Privacy Policy
Introduction
Grani-Tek Stone Tools, Inc (“Company” or “We”) respects your
privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this
policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect
from you or that you may provide when you visit the Company website found at
https://www.granitek.net/ (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using,
maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites
and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this
policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline or through any other means, including on any other
website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and
subsidiaries); or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries),
including through any application or content (including advertising) that may
link to or be accessible from, or on, the 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 to our Privacy Policy). 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.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age.
No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to, or on, the
Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under
13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website
or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any
purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment
features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us,
including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen
name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received
personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental
consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any
information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at the phone
number or address at the bottom of this page.
Information We Collect About You and How We
Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of
our Website, including information:
By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal
address, email address or telephone number (“personal information”) that is
about you when you contact us to report a concern.
Users of our website are not individually identified, but usage
is tracked via an anonymous user id selected by the user following the user’s
registration with the site, which requires verification of the user’s email
address and phone number for email and/or text updates.
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access
our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information
collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information
collected through cookies, web beacons, and/or other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners including
Google Analytics.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may
include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our
Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further
services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with
our Website.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you
contact us. - Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research
purposes. - Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment
of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information
before placing an order through our Website. - Your search queries on the Website.
- The frequency and characteristics of your usage to identify widely utilized
features of the site.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed
(hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted
to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User
Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to
others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be
aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we
cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may
choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not
guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized
persons.
Usage Details, IP Addresses, Cookies and Other
Technologies.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may
automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing
actions and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs
and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on
the Website. - Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address,
operating system and browser type. - The information we collect automatically is statistical data, and does not
identify any individual. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver
a better and more personalized service by enabling us to: - Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website
according to your individual interests. - Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic
data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your
computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the
appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you
may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons.
Pages of our the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files
known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and
single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who
have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website
statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content
and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-party Advertiser Use of Cookies and
Other Tracking Technologies.
We use Google Analytics to analyze user activity in order to
improve the Website. For example, using Google Analytics we can look at
aggregate patterns like which pages are visited most. We can use such analysis
to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and experience of the
website. For further details, please see Google’s privacy compliance page:
https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide
to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from
us. - To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any
contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and
collection. - To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we
offer or provide through it. - To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose anonymous aggregated information about our
users, and information that does not identify any individual, without
restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you
provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture,
restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of
some or all of company assets, whether as a going concern or as part of
bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal
information held by our company about our Website users is among the
assets transferred. - To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us
an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we
may transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the
recipients. - For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal
information:
- To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to
any government or regulatory request. - To enforce or apply our Terms & Conditions and other agreements,
including for billing and collection purposes.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information
We strive to provide you with choices
regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created
mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or
some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how
you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page
on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some
parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. We do not share your information for
third-party advertising.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging
into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at the email below to request
access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to
us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your
user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we
believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the
information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies
of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or
might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use
of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is
governed by our Terms & Conditions.
Your 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 send an email to the email
listed at the bottom of this page.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal
information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration
and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL
technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to
certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password
confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to
be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like
message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any
user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet
is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information
transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your
own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or
security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy
policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’
personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address
specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The
date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable
email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this
privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our
privacy practices, contact us at:
Grani-Tek Stone Tools, Inc
13502 Whittier Blvd H – 187
Whittier, California 90605
877-203-4257
sales@granitek.net