Privacy Policy

Introduction

Lakeside Alliance (“LA”) operates lakesidealliance.com. Lakeside Alliance (or “We”) is an Illinois joint venture between Turner Construction Company and “The Presidential Partners” which is an Illinois joint venture between Powers & Sons Construction Company, UJAMAA Construction Company, Brown & Momen, Inc., and Safeway Construction Company.  

Lakeside Alliance respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. It is LA’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect. This Privacy Policy sets out the principles governing LA’s use and protection of personal data. 

This policy is effective as of August 15, 2020.

Privacy Notice Changes

This privacy policy will be reviewed and updated if required at a minimum of every 12 months.  

LA encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Notice. If we make changes, we will revise the “Effective” date at the top of this statement, and we may provide additional notice such as on the LA website homepage, or via the email address we have on file for you. 

What We Collect and How We Use the Personal Information

LA may collect Personal Data in the course of our normal business activities, as detailed below. 

LA collects, uses, stores and process Personal Data, which is data that identifies, relates to, describes, or can reasonably be associated with a particular person.  For all data subjects, this can include:  

  • Identifiers: Identifying information including name, postal or e-mail address, and phone or fax number, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, biometric information.

  • Personal Information: Names, signatures, Social Security Numbers, addresses, government identification documents, financial information such as bank account, credit or debit card information, health insurance information, education information.

  • Business contact information including as job title, department and name of organization, business address, e-mail address, mobile telephone number.

  • Usernames and passwords used to access internal LA network resources such as our Partner Logon on web page.

  • Website visitor activity including IP address, the identity of the Internet service provider, the name and version of the operating system, the name and version of the browser, the date and time of the visit, the pages visited. This data may be aggregated such that the individual identities have been removed.

  • Biometric information: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, biological characteristics, activity patterns, fingerprints, eye scans, health or exercise data.

  • Geolocation information: Physical location, movements, and mobile device unique identifier.

  • Financial information including as financial account information used for payment purposes and/or information that may be contained in a consumer report, bank account information.

  • Contact information for referrals.

  • Employment information: employment history, employee number, performance appraisals, salary and benefits, healthcare information, emergency contact information.

  • Protected class information: Age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, disability information, sex, genetic information, military or veteran status.

Children

LA’s services are not directed to persons under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with personal information without the parent’s consent, they should contact us at privacy@lakesidealliance.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete the information from our records.

How We Collect Information

  • When you visit our website, we may collect information about your visit.

  • Directly from clients, contractors, sub-contractors, vendors, employees, and job applicants.

  • From third parties including contractors, sub-contractors, government agencies.

Why We Collect It

We collect personal information to conduct our business activities. LA collects only the minimum amount of personal data required to fulfill these activities.  These activities include:  

  • Executing business activities, including completing our services.

  • Conducting marketing and promotional activities, including responding to inquiries about LA products or services, providing offers and information (as permitted by law) about products, services, or events offered by LA.

  • Improving the functionality, security, and usability of LA’s website.

  • Security, including monitoring log-in portals for access, validating identity, and preventing fraud.

  • Fulfilling a legal or contractual obligation.

  • Managing employee relationships, including the administration of benefits.

  • Processing job applications, including background investigations.

  • Validating identity for security to allow access to LA premises and job sites.

  • Complying with applicable laws or regulations.

LA will not use the personal data it collects for purposes other than those described above without notifying data subjects identified by the data.

How We Share the Information

We use the information you have given us in order to conduct business activities. 

Information Sharing

LA may share this information with:

  • LA, Inc. or other entities controlled by or under common control with LA, Inc., including all affiliated entities using the LA® mark

  • Vendors

  • Service providers

  • Contractors or sub-contractors

  • Federal, state, and local governments

For the purposes of: 

  • Fulfilling LA’s commercial, contractual, legal, and regulatory obligations.

  • Responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other lawful requests by public authorities, and to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

  • Investigating illegal activities, suspected fraud, or as otherwise required by law or regulation. Centralizing LA’s administrative, IT maintenance, and IT security practices.

  • Providing information about LA products, services, or events.

Any third-party that receives personal information from LA may only process the information in accordance with applicable data processing agreements or contracts terms which require the third-party to protect the data and process it in a manner consistent with applicable privacy laws, regulations and LA’s policies and practices.

Third-Party Links

LA’s websites may provide links to other third-party websites that are outside of LA’s control and not covered by this Privacy Policy. LA is not responsible for the availability, content, or accuracy of third-party policies, nor is it responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, products, services, or goods that may be linked to LA’s websites. LA encourages all users of its websites to review the privacy policies posted on these (and all) sites.

How We Store Your Information

LA takes the responsibility of keeping your information secure. 

Storage

The security measures LA uses vary based on the sensitivity of the personal information we collect, process, and store, and the current state of technology. We also take measures to ensure service providers that process personal data on our behalf also have appropriate security measures. 

Retention

LA retains Personal Data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or not prohibited by law. 

If you have consented to the processing of your Personal Data (“opt-in”), LA will retain and process your Personal Data until you withdraw your consent (“opt-out”), unless the Personal Data must be kept for administrative, legal, or regulatory purpose.

If LA has not received your opt-in, LA will delete your Personal Data once the purpose of the collection and processing of such Personal Data has been fulfilled and the adequate duration for documentation and backup storage of such Personal Data has lapsed.

Disposal

Data is securely destroyed or disposed once it is no longer necessary to retain the data. 

Security

LA has in place security policies that are intended to ensure the security and integrity of all Personal Data. LA has appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to protect against unauthorized or unlawful processing of Personal Data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, Personal Data held or processed by LA. If LA forwards Personal Data to any third party, LA requires that those third parties have appropriate technical and organizational measures in place to comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

Your Data Protection Rights

You have certain rights for the collection, use, or dissemination of your Personal Data to the extent required by law as applicable to Lakeside Alliance and your data.

Your Individual Data Subject Rights

RIGHT TO REQUEST ACCESS TO DATA

You have the right to ask for copies of your Personal Data. 

RIGHT TO CORRECTION

You have the right to request correction of your Personal Data. 

RIGHT TO DELETION

You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Data. 

RIGHT TO OPT-OUT OF COMMUNICATIONS

You have the right to opt-out from marketing communications.  We provide an unsubscribe link in certain marketing communications.  You may also request to opt-out of marketing communications via the data subject rights request process.

California Consumers:  Data Subject Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 provides California consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a California resident, you have the rights under data protection law which are explained here

How to Submit a Data Subject Rights Request:

You may exercise your data subject rights using any of the following methods:

Emailing privacy@lakesidealliance.com.

Calling our toll-free number at 855-214-7480.

Mailing the request to the Privacy Officer at LA Construction, 55 East Monroe Street, Suite 1430, Chicago, IL 60603. 

We will verify your identity prior to completing these requests. Please provide sufficient information in your request for us to be able to reasonably locate our records about you and what actions you are requesting we take with regards to your data. 

How we will respond to your data subject rights request.  

LA will respond as described below. 

LA will deliver the required information within 30 days of a verifiable request, and you will receive notification if LA will need an additional 30 days to respond.

LA will provide response to requests for access to data in a written, readily usable format for data portability and free of charge to the consumer after receives a valid request. 

You will receive your requested information either by your account, electronically, or via mail.

LA will not provide you with specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and reasonable risk to the security of the personal information, your account with the business, or the security of LA’s systems or networks. 

LA will notify you when data has been deleted.  

There may be circumstances where LA must deny your verified request because of a conflict with state law, federal law, or an exception to applicable privacy laws. If LA must deny a request accordingly, you will be informed and given the basis for the denial. If the request is denied only in part, LA will disclose the other information sought by you. 

  • A “cookie” is a text-only string of data Lakeside Alliance sends to the cookie file of the browser on a website visitor’s computer hard disk using Lakeside Alliance’s web server. Cookies allow us to identify your device as you navigate through our publicly accessible website. We also use them to recognize return visitors to the Lakeside Alliance website. This helps to make navigating and interacting with the Lakeside Alliance website more efficient, easy, and meaningful. Lakeside Alliance uses both session and persistent cookies. Session cookies are cookies that disappear from your computer or browser when you turn off your computer. Persistent cookies stay on your computers even after you have turned it off. You can turn off your web browser’s ability to accept cookies. But if you do that, certain parts of the Lakeside Alliance website may not work as well for you. The majority of web browsers accept cookies and similar files, but a visitor can usually change the browser settings to prevent this. However, by doing so, some functionality of the website may be lost. Please visit https://www.aboutcookies.org/ to learn more about cookies and how to control them. We rely on your consent, to the extent required by law, to use non-required cookies that may contain your Personal Data. To change your cookie preferences, click here.

  • We are offering you a Contacts form, and a prequalification form to get in touch with us on a voluntary basis. Use of the contractor and vendor inquiry, career inquiry and contact forms are not required for the use of our remaining website. We leverage the formstack plugin that allows to easily embed web forms built with formstacks’s online form builder into webpages. All of the form submissions are sent to inquiries@lakesidealliance.com and then we follow up on the form submissions accordingly.

    The information provided is also stored on the formstack site in order to fulfill your enquiries as the formstack plugin uses cookies and Local Storage, which is used to track views of the form anonymously.

    If you use our contact form, we will collect:

    • your name

    • your address

    • your e-mail address

    • your telephone number

    • your related inquiry and comment

    Not all information is required to submit the form. However, if you need us to be able to reach out to you, we will need your name and email address, postal address or telephone number to be provided. Information will be stored in a protected environment for the duration of our Document Retention Schedule and destroyed after that (unless we delete the information earlier at your request). The personal information that we collect from you is used to respond to your request and questions and improve our services.

    The Privacy Policy published by formstack, which is available at https://www.formstack.com/privacy, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by formstack.

  • We are offering you a Career Inquiry form to get in touch with us on a voluntary basis. Use of the form is not required for the use of our remaining website. We leverage the formstack plugin that allows to easily embed web forms built with formstacks’s online form builder into webpages. All of the form submissions are sent to inquiries@lakesidealliance.com and then we follow up on the form submissions accordingly.

    The information provided is also stored on the formstack site in order to fulfill your inquiries as the formstack plugin uses cookies and Local Storage, which is used to track views of the form anonymously.

    If you use our Career Inquiry form, we will collect:

    • your name

    • your mailing address

    • your ward

    • your email address

    • your phone number

    • the position you are seeking

    • if you have heard of Lakeside Alliance before

    • if you have heard of the Barak Obama Foundation and the Obama Presidential center

    • your racial demographic

    • your gender

    • your consent that your information may be used by Lakeside Alliance, The Barack Obama Foundation, and their assigns for the purposes of tracking such information, developing programs, and preparing reports which may or may not be publicly disseminated.

    Not all information is required to submit the form. However, if you need us to be able to reach out to you, we will need your name and email address, postal address or telephone number to be provided. Information will be stored in a protected environment for the duration of our Document Retention Schedule and destroyed after that (unless we delete the information earlier at your request). The personal information that we collect from you is used to respond to your request and questions and improve our services.

    The Privacy Policy published by formstack, which is available at https://www.formstack.com/privacy provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by formstack.

  • We are offering you a Contractors and Vendors Inquiry form to get in touch with us on a voluntary basis. Use of the form is not required for the use of our remaining website. We leverage the formstack plugin that allows to easily embed web forms built with formstacks’s online form builder into webpages. All of the form submissions are sent to inquiries@lakesidealliance.com and then we follow up on the form submissions accordingly.

    The information provided is also stored on the formstack site in order to fulfill your inquiries as the formstack plugin uses cookies and Local Storage, which is used to track views of the form anonymously.

    If you use our Contractors and vendor inquiry form, we will collect:

    • your firm name

    • your owner name

    • your mailing address

    • your email address

    • your phone number

    • your scope of work

    • your average volume of work

    • your past project completed with economic opportunity programs

    • your business certifications

    Not all information is required to submit the form. However, if you need us to be able to reach out to you, we will need your name and email address, postal address or telephone number to be provided. Information will be stored in a protected environment for the duration of our Document Retention Schedule and destroyed after that (unless we delete the information earlier at your request). The personal information that we collect from you is used to respond to your request and questions and improve our services.

    The Privacy Policy published by formstack, which is available at https://www.formstack.com/privacy provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by formstack.

  • We are offering you a Prequalification form to get in touch with us on a voluntary basis. Use of the form is not required for the use of our remaining website. We leverage the formstack plugin that allows to easily embed web forms built with formstacks’s online form builder into webpages. All of the form submissions are sent to inquiries@lakesidealliance.com and then we follow up on the form submissions accordingly.

    The information provided is also stored on the formstack site in order to fulfill your inquiries as the formstack plugin uses cookies and Local Storage, which is used to track views of the form anonymously.

    If you use our prequalification form, we will collect:

    • your company name

    • your contact name

    • your contact email address

    • your bid package

    Not all information is required to submit the form. However, if you need us to be able to reach out to you, we will need your name and email address, postal address or telephone number to be provided. Information will be stored in a protected environment for the duration of our Document Retention Schedule and destroyed after that (unless we delete the information earlier at your request). The personal information that we collect from you is used to respond to your request and questions and improve our services. The Privacy Policy published by formstack, which is available at https://www.formstack.com/privacy provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by formstack.

  • We have included a link to YouTube on this website. YouTube is an Internet video portal that allows video publishers to post video clips free of charge and other users to view, rate, and comment on them free of charge. YouTube allows the publication of all types of videos, which is why entire movies and TV shows, music videos as well as trailers or videos produced by users themselves may be accessed via the Internet portal. The purpose of the link is our legitimate interest in being able to present videos to you from our website. YouTube is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter referred to as “YouTube”). YouTube is a subsidiary of Google.

    You may prevent sending your browser to YouTube by not clicking on the link.

    Additional information on YouTube is available at https://www.youtube.com/yt/about/. The Privacy Policy published by YouTube, which is available at https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provides information about the collection, processing, and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.

How to Contact Us

If you have any concerns or questions about anything in this Privacy Notice, please get in touch with us. 

This website is owned and operated by LA Company. 

We are registered in the State of New York.

Our principal place of business is:

Lakeside Alliance
55 East Monroe Street, Suite 1430
Chicago, IL 60603

Chief Privacy Officer contact information: 

privacy@lakesidealliance.com

You can also contact us:

BY MAIL:

Privacy Office
Lakeside Alliance
375 Hudson Street
New York, New York 10014

BY TELEPHONE: toll-free, at 855-214-7480