Last modified: June 2024
Introduction
Trayer Engineering Corporation (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information We may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Website www.trayer.com (our “Website“), as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information We collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other Website operated by Company or any third party; or
- Any third party including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how We will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy [hyperlink]). Your continued use of this Website after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, telephone number, or email address. If We learn We have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, We will delete that information. If you believe We might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at contact@trayer.com.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, email address, and telephone number (“personal information“);
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website; and
- Details about your usage of our Website, such as pages visited and amount of time spent on the Website.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through Cookies (see Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies).
Information You Provide Directly to Us
The information We collect on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, such as your email, name and telephone number. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), should you contact us.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or our business partners (collectively, “User Contributions“), for example by commenting on and rating videos provided on the Website, enabled by our business partner, YouTube. Your User Contributions are posted and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website or our business partners’ Websites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Furthermore, We do not control the use or sharing of User Contributions provided to our business partners, such as YouTube (a division of Google). Therefore, We cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
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 usage patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, 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.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party Websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and how We respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information We collect automatically is only statistical data and does not necessarily include personal information. This feature helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, such as enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
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, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- 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 or opened an email, and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but We may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that We collect from other sources or that you provide to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies (alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies) to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different Websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Usage of Artificial Intelligence
At present, We do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to vet current or potential employees. However, We reserve the right to do so in the future, subject to updating this privacy policy with the appropriate disclosures.
That said, We use AI for technical assistance with inbound calls, as well as writing blogs, articles and creating other literature. To our knowledge, none of these uses are considered high risk or currently limited or regulated by any law or regulation where We conduct business.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that We collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services We offer or provide though it.
- In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own or third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information [hyperlink].
We may use the information We have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though We do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, including information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
Furthermore, We may disclose personal information that We collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties We use to support our business, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them.
- 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 Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, We will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which We collect your data. You can also opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, or by simply sending us an email with your request to contact@trayer.com.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which We collect your data or by simply sending us an email stating your request to contact@trayer.com. If We have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that We collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by emailing us a contact@trayer.com.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Your State Privacy Rights
Various U.S. states (e.g., as of the date of this Policy, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia) allow consumers to opt out of sharing of their data. As such, residents of those states may request that the Company:
- Disclose the sources, categories, and specific pieces of personal information We have collected about them, how that information is used, and with whom the Company shares it
- Disclose the purpose for collecting personal information
- Disclose the categories of third parties with whom the Company shares personal information
- Delete/rectify/restrict their personally identifiable information, subject to certain exceptions (right of rectification not applicable to Utah residents)
- Though not specifically applicable to this Company, to disclose, for any “sales” of personal information, the categories of personal information collected and sold and to what categories of third parties it was sold
- Though not specifically applicable to this Company, to opt them out of sales of their personal information (if any) or subject certain personal information to automated decision-making algorithms (not applicable to Utah residents)
- Provide a copy of their personal information in a readily usable format that allows the information to be transmitted to others
- Residents in these states may not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described above.
Residents of these states may exercise these rights by emailing us at contact@trayer.com. Note that if you are a resident of Colorado, you must consent for us to process outside of Colorado any of your sensitive personal information or any personal information of a minor. However, note that We do not intend to collect any sensitive personal information or data of children.
In general, We, including our service providers, collect the following California regulated categories of personal information (PI) from you:
Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Trainer Social Security number, Trainer’s license number, Trainer passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
B. PI categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Trainer Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, Trainer passport number, Trainer’s license or state identification card number, Trainer insurance policy number, education, employment, Trainer employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some PI included in this category may overlap with other categories. | NO |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | 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). | NO |
D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | NO |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with Websites, services, or advertisement. | YES |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | NO |
H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
J. Non-public education information | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other PI. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | YES |
Sharing Your Personal Information for a Business Purpose
In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose with related third parties:
- Category A: Identifiers.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
- Category K: Inferences drawn from other PI
Opt-Out of Sale in U.S.
The Company does not currently “sell” (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act and other U.S. state laws) any Personal Information subject to this Privacy Policy, and We do not exchange Personal Information for any type of financial incentive.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes We make to our privacy policy on this page. If We make material changes to how We treat our users’ personal information, We will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring We have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
or via our toll-free number: 415-285-7770
To register a complaint or concern, please email us at contact@trayer.com.