Frana companies inc. privacy policy
The website located at www.frana.com, or any sub-domain of www.frana.com (the “Site” or “Frana”), is operated by Frana Companies Inc., a Minnesota corporation (“Frana,” “we”, “us”, or “our”). This Privacy Policy sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect from individuals (“you,” “your,” “user”) who interact with Frana.
Frana is committed to protecting your privacy and the privacy of your personal information that you provide to us. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Site and the content, features, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site (“Services”). By accessing the Site you acknowledge and fully understand the Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy includes guidelines for protecting your information and, depending on your jurisdiction, describing your rights under applicable data protection laws. This Privacy Policy discloses what type of information is collected, the methods used to collect it, how we utilize the information to better serve all interested parties and the choices you have about the way your information is collected and used.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Site or any Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Site or any of Frana’s Services. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We recommend checking this Policy regularly, as your continued use of the Site is deemed an acceptance of any changes.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@frana.com. Additional contact information is provided in the Contact Us section below.
Last Updated: December 6, 2024
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may also collect or generate non-personally identifiable information about your use of our Site or our Services. This information includes, but is not limited to: browser type and version, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address, referral source, length of visit, page views, demographics, interests, online habits, geographical location, analytical data, receipts, images, social posts, video, audio information collected by website visitor tracking tools such as “cookies,” “web beacons,” “pixels,” internet tags, and other navigational data. Your inputted Site search data may also be recorded and stored for various research purposes, to help us improve the Site and our Services, and/or to help resolve possible future technical issues. If you contact us with any help request, we may also collect contact and authentication data, chat data, and device or browser configurations in order to assist you with any trouble you may have accessing our Site.
Personal Information and Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”)
We may collect the following “Data,” including personally identifiable information, to operate our Site, to effectively provide you with access to our Site, or to provide you with products or services.
We may collect personally identifiable information (“PII” or “personal information”) directly from you, such as when you interact with our Site (e.g. applying for a job through the Site), our Services, or when you contact us for support or information. This personal information may include: your first and last name, and contact information, including mailing address, phone number and/or email address, and if you are applying for a job through the Site employment history, education, special skills and training, and certain protected classifications (race, sex, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status).
You may also be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online technical support and troubleshooting.
Information that is not PII.
You are not required, to have a user account to use the Services.
Account Information and Other Personal Information
Third Party Providers
We may use a third party to track user behavior, analyze user searches and run hiring ads.
We currently use:
- Lucky Bee Creative Studio for Site management, including managing job posting and hiring process.
- Google Analytics and Google Search Console – to track user behavior and analyze user searches.
- Google forms for job application form.
- Facebook and Instagram – to run hiring ads.
Web Server Logs
When you visit our Site, we may track information to administer the Site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include: your Internet Protocol address, the kind of browser or computer you use, number of links you click within the Site, state or country from which you accessed the Site, date and time of your visit, name of your internet service provider, web page you linked to our Site from, and pages you viewed on the Site.
Cookies
The Site may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. The use of cookies is now an industry standard, and you will find them on a majority of websites. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies help us analyze web traffic and lets you know when you have visited a particular website. The use of cookies provides benefits to you by saving your name, information supplied previously, and other information that may make the use or our Services and promotions easier. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a website, a cookie helps the website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases website navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Site.
When you visit the Site, we may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. These cookies, which do not contain personal information, enable us to send you ads about our services, customize our services, and gather insight analytics.
Web Beacons and Pixels
Emails we send you may contain a bit of code known as a “web beacon” or “pixel.” This code helps us understand the time and date that you opened an email and when you used a link within the email to visit the Site or a third-party website, allowing us to collect analytics about our traffic, customize services, and send you ads about our services, products, or promotions. You can disable our web beacons by turning images “off” in your email client (e.g. Outlook).
Do Not Track Signals
Our systems do not currently recognize “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that might enable users to opt out of tracking on our Site.
Analytics
We engage third-party analytics services (“Analytics Services”) to help analyze how users use the Site. The information generated by the cookies or other technologies about your use of our Site (the “Analytics Information”) is transmitted to the Analytics Services. The Analytics Services use Analytics Information to compile reports on user activity, which we may receive on an individual or aggregate basis. We use the information we get from Analytics Services to improve our Site. The Analytics Services may also transfer information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process Analytics Information on the behalf of the Analytics Services. Each Analytics Services' ability to use and share Analytics Information is restricted by such Analytics Services' terms of use and privacy policy. By using our Site or Services, you consent to the processing of data about you by Analytics Services.
Third-Party Links
Hypertext links which redirect you to third-party websites may be encountered while browsing the Site. These hypertext links are not maintained or operated by us, but instead are maintained and operated third-parties. Some of these third-parties may use cookies on our Site. You should refer to their privacy policies for information about the tracking tools they use.
These third-party websites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for the contents, links, or any changes or updates to these websites. Further, the inclusion of any hypertext links on the Site does not imply endorsement by us of the related third-party website, that website’s contents or security, or any association or affiliation with its operators. We are not responsible for data and information collected by these third-party websites.
Website Visitor Tracking Tools
2. HOW DO WE USE THIS DATA
- To Personalize Your Experience – we may use your Data to personalize the content and experience you receive.
- For Development and Improvement of our Site and Services – we may use the information we collect to better understand how our users engage with our Site, troubleshoot problems with our Site, or to identify areas of improvement of the Site.
- Communicate with you about the Products and/or Services – we may use your Data to communicate directly with you regarding any of our services that you have inquired about or have purchased.
- To Market, Promote, and Drive Engagement with the Services – we may use your Data to market, promote, or drive engagement to the services we provide, or in the promotion of new services.
- Affiliate and Business Partners – we may share your Data with any of our affiliates or business partners, including our vendors, consultants, and other third-party service providers as it relates to the provision of the Site, or as it relates to the provision of any of our services.
- Fraud Detection and Prevention; Safety and Security – we may use your Data to detect and prevent fraud.
- To Protect our Legitimate Business Interests and Legal Rights – we may use your PII in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, or audit matters, where it may be either required by law or applicable court or regulatory order, or where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights and interests, or the legal rights and interests of our other customers or other applicable third parties.
- Business Transfers - We may share or transfer your PII in connection with or during negotiations of a merger, sale of Frana’s assets, financing, acquisition and/or any other legally permissible transfer.
- Employee Hiring – we may use your PII if you apply for a job through the Site.
- With Your Consent – we may use your PII where you have provided consent for us to do so for a specific purpose not listed above.
3. SAFEGUARDING YOUR DATA
Third Party Service Providers
We only share your Data with our authorized third-party service providers who need access to assist in providing our Site, products, or Services.
We do not sell or share you PII with any unaffiliated third-party for their marketing purposes.
How We Protect Your Information
Although no computer network is invulnerable to attack, we use commercially reasonable physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to protect your information from unauthorized disclosure. We restrict access to your personal information to our authorized personnel and/or third-party providers as appropriate and necessary to provide our Site, our products, or our services.
Sharing Information
We keep your data if it is necessary to process your requests, operate our business and provide our Site and products, or as long as we are legally required to do so. For as long as we have your data, we will continue to protect the privacy and security of such data consistent with the Privacy Policy.
Data Retention
In general, “opting out” means that you want us to limit the personal information we collect and store about you, and not target ads that are based on your interest to your browser or device. If you use multiple browsers, computers, or mobile devices, and wish to limit the personal information we collect and stores, or you do not wish to receive our interest based advertising, you must opt out from each browser, computer, and mobile device individually. Please note that if cookies are not enabled in your browser, or if you use certain ad-blocking tools, our opt-out mechanism may not work properly. Also note that deleting your cookies does not opt you out. To opt-out, please contact us directly at info@frana.com, or use the link provided to you within any marketing email to update your preferences.
Opting Out
4. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
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In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6501.06 and 16 C.F.R. §§ 312.1 – 312.12, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 16, nor do our products target children under the age of 16. By using our Site and products you represent that you are not younger than 16.
Certain tools and settings are provided to help you access, correct, delete, or modify your personal information. You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time.
You may contact us about our use of your Data by contacting us by sending an email to info@frana.com]. We welcome you to contact us regarding the information we have collected about you, including the nature and accuracy of the Data collected about you, to request an update, modification, or deletion of your information, to opt-out of certain services, or to withdraw any consent you may have granted. We may ask you to verify your identity, or ask for more information about your request. We will consider and act upon any above request in accordance with applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. Please note that if you choose to delete your information or opt-out of the collection and use of your information, certain features may no longer be available to you.
Individual Rights
The following section solely applies to visitors, users, and others who reside in the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia, or such other U.S. states that have adopted laws similar to those in the foregoing states. Any terms, or their substantive and functional equivalents (e.g., personal data vs. personal information), defined in the respective US state privacy law will have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Collection and Use
In addition to, and consistent with, the uses and sharing or other purposes described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may collect, use and disclose your personal information as described below. None of the categories in the chart below are sold.
categories of third parties we may share that information with
*third party provider
**affiliate
***both third party provider and affiliate
State Rights
- Providing Site and Services,
- Updating and improving our Site and Services,
- Communicating with you
- Analyzing your use of the Site and Services
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to fraud, unauthorized access and use of the Site, breaches or potential breaches of terms and policies
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categories of personal information we collect
examples of frana uses
- Providing Site and Services,
- Updating and improving our Site and Services,
- Communicating with you
- Analyzing your use of the Site and Services
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to fraud, unauthorized access and use of the Site, breaches or potential breaches of terms and policies
- Internal training of our personnel
- Advertising and marketing.
Internet or other electronic network activity (e.g. browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement)*
Yes
Geolocation data (physical location or movements)*.
Yes
Yes
- Hiring
- Providing Site and Services,
- Updating and improving our Site and Services,
- Communicating with you
- Analyzing your use of the Site and Services
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to fraud, unauthorized access and use of the Site, breaches or potential breaches of terms and policies
- Internal training of our personnel
- Advertising and marketing.
Professional or employment related information (current or past job history)***
Hiring
Yes
Non-public education information (education records, grades, transcripts***
Hiring
Yes
Inferences drawn from the above categories of personal information to create a profile about a user reflecting the user’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities and aptitudes.***
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, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
- Hiring
- Providing Site and Services,
- Updating and improving our Site and Services,
- Communicating with you
- Analyzing your use of the Site and Services
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to fraud, unauthorized access and use of the Site, breaches or potential breaches of terms and policies
- Internal training of our personnel
- Advertising and marketing.
Yes
Identifiers (e.g., real name, alias, postal address, Internet Protocol address, email address)*
- Hiring
- Providing Site and Services,
- Updating and improving our Site and Services,
- Communicating with you
- Analyzing your use of the Site and Services
- Preventing, detecting, investigating, and responding to fraud, unauthorized access and use of the Site, breaches or potential breaches of terms and policies
- Internal training of our personnel
- Advertising and marketing.
Yes
Any personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80 of the California Consumer Privacy Act (e.g., name, signature, social security number, address, telephone number, drivers license number, passport number, employment history)*
Hiring
Yes
Your Rights
Applicable laws in your jurisdiction may grant you certain rights—subject to all applicable limitations, exemptions, or exceptions—regarding our collection and use of your personal information. These rights may include, to the extent applicable and to the extent granted under applicable law:
- The right to confirm whether we process personal information, the personal information collected about you, the purpose of collection, and how it is processed;
- The right to request access and request a copy of your personal information.
- • The right to request deletion of your personal information;
- The right to request the correction of your personal information;
- The right to opt-out of certain types of sharing of your personal information;
- The right to withdraw consent of our processing of your personal information;
- The right to limit (or completely opt out of, if allowed under applicable law) our processing of sensitive personal information to what is necessary; and
- The right to not be discriminated against due to your exercise of your rights under applicable law. We do not discriminate against users for exercising the rights granted to them under applicable law.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. The above rights are only exercisable by you where the applicable law grants you the right being exerted and where no exception or exemption under applicable law applies. You may also have a registered agent (if and only as permitted under applicable law) that you authorize to act on your behalf. If you have a registered agent act on your behalf, we have the right to authenticate such agent’s authority to act.
Your Rights as a Nevada Resident
Nevada Opt-Out Rights
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request in accordance with the process set forth below. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements .
Your Rights as an Oregon Resident
Oregon law requires us to disclose the following:
- the categories of third parties that we share personal data that will enable you to understand:
- what type of entity each third party is; and
- to the extent possible, how each third party may process personal data.
- Identifies the controller, including:
- any business name that the controller registered under with the Oregon Secretary of State; and
- any assumed business name that the controller uses in Oregon.
Residents who wish to receive this information may submit a request in accordance with the process set forth below.
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise any of your legal rights, you may submit a verifiable request to us by sending an email to info@frana.com . If you have a registered agent act on your behalf, we have the right to authenticate such agent’s authority to act. Without limiting the foregoing, 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. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
We will respond to your request within the applicable timeframe required under applicable law. If we deny your request, you can appeal such denial by contacting info@frana.com.
Consent to Processing in the United States
This Site is operated in the United States.
By providing any information to Frana, all users, including, without limitation, users in the member states of the European Union, Canada or elsewhere outside of the United States, fully understand and unambiguously consent to this Privacy Policy. By using our Site, participating in any of our Services and/or providing us with your information, you consent and agree to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of your information to and in the United States.
Personal Data is processed according to the provisions of this Privacy Policy and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your Personal Data can be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States in accordance with and subject to the laws of the United States.
5. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY AND CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@frana.com or send your comments to:
Frana Companies Inc.
633 Second Avenue South
Hopkins, MN 55343
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