Privacy Policy
- For the purposes for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Personal Data means any information relating to You such as Your name, ID numbers, information regarding your location, online identifiers or to one or more factors specific to Your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
- For the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as set forth in Section 1789.140 of CCPA, Personal Data means “means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.” CCPA § 1789.140.
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Personal Data
When You use the Service, You may be asked to provide Us with information that can identify You personally.This information may include, but is not limited to the following:- Email Address
- First Name and Last Name
- Phone Number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal Code, City, Country
- Usage Data
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Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service as set forth in Section 1 of this Privacy Policy.
Usage Data may include information such as Your IP address, the type of internet browser You are using and its current version, the webpages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit to the Service, the time You spend on those pages of our Service, any unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Note that when Our Service is accessed on a mobile device, certain information may be collected automatically from you, including, but not limited to the following: the type of mobile device You used to access the Service, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system (e.g., iOS, Android), the type of mobile Internet browser used to accessed, any unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.The Company may also collect information sent by Your browser when visiting our Service or accessing Our Service on a mobile device.
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Tracking Technologies and Cookies
The Service uses a variety of Cookies and other tracking technologies to track the activity of users, including You, and certain collected information is stored. We use the tracking technologies of beacons, tags, and scripts to track and collect information, as well as for the improvement and analytics of the Service. Please note that if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. If You have not adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
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Using Your Personal Data
We may use Your Personal Data for the following purposes:- Providing the Service
- Maintaining the Service
- Monitoring usage of the Service
- For contract performance, namely, for the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To manage and attend to requests from You.
- To manage user Accounts.
- To contact You, which can be done via email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications informing You about updates or other informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- Unless You opt out of receiving the following, to provide You and other users with news, offers, and info about other goods, services, and events which the Company offers similar to those that You have shown interest in or have purchased.
- For advertising and targeted advertising, both physical and digital, which may be sent to You. We may use Your information for the development of tailored advertising specifically for You and/or Your physical location. We may also work with third-party vendors for the development of these tailored and targeted advertisements. This information can also be used to measure advertising effectiveness.
- To determine the feasibility and possible successes of a business transfer, namely, We may use Your information in analyzing or going through a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or some other sale or transfer of Our assets, whether in part or in full, due to bankruptcy or liquidation, or other similar process, in which your Personal Data may be part of assets transferred during that process.
- We may use Your information for other purposes, such as for analysis and identification purposes, such as for analyzing usage trends, analyzing the success of our promotional and advertising campaigns and to analyze, evolve, and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
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Sharing Personal Data
We may share Your personal information with the following people, groups of people, and companies:- Service Providers. We may share Your personal information with third-party Service Providers to assist us in general business practices, the management and upkeep of our Service, for marketing and advertising purposes, assist in our efforts to advertise on third party websites to You after You visited our Service, to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, for payment processing, and to contact You.
- Business Opportunities/Transfers. We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- Affiliates and Business Partners. We may share Your information with Our affiliates. If we do, Our affiliates are instructed to follow Our Privacy Policy. Our affiliates include joint venture partners, companies under Our control other than the Company, Our parent company, and any other subsidiaries. Further, We may share Your information with Company’s business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
- Other Users. When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas, including on the Service, with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
- To Others With Your Consent: We may disclose Your personal information to any others for any other purpose with Your consent.
- Right to Be Informed. You have the right to be informed of what data is being collected on You. This information is located throughout this Privacy Policy.
- Right of Access. You have the right to access the information We have about/on/regarding You. In many instances, You can access Your Personal Data directly within the Settings section of Your account. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us as set forth in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. You can also find a copy of the Personal Data We have on You through Your Account settings page.
- Right to Object & Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to limit the way We use Your Personal Data, and You have the right to challenge and object to the way We use your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes. You also have this right when We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing of Your Personal Data, and You are in a particular and special situation that causes You to object because of this situation.
- Right of Rectification. You have the right to update and correct the incomplete or inaccurate information We have on You. When possible, You can update Your Personal Data directly within the settings section of Your Account. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You at the contact information set forth in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. You can also find a copy of the Personal Data We have on You through Your Account settings page.
- Right to Be Forgotten. You have the right to delete the information We have on You when there is no longer a good reason for Us to continue processing it. When possible, You can delete Your Personal Data directly within the settings section of Your Account. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You at the contact information set forth in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. You can also find a copy of the Personal Data We have on You through Your Account settings page.
- Right of Portability. You can request that We transfer any information we have on You to another organization or company. This information will be in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. Note: this right only applies to automated information that You initially consented for Us to use or when We used Your information for the performance of a contract We have with You.
- Other Rights Related to Automated Decision-Making. You have the right to ask Us for a copy of Our automated processing activities if You believe Your data and information is being processed unlawfully.
- Right to Withdraw Consent. You have the right to withdraw the consent You gave regarding the use of Your Personal Data. However, if you withdraw this consent, some features of Our Service may be inaccessible by you.
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Rights under the CCPA
The California Consumer Privacy Act provides residents of the State of California specific rights regarding personal information. Residents of California, You have the following rights:- You have the right to know the purposes Your Personal Data are being used.
- You have the right to request that We tell you about Our
collection, use, disclosure for business purposes, sale, and sharing of
personal information. When We receive Your request, We will disclose to You
to the following regarding personal information about You:
- Categories of personal information We collected
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected
- Categories of sources from which We collected the personal information
- Categories of third parties with whom we have shared Your personal information
- Our business purposes/commercial purposes for collecting/selling Your personal information. If We sold personal information about You, or disclosed personal information about You for a business purpose, We will disclose the categories of personal information We sold, and/or the categories of personal information We disclosed.
- You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your personal information. If you want to exercise this right, please contact Us by following the contact information set forth in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy.
- You have the right to delete Personal Data We have on You. However,
there are certain exceptions to this right. Upon receiving your request for
deletion of Your Personal Data, We will delete Your personal information
and We will also instruct Our Service Providers to delete Your personal
information from our records, unless an exception applies. Please note that
We may deny Your request to delete Your Personal Data from our Records if
We or Our Service Providers still require the Personal Data to do any or
all of the following:
- To complete the transaction that was the very purpose We collected the personal information, such as to provide a good or service that You requested from Us, to take actions anticipated within the context the business relationship between You and Company, or to otherwise perform our contractual obligations to and with You.
- To prevent malicious, fraudulent, deceptive, or illegal activity, to detect security incidents, or for other legal purposes.
- To debug Our products, services, or Service in order to identify and repair errors that impair the functionality intended of our products, services, or Service.
- To exercise our or another consumer’s rights under the law, including the right of free speech.
- For public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest.
- To allow for internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your relationship with Us.
- To comply with a legal obligation by which we are obliged to fulfill., including compliance with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Other lawful and internal uses.
- You have the right to not be discriminated against for the exercising of Your rights as a consumer.
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Sources of Personal Information
The Company is able to collect the information listed in section i. above from the following sources:- Directly From You. For example, You input information into Our Service by filling out a form.
- Indirectly From You. For example, information We are able to gather from observing Your activity on Our Service.
- Automatically From You. For example, from the use of cookies.
- From Service Providers. For example, information about advertisement success from our third-party vendors.
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Use of Personal Information for “Business Purposes” or
“Commercial Purposes”
Some information may be used or disclosed for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” as set forth and defined in the CCPA. The following is a list of examples of “business purposes” and “commercial purposes”. This list is just a list of examples to help illustrate “business purposes” and “commercial purposes”. This list is not exhaustive, and We encourage you to refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” Section 2.2 of this Privacy Policy:- Operation of our Service and providing You with our Service.
- Responding to inquiries We receive from You and other support.
- Fulfillment of or meeting the reason You provided the information.
- Responding to requests from law enforcement, and responding to other requests and inquiries required by applicable law, court order, or other governmental regulations.
- When You provide information to Us, and We describe a business or commercial purpose, or as otherwise set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act.
- Internal auditing purposes.
- Internal administrative purposes.
- Security incident detection, protection, and prosecution against fraud, deception, malicious, or other illegal activity.
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Sale of Personal Information
“Sell” or “sale” within the context of the CCPA is defined as the following: “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.” CCPA § 1789.140 (9)(t)(1).
The following is a list of the categories of personal information that may have been, is being, or will be sold by Us. This list does not mean that all of the following information has been, is being, or will be sold by us, but is rather a list set forth by the CCPA, and this is our good faith effort to let you know what could be or could have been sold:- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal Information Categories set forth in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)
- Category D: Commercial Information
- Category F: Internet Activity
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Sharing of Personal Information
Payment processors, Service Providers, Our business partners and affiliates, and third-party vendors in connection with providing our goods and services are the third parties with whom We may share Your personal information. -
Sharing of Personal Information
Payment processors, Service Providers, Our business partners and affiliates, and third-party vendors in connection with providing our goods and services are the third parties with whom We may share Your personal information. -
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age.
We do not knowingly collect the personal information of minors under sixteen (16) years of age through Our Service. However, Our Service may contain links to third-party websites that are not under Our control, and those third-party websites may collect the personal information of minors under the age of 16. Each of these third parties have privacy policies of their own that describe their policies regarding such information. Parents and guardians, We encourage You to monitor You minor child’s use of and activity on the internet, and instruct them to never provide personal information without first obtaining parental or guardian permission.
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers that We know are less than 16 years old.
Parents and Legal Guardians: If You believe that a child under the age of 13 or 16 provided personal information about them to Us through Our Service, please contact Us by following the contact details set forth in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. Please note that you will need to provide us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete the personal information. -
Exercising the Data Protection Rights Granted by CCPA
To exercise Your rights under the CCPA as a resident of the State of California, and You are in fact a California Resident, You can contact us at the following:
Email: vtinfoupdate@valmont.com
Mail: 1545 Pidco Drive, Plymouth, IN 46563
To be able process and fulfill your request, Your request must provide Us with information sufficient enough for us to reasonably confirm that You are in fact the person that We have collected information on, or to confirm an authorized representative authorized by You to act on Your behalf. Further, Your request must describe Your request with sufficient detail that allows Us to be able to properly understand what You are asking of Us, to evaluate Your request, to process it, and properly respond to it. Please note that if we cannot verify Your identity or Your position as an authorized representative, and We cannot confirm that the personal information We collected relates to You, we cannot provide you with a response of the required information You have requested.
Within forty-five (45) days of receiving Your verified request, We will disclose and deliver the information required free of charge. This time period may be reasonably extended once for an additional 45 days if it is reasonable and necessary with prior notice We will give to You. Note that, as set forth in the CCPA, the information We will gather to disclose only covers the preceding 12-month period before receipt of Your verified request. For data portability requests, We will select the format by which We will provide You with Your personal information. This format will be readily usable, and should allow You to easily transmit the information from entity to entity without issue. -
Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information
We use Service Providers for targeted and direct advertising. Our Service Providers may use certain technologies on Our Service that sell Your personal information as defined by the CCPA. The Company may sell your personal information as defined by the CCPA. To opt-out of the use of your personal information for internet-based advertising endeavors, such as for direct advertising, and these “sales'' of personal information as set forth and defined by the CCPA, You can opt out by following the instructions set forth below depending on the device(s) you are using and have used.- Internet Browsers. On each internet browser You use, You will have to go into the settings of that browser and opt-out.
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Websites. To opt out of receiving personalized advertisements, such
as those provided to Us by Our Service Providers, follow the instructions
on Our Service and on the following:
- NAI opt-out information: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
- EDAA opt-out information: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
- DAA opt-out information: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
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Mobile Devices. Some mobile devices grant the ability to opt out of
the use of information about mobile applications You use which are used for
the purposes of personalized advertisements.
- Android: "Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" and/or "Opt out of Ads Personalization"
- iOS: “Limit Ad Tracking”
- Contact Us. To opt out of our “sale” of your personal information as defined by the CCPA, please contact us using the information set forth in Section 9 of this Agreement.