Who we are
Office Solutions, Inc. is an office furniture company located in San Jose, California. We were previously located in Santa Clara, California prior to February 2023.
Our website address is: https://bayareaofficesolutions.com.
This privacy policy explains when and why we collect personal information about you, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, how we maintain it and your rights and choices in relation to your information.
Information We May Collect From You
We may collect and store information about you in connection with your use of the bayareaofficesolutions.com website (“the website”), including any information you transmit to or through the website. We use that information to provide the website’s functionality, improve the website’s quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the website, personalize your experience, track usage of the website, market the website, provide customer support, message you, enhance the security of the website, and comply with legal obligations.
Our website is created using WordPress, and hosted on secure servers by WPEngine. Below are the ways our website may collect information about you.
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.
Forms
If you submit forms on our website, the information provided by you will be stored indefinitely on our website. You can contact us to request your past form submissions be deleted.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Email address and name may be sent to our email provider, Mailchimp.
No personal information is ever sold to 3rd parties.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, 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. This information is not sold to any 3rd parties and is for internal tracking only.
Except as otherwise provided in this policy, we will keep your personal information private and will not share it with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary to comply with a court order or other legal process, protect our rights or property, or enforce our Terms of Use. Your personal information is stored on secure servers that are not accessible by third parties. We provide you with the capability to transmit your personal information via secured and encrypted channels if you use a similarly equipped web browser.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Personal data provided on forms (including name, email, phone number, and company) may be sent to our 3rd party email service provider.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use personal information about you in connection with the following purposes:
Providing our services to you and fulfilling your requests
- Provide you information you requested about our company or our company’s products or services, or promotional material from some of our partners, or to contact you when necessary.
- Carry out our services.
Marketing and Advertising
- Provide you with information about goods and services that we offer that we think may interest you.
- Customize or enhance your experience with our services.
- Deliver relevant advertising to you.
- Measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others.
Service improvement and account management
- Carry out our obligations under any contracts entered into between you and us.
- Keep a record of your relationship with us.
- Manage and operate your account with us.
- Verify your qualifications for certain products or services and to bill you, if applicable, for products and services.
- Notify you of changes to our services.
- Conduct analysis and market research to better understand how we can improve our services, products or information.
- Ensure that our content is presented in the most effective manner for your device.
- Administer our website for internal business administration.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes the information we obtain from Cookies, how we use Cookies, and how you can manage them. We may periodically update this Cookie Policy without prior notice to reflect changes in our practices. For more information about our data protection practices, see our Privacy Policy.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are small text files temporarily stored on your device that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient. We use cookies to improve your experience on our site. Some cookies are also required by certain pages on our website to be able to function correctly and some are just to help you use our website seamlessly.
Information We Obtain Through Cookies
The information we obtain through the use of Cookies may include, but is not limited to, information about your computer, device, and browser, including your IP address, operating system and device characteristics, language preferences, mobile device or advertising ID, referring URLs, and actions taken by you on the bayareaofficesolutions.com website such as what content you visited, whether you have used the bayareaofficesolutions.com website before, times you accessed the bayareaofficesolutions.com website, email and advertising views and click-throughs, and other software or hardware information. If you access the bayareaofficesolutions.com website from a mobile or other device, we may collect information for that device such as a unique device identifier (“UDID”).
Cookies we use
Essential Cookies
Our online store will use cookies that are essential to site functionality, performing actions such as remembering which items you have in your cart when you travel to a new page. These cookies may be set automatically when pages load or as a result of a user request that cannot be fulfilled without use of the cookie. Generally, essential cookies are session cookies that expire as soon as you close your browser or if you’ve been inactive for a certain amount of time.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics to help understand how visitors interact with our website so that the site can be improved. Google Analytics uses cookies to track users that have previously been to our site, and what actions users are taking on our site. Google Analytics leaves multiple cookies, expiring in 1 hour, 1 day, 3 months, or 2 years unless manually removed or blocked by your browser. It is your right to opt-out of Google Analytics if you wish. To find out how to do that, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Controlling Cookies
You may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the options or preferences menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links for commonly used browsers may be helpful, or you can use the help option in your browser for more details:
- Internet Explorer Cookie Settings
- Firefox Cookie Settings
- Chrome Cookie Settings
- Safari web Cookie Settings
- iOS Cookie Settings
For more information, click here to view our opt-out preferences.