Allegheny Petroleum Products Co. Privacy Policy

Latest Revision: October 9, 2023

Who we are

Allegheny Petroleum Products Co. (“APPC”)

470 Mall Circle Drive

Monroeville, PA 15146

Websites covered under this Privacy Policy are oils.com, alleghenypetroleum.com, and altrahd.com.

This Privacy Policy is specific to the personal information/data that we collect and/or process from our operation of the websites listed above (the “Websites”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other websites or software applications operated by us or on our behalf, nor does it cover any other personal information/data that we may collect, receive, access, and/or otherwise process.

In this Privacy Policy, you will find information about the types of personal information we collect regarding you as a visitor and/or user of the Websites, how and why we process such personal information, with whom we may share such information, as well as how we protect your personal information. Additionally, in this Privacy Policy, we describe the processes by which you may contact us in order to exercise your options to: (1) access, correct, restrict, or delete your personal information; (2) object to the use of certain aspects of your personal information; and (3) ask any questions you may have about our privacy practices. Other than as expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy, we do not request, collect, or otherwise process personal information via the Websites.

This Privacy Policy may be updated and/or otherwise revised periodically to reflect changes in our data use practices and/or policies. We will post notices of all such changes on our applicable websites, platforms, and/or materials, and the “Latest Revision” date noted above will indicate when this Privacy Policy was most recently revised. Except as may be otherwise required under applicable law, revisions to this Privacy Policy will be effective on the Effective Date noted without any other notice or approval by you. In certain jurisdictions, applicable law may require additional processes and procedures, in which case, revisions to this Privacy Policy will not be effective until we have met our obligations accordingly.

The content found on the Websites is controlled and published by APPC from its offices in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. APPC makes no representation that materials on the Websites and/or the operation of the Websites are appropriate or available for use in other locations. Those who choose to access the Websites from other locations do so on their own volition and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. APPC does not market to or target, the Websites to audiences outside of the United States of America. The Websites are all business-to-business sites, and we do not knowingly collect, maintain, or process personal information by anyone under the age of 18. To the extent APPC knowingly collects personal information of a minor in the context of one of the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy, we will only do so with the appropriate consent and otherwise in compliance with or permitted under applicable laws.

Safety & Product Data Sheets

Website visitors have the option of requesting SDS & Product Data Sheets through the Websites by providing the name of the product(s) for which SDS and/or Product Data Sheets are being requested, along with first name, last name, email address, and (via oils.com) phone number.

We store the personal information you provide when you request Safety and/or Product Data Sheets, and we use such personal information as necessary to provide the requested information to you and, subject to your data protection rights as set forth below, to follow up with you regarding your inquiries, and to promote our other programs, products, or services that may be of interest to you.

Additionally, existing APPC customers have the option of registering a user account on the Oils.com Portal by providing an email address and password (“Account Information”) to access our SDS and Product Data Sheet website. We use your Account Information to authenticate your identity for registered account login purposes and associate your account activity with your registered account.

Careers

If you choose to apply for a posted position via our “Careers” portal, you will be offered the options of submitting by email (a) your cover letter; (b) a resume; and (c) an optional Equal Employment Opportunity Self-Identification Form (Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Veteran, and/or Disability Status information). Collectively, such “Employment Application Information” will be stored and used by APPC to process your application for employment, assess your candidacy for employment, contact you about your application for employment, and otherwise manage the job application process and any resulting employment relationship. If you become an employee with us, we may store the Employment Application Information submitted to us for the purpose of managing the employment relationship in accordance with legal regulations. Subject to your Data Subject Rights as set forth below, we may also retain your Employment Application Information for future job opportunities and attempt to contact you regarding such future job opportunities where we deem it appropriate, in our sole discretion. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein, APPC is not obligated in any way to retain or store Employment Application Information, nor shall APPC be obligated to consider Employment Application Information for any job opening other than the specific listing(s) to which an applicant has responded.

Cookies

We may use cookies to monitor and/or track information on Website user activity within our system, to track the performance of the Websites, detect trouble-shooting, and overall improve the Websites.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. You do not have to opt-in to such cookies in order to leave a comment on our site. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

In general, you may prefer to disable cookies on this website and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you will still be able to access our website, but it may not necessarily function as intended.

Embedded content from other websites

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

You should check the privacy policies at the websites of the content publishers of such embedded content.

Embedded YouTube-Hosted Videos

Content on certain web pages on our Websites includes embedded video content hosted on YouTube, operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. YouTube, LLC is a subsidiary of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Each time you view one of the web pages on our Websites that include such embedded YouTube video content, your Internet browser will be automatically prompted to load the corresponding YouTube-hosted content (subject to any content controls that you have set up for your browser). Each time you load such content, YouTube and Google obtain information about the specific webpage of our Websites from which you loaded YouTube-hosted content.

If you start to play a YouTube video from our Websites, a connection to YouTube’s servers will be established. As a result, the YouTube server will be notified as to which of our web pages you have visited to view YouTube-hosted video content. If you are logged into your YouTube account while you visit our site, you enable YouTube to directly allocate your browsing patterns to your personal profile. You have the option to prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Furthermore, as you are viewing YouTube-hosted content, YouTube will be able to place various cookies on your device. With the assistance of these cookies, YouTube will be able to obtain information about you. Among other things, this information will be used to generate video statistics with the aim of improving the user-friendliness of the Website that you are visiting and to prevent attempts to commit fraud. These cookies will stay on your device until you delete them.

Under certain circumstances, additional data processing transactions may be triggered after you have started to play a YouTube-hosted video, which are beyond our control. This means that the sharing of data with YouTube partners cannot be ruled out. For instance, regardless of whether you are watching a video, YouTube will always establish a connection with the Google DoubleClick network.

Further information about YouTube, including how YouTube handles user data, please consult https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/en/ and YouTube’s data privacy policy, https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Operational and Administrative Data Usage

If you contact us with inquiries, suggestions, feedback, complaints, or for support, we will use personal information that you provide to us in order to appropriately respond to your requests and to assist you.

In addition to the other uses and sharing of personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, we process personal information received hereunder to comply with our own legal and regulatory obligations. For example, we may process personal information to comply with record-keeping requirements, reporting requirements, court orders, law enforcement orders, and other legal and/or regulatory requirements.

Third-Party Tools – Social Media Share Buttons

We invite you to share certain content from our Websites (e.g., blog posts) on your Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and/or LinkedIn social media accounts. Such social media functionality is indicated by the presence of Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and/or LinkedIn buttons on the web pages containing such content.

Facebook Share button

We have integrated share button plug-ins for the Facebook social network, provided by Meta Platforms Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA, on the Websites. You will be able to recognize Facebook plug-ins by the Facebook logo button on certain web pages on our Websites. An overview of the Facebook plug-ins is available under the following link: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

Whenever you visit our Websites and its pages, the plug-in will establish a direct connection between your browser and the Meta server. As a result, Meta will receive the information that you have visited our Websites with your plug-in. However, if you click the Facebook share button while you are logged into your Facebook account, you can link the content of our Websites and its pages with your Facebook profile. As a result, Meta will be able to allocate the visit to our Website and its pages to your Facebook user account. Please note that, as the operator of the Websites, we do not have any control or knowledge of the transferred data or its use by Facebook. For more detailed information, please consult the data privacy declaration of Facebook and Meta at: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

If you do not want Meta to be able to allocate your visit to our Websites and its pages to your Facebook user account, please log out of your Meta accounts while you are on our Websites, and refrain from using the Facebook share buttons.

Twitter plug-in

We have integrated share button functions for the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform for certain content on our Websites. These functions are provided by X Corp., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. While you use X (formerly Twitter) share function, the content on our Websites that you visit is linked to your X (formerly Twitter) account and disclosed to other users. During this process, data are transferred to X Corp. as well. Please note that we, as the operator of the Site and its pages, do not have any control or knowledge of the transferred data or its use by X Corp. For more details, please consult X Corp.’s data privacy declaration at: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.

You have the option to reset your data protection settings on X (formerly Twitter) under the account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings.

LinkedIn plug-in

We have integrated share button functions for the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. Any time you access content on one of our Websites that is on a webpage that includes a LinkedIn share button, a connection to LinkedIn’s servers is established. LinkedIn is notified that you have visited our Websites with your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn’s share button from our Websites while logged into your LinkedIn account at the time, LinkedIn will be in a position to allocate your visit to our Website to your user account. Please note that we, as the operator of the Websites, do not have any control or knowledge of the transferred data or its use by LinkedIn.

For further information on this subject, please consult LinkedIn’s data privacy declaration at: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Email Capture

If you submit your email to [email protected], your IP address will be recorded in the email submission.

APPC does not sell or share your personal information as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, nor do we otherwise use your personal information for targeted advertising purposes.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely, subject always to your Data Subject Rights as detailed below. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our Websites (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

We offer users of our Websites the right to obtain confirmation that we maintain certain personal information about you (and the right to verify its content, origin, to whom it is shared, and accuracy), as well as the right to access, correct, erase, restrict processing, or port such data. In particular, you may have the right to instruct us to not sell or share your personal information with third parties, object to our use of your personal information for direct marketing and/or targeted advertising purposes, and certain other purposes at any time. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection enforcement authority for your location. Note, however, that we may retain certain personal information as required or permitted by applicable law.

You may exercise your data subject rights by contacting us with a reasonably detailed email, including “Data Subject Request” in the subject line, regarding the nature of your request at privacy [email protected].

If you exercise any of your consumer/data subject rights with respect to selling or sharing of your personal information provided for under California law, we shall not discriminate or retaliate against you for choosing to exercise any of your data subject rights, including by: (a) denying goods or services to you; (b) charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties; (c) providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you;; (d) suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

While we endeavor to resolve complaints quickly and informally, if you wish to proceed to a formal privacy complaint, we request that you make your complaint in writing by email to [email protected]. Please include “Internal Appeals Process” in the subject line of your written complaint, and we will acknowledge your formal complaint within 10 working days of receipt. If we do not resolve your privacy complaint to your satisfaction, local law applicable to you may provide a specific process by which you may lodge a complaint with your state’s Attorney General, consumer protection or privacy protection agency.

In compliance with Colorado and Virginia law, consumers in those states, as applicable, may file a complaint with:

The Colorado Attorney General’s Department of Law at 720-508-6000. More information is available at the Colorado Attorney General’s website: https://coag.gov/file-a-complaint/data-privacy-data-breach/.
The Virginia Attorney General’s Office Main Line at 804-786-2071. More information is available at the Virginia Attorney General’s website: https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint

Consumers in other states should check their own state’s laws and the attorney general’s website for information on how to file data privacy complaints.

Unless otherwise required by applicable law, we reserve the right to take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to demands as set forth above.

Please note that, notwithstanding the fact that we may have removed your information from our list of active users, we reserve the right to keep any information submitted or collected for business and/or legal reasons, such as archiving data, and/or to establish legal claims or defenses.

Browser-Based Opt-Out Signals

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers. When you turn on DNT, the browser may send a signal or other message to web services requesting that they not track you. At this time, our information collection practices will continue to apply as described in this Privacy Policy, regardless of any DNT signals that are sent by certain browsers or selected by you. For more information about DNT, please visit AllAboutDNT.org.

Certain browsers and browser extensions provide you the option of opting out of the sharing of your Personal Information for purposes of behavioral targeted advertising through an opt-out preference signal setting powered by such browsers and browser extensions. [NTD – describe how the website is configured to react to universal opt-out and also add a disclaimer that browser-based opt-outs are only effective for the device and browser app that is configured with universal opt-out and would not be effective to opt-out if the user comes in through a different browser or device that is not configured in the same manner.]