GoSkilledTrades Privacy Policy

Acceptance of Privacy Policy:

By accessing, interacting with and using this website you have read and are in agreement with the following terms and conditions that are outlined within our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy please do not use or access our website.

Effective Date:

This Privacy Policy is effective on January 28, 2025

Changes to our Privacy Policy:

Occasionally our Privacy Policy may change. If this happens, we will immediately post this change on our news feed, within our community forum and if we have your email address we will email and notify you.

Introduction:

Our website address is: https://www.goskilledtrades.com/

Our company GoSkilledTrades LLC is located in the United States of America.

Thank you for visiting goskilledtrades.com. We are a community and job search website that is focused on the skilled trades, facility maintenance, infrastructure and construction industry within the United States of America. Our goal is to help connect people interested in the skilled trades, facility maintenance, infrastructure and construction industry to rewarding careers and to provide information on various occupations that will help to introduce people to various career opportunities within the skilled trades and construction field. In order to participate and interact with this website, users must accept, agree with and be in compliance with the terms and guidelines outlined within our Terms of Use policy.

goskilledtrades.com has skilled trades career resources that are specific to user's within the United States of America and at this time does not have resources for international user's.

Who can register and interact with this website:

Only individuals that are over the age of 16 and have an interest in the skilled trades, infrastructure, facility maintenance or the construction industry within the United States of America are permitted to register and interact with this website. If we discover that a person younger than the age of 16 has registered with this website, we will immediately delete the account and all the data that we have associated with it.

Registered user's that are younger then 18.

For individual's that are younger then the age of 18 we will assist you in the removal of any content or information you publicly posted to this website. Please be aware that we can not guarantee a complete and comprehensive removal of all content and information. Please contact us below for further assistance.

Information and data that is collected while visiting our website and how it gets used:

Personal information- Information that you provide while using our website.

While visiting and using our website, we may ask that you voluntarily provide us with basic personal information including but not limited to your name, age, work experience, interests, state you live in and email address. User information provided during account registration can be modified or removed on the Profile > Edit panel. In most cases, users also have control over who is able to view a particular piece of profile content, limiting visibility on a field-by-field basis to friends, logged-in users, or administrators only. Site administrators can read and edit all profile data for all users.

Web browser information- Information that is automatically collected while you use our website.

GoSkilledTrades.com like many other websites collect information and data that your web browser sends each time you visit our website. This information and data may include but is not limited to your IP address, web browser information, device information, geographical information, pages that you viewed, links that you clicked on, how much time you spent interacting with content on a web page and the time and date you visited.

Cookies

GoSkilledTrades.com like many other websites uses cookies to collect information and data that helps us understand how often a someone visits our website and their activity while interacting with our website, improve our website, improve our web page content, enhance our users and visitors experience, provide customer management services, provide ads and content that are personalized to a user or group of user's, improve and enhance our advertising and affiliate marketing activities, assist in our analytics of our website and improve and enhance our business operations.

Cookies and other tracking technologies can be attached to a user's web browser by this website, third party service providers, customer management companies, website analytic companies and advertising companies. These cookies can be only for a "session" and only last as long as the user is interacting with the website once they close their web browser they are removed or cookies can be "persistent" and last for a set time until they expire. The party that places a cookie on your web browser determines the expiration date and time of the cookie. Cookies can help a user while they interact with our website and improve their experience. For example, cookies can help remember repeat users and assist in logging in to our website. Cookies are also placed on a user's or visitor's web browser by third party service providers, customer management companies, website analytic companies and advertising companies that provide various important website operational and performance functions, customer management services, analytical services and advertising services.

For more information on cookies and similar tracking technologies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

How to manage cookies

While cookies help improve the user experience while visiting a website, there are many ways to manage cookies that may be added to your web browser. However, it is important to point out that limiting certain cookies may impact how the website functions while you're visiting.

Internet Explorer- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/delete-and-manage-cookies-

Microsoft Edge- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-

Google Chrome- https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647

FireFox- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox

Safari- https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

For other web browsers perform a search on how to manage cookies for your particular web browser.

Analytics

To improve our website performance, web page content, assist in our affiliate marketing activities, provide advertising and ad's for our user's and advertising partners, and to enhance our users and visitors experience we may use a third party such as Google Analytics to monitor, collect and process the information and data that is obtained while you are interacting with and visiting our website.

Google Analytics- This is a tool provided by Google to help us understand how our users interact with our website. Google may set cookies on your browser or read existing cookies found on your browser. Your web browser will then automatically send certain information to Google. This information will help us improve our website performance, web page content, assist in our affiliate marketing activities, provide advertising and ad's for our user's and advertising partners, and to enhance our users and visitors experience. Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver their services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse, and personalize content and ads you see on Google and on their partners’ sites and apps.

Many web browsers allow you to block third party cookies from being set on your browser, and also permits you to remove and clear existing cookies from your browser. Please see above "how to manage cookies"

For more information on Google Analytics and your privacy please visit- https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

You may opt-out of having your activity on our website made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out add-on for your web browser. Please visit- tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout This tool is available for multiple web browsers.

Advertising

Google AdSense- This is a service provided by Google that allows our website to display ads generated from Google. Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on our website and any other website displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When user's visit a Google partner's website, such as our website goskilledtrades.com, a cookie may be set on that user's web browser.

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
Users may opt out of personalized third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

For more information on Google's AdSense program and it's use of cookies please visit- https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Affiliate Marketing Activities- Cookies can be attached to a user's web browser when they click on an affiliate link for a product or service found on a website and visit a third party website. For example, we are a member of the Amazon Associates program. This is an affiliate program that we earn when user's click on an affiliate link for a recommended product or service found throughout our website and then make a qualified purchase on Amazon.com.

Read our Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information on Affiliate Marketing Activities.

How we use the data that is collected

We use the data that is collected to help operate, manage and improve our website and website content. Here are some additional ways that we use your data.

To assist in new account creation, process information that you provide, and also process various transactions.
To help us provide efficient and effective customer service, troubleshoot any problems, resolve user's and visitor's complaints and answer questions.
To assist us and our user's in efficiently and effectively facilitating surveys or promotional activities.
To facilitate the proper operation of our community forum.
Improve our user's and visitor's experience
Provide high quality ad's and advertising for our user's and our third party advertising partners.
To help improve content, job postings, emailed job alerts, products, affiliate products and ad's that GoSkilledTrades, LLC and other third parties display on this website.
To email you about a product, service or any other offer that GoSkilledTrades, LLC or our third party partner's consider potentially interesting and relevant for you.
To assist in our affiliate marketing activities.
Provide promotional offer's, newsletter's, emailed job alerts and other important information to our registered user's.
To assist in our website and forum moderation.
To comply with law enforcement and any other legal processes.

Information, data and other media that you post to this website:

Your User Profile

This information can be viewed by the public and is non-confidential. Therefore, you should not post personal identifiable information or images.

Comments

You should not post personal identifiable information while commenting on topics or other related information. This information is viewed by other visitors and users of the website and is considered public information.

Community Forum

Images

If you upload an image, please be aware that some images may include identifiable location data (GPS) that another visitor or user may access. You should avoid uploading images that may contain location data that another user or visitor may access.

Embedded content that is found on this website that may be from another website:

Articles, comments, forum topic's or any other website content on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction and activity with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction and activity with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that external website.

Disclosure of Affiliate Links found on our website:

Our website goskilledtrades.com contains many links to various websites to provide user's with information regarding skilled trades and construction careers. In addition, we may also have links that recommend various products or services for the user's of our website. Links that recommend products or services may be considered affiliate links that our company may receive compensation from if a purchase is made. However, it is important to point out that any compensation our company receives is provide from the seller of the product or service.

California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA)

If you are a California resident and the processing of personal information about you is subject to the CCPA, you have certain rights with respect to that information:

Personal information and data we may collect

The following categories along with examples are defined by the California Consumers Privacy Act (CCPA). This does not mean that this website (goskilledtrades.com) has collected all the following data or information examples. However, we do acknowledge that some of this data and information has been or will be collected when user's interact with our website.

A. Identifiers.
A name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account username, screen name, password, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status.

D. Commercial information.
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies

F. Internet or other similar network activity.
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, including user generated content.

G. Geolocation data.
Physical location or movements.

H. Sensory data.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

I. Professional or employment-related information.
Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

Sources of the personal information and data we may collect

The following are examples of how we may obtain personal information and data of those who interact with and visit our website.

Directly from you. For example, information you provide during account registration, creating your user profile, post within our community forum or comments.
Indirectly from you. For example, observing your activity while you interact with our website.
From third parties. For example, by using analytics companies, advertising companies or other service providers that may provide information and data to us.
From a publicly available source.

How we use personal information and data we collected

This website (goskilledtrades.com) may use or disclose personal information and data we collect for "business purposes" or "commercial purposes" (as defined under the CCPA).

Your right to know what personal information and data we have collected

California residents have the right to know what personal information and data has been collected over the past 12 months and how it has been used by this website (goskilledtrades.com) over the past 12 months. You must include reliable information for us to reasonably ensure that you are the person that we collected information from. If we can not verify your identity that you are the person we collected information from, we reserve the right to deny the request. Furthermore, the information and data we disclose, along with the time we take to process and complete your request will be in compliance with the regulations outlined by the CCPA and any applicable laws. Please use the contact information below to contact us.

California residents have a right to request that we provide you with the following information. The categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you throughout the past 12 months:

The categories of sources from which we collect personal information.
The purposes for collecting, using, or selling personal information.
The categories of third parties with which we share personal information.
The categories of personal information we have disclosed about you for a business purpose. Note that the CCPA defines “business purpose” broadly; and because we use service providers for a number of business purposes that require access to our systems that hold personal information (such as website hosting, maintaining the security of our website and other systems, and providing customer management and support), in the past 12 months we have disclosed for a business purpose the data from all of the categories of personal information that we maintain.
The categories of personal information we have sold about you for each category of third party to which the personal information was sold. Note that the CCPA defines “sell” very broadly, and some of our data sharing described in this Policy may be considered a “sale” under that definition. We do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. Individuals under 16 are not permitted to register and create an account on our website.

In the past 12 months GoSkilledTrades, LLC. has not shared personal information with other third parties for commercial use.

Your right to request that we delete your information and data

California residents also have a right to request that we delete personal information under certain circumstances, subject to a number of certain exceptions. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer information and request, we will delete your personal information from our records following the regulations outlined within the CCPA, subject to any limitations or certain exceptions under law. Please use the contact information below to contact us.

Your right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information

California residents also have a right to opt-out from future sales of personal information, which you can exercise by clicking here or on the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link on the bottom of our website home page. See also the Cookies section of this Privacy Policy to learn how to manage cookies settings within your web browser and to opt out of analytics and ad targeting.

You may opt-out of having your activity on our website made available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out add-on for your web browser. Please visit- tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout This tool is available for multiple web browsers.
Users may opt out of personalized third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings.

How California residents can exercise their rights

For California residents to exercise the rights that are described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us below. You may make only 2 request for access to your data during a 12 month period. You must include reliable information for us to reasonably ensure that you are the person that we collected information from. If we can not verify your identity that you are the person we collected information from, we reserve the right to deny the request.

Non discrimination of California residents for exercising their CCPA rights

We will not discriminate against California residents that exercise their CCPA rights.

European User's

goskilledtrades.com has skilled trades career resources that are specific to user's within the United States of America and at this time does not have resources for international user's.

This section only applies to individuals accessing our website from Europe or the UK. Furthermore, this only applies to individuals from Europe or the UK that interact with our website and only if we collect and track their personal data.

User's from Europe and the UK may be able to exercise any of the following rights in relation to their personal information and data.

Right to see the personal data that we have about you.
Right to update and correct your personal information for accuracy.
Right to ask that we delete any of the information that we have about you.
Right to ask that we either restrict or stop processing data we have about you.
Right to request a copy of any of the data that we have about you.
Right to stop us from using any of your data.
Right to request that any decisions that we make about your personal data are free from automated processes.

Subject to applicable law, user's from Europe or the UK may exercise their rights by contacting us using the information below. A request in compliance with this privacy law will be responded to in a timely manner and in compliance with applicable laws. You must include reliable information for us to reasonably ensure that you are the person that we collected information from.

Security:

The security of the information and data that we obtain while you interact with our website is very important to us. We have obtained quality website security and website hosting services. However, even after implementing these appropriate measures we realize that we can not prevent all unfortunate events from occurring to your information and data while visiting and using our website. Therefore, we can make no guarantees that your information and data will be safe from inappropriate activities.

Contact Us:

Please contact us here with any questions, comments or concerns. Or email us at goskilledtrades@gmail.com

We welcome any feedback or suggestions that can help improve our visitors and users experience.

Thank You

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