Privacy Policy:
Welding Supply of America ("Welding Supply of America") operates weldingsupplyofamerica.com and may operate other websites. It is Welding Supply of America's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Welding Supply of America collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Welding Supply of America's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Welding Supply of America's visitors use its website. From time to time, Welding Supply of America may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Welding Supply of America also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on weldingsupplyofamerica.com blogs/sites. Welding Supply of America only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Welding Supply of America's websites choose to interact with Welding Supply of America in ways that require Welding Supply of America to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Welding Supply of America gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at weldingsupplyofamerica.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Welding Supply of America are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Welding Supply of America collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Welding Supply of America. Welding Supply of America does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Welding Supply of America may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Welding Supply of America may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Welding Supply of America does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Welding Supply of America discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Welding Supply of America's behalf or to provide services available at Welding Supply of America's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Welding Supply of America's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Welding Supply of America will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Welding Supply of America discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Welding Supply of America believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Welding Supply of America, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Welding Supply of America website and have supplied your email address, Welding Supply of America may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Welding Supply of America and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Welding Supply of America takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Welding Supply of America uses cookies to help Welding Supply of America identify and track visitors, their usage of Welding Supply of America website, and their website access preferences. Welding Supply of America visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Welding Supply of America's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Welding Supply of America's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Welding Supply of America, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Welding Supply of America goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Welding Supply of America may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Welding Supply of America and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Welding Supply of America may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Welding Supply of America's sole discretion. Welding Supply of America encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a weldingsupplyofamerica.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.