Privacy Policy – California Star Construction Inc.

 Effective Date: June 29, 2018

Privacy & Security Standards:

 California Star Construction Inc is committed to the privacy and security of your personal information. The goal of this policy is to provide you with a clear understanding on how the information that you submit on this site will be used, who this information is shared with and your choices for how to access, update and remove your personal information.

 By accessing or using this site, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

Collecting Information:

 Personally identifiable information is collected in a number of sections throughout the California Star Construction Inc application process. Applicants have the choice to enter information by completing an online application via our applicant tracking system used by our clients. Applicants are not required to give any personal information during the searching stage of the process. All information requested directly relates to the process. Applicant data is then stored to allow company managers to use during their hiring process and to allow for future position consideration and placement. If you are an applicant, or would like to review our privacy policy specific to applicants, please refer to our Applicant Information Use & Privacy Policy.

 The personal information you submit to California Star Construction Inc may include, but is not limited to, your name, address, phone number, email address, usernames, passwords and IP addresses. This information is typically collected when you request a price quote, trial, demonstration or request to sign up for services provided by California Star Construction Inc. This information will be used only by California Star Construction Inc to provide you with the requested services and support needed.

Information Collected Automatically:

 We automatically collect information when you use the site such as IP Address, browser types, operating system and device types. This information is used to improve our services and when providing support to our users. Your IP Address may be also used to determine a geolocation that will be used to improve services. Third party tools may be used to collect analytics data such as pages visited and session data. Cookies and other tracking technologies may also be used by California Star Construction Inc or our by our clients on their career sites and applications. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so by visiting your browser’s cookie settings. Doing so could result in some services not working correctly.

Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics Advertiser Features to optimize our business. Advertiser features include:

•            Re-marketing with Google Analytics

•            Google Display Network Impression Reporting

•            DoubleClick Platform integrations

•            Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting

By enabling these Google Analytics Display features, we are required to notify our visitors by disclosing the use of these features and that we and third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to gather data about your activities on our Site. Among other uses, this allows us to contact you if you begin to fill out our check-out form but abandon it before completion with an email reminding you to complete your order. The “Re-marketing” feature allows us to reach people who previously visited our Site, and match the right audience with the right advertising message.

You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s ad settings and/or you may opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Facebook

As advertisers on Facebook and through our Facebook page, we, (not Facebook) may collect content or information from a Facebook user and such information may be used in the same manner specified in this Privacy Policy. You consent to our collection of such information.

We abide by Facebook’s Data Use Restrictions.

•            Any ad data collected, received or derived from our Facebook ad (“Facebook advertising data”) is only shared with someone acting on our behalf, such as our service provider. We are responsible for ensuring that our service providers protect any Facebook advertising data or any other information obtained from us, limit our use of all of that information, and keep it confidential and secure.

•            We do not use Facebook advertising data for any purpose (including retargeting, commingling data across multiple advertisers’ campaigns, or allowing piggybacking or redirecting with tags), except on an aggregate and anonymous basis (unless authorized by Facebook) and only to assess the performance and effectiveness of our Facebook advertising campaigns.

•            We do not use Facebook advertising data, including the targeting criteria for a Facebook ad, to build, append to, edit, influence, or augment user profiles, including profiles associated with any mobile device identifier or other unique identifier that identifies any particular user, browser, computer or device.

•            We do not transfer any Facebook advertising data (including anonymous, aggregate, or derived data) to any ad network, ad exchange, data broker or other advertising or monetization related service.

 

How your Information will be Used:

 How your personal information is used varies depending on your use of this site and our software platform. For client users and general website visitors your information will be used to provide you with the requested services and support needed or requested. We may use information collected automatically to improve your experience as a user or to improve our products and services.

Protecting Personal Information:

 Personally identifiable information is stored on a separate server as a security precaution and our site is SSL encrypted. Since, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information our users transmit to our site; however, we do everything in our power to protect your company and your applicant’s information.

 All user information is restricted by administrative login to the California Energy Star applicant tracking system and controlled by the corporate office. Only administrators who have permission are granted access to personally identifiable information. All California Energy Star employees are kept up-to-date on security and privacy practices. Additionally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment that can only be accessed with a secure login and badge access to the facility.

Agreement for Communication:

By filling out a form on our website, you are requesting and providing consent to be contacted by California Energy Star regarding our products and services for periodical and recurring updates or to communicate with you. This communication may come in the form of phone calls, emails, postal service mail, or even text messages until you opt out. Data and Messaging rates may apply.

 If at any time you would like to stop receiving communication from California Energy Star, you may email us at info@californiaenergystar.org and request that your information be deleted. See Managing your Data below for more information on your choices for data privacy and your right to erasure.

 Data Retention:

 We will retain the information associated with your user profile as long as your user account is active. Specific applications submitted to various companies using California Energy Star will be retained by the employers based on their own data retention policies. We do not maintain complete control over the length of time a company keeps applications on file and this may vary from company to company. Our clients may choose to keep applications on file as they deem reasonably necessary.

 Managing your Data:

 Residents of the European Union (EU) have additional rights set forth by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although GDPR is intended to protect the personal data of those in the EU, these data management options are available to any users. California Energy Star acts as the controller of your data. Should you wish to receive an electronic copy of your data or request the removal and erasure of your personal data pertaining to any applications you have submitted through our site or your user profile, you may do so by emailing info@californiaenergystar.org

 The removal of your user profile will permanently delete any personal information we have stored for you.

Children’s Privacy:

 We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware of data collected from or about children under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete that data from our servers within a reasonable time frame. Please email info@californiaenergystar.org if you have information about data being collected for children under the age of 13.

Policy Updates:

 This policy may be updated on occasion as we continue to evolve our best practices in securing and protecting your information. Information collected is subject to the Privacy Policy in place at the time it is collected. Keeping your data and your applicants’ data safe is our number one priority. We take this responsibility very seriously and work hard to keep it secure at every level possible. If you have any questions or concerns about any of the information contained in this policy, our security measures, or about our relationship with DataBank, please reach out to our support team by emailing info@californiaenergystar.org

Date: June 29, 2018