Guernsey-Ostergard Painting LLC · Last updated 9 November 2026
Guernsey-Ostergard Painting LLC (“Guernsey-Ostergard”, “we”, “us”) respects the privacy of our employees, customers and visitors to this website. This policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it.
Information we collect
From visitors to this website. If you contact us through this site we collect the name, email address, telephone number and any message you choose to give us, so that we can respond to your inquiry.
From our employees. As part of employment we collect contact details, including a mobile telephone number, together with work scheduling and safety training records. This is ordinary employment record-keeping, and some of it is required of us by Washington State law.
From general contractors, owners and suppliers. When we bid for and carry out work we collect the names, job titles, email addresses and telephone numbers of the people we deal with at general contractors, building owners, architects and suppliers, together with the correspondence and project records that go with the work. We obtain these from the people themselves, from bid invitations and plan rooms, and from the contract documents for each project. We use them to prepare bids, carry out the work, and keep the records a construction contract requires.
From people who apply to work with us. When someone applies for a job we collect the contact details, work history and references they give us, and, where a role requires it, the results of checks we are permitted or required to make. We use this only to assess the application and to meet our obligations as an employer.
Text messages to employees
We operate a text message (SMS) program for our own employees only. We use it to send:
- the weekly workplace safety topic each employee is required to read and acknowledge, and
- notice of any change to our safety rules that affects how work is carried out.
Each message contains a single-use link to read the material and record an acknowledgement. Washington State requires employers to hold safety meetings and to document who attended them (WAC 296-155-110), and this program is how we meet that obligation.
Who receives these messages. Current employees of Guernsey-Ostergard Painting LLC only. We do not text customers, prospective employees or members of the public, and we never obtain telephone numbers from any third party or purchased list.
How we obtain consent. An employee gives us their mobile number during onboarding and is told at that point what the messages are for. Employees may opt out at any time by replying STOP, and will then be given the same safety material on paper instead. Replying HELP returns our contact details.
What we record. For each message we record who it was sent to, when, and whether it was delivered, along with the acknowledgement itself and the time it was given. We keep these records for at least one year, as required by WAC 296-155-110(8), and for as long afterwards as our record-keeping obligations require.
We do not sell or share your SMS opt-in data or personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency varies and is typically one message per week.
How we share information
We do not sell personal information. We share it only:
- with service providers who operate parts of our systems on our behalf, such as our text message carrier, and only to the extent needed to deliver the service;
- with Washington State Department of Labor & Industries or another regulator, where we are required to produce safety training records; and
- where the law otherwise requires it.
Service providers are not permitted to use the information for their own purposes, and specifically not for marketing.
Cookies and this website
This website sets a small number of cookies that are needed for it to work, for example to keep the site secure and to remember a choice you have made on a form.
We do not run Google Analytics, advertising pixels, or any other tracking or profiling technology on this site. We do not build a picture of your visit, and we do not share anything about it with advertisers or data brokers.
The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, which means Google receives the IP address of a visitor in order to send the font files. That transfer is covered by Google’s own privacy policy, not ours.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and this site will still work.
How long we keep information
Safety training records, including text message acknowledgements, are kept for at least one year, as WAC 296-155-110(8) requires, and for as long afterwards as our other record-keeping obligations run.
Project and contract records, including the business contact details that belong to them, are kept for the life of the project and afterwards for as long as we may need them for warranty, lien, tax or audit purposes.
Inquiries sent through this website are kept only as long as we need them to answer the inquiry and to handle any work that follows from it.
Job application records are kept for at least one year, as federal employment record-keeping rules require of an employer our size, and are not kept longer than we need them.
How we protect information
Safety and employment records are held on systems restricted to authorized staff. Acknowledgement links are single-use, expire after fourteen days, and cannot be used to reach anybody else’s records.
Your choices
Employees may opt out of text messages at any time by replying STOP, without affecting their employment, and will receive safety material in another form. To ask what information we hold about you, to correct it, or to ask us to delete information we are not required to keep, contact us using the details below.
Children
This website and our messaging program are not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when our practices change, and will revise the date at the top.
Contact
Guernsey-Ostergard Painting LLC
P.O. Box 1525, Lynnwood, WA 98046
Office (206) 783-8883
info@guernseyostergard.com