Safeguard Equipment’s Data Privacy Statement
Safeguard Equipment owns this website and its subpages (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Website”). The intended use of the Website is for business to business purposes.
When we refer to “you” or “your,” we mean the person accessing this Website. If the person accessing this Website does so on behalf of, or for the purposes of, another person, such as a business or other organization, “you” or “your” also means that other person, including a business organization.
Our mission is to provide the world with innovative and dependable electrical personal protective equipment in order to bring peace of mind to your work environment and to your loved ones. Consistent with these principles, safeguarding your privacy is very important to us. We take the protection and safety of your personal information seriously and are committed to maintaining its confidentiality, availability and integrity of information and data as part of our business process. We strive to ensure that personal information collected by us is processed by us strictly in accordance with applicable law.
Objective and Scope
This Safeguard Data Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) provides transparency about any personal information that is processed by Safeguard Equipment. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to comply with applicable law and demonstrate our commitment to privacy. This statement generally describes Safeguard’s practices towards personal information collected from and about you – whether through the Website or offline, to sell safety products, to communicate with us, or to perform a contract – and our information sharing practices, including the content, services, applications and related activities conducted through the Website.
Notwithstanding the above, this Privacy Notice is not intended for Safeguard associates.
Controller
Safeguard Equipment corporate office is located at 4442 West Riverbend Avenue, Post Falls, Idaho 83854, United States, and is the controller of the data processing for the administration of this Website. For more information regarding our management and team, visit https://safeguardequipment.com/team.
To identify the entity responsible for the processing of any specific personal information, you can contact the Data Protection Officer at frisk@safeguardequipment.com.
What data we collect and why we collect it:
Every time you access this Website, it collects various data and information that are then stored in the log files of the server. The data collected may include the (1) browser types and versions used, (2) operating system used by the party accessing the Website, (3) the website from which an accessing system has reached our Website (known as a referrer), (4) the sub-sites on our Website which are accessed via an accessing system, (5) the date and time of an access to the Website, (6) an Internet Protocol address (IP address), (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system and (8) other similar data and information, including data aimed at risk prevention in the case of an attack on our IT systems.
The information that we collect is required (1) to correctly display the content of our Website, (2) to optimize the content of our Website as well as the advertisements we display, (3) to ensure the ongoing functionality of our IT systems and the technology relating to our Website, and (4) to provide the necessary information to law enforcement in the event of a cyber-attack. Another crucial reason that we collect such information is to increase data protection and data security at our company to ultimately ensure the best possible level of protection for personal information processed by us.
We erase personal information as soon as it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected.
Analytics and Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files place on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our Website we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology. For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Safeguard Equipment uses web analytics, cookies and tracking pixels to enhance your browsing experience. These tools are required for certain functionality of the site and are used to collect statistical information about the use of the site. Some of these tools may also be temporarily used to serve you content regarding relevant marketing campaigns. In general, the used tools and its purpose are:
- Tracking tools:
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- Collect anonymous information about the usage of our Website help us make improvements to our Website based on how our visitors interact with it
- Targeting tools:
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- Display our campaigns to you on other websites
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
How to manage cookies
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.
Other Data that we collect through our Website:
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Media
If you upload images to the Website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Website.
Contact Forms
We offer the opportunity for you to connect with our team through various contact form submissions. The information Safeguard Equipment collects is the minimum amount needed to effectively respond to and conduct business with you according to your specific inquiry/request. The form field requirements include first and last name, email address and when appropriate, the phone number and name of the company you might be associated with. All users are given the option to provide any additional information according to their own discretion.
Providing your email will not automatically subscribe you to our newsletter unless requested through our Newsletter sign up form or by checking our subscription checkbox. You will receive emails pertaining to follow up invoices, follow up response to inquiries, or information specific to your original inquiry.
Newsletters
We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to newsletters through this Website or other marketing tools. Data provided during newsletter registration will be used only for the purposes of sending out the newsletter unless you have provided consent for other uses, such as receiving other advertising or information related to MSA. You can cancel the newsletter subscription at any time by using the unsubscribe option provided in the newsletter.
What third–parties we receive data from:
Google Analytics
We have the Google Analytics component (with anonymization function) integrated on this Website. Google Analytics is a web-analytics service that we use to collect, compile and analyze data about the behavior of visitors to websites. We primarily use this tool to optimize user experience of our Website and understand the effectiveness of our advertising.
To find out more about Google Analytics and the processing of personal information, please use the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?Hl=en
Linkedin Marketing Solution (Conversion Tracking)
We have the Linkedin Marketing Solution component Conversion Tracking integrated on this Website. This solution helps us generate leads for candidates and optimize our talent acquisition process.
To find out more, please use the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/87080/linkedin-marketing-solutions-and-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr-?Lang=en
Facebook Pixel (Conversion Tracking)
We have a Facebook Ads Manager Facebook Pixel integrated on this Website. This solution helps us collect, compile, and analyze data about the behavior of our visitors from any Facebook or Instagram reference. We primarily use this tool to optimize the user experience of our Website and to better understand the effectiveness of our advertising and messaging.
To find out more, please use the following link: https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/
Embedded content from other websites:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
What are your data protection rights?
If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
For users that register on our Website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
EU Data Privacy Statement
This EU Data Privacy Statement provides transparency about any “personal data” of EU data subjects that reside in the European Union (personal scope), in line with Art. 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as local law based on the EU ePrivacy Directive and the Cookie Directive, including that may be processed through this Website (material scope) and the respective safeguards provided to Website visitors that reside in the European Union (personal scope), in line with Art. 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), as well as local law based on the EU ePrivacy Directive and the Cookie Directive.
Definitions
The terms used in this EU Data Privacy Statement correspond to the definitions in Art. 4 GDPR.
EU Data Protection Team and Officer
The terms used in Article 27 of the EU GDPR state that Safeguard Equipment is not required to designate a representative in an EU member state. Under the three conditions of the EU GDPR, Safeguard Equipment is also not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer (DPO). However, in order to protect your data and establish effective data breach procedures, we have appointed a data protection officer to oversee GDPR compliance. Our systems have to be set up to detect a data breach quickly, understand the data impacted, and notify users and a data supervisory authority within 72 hours. If you are an EU resident with questions or comments on how Safeguard Equipment processes personal data, please feel free to contact us via e-mail: frisk@safeguardequipment.com
EU Residents: Purpose of Collection and Legal Basis for Processing
The purpose of collection and legal basis for processing of personal data of EU data subjects is consistent with the purposes outlined above.
Safeguard’s associates do have access to EU personal data on a need-to-know basis if they need to carry out legitimate tasks.
The Website is hosted in the USA, which means that certain data that you provide does require cross-border transfer. Such transfer will take place considering the applicability and scope of EU legal regulations.
Data Security
Safeguard Equipment uses technical and organizational security measures to protect the data supplied by you and managed by us to ensure its confidentiality, availability and integrity. These security measures are protected against manipulation, loss, destruction, and our Website security is continually being improved in line with developing technology.
EU Data Subject Rights
If you are an EU data subject, you have the right to request from Safeguard Equipment whether and what personal data of yours has been stored by us. If you are registered as a user, we also enable you to view the data yourself and, if applicable, to delete or amend it. If incorrect information is stored, despite our efforts to ensure that data is accurate and up to date, we will correct it at your request. Safeguard will respond to any such requests for information, deletion, or amendment in writing and as soon as reasonably possible.
EU Residents: To make a request about your personal data, or if you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, you can contact frisk@safeguardequipment.com
Rights for California Consumers
In addition to any rights provided under the Privacy Notice above, California law provides additional rights for California consumers. Here is a description of some of the rights that a California consumer does have, depending on their relationship with Safeguard Equipment:
- The right to request a description of the categories and specific pieces of “personal information” that we have collected about them.
- The right to know the categories of “personal information” about them that we may disclose to third parties for a business purpose, with a description of categories of third parties that may receive such information.
- The right to request that we delete “personal information” about them that we have collected from them.
Please note that it may not be required for us to delete “personal information” needed to provide goods or services, complete a transaction, perform a contract with you, retain within the context of our ongoing business relationship by reasonable expectation, or that we may otherwise retain under applicable law.
Changes to the Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice will be revised from time to time as we update the Website or Safeguard products or services, as laws change, and/or as industry privacy and security best practices evolve. Please check this Privacy Notice periodically for changes and to remind yourself of our policy. Your use of the Website is deemed acceptance of the provisions of this Privacy Notice and your continued use of the Website after any change to our Privacy Notice constitutes acceptance of each revised Privacy Notice. Please exit the Website immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Notice, including any subsequent revision.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about Safeguard Equipment’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Email us at: first@safeguardequipment.com
Call us: 208-773-9263
Or write to us at: 4442 West Riverbend Avenue, Post Falls, ID 83854, United States
We appreciate your interest in Safeguard Equipment!