Of the above categories of Personal Information, the following are categories of Sensitive Personal Information the Company may collect from or about consumers, independent contractors, or applicants:
- Personal Identifiers (social security number, driver’s license or state identification card number, passport number)
- Account Information (your Company account log-in, in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to the account)
- Protected Classifications (racial or ethnic origin, disability, medical or mental condition )
- Medical and Health Information
- Geolocation Data (IP address)
We may collect your personal information from the following sources:
- You the consumer, independent contractor, or job applicant, when you visit the website and voluntarily submit information through forms on the website or social media, when you visit any of our stores or physical locations, when you purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, when you enter into a contract to perform services for us, or when you apply for a position of employment
- Our employees and contractors, when you interact with them
- Other customers and visitors, when you interact with them or when they observe you
- We utilize cookies to automatically collect information about our website visitors
- Surveillance cameras at our physical locations
- Lead generators and referral sources
- Credit and consumer reporting agencies
- Recruiters
- Social media platforms
- Company-issued computers, electronic devices, and vehicles
- Company systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use
We may disclose, sell, or share your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:
- Financial institutions
- Consulting and development partners
- Government agencies
- Promotional or other fulfilment vendors
- Marketing support vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website
- Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
- Data analytics vendors
- Consumer reporting agencies or credit reporting agencies
- Employee tracking and talent management systems
- Security and risk management vendors
- Corporate customers (meaning an entity, as opposed to a natural person, that purchases, leases, or finances any of our products or services)
- Dealers of our Products
We may collect your personal information from the following sources:
• You the consumer, independent contractor, or job applicant, when you visit the website and voluntarily submit information through forms on the website or social media, when you visit any of our stores or physical locations, when you purchase or inquire about any of our products or services, when you enter into a contract to perform services for us, or when you apply for a position of employment
• Our employees and contractors, when you interact with them
• Other customers and visitors, when you interact with them or when they observe you
• We utilize cookies to automatically collect information about our website visitors
• Surveillance cameras at our physical locations
• Lead generators and referral sources
• Credit and consumer reporting agencies
• Recruiters
• Social media platforms
• Company-issued computers, electronic devices, and vehicles
• Company systems, networks, software applications, and databases you log into or use
We may disclose, sell, or share your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:
A Financial institutions
B Consulting and development partners
C Government agencies
D Promotional or other fulfilment vendors
E Marketing support vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website
F Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
G Data analytics vendors
H Consumer reporting agencies or credit reporting agencies
I Employee tracking and talent management systems
J Security and risk management vendors
K Corporate customers (meaning an entity, as opposed to a natural person, that purchases, leases, or finances any of our products or services)
L Dealers of our Products
We may collect your personal information for the following business purposes:
1. To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
2. To process and submit financing applications, including to apply for credit, or credit pre-qualification.
3. To process, complete, and maintain records on transactions.
4. To schedule, manage and keep track of customer appointments.
5. To complete appraisals.
6. To maintain records of when customers decline a service or sale.
7. To communicate with consumers and respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for information, customer support online, phone calls, and in-store inquiries.
8. To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
9. To improve user experience on our website.
10. To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
11. To detect security incidents.
12. To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website.
13. To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
14. To verify and respond to consumer requests.
15. To prevent identity theft.
16. JOB APPLICANT PURPOSES:
a. To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to apply for a job with the Company, we will use that Personal Information in connection with your candidacy for employment.
b. To comply with local, state, and federal law and regulations requiring employers to maintain certain records, as well as local, state, and federal law, regulations, ordinances, guidelines, and orders relating to infectious diseases, pandemics, outbreaks, and public health emergencies, including applicable reporting requirements.
c. To evaluate your job application and candidacy for employment.
d. To obtain and verify background check and references.
e. To communicate with you regarding your candidacy for employment.
f. To reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in or through the workplace.
17. INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR PURPOSES:
a. To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
b. To comply with state and federal law and regulations requiring businesses to maintain certain records (accident or safety records, and tax records/1099 forms).
c. To engage the services of independent contractors and compensate them for services.
d. To evaluate, make, and communicate decisions regarding an independent contractor, including decisions to hire and/or terminate.
e. To grant independent contractors access to secure Company facilities, systems, networks, computers, and equipment, and maintain information on who accessed such facilities, systems, networks, computers, and equipment, and what they did therein or thereon.
f. To implement, monitor, and manage electronic security measures on independent contractor devices that are used to access Company networks and systems.
g. To evaluate, assess, and manage the Company’s business relationship with vendors, service providers, and contractors that provide services to the Company.
h. To improve user experience on Company computers, networks, devices, software applications or systems, and to debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our systems.
i. To reduce the risk of spreading infectious diseases in or through the workplace.
We may disclose your personal information for any one or more of the business purposes identified above.
We do NOT and will not sell or share your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration. However, we may sell or share some of your information to third parties for other valuable consideration, as noted in the table above.
We may sell or share your personal information for the following business purposes:
1. To provide internet-based and targeted advertising.
2. To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
Other than these exceptions, we do not and will not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration or share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
We do and will use or disclose your sensitive personal information for purposes that give rise to the right to limit.
Notice of Right of California Residents to Opt-Out of the Selling and Sharing of Your Information & Limit the Use of Your Sensitive Personal Information
While we do not sell or share your personal information in exchange for money, we may sell or share your personal information for other valuable consideration. You have the right to tell us NOT to sell or share your personal information. You have the full and free right to opt-out of our disclosure of your personal information to any third parties where the disclosure constitutes “selling” or “sharing” as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act. You have the right to limit our use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information to uses that are necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those services or goods. You have the full and free right to limit our use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information as defined by the California Privacy Rights Act. You may exercise your rights without fear of discrimination for doing so. To opt-out of our selling or sharing of your information, meaning, we will not disclose your information to third parties for any monetary or other valuable consideration, or limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information, you can do any of the following:
- Click HERE to be taken to an online opt-out submission form.
- Visit our website at: https://www.topconpositioning.com/company/privacy. Click on “Your California Privacy Choices” to be taken to an online submission form.
- Visit any of our locations in California to request a paper opt-out submission form.
- You can use a Global Privacy Controls (GPC) signal. We will process opt-out preferences from GPC signals, which are in formats commonly used and recognized by businesses, such as an HTTP field header, as requests to opt-out of sale or sharing. The GPC signal opt-out will only apply to the browser you are using on your device; it will not apply to other browsers and/or devices to which GPCs are not activated or to offline sales.
- If you are unable to submit an opt-out through any of the above methods, please call our toll-free privacy line at 855-967-1957 for assistance and a representative will assist in meeting your needs.
Opt-Out Preference Signals
Opt-out preference signals provide consumers with a simple and easy-to-use method by which to exercise the right to opt-out of the selling and sharing of their information. Global Privacy Controls (GPC) is a user-enabled opt-out preference signal which can communicate a user’s “Do Not Sell or Share” request on behalf of the person or device. We will process opt-out preferences from GPC signals which are in formats commonly used and recognized by businesses, such as an HTTP field header. We will treat a consumer’s use of GPCs as a valid request to opt-out of the selling and sharing of information for that browser. We currently do not connect browser use to particular consumers and, as such, you will need to use GPCs on all browsers in which you access our website and use our opt-out form to opt-out of offline sales.
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals or other mechanisms (with the exception of GPCs) that provide a choice regarding the collection of personal information about activities over time and across different websites or online services. We encourage users who have DNTs to use GPCs.
Retention of Personal Information
In determining the length of time that we may to retain each category of personal information, we consider: the category of information; government requirements; applicable laws and regulations; and the nature and duration of your relationship with the Company.
Business Transfers
In the event we sell or transfer a particular portion of its business assets, information of consumers, contractors and applicants may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of our assets are acquired, information of consumers, contractors and applicants may be transferred as part of the acquisition.
Compliance with Law and Safety
We may disclose specific personal and/or sensitive personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect our employees or the public.
Use of Cookies, Pixels and Other Tracking Technologies
Our website may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – places on the user’s device to remember information about the user, such as the user’s language preference or login information.
How We Use Cookies
We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:
- Provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features
- Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts
- Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website
- Compile data about website traffic and how users use the website to offer a better website experience
- Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits, such as remembering your login details or language preference, to provide you with a more personal experience, or to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website
- Track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, including advertising by third parties on our website
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals.
External Links
Our website contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.
Passwords
The personal data record created through your registration with our website can only be accessed with the unique password associated with that record. To protect the integrity of the information contained in this record, you should not disclose or otherwise reveal your password to third parties.
Children Under the Age of 16
We do not knowingly/do sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
Rights Under the CCPA and CPRA
This section of the Privacy Policy applies only to California residents who are natural persons. If you are a California resident, you have the following rights pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
- Right to Know. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we identify to you (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you going back to January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involve disproportionate effort, or unless you request a specific time period, (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing this information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared your personal information, (5) the categories of personal information that we have sold or shared about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, by category or categories of personal information for each category of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared, and (6) the categories of personal information that we have disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom it was disclosed for a business purpose;
- Right to Access. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you, free of charge, the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you going back to January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involve disproportionate effort, or unless you request a specific time period;
- Right to Delete. The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
- Right to Correct. The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information (to the extent such an inaccuracy exists) that we maintain about you;
- Right to Opt-Out. The right to opt-out of the selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties;
- Right to Limit. The right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information;
- The right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf. See below for how you can designate an authorized agent; and
- The right to not be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of the above rights, including an applicant’s and independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for exercising the above rights.
You can submit any of the above types of consumer requests through any of the 2 options below:
- Submit an online request on our website at https://fs27.formsite.com/Topcon/CCPA-Request/index.html.
- Call our privacy toll-free line at 855-967-1957.
How We Will Verify That it is Really You Submitting the Request
If you are a California resident, when you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, or Right to Correct request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and respond to your request. Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular records in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. For example, we may need you to provide your name, email, phone number, IP address, browser ID, amount of your last purchase with the business, and/or date of your last transaction with the business. For applicants, we may need you to additionally provide the date you submitted your application, names of references and position applied for. For contractors, we may need to additionally provide the amount and date of our last payment to you, date our contract with you and name of Topcon employee that signed the contract.
Responding to Your Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct Requests
Upon receiving a verifiable request from a California resident, we will confirm receipt of the request no later than 10 business days after receiving it. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) calendar days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to an additional 45 calendar days, or 90 calendar days total from the date we receive your request), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable 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.
For a request to correct inaccurate personal information, we will accept, review, and consider any documentation that you provide, and we may require that you provide documentation to rebut our own documentation that the personal information is accurate. You should make a good-faith effort to provide us with all necessarily information at the time that you make the request to correct. We may deny a request to correct if we have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to correct is fraudulent or abusive. If we deny your request to correct, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.
Responding to Your Request to Opt-Out of the Selling or Sharing of Your Personal Information
We will act upon a consumer request to opt-out within fifteen (15) days of its receipt. We will notify all third parties to whom we have sold or shared personal information of your request and instruct them to comply with the request within the same time frame. We will notify you when this has been completed by mail or electronically, at your option.
A request to opt-out need not be a verifiable consumer request. However, we may deny a request to opt-out if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to opt-out is fraudulent. If we deny your request to opt-out, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.
Responding to Your Request to Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Information
We will act upon a request to limit the use of sensitive personal information within 15 business days of its receipt. We will notify all third parties that use or disclose sensitive personal information of your request to limit and instruct them to comply with the request within the same time frame. We will notify you when this has been completed by mail or electronically, at your option.
A request to limit need not be a verifiable request. However, we may deny a request to limit if we have a good faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to limit is fraudulent. If we deny your request to limit, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.
If You Have an Authorized Agent:
If you are a California resident, you can authorize someone else as an authorized agent who can submit a request on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney or (b) provide other written, signed authorization that we can then verify. When we receive a request submitted on your behalf by an authorized agent who does not have a power of attorney, that person will be asked to provide written proof that they have your permission to act on your behalf, and we will also contact you and ask you for information to verify your own identity directly with us and not through your authorized agent. We may deny a request from an authorized agent if the agent does not provide your signed permission demonstrating that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Other California Privacy Rights
The California Civil Code permits California Residents with whom we have an established business relationship to request that we provide you with a list of certain categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email dpo@topcon.com, or write to us at the address listed below. Please mention that you are making a “California Shine the Light” inquiry.
Consent to Terms and Conditions
By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Consumers With Disabilities
This policy is in a form that is accessible to consumers with disabilities.
Questions About the Policy
This website is owned and operated by Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at dpo@topcon.com or call 855-967-1957.
**This policy was last updated June 11, 2025.
