Skydance U.S. Personnel Privacy Notice ("Notice")
Effective Date: August 7, 2025
This Notice describes how Skydance Productions, LLC, and the subsidiaries under the control of Skydance Media, LLC, (“Skydance,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), processes personal information (“PI”) of Personnel (”Personnel PI”) in various human resources (“HR”) contexts. If you have a question as to whether your employer is within the Skydance family of companies to which this Notice applies, contact us as outlined in in Section 5. This Notice is designed to meet obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the “CCPA”). In the event of a conflict between any other Skydance policy, statement, or notice and this Notice, this Notice will prevail as to California Personnel, unless stated otherwise. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Notice shall have the meanings given to them under the CCPA.
Applicability: This Notice applies to the following U.S. residents whose PI we collect in HR contexts:
- Job applicants who have applied for a position with Skydance.
- Current/former employees of Skydance.
- Independent contractors of Skydance (including loaned out personnel).
- Co-employees that are also employed by a third-party. Note, however, that co-employees may also be subject to the third-party’s privacy notice.
- Personnel that are employed or engaged by another business from which we license or otherwise acquire media products or services that provide us with their PI in connection therewith (e.g., as part of the rights chain of title).
This Notice also applies to U.S. residents whose family member or friend has provided PI about you to Skydance in an HR context, such as if:
- You are listed as an emergency contact for one of the foregoing.
- You are a beneficiary or dependent of one of the foregoing.
The individuals referred to in the bullet points above are collectively referred to as “Personnel” throughout this Notice. Section 1 of this Notice provides notice of our data practices, including our collection, use, retention, and disclosure of Personnel PI. Sections 2-4 of this Notice below apply only to California residents and those sections provide information regarding California Personnel rights under the CCPA and how California residents may exercise them.
Non-Applicability: This Notice does not apply to our consumer facing website(s) or our other data practices outside of the HR context, which are addressed in our general privacy notice available here, except when you submit a job application to us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(b) PI Collection, Disclosure, and Retention – By Category of PI
2. Your Rights and How to Exercise Them
3. Non-Discrimination / No Retaliation
4. Our Rights and the Rights of Others
1. Notice of Data Practices
The description of our data practices in this Notice covers the twelve (12) months prior to the Effective Date and will be updated at least annually if there are any material changes. We will notify you of any material changes by updating this Notice and may also choose to notify you, in our discretion, in another reasonable and appropriate manner. Our data practices may differ between updates, however, and if materially different from this Notice, we will provide supplemental pre-collection notice of the current practices, which may include references to other privacy policies, notices, or statements. Otherwise, this Notice serves as our notice at collection. As permitted by applicable law, we do not treat deidentified data or aggregate consumer information as PI and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your PI into deidentified data or aggregate consumer information, and may elect not to treat publicly available information as PI. We will not attempt to reidentify data that we maintain as deidentified.
(a) PI Sources and Use
We may collect your PI directly from you, such as when you apply for a position or become employed or engaged by us (e.g., identification/identity data, contact details, educational and employment data), from others through interactions in the course of employment or engagement, from third parties (e.g., background check vendors and references, co-employers, loan out companies, producers from which we acquire media properties, etc.), or from public sources of data.
Generally, we use Personnel PI for HR Business Purposes and as otherwise related to the operation of our business, including for: Performing Services, Managing Interactions and Transactions; Security; Debugging; Quality Assurance; Processing Interactions and Transactions; and Research and Development. For example, we use Personnel PI for the following purposes:
- Recruitment
- Running background checks
- Employment
- Personnel intake/onboarding/off-boarding
- Maintaining personnel records
- Payroll, reimbursements, and timekeeping
- Managing the loaned-out personnel
- Processing leaves of absence
- Processing workers’ compensation claims
- Booking travel
- Benefits administration
- Personnel activation initiatives and communications
- Facilitating workplace culture and development programs
- Administering training and education programs
- HR and IT systems
- Personnel and performance management
- Health & safety/occupational health
- Security (including electronic and on premises)
We may also use PI for “Additional Business Purposes” in a context that is not a Sale or Share under the CCPA, such as:
- Disclosing it to our Service Providers, Contractors, or Processors that perform services for us (“Vendors”);
- Disclosing it to you or to other parties at your direction or through your action (e.g., payroll processors, benefits providers, personnel loan out providers, some software platform operators, co-employers and their auditors, unions and guilds and their auditors, etc.);
- Disclosing it to our investors (e.g., in connection with our voluntary workplace culture and development programs, review and approval of executive employment terms, and other contractual obligations to investors);
- For the additional purposes explained at the time of collection (such as in the applicable privacy policy or notice);
- As required or permitted by applicable law;
- To the government or private parties, and their respective representatives, to comply with law or legal process or protect or enforce legal rights or obligations or prevent harm;
- To identify our Personnel and business contact and similar information of Personnel to others where appropriate;
- Where we believe we need to in order to investigate, prevent or take action if we think someone might be using information for illegal activities, fraud, or in ways that may threaten someone’s safety or violate our policies or legal obligations, including disclosures to law enforcement and others; and
- To assignees and their agents as part of an acquisition, merger, bankruptcy, license or sale of media properties, asset sale, or other transaction where another party assumes control over all or part of our business (“Corporate Transaction”).
In addition, in connection with the production of media products and services, we, and our licensees and assigns, use PI of talent (e.g., actors, writers, directors, etc.) and other Personnel (e.g., crew) for Business Purposes related to such media products and services (e.g., providing credits, depicting performers, creating animations based on performers, promoting productions, distributing media properties, documenting rights, etc.) in a context that is not a Sale or Share under the CCPA (“Media Distribution and Marketing”). In some cases, the privacy policies of some of these Media Distribution and Marketing recipients will be provided to you in connection with your services on an applicable production. In other cases, the transfers are part of a Corporate Transaction (e.g., the sale or licensing of the media property), and subsequent downstream licensing and sales by the other entities.
Subject to restrictions and obligations under the CCPA, our Vendors may also use your PI for Business Purposes, including Additional Business Purposes, and Media Distribution and Marketing purposes, and may engage their own vendors to enable them to perform services for us.
When you interact with third parties such as those that provide payroll, benefits, or personnel loan out providers, you are directing us to make your PI available to them for such purposes. In addition, if you are in a union or guild, your union or guild acts as your agent through the collective bargaining process to authorize us to disclose certain PI with the union or guild or their designees, such as their auditors.
(b) PI Collection, Disclosure, and Retention – By Category of PI
We collect, disclose, and retain PI as follows:
There may be additional information we collect that meets the definition of PI under the CCPA but is not reflected by a category above, in which case we will treat it as PI as required, but will not include it when we describe our practices by PI category.
As noted in the chart above, Skydance may process certain biometric identifiers or biometric information, including but not limited to scans of facial geometry (collectively “Biometric Data”), from select Personnel in connection with the production, distribution, and promotion of media products and services (e.g., depicting performers, creating animations based on performers, promoting productions, etc.). Biometric Data collected by Skydance is used solely in connection with media products and services. Any Biometric Data collected, used, or stored by Skydance will be used solely for these purposes. In the event Skydance begins collecting Biometric Data for any additional purpose, we will update this Notice.
Because there are so many different types of PI in certain categories, and so many purposes and use cases for different data, we are unable to provide retention ranges based on categories of PI in a way that would be meaningful and transparent to you. Actual retention periods for all PI will depend upon how long we have a legitimate purpose for the retention — consistent with the collection purposes and applicable law. Unless Skydance has a legal requirement to hold an individual’s Biometric Data for a longer period of time, Skydance will permanently destroy and delete Personnel’s Biometric Data when such Biometric Data is no longer needed to facilitate the purpose(s) of collection and processing identified above or as may earlier be required by applicable law (e.g., three (3) years from last interaction for Illinois; two (2) years from the last interaction for Colorado).
2. California Personnel Rights and How to Exercise Them
The Consumer privacy rights we accommodate for California Personnel are the rights to know specific pieces, right to know categories, delete, correct, and limit, subject to verification standards and as outlined below. You may exercise your right, at any time by completing a request on this form and following the instructions by calling us at 888-862-1104, or by contacting us by email at hr-privacy@skydance.com. We do not accept or process requests through other means (e.g., via fax, chats, or social media, etc.). Please respond to any follow-up inquiries we make to help complete your request.
(a) Your California Personnel Rights
- Right to Know (Specific Pieces): California Personnel are entitled to know the specific pieces of PI we have collected and maintain about you and obtain a transportable copy. You are entitled to access such PI up to twice in a 12-month period.
- Right to Know (Categories): California Personnel have a right to submit a request for any of the following for the period that is 12-months prior to the request date:
- The categories of PI we have collected about you.
- The categories of sources from which we collected your PI.
- The Business Purposes or commercial purposes for our collecting, Selling, or Sharing your PI.
- The categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your PI.
- A list of the categories of PI disclosed for a Business Purpose and, for each, the categories of recipients, or that no disclosure occurred.
- A list of the categories of PI sold or shared about you and, for each, the categories of recipients, or that no sale or share occurred.
- Right to Delete: California Personnel have the right to request that we delete any of your PI that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your Verifiable Consumer Request, we will delete (and direct our Vendors to delete, if required) your PI, unless an exception applies. If an exception applies, we will limit processing to such permitted purposes and to the duration of those purposes.
We may deny your request to delete your PI if retaining the data is necessary for us or our Vendor(s):
- to complete transactions and services, you have requested;
- for security purposes;
- for legitimate internal business purposes (e.g., maintaining business records);
- to comply with law and to cooperate with law enforcement; and
- to exercise or defend legal claims.
Please be aware that making a deletion request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal or deletion of PI or content that you may have posted. We may not be required to delete your PI that we did not collect directly from you.
- Right to Correct: California Personnel have the right to bring inaccuracies they may find in their PI, that we maintain, to our attention, and we will act upon such complaint as required by applicable law.
- Right to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information: With regard to PI that qualifies as Sensitive PI under the CCPA, if you elect to provide us with that Sensitive PI, you can limit certain types of Sensitive PI Processing (e.g., related to a voluntary workplace culture and development program participation).
- Right to Know (Categories): We verify your request to a reasonable degree of certainty, which may include matching at least two data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying you. If we cannot do so, we will refer you to this Notice for a general description of our data practices.
- Right to Know (Specific Pieces): We verify your request to a reasonably high degree of certainty, which may include matching at least three data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying you together with a signed declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the Personnel whose PI is the subject of the request. If you fail to provide requested information, we will be unable to verify you sufficiently to honor your request, but we will then treat it as a Right to Know (Categories) request.
- Right to Delete: We verify your request to a reasonable degree of certainty, which may include matching at least two data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, or to a reasonably high degree of certainty, which may include matching at least three data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, depending on the sensitivity of the PI and the risk of harm posed by unauthorized deletion.
- Right to Correct: We verify your request to a reasonable degree of certainty, which may include matching at least two data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, or to a reasonably high degree of certainty, which may include matching at least three data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, depending on the sensitivity of the PI and the risk of harm posed by unauthorized correction.
We do not Sell or Share Personnel PI and do not engage in automated decision making or profiling that is currently subject to Consumer rights under California law, and therefore California Personnel are not provided an option to exercise the rights to opt-out of Sale / Share or opt-out of automated decision making or profiling.
(b) Your Request Must Be a Verifiable Consumer Request
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf (your authorized agent), may make a Verifiable Consumer Request related to your PI or the PI of your minor child.
As permitted or required by the CCPA, any request you submit to us must a “Verifiable Consumer Request,” meaning when you make a request, we may ask you to provide verifying information, such as your name, email, phone number, account and/or transaction information. We will review the information you provided and may request additional information (e.g., customer request history) via email or other means to ensure we are interacting with the correct individual. We will not fulfill your Right to Know (Categories), Right to Know (Specific Pieces), Right to Delete, or Right to Correct request(s) unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the Personnel about whom we collected PI. We do not verify requests to Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information unless we suspect fraud.
We verify each request as follows:
To protect Personnel, if we are unable to verify you sufficiently, we will be unable to honor your request. We will use PI provided in a Verifiable Consumer Request only to verify your identity and authority to make the request and to track and document request responses unless you also gave it to us for another purpose.
(b) Authorized Agent Requests
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, subject to our verification of the agent, the agent’s authority to submit requests on your behalf, and of you, in accordance with the Your Request Must Be a Verifiable Consumer Requestsection above, may make a Verifiable Consumer Request related to your PI. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with PI if we cannot verify your identity, or authority to make the request, and confirm the PI relates to you. Once your agent’s authority is confirmed, they may exercise rights on your behalf subject to the agency requirements of applicable laws.
3. Non-Discrimination / No Retaliation
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you in a manner prohibited by the CCPA for your exercise of your California privacy rights.
4. Our Rights and the Rights of Others
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, we may collect, use and disclose your PI as required or permitted by applicable law and this may override your rights under the CCPA. In addition, we are not required to honor your requests to the extent that doing so would infringe upon our or another person’s or party’s rights or conflict with applicable law.
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our HR privacy practices, please contact us by e-mail at hr-privacy@skydance.com or call us at 888-862-1104. Please note that e-mail communications will not necessarily be secure; accordingly, you should not include sensitive information in your e-mail correspondence with us.