Privacy
We embrace the opportunity to provide our services to our Subscribers in an open and personalized manner. Clarkson Industrial shares with you the responsibility of controlling the exchange, storage, and use of selected personal information about our subscribers.
Our Commitment to Security
Clarkson Industrial has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.
The Information We Collect
At Clarkson Industrial, you can subscribe to our services such as our leads generation service or our online newsletter. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include: name, company name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about how you heard about our service.
We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows ’95 or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, Earthlink).
How We Use the Information
Clarkson Industrial may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with Clarkson Industrial.
We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.
We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.
Agents and contractors of Clarkson Industrial who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Clarkson Industrial.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Statement. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
Our site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than Clarkson Industrial Visitors should consult the other sites’ privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted too, or collected by, these third parties.
Clarkson Industrial may offer promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in these promotions. Clarkson Industrial has no control over the third-party sponsors’ use of this information.
Clarkson Industrial may use reputable third parties to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its web pages and to conduct research about the advertisements. Our Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that such third parties may have collected from you or the methods used by the third-parties to collect that information (e.g., cookies, web beacons and clear gifs).
Cookies
To enhance your experience with registration and account management, our site, uses “cookies.” Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering for our service. However, once you choose to furnish our site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings of our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save passwords in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our site. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.
We may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. These “web beacons” may be used to deliver cookies that conform to our cookie policy.
