Privacy Policy

We at Stocker and Watts Inc., ("Company") value your privacy and strive to only utilize and/or store your Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") for business requirements related to your past, present, or future transactions. We do not sell your information to third-party marketing entities. Please read on for details.

Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies to the Company and its related Internet Domain(s) as noted above. We are not going to pretend this policy covers everything, so always feel free to contact us if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. You may even find that we are great humans to deal with.

Clarity

We may use the terms "data", "information", "details", "PII", and the like interchangeably. We think you'll get what we're putting down, but if not, just contact us and we'll provide more context.

Contact

Feel free to contact us at any time. When we say "contact us" or the like, just use the contact information provided at the top of this policy. Please note that the Company absolutely will not discuss PII until the individual contacting us provides recent and conclusive proof of identity which may include phone, video, and in-person verification with tangible identification evidence in multiple forms such as with a state ID, drivers license, passport, etc..

Children / Minors & Incapacitated Adults

The Company is in the business of Real Estate, which by law and virtue requires the reasoning of a capable adult human, thereby making this site meant only for such individuals. Children / minors & incapacitated adults should not interact with this site and/or the Company and should be precluded from doing such by their responsible caretaker.

Non-Discrimination & Non-Retaliation

We like to believe we're great humans and want you to know that your decision to act upon any privacy choices will not cause the Company to discriminate or retaliate against you in any manner or form. Heck, we value our own privacy and often exercise privacy rights with others. Just contact us if you need any assistance.

Your California Privacy Rights

Based in California, which has strict privacy rights regulations, we've attempted to write the policy with such California Privacy Rights in mind, therefore the entire policy should not just directly apply to Californians, but also all other individuals. See this link (below) for important California-specific information.

Cookies: Tracking

The Company does not implement Internet tracking cookies. Tracking cookies are persistent cookies utilized to track activity across many related and/or unrelated websites, collecting and aggregating data to build user profiles for marketing and solicitation purposes. You can learn more about cookies at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

Cookies: Authentication & Authorization

The Company may utilize secure HTTP session (private) cookies as part of a login system to provide methods to access sensitive resources. This is a common practice and part of the essential security mechanism behind website login authentication and authorization. Secure session cookies used for "auth" are not utilized to collect PII or build profiles.

Cookies: Environmental

The Company may use private session cookies to test basic environmental and experience capabilities. These may be essential to setting up an optimum visitor experience. Such cookies are private and not used to collect PII or build profiles.

Do Not Track (DNT) Signaling & Requests

The Company does not intentionally track you in order to provide specific targeted advertising. Therefore, the Company does not respond to, acknowledge, or work with DNT signaling and/or similar requests.

Internet Protocol Addresses (IP)

IP Addresses are utilized to identify computers, networks, and other equipment on the Internet so servers know where to route (return/send) resources to. For businesses, the public IP is likely provided by your IT/network administrator and is the same for all employees. For consumers, the public IP is likely provided by your residential or mobile service provider and shared among everyone using that service. You can learn more about IP Addresses at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address.

IP Addresses: Logging

The Company logs IP Addresses in server files along with date, time, and resource (i.e. page) accessed. Such logs do not contain or relate to any PII. The use of IP Addresses in server logs is critical for the Company to ensure proper and legal technical operations, including for site security, anti-hacking, debugging, and auditing.

E-Mail

Unless using specific encryption, e-mail is generally not secure and is usually transported over plain text often stored in many systems out of the control of any single entity, including you or the Company. You should never believe e-mail to be private or secure and consider anything sent or received as such. Never send any sensitive details such as social security numbers, banking information, passwords, or other similar information via standard e-mail.

E-Mail: Marketing

We may send you e-mails related to interactions with the Company or even to entice you to do more business with us, or even help promote us. You're always welcome to have us stop, just let us know. Additionally, non-targeted (i.e broadcast / mass-market) e-mails will have an unsubscribe link on them.

Contact Forms

Data from contact and/or message forms may either; a] be converted to e-mail and sent as such (e-mail) to the appropriate individual, or b] programmatically entered into our customer relationship manager (CRM) system for future contact. Essentially, the web form is just an interface for the e-mail sender or CRM form, and aside from errors which may create debug/log files containing message data, such form data is not otherwise intentionally stored or distributed. Never send any sensitive details such as social security numbers, banking information, passwords, or other similar information via contact forms.

Personal Data / Personally Identifiable Information

The Company intends to only collect essential information related to your business relationship, whether potential or actual. You can do a Google search, but generally such data includes that information which can uniquely identify and individual person, including but not limited to; phone number, social security number, date of birth, etc..

Personal Data: Collected

Other than what we deem essential to our mutual business relationship, the Company does not intentionally collect PII for other reasons.

Personal Data: How Collected

Currently, these are the primary forms in which you may provide data to us:
  • Telephone
  • E-mail
  • In-person
  • Social Media
  • Website Contact Page
  • Website Property Search Form
  • Blog Site Interactions

Personal: Sending Sensitive Data

Never send sensitive data, deets, details, information, or whatever you like to call it to the Company over unencrypted channels, such as standard e-mail. Contact us first, and we will help by providing secure upload portal(s) or assistance in encrypting such information, so that it is sent in a more secure manner.

Personal Data: Required Sharing

The Company intends to only share your data with others deemed necessary to fulfilling obligations to you or by the Company related to our mutual business relationship.

Personal Data: Optional / Affiliate Sharing

Again... The Company intends to only share your data with others deemed necessary to fulfilling obligations to you or by the Company related to our mutual business relationship.

Personal Data: Public Profiles

The Company does not work with data aggregators, remarketing entities, or the like to build or distribute personal profiles using your PII.

Personal Data: Access & Validation

The Company is happy to review what PII you have provided to us. Just contact us for steps to verify your identity and receive information about the data we have on file. At a minimum, we will need to verify your identity through a combination of voice, e-mail, postal, or other confirmation methods also outlined in the Contact section above.

Personal Data: Right to Correction

You may correct and/or verify any PII we have for you. Just contact us for steps to verify your identity and correct the information.

Personal Data: Right to Know

You have the right to request we disclose to you specific information we have collected about you including how sourced, category / type, where sold and/or disclosed, and the purpose related to collecting and/or selling such. The Company will endeavor to enlighten you as to the above within 30 days of a validated request.

Personal Data: Right to Opt Out / Limit Sharing

You have the right to request the Company cease disclosing information about you as long as such doesn't conflict with overriding business, legal, regulatory, or jurisdictional requirements.

Personal Data: Right to Block Sale

The Company does not sell PII for the purpose of selling PII.

Personal Data: Right to be Forgotten

As the Company intends to only collect essential information related to your business relationship, there generally would be nothing to be forgotten. Just contact us to determine the practicality and/or possibility for you to be forgotten. Even if you can't be fully "forgotten" for regulatory, compliance, or other reasons, we can notate your information in way that conveys desire to cease future communications.

Personal Data: Right to be Deleted

As the Company intends to only collect essential information related to your business relationship, there generally would be nothing to be deleted. For instance, transaction information which makes up most records will be kept for multiple years to satisfy applicable legal retention rules, tax laws, and other business regulatory requirements. Additionally, CRM information will be kept in perpetuity until no longer valid. Just contact us to discuss any information that you would like deleted.

Personal Data: Legal & Regulatory Compliance

The Company cooperates with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We may therefore disclose personal information, usage data, message data, and any other information about you, if we deem that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process (such as a subpoena or court order), or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce the Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of the Company, its users or the public, as required or permitted by law.

Personal Data: Third Party Use

The Company strives to only share PII with valid third parties to fulfill business needs, including services such as transactions, logistics, shipping, financial, billing, payment, security, and regulatory compliance.

Personal Data: Security Credentials

You may be provided security credentials (i.e. username & password) to access sensitive Company resources. The Company requires that you use a password unique to just the Company (i.e. not reused), keep such credentials in the strictest of confidence, not distribute them, and ensure they are stored securely such as with encryption and/or a reputable password management system.

Personal Data: Storage

The Company does not maintain its own data management infrastructure (i.e. servers) and utilizes common third-party software-as-a-service (SAAS) platforms to interact with, manage, and store such data. The Company strives to only utilize best-of-breed service providers applicable to the region (USA), and who have shown a track-record of positive business operations for multiple years. You are welcome to contact the Company to get a better understanding of the platforms it utilizes.

Personal Data: Storage

The Company does not maintain its own physical data management infrastructure (i.e. servers), but instead utilizes common third-party Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to interact with, manipulate, manage, and store such data. Some of the systems may even be designed, created, programmed, scripted, and administered by the Company itself. The Company strives to only utilize best-of-breed service providers applicable to the region (USA), such as with Microsoft Azure Hosting, Microsoft SQL Server, and the like... who have shown a track-record of positive business operations for multiple years. You are welcome to contact the Company to get a better understanding of the platforms it utilizes to store data.

Personal Data: Long-Term Retention

Due to business, regulatory, or jurisdictional constraints and/or requirements, certain data may be subject to long-term retention policies. Contact the Company if you'd like to understand more, and if and/or how this affects you.

Geo-Tracking

The Company does not share or sell your geo-tracking (i.e. location) data.

Links

It is not possible to guarantee the privacy, security, safety, or applicability of any Internet links. Clicking on internet links is dangerous... do so at your own risk!

Social

In the wild west of public social networks, the Company does not pretend to believe anything is private and neither should you. Anything you post publicly will reside in that domain and be accessible to nearly anyone.

Analytics

Currently, the Company uses a very simple server log file that includes date & time, IP Address, resource (i.e. page), and possibly other non-PII data. The Company may directly and/or indirectly utilize a third-party analytics service, such as Google Analytics, to track and manage social campaigns and/or website activity.

Security

The Internet is a very dangerous place, with traffic running through many systems (networks/servers) of unknown origin including Wi-Fi access points, Internet Service Providers, and Telco providers. You should assume your connection is never secure or private unless using validated security services with end-to-end encryption, such as with valid VPNs and/or 256 bit SSL/TLS. Even then there is no guarantee that what you are sending isn't being intercepted, transmitted, or utilized nefariously.

Changes

You should review this Privacy Policy prior to any future interactions as it will likely change over time.

Agreement

By visiting the Company, Domains, or any of its Internet resources you acknowledge and agree to all items contained in this Privacy Policy.

Hacking, Hijacking, Pwning, etc..

Some of the world's largest organizations along with most governments including the United States have become victims of hacking or other malicious actions which often impacts the public through theft of personal data. Almost nothing can be done to defend against the most determined hackers, so we won't pretend systems we use for your data are immune to nefarious activity. To believe you'll be immune to such attacks is ignorant at best. By interacting with us and sharing data, you understand the same and agree to not hold us responsible for actions by any other persons or organizations that result in data being compromised or any other related type of loss.

Website & App Hosting Provider Notice

Like most organizations, the Company doesn't maintain its own physical servers, including that for website & app hosting. Obviously, we can't control what happens with such providers, but strive only to use those that are reputable and have legal jurisdiction within the United States. You should visit our hosting providers and determine your own comfort level as part of your privacy review of us. The primary hosting providers we currently use are:
  • Microsoft Azure | https://azure.microsoft.com
  • IONOS by 1&1 | https://www.ionos.com

Region & Jurisdiction

The Company is based out of Sacramento CA (USA), does not directly conduct business outside the United States, and only serves customers in states in which it is licensed to do so. Visitors agree to and acknowledge mutual jurisdiction of the City of Sacramento, County of Sacramento, State of California, and Country of United States.

California

If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with certain affiliates and/or third parties for respective marketing purposes. However, as noted herein, we offer the same abilities to anyone, regardless of state of origin. You have many rights in California with regards to your information being disclosed to you, corrected, removed, etc., so just contact us if you need further assistance with your privacy.

Resources

• California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
• California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
• General Data Protection Regulation
• FTC Consumer Privacy
• FTC Data Security