Privacy policy

Who we are

Quality OSHA Training is a division of Geigle Safety Group, Inc. (www.geiglesafety.com). Our website address is: https://qualityoshatraining.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

The information you provide in our contact form will be emailed to our staff at QOTstaff@qualityoshatraining.com.  We will retain your email as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry or address any questions or needs you may have.

Cookies

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. 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.

The cookies being utilized on our website are used to enhance the user experience of our students by using google analytics to determine whether students find pages confusing (i.e. a page has students abandoning/leaving the page faster than other pages).  To opt out of google analytics please click on the following link: google opt out.

Embedded content from other websites

Courses 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.

Analytics

We may use student data to analyze our website to enhance the design and user experience for our students.

Who we share your data with

Quality OSHA Training uses software plugins and APIs that may connect with third party companies to enable certain functions of our website.  This data is used to enhance the functionality of the website and is not used for marketing purposes.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment (if the comment functionality is turned on for students to use), the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. 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 website, 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

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time.

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

  • See what data we have about you, if any.
  • Change/correct any data we have about you.
    • We do require verification before making a formal name change. This helps ensure the documents produced by our websites are accurate.
  • Request us to delete any inaccurate information we have about you.
  • Request a release of your student transcript to a university or employer.
  • Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Our website does not retain your contact information.  We use Stripe payment system to process payments and you can choose to allow Stripe to retain your payment and contact information.  When you contact us via our contact form we will receive your email address, which will enable us to respond to your inquiry.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as transaction data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the web page address.

As a general policy, we do not collect or store any credit card data locally on our computer systems or in paper form.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

What third parties we receive data from

As noted above we use software plugins that enhance the user experience with Quality OSHA Training.  The software plugins are often created by third party vendors and may utilize their servers to enable the plugin functionality.  Public and Private organizations may also utilize our application programming interface (API) to communicate with our learning management system (LMS) to transfer their employee’s training data to their internal LMS.