This Privacy Policy statement is made by Laisar Management Group on behalf of Clark Construction/Stacy and Witbeck Joint Venture and is updated effective as of 1 December 2023.
Clark Construction and Stacy Witbeck (CSW) are committed to assembling a diverse team of trade partners to deliver a significant enhancement for the Northeast Corridor, B&P Tunnel Replacement Program, featuring the new Frederick Douglass Tunnel – Southern Approach. This project website is powered by Laisar’s Privacy Commitment.
We ask for only the least amount of information necessary, gathering only what we believe is essential for our workforce development and training program. We let users know the information we have on them and allow them to opt out of specific engagements.
The goal of this policy is to make explicit the information we gather on our users, how we will use it, and how we will not. This policy is unfortunately longer than we would like, but we must unambiguously address all the relevant cases. We will try and keep the language simple and direct as much as possible.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to this Laisar website. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of our websites or services that have a separate privacy policy.
This Privacy Policy is divided into three parts:
Part I – Information Laisar collects and controls
This part deals with how Laisar collects and uses information about website visitors, potential customers, users of Laisar’s services, and others who contact Laisar through forms or email addresses published on or linked to our websites.
Part II – Information that Laisar processes on your behalf
This part deals with how Laisar handles data that you entrust to Laisar when you use our services, or when you share any personal or confidential information with us while requesting customer support.
Part III – General
This part deals with topics that are relevant to both Parts I and II, and other general topics such as Laisar’s security commitments and how we will inform you when we change this Privacy Policy.
Part I – Information Laisar collects and controls
What information Laisar collects
We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. Laisar will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) Laisar has automatically collected the information, or (c) Laisar has obtained the information from a third party. Below we describe the various scenarios that fall under each of those three categories and the information collected in each one.
Information that you provide us
i. Account signup : When you sign up for an account to access one or more of our services, we ask for information like your name, contact number, email address, company name and State to complete the account signup process. You’ll also be required to choose a unique username and a password for accessing the created account. You may also provide us with more information such as your photo, and time zone, but we don’t require that information to sign up for an account. After signing up, you will have the option of choosing a security question and an answer to the security question — if you provide these, they will be used only while resetting your password.
ii. Event registrations and other form submissions: We record information that you submit when you (i) register for any event, including webinars or seminars, (ii) subscribe to our newsletter or any other mailing list, (iii) submit a form in order to download any product, Whitepaper, or other materials, (iv) participate in contests or respond to surveys, or (v) submit a form to request user support or to contact Laisar for any other purpose.
Information that we collect automatically
i. Information from browsers, devices and servers : When you visit our website, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our website.
ii. Information from first party cookies and tracking technologies : We use temporary and permanent cookies to identify users of our services and to enhance user experience. We embed unique identifiers in our downloadable products to track usage of the products. We also use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, understand email campaign effectiveness and for targeted visitor and user engagement by tracking your activities on our website. We only use first-party cookies and do not use third-party cookies or other third-party tracking technologies on our website. We also use first-party Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such as HTML5 to store content information and preferences to provide certain features.
iii. Information from application logs and analytics : We collect information about your use of our services and applications from application logs and in-house usage analytics tools, and use it to understand how your use and needs can improve our services. This information includes clicks, scrolls, features accessed, access time and frequency, errors generated, performance data, storage utilized, user settings and configurations, and devices used to access and their locations.
Purposes for using information
In addition to the purposes mentioned above, we may use your information for the following purposes:
- To communicate with you (such as through email) about services that you have downloaded and services that you have signed up for, changes to this Privacy Policy, changes to the Terms of Service, or important notices;
- To keep you posted on new services, upcoming events, offers, promotions and other information that we think will be of interest to you;
- To ask you to participate in surveys, or to solicit feedback on our products and services;
- To set up and maintain your account, and to do all other things required for providing our services, such as enabling collaboration, providing website and mail hosting, and backing up and restoring your data;
- To understand how users use our services, to monitor and prevent problems, and to improve our services;
- To provide user support, and to analyze and improve our interactions with users;
- To detect and prevent illegal activities, to report spam, and to protect the rights and interests of Laisar and users;
- To update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you;
- To analyze trends, administer our website, and track visitor navigations on our website to understand what visitors are looking for and to better help them;
- To monitor and improve marketing campaigns and make suggestions relevant to the user.
Legal bases for collecting and using information
Withdrawal of consent : Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
Legitimate interests notice : Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis and those legitimate interests are not specified above, we will clearly explain to you what those legitimate interests are at the time that we collect your information.
Your choice in information use
Opt out of non-essential electronic communications : You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential messages by using the ‘unsubscribe’ function included in all such messages. However, you will continue to receive notices and essential transactional emails.
Disable cookies : You can disable browser cookies before visiting our website. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features of the website properly.
Optional information : You can choose not to provide optional profile information such as your photo. You can also delete or change your optional profile information. You can always choose not to fill in non-mandatory fields when you submit any form linked to our website.
Who we share your information with
All Laisar listed here have access to the information covered in Part I. We do not sell any personal information. We share your information only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy, and only with parties who adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Employees and independent contractors : Employees and independent contractors of Laisar have access to the information covered in Part I on a need-to-know basis. We require all employees and independent contractors of Laisar to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Your rights with respect to information we hold about you
Right to access : You have the right to access (and obtain a copy of, if required) the categories of personal information that we hold about you, including the information’s source, purpose and period of processing, and the persons to whom the information is shared
Right to rectification : You have the right to update the information we hold about you or to rectify any inaccuracies. Based on the purpose for which we use your information, you can instruct us to add supplemental information about you in our database.
Right to erasure : You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected.
Right to restriction of processing : You may also have the right to request to restrict the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as when you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Right to data portability : You have the right to transfer your information to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, in circumstances where the information is processed with your consent or by automated means.
Right to object : You have the right to object to the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as the use of your personal information for direct marketing.
Right to complain : You have the right to complain to the appropriate supervisory authority if you have any grievance against the way we collect, use or share your information.
Retention of information
We retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or required by law. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We will also securely store the information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until deletion is possible.
Part II – Information that Laisar processes on your behalf
Information entrusted to Laisar and purpose
Information provided in connection with services : You may entrust information that you or your organization (“you”) control, to Laisar in connection with use of our services or for requesting technical support to access our services. This includes information regarding you or your employees or data that you hold and use on behalf of your organization for a specific purpose on the Project, such as a customer to whom you provide services. The data may either be stored on our servers when you use our services, or transferred or shared to us as part of a request for technical support or other services.
(All the information entrusted to Laisar is collectively termed “service data”)
Ownership and control of your service data
We recognize that you own your service data. We provide you complete control of your service data by providing you the ability to (i) access your service data, (ii) share your service data through supported third-party integrations, and (iii) request export or deletion of your service data.
How we use service data
We process your service data when you provide us instructions through the various modules of our services.
Push notifications
If you have enabled notification on our applications, we will push notifications through a push notification provider. You can manage your push notification preferences or deactivate these notifications by turning off notifications in the application or device settings.
Who we share service data with
Employees and independent contractors : We may provide access to your service data to our employees and individuals who are independent contractors of Laisar involved in providing the services (collectively our “employees”) so that they can (i) identify, analyze and resolve errors, (ii) manually verify emails reported as spam to improve spam detection, or (iii) manually verify scanned images that you submit to us to verify the accuracy of optical character recognition. We ensure that access by our employees to your service data is restricted to specific individuals, and is logged and audited. Our employees will also have access to data that you knowingly share with us for technical support or to import data into our products or services. We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within Laisar.
Collaborators and other users : Some of our services allow you to collaborate with other users or third parties. Initiating collaboration may enable other collaborators to view some or all of your profile information. For example, when you edit a document that you have shared with other persons for collaboration, your name and profile picture will be displayed next to your edits to allow your collaborators to know that you made those edits.
Retention of information
We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to use our Services. Once you terminate your user account, your data will eventually get deleted from active database during the next clean-up that occurs once in 3 months. The data deleted from active database will be deleted from backups.
Part III – General
How secure is your information
Laisar takes data security very seriously. We have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical & physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or destruction of the information you entrust to us. If you have any concerns regarding the security of your data, we encourage you to write to us at support@laisar.com with any questions.
Locations
We share your personal information and service data within Laisar. By accessing or using our services or otherwise providing personal information or service data to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of your personal information or Service Data related to Laisar and the Project.
Do Not Track (DNT) requests
Some internet browsers have enabled ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) features, which send out a signal (called the DNT signal) to the websites that you visit indicating that you don’t wish to be tracked. Currently, there is no standard that governs what websites can or should do when they receive these signals. For now, we do not take action in response to these signals.
External links on our websites
Some pages of our website may contain links to websites that are not linked to this Privacy Policy. If you submit your personal information to any of these third-party sites, your personal information is governed by their privacy policies. As a safety measure, we recommend that you not share any personal information with these third parties unless you’ve checked their privacy policies and assured yourself of their privacy practices.
Blogs and forums
We may offer publicly accessible blogs and forums on our website. Please be aware that any information you provide on these blogs and forums may be used to contact you with unsolicited messages. We urge you to be cautious in disclosing personal information in our blogs and forums. Laisar is not responsible for the personal information you elect to disclose publicly. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account with Laisar. To request the removal of your information from our blogs and forums, you can contact us at support@laisar.com.
Social media widgets
Our website may include social media widgets that let you share articles and other information. These widgets may collect information such as your IP address and the pages you navigate in the website, and may set a cookie to enable the widgets to function properly. Your interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policies of the companies providing them.
Disclosures in compliance with legal obligations
We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your personal information and service data to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements.
Compliance with this Privacy Policy
We make every effort, including periodic reviews, to ensure that personal information you provide is used in conformity with this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our adherence to this Privacy Policy or the manner in which your personal information is used, kindly write to us at support@laisar.com. We’ll contact you, and if required, coordinate with the appropriate regulatory authorities to effectively address your concerns.
Notification of changes
We may modify the Privacy Policy at any time, upon notifying you through a service announcement or by sending an email to your primary email address. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Policy that affect your rights, you will be provided with at least 30 days’ advance notice of the changes by email to your primary email address. If you think that the updated Privacy Policy affects your rights with respect to your use of our products or services, you may terminate your use by sending us an email within 30 days. Your continued use after the effective date of changes to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the modified Privacy Policy. You will not receive email notification of minor changes to the Privacy Policy.