We do not collect Personal Information related to protected classification characteristics under California or federal law, biometric information, sensory data, non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)), and inferences drawn from other information.

 

As noted above, if you are applying for a job with us, we may collect your professional or employment-related information.  Please click here to access the Notice at Collection and Privacy Policy for Employees* Who Reside in California.

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A.  How we Collect Personal Information that you provide to us

We collect personal information from you in the following ways:  1) from you when you voluntarily provide information to us directly; 2) using automated technology, including when you visit our website; and 3) using third party sources such as other companies, clients and referrals.   Automated technology collects information from your computer or mobile device and includes cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, or other similar technology.  More information is given below in the “Cookies and Other Technology” section below.

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All personal information may be used for the purposes stated in this Policy.  We may combine data collected from third party sources.

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1.    Personal Information

We collect information volunteered by you, including but not limited to your name, email address, mailing address.  We use this information to provide you with the website, improve the website, to send you promotional and marketing materials we believe may be of interest to you, provide publications, products, and services you request, and to communicate with you regarding your business.

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2.    How We Disclose Your Personal Information

In general, we disclose this information to consultants, service providers, and contractors that support our business and operations (e.g., vendors hosting or operating our website, fraud detection entities, facilities operator, discovery management vendors); and to third-parties such as third-party vendors who help gather information from you such as entities that assist with data analytics, analyzing website metrics, advertising, and improving the website.  These parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of the website through the use of cookies and similar technologies.  We require all our service providers to maintain the security of all information to which they are provided access, and restrict them from using the information in any way not authorized by us.  We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or to comply with legal process.

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3.    Anonymized and Aggregated Data

Anonymization is a data processing technique that removes or modifies personal information so that it cannot be associated with a specific individual.  We may use anonymized or aggregate data for any business purpose, such as to better understand the needs and behaviors of our users, improve our Services, conduct business intelligence and marketing, and detect security threats.  We may perform our analytics on anonymized data or enable analytics provided by third-parties.

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III.  USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

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A.    Use or Disclosure of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following purposes: 

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the Personal Information.

• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, fulfill our obligations under the Agreement, and provide Services.

• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website and Services.

• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

• As described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended from time to time, and all implementing regulations and promulgated by the California Attorney General to date (“CCPA”).

• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us.
   

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we have collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

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1.   Internet/Network Activity

We collect your party’s domain and IP address, type of browser, and operating system you use when you visit the website.  We collect this information from your computer or mobile device when you visit our website (including your online activities on our website).  This information is used for internal analysis only in order to improve our website, monitor the performance of our servers, and administer the website.

a.    How We Disclose Your Internet/Network Activity
We disclose this information to consultants, service providers, and contractors that support our business and operations (e.g., vendors hosting or operating our website, fraud detection entities, entities assisting with analytics such as Google Analytics, from which you may opt out, as noted below); and to third-parties such as third-party vendors who help gather information from you such as entities that assist with data analytics, analyzing website metrics, advertising, and improving the website.  These third-parties parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of the website through the use of cookies and similar technologies.  We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or to comply with legal process.

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2.   Service-Related Information

We collect your party’s domain and IP address, type of browser, and operating system you use when you visit the website.  We collect this information from your computer or mobile device when you visit our website (including your online activities on our website).  This information is used for internal analysis only in order to improve our website, monitor the performance of our servers, and administer the website.

a.    How We Disclose Your Internet/Network Activity

We may disclose certain information to service providers that support our business and operations (e.g., cloud service providers, vendors.).

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B.    Third-Party Advertising and Analytics Disclaimer

We may disclose certain information to service providers that support our business and operations (e.g., cloud service providers, vendors.).

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1.   Opting Out

You may opt out of behavioral remarketing as follows:

Google Analytics:  We use Google Analytics to understand how our website, services, and products perform, how you use them, and to serve you with ads on third-party websites and social networking sites.  To learn more about how Google processes your data, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.  To opt out of Google Analytics please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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2.   Digital Advertising Alliance

You can also opt out from companies like Google and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA:  http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.  You can also opt out of participating companies from the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada:  http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe:  http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt out using your mobile device settings.

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3.   How We Use “Cookies and Other Technology”

As you access or use our websites, Company may collect information passively, by using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, and navigational and location data collection (clickstream, log files, server logs) for the purposes described in this Policy.  Such automated technologies further help us to keep track of your interactions with our website in order to personalize your web experience, including through offers, advertisements, language and location preferences.  Most browsers are initially set to allow cookies, but also offer the option to restrict cookies or warn you of their use.  By disabling cookies, you won’t be able to enjoy the convenience provided by our customization.
 

To find more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

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3.   Links and Third Parties

This website may include links to other websites operated by third parties.  We are not responsible for any information on these websites.  Your use of these websites or submission of personal information to them is at your own risk and pursuant to the privacy policies of such websites.

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C.   Intended Audience of Website; COPPA Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).  We do not knowingly collect information from minors in the United States or elsewhere with or without the consent of their parents or guardians.  If you are not 16 or older, you should not visit or use our website or social media accounts.  If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take the appropriate steps in accordance with our legal obligations and this Policy.

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D.   Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information (collected through offline and online methods) for as long as it is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.  We will retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

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E.   Contact Preferences and Unsubscribing From

Company wants to communicate with you in a manner you find helpful.  If you no longer wish to receive email marketing communications from us, you may unsubscribe from receiving marketing-related emails by using the unsubscribe method provided in our communications (e.g., by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the email to unsubscribe). 

 

Alternatively, to the extent that applicable law requires your prior opt-in consent to receive marketing and promotional emails, we will ask for your consent, and you can choose not to subscribe.

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IV.  HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

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A.    Commitment to Protection of Personal Information

We are committed to protecting the Personal Information you share with us, and we maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.  We limit access to personal information by our own employees to individuals who are authorized for the proper handling of such information.

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1.   Certain Disclosures

As noted above, we may disclose your Personal Information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, the Website and our Services; and (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the Website, our Services, or third parties.

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2.  What About Other Websites Through Which Our Services Are Available?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any other website that may/may not link or provide access to our Services.

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3.   No Liability

As no security system is wholly failsafe or impenetrable, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.  We cannot guarantee the security of our database or the information you supply while being transmitted to us over the Internet.  Although we strive to protect your personal information in accordance with this Policy, we will not be liable for disclosure of personal information obtained due to errors in transmission or security breaches.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us immediately as detailed under the “Contact Information” section below.

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V.  CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS ONLY:  YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

This Privacy Rights Act Notice (“Notice”) provides additional information to California residents whose Personal Information is collected by us pursuant to California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”).  If you are not a California resident, this Notice does not apply to you.  Any capitalized terms undefined in this Notice have the same definition as the Policy.

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The purpose of this notice is to inform our website users, customers, browsers, those who purchase or inquire about our services, and other California residents from whom we may collect personal information (“California Consumers”), about our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of their personal information and certain rights under California law.  This notice applies to both offline and online collection of personal information and applies to Company.

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A.    Right to Know about Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold And Shared

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1.   Information Collected 

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the categories of personal information about California consumers as described in Annex 1 to this Notice

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2.   Business-to-Business (“B2B”) Information

If you are a contact person for any of our business partners, vendors, distributors, suppliers, service providers, contractors, or other entities with which we have a business relationship or potential business relationship, we collect the contact information you provide to us, including name, phone number, address, email address and other contact and relationship information consistent with your role in facilitating that business relationship.  We use that information for internal purposes, including to contact you, send and receive information, and otherwise facilitate the business relationship.  We do not disclose that information outside our business relationship without your consent.

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3.   Information Sold or Shared

We have not sold or shared, as defined by the CPRA, any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months.

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2.   Information Disclosed for Business Purposes

For details regarding the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information, please see Annex 1.

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B.    Requests to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose to you the following personal information we collect about you:

• categories of personal information collected;

• categories of sources of personal information collected;

• the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;

• the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; and

• the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you over the past 12 months.

You also have a right to know if we have sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose over the past 12 months and, if so, the categories of personal information sold or disclosed and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed, along with the business or commercial purpose for which the personal information was sold or disclosed.

 

You can make a Request to Know the personal information we have about you by using our online form available here.

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1.  Right to Know Sensitive Personal Information Collected

We collect and use your Sensitive Personal Information as described in Annex 1.

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2. Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us (“Request to Delete”), subject to certain exceptions permitted by law.

You can make a Request to Delete by using our CCPA Consumer Rights Request Form or MN directly at (510) 444-5000. 

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3. Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing, as defined by the CPRA, of your Personal Information. We do not and will not sell your personal information.

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a. Opt-out Preference Signals

We do not share or sell your information and as such we do not respond to opt-out preference signals.

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b. Cookies

As explained in our “Cookies and other technology” section, you can opt out of cookies using your browser.

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4.  Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we rectify inaccurate information about you.

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a. Requests to Correct

To make a Request to Correct, please submit a verifiable consumer request pursuant to the instructions below.  We will acknowledge your Request to Correct within 10 business days and we will attempt to respond substantively within 45-90 days.

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You can make a Request to Correct by using our CCPA Consumer Rights Request Form, or calling MN directly at (510) 444-5000.

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5.  Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Consumer Privacy Rights

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6. Right to Access Information about Automated Decision Making and the Right to Opt-Out of Automated Decision Making

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7.  Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in Annex 1 and to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

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VI.  CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Policy may be revised from time to time for any reason. If this Policy changes, the revised policy will include a new effective date, and we will notify you of such changes by posting the revised policy on this page. Be sure to check the Policy whenever you submit personal information to us.

 

CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION
For information and questions about the use of your personal information or this California Consumer Privacy Section or your rights under California law, you may contact us at privacy@mnbuild.com, or at our mailing address: 2400 Union Street, Oakland, CA 94607.