Privacy Policy

Last Reviewed and Effective: September 25, 2024

California Giant, Inc. and its affiliates (“company,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) are committed to the security and privacy of all our customers.  This Privacy Policy explains our policies for collecting, using, disclosing and safeguarding personal information when you visit our Website, apply for a job with us, or otherwise engage with us (our “Services”) and the choices you have for your personal information.  Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Services. By using our Services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the date listed above. The updated terms are effective as of that date.

Information We Collect

We collect personal information, which for purposes of this Privacy Policy is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly with an individual.

When you engage with our Services, we may collect the following categories of personal information from and/or about you directly or indirectly.

• Identifiers, including your name, address, phone number, email address, job title, company name.
• Commercial data, such as orders you have placed with us.
• Financial data, including payment information.
• Professional or Employment-Related Data, if you apply for a job with us, we will collect information from you to evaluate your application, including information about your job history, professional certifications, and education information.
• Technical Data, including internet protocol (“IP”) address, cookies, java script, web beacons, clear gifs, HTTP headers, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our Services.
• Usage Data on how you navigate our website, including the content and features you use or view on the website, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect data the online services you visit immediately before and after you access our Services, and the search terms you enter on our website. We may combine information collected through means such as cookies or third-party analytics tools with Personal Information we already have about you.
• Marketing and Communications Data, including your communication preferences in receiving information from us.
• Social Media Application Data, including your “likes” when you engage with us on social media or use our social media plug-ins.

We offer you choices when we ask for personal information, whenever reasonably possible. You may decline to provide personal information to us in our registration forms and/or refuse cookies in your browser. Certain features or services may not function properly if cookies are disabled.

How Information is Used

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

Providing our Services and Products

We may use personal information to provide our Services and products, such as fulfilling an order, or responding to a request for marketing material including providing you with information about new products and Services, and other information of interest to you. We may also use personal information for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our inbound marketing technologies and services.

Providing and Improving Our Website

We may use personal information, such as your IP address or information about the pages you visit, to provide our Website to you, to perform analytics, and to make improvements to it.

Communications and Email Alerts

When we communicate with you, we will use contact information you provided to us. We may also market our services to you. If requested, we may also send you emails with promotional information from us or our affiliates. You can change contact preferences at any time. You can opt-out of emails from us.

Job Applicants

We will use the information you provide us in your job application to evaluate your application for employment and conduct appropriate pre-hire due diligence.

Legally Required Releases of Information

We may be legally required to disclose your personal information, if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to comply with applicable laws and/or to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce this Privacy Policy and/or our Terms & Conditions; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other Members; and/or (e) necessary to protect the security, integrity, legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, our users, employees, and affiliates.

Disclosures to Successors

Although unlikely, if our assets are sold or our business is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, we retain the right to transfer your personal information to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your personal information according to the terms of this Privacy Policy as well as to any changes to this Privacy Policy as instituted by the new business.

How Information is Shared

We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of entities for the business purposes described above:

• Our subsidiaries and affiliates,
• Our service providers and vendors that assist us in providing our Services,
• Our marketing partners, including social media platforms,
• Our third party analytics providers in order to improve the functionality, features or delivery of our Services, and
• Other entities as permitted by law, in the event of a transfer of ownership or assets, in the event of bankruptcy, where needed to comply with the request of law enforcement or a regulatory agency or other legal process, or to protect our interests or safety of our clients or the safety of other visitors to our website and app.

Consumer Rights

You may have the following rights to your personal information:

• The right to know what personal information we have collected about you;
• The right to delete personal information that we have about you, subject to certain exceptions;
• The right to correct inaccurate personal information;
• The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information—please see the Selling and Sharing of Personal Information section below for more information;
• If we use or disclose sensitive Personal Information for certain reasons, the right to limit the use or disclosure of sensitive personal information; however, we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information in a way that would trigger this right, and
• The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by the business for the exercise of privacy rights.

Selling and Sharing Personal Information

We may use marketing campaigns that include targeted advertising. Certain privacy laws consider this to be the “sale” of personal information. We may also disclose online identifiers to analytics providers for online analytics with your consent.  You may opt-out of these use of your personal information by clicking the “Decline” button in the cookie banner, or you may opt-out of certain categories of cookies by clicking the “Customize Settings” button and opting in or out of each category.

You may also opt-out of “selling” and/or “sharing” by setting your preference for your browser using the Global Privacy Control (GPC). Note that GPC is a browser-level tool that we recognize and treat as a request to opt-out of “selling” and “sharing.” GPC is not available on all browsers.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise your other consumer rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

• Emailing us at feedback@calgiant.com with “Consumer Right Request” in the subject line and include all the information requested on the Consumer Request Form
• Visiting us at https://www.calgiant.com/consumer-request-form/ and complete the Consumer Request Form,
• Calling us at 1 (831) 728-1965

Only you or your agent (with proper authorization and proof of identity) may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  If we cannot respond to your request, we will explain why. You have the right to appeal that decision using the contact options listed above.

If you choose to utilize an authorized agent, they must complete and submit the Authorized Agent Designation form or email feedback@calgiant.com with “Consumer Right Request” in the subject line and include all the information on the Authorized Agent Designation form.

Digital Technologies

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our Website uses “Cookies.” A Cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use Cookies to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited and to aggregate data about site traffic and interaction. We also use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience by eliminating the need to register multiple times for registration-required content. Finally, we may use Cookies to personalize the content that you see on our Website. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies (see below). However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access features on our Website correctly or at all. We never place PII in Cookies.

Automatic Information

In the interest of providing our visitors and customers with a secure online experience, our servers automatically record information when you visit our Website, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your request. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our Website.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Our Website uses “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our Website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our Website, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other websites they used prior to coming to our Website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our Website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our Website, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with other personal information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent Cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our Website, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our Website is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use. http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this Website by disabling cookies on your browser. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Children’s Privacy

Our Services are directed to individuals 18 years or older. If you are under the age of 18, you are not eligible to use our Services.

Security

The security of your data is important to us. We have in place commercially reasonable physical, technical, organizational and administrative safeguards appropriate to the type of personal information we process to protect the security and privacy of your personal information While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, no business can fully eliminate the security risks associated with collecting and processing information via the internet.

Retention

We will only retain your personal information in identifiable form for as long as needed for the purposes for which it was collected and processed. In determining retention periods, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. When we no longer need personal information, we either anonymize, securely delete, or destroy it.

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of the websites you visit.  We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Limitation of Liability

You assume the sole risk of transmitting your information as it relates to the use of our Website, and for any data corruptions, intentional interceptions, intrusions or unauthorized access to information, or of any delays, interruptions to or failures preventing the use of this Website. In no event shall California Giant, Inc. or its affiliates be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or monetary damages, including fees, and penalties in connection with your use of materials posted on this Website or connectivity to or from this Website to any other site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at any time using the following information:

Post Office Box 1359
Watsonville, CA 95077-1359
Phone: (831) 728-1965
feedback@calgiant.com

CALIFORNIA RESIDENT PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) Notice

This section of our Privacy Policy applies only to residents of California, it supplements our general Privacy Policy. Where we collect or process personal information that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”), we commit to process your personal information in a lawful and fair manner in compliance with the CCPA.  For purposes of the CCPA, this portion of the Privacy Policy is also a Notice at Collection.

Please see the main portions of our Privacy Policy for information about:

• The categories of Personal Information we may collect directly from you or indirectly about you;
• The categories of sources from which we may collection Personal Information; and
• The business purposes for which we collect Personal Information.

Shine the Light Law

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to request a notice identifying the categories of personal Information that We share with our affiliates and/or third parties for marketing purposes, and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address: feedback@calgiant.com will respond to one request per California customer each year, and We do not respond to requests made by means other than as set forth above.

California Do Not Track Disclosure

Do Not Track is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on the Do Not Track signal, the browser sends a message to websites requesting them not to track the user. At this time, we do not respond to Web browser “do not track” settings or signals. We deploy cookies and other technologies on our Service to collect information about you and your browsing activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal.

Questions about Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us using the information found at the Contact Us section of our Privacy Policy.