Candidate Privacy Notice

The Wright Community School
Effective November 11, 2026

This Candidate Privacy Notice explains how The Wright Community School ("WCS," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information about people who apply for jobs with us or are considered for a position ("candidates" or "you"). WCS is a public charter school authorized by the State Charter Schools Commission of Georgia and is responsible for the candidate information described in this notice.

1. Information we collect

When you apply or are considered for a position, we may collect:

  • Contact details, such as your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address
  • Your resume, cover letter, portfolio, website or LinkedIn profile, and any notes you include with your application
  • Education, work history, skills, certifications, and teaching credentials
  • Your answers to application questions and screening questionnaires
  • Recorded video interview responses and assessment results, if you are invited to complete them
  • Notes, ratings, and evaluations from interviews and our hiring team's internal discussions about your application
  • Information from references, including responses collected through automated reference checks
  • Your availability, salary expectations, and the position(s) you are being considered for
  • Email and message history between you and WCS about your candidacy
  • Voluntary Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) survey responses, if you choose to provide them
  • Background check and certification verification results, collected only with your authorization when required for school employment in Georgia

Most of this information comes directly from you. We may also receive information from people who refer you, recruiting agencies, job boards such as LinkedIn and Indeed, your references, and publicly available professional profiles.

2. How we use your information

We use candidate information to:

  • Review and evaluate your application for current and future positions
  • Contact you about your application, interviews, and hiring decisions
  • Schedule and conduct interviews, including recorded and live video interviews
  • Check references, credentials, and eligibility for employment, including background checks required for school staff
  • Make hiring decisions and, if you are hired, begin onboarding
  • Improve our recruiting process and comply with our legal and authorizer obligations

If you are hired, information from your application may become part of your employee record.

3. Use of AI tools

Our applicant tracking system includes features that use artificial intelligence to help our team work more efficiently, such as summarizing resumes against a position's requirements and summarizing interview notes. These tools support our hiring team. They do not make hiring decisions. Every hiring decision at WCS is made by people.

4. Who we share your information with

We share candidate information only as needed:

  • WCS hiring team members who are involved in reviewing your application
  • Service providers that process information on our behalf, including Spark Hire, which provides our applicant tracking system, video interview, and reference check tools. You can read the Spark Hire Recruit Privacy Policy and see its list of sub processors.
  • Background check and verification providers, with your authorization
  • The person or agency that referred you, who may receive a general update on the status of your application
  • Government agencies, authorizers, or courts, when required by law, regulation, or legal process

As a public school, some records we keep may be subject to disclosure under Georgia law, including the Georgia Open Records Act, subject to the exemptions that law provides. We do not sell candidate information.

5. How long we keep your information

We keep candidate information for as long as we need it to evaluate you for positions and as long as we are required to keep it by law, including records retention requirements that apply to Georgia public schools. When information is no longer needed, we delete it or remove information that identifies you.

6. How we protect your information

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, and we choose service providers that use industry standard security measures. No system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

7. Where your information is stored

Your information is stored and processed in the United States and in other countries where our service providers operate, using safeguards required by applicable law.

8. Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you
  • Ask us to correct or update your information
  • Ask us to delete your information
  • Withdraw your consent, where we rely on consent
  • Object to or ask us to limit certain uses of your information

To make a request, contact us using the information below. We will respond as required by applicable law. Please know that deleting or limiting your information may mean we can no longer consider your application.

9. Applicants under 18

Our job postings are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information through our hiring process from anyone under 18. If you believe we have, please contact us so we can delete it.

10. Equal opportunity

WCS is an equal opportunity employer. Providing EEO survey information is voluntary, and choosing not to answer will not affect your application.

11. Changes to this notice

We may update this notice from time to time. The effective date above shows when it was last updated.

12. Contact us

The Wright Community School
100 Hartsfield Center Parkway, Suite 500
Atlanta, GA 30354
Email: hello@thewrightcs.org
Phone: 404.333.8975