PRIVACY POLICY
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Industrial
Sales & Manufacturing Inc. Your privacy on the internet is of the
utmost importance to us. At Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.,
we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Since Industrial Sales & Manufacturing
Inc. gathers certain types of information about our users, we feel you
should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding
the capture and use of that information. This following privacy statement
discloses what information we gather and how we use the information.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
gathers two types of information about users:
1) Information that users provide through
optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive
our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums,
to email a friend and from participation in polls and surveys.
2) Information Industrial Sales & Manufacturing
Inc. gathers through aggregated tracking information. This information
is derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
also allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs.
Under no circumstances does Industrial Sales
& Manufacturing Inc. divulge any information about an individual user
to a third party.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
gathers user information in the following processes: Optional Voluntary
Information.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
offers the following free services which require some type of voluntary
submission of personal information by users:
Privacy Policy
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. We will gather the email
addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves
from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter
that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also
subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums
must register separately for these services (both are free of charge)
in order to post messages, although they do not need to register to visit
the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username,
password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents
to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user
must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course,
to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used
for any other purpose.
4. Polling
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions
with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues.
Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable
to any particular user. Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc. may
use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can
vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with
information about individual users.
5. Surveys
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to
our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information
in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never
share any of this information about specific individuals with any third
party.
Additional Privacy Policy Statement
1. Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request
personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
2. Usage tracking
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we
do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Industrial
Sales & Manufacturing Inc. does break down overall usage statistics
according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading
this information from the browser string (information contained in every
user's browser).
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms those users enter in our
Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual
users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites
users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
3. Cookies
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files
of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information
although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information
that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information
a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't
read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc. uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off
in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do
not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need
cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and
surveys.
Privacy Policy Use - Use of Information
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience
in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the
interests of our users.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
will use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out
electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys,
message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on
a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send
out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested
in something we are doing. Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc. never
shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers,
sponsors or partners.
When Industrial Sales & Manufacturing
Inc. will track information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall.
This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests
our users but we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise
more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that
are pertinent to their needs. Since we don't track the usage patterns
of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific
user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any
individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process
or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your
needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics.
This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information
about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable
law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SECURITY
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall
and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals
have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
gives users options wherever necessary and practical. Options include:
- Opting not to register to receive our
electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive
areas, which completely alleviate the need to gather any personally identifiable
information from our users.
YOU'RE CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection
and use of this information by Industrial Sales & Manufacturing Inc.
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes
on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it
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