Introduction
MasterBrand, Inc. ("Company," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share when you apply for a position with us. This Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose, and retain personal information about job applicants. This Notice applies to individuals who apply for employment with us, whether through our website, recruiting platforms, email, referrals, or other channels. This Notice is intended to comply with all applicable laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CCPA”).
1. Personal Information We May Collect
We may collect the following categories of personal information, to the extent permitted by applicable laws:
Identifiers: Your name, alias, nickname, personal and work postal address, email address, and phone number, username or online identifiers, and government-issued identifiers (where legally permitted).
Job-related information and qualifications: Position you applied for, your work experience, education, awards, qualifications, licenses, certificates, skills, references (including information provided by references, if any), and any other information you choose to provide in your resume and application.
Characteristics of classes protected under federal or California law: familial status, disability, sex, national origin, religion, color, race, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, ancestry, source of income, age, or genetic information.
Results of background checks and screening: Background check results, employment verification, education verification, criminal history, and driver’s license checks.
Internet / Electronic Activity: Your interactions with our careers website, device/browser information, application portal usage.
Recordings: Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information.
Sensitive Personal Information (only when necessary): Social security number, driver’s license, state identification, or passport number, your race, ethnicity, gender, and other characteristics, demographic data, health information, work authorization status, disability or accommodation information. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information we collect for purposes other than those generally permitted under California law, including as needed to perform our services, verify and maintain the quality and safety of our services, and resist fraud or illegal actions.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We collect personal information from you directly, recruiting agencies or referral sources, background check providers (where applicable), publicly available professional profiles, and internal systems if you are a current employee.
3. How We May Use Personal Information
We use applicant personal information to evaluate qualifications, communicate with applicants, schedule interviews, conduct background checks (where applicable), verify information provided, comply with legal obligations, improve recruiting processes, conduct equal opportunity monitoring and reporting where required or permitted by law, to comply with a court or administrative order, subpoena, warrant, or discovery request, to protect against fraud or misuse, and to otherwise accomplish our business purposes and objectives, comply with the law, legal process, and internal process. We do not use applicant information for unrelated marketing purposes unless you separately consent.
- Who We May Share Personal Information With and Why
The broad classes of third parties to which we may transfer personal information about you in the above categories include:
- To our affiliates so they can help us manage your application.
- To our third-party service providers to facilitate the services they provide to us (e.g., IT service providers, background screening providers and employment benefit providers) so we can process your application.
- To fraud prevention agencies, law enforcement agencies, public and government authorities to meet our legal obligations.
- As required or permitted by law, including to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or government and ombudsman request, to entities or persons when GRT reasonably believes that disclosure is legally required.
- To third parties in connection with a sale, merger or acquisition.
We do not and do not intend to “sell” personal information about you or “share” it for cross-context behavioral advertising, as defined under applicable privacy law. We also have not done so for the last 12 months. In addition, we do not share the personal information with third parties for their direct marketing or advertising purposes.
5. Legal Bases for Processing (Where Applicable)
Depending on jurisdiction, we process personal information based on your request to be considered for employment, compliance with legal obligations, legitimate business interests, or your consent (where required).
6. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose personal information to internal hiring managers and HR personnel, affiliate entities associated with the Company, service providers, legal or regulatory authorities where required, and professional advisors.
7. Data Retention
We retain applicant personal information for the duration of the hiring process, as required by law, and for legitimate business purposes. If you are hired, your information becomes part of your employment record. We generally retain your information for up to 7 years following the conclusion of the application process (if not hired) or the end of your services or employment relationship with the Company (if hired).
8. Data Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.
Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.
9. California Applicants
If you are a California resident, you have rights under the CCPA/CPRA, including rights to know, access, delete, correct, and limit use of sensitive personal information, as follows:
- The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. You may have the right to receive this information in a portable and readily usable format.
- The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing.
- The right to request deletion of personal information we have collected from you.
- The right to limit our use of your sensitive personal information to certain purposes.
- The right to opt-out of the selling or sharing of your personal information. As we do not sell or share employees’ personal information, we do not currently provide these rights
You may exercise these rights by contacting us at privacy@masterbrand.com. In order to protect your data from unauthorized access or alteration by third parties, all requests regarding your personal information will be subject to verification of the identity of the requesting individual. We aim to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt.
10. Automated Decision-Making
We may use automated tools to assist in screening applications. These tools do not replace human decision-making.
11. Updates to this Notice
We may update this Notice periodically. Changes will be posted with a revised "Last Updated" date.
Effective Date
05-13-2026