GENERAL INFORMATION
We at Albin Hagstrom & Son, Inc. are strongly committed to actions that protect the privacy of your personal information. The policies below are applicable to our website.
1. Purpose – This privacy policy is intended to let you know (1) the kinds of personal information we may gather during your visit to the site, (2) why we gather your information, (3) what we use your personal information for, (4) when we might disclose your personal information, and (5) how you can manage your personal information. Please be advised that the practices described in this privacy policy apply only to information we gather on our site. They do not apply to information that you provide to third party sites, vendor or affiliate links, or content on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
2. Your Acceptance – By visiting our website, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy, please do not use the website. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
3. Contact – If you have any questions about this privacy policy, don’t see your concerns addressed here, or wish to make changes to any personal information we have collected, you should contact us by email at onlineorders@albin-hagstrom.com with the subject, “Privacy Policy.”
4. Information We May Collect – Except as disclosed below, we will not sell, barter, give away, or rent your personal information.
(a) Personal Information. Use of certain features of the site, like signing up to receive a newsletter, or responding to a survey may require that you provide certain personally identifiable information, in other words, information that identifies or describes you, such as your name, email address, telephone numbers, address, zip code, age, and gender (“personal information”).
(b) Anonymous Information. Even if you don’t provide any information, when you interact with the site, we may collect certain nonpersonal information. For example, our servers keep an activity log that tracks all visitors to the site. The information in the activity log is anonymous and therefore does not identify you individually. The anonymous information our server collects may include among other data: your IP address, our registered domain or home server, time of access, date of access, web page(s) visited, number of clicks, software crash reports, type of browser used, session identification number, search terms, search results, access times and referring website’s addresses.
(c) Cookies and Spyware. We do not install spyware on your computer, nor do we use spyware to retrieve information from your computer. Like many websites, we may use “cookies”, which are small text files that are stored on your computer or equipment when you visit certain online pages that record your preferences. We use cookies to track your use of our website and its features. We may also use cookies to monitor traffic, improve the site and make it easier and/or more relevant for your use. You may occasionally get cookies from other websites with links on our website. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to our privacy policy. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but, if you prefer, you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. For more information on cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information provided by the Interactive Advertising Bureau at www.allaboutcookies.org.
5. How We May Use Your Information – Except as disclosed in this privacy policy, we do not use or disclose information about your individual visits to our site or your personal information collected online to any parties other than those with whom we partner or are affiliated without your consent.
(a) In General. We use your personal information to communicate with you about your interest in our events and our information (ex. “newsletter”), to help us improve your experience on the site (ex. “surveys”) and in some cases, to provide others with general information about us. We may also use your information to prevent or detect abuses of our terms of use and to enable third parties to carry out technical or other functions on our behalf.
(b) Your Submissions. By giving us your personal information either through our website or any related electronic communication, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this privacy policy.
(c) Third-Parties. We may occasionally have third party representatives, agents, affiliates and partners that perform functions on our behalf, such as payment processing and analytics. These entities may have access to your personal information but only as needed to perform their services.
(d) Emergency Situations. We may also use or disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us or the site; (b) protect and defend the our rights or property, the site or our users, and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of us, our affiliates, agents or the public.
6. Security – The security of your information is of great concern to us. We exercise care in providing secure transmission of your information from your computer to our servers. Personal information collected by our site is stored in secure operating environments that are not open to the public. While we try our best to safeguard your information once we receive it, no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
7. Linking to or from Other Websites – Our site contains links to other websites, and in some cases, frames other websites, operated by our partners or third parties. Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy for us do not apply to information gathered through these other websites. These other sites may also send their own cookies to you, collect your data or solicit your personal information. Always be aware of where you end up. We are not responsible for the actions and privacy policies of third parties and other websites, including those by accounts which do not belong to us on social media. We encourage you to be aware of when you leave this site and read the privacy policies of each and every website that you visit, including social media.
8 . Assignment – We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the website. As a result, please be aware that we may transfer your information to another entity that is affiliated with us or with which we have merged, if this was to occur.
9. Changes to This Policy – As our website continues to develop, we may change or add new services or features to our site. In the event that these additions affect our Privacy Policy, this document will be updated appropriately. Please check back regularly for changes.
10. Managing Your Information/Opting-Out – You may always opt-out of receiving future e-mail messages and newsletters from us or request that your information be removed from our website or corrected. To make such a request, send us a message in writing to onlineorders@albin-hagstrom.com with the subject line “Opt Out”.
COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on our website, such as a review on a product page or a comment on a weblog post, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
MEDIA
If you upload images to our website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
CONTACT FORMS
By contacting us through a contact form (“form”) on our website, you voluntarily provide us with personal information, such as your full name, email address and phone number. This information will only be used for the purposes of responding to your inquiry, and any additional follow up contact needed. Additional, non-personally identifying data may also be collected through the from, such as your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection. No information, whether personal information or non-personally identifying information, will ever be distributed to a third party without your consent.
Inquiries and data received through any of the forms on our website are stored for a period of one year after receipt. If at any time you wish to request deletion of your data submitted through a form, please send us a message in writing with your full name and a short description of the inquiry submitted to onlineorders@albin-hagstrom.com.
ACCOUNTS
By creating an account on our website, you voluntarily provide us with personal and contact information, such as your full name, billing address, shipping address, phone number and email address. This information will only be used to provide you with services that are requested, such as online orders and wholesaler applications, in addition to any necessary follow up contact, such as being able to reach you in the event there is a problem or issue with your order. Additional, non-personally identifying information may also be collected by registering for an account on our website, such as your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection. No information, whether personal information or non-personally identifying information, will ever be distributed to a third party without your consent.
Information received to create customer accounts will be stored indefinitely, until which Albin Hagstrom & Son, Inc. ceases to exist, in which case, you will receive notification in writing over the status of the data associated with your account in writing. If at any time you wish to request deletion of the data pertaining to your account, please send us a message in writing with your full name, account username and email address to onlineorders@albin-hagstrom.com.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
ANALYTICS
Our website uses Google Analytics. For more information over the data privacy and security of this program, please click here.
RIGHTS OVER YOUR DATA
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. For any such requests, please email onlineorders@albin-hagstrom.com with subject line, “Data Request.”
Last Updated January 14, 2021
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