EMPLOYEE AND VOLUNTEER APPLICANT BACKGROUND CHECK DISCLOSURE & CONSENT FORM
As an individual providing or applying to provide services as an employee, consultant, independent contractor, volunteer or other capacity, with National Kidney Foundation dba Camp Reynal, you are advised that National Kidney Foundation dba Camp Reynal, Inc. (the "Camp") may contact the Social Security Administration, another governmental agency or other parties directly or through a third party to verify the Social Security Number and certain other information as part of its verification of your eligibility and suitability to provide services as an employee, consultant, independent contractor, volunteer or in any other capacity.
In addition, the Camp may obtain a consumer report or otherwise check other background information about you to confirm your identity and eligibility for employment or for other employment or business purposes.
The Camp may also obtain a reference check on you for purposes of determining your suitability to perform services or serve in some other capacity, as we deem appropriate, in our exclusive discretion. The reference check, also referred to as an investigative consumer report, may include information about your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, identity, eligibility for employment in the United States, mode of living, criminal background, and other matters that we deem relevant to your eligibility and suitability for employment with the Camp.
As a condition of the Camp's consideration of you for prospective or continued eligibility to provide services as an employee, consultant, independent contractor, volunteer, or other capacity, the Camp requires that you give us written authorization to conduct this investigation including obtaining a background report on you (specifically, a consumer report and/or an investigative consumer report).
If the Camp elects to secure an investigation report, the Fair Credit Reporting Act may, under certain circumstances, provide you with the right to request, in writing within a reasonable amount of time, a disclosure of the nature and the scope of the investigative report. If required to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the disclosure shall be made in writing and mailed, or otherwise delivered to you no later than 5 days after the date on which your request is received or 5 days after the date on which the report was first requested, whichever is later. You may also request a Summary of Your Consumer Rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act as prepared by the Federal Trade Commission. These can be obtained at no charge.
To obtain a disclosure of the nature and the scope of the investigative report about you, if any, run by the Camp, please provide us a written request. To obtain a Summary of Your Consumer Rights, simply let us know in your letter that you would like a copy.
I acknowledge that I have received this disclosure and I authorize the Camp and its affiliates, agents, successors and assigns to conduct an investigative consumer report and criminal background check for employment, volunteer, consulting, independent contractor or other purposes and consent to allow the Camp to contact the Social Security Administration or other governmental agencies to verify my Social Security Number and any other information that it deems relevant to verify my eligibility and suitability to provide or continue to provide services as an employee, volunteer, contractor or other capacity for the Camp.
I also understand that as long as I remain an employee, independent contractor, consultant, or volunteer for the Camp, the criminal history records check may be repeated at any time. I understand that I will have an opportunity to review the criminal history as received and a procedure is available for clarification, if I dispute the record as received. I also understand that the criminal history could contain information presumed to be expunged.
I, the undersigned, do, for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, hereby remise, release and forever discharge and agree to indemnify the National Kidney Foundation and the related state or federal agencies and each of their officers, directors, employees and agents and hold them harmless from and against any and all causes of actions, suits, liabilities, costs, debts and sums of money, claims and demands whatsoever (including claims for negligence, gross negligence, and/or strict liability of the National Kidney Foundation of North Texas and the related state or federal agencies and any and all related attorneys’ fees, court costs and other expenses resulting from the investigation of my background in connection with my application to become a volunteer/staff member.