you and us.

No Waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. A waiver of any provision of these Terms will be effective only if in writing and signed by an authorized representative of Italian Experience.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms, or any rights granted hereunder, without our prior written consent. We may assign these Terms, in whole or in part, without restriction.

Language

These Terms were originally drafted in English. In the event of any conflict between this English version and any translation, the English version shall prevail.

17. Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about these Terms, please contact us:

Italian Recruitment LLC (Italian Experience)
7901 4th St N, Suite 300
St. Petersburg, FL 33702
United States
Email: privacy@italianexp.com
Website: www.italianexp.com

This Privacy Policy for Italian Recruitment LLC, doing business as Italian Experience ("Italian Experience," "Company," "we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we collect, store, use, and share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:

• Visit our website at www.italianexp.com, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
• Submit a job application, CV, or candidate profile through our Services
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

Questions or concerns? If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at privacy@italianexp.com.

Summary of Key Points

Table of Contents

1. 1. What Information Do We Collect?
2. 2. How Do We Process Your Information?
3. 3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On?
4. 4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
5. 5. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
6. 6. Where Is Your Information Stored and Transferred?
7. 7. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
8. 8. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
9. 9. Do We Collect Information From Minors?
10. 10. What Are Your Privacy Rights?
11. 11. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
12. 12. Automated Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence
13. 13. Do California Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
14. 14. Do Virginia Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
15. 15. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
16. 16. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
17. 17. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?
18. 18. Blog Comments

1. What Information Do We Collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, submit a job application or candidate profile, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You may include:

• Names, phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses
• Job titles and employment history
• Usernames and passwords
• Contact preferences and authentication data
• Billing addresses, debit/credit card numbers
• CV / resume data and professional qualifications
• Right to work documentation

Sensitive Information

Where required for our recruitment services, and only with your explicit consent as required by applicable law (including GDPR Article 9(2)(a) for users in the EU/UK), we may process the following categories of sensitive personal information:

• Social security numbers or other government-issued identifiers (e.g., for right-to-work verification)
• Information revealing racial or ethnic origin (only where voluntarily provided for equal opportunities monitoring)

You may withdraw your consent to the processing of sensitive personal information at any time by contacting us at privacy@italianexp.com. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing prior to withdrawal.

Payment Data

We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number and security code. Payment data is processed by Zoho Payments. You may find their privacy notice at: zoho.com/privacy.html

Infrastructure and Database

Our platform infrastructure and database are hosted by Supabase (West Europe region — London, UK). Your personal data is stored on servers located within the United Kingdom/European Economic Area. You may find Supabase's privacy notice at: supabase.com/privacy

Information Automatically Collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

• Log and Usage Data: IP address, device information, browser type, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take.
• Device Data: IP address, device and application identification numbers, browser type, hardware model, internet service provider, operating system, and system configuration.
• Location Data: We may collect approximate location data derived from your IP address. We do not collect precise GPS-based geolocation without your explicit consent.
• CAPTCHA / Bot Protection Data: When you submit a form on our website, we use Cloudflare Turnstile to verify that you are a human user. This process involves collecting your IP address, browser characteristics, and device signals, which are transmitted to Cloudflare for processing.
• Consent and Acceptance Records: When you accept our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, we record and store evidence of your acceptance in our database (Supabase). This record includes the date and time of acceptance, the version of the Terms and Privacy Policy you accepted, and your IP address at the time of acceptance. This information is retained to fulfil our legal obligation under GDPR Article 7(1).

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

• To facilitate account creation, authentication, and manage user accounts.
• To deliver and facilitate delivery of recruitment services.
• To match candidates with relevant job opportunities and employers with suitable candidates.
• To respond to user inquiries and offer support.
• To send administrative information about our products, services, and policies.
• To fulfill and manage your orders, payments, and exchanges.
• To enable user-to-user communications where applicable.
• To request feedback about your use of our Services.
• To send marketing and promotional communications, in accordance with your marketing preferences (you can opt out at any time).
• To deliver targeted advertising tailored to your interests.
• To protect our Services through fraud monitoring and prevention.
• To identify usage trends and improve our Services.
• To record and maintain evidence of consent and acceptance of our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy, as required by GDPR Article 7(1).
• To comply with legal obligations and defend our legal rights.
• To save or protect an individual's vital interest where necessary.

3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Your Information?

If you are located in the EU or UK

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on to process your personal information:

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR): We may process your information if you have given us specific, freely given, informed, and unambiguous consent. For sensitive personal data (Art. 9), we rely on explicit consent. You can withdraw consent at any time. Where we rely on consent, we record evidence of your acceptance (including timestamp, version of the Terms accepted, and IP address) in our database, as required by GDPR Article 7(1).
• Performance of a Contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR): We process your personal information to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, including providing our recruitment services.
• Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR): We process your information for legitimate business interests — such as fraud prevention, service improvement, and marketing — where these do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
• Legal Obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR): We process your information where necessary to comply with applicable law, cooperate with regulatory authorities, or exercise our legal rights.
• Vital Interests (Art. 6(1)(d) GDPR): We may process your information where necessary to protect your vital interests or those of a third party.

If you are located in Canada

We may process your information if you have given us specific or implied consent. You can withdraw consent at any time. In some exceptional cases, we may process your information without your consent where permitted by applicable Canadian law (e.g., PIPEDA), such as for fraud detection or compliance with a court order.

4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, requiring those affiliates to honor this privacy notice.
• Business Partners: We may share your information with business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• Service Providers / Data Processors: We share information with third-party service providers pursuant to written data processing agreements. These providers process data only on our instructions and are bound by applicable data protection obligations. See the Sub-Processors table below for details.
• Employers / Client Companies (Recruitment Context): In connection with our recruitment services, we may share candidate profiles and application data with prospective employers or client companies, with your knowledge and consent as part of the recruitment process.
• Law Enforcement / Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information where required by law, regulation, court order, or governmental authority, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Italian Experience, our users, or others.

Current Sub-Processors

The following third-party sub-processors may process your personal data on our behalf. We maintain written data processing agreements with each and ensure they apply adequate technical and organizational security measures.

5. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

As of Version 1.0 of this Privacy Policy, our website uses only strictly necessary cookies — those that are essential for the website to function and cannot be disabled without affecting core functionality. Strictly necessary cookies are exempt from consent requirements under the EU ePrivacy Directive and GDPR. Our cookie consent banner is displayed for transparency.

We do not currently use analytics cookies, marketing cookies, advertising pixels, or any other tracking technologies for our own purposes. We do not track your browsing behaviour across third-party websites.

Future use of cookies: We may in the future introduce analytics or other non-essential cookies. Before doing so, we will update this Privacy Policy, update our cookie consent banner to request your explicit consent, and ensure you can freely withdraw consent at any time.

You can manage or disable cookies at any time through your browser settings. You can also update your cookie preferences at any time:

6. Where Is Your Information Stored and Transferred?

Our primary database and application infrastructure is hosted by Supabase in the West Europe region (London, United Kingdom). The personal data you provide to us — including account information, candidate profiles, and application data — is stored within the United Kingdom and/or European Economic Area (EEA), both of which apply data protection standards equivalent to or aligned with the GDPR.

However, some sub-processors used to deliver, protect, or enhance our website and Services may process data in locations outside the UK/EEA, including the United States. Specifically:

• OpenAI (AI-assisted CV parsing): When our AI-assisted CV parsing feature is used — either by a candidate who opts in on the public application form, or by our staff using the internal AI import tool — the text of the relevant CV is sent to OpenAI's API on US-based infrastructure to extract and organise the information it contains. Your photograph is never sent to OpenAI or to any AI tool. See Section 12 for details on this processing and your rights.
• Cloudflare (Turnstile CAPTCHA): When you submit a form on our website, Cloudflare processes your IP address and browser signals on US-based infrastructure to verify you are not a bot.
• Google LLC (Google Fonts): Your browser makes a direct request to Google's servers to load fonts used on our website, which may include your IP address.
• CDN providers (jsDelivr, CDNJS, unpkg): Open-source UI libraries are loaded from global content delivery networks that may log IP addresses for technical and security purposes.

For all transfers of personal data outside the UK/EEA, we rely on appropriate safeguards including:

• European Commission Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs, June 2021 version).
• UK International Data Transfer Addendum (IDTA) where UK personal data is transferred.
• Transfer impact assessments where required by applicable law.

Copies of our Standard Contractual Clauses and details of applicable safeguards can be provided upon request by contacting privacy@italianexp.com.

7. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or securely store it isolated from further processing until deletion is possible. Deletion of your account triggers a cascade deletion of all associated personal data from our database.

8. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed 100% secure. Transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

In the event of a personal data breach that is likely to result in a risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, and we will notify you without undue delay where required by applicable law.

9. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent's use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at privacy@italianexp.com.

10. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

In some regions (such as the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to:

• Request access to and obtain a copy of your personal information
• Request rectification (correction) of inaccurate personal information
• Request erasure ("right to be forgotten") of your personal information
• Restrict the processing of your personal information
• Data portability (receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format)
• Object to the processing of your personal information
• Withdraw consent at any time (where processing is based on consent)
• Not be subject to solely automated decision-making, including profiling, that produces legal or similarly significant effects

You can make such a request by contacting us using the details provided in Section 16 below. We will respond to verified requests within 30 days (GDPR) or 45 days (CCPA/CPRA), with possible extensions as permitted by law.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or the UK ICO. If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).

Withdrawing Your Consent

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at privacy@italianexp.com or updating your account preferences. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

Opting Out of Marketing Communications

You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by replying "STOP" or "UNSUBSCRIBE" to our emails, or by contacting us at privacy@italianexp.com.

Account Information & Cascade Deletion

To review, change, or terminate your account, contact us using the information in Section 16. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and all associated information from our active databases. Our database is structured so that deleting an account permanently removes all associated personal data (cascade deletion). We may retain minimal information required by law (e.g., payment records for tax purposes) for the periods specified in Section 7.

Cookie Preferences

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie Preferences section below, or by setting your browser to remove or reject cookies.

11. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

12. Automated Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence

Italian Experience uses artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist our recruitment process in limited, specific ways:

• CV parsing (data extraction). When you upload your CV, we may use an AI tool to read it and extract information (such as your contact details, work experience, education, and skills) to pre-fill your application form and save you typing. You always review and correct the extracted information before submitting, and you can choose to fill in the form manually instead.
• Application-screening assistance. We may use AI to help our recruiters organise and prioritise incoming applications (for example, an indicative relevance estimate for a role). Any such output is an aid for our recruiters only, is always reviewed by a person, and does not by itself determine any decision about you.

Human involvement. We do not take decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you based solely on automated processing. All meaningful decisions in our recruitment process involve a person. Under GDPR Article 22 you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing; you may request human review of, express your point of view on, or contest any output that significantly affects you by contacting us at privacy@italianexp.com.

AI provider. This AI processing is carried out through OpenAI's API (OpenAI, L.L.C.). Only the text of your CV is sent to OpenAI, and solely to perform the extraction or assistance described above; your photograph is never sent to the AI. OpenAI acts as our sub-processor under a data processing agreement and does not use API data to train its models by default. See the Sub-Processors table in Section 4.

Legal basis. For the recruitment processing described here we rely on our legitimate interests and on pre-contractual and contractual measures, together with the transparency this notice provides. Where a specific optional feature relies on your consent (such as AI pre-filling of the public application form), that consent is requested separately, and you are free to decline and continue manually.

Your choices. Using AI is never required to apply — you can always complete your application manually. You can withdraw any specific consent, or ask us about the logic involved and the envisaged consequences of this processing, at any time at privacy@italianexp.com.

13. Do California Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 ("Shine The Light" law) permits California residents to request information about categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year.

CCPA / CPRA Privacy Notice

Italian Recruitment LLC has not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months and will not do so in the future.

To exercise your CCPA/CPRA rights, contact us at privacy@italianexp.com. We will acknowledge your request within 10 business days and respond within 45 calendar days.

14. Do Virginia Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

Your rights under the Virginia CDPA include: right to be informed, right to access, right to correct, right to delete, right to obtain a copy of your personal data, and right to opt out of targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling.

Italian Recruitment LLC has not sold any personal data to third parties for business or commercial purposes and will not do so in the future.

To exercise your Virginia CDPA rights, contact us at privacy@italianexp.com. We will respond within 45 days (extendable by 45 additional days with notice). If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Virginia Attorney General.

15. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last updated" date and version number at the top of this notice. If we make material changes, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice on our website or by sending you a direct notification.

16. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, please contact us:

Italian Recruitment LLC (Italian Experience)
7901 4th St N, Suite 300
St. Petersburg, FL 33702
United States
Email: privacy@italianexp.com
Website: www.italianexp.com

If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom and have concerns about our data processing practices that we have been unable to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. A list of EU supervisory authorities is available at edpb.europa.eu. UK residents may contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

17. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at privacy@italianexp.com. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law.

18. Blog Comments

Our journal at italianexp.com/blog lets you leave comments on published stories. When you post a comment we collect and process:

• Name — displayed publicly next to your comment.
• Email address — required; used only for moderation and to handle requests about your comment. It is never displayed publicly, never shared with third parties for marketing, and never used to send you promotional messages.
• Website (optional) — if provided, your name links to it publicly.
• Comment content — displayed publicly once approved.
• A salted hash of your IP address — a non-reversible fingerprint stored for spam prevention and rate limiting. The raw IP address is not stored with the comment.

Purpose and legal basis. This information is processed to publish your comment at your request (GDPR Art. 6(1)(b)) and to moderate comments and prevent spam and abuse (our legitimate interest in keeping the journal safe, GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)).

Moderation. Comments are held in a moderation queue and become publicly visible only after approval by our editorial team.

Retention. Approved comments and the associated data are retained for as long as the related blog post remains published. Comments rejected during moderation are deleted.

Deletion. You can request the removal of a comment and of the personal data associated with it at any time by writing to info@italianexp.com, preferably from the email address used to post the comment. See also Section 17.