Privacy Policy for Non-Employees

Last Updated: May 1, 2024

This Privacy Policy for Non-Employees applies to non-employees of Shoring Engineers. This policy does not apply to employees, former employees, or job applicants. You may also review our Employee Policy on our website. If you are a California resident, please review our CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE below.

We respect your privacy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you, including but not limited to information that you may provide when you visit the website https://www.shoringengineers.com or elsewhere, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under the age of 16 may provide any information to the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 16, please call 1 (562) 944-9331.

Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device ("personal information"). Personal information does not include:

Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Other personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) such as a name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law such as age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Internet or other similar network activity such as browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete online or otherwise.
Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website or third-party vendors.
Automatically as you navigate through the website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technology.
Information collected from third-party vendors.

We may also combine personal information about you from multiple sources. For example, we may combine information we collect offline with information we collect on our website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including developing and improving our website, products, and services.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies or otherwise opt out, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Some browsers have “do not track” features that allow you to tell a website not to track you. These features are not all uniform. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all the tracking described here will stop.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect about you or that you provide us, including any personal information:

To share with our related companies to support our business.
To create, maintain, customize, and secure your data with us.
For marketing purposes.
To share with contractors, service providers, and other third parties to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Shoring Engineers’ assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Shoring Engineers is among the assets transferred.
To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
For testing, research, analysis, and development, including developing and improving our website, products, and services.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations, to ensure compliance with any applicable laws, or to conduct internal investigations and reviews as appropriate.
For any other purpose in accordance with your consent, at your direction, or as we may otherwise describe to you at the time the information is collected.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Shoring Engineers, our clients, or others, consistent with law.

Sharing Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose your personal information to a third party for business purposes. We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

Service providers.
Governmental or regulatory authorities as required or permitted by law.
Third parties with whom you direct or permit us to share your personal information.

California Privacy Notice

This section supplements the information contained in the other sections of this Privacy Policy and applies solely to clients, visitors, users, and others who reside in the state of California (“consumers” or “you”) and for whom we have data that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, including through the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, the “CCPA”). This Privacy Notice, including this additional information, is provided to comply with the CCPA and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.

This section describes our privacy practices offline and online and contains the CCPA’s required disclosures and instructions for California residents who wish to exercise their rights under CCPA. Please note that, to the extent permitted under CCPA, this California Privacy Notice does not apply to the PI of California residents that we collect for employment-related purposes. For any employment-related information, please review our employee privacy notice available on the website.

Categories of Personal Information Collected (CCPA)

The chart below provides a description of the types of personal information we may collect. It also describes the business or commercial purpose(s) for which we may collect, use, and disclose personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we have shared each type of personal information in the past twelve (12) months. Below the chart, we have outlined the criteria we use to determine how long such information will be retained. We may collect the categories of personal information described in the chart as described in the “Information We Collect” section of our Policy. We may share personal information we collect as described in the “Sharing Personal Information” section of our Policy.

Category	Purpose	Third parties shared or sold
Identifiers	Provide, maintain, and improve website. Provide and deliver products or services to you. Respond to comments or requests and provide customer service. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our website. Personalize and improve our website. Any other purpose permitted by law or as described by you at the time the information was collected.	NONE
Commercial Information	Provide, maintain, and improve website. Provide and deliver products or services to you. Respond to comments or requests and provide customer service. Any other purpose permitted by law or as described by you at the time the information was collected.	NONE
Internet or similar network activity	Provide, maintain, and improve website. Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our website. Personalize and improve our website. Any other purpose permitted by law or as described by you at the time the information was collected.	NONE

Personal Information Retention Criteria

Our personal information retention criteria: The CCPA requires that we disclose the criteria we use to determine how long we will retain each category of personal information in the chart above. Oftentimes, our records contain several of these categories of personal information combined and therefore we consider, on a case-by-case basis, a number of factors to assess how long personal information is retained. These factors include what personal information is reasonably necessary to (i) provide our products and services or administer our relationship with a consumer; (ii) protect our business, employees, organization, and others; (iii) fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations; and (iv) investigate and address issues which may include safety concerns, potential security incidents or policy violations.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Shoring Engineers has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose. We have not disclosed this information to third parties (e.g., non-service providers) in the past 12 months:

Identifiers.
California Customer Records personal information categories.
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Commercial information.
Internet or other similar network activity.

Your CCPA Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights), we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Your Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.).
Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
Comply with a legal obligation.
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Correction Requests

This means that you can request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.

Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

The CCPA provides a right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. Note that as of the date of this Policy, we do not knowingly “sell” or “share” personal information, including the personal information of consumers under the age of 16 years. This statement is based on our understanding of how these terms are defined under the CCPA.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by calling us at +1 (562) 944-9331.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. We may request that you provide us with additional information in order to verify your identity.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:

Obtaining additional information from you for verification purposes
Requiring that you describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We will acknowledge any request received within ten (10) business days, and endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

Deny you goods or services.
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Additional Information about your California Rights

If you reside in California, you have the right to ask us one time each year if we have shared personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make a request, please contact us. Indicate in your note that you are a California resident making a “California Shine the Light” inquiry.

Policy Updates & Contact Information

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this policy, we will post the updated policy on our website and update the policy’s date modified above. Your continued visitation of this policy following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, the ways in which Shoring Engineers collects and uses your information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under applicable law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: +1 (562) 944-9331
Website: https://shoringengineers.com