Effective Date: January 20, 2024
Who We Are
OSHA Trainer – OSHAT.com is a division of Red Tape Business Services, LLC. Our website address is: https://www.oshat.com
At Oshat.com, OSHA Trainer, in conjunction with Red Tape Business Services, LLC, we collect certain information about you when you interact with us through our website, mobile applications, and other services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information.
This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, share, disclose, and protect the personal information that is gathered when you interact with our services.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices.
Please note that if you are a California resident, there are additional privacy rights that may apply to you. Please refer to the “Additional Privacy Rights for California Residents” section at the bottom of this policy for more information.
Introduction and Identification Welcome to OSHA Trainer – OSHAT.com, a division of Red Tape Business Services, LLC. This privacy policy is intended to inform you about our practices regarding the collection, use, and protection of your personal information.
What Personal Information Do We Collect?
Sources of Personal Information: We primarily collect Personal Information directly from you or through your interactions with our website and services. We may also obtain information from third parties, including online and offline sources, social media platforms, and advertising networks.
What is Personal Information? “Personal Information” refers to any information that can identify, relate to, or be associated with a particular consumer or household. This includes information such as your name, email address, phone number, browsing history, and more. However, it does not include publicly available information or deidentified and aggregated data. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to Personal Information we process on behalf of our clients, as we do not control what information our clients collect or how they use it. Any Personal Information we collect and process on behalf of our clients is subject to their applicable privacy policies. The types of personal information we collect may include:
1. **Contact Information:** such as your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number.
2. **Account Information:** such as your online identifiers, username and password, or other credentials used to access our services.
3. **Payment Information:** such as credit card information or other payment details if you make a purchase or transaction through our website.
4. **Customer Records:** Social security number, physical characteristics, address, phone number, and more.
5. **Legally Protected Characteristics:** Race, religion, sexual orientation, gender expression, and more.
6. **Commercial Information:** Services purchased, browsing history, purchasing tendencies, and more.
7. **Biometric Information:** Keystroke patterns or rhythms.
8. **Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information:** Websites visited, search history, and more.
9. **Non-Sensitive Geolocation Data:** Imprecise location information.
10. **Audio and Video Recordings:** Customer service calls or security video footage.
11. **Professional or Employment-Related Information:** Job title, employment history, and more.
12. **Inferences:** Profiles created based on collected information.
13. **Sensitive Personal Information:** Social security number, account login credentials, racial or ethnic origin, and more.
14. **Device and Usage Information:** such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, device information, and usage data when you access or use our website.
15. **Geolocation Information:** such as your approximate location based on your IP address or other methods.
16. **Communication Information:** such as the content of your communications with us, including emails and messages sent through our website.
17. **Other Information:** that may be provided by you or collected as indicated at the time of collection or with your consent. How Do We Use Your Personal Information? We may use the personal information we collect for various purposes, including:
1. **Providing and improving our services:** We use your personal information to deliver the services you request and to enhance your experience on our website.
2. **Responding to your inquiries and communicating with you:** We may use your contact information to respond to your questions, provide support, and communicate important information about our services.
3. **Processing and completing transactions:** If you make a purchase or transaction through our website, we will use your payment information to process and complete the transaction.
4. **Personalizing your experience:** We may use your personal information to customize and personalize your experience on our website, including recommending relevant content and resources.
5. **Sending promotional and marketing communications:** With your consent, we may send you promotional and marketing communications about our services, special offers, and updates.
6. **Conducting research and analysis:** We may use your personal information to conduct research and analysis to improve our website, services, and overall customer experience.
7. **Protecting our legal rights:** We may use and disclose your personal information to protect our legal rights, enforce our terms and conditions, and prevent fraud.
How Do We Share Your Personal Information
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may engage third-party service providers to assist us in delivering our services, such as hosting providers, payment processors, and email service providers. These service providers have access to your personal information only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated to protect your information.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity or merged with the acquiring entity’s databases.
- Legal Compliance: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to a valid legal request, such as a court order or government regulation.
- Your Consent: We may share your personal information with third parties if you provide us with your consent to do so.
How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?
Security and Retention of Personal Information: We will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. The measures we take include implementing security safeguards, using encryption technology, and restricting access to authorized personnel only.
Your Rights and Choices
You have certain rights and choices regarding your personal information. You can:
- Access and Update Your Information: You can access, update, correct, and delete certain personal information by logging into your account on our website.
- Opt-Out of Marketing Communications: You can opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the instructions provided in the communication or by contacting us directly.
- Disable Cookies: You can disable cookies in your browser settings, although this may impact your ability to use our website effectively.
Please contact us using the provided information to exercise your rights.
Your Choices
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and other tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) when you use our Site. Cookies are small data files that are uploaded to the hard drive or other storage on devices that access, use, or interact with portions of our Site. Among other things, cookies help us improve our Platform and our users’ experience. We and our research, technology, and marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, or service providers may upload unique Cookies to your device to collect information about your use of our Site and potentially other online activities you engage in over time across different platforms and other online applications to:
- Remember your preferences and allow you to enter your user name less frequently.
- Uniquely identify each user session when you access the Site.
- Compile aggregated statistics to analyze our Operations.
- Present you with information targeted to your interests, including our content presented on another website and across devices.
- Present you with the opportunity to participate in a survey based on your interests in our Operations and activities on the Site.
- Measure the effectiveness of our Operations, content, communications, and advertising, including by placing web beacons (sometimes called single-pixel gifs) which show us the emails and links that have been opened by recipients.
The Options/Settings section of most internet browsers will allow you to disable cookies on your browser (see below) but doing so may prevent you from using the full features of the Site. You can learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been uploaded to your device and how to manage and delete them, by visiting https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. For information about your choices regarding these technologies please see “Your Access and Choices regarding your Personal Information” below.
Interest-Based Advertising and Marketing
Some companies may use information collected on our Site to deliver advertisements on our behalf or on behalf of other companies, targeted to your interests and preferences, on our Site or on other websites or applications you may visit, on your various devices, or on your social media feed and to gauge their effectiveness.
You can learn which third parties have placed cookies on your browser or mobile device and how to opt-out of some of those cookies by accessing the Network Advertising Initiative’s website at https://optout.networkadvertising.org; or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s website at https://optout.aboutads.info. For more information on mobile specific opt-out choices, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choices from your mobile device.
On your mobile device, you may have features that allow you to opt-out of some targeted advertising (“Limit Ad Tracking” (on iOS devices) or “Opt-out of Interest-Based Ads” (on Android)). To learn more about how these opt-out features work, please review your device settings.
Even if you disable tracking, keep in mind that you may still receive interest-based advertising, including from third parties with whom your information had been previously disclosed and that you may still receive advertising from third parties, though such advertising may not be based on your interests and preferences.
How We Use Microsoft Ads
We work with Microsoft to conduct ad campaigns using Microsoft Advertising. Microsoft may collect or receive personal information about you through the use of cookies in connection with our use of Microsoft Advertising. For more information about Microsoft’s privacy practices, please see the Microsoft Privacy Statement, available at https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement.
Accounts and Other Choices
Access and Updates to Your Information: You can access and update most of your account information on our Site by clicking on “My Account”. If you need to access, update, or delete other personal information that we may have, you can send a request to webinfo@oshat.com or call us to speak with a Customer Service Representative. To protect your privacy, before we give you access to or let you update your information, we may ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information. We will try to update and allow you to access your information for free, but if it would require a disproportionate effort on our part, we may charge a fee. We will disclose the fee before we comply with your request. We may reject a request for a number of reasons, including, for example, that the request risks the privacy of other users, requires technical efforts that are disproportionate to the request, is repetitive, or is unlawful.
Google Analytics
We work with Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to help us analyze how users use our Sites. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information about your use of the Site. This information is then transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If you access our Site through different devices, Google may associate your devices with one another. You can prevent Google’s collection and use of the data it collects as defined in its policy by downloading and installing this browser plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, please see Google’s help pages (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245) and privacy policy (https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/).
Links To Other Web Sites and Services
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to our Site, including the information or content contained in such websites or services. This policy does not apply to those websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link on our Site, are subject to that third party’s own rules and privacy policies. Please read the terms of such websites carefully and exercise care when providing your personally identifiable information.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect your information. Please keep in mind that the Internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication, and we cannot guarantee that the information collected about you will always remain private when using our Site and services. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Any material changes will be notified to you by posting the updated policy on our website or app. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any updates.
Additional Privacy Rights for California Residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and subsequent California Privacy Rights Act (together referred to herein as the “CCPA”) provide additional rights to California residents.
Subject to exceptions permitted by applicable laws and verification of your identity, if you live in California, you may exercise the following rights with regard to your Personal Information. Capitalized terms in this Section that are not defined elsewhere in this Privacy Policy have the definitions set forth in the CCPA.
Sharing Information
In the past 12 months, we have not sold your personal information to third parties for monetary compensation. However, we may share certain categories of personal information with third-party service providers that assist us with targeted advertising or data analytics.
The categories of personal information we may share include:
- Identifiers
- Commercial Information
- Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity
- Non-Sensitive Geolocation Information
- Inferences
You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. To exercise this right, you can click on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Data” button powered by OneTrust.
Sensitive Information
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purposes other than our business operations, as specified under the CCPA.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA grants consumers specific rights regarding their personal information, subject to certain exceptions. If you are a California resident, this section describes your CCPA rights and provides information on how to exercise them.
Right to Know
You have the right to request information about the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the sources from which we obtained your personal information, the purposes for which we collected and shared your personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we shared your personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to Delete
In most cases, you have the right to request the deletion of your personal information that we have collected and retained. We will comply with such requests, unless an exception applies or the CCPA does not require us to do so.
Right to Correct
You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information that we have collected about you. We will consider your request and may deny it if we are unable to verify your identity or if we determine that the contested personal information is accurate.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing
You have the right to opt-out if we sell or share your personal information with third parties. To make a request, click the “Do Not Sell My Personal Data” link on our site or contact us using the information provided below.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us through one of the following methods: email Compliance@oshat.com, mail an inquiry to Red Tape Business Services, LLC. Attn: Privacy Team, PO Box 6793, Santa Maria, CA 93456, or complete the webform available on our website.
Who Can Make a Request
If you are a California resident, you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State and authorized by you may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. A parent or legal guardian may also make a request on behalf of their child.
Verifying Your Request
To process your request, we require information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity or the identity of your authorized representative. We may also ask you to provide additional information relevant to your request.
Response Timing and Format
We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within 45 days of receiving them. If we require more time, we will inform you in writing. Our response will be delivered to you either through your account, by mail, or electronically, depending on your preference.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services based on your exercise of CCPA rights.
Honoring Opt-Out Signals
We honor opt-out preference signals when you visit our site, allowing you to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information without having to contact us directly. You can set up an opt-out signal by visiting https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
California Shine the Light
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents have the right to obtain a list of third parties to whom we may have disclosed their personal information for direct marketing purposes. To receive this information, please contact us using the information provided below.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@oshat.com.
Please note that this privacy policy is specific to OSHAT.com, a company of Red Tape Business Services, LLC, and may not apply to other websites or services operated by Red Tape Business Services, LLC.