Sun Country Builders, Inc. Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 10, 2023 Effective Date: November 10, 2023
Sun Country Builders, Inc., its brands, affiliates, and subsidiaries (“Sun Country,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) adheres to this Privacy Policy, which describes how Sun Country collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information (meaning any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you), as well as the rights and choices individuals have regarding such personal information.
By interacting with us, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy. This Policy does not apply to websites, products and services of third parties which are subject to their own privacy policies. 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 services or interact with our website. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our services or website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Scope of this Policy
Except as otherwise described below, this Policy applies to the personal information Sun Country collects and processes related to:
– Visitors of our website where this Policy is posted, including www.suncountrybuilders.net (the “Site”), and any other application or any other software, applications, or products we provide, and individuals who otherwise interact or engage with us or the services available through our website, application, or other downloadable content;
– Subcontractors whose information we may collection in relation to our building projects;
– Individuals who subscribe to receive news, information, and marketing communications and materials from us;
– Current, former and prospective customers, agents, vendors, and business partners
Personal Information Collection and Disclosure
Sun Country has collected the following categories of personal information about you and shared it as follows:
Category: Identifiers
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
Purpose: (a) Performance of contracts or other work-related activities. (b) Necessary for our legitimate business interests, including to work with you or your employer on building projects. (c) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, for example, drug testing.
3rd Parties Shared: (a) Other parties involved in building projects. (b) Government agencies. (c) Service providers supporting our business, for example file sharing and transfer services, collecion agencies. (d) Clients.
Category: California Customer Records Law
Examples: A name, signature, contact information, insurance policy number, education, employment history, financial information.
Purpose: (a) Performance of contracts or other work-related activities. (b) Necessary for our legitimate business interests, including to work with you or your employer on building projects. (c) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, for example, drug testing.
3rd Parties Shared: (a) Other parties involved in building projects. (b) Government agencies. (c) Service providers supporting our business, for example file sharing and transfer services, collecion agencies. (d) Clients.
Category: Protected Classification Characteristics
Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information.
Purpose: (a) Necessary for our legitimate business interests, including DEI statistics and reporting. (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, including mandatory reporting requirements.
3rd Parties Shared: (a) Other parties involved in building projects. (b) Government agencies. (c) Clients.
Category: Internet or Other Similar Network Activity
Examples: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
Purpose: Necessary for our legitimate interests, including for marketing and advertising.
3rd Parties Shared: Analytics and business intelligence vendors
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Category: Geolocation Data
Examples: Physical location or movements at job site locations via surveillance cameras.
Purpose: Necessary for our legitimate interests, including for safety of job sites.
3rd Parties Shared: Security vendors
Category: Professional or Employment-Related Information
Examples: Current or past job history.
Purpose: Necessary for our legitimate business interests.
3rd Parties Shared: Service providers supporting our business, for example construction management software services, file sharing and transfer services.
Category: Sensitive Personal Information
Examples: Personal information that reveals government IDs; racial or ethnic origin.
Purpose: (a) Necessary for our legitimate business interests. (b) Necessary to comply with a legal obligation, including mandatory reporting requirements.
3rd Parties Shared: (a) Government agencies. (b) Clients or other contractors.
In addition to the uses described above, Sun Country may also use your personal information for the following purposes:
– To investigate and help prevent fraud or otherwise ensure compliance with policies and procedures.
– To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
– To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our systems, services, databases and other assets.
– To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
– As described to you when collecting your personal information.
– To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Sun Country’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Sun Country is among the assets transferred.
Additionally, Sun Country obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
– Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or by communicating with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
– Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Site, computer systems or other platforms.
– Third parties. For example, from other contractors working on building projects.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We and our providers may automatically collect personal information related to your use of our Site or other services, including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies. The personal information we may automatically collect through this technology includes:
– Device and Browsing Information. When you visit our Site or use our services, we may collect IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, date/time stamps, operating system, language, device type, unique ID, Internet service provider, referring and exiting URLs, clickstream data, and similar device and browsing information.
– Activities and Usage. We also collect activity information related to your use of the Site, such as information about the links clicked, searches, features used, items viewed, time spent within the Site, your interactions with us within the Site, and other activity and usage information.
– Location Information. We may also collect or derive location information about you, such as through your IP address.
Retention Periods
Sun Country will generally retain information about you for so long as we have a legal or business purpose for it or a legal requirement to maintain it. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you (for example, for as long as you are working as a contractor with Sun Country or a prospective client) and the length of time thereafter during which we may have a legitimate need to reference your personal information to address issues that may arise;
Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
Your Privacy Choices
– Opting Out of Receiving Electronic Communications. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you other messages in connection with providing our Site and services.
– 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 our Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
– Labor Tracking Account Access. You may be able to access, correct, or delete personal information directly through your labor tracking accounts.
– Your California Rights. If you are a California resident, you can visit our Notice for California Residents to learn more about your privacy rights related to your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you, including protecting your own personal information where appropriate. Additionally, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our website and services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to us or on our website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [info@suncountrybuilders.net].
Notice for California Residents
Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), we note that Sun Country shares your personal information for business purposes by disclosing it to the categories of third parties identified in the chart above. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.
– We do not sell or share (for cross-context behavioral advertising) your personal information.
– We may disclose sensitive personal information, including gender, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation, as identified by you, to prospective or current clients who request this information for diversity statistics or otherwise use sensitive personal information outside of the permissible uses identified within the California Consumer Privacy Act. You may have the right to limit the use of your sensitive personal information. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us at [info@suncountrybuilders.net].
Your Rights and Choices
You may have specific rights regarding your personal information. This section describes your rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Right to Know and Data Portability Rights
In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
Right to Delete
You may have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct
You may have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we may hold about you. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purpose for our processing.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
We may disclose sensitive personal information in connection with our efforts to respond to requests for information regarding diversity statistics. While the information shared does not identify any person by an identifier (for example, your name), it may be possible to determine the identity of an individual based on the size of the sample and the information provided. You may limit or restrict our use of sensitive personal information in this manner by contacting us at one of the methods listed below in the section Exercising CCPA Rights.
Exercising CCPA Rights
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a request to us by one of the following methods:
– Emailing us at [info@suncountrybuilders.net]
– By mail: Attn: Privacy Request; 3156 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010
We may need to verify your identity before processing your request. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please provide us with a power of attorney or other legally binding written document signed by you and identifying your agent. We may also verify the identity of your designated agent.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Other California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [info@suncountrybuilders.net].
Changes to this Policy
The Policy is current as of the date set forth above. We may change, update, or modify this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any updates to this Policy here. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices regarding our use of the personal information we previously collected, we will endeavor to provide you with notice, such as by posting prominent notice on our Site.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at 760-630-8042, email us at [info@suncountrybuilders.net], or send us a note here.