Effective Date: September 24, 2026
California Welding Institute LLC, a subsidiary of Advanced Weldtec, Inc. (“CWI,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit socalwelding.com, submit information through our website, interact with embedded content, or otherwise communicate with us.
By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:
Depending on your interaction with us and the particular form you complete, this information may include:
When you access our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, server logs, analytics technologies, security tools, and similar technologies.
Depending on the technologies in use and your consent choices, this information may include:
The information collected may vary depending on your browser settings, cookie choices, geographic location, and the website features you use.
We may use information we collect to:
We use Fluent Forms to provide contact, inquiry, registration, and other forms on our website.
When you submit a form, we collect the information you enter into that form. Depending on the particular form, this may include your name, email address, telephone number, company or employer information, education or professional information, the contents of your message, uploaded documents or files, and any other information you choose to provide.
Form submissions may be stored within our WordPress website and hosting environment. Information submitted through forms may also be transmitted to us or to service providers we use to communicate with you, process your request, or provide the requested service.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information through a general website form unless we specifically request that information for a legitimate purpose.
Our website is hosted using WP Engine infrastructure.
In providing website hosting, security, backup, performance, and related services, WP Engine may process information associated with visits to our website and information stored within our website and its databases.
This may include:
WP Engine acts as a service provider or data processor with respect to certain personal information that we collect from website visitors and store or process through its services.
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small data files that may be stored on your browser or device when you visit a website.
We use Cookiebot Consent Management Platform (“Cookiebot CMP”), provided by Usercentrics, to provide information about cookies and similar technologies used on our website and to manage visitor consent where appropriate.
Depending on your location and our current website configuration, cookies and similar technologies may be grouped into categories such as:
Necessary technologies support essential website functions, security, fraud prevention, network management, and storage of your privacy or consent choices.
These technologies generally cannot be disabled through our consent-management tool because they are required for the website to function securely or properly.
Preference technologies allow the website to remember information that affects functionality or how the website behaves or appears.
Statistics technologies help us understand how visitors interact with our website, including website traffic, pages viewed, and other usage information.
Google Analytics may be included in this category.
Marketing technologies may be used by third-party services to measure advertising, personalize content, measure engagement, or create information about visitor interests and interactions.
Certain embedded third-party services may fall within this category depending on their operation and configuration.
The cookies and technologies used on our website may change as our website and services change. Our Cookiebot cookie declaration provides more current information regarding cookies detected on the website, including their providers, purposes, categories, and retention periods.
Where our website presents a cookie consent banner, you may be able to:
Necessary technologies generally remain active because they support website security, consent management, network operation, or core website functionality.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before your consent was withdrawn.
You may also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain technologies may affect website functionality.
The consent choices available to you may vary depending on your location and applicable law.
We use Cookiebot CMP by Usercentrics to identify and categorize cookies and similar website technologies and to manage and document visitor consent choices.
Cookiebot may process information necessary to provide its consent-management functions, which may include:
This information is used to display appropriate consent options, remember your privacy choices, and document consent where required.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website and to measure website traffic and performance.
Depending on your consent choices and our configuration, Google Analytics may process information such as:
Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to measure website activity.
Where analytics consent is required, our consent-management system may restrict analytics cookies or storage until the appropriate consent has been provided.
Information processed through Google Analytics is also subject to Google’s applicable privacy and data-processing terms.
Some pages on our website may contain videos embedded from YouTube, a Google service.
When YouTube content is loaded or played, information about your browser, device, IP address, the webpage you are visiting, and your interaction with the video may be transmitted to Google or YouTube.
Cookies or similar technologies may also be used depending on the embed configuration, your Google account status, browser settings, and consent choices.
Where required, YouTube content or associated non-essential technologies may be restricted until the applicable consent has been provided.
If we use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced embedding functionality, it may reduce certain uses of information associated with viewing an embedded video, but it does not necessarily prevent all information from being transmitted to Google.
Your interaction with YouTube content is also subject to Google’s and YouTube’s applicable privacy practices.
We may use Google reCAPTCHA on website forms or other portions of our website to help distinguish legitimate users from automated activity and to protect our website from spam, fraud, and abuse.
When reCAPTCHA operates, technical and interaction information may be processed to evaluate whether website activity appears to originate from a legitimate user or an automated system.
Depending on Google’s service and our configuration, this may include information such as:
We use reCAPTCHA for website security, spam prevention, fraud prevention, and abuse prevention.
Information processed through reCAPTCHA is also subject to Google’s applicable privacy and data-processing terms.
Our website may use Cloudflare for website security, content delivery, traffic management, performance, and protection against malicious or automated traffic.
When you access our website, Cloudflare may process technical information necessary to deliver and protect the website, including:
Cloudflare may use technologies necessary for bot detection, security challenges, traffic management, network security, and distinguishing legitimate visitors from malicious traffic.
Technologies used solely for these purposes may be treated as necessary because they support website security and delivery.
We may disclose personal information to service providers and other parties that assist us in operating our website, communicating with visitors, or conducting our business.
These may include providers of:
Depending on our current website configuration, these providers may include WP Engine, Fluent Forms/WPManageNinja, Usercentrics/Cookiebot, Google, YouTube, Google Analytics, Google reCAPTCHA, and Cloudflare.
We may also disclose information:
We do not sell personal information for monetary compensation.
Certain disclosures involving analytics, advertising, or similar technologies may nevertheless be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under some privacy laws even when no money is exchanged. Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of such activity, we will provide or honor the applicable choice or consent mechanism as required.
If you choose to receive marketing or promotional email communications from us, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe instructions included in those communications or by contacting us.
You may continue to receive transactional, administrative, enrollment-related, certification-related, or service-related communications when necessary.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and for legitimate operational, educational, regulatory, and legal purposes.
These purposes may include:
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, why it was collected, and applicable legal, regulatory, contractual, or accreditation requirements.
Cookie and tracking-technology retention periods may be identified in the Cookiebot cookie declaration available through our website.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
Our website uses encrypted HTTPS connections for information transmitted between your browser and our website. We also use website hosting, security, access-control, backup, and threat-prevention measures intended to protect our website and information stored within it.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
California residents may have certain rights regarding their personal information under applicable California privacy laws.
If and to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA/CPRA”), applies to us and to your personal information, applicable rights may include the right to:
We will verify and respond to eligible privacy requests as required by applicable law.
Where applicable law requires recognition of an opt-out preference signal, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), we will process supported signals as required by law and consistent with our website configuration.
Browser “Do Not Track” signals are not governed by a single uniform technical standard. Accordingly, our website may not respond to all Do Not Track signals except where recognition is required by applicable law.
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information provided below.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, embedded content, or services that we do not control.
This Privacy Policy does not govern the independent privacy practices of those third parties.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of third-party websites and services before providing information to them or interacting with their services.
Our website and services are primarily intended for individuals seeking welding education, training, certification, professional services, employment information, or related information.
We do not knowingly use our website to collect personal information from children under 13 in violation of applicable law.
If we learn that personal information from a child has been collected in circumstances in which parental or guardian consent was legally required, we will take appropriate steps to address or delete the information.
Certain educational programs, events, or communications may involve individuals under 18. Where parental or guardian consent is required, we will obtain it as appropriate.
Our website is operated from California, United States, and is primarily intended for users in the United States.
If you access our website from another country, information may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other locations where our service providers operate.
Third-party providers may process information in multiple jurisdictions in accordance with their applicable contractual and legal obligations.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in:
When we make changes, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on this page and update the effective date.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a request concerning your personal information, contact:
California Welding Institute LLC
A subsidiary of Advanced Weldtec, Inc.
32081 Corydon Street
Lake Elsinore, CA 92530
Phone: 951-805-5955
Email: info@socalwelding.com
