Legal Notices

Privacy Policy for California Residents

Last updated December 15, 2025

Introduction

This Privacy Policy for California Residents applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in California and is intended to comply with the California consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as amended, and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section.

This policy does not apply to workforce-related Personal Information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.

Our Privacy Policy covers types of information Earnest Machine Products Company (“we,” “our,” or “us”) may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit https://www.earnestmachine.com/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to our Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see the Changes to Our Privacy Policy Section below). Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on our Website or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any other information by which you might be identified. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at [email protected].

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see the Your Personal Information Rights Section below for more details.

Information We Collect and Why

We collect and use different types of information from and about you including:

• Information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you a particular consumer, household, or device (“Personal Information”).
• Non-personal information that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identified individual, such as demographic information, statistics, or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
• Technical information, including the Internet protocol (“IP”) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, or operating system and platform. In some jurisdictions, an IP address is considered Personal Information.
• Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (“URLs”), clickstream information to, through, and from our Website (including date and time), products viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from the page.

Personal Information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

If we combine or connect non-personal, demographic, or technical data with Personal Information so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as Personal Information.

How We Collect Your Personal Information

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email address) if you contact us.
• Your search queries on the Website.
• Information submitted when you report a problem with our Website.
• Information submitted when you request further services.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete.
• Information required to enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us.
• Information used to create your user account.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
• Information provided while using any other interactive features of our Website.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.
• Speed up your searches.
• Serve you relevant location-specific content or advertising.
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

We may use the following automatic data collection technologies on the Website:

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our Website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit https://allaboutcookies.org.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our Website, including:

• Keeping you signed in
• Understanding how you use our Website
• Maintaining shopping cart data
• Analytics tracking
• Authentication

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our Website uses:

• Functionality – We use these cookies so that we recognize you on our Website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
• Advertising – We use these cookies to collect information about your visit to our Website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. We sometimes share some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our Website.
• Authentication – When you log in to our Website, our server issues an authentication cookie which is used to identify your subsequent interactions with our Website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our Website features may not function as a result.

Tracking Pixels and Web Beacons

Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as tracking pixels or web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Flash Cookies

Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.

Behavioral Tracking

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time, across devices, and across third-party websites or other online services (“behavioral tracking”). Email us at [email protected] for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on our website and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.

From Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources

We may receive information about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies or from third parties including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies, data brokers, or aggregators.

Purpose for Collection and Use of Your Personal Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your Personal Information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• In order to process any orders for products or services, we may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reporting agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Website users or consumers is among the assets transferred.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your Personal Information.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
  

We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact us at [email protected].

CCPA requires us to expressly disclose whether we have collected any Personal Information from consumers for specific categories during the previous twelve-month period. The chart below specifies whether we have collected information for each of these required Personal Information categories during the twelve months prior to the date listed at the top of this policy. For each category of Personal Information collected, the chart also specifies the purpose of its collection. Not all types of Personal Information may be collected or received for every consumer.

Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons, location, or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the provider responsible for that advertisement or other targeted content directly.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose. Any disclosures must be reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purposes for which we collected or processed your Personal Information or another disclosed purpose that is compatible with the context provided upon the collection of your Personal Information.

CCPA requires us to expressly disclose whether we have disclosed for a business purpose any Personal Information collected from consumers for each Personal Information category during the previous twelve-month period. The chart below specifies our disclosures (if any) of each Personal Information category to third parties for a business purpose during the twelve months prior to the date listed at the top of this policy. For each category of Personal Information disclosed, the chart also specifies the purpose of its disclosure.

Sales of Personal Information

CCPA requires us to expressly disclose whether we have sold any Personal Information collected from consumers for each Personal Information category during the previous twelve-month period. We do not knowingly “sell” Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information that we collect from consumers, in accordance with the definition of “sell” in the CCPA and will treat Personal Information we collect from consumers as subject to a do not sell request. There is not yet a consensus as to whether third-party cookies and tracking technologies associated with our Websites may constitute a “sale” of Personal Information as defined by the CCPA.

Sharing of Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising

CCPA requires us to expressly disclose whether we have shared for cross-context behavioral advertising any Personal Information collected from consumers for each Personal Information category during the previous twelve-month period. We do not share Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information that we collect from consumers for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Other Sharing Not for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising

We may also share your Personal Information for purposes other than cross-context behavioral advertising:

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Website users or consumers is among the assets transferred.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use found at https://www.earnestmachine.com/terms-of-use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Earnest Machine Products Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  

We may share non-personal information without restriction.

Sensitive Personal Information

Definition of Sensitive Personal Information

Under CCPA, “Sensitive Personal Information” is a subtype of Personal Information. CCPA defines Sensitive Personal Information as personal information that reveals a consumer's:

• Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number;
• account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account;
• precise geolocation;
• racial or ethnic origin;
• citizenship or immigration status;
• religious or philosophical beliefs;
• union membership;
• mail, email, or text message content, unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication;
• genetic data; or
• neural data, defined as information generated by measuring a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system’s activity that is not inferred from nonneural information.
  
• The processing of biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying a consumer.
• Personal Information collected and analyzed concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation.

No Collection of Sensitive Personal Information During Prior Twelve Months

We have not collected information that falls into one of the Sensitive Personal Information categories listed above during the twelve months prior to the date listed at the top of this policy.

Restrictions on Future Collection and Use

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information or use the Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Your Personal Information Rights

Right to notice

CCPA grants consumers right to know generally what Personal Information we collect, what Personal Information we disclose to third parties for a business purpose, what Personal Information we sell to third parties (if any), the categories of third parties receiving or purchasing Personal Information, and how consumers may exercise their CCPA rights.

Right to Know and Data Portability

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months (the “right to know”). You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see the Exercising Your Rights Section below), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or sharing that Personal Information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
• If we sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
• sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
• disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the “right to delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see the Exercising Your Rights Section below), we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the Personal Information is reasonably necessary for us or our service providers or contractors to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted under federal law, provide a good or service that your requested or reasonably anticipated within the context of your ongoing relationship with us, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us.
• Enable networks or information systems to detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted Personal Information.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Ensure the physical safety of natural persons.
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code §§ 1546 to 1546.5).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research if:
• the research confirms or adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws;
• deleting the Personal Information is likely to make the research impossible or seriously impair the ability to complete it; and
• you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us and are compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
• Comply with a legal obligation.

We will delete or deidentify Personal Information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers and contractors to take similar action.

Right to Correction

You have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we have collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the “right to correction”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see the Exercising Your Rights Section below), we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to deny your correction request applies.

We may deny your correction request if:

• We determine that our version of the contested information is more likely than not accurate.
• Your request conflicts with federal or state law or otherwise qualifies for an exception to CCPA.
• Based on the circumstances, your request makes compliance impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
• We have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that your request is fraudulent or abusive.
• You made a previously denied request within the past six months, unless you also provide new or additional documentation to prove the contested Personal Information is inaccurate.
• We cannot verify your identity to the requisite level.

If we determine that your version of contested Personal Information is more likely than not accurate, we will correct the contested Personal Information on our existing systems and direct our service providers and contractors to take similar action. Alternatively, we may delete the contested Personal Information rather than correct if either:

• Deleting it does not negatively impact you; or
• You consent to its deletion.

Right to Data Portability

You have a right to a copy of your Personal Information (“right to data portability”). Note that CCPA requires that we review the Personal Information subject to your portability request and remove the following sensitive information, if present:

• Social Security number (SSN), driver’s license number, or other government issued ID number.
• Financial account numbers.
• Health insurance or medical identification numbers.
• Account passwords or security questions and answers.
• Unique biometric data generated from measurements or technical analysis of human characteristics.

For the above types of sensitive information, we will only describe the sensitive information in sufficient details for you to understand exactly what we collected.

We will deliver data subject to your portability request, at your option by mail or electronically.

Exercising Your Rights

You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also exercise any of the rights described above by:

• Emailing us at [email protected]
• Mailing us at Earnest Machine Products Company, 1250 Linda St. Suite 301, Rocky River, OH 44116
• Calling us toll free at 800-327-6378

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may exercise any of these rights related to your Personal Information. You may make a request to exercise any of these rights on behalf of your child. Your request to exercise any of these rights must:

• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative, which may include:
• If you are submitting a request to know categories of personal information or to delete non-sensitive information with a low risk of harm: (i) you must provide at least two pieces of personal information which match information we already hold; and (ii) we must determine that the information matched is reliable for verification purposes.
• If you are submitting a request to know specific pieces of personal information or to delete sensitive information with a high risk of harm: (i) you must provide at least three pieces of personal information which match information we already hold; and (ii) we must determine that the information matched is reliable for verification purposes.
• If you are submitting a request as someone legally authorized to submit such request on behalf of another, we may require you to provide proof of a valid power of attorney under California’s Probate Code, or one of more of the following: (i) proof of the other person’s signed permission to submit the request; (ii) the other person verifying their identity directly with us, or (iii) the other person directly confirms that they have authorized you to submit the request on their behalf.
• If you are making a request to exercise any of these rights on behalf of your child, we will require one of the following: (i) signing and returning a consent form to us; (ii) using a toll-free telephone number, video conference, or otherwise communicating in person with our trained personnel; or (iii) producing a form of government-issued identification to compare against databases of that information.

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.

You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to Personal Information associated with that specific account.

We will only use the Personal Information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.

Response Timing and Format

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please contact us by emailing us at [email protected] or calling us at 800-327-6378.

We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Freedom from Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Deletion of User Contributions

Proper access and use of information provided on the Website is governed by our terms of use located at https://www.earnestmachine.com/policies/terms-of-use.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We employ physical, procedural, and technological security measures to help protect your information from unauthorized access or disclosure. We may use encryption, passwords, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Retention Period

We will retain Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to fulfill your orders and/or for as long as we need your Personal Information to fulfill the purposes for which the Personal Information was initially collected, unless otherwise required by applicable law or court order. We will also retain this Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal and/or contractual obligations, comply with court orders, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When the purpose for which we are processing the Personal Information is fulfilled, expires or is terminated, we will delete (or render unusable) any Personal Information in accordance, as applicable, with our agreements, this Privacy Policy and applicable law. In the event we cannot delete your Personal Information or render it unusable, we will inform you of the reasons, subject to any legal restrictions.

Governing Law

Our Website is controlled and operated by Earnest Machine Products Company. If you are accessing our Website from any location with regulations or laws governing personal data collection, use or disclosure that differ from United States laws or regulations, please note that through your continued use of our Website, you are transferring personal information to the United States. Also, we may transfer your data from the United States to other countries or regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating our Website. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to our Website, you consent to such transfer, storage and processing. By choosing to visit our Website or provide your personal information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in our Privacy Policy will be governed in accordance with the governing dispute resolution and arbitration provisions in our terms of use found at https://earnestmachine.com/policies/terms-of-use.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend our Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. When we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and our Privacy Policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us by:

• Emailing us at [email protected]
• Mailing us at Earnest Machine Products Company, 1250 Linda St. Suite 301, Rocky River, OH 44116
• Calling us toll free at 800-327-6378