Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2024

This policy explains the rights of California residents regarding the collection, use, sale, and sharing of their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). We may update and make changes to this policy, so we encourage you to review it periodically.

  1. Key Terms. It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:

We, us, our
Ryda Welding Company, LLC

Representative
Ryda Welding Co., LLC

27499 Collier Dr.
Menifee, CA 92585
United States

Phone: 951.334.8309
info@rydaweldingco.com

Personal information
Any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household.

Sensitive personal information
Personal information revealing a consumer's social security number, driver's license and passport numbers, account numbers and credentials, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or union membership, personal information concerning a consumer's health, sexual orientation, contents of a consumer's mail, email and text messages where the business is not the intended recipient, and citizenship or immigration status.

  1. Personal Information We Collect About You. In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories and specific types of consumer personal information:

Categories of Personal Information

Specific Types of Personal Information Collected

Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)

Name, email, phone number, and mailing address provided by the user.

  1. How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect most of this personal information directly from you—in person, by telephone, text or email, and on our website. However, we may also collect information from the following categories of sources:

  • Publicly accessible sources (e.g., property records);

  • Third party (e.g., sanctions screening providers, credit reporting agencies, customer due diligence providers, advertising networks, internet service providers, social networks, data analytics providers, government entities, and data brokers;

  • Third party with your consent (e.g., your bank);

  • Cookies on our website;

  • Automated information collection.

  1. Why We Use Your Personal Information. We collect, consumer personal information for the following business purposes:

  • Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards;

  • Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer's personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes;

  • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer's current interaction with the business, provided the consumer's personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer's experience outside the current interaction with the business;

  • Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider;

  • Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to the consumer;

  • Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration; 

  • Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business;

  • To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;

  • For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;

  • For our legitimate interests or those of a third party; or

  • Where you have given consent.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests.

The table below explains what we use your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:

What we use your personal information for

Our reasons

To provide services to you

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract

  1. Who We Share Your Personal Information With. In the preceding 12 months, we have shared consumers’ personal information with:

  • Service providers we use to help deliver our services to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses and delivery companies;

  • Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies or website hosts;

  • Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers;

  • Our bank[s].

We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied, they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers, contractors, and third parties to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you. 

We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.

We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

  1. Categories of Personal Information We Shared. In the preceding 12 months, we have shared the following categories of personal information:

  • Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers).

  1. Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose: 

  • Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers).

  1. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing services to you. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:

  • To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf;

  • To show that we treated you fairly; or

  • To keep records required by law.

We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information.

When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.

  1. Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know, and request disclosure of:

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including sensitive personal information;

• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;

• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information;

• The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, if any; and

• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:

• Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;

• Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or

• Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose

In connection with any personal information we may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

• The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and

• The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and

• Direct any service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records.

• Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

• Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes;

• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

• 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 our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us 

• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Right of Correction

If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

Protection Against Retaliation 

You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. This means we cannot, among other things:

• Deny goods or services to you;

• Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;

• Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or

• Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Please note that we may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to our business by your personal information. We may also offer loyalty, rewards, premium features, discounts, or club card programs consistent with these rights or payments as compensation, for the collection of personal information, the sale of personal information, or the retention of personal information.

  1. How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, you may call us at 951.334.8309, or email us at info@rydaweldingco.com

Please note that you may only make a CCPA/CPRA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact us directly by website/email/phone/in writing, you will need to provide us with:

  • Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address, and/or order confirmation number);

  • Proof of your identity and address; and

  • A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.