Privacy Policy - CTR Bioscience Fellowship Program

Parsons Cooperative Threat Reduction Bioscience Fellowship Program (CBFP) Privacy Policy

Parsons Corporation understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared. We respect and value everyone’s privacy, including that of our customers, business partners, contractors, subcontractors, everyone who visits https://biosecurityfellowship.com/ (the “Website”). In this policy, we describe how we collect, use, and disclose personal information.[1]

The information we collect is controlled by Parsons Corporation, which is headquartered in the United States at 14291 Park Meadow Drive, Suite 100. Chantilly, Virginia 20151, USA.

Information We Collect

Parsons collects personal information that you provide to Parsons, including when you submit an application through Airtable, through our business processes, or when you communicate with us through the Website. Airtable is a third-party company; its Privacy Policies can be found at https://www.airtable.com/company/privacy and its Cookie Policy can be found at https://www.airtable.com/company/cookie-policy.

Parsons is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data, and to meeting its data protection obligations under all applicable laws and regulations. Information that Parsons may collect from you as part of the recruitment process includes:

Your name, address, date of birth, and contact details, including email address and telephone number;

Your resume and work history, including details of your qualifications, skills, and experience;

Information about your training, education, certifications, and licenses;

A record of our communications with you via email, telephone, and through Airtable; Parsons may collect this information through Airtable, resumes or CVs, interviews, or other forms of assessment. If you conduct business or contract with Parsons and/or use Parsons’ products accessed through any one of our online marketplace listings, the following data is collected and/or processed:

Business contact information including emails, phone numbers and location or any other information required for the relevant project, product or service;

Data required for system/product operation;

Anonymized user interaction data;

Aggregated system data; and

System log data.

Use Of Your Information

Parsons uses any collected personal information for legitimate business purposes consistent with the purpose for which it was collected, for the following reasons:

Your recruitment data will be securely stored in your Cooperative Threat Reduction Bioscience Fellowship Program (CBFP) application in Airtable, Parsons’ SharePoint systems, and other Parsons’ IT platforms such as email. To facilitate your participation in this program, your data may also be shared with our recruitment partners at CRDF Global for further consideration.

Parsons uses your personal information to respond to requests made while you visit our Website and access our products online;

Help diagnose problems with the Website and to enhance the Website for an optimal user experience;

Monitor the usage and performance of the Website and research aggregate information about users to determine the marketing and advertising efforts of Parsons, its trusted affiliates, independent contractors, and business partners;

Provide maintenance, support, and customer service for products and services;

With respect to Parsons’ customers, contractors and any business partners, Parsons uses personal information as necessary for and in compliance with any applicable contracts or laws.

You are under no statutory or contractual obligation to provide data to Parsons during the application process. However, if you do not provide the information, we may not be able to process your application properly, or at all.

Information collected may be used to:

Provide customer support and services;

Diagnose system issues with the products;

Enhance optimal user experience; and

Improve the products and offerings through analytics.

Disclosing Your Information

The personal information you provide to Parsons will be disclosed, consistent with applicable law, as follows:

With affiliates and subsidiaries of Parsons;

With third parties and third-party business providers that provide services to Parsons;

With a third party in the event of a sale, merger, reorganization, or other transaction involving part or all of Parsons;

With law enforcement agencies to detect or prevent unlawful activities, and/or to aid in an ongoing investigation;

As required by law or court order.

As needed to support our recruitment process:

Your information may be shared internally with members of the Talent Management and recruitment team, legal advisors, interviewers involved in the recruitment process, managers and clients in the business area with a vacancy, and IT staff, if access to the data is necessary for the performance of their roles.

Parsons uses certain software platforms, including Airtable, to collect, retain, and manage data collected from applicants and employees. The providers of that software may have access to your information.

We may also share your information with certain trusted third parties, including taxing authorities, background check and drug testing providers, benefit plan providers, and legal advisors, as required or permitted by law.

Protection of Your Data

Parsons takes the protection of your data seriously. Although there is no such thing as “perfect security” on the Internet, Parsons maintains reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help protect data and personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Retention of Your Data

Parsons retains your data as long as it is needed for business purposes in accordance with legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and in accordance with Parsons’ records retention schedules.

Cross-Border or International Transfers of Information

Parsons generally maintains servers and systems in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the European Economic Area (EEA) and the Middle East, some of which are hosted by third-party service providers. We also may subcontract the processing of your data to, or otherwise share your data with, other third parties in the United States or countries other than your country of residence. As a result, where the personal information that we collect is transferred across borders or internationally, we will take steps to ensure that the information receives the level of protection required under all relevant Data Protection and/or Privacy Laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and pursuant to appropriate contract clauses or authorizations by governing authorities.

The Legal Bases for Using Your Personal Information

We collect, use, and share your personal information where we are satisfied that we have an appropriate legal basis to do this. This may be because:

We have your consent;

Our use of your personal information is in our legitimate interest as a commercial organization (for example in order to make improvements to our products and services and to provide you with information you request); in some instances where applicable by law, you may have a right to object to processing as explained in the section below titled Your legal rights;

Our use of your personal information is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (for example where we use your name and contact information to facilitate your employment contract and to make travel reservations in the performance of our services);

Our use of your personal information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have (for example, where we are required to undertake vetting to comply with safety and security regulations or where we are required to disclose personal information to a court or tax authority).

Your Legal Rights

Subject to certain exemptions, and in some cases dependent upon the processing activity we are undertaking, you have certain rights in relation to your personal information:

Right to access, correct, and delete your personal information: You have the right to request access to the personal information that we hold about you and: (a) the source of your personal information; (b) the purposes, legal basis, and methods of processing; (c) the data controller’s identity; and (d) the entities or categories of entities to whom your personal information may be transferred.

You also have the right to request that we correct or delete your information. We are not required to comply with your request to erase personal information if it is still needed for a legitimate business purpose, or the processing of your personal information is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Right to restrict the processing of your personal information: You have the right to restrict the use of your personal information when (i) you contest the accuracy of the data; (ii) the use is unlawful but you do not want us to erase the data; (iii) we no longer need the personal information for the relevant purposes, but we require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to our personal information use justified on our legitimate interests verification as to whether we have a compelling interest to continue to use your data.

We can continue to use your personal information following a request for restriction, where:

We have your consent; or

To establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or

To protect the rights of another natural or legal person.

Right to data portability: To the extent that we process your information (i) based on your consent or under a contract; and (ii) through automated means, you have the right to receive such personal information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or you can ask to have it transferred directly to another data controller.

Right to object to the processing of your personal information: You can object to any processing of your personal information which has our legitimate interests as its legal basis if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms outweigh our legitimate interests. If you raise an objection, we have an opportunity to demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate interests which override that objection.

Right to obtain a copy of personal information safeguards used for transfers outside your jurisdiction: You can ask to obtain a copy of, or reference to, the safeguards under which your personal information is transferred.

Right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority: You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority if you have concerns about how we are processing your personal information.

We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first, although you have the right to contact your supervisory authority at any time.

How to Exercise Your Rights

If you would like to exercise any of the rights described above, please download and complete a request form and send it to the Parsons CBFP Implementation Team at [email protected]. Please include the information listed on the form to confirm your identity. Any requests are subject to identity confirmation.

We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing the personal information requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

We may not always be able to fully address your request, for example if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to acknowledge a verifiable request within thirty (30) days of its receipt and will respond to each request without undue delay.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Changes To Privacy Policy

Parsons may make changes to this policy. You should review Parsons’ CBFP Privacy Policy periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices.

Questions And Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact the Parsons CBFP Implementation Team at [email protected].

Privacy Notice to California Residents

This notice to California Residents, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act, supplements the information contained in our Cooperative Threat Reduction Bioscience Fellowship Program (CBFP) Website Privacy Policy and corporate privacy policies, procedures, and standards. It applies solely to employees, visitors, and other individuals who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, effective January 1, 2023 (“CPRA”), and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA and CPRA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information on consumers as defined under the CCPA and CPRA within the last twelve (12) months:

Category	Examples	Collected
A. Identifiers	A real name, IP address, email address, or other similar identifiers.	YES
B. Personal Information Categories listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e))	A name, signature, Social Security Number, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license number, insurance policy number, education, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.	YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or Federal law.	Age, race, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information.	YES
D. Commercial information	Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.	NO
E. Biometric Information	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO
F. Internet or similar network activity	Browsing history, search history, information on interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.	NO
G. Geolocation Data	Physical location or movements.	NO
H. Sensory Data	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.	NO
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history or performance evaluations.	YES
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g; 34 CFR Part 99).	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational intuition or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	YES

Personal information does not include:

Publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records or that a consumer has otherwise made available to the public.
De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
Information excluded from the CCPA’s or CPRA’s scope, like:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
- Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA) and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete on our website or third-party (Airtable) application portal.
Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website or application portal.
We retain your data pursuant to our records retention policy and Airtable’s policy located at https://www.airtable.com/company/privacy.
Information collected through cookies includes Internet addresses, types of operating systems, IP addresses, browser software and pages accessed by users. For additional information, please see Parsons’ Cookie Policy and Airtable’s Cookie Policy located at https://www.airtable.com/company/cookie-policy.

Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name, contact information, and resume to be considered for a position, we will use that personal information to evaluate your qualifications.
To provide you with support and respond to your inquiries, including to investigate your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or government regulations.
As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA and CPRA.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Disclosing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a contractor or service provider for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories (corresponding with the table above) of personal information for a business purpose: Category A, Category B, Category C, Category I, Category J.

We disclose your personal information to the following categories of third parties: our clients, our service providers, including Airtable, and third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with services we provide to you.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold or shared any personal information.

Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA and CPRA provide California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA and CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal and sensitive information unless responding to the request is impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information and sensitive information we collected about you.

The categories of sources for the personal and sensitive information we collected about you.

Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, using and/or disclosing that information.

The categories of third parties, contractors and service providers with whom we share, sell or disclose that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list of those disclosures, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Whether your information is sold or shared.
The retention period or criteria used for retention.

Deletion and Correction Request Rights
You have the right to request that we correct or delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will correct and/or delete (and direct our service providers to correct and/or delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, Correction and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above and as described in more detail in the CBFP Privacy Policy, please download and complete a request form and send it to the Parsons CBFP Implementation Team at [email protected]. Please include the information listed on the form to confirm your identity. Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable request must:

Provide enough information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable request to confirm the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of the verifiable request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance, specifically by electronic mail communication.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights
Parsons does not sell your personal information.

Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA or CPRA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA or CPRA, we will not:

Deny you services.
Provide you a different level of service.
Discriminate in making employment decisions.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits employees that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send us an electronic message via [email protected].

Changes To Notice
Parsons may make changes to this Notice. Notification of changes will be posted on this page. You should review this Notice periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices.

Date Of Last Update: July 23, 2025

Questions And Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact the Parsons CBFP Implementation Team at [email protected].