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Privacy Policy
What this website collects when you contact us or apply for a role, where that information goes, and how to ask us to delete it.
This policy covers this website, www.khalifehassociates.com. It sets out what personal information the site collects, why we collect it, who else handles it, and what you can ask us to do with it. It does not cover what you tell us by telephone, by email, or in the course of a project.
The law this follows
Khalifeh & Associates is a California corporation and this website is operated from Los Angeles, so California law governs it.
- The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), Business and Professions Code sections 22575–22579, requires any commercial website that collects personal information from Californians to post a policy saying what it collects, who it is shared with, how you can review and change it, and how the site answers a Do Not Track signal. This page is that policy.
- The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CCPA/CPRA), Civil Code section 1798.100 and following, is where the requests described under What you can ask us to do come from. Its duties fall on businesses above set revenue and data-volume thresholds. We will honor those requests whether or not the firm meets them.
What we collect
Only what you type into one of our two forms, together with the ordinary technical records that any web server keeps.
- Project enquiry form, on the Contact page — your name, email address and telephone number, and, if you choose to give them, your company, your role, the service you need, the project location, a budget range, a timeline, how you heard about us, your message, and any drawings or documents you attach.
- Job application form, on the Careers page — the role you are applying for, your name, email address, telephone number and years of experience, your résumé, and any portfolio, work samples, certifications or other files you attach.
- Server records — our hosting provider logs the IP address, the browser type and the pages requested for each visit.
This site sets no cookies. There is no analytics package, no advertising tag and no social media tracking pixel anywhere on it.
Please do not send us sensitive information
We do not ask for, and have no use for, your Social Security number, driver's license or passport number, financial account details, health information, precise geolocation, or information about your race, religion, politics, union membership or sexual orientation. Please take anything of that kind out of a résumé or an attachment before you send it to us.
Why we collect it
- To answer your enquiry, and to prepare the engineering scope and fee your project needs.
- To consider your application, and to contact you about it.
- To keep an ordinary business record of who approached the firm, and when.
We use it for nothing else. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising — nor have we in the preceding twelve months. Submitting a form does not add you to a mailing list.
Who else handles it
A small number of service providers, each only for the purposes above.
- Google LLC — a submitted form is received by a Google Apps Script service, and its typed fields are recorded as a row in a private spreadsheet belonging to the firm. That spreadsheet is our record of submissions.
- Microsoft — the notification email, carrying any file you attached, is delivered to the firm's own Microsoft 365 mailbox. Attachments are not copied into any cloud storage drive.
- Vercel Inc. — hosts this website and keeps the server records described above.
- Google Fonts and Google Maps — the typefaces used on every page, and the map on the Contact page, are loaded from Google, so your browser's request for them discloses your IP address to Google. Nothing you type into a form is sent to them.
How long we keep it
Enquiries and application materials are kept for as long as they serve the purpose they were sent for, and as an ordinary business record thereafter. You may ask us to delete yours at any time, and we will do so unless we are required to keep it.
What you can ask us to do
Write to us, and we will — whether or not a firm of our size is legally obliged to:
- Tell you what personal information we hold about you, and give you a copy of it.
- Correct it, if it is wrong.
- Delete it.
Email info@khalifehassociates.com or call 310.305.1555, with Privacy request in the subject line. We may have to ask you something only you would know, so that we do not hand your information to somebody else. Asking will never change how we treat you or your project.
Do Not Track
This site does not follow visitors across other websites, so a Do Not Track signal from your browser has nothing here to switch off.
Children
This website exists to do business with an engineering firm. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
Security
The site is served over HTTPS, so what you submit is encrypted on its way to us. The mailbox and the spreadsheet that hold submissions are restricted to the firm. No system is perfect, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise — which is the other reason not to send sensitive documents through a web form.
Changes to this policy
If we change it, we will change the effective date at the top of this page. The version on this page is always the current one.
Contact
Khalifeh & Associates, Inc.
1516 S. Bundy Drive, Suite 207, Los Angeles, CA 90025
info@khalifehassociates.com · 310.305.1555