People's Plumbing & Mechanical

LINKEDIN PRIVACY POLICY

Effective March 1, 2024

 

People’s Plumbing & Mechanical Inc. ("PPM" or "We") respects and values your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website peoplesplumbing.com (our "Website"), or any information provided to LinkedIn via their lead generation forms and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

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This policy applies to information we collect through various platforms such as (1) On this Website; (2) email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website; (3) interactions with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy, (4) interactions with advertising on job search websites including but not limited to LinkedIn, Zip Recruiter, and Indeed.

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It does not apply to information collected by (1) us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or (2) any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

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Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect information (1) directly from you when you provide it to us; (2) automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and (3) from third parties, ie our business partners.

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We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information (1) by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers, and driver license numbers or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information"); (2) that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as internet protocol (IP) addresses, unique device identification numbers, employment information, medical information and internet activity; and/or (3) about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

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Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect on or through our Website may include (i) information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website; (ii) records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; (iii) your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes; (iv) your search queries on the Website.

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Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including (i) details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and (ii) information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

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The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but/or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to (1) estimate our audience size and usage patterns; (2) store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests; (3) speed up your searches; and (4) recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

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We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us.

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How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information (i) to present our Website and its contents to you; (ii) to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us; (iii) to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; (iv) to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it; (v) to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website; (vi) in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and (vii) for any other purpose with your consent.

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Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

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We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy (i) to our subsidiaries and affiliates; (ii) to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them; (iii) to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of People's Plumbing & Mechanical Inc’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by People's Plumbing & Mechanical Inc about our Website users is among the assets transferred; (iv) to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; (v) for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and (vi) with your consent.

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We may also disclose your personal information (i) to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; (ii) to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; (iii) if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of People's Plumbing & Mechanical Inc, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

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Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

• We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.

 

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

 

Data Security

We have implemented technical and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

However, no mobile application, website, database, or system is completely secure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse.

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Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.