NOTICE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT
IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE SIGNING ACKNOWLEDGMENT
NOTICE REGARDING BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
Ginghamsburg Church will obtain information about you from Verified First for employment or volunteer purposes. Thus, you will be the subject of a background check which many include information about your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, and/or mode of living. These reports may be obtained at any time after receipt of your authorization and, if you are hired or volunteering, throughout your employment or service period. You have the right, upon written request made within a reasonable time after receipt of this notice, to request disclosure of the nature and scope of any investigative background report. The scope of this notice and authorization is all-encompassing, however, allowing Ginghamsburg Church to obtain from any outside organization all manner of background reports now and, if you are hired or volunteering, throughout the course of your service period to the extent permitted by law. As a result, you should carefully consider whether to exercise your right to request disclosure of the nature and scope of any investigative consumer report.
Use of date of birth is for identification purposes only. Prospective volunteers will receive consideration without discrimination because of race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, handicap or veteran status.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION
I acknowledge receipt of the NOTICE REGARDING BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION and certify that I have read and understand both of the document. I hereby authorize the obtaining of background check reports at any time after receipt of this authorization and, if I am hired or volunteering, throughout my period of service. To this end, I hereby authorize, without reservation, any law enforcement agency, administrator, state or federal agency, institution, school or university (public or private), information service bureau, employer, or insurance company to furnish any and all background information requested by Verified First, another outside organization acting on behalf of Ginghamsburg Church, and/or Ginghamsburg Church itself. I agree that a facsimile (“fax”) or photographic copy of this Authorization shall be as valid as the original.
Once you complete, sign, and submit this form, Verified First will send you an email. Follow their instructions and complete their form. We do it this way so that you can privately share your confidential information with Verified First only. Please know that for volunteering purposes we are not checking your credit, as you go farther into the process you will see something that refers to you as being an employee. Please do not be alarmed at this, we are not looking to hire you, we are simply following their process in order to complete the verification that we desire. Credit checks are run on potential employees as a standard procedure. Verified First includes this language as a part of all applications.