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 Automation Controls is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.automationcontrols.com and www.leanmanufacturingteam.com. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe. If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Michelle Fischer at (800) 922-6646 x121. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns. Automation Controls has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the AutomationControls.com website. Registration In order to use this Web site’s features, you must first provide personal contact information such as name, address, phone and email address. In order to purchase a product, we will collect financial information such as credit card information in order to complete your transaction. All financial transactions are hosted on a third party web Site. However, the information collected on this Site is owned by Automation Controls and is subject to the privacy policy of www.automationcontrols.com and www.leanmanufacturingteam.com.Information Automatically Logged We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website. This information is also used to allow us to determine statistical usage of the site. The referring URL (the web page you left before coming to the AutomationControls.com web page) if any, is logged when you view a page. This allows us to see which areas of the website are more popular than others, evaluate the paths taken to reach each page, and it also allows us to gauge the effectiveness of the areas we include in the site.All such information is gathered globally rather than individually, and no information is linked to any identifying information about you. This information is used only by Automation Controls and is never made available to any outside persons or companies. Cookies AutomationControls.com may employ the use of cookies to provide identification to the security structure of the website. By using these areas of the site you agree to allow us to place cookies on your computer. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. We use a third-party tracking service that uses cookies to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. Legal Disclaimer We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. Testimonials We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as the customer's name. We do obtain the customer's consent prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial. If you want to remove your personal information that is being displayed on our website under public pages please send your request to Michelle Fischer at mfischer@automationcontrols.com. Agents/Service Providers We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for promotional purposes. Personally identifiable information We do not Share Personally Identifiable Information Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties Security The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card information) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL Encryption). We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Access to Personally Identifiable Information If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by contacting Michelle Fischer at (800) 922-6646 x121. Personal Information No personal information, collected by Automation Controls from visitors to our website, when viewing pages, entering form data, or viewing online information is used for any other purpose than to facilitate online transactions. We do not collect or harvest the email addresses of people who email us directly. We only use your email address to respond to your queries. Except as stated above, any personal information collected will not be disclosed to any third party, except in the case of cooperating with law enforcement agencies, warrants, subpoenas, cort orders or to aid in identifying those persons using our services for illegal activities. Information may be given even without a subpoena or court order if we believe such illegal activity is being conducted through our services. Newsletters If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section. Choice/Opt-out We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at marketing@automationcontrols.com. Invite a Friend If you feel that our services could be useful for a third party you know (e.g. your friends or family members etc), you may use our referral service. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Automation Controls stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. External Links This site may contain links to other Web sites. Automation Controls is not responsible for the privacy practices, actions, or the content of such Web sites. Contacting Us If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us. Changes in this Privacy Statement If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. Automation Controls 743 Camden Avenue Campbell, CA 95008 Phone: (800) 922-6646 Fax: (888) 332-2480 sales@automationcontrols.com Effective date of this privacy policy is March 20th, 2009. |
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Automation Controls is a certified licensee of the TRUSTe® Privacy Seal Program. The privacy statement and practices of have been reviewed by TRUSTe for compliance with our strict program requirements.
The TRUSTe program is consistent with government and industry guidelines concerning the use of your personal information. These standards include the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Commerce's Fair Information Practices, the California Online Privacy Protection Act, and the CAN-SPAM Act.
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