Privacy Notice
Effective October 15, 2026
Your privacy matters to us. This notice describes what we collect and how we use it.
1. Scope
This Privacy Notice explains how Metal America collects, uses, and shares personal information through this website and our crew capture program. Information about customers buying buildings or concrete is covered by our customer privacy policy at metal-america.com/privacy-policy.
2. Information we collect
Information you give us. When you use a form or email us, we collect your name, email, company, the reason you are contacting us, and your message.
Information collected automatically. Like most websites, our hosting provider records basic technical data such as IP address, browser type, pages visited, and time of visit, for security and performance. We may use privacy-friendly analytics that do not use advertising cookies.
Cookies. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies on this Site. Your browser may store small preferences locally.
3. How we use information
- to respond to your inquiry, data license request, research collaboration, or job application;
- to operate, secure, and improve the Site;
- to comply with law and enforce our terms.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.
4. How we share information
We share information only with service providers that help us run the Site and respond to you, such as website hosting, email, spreadsheet, and team messaging tools, under contracts that limit their use of it. We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights or safety, or as part of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
5. Crew capture program
- Workers join only with written informed consent, in English or Spanish, and can stop at any time with no effect on their work or pay.
- Audio is removed before anyone reviews footage. Faces are blurred.
- We do not store names or government IDs with footage.
- We do not sell biometric identifiers. Where footage could contain biometric identifiers, we follow applicable state biometric privacy laws, protect them with reasonable care, and destroy them within one year after the purpose for collecting them ends.
- Footage licensed to research partners is de-identified and governed by written agreements that prohibit re-identification.
6. Retention
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above, or as required by law, then delete or de-identify it.
7. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live, including Texas, California, and other states with privacy laws, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or get a copy of your personal information, and to opt out of certain processing. To make a request, email info@metal-america.com. We will verify your request and respond within the time the law requires. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights. You may use an authorized agent where the law allows.
9. Children
The Site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information.
10. International visitors
We are based in the United States, and information is processed in the United States.
11. Changes
We may update this notice by posting a new version with a new effective date.
12. Contact
Metal America. info@metal-america.com.