Mainstay Engineering Group, Inc. Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Mainstay Engineering Group, Inc. Website
Last Updated: February 19, 2024
Thank you for visiting the Mainstay Engineering Group, Inc. website, located at https://www.megr.com/ (the “Website”). Mainstay Engineering Group, Inc. (“Mainstay”, “we”, “us” or “our”) values your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, share and protect your personal information that we collect on our Website.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. By accessing and using our Website or submitting information to or through our Website, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
1. Information We Collect:
1.1 We may collect personal information, such as your name, email address, phone number, company details and any other information you may provide to us when you contact us via the Website’s “CONTACT US” form or Email “SIGN UP” form.
Where permitted by applicable law, we may combine your personal information with other non-personally identifiable information we have collected from you.We may also combine your personal information with information we receive about you from other sources, such as our service providers.
1.2 Automated Information and Cookies:
We automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software when you access and use our Website, including your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit and other technical information such as protocol status and sub status, bytes sent and received. We may also collect information about how you interact with our Website. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including to provide, maintain and improve our Website, to monitor usage of our Website, to detect, prevent and address technical issues relating to our Website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our Website.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies for this purpose. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.
We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.
Cookies help us improve the Website by providing us with information about which parts of the Website are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Website, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools to help improve your experience with the Website. For example, we use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Website. These tools use cookies to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including IP address) is transmitted to our data collection tool service providers. This information is then used by us to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on Website activity for Mainstay. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics’ opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose.
Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Website.
2. How We Use Your Information:
2.1 Communication: We may use your contact information to respond to your inquiries, provide information about our services, and send relevant updates.
2.2 Marketing: With your consent, we may use your information for marketing purposes. We may send newsletters, promotional materials, or other communications related to our services.
2.3 Website Functionality: We may use the information we collect to provide the Website to you and to improve the Website.
2.4 Website Optimization: We analyze data to improve the functionality and content of our Website. This includes using analytics tools and monitoring user behavior.
2.5 Internal Business Purposes: We may use the information we collect for our internal business purposes, including but not limited to security purposes, to detect fraud or illegal activities, for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Website, data analysis, audits, developing new services, enhancing the Website, improving our services and identifying Website usage trends.
2.6 Legal Purposes: We may use the information we collect as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
3. Sharing of Information:
We may share your information with the following third parties:
3.1 Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We share your information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Website or assist us in providing functionality on the Website, provide data analytics services on the Website and send out emails about our services.
3.2 For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
3.3 Changes of Control. We reserve the right to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, acquisition consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
Mainstay does not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
5. Third-Party Links:
5.1 External Websites or Online Services: Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites or online services is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party websites or online services.
6. Security:
6.1 Data Protection: We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Your Choices:
7.1 Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us. You can do this by following the unsubscribe instructions included in our emails or contacting us directly. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing emails from us, this does not impact other transactional and administrative emails which you will continue to receive (such as emails relating to billing and payment information or changes to this Privacy Policy).
8. Do Not Track:
Our Website does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.
9. Nevada Residents:
Under Nevada law, Mainstay does not sell your personal information. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request that we not sell any personal information we have collected about you by contacting us at info@megr.com.
10. Children:
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of 13. No parts of our Website are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of 13.
11. Updates to the Privacy Policy:
11.1 Changes: We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. The latest version will always be posted to this webpage. We encourage you to return to this webpage frequently so that you are aware of our current privacy practices. The amended Privacy Policy supersedes all previous versions.
12. Contact Us:
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@megr.com or use the “CONTACT US” form on the Website.