Privacy Policy
Messer Website Privacy Policy
Last revised April 18, 2026
Messer Construction Co. (collectively with its subsidiaries, “Messer,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our,”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy through our compliance with this website privacy policy (the “Policy”). This Policy (for Spanish, click here) should be read in conjunction with our Website Terms of Use, into which this Policy is incorporated by reference.
This Policy describes:
- The types of information we collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website available at: https://www.messer.com/ as well as any other websites directly owned by, or operated by or on behalf of, the Company where this Policy is linked (“the Website”).
- Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information we collect on this Website or in emails and other electronic messages between you and this Website, and information gathered when you interact with our advertising on third-party websites if such advertisements include links to this Policy.
This Policy does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party, or information collected by any third party through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website (for further information, see below, “Third-party Websites”).
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, then please do not use the Website. By using the Website, you agree to the terms of this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see below, “Changes to this Policy”). Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
What We Collect and How We Collect It.
To ensure that we provide you with the best possible experience, we will store, use, and disclose information about you in accordance with this Policy.
Information You Provide to Us
Personal Information is any information that can be used to individually identify you from a larger group, such as data including, but not limited to, your:
CATEGORY: Identifiers
Examples: First and last name, postal address, telephone number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Protected classification characteristics
Examples: National origin, disability, gender, veteran or military status
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Commercial information
Examples: Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Collected: No
Disclosed: N/A
CATEGORY: Company information
Examples:The name of your company/organization, your job title, and areas of interest
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Sensitive Personal Information
Examples: Precise geolocation
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Biometric information
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data
Collected: No
Disclosed: N/A
CATEGORY: Internet or other similar network activity
Examples: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Geolocation data
Examples: Physical location or movements
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
CATEGORY: Sensory data
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
Collected: No
Disclosed: N/A
CATEGORY: Professional or employment-related information
Examples: Current or past job history and other information typically included in a resume when you apply for a job on the Website
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes – service providers
CATEGORY: Non-public education information
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records
Collected: No
Disclosed: N/A
CATEGORY: Inferences drawn from other Personal Information
Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes
Collected: Yes
Disclosed: Yes - service providers
We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you. For example, when you:
- submit a job application; or
- communicate with us, such as request information.
- Indirectly from you. For example, through information we collect from you in the course of providing our services to you.
- Directly and indirectly from activity on our Website. For example, Website usage details are collected automatically. For more information on automatic information collection, please review the “Cookies and Similar Technologies” section below.
- Third-Party Sources. We may collect information about you from third-party sources, such as our business partners.
Free-Text Boxes. The information that you provide in each case will vary. In some cases, you may be able to provide Personal Information via email or free text boxes, such as contacting the Company to request further information. When providing your Personal Information, please provide only relevant information and do not provide unnecessary sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card information or other sensitive personal data, unless required for our services.
Aggregated and De-Identified Data. We may also collect, use, and disclose aggregated and de-identified data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated and de-Identified data could be derived from your Personal Information but is not considered Personal Information under applicable law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect aggregated or de-identified data with your Personal Information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Information which will be used in accordance with this Policy.
Recording Use of the Website. We partner with trusted third-party vendors to analyze performance and traffic of our Website. This may include things like buttons you click, mouse movements and other behavior on the Website, date and time of access, pages visited, web beacons, and cookie or pixel tag information. Please see our Cookies and Similar Technologies section below to learn more about cookies, pixels tags, and analytic technologies.
Location-Based Services. We may collect or use precise location data, including the real-time location of fixed location device and IP addresses, in order to provide you with personalized content, such as relevant project experience and project news based on your location.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
In addition to the information that you provide to us, we may also collect information about you during your visit to the Website. We collect this information using automated tools that are detailed below. These tools may collect information about your behavior and your computer system, such as your internet address (IP Address), the pages you have viewed, and the actions you have taken while using the Website.
We may use this automatically collected information to: (i) conduct analyses about our Website; (ii) associate the different devices you use; (iii) remember your browser or device; (iv) remember your preferences and interactions; (v) deliver relevant advertisements or other content; (vi) market our services to you; (vii) collect information about our Website and services; and (viii) log activity on our Website. We may use these technologies for providing our Website, services, security, authentication, analytics, product or service improvement, advertising, fraud detection, and for other similar purposes.
Some of the tools we use to automatically collect information about you may include:
(a) Cookies. A “cookie” is a small data file transmitted from a website to your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are usually defined in one of two ways, and we may use both of them: 1) session cookies, which do not stay on your device after you close your browser, and (2) persistent cookies, which remain on your device until you delete them or they expire.
(b) Analytics Services. Our Website may use Google Analytics, Google Audiences, Meta, LinkedIn, and others for audience measurement and analytics purposes. These analytics services may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information to help us analyze users and how they use our Website. The information collected by these technologies is used to assess how often you visit our Website, what pages you view when you visit our Website, and what other websites you visited before coming to our Website. Information generated by these services may be transmitted to and stored by these providers and they may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of our Website, compiling statistics reports on the Website’s activity, and providing other services relating to Website activity and other internet usage. You may review Google’s data privacy practices for Google Analytics and data privacy practices for Google Tag Manager. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics, you may download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can opt out of LinkedIn Insight Tag on this link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
(c) Advertising Services. We may use service providers and partners to serve advertisements on our behalf on the Website and across the internet, and to track and report on the performance of those advertisements. These service providers may include Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords), Facebook, LinkedIn, and others. These entities may use cookies or similar technologies to identify your device when you use the Website and interact with our electronic communications and ads, as well as when you visit other online services. Data collected and maintained by such third-party ad providers will be subject to the privacy policies and legal terms of those providers. You may learn more about online interest-based advertising by visiting this Federal Trade Commission website.
(g) Web Beacons. A Web Beacon is an electronic image. Web Beacons can track certain things from your computer and can report activity back to a web server allowing us to understand some of your behavior. If we ever offer to send emails to you and you choose to receive those emails, we may use Web Beacons to track your reaction to those emails. We may also use them to track if you click on the links and at what time and date you do so. Some of our third party marketing partners may use Web Beacons to track your interaction with online advertising banners on the Website. This information is only collected in aggregate form and will not be linked to your Personal Information. Please note that any image file on a webpage can act as a Web Beacon.
(h) Third-Party Websites and Services. We work with a number of service providers of marketing communications technology. These service providers may use various data collection methods to improve the performance of the marketing campaigns we are contracting them to provide. The information collected can be gathered on the Website and also on the websites where our marketing communications are appearing. For example, we may collect data where our banner advertisements are displayed on third party websites.
Of course, if you do not wish to have cookies on your devices, you may turn them off by using our cookie banner on the Website, clicking on Cookie Settings in the footer of our Website, or at any time by modifying your internet browser’s or device’s settings. Please refer to the help section of your browser or mobile device for additional information. Your browser or mobile device may also offer add-ons, plugins, or extensions to manage cookies, local storage objects, scripts, or similar technologies mentioned in this Policy. Apple and Android mobile devices each generate an advertising identifier that can be accessed by apps and used by advertisers in much the same way that cookies are used on websites. Each operating system provides options to limit tracking and/or reset the advertising ID. However, by disabling cookies on your browser or device, you may be prohibited from full use of the Website’s features or lose access to some functionality.
You may opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements from other companies that perform interest-based advertising services who are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) by visiting the DAA website or YourAdChoices. If you are located in Canada, you can visit the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada. If you are located in Europe, please visit the European Digital Advertising Alliance. Please note that when using the ad industry opt-out tools described above, you may need to execute opt-outs for each browser or device that you use. Opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean you will no longer see advertising online, but it does mean that the companies from which you opt out will no longer show ads that have been tailored to your interests. If you use industry opt-out tools, your opt out will only apply to companies who are participating in those industry organization tools.
Your Choices and Selecting Your Privacy Preferences.
We want to provide you with relevant information that you have requested.
If we provide subscription-based services, such as email newsletters or marketing emails, we will allow you to make choices about what information you provide at the point of information collection or at any time after you have received a communication from us while you are subscribed to the service. Any transactional or service-oriented messages are usually excluded from such preferences, as such messages are required to respond to your requests or to provide goods and services, and are not intended for the purposes of marketing.
From time to time, we may send you email newsletters and marketing emails. You may opt out of them at any time by selecting the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email. Please note that by opting out or unsubscribing you may affect other services you have requested we provide to you, in which email communication is a requirement of the service provided.
Any such communications you receive from us will be administered in accordance with your preferences and this Policy.
Access, Correct, and Delete Your Personal Information.
If we provide you the option to create an account, you can access, correct, or delete some of the Personal Information we have collected or that you have provided to us by logging into your account and accessing the information displayed in your profile or account settings. If you do not have an account with us, please contact us at marketing@messer.com to request the access, correction, or deletion of your Personal Information. Before we can process your request regarding your Personal Information, we may need to verify your identity to ensure the security and integrity of your Personal Information. Additionally, certain laws and regulations may require us to retain specific Personal Information or limit the scope of your request, even after verification. In such cases, we will inform you about any restrictions that apply.
Information of Minors.
We do not actively seek to gather information from individuals under the age of sixteen (16). We do not target the Website to minors, and would not expect them to be engaging with the Website or services. We encourage parents and guardians to provide adequate protection measures to prevent minors from providing information unwillingly on the internet. If we are aware of any Personal Information that we have collected about minors, we will take steps to securely remove it from our systems.
How We Use Your Information.
The information we gather and that you provide is collected to provide you information and the services you request, in addition to various other purposes, including, but not limited to:
- Assisting you with items such as personalized experiences, facilitation of product usage, and enforcement of Terms of Use.
- Preventing malicious activity and provide you with a secure experience.
- Providing service and support for services you request.
- Providing marketing communications that are effective and optimized for you.
- Keeping you up-to-date with the latest benefits available from us.
- Preventing unwanted messages or content.
- Measuring the performance of our marketing programs.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- Contacting you about services and offers that are relevant to you.
Duration. The length of time the Company intends to retain each category of Personal Information, including sensitive information, if any, for as long as reasonably necessary to carry out the Company’s intended business purpose for such information.
How We Disclose Your Information.
We may disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following trusted third party business partners:
- Service Providers. We work with a number of partners that help us process your requests, deliver customer service and support, send email marketing communications, and provide experiences that you have come to expect from us. We will disclose your information with these third parties in order to fulfill the service that they provide to us. For more information on the categories of third parties that we may disclose your Personal Information to, please review the Personal Information chart above.
Except as described in this Policy, we will not disclose your information with other third parties without your notice and consent, unless it is under one of the following circumstances:
- Legal Reasons.
- Responding to duly authorized information requests from law enforcement or other governmental authorities.
- Complying with any law, regulations, subpoena, or court order.
- Investigating and helping prevent security threats, fraud, or other malicious activity.
- Enforcing or protecting the rights and properties of Messer or its subsidiaries.
- Protecting the rights, property, or personal safety of Messer’s employees, customers, or others.
- Sale of Business or Merger. There are circumstances where Messer may decide to buy, sell, or reorganize its business. Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to disclose or receive Personal Information with prospective or actual partners or affiliates. In such circumstances, Messer will ensure your information is used in accordance with this Policy.
- In Aggregate or De-Identified Form. We may aggregate or otherwise anonymize the data we collect for purposes of analytics, research, marketing and other business interests of the Company. Such use shall not include Personal Information or information that can identify you as an individual or reasonably be used to identify you.
Third Party Websites.
This Policy does not apply to websites or other domains that are maintained or operated by third parties or our affiliates. The Website may link to third party websites and services, but these links are not endorsements of these sites, and this Policy does not extend to them. Because this Policy is not enforced on these third party websites, we encourage you to read any posted privacy policy of the third party website before using the service or site and providing any information.
Additional State‑Specific Notices
California
The Company does not target its services to residents of California and does not conduct business in California.
Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Texas
Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Texas provide consumers with additional rights with respect to their Personal Information (also known as “personal data”), as those terms are defined under the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act, the Nebraska Data Privacy Act, the New Hampshire Data Privacy Act, the Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act, and the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. Any Personal Information we collect is collected for the commercial purpose of effectively providing our services to you, as well as enabling you to learn more about, and benefit from, our services. If you reside in Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Texas, you may exercise each of your rights as identified below, subject to our verification of your identity.
- Access. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.
- Correction. You have the right to request that we correct or rectify your Personal Information.
- Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. If we collect any sensitive Personal Information, you have the right to request that we limit the use of the sensitive Personal Information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services.
- Portability. Upon request and when possible, we can provide you with copies of your Personal Information. When such a request cannot be honored, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Policy
- Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information, subject to certain exceptions.
- Third-Party Disclosures. If you live in Delaware or Maryland, you may have the right to request a list of the categories of third parties to which we disclosed your Personal Information. This Policy is intended to satisfy your right relating to the categories of third parties.
- Opt-out of Processing. You have the right to request that we do not sell your Personal Information, use your Personal Information for Targeted Advertising, or use your Personal Information for profiling. There is no need for you to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information to third parties as we do not sell your Personal Information. However, we may use Personal Information for behavioral advertising (i.e., targeted advertising). You may have the right to opt out of behavioral advertisements. You may opt out of behavioral advertisements using cookie management tools on our Website, where available, including by clicking on the “Cookie Settings” link on our websites.
- Non-Discrimination. If you are a Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Texas resident and you exercise your rights, we shall not discriminate against that you by denying our goods or services, charging different prices or rates to similarly situated consumers, providing a different level or quality of our goods or services, or taking any other adverse action.
- Exercising your rights. If you are a Delaware, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Texas resident who chooses to exercise the rights listed above, you can:
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- Submit a request via email at marketing@messer.com; or
- Call us at (513)-242-1541 to submit your request.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal Information. If an authorized agent makes a request on your behalf, we may require proof that you gave the agent permission to submit the request.
Responding to Your Request. Upon receiving your request, we will confirm receipt of your request by sending you an email confirming receipt. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the Personal Information. In some instances, such as a request to delete Personal Information, we may first separately confirm that you would like for us to in fact delete your Personal Information before acting on your request.
We will respond to your request within forty-five (45) days. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you would like to appeal our decision, please contact us using the contact information provided above.
In some cases our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process Personal Information for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.
Location of our Website Services.
We do not warrant or represent that this Policy or the Website’s use of your Personal Information complies with the laws of every jurisdiction. Furthermore, to provide you with our services, we may store, process, and transmit information in the United States and other locations around the world, including countries that may not have the same privacy and security laws as yours. Regardless of the country in which such information is stored, we will process your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy.
For Website Visitors Outside the United States.
Under the (i) General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, or “GDPR”), (ii) Data Protection Act 2018, (iii) the GDPR as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (i.e., “UK GDPR”) as provided in the Data Protection Act 2018, and (iv) any other applicable data protection legislation of any country or other jurisdiction (collectively “International Data Protection Laws”), individuals have specific rights with respect to their Personal Information, or “personal data” as defined under the International Data Protection Laws. For the purposes of this Policy, the Company operates as a data controller. Any personal data we collect from you is processed in the United States and under the terms of this Policy.
Any personal data we collect from you is processed in the legitimate interest of our business and providing our services to you as the lawful means of such processing. You may always withdraw your consent to our use of your personal data as described below. We will only retain your personal data for the time necessary to provide you the information and services to which you have consented, to comply with the law and in accordance with your rights below.
The Data Controller is:
Messer Construction Co.
643 W. Court St.,
Cincinnati, OH 45203
You can exercise any of the following rights, subject to verification of your identity, by notifying us as described below:
- Access. You may email us at marketing@messer.com to request a copy of the personal data our Website databases currently contain.
- Automated Processing and Decision-Making. You may email us at marketing@messer.com to request that we stop using your personal data for automated processing, such as profiling. In your email, please explain how you wish us to restrict automated processing of your personal data. When such restrictions are not possible, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Policy, to include withdrawing your consent to the processing of your personal data.
- Correction or Rectification. You can correct what personal data our Website database currently contains by emailing us at marketing@messer.com to request that we correct or rectify any personal data that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause information to be incorrect. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
- Restrict Processing. When applicable, you may restrict the processing of your personal data by submitting a request via email to marketing@messer.com. In your email, please explain how you wish us to restrict processing of your personal data. When such restrictions are not possible, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Policy, to include withdrawing your consent to the processing of your personal data. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
- Object to Processing. When applicable, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data by submitting a request via email to marketing@messer.com. When such objections are not possible, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Policy, to include withdrawing your consent to the processing of your personal data. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
- Portability. Upon request and when possible, we can provide you with copies of your personal data. You may submit a request via email to marketing@messer.com. When such a request cannot be honored, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Policy, to include withdrawing your consent. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with any trusted third parties.
- Withdraw Consent. At any time, you may withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data through this Website by notifying us via email at marketing@messer.com. Send an email and simply type the words “WITHDRAW CONSENT” in the subject line of your email. Upon receipt of such a withdrawal of consent, we will confirm receipt and proceed to stop processing your personal data. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
- Erasure. If you should wish to cease use of our Website and have your personal data deleted from our Website, then you may submit a request by emailing us at marketing@messer.com. Upon receipt of such a request for erasure, we will confirm receipt and will confirm once your personal data has been deleted. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
Safeguarding the Information We Collect.
We take reasonable technical, administrative, and physical safeguards in order to protect your Personal Information against accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. You have a responsibility, as well, to safeguard your information through proper use. Please also notify us of any unauthorized use.
We can never promise perfect security. 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. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to this Policy.
If we make any changes to this Policy, a revised Policy will be posted on this webpage and the date of the change will be reported in the “Last Revised” block above. You can get to this page from the Website by clicking on the “Privacy Policy” link (usually at the bottom of the screen). You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Information, we will, at our sole discretion, notify you by email to the primary email address if you have an account with us or through a notice on the Website.
How to Contact Us.
We value your opinions and welcome your feedback. To contact us about this Policy or your Personal Information, please contact us at:
Messer Construction Co.
643 W. Court Street
Cincinnati, OH 45203
(513) 242-1541
marketing@messer.com