This Privacy Notice for California Residents (“Notice”) is to inform consumers of the categories of personal information that may be collected by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., and its affiliates (“SEL”, “we”, or “us”), the purposes for which the categories of personal information may be used, and your rights in relation to the personal information collected. This Notice supplements the SEL Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the state of California. This Notice is to fulfill compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
The categories of personal information that SEL collects (and has collected in the last 12 months) are set out in Annex 1.
SEL does not collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. SEL collects personal information for various business purposes that are necessary:
The CCPA provides you with certain rights in relation to your personal information that we collect:
You can exercise your rights to access, correct, and/or delete your personal information collected by us by submission of a verifiable consumer request to us using the following contact information.
Phone: +1.509.332.1890
Email: data_protection@selinc.com
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that is authorized by you to act on your behalf, may make the verifiable request. If we are not able to verify your identity or the authority of the person making the request on your behalf, we cannot respond to the request. Information provided in a request will only be used for our investigation and response to the request.
A verifiable request must:
Upon receipt of a valid request, we strive to verify and fulfil the request within 45 days when reasonable. We may notify you that an additional 45 days is necessary. Disclosures to you will only include the 12-month period preceding the verified request.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties for business purposes. We neither sell your personal information to any party, nor share your personal information with third parties. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose (including, without limitation, purposes related to your potential and actual employment with SEL), we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract. We may disclose personal information with the following categories of third parties:
During the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed, for business purposes, the following categories of personal information from Annex 1: A, B, D, and I and L (only to service providers). During the preceding 12 months, we have not disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose: C, E, F, G, H, J, and K.
We do not sell personal information; we do not share personal information; and during the preceding 12 months, we have not done so for any personal information in any of the categories in Annex 1.
We collect the categories of personal information from the following categories of sources:
SEL will keep and Process your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected in connection with your interaction, business, and/or employment with SEL, unless SEL has a legal right or obligation to retain the data for a longer period, or the data is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
If you have any questions about this Notice, please contact:
Data Protection Officer
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
2350 NE Hopkins Court
Pullman, WA 99163
data_protection@selinc.com
Revision: 31 December 2022
Category | Examples | Collected |
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A. Identifiers | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or similar identifiers | Yes |
B. Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e) | A name, signature, address, telephone number, employment history, methods of payment, or the like | Yes |
C. Characteristics of protected classification under California or federal law | Age, gender, gender identity, military status, and the like | No |
D. Commercial information | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies | Yes |
E. Biometric information | Fingerprints, face prints, iris scan, and the like | No |
F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, information regarding interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement | Yes |
G. Geolocation data | Physical location | Yes |
H. Observable data | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | No |
I. Professional or employment-related information | Job position, past positions, or career information | Yes |
J. Non-public education information (under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 20 U.S.C. §1232(g), 34 C.F.R. Part 99) | Records obtained regarding education, such as transcripts, grades, student information, and the like | No |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information | Consumer preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, preferences, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes | No |
L. Sensitive personal information | Personal information that reveals a social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; account log-in, financial account, dept card, credit card number in combination with required security or access code, password, or credentials; precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership; contents of mail, email, and text messages (unless we are the intended recipient); genetic data; the processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed concerning health; personal information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s sex life or sexual orientation. | Yes |