Privacy policy

This privacy policy describes SCHMETZneedles.com's current policies and practices concerning personal data collected by SCHMETZneedles.com through this website. This privacy policy is independent of SCHMETZneedles.com's offline personal data collection practices. The term "personal data" refers to personally identifiable information about you, such as your name, birth date, email address or mailing address, and any other information that is identified with you.

Notification of Changes to This Policy
SCHMETZneedles.com is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to this website and improving and adding to our existing products, services, and programs. Because of these ongoing changes, changes in the law, and the changing nature of technology, SCHMETZneedles.com's data practices will change from time to time. If and when our data practices change, SCHMETZneedles.com will post the changes on our website to notify you of the changes. We encourage you to check this page frequently. This policy was last updated on November 21, 2007.

Personal Data Collected through SCHMETZneedles.com
Other than cookies, as described below, the only personal data SCHMETZneedles.com currently collects through this website is the information you voluntarily give us when you use our site.

For example, you may use this site to contact SCHMETZneedles.com with questions and comments. When you fill out a form on our website, you may provide your name and other contact information, including your company's name, your email address, and your mailing address or the mailing address of your company or other personal information. If you do not wish to fill out all of the information on the form you are not required to do so. Most of our registration forms require only your e-mail address. When you use our website to search for information you are not providing us with any personal information. We offer the search features as a service to you. SCHMETZneedles.com does not collect or retain any identifying information about you when you use the search features.

Use of Personal Data Collected through SCHMETZneedles.com
SCHMETZneedles.com uses the personal data information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. SCHMETZneedles.com and our affiliates also use this information to help us improve the content and functionality of our websites, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services. SCHMETZneedles.com and our affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about products or services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt out" of receiving future communications.

Anonymous Data Collected through SCHMETZneedles.com
In addition to the information you provide when you use our website, SCHMETZneedles.com uses technology to collect anonymous information about the use of our website. For example, we use technology to track how many visitors access our website, the date and time of their visit, the length of their stay, and which pages they view. We also use technology to determine which web browsers our visitors use and the address from which they access our site (for example, if they connected to SCHMETZneedles.com by clicking on one of our banner ads).

This technology does not identify you personally. It simply enables us to compile statistics about our visitors and their use of our site. SCHMETZneedles.com and our affiliates use this anonymous data and share it with third parties to improve the content and functionality of our websites, to better understand our customers and markets, and to improve our products and services.

Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer and they cannot be used to discover the identity of a user. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not and whether you are required to accept the cookie to view certain content. SCHMETZneedles.com may use cookies to "persist" a user session - that is, to maintain a connection with a user as he or she moves through an application or series of web pages. The purpose of cookies in this context is to remember user inputs. For example, a "shopping cart" application records purchases up until the user reaches checkout. Personalization features also use cookies to identify groups of users and deliver appropriate content and services.

Disclosure of Your Data
SCHMETZneedles.com may share some or all of the personal data collected through this website with our affiliates, who use this data under this Privacy Policy. Both SCHMETZneedles.com and our affiliates may share personal data collected through this website with third-party vendors who act for or on behalf of SCHMETZneedles.com or our affiliates (for example, companies that provide support services to us, including data processing services, or that help us market our products and services). These companies may need information about you to perform their functions. These companies are not authorized to use the information we share with them for any other purpose. In addition, there may be some other, limited circumstances in which SCHMETZneedles.com or our affiliates may share or transfer the personal data in our databases, for example, to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your vital interests, or in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event. While no method of data transmission is guaranteed against unlawful third party interception or other misuse, SCHMETZneedles.com uses commercially reasonable efforts to ensure protection of your data including industry-standard encryption and offline security methods in our physical facilities (e.g., your data is protected onsite by our Information Assets Protection Policy).

Link to Other Sites
This privacy policy applies only to SCHMETZneedles.com. SCHMETZneedles.com and our affiliates operate other websites for different purposes and in different countries where different laws may apply. If you visit another SCHMETZneedles.com website, please take a moment to review the privacy policy posted on that site to learn what personal data may be collected through that site and how it is processed.

SCHMETZneedles.com may contain hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by SCHMETZneedles.com or one of our affiliates. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party websites or any association with their operators. SCHMETZneedles.com does not control these websites and is not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any personal data about yourself.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or concerns about the way SCHMETZneedles.com processes your personal data, please contact us at orders@schmetzneedles.com.