A cloud-based payroll and human resources platform that processes payroll, benefits, and compliance services for small to medium-sized businesses across the United States. The company handles sensitive employee data including social security numbers, banking information, health records, and wage details for thousands of businesses and their workers. Policy changes significantly impact both employers who use the platform and employees whose personal and financial information is processed through Gusto's systems.
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Employers bear full financial and legal exposure for any unauthorized activity on their account, with no allocation of that risk to Gusto.
This clause confirms that commercial information is shared with advertising partners in a manner Gusto classifies as a sale or sharing, which has legal significance under privacy laws such as CCPA.
This clause establishes two distinct opt-out rights that limit Gusto's ability to sell, share, or apply automated decision-making to your personal information.
This clause establishes a specific consumer right that restricts Gusto's ability to use or share sensitive personal information beyond what the user permits.
This clause creates a conditional deletion obligation triggered by Gusto's awareness that a child under 13 submitted personal information, providing a protective measure for minors.
Gusto's Privacy Policy explains what Gusto does with your personal information, including using it to improve its services and deliver targeted ads across your devices. You have rights to limit …
This document sets the rules for using Gusto's payroll and HR platform as an employer. Every fee you pay is non-refundable, and if something goes wrong, Gusto's financial responsibility is …
Gusto's updated privacy policy now explicitly discloses that it engages in the 'sale' or 'sharing' of personal information as defined under U.S. state privacy laws. The policy clarifies that 'sale' …
View change record →Gusto expanded its privacy notice to explicitly cover 401(k) and SEP IRA/IRA accounts, clarified when the notice does not apply (adding separate guidance for employer and processor contexts), added Stripe …
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Companies change their terms without announcing it. We capture governance documents, compare each new version with the last, and publish what changed, with the source text behind it. One email a week on what we found and what we could not reach.
ConductAtlas tracks 2 Gusto documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Gusto has made 2 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 4 provisions across Gusto's tracked documents.
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