California Online Privacy Policy

Eckert and Ziegler Isotope Products, Inc. (the “Company” or “we”) has developed this privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of our customers, visitors to our website, job applicants, and independent contractors. This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individual consumers, applicants, and contractors who visit or interact with this website, visit any of our offices, facilities or locations, purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, contract with us to provide services, apply for a position of employment, or otherwise interact or do business with us.

We collect information ordinary to the conduct of our business. This collection requires disclosure under California law and this form complies with that law. We do not collect information to sell or share with third parties outside of ordinary business purposes as described in this document. If you initiate an inquiry, your provided contact information may be shared with one of our distributors and this is deemed “Selling for other valuable consideration” under the California civil code 1798.140.  Other than this exception, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, enroll in or subscribe to our marketing communications, request information, or use any of the other interactive portions of our website.  Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity.

Additionally, whenever you communicate, interact or do business with us, whether online or at any of our physical locations or facilities, or whether you are contracted to perform services for us or apply for a position of employment, we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interaction or dealings with you.

This policy does not apply to our current and former employees and their family members, dependents, and beneficiaries; if you are a California resident who is a current or former employee of the Company or a family member, dependent, or beneficiary of any of our current or former employees, you may request access to our Employee Privacy Policy by sending an email to HR.Group@dont-want-spam.ezag.com.

Collection of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information
In the last 12 months we may have collected the following categories of personal information about you based on your specific transactions and interactions with us or our website. For each category of information, the categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed the information in the last 12 months are referenced by a letter that coincides with the letter in the list of categories of service providers and third parties that follows soon after this table.

        
Of the above categories of Personal Information, the following are categories of Sensitive Personal Information the Company may collect from or about consumers, independent contractors, or applicants:

1. Personal Identifiers (social security number, driver’s license or state identification card number, passport number)
2. Account Information (your Company account log-in, in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to the account)
3. Protected Classifications (racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, or sexual orientation)
4. Biometric Information (used for the purpose of uniquely identifying you)
5. Medical and Health Information
6. Geolocation Data (IP address and/or GPS location, latitude & longitude)

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public by the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant, or from widely distributed media.
• Information made available by a person to whom the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant has disclosed the information if the consumer, independent contractor, or applicant has not restricted the information to a specific audience.
• De-identified or aggregated information.

We may collect your personal information from the following sources:

• You the consumer, independent contractor, or job applicant, when you visit the website and voluntarily submit information through forms on the website or social media, when you visit any of our physical locations, when you purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, when you enter into a contract to perform services for us, or when you apply for a position of employment
• Our employees and contractors when you interact with them
• Other customers and visitors when you interact with them or when they observe you
• We utilize cookies to automatically collect information about our website visitors
• Surveillance cameras at our physical locations
• Lead generators and referral sources
• Credit and consumer reporting agencies
• Recruiters
• Social media platforms
• Company-issued computers, electronic devices, and vehicles
• Company systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use

We may disclose or share your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:
A.    Financial institutions
B.    Lead providers
C.    Product manufacturers/administrators
D.    Government agencies
E.    Promotional or other fulfilment vendors
F.    Support vendors for marketing, managing or hosting the website
G.    Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
H.    Data analytics vendors
I.    Professional employer organizations
J.    Consumer reporting agencies or credit reporting agencies
K.    Employee tracking and talent management systems
L.    Security and risk management vendors
M.    Corporate customers
N.    Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) (suppliers and makers of the products we sell to our customers)

We may collect your personal information for the following business purposes:

1. To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
2. To process and submit financing applications, including to apply for credit, or credit pre-qualification.
3. To process, complete, and maintain records on transactions.
4. To provide warranty coverage on products and services.
5. To retain your selection for Text opt in/opt out to ensure customers who opted out are not sent any text messages.
6. To provide and communicate recall notifications to customers.
7. To schedule, manage and keep track of customer appointments.
8. To complete appraisals.
9. To maintain records of when customers decline a service or sale.
10. To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, customer support online, phone calls, and in-person inquiries.
11. To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
12. To improve user experience on our website.
13. To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
14. To detect security incidents.
15. To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website.
16. To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
17. To verify and respond to consumer requests.
18. To prevent identity theft.
19. JOB APPLICANT PURPOSES:
    a.    To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to apply for a job with the Company, we will use that Personal Information in connection with your candidacy for employment.
    b.    To comply with local, state, and federal law and regulations requiring employers to maintain certain records, as well as local, state, and federal law, regulations, ordinances, guidelines, and orders relating to COVID-19.
    c.    To evaluate your job application and candidacy for employment.
    d.    To obtain and verify background check and references.
    e.    To communicate with you regarding your candidacy for employment.
    f.    To reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in or through the workplace.
    
    
20. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR PURPOSES:

We may disclose your personal information for the following business purposes as numbered above:
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20.

We may sell or share your personal information for the following business purposes:

1. To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, customer support online, phone calls, and in-person inquiries.

Disclosure of your personal information to our distributors to handle your inquiry is deemed “Selling for other valuable consideration” under the California civil code 1798.140.

Other than these exceptions, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Notice of Right of California Residents to Opt-Out of the Selling and Sharing of Your Information
While we do not sell or share your personal information in exchange for money, we may sell or share your personal information for other valuable consideration. You have the right to tell us NOT to sell or share your personal information. You have the full and free right to opt-out of our disclosure of your personal information to any third parties where the disclosure constitutes “selling” or “sharing” as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act. You may exercise your right to opt-out without fear of discrimination for doing so. To opt-out of our selling or sharing of your information, meaning, we will not disclose your information to third parties for any monetary or other valuable consideration, you can do any of the following:

• Click here  to be taken to an online opt-out submission form
• Visit “CA Privacy” page on the Eckert & Ziegler website at ezag.com/home/CAPrivacy. Click on link following the text, “Submit an online request at.”  
• If you are unable to submit an opt-out through any of the above methods, please call our toll-free privacy line at +1 (888) 914-9661 PIN 982237 for assistance and a representative will assist in meeting your needs.

You can have an authorized agent submit a request on your behalf. To submit an opt-out through use of an authorized agent, you must provide that agent with written permission signed by you to submit an opt-out on your behalf, except when using an opt-out preference signal. The authorized agent may call our toll-free privacy line at +1 (888) 914-9661 PIN 982237 to make the opt-out request and for directions for submitting the proof of authorization and the authorized agent’s proof of identification to the Company. We maintain the right to deny any request from an authorized agent that does not submit sufficient proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

A request to opt-out need not be a verifiable consumer request. However, we may deny a request to opt-out if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to opt-out is fraudulent. If we deny your request to opt-out, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.

We do not and will not use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes other than the following:

1. To perform the services reasonably expected by an average employee who requests those services.
2. To detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information.
3. To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at the business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions.
4. To ensure the physical safety of natural persons.
5. For short-term, transient use.
6. To perform services on behalf of the Company.
7. To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a product, service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the Company, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by the Company.
8. For purposes that do not involve inferring characteristics about the consumers, contractors, and applicants.

Retention of Personal Information
We will retain each category of personal information in accordance with our established data retention schedule as indicated above. In deciding how long to retain each category of personal information that we collect, we consider many criteria, including, but not limited to: the business purposes for which the Personal Information was collected; relevant federal, state and local recordkeeping laws; applicable statutes of limitations for claims to which the information may be relevant; and legal preservation of evidence obligations.
We apply our data retention procedures on an annual basis to determine if the business purposes for collecting the personal information, and legal reasons for retaining the personal information, have both expired. If so, we will purge the information in a secure manner.

Third Party Vendors
We may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services and running special promotions. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose. Subscribers or site visitors will never receive unsolicited e-mail messages from vendors working on our behalf.

Business Transfers
In the event the company sells or transfers all or a portion of its business assets, information of consumers, contractors and applicants may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction.

Compliance with Law and Safety
We may disclose specific personal and/or sensitive personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect our employees or the public.

Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small files that a website may transfer to a user’s computer that reside there for either the duration of the browsing session (session cookies) or on a permanent, until deleted, basis (persistent cookies) that may be used to identify a user, a user’s machine, or a user’s behavior. We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:

• Provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features
• Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts
• Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website
• Compile data about website traffic and how users use the website to offer a better website experience
• Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits, such as remembering your login details or language preference, to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website
• Track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, including advertising by third parties on our website

You may delete cookies from your web browser at any time or block cookies on your equipment, but this may affect the functioning of or even block the website. You can prevent saving of cookies (disable and delete them) by changing your browser settings accordingly at any time. It is possible that some functions will not be available on our website when use of cookies is deactivated. Check the settings of your browser. Below you can find some guidance:

• Safari
• Opera
• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Mozilla

External Links
Our website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.

Passwords
The personal data record created through your registration with our website can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties.

Children Under the Age of 16
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
How We Protect the Information that We Collect
The protection of the information that we collect about visitors to this website is of the utmost importance to us and we take every reasonable measure to ensure that protection, which includes the following:

• Automatically collected information is stored in anonymized form.
• We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
• If you use our option to contact us, personal data will be collected and stored.  The correspondence itself, including the associated personal data (first name, last name, company, e-mail address, etc.) that you provide will be stored accordingly. These data are used only to carry out the correspondence.  The personal data obtained in this context will not be disclosed to unauthorized third parties.
• We restrict access to private information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.

Rights Under the CCPA and CPRA
This section of the Privacy Policy applies only to California residents who are natural persons; it does not apply to any entities (whether business, non-profit or governmental). If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:

1. Right to Know. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we identify to you (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you going back to January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involve disproportionate effort, or unless you request a specific time period, (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing this information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared your personal information, (5) the categories of personal information that we have sold or shared about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, by category or categories of personal information for each category of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, and (6) the categories of personal information that we have disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose;
2. Right to Access. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you, free of charge, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you going back to January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involve disproportionate effort, or unless you request a specific time period;
3. Right to Delete. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
4. Right to Correct. The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information (to the extent such an inaccuracy exists) that we maintain about you;
5. The right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf. See below for how you can designate an authorized agent; and
6. The right to not be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of the above rights, including an applicant’s and independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for exercising the above rights.

You can submit any of the above types of consumer requests through the options below:
Submit an online request at: ezag-privacy.my.onetrust.com/webform/880004f1-83a2-489d-976f-3e315a32e50c/11aab45e-e42f-4999-9449-f1de571c1be5

Toll Free number: +1 (888) 914-9661 PIN 982237

How We Will Verify That it is Really You Submitting the Request
If you are a California resident, when you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, or Right to Correct request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and respond to your request.  Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular records in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. For example, we may need you to provide your name, email, phone number, IP address, browser ID, amount of your last purchase with the business, and/or date of your last transaction with the business.

Responding to Your Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct Requests
Upon receiving a verifiable request from a California resident, we will confirm receipt of the request no later than 10 business days after receiving it.  We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) calendar days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to an additional 45 calendar days, or 90 calendar days total from the date we receive your request), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
For a request to correct inaccurate personal information, we will accept, review, and consider any documentation that you provide, and we may require that you provide documentation to rebut our own documentation that the personal information is accurate. You should make a good-faith effort to provide us with all necessarily information at the time that you make the request to correct. We may deny a request to correct if we have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to correct is fraudulent or abusive. If we deny your request to correct, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.

If You Have an Authorized Agent:
If you are a California resident, you can authorize someone else as an authorized agent who can submit a request on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney or (b) provide other written, signed authorization that we can then verify. When we receive a request submitted on your behalf by an authorized agent who does not have a power of attorney, that person will be asked to provide written proof that they have your permission to act on your behalf, and we will also contact you and ask you for information to verify your own identity directly with us and not through your authorized agent.  We may deny a request from an authorized agent if the agent does not provide your signed permission demonstrating that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

Consent to Terms and Conditions
By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.