Stauffer Components – Privacy Policy
Stauffer Components takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. This Privacy Policy describes the procedures followed by Stauffer Components to help ensure the security of information collected through our website. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes in our Privacy Policy below). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. This policy was last updated on November 18, 2020 and describes the information we collect and how we use that information.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
For each visitor to our website, we automatically recognize only the visitor’s domain name, but not the email address, except as set forth below. We may also collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit (see Cookies and Pixels) and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations. Additionally, when you place an order, request email updates, newsletters, or catalogues, or participate in a promotion, sweepstakes, contest, or survey, we may ask for some or all of the following information: name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. If placing an order, we may also ask for credit card information. When placing the order, making the request, or participating in the activity, we may allow you to sign up for future marketing information from Stauffer Components.
HOW STAUFFER COMPONENTS WILL USE THE INFORMATION IT COLLECTS
Any personal information you voluntarily provide is used to process and deliver your order, respond to your request, or in connection with your participation with any promotion, sweepstakes, contest, or survey. Concerning orders, if we have any questions concerning your particular order, we will contact you by telephone or e-mail. If you purchase, we may send you information and updates about new products, special sales, and promotions. Also, we may use the personal information you voluntarily provide to understand your purchasing patterns and needs, respond to your comments or questions, better inform us about how to improve our products, services, and website, provide you with information concerning special promotions, or contact you to ask for your opinion or willingness to participate in certain events.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO OTHERS
Stauffer Components will not trade, rent, or sell your personal information, without your prior consent, except as otherwise set out herein.
On occasion, we may disclose specific personal information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, or when we reasonably believe we are required by law to do so. We may also share information with companies assisting in fraud protection or investigation. We do not provide these agencies or companies information for marketing or commercial purposes.
COOKIES AND PIXELS
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including [traffic data, location data, or logs] and other communication data and the resources you access and use on the Website.
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Please contact us at the information above if you would like to opt out of behavioral tracking on this Website and inquire about how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
Cookies are small data files stored by your web browser when you visit our website. To obtain aggregate marketing information to assist us in website traffic analysis, we (or companies with which we contract) may use cookies to obtain non-personal information about your use of our website, such as the number and timing of visits, pages visited, the sequence of pages visited, the search engine or other source of your visits to the website, and any actions taken while on the website. We may aggregate this data to analyze the viewing habits of our website visitors and to assist us in the future design and structure of our website in order to make our visitors’ use of the site more beneficial, efficient, and enjoyable. Still, it will not be associated with any personally identifiable information. We (or companies with which we contract) also may use pixel tags, which are tiny graphic images, to tell us which pages of our website you have visited. This information is aggregated to help us determine and analyze viewing patterns of the visitors to our site and optimize and tailor our website for use by future website visitors. No personally identifiable information will be collected by pixels.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at the address above.
SWEEPSTAKES, CONTESTS, AND PROMOTIONS
We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions through this website that may require registration. If you choose to enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion, your personal information (including e-mail address) may be disclosed to third parties in connection with the administration of such promotions, including, without limitation, in connection with winner selections, prize fulfillment, and as required by law, such as on a winners list. Also, by entering a promotion you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, except where prohibited by law, allowing the sponsor(s) of the promotion to use your name, voice, and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the promotion.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We operate this site to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Although our site contains information that is possibly of interest to children, Stauffer Components will not knowingly ask for, collect, or use any personal information from anyone identified as being under the age of thirteen (13). No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on this Website or through any of its features.
LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES
Stauffer Components may provide links to certain third-party websites. Stauffer Components’ Privacy Policy applies only to activities conducted and personal information collected on this Website. Other websites may have their policies regarding privacy and security. We recommend that you read them carefully. We have no control over these websites and therefore have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such sites may collect, use, or disclose or otherwise treat your personal information.
AD SERVERS
We do not partner with or have special relationships with ad server companies.
CHANGES IN PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, Stauffer Components may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy policy notice. If our information practices change sometime in the future, we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and allow you to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check our website periodically. Customers may prevent use of their information for purposes other than those for which it was reasonably collected by contacting us at the address, telephone number, or email address set forth above.
SECURITY
Stauffer Components always uses industry-standard encryption technologies to transfer and receive consumer data from our site. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information we have collected from you at our site.
If you feel that this site has not followed its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above address, phone number, or email address, or you may contact your state or local consumer protection office.