Privacy Policy
Date Last Revised: February 15, 2019
At BuyAmericanProducts.com, our most important asset is our relationship with you.
BuyAmericanProducts.com is committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of any personal information about our users. This Privacy and Security Policy explains how we protect personal information provided through our website BuyAmericanProducts.com (the “Site”) and how we use that information in connection with our service offered through the Site (the “Service”). “Personal information” for purposes of this Policy means information that identifies you, such as your name, address, phone number, fax number or email address.
BuyAmericanProducts.com stresses its privacy and security standards to guard against identity theft and provide security for your personal information. We regularly re-evaluate our privacy and security policies and adapt them as necessary to deal with new challenges.
Policy Outline:
- Your Privacy is not for sale
- We limit the collection and use of personal information
- Changes to your Registration Information
- Online session information and use is only used to improve your experience
- Third parties offering other products or services will not be given your personal information without your permission
- Use of Blogs and other Forums on BuyAmericanProducts.com
- Contests, Giveaways and Surveys
- Disclosure of your information to protect our rights or if required by law
- Your data may be transferred upon change of control but only in accordance with this Policy
- You can transport or delete your data
- Email communications from us
- Your data is secure and only seen by you
- Our service ensures secure communications with encryption
- You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Login ID and Password
- We post updates on our website whenever there is a change to our Privacy and Security Policy
- Contact us if you have any questions or concerns
1. Your Privacy is not for sale
Simply put, we do not and will not sell or rent your personal information to anyone, for any reason, at any time. BuyAmericanProducts.com uses and discloses your personal information only as follows:
- Your personal information is always masked via aggregation
- To analyze site usage and improve the Service;
- To deliver to you any administrative notices, money alerts and communications relevant to your use of the Service;
- To fulfill your requests for certain products and services;
- For market research, project planning, troubleshooting problems, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity;
- To third-party contractors that provide services to BuyAmericanProducts.com and are bound by these same privacy restrictions;
- To enforce BuyAmericanProducts.com’s Terms of Use; and
- As otherwise set forth in this Privacy and Security Policy.
In the event that you access the Service as brought to you by one of our co-brand partners, through a co-branded URL, your email address used for registration on the Service may be provided to that co-brand partner.
2. We limit the collection and use of personal information
Certain areas and features of BuyAmericanProducts.com are available to you without registration and most areas require that you provide us with personal information that allows us to identify you. We only collect information that enhances the Service.
Non-Personal Information
Non-Personal Information refers to information that cannot be used to identify a specific individual. BuyAmericanProducts.com may collect non-personal information from you during your use of the Services, including your IP address, referral data, browser type, browser language, platform type, type of mobile device, and geographical data, such as zip code and geographic location.
Use of Non-Personal Information
BuyAmericanProducts.com collects this non-personal information for purposes of tracking and analyzing user preferences and trends in order to improve the quality and design of the Services and to create new features, promotions, and functionalities; for editorial and feedback purposes; for marketing and promotional purposes; for content improvement; and to customize the Services. This information may also be shared with advertisers and our business partners on an aggregated non-personal basis.
Personal Data Information
Personal data information means information that is specific to you and can be used to
contact or identify you. BuyAmericanProducts.com has one grouping of information that falls
into this category: Registration Information.
Registration Information
BuyAmericanProducts.com requires the following information to register as a member: first
and last name, an email address, a password and your zip code. To participate on our
forum boards the following additional information is required: a username, and your date
of birth (collectively the “Registration Information”).
Social Networks and Your Personal Information
Specifically, we may receive from Social Networks (e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, etc) certain personal data about you, such as your user name, date of birth, email address, and profile picture when you use the Services, or you may voluntarily disclose such information to us in the use of the Services. Any information directly collected through your Social Network account and shared with us will be collected, used and stored in a manner commercially reasonably similar to the privacy policy of the Social Network that the data originates from in effect at the time of collection and in compliance with any specific privacy settings set by you of which we are aware.
BuyAmericanProducts.com may make anonymous or aggregate personal information and disclose such data only in a non-personally identifiable manner to:
- Advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and promotional purposes, such as the number of users who applied for a membership account or how many users clicked on a particular BuyAmericanProducts.com offer and
- Organizations approved by BuyAmericanProducts.com that conduct research into data consumption/consumer spending.
Such information does not identify you individually. Access to your Registration Information, Account Credentials, Account Information and any other personal information you provide is strictly restricted and used in accordance with specific internal procedures and safeguard governing access, in order to operate, develop or improve the Service. These individuals have been selected in accordance with our security policies and practices and are bound by confidentiality obligations. They may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations. We may also use third party vendors or service providers to help us provide the Service to you, such as sending e-mail messages on our behalf or hosting and operating a particular feature or functionality of the Service. Our contracts with these third parties outline the appropriate use and handling of your information and prohibit them from using any of your personal information for purposes unrelated to the product or service they're providing. We require such third parties to maintain the confidentiality of the information we provide to them.
3. Changes to your Registration Information
You may update your registration information at any time via the Service. If your Registration Information changes during your subscription to BuyAmericanProducts.com, BuyAmericanProducts.com will notify you that changes have occurred.
4. Online session information and use is only used to improve your experience
When you visit BuyAmericanProducts.com, we may collect technical and navigational information, such as computer browser type, Internet protocol address, pages visited, and average time spent on our Site. This information may be used, for example, to alert you to software compatibility issues, or it may be analyzed to improve our Web design and functionality.
“Cookies” are alphanumeric identifiers in the form of text files that are inserted and stored by your Web browser on your computer’s hard drive. BuyAmericanProducts.com may set and access cookies on your computer to track and store preferential information about you. BuyAmericanProducts.com may gather information about you through cookie technology. For example, BuyAmericanProducts.com may assign a cookie to you, to limit the amount of times you see a particular BuyAmericanProducts.com Offer or to help better determine which BuyAmericanProducts.com Offers to serve to you. Please note that most Internet browsers will allow you to stop cookies from being stored on your computer and to delete cookies stored on your computer. If you choose to eliminate cookies, the full functionality of the Service may be impaired for you.
We encode our cookies so that only we can interpret the information stored in them.
Web beacons are images embedded in a Web page or email for the purpose of measuring and analyzing site usage and activity. BuyAmericanProducts.com, or third party service providers acting on our behalf, may use Web beacons to help us analyze Site usage and improve the Service.
We may use third party service providers to help us analyze certain online activities. For example, these service providers may help us measure the performance of our online campaigns or analyze visitor activity on BuyAmericanProducts.com. We may permit these service providers to use cookies and other technologies to perform these services for BuyAmericanProducts.com. We do not share any personal information about our customers with these third party service providers, and these service providers do not collect such information on our behalf. Our third party service providers are required to comply fully with this Privacy and Security Policy.
5. Third parties offering other products or services will not be given your personal information without your permission
There are a number of separate products and services offered by third parties advertised by us on our Site and through the Service that may be complementary to your use of BuyAmericanProducts.com If you choose to use these separate products or services, disclose information to the providers, or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policies. You should evaluate the practices of external services providers before deciding to use their services. BuyAmericanProducts.com is not responsible for their privacy practices. If you click on a link to a third party site, BuyAmericanProducts.com encourages you to check the privacy policy of that site. BuyAmericanProducts.com may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed and whether any action has been taken on a third party Web site. We use this information to improve the quality of the BuyAmericanProducts.com Offers and customized content on the Service.
7. Contests, Giveaways and Surveys
From time to time, BuyAmericanProducts.com may offer you the opportunity to participate in contests, giveaways and other promotions. Any information submitted in connection with such activities will be treated in accordance with this Privacy and Security Policy, except as specifically set forth in the rules for those contests, giveaways or promotions. From time to time, BuyAmericanProducts.com may also ask you to participate in surveys designed to help BuyAmericanProducts.com evolve the Site in order to improve their product or service. Any personal information provided to BuyAmericanProducts.com in connection with any survey will be used only in relation to that survey and as elsewhere set forth in this Policy.
8. Disclosure of your information to protect our rights or if required by law
Not withstanding the foregoing, BuyAmericanProducts.com reserves the right (and you authorize BuyAmericanProducts.com) to share or disclose your personal information when BuyAmericanProducts.com determines, in its sole discretion, that the disclosure of such information is necessary or appropriate:
- To enforce our rights against you or in connection with a breach by you of this Privacy and Security Policy or the BuyAmericanProducts.com's BuyAmericanProducts.com ;
- To prevent prohibited or illegal activities; or
- When required by any applicable law, rule regulation, subpoena or other legal process.
9. Your data may be transferred upon change of control but only in accordance with this Policy
Personal information may be transferred to a third party as a result of a sale, acquisition, merger, reorganization or other change of control to a 3rd party. If we sell, merge or transfer any part of our business, part of the sale may include your personal information. If so, you will be asked if you'd like to stop receiving promotional information following any change of control.
10. You can delete your data
Your data is yours. You can remove it anytime you want. When you request that we delete your account from the Service, your data will be permanently expunged from our primary production servers and further access to your account will not be possible. Your data may remain on a backup server or media. BuyAmericanProducts.com keeps these backups to ensure our continued ability to provide the Service to you in the event of malfunction or damage to our primary production servers. We also reserve the right to use any aggregated or anonymous data derived from or incorporating your personal information.
11. Email communications from us
We intend to provide our registered customers with weekly summaries of their Account Information and email alerts. We also allow users to subscribe to email newsletters and from time to time may transmit emails promoting BuyAmericanProducts.com or third-party goods or services.
BuyAmericanProducts.com subscribers have the ability to opt-out of receiving our promotional emails and to terminate their newsletter subscriptions by following the instructions in the emails. Opting out in this manner will not end transmission of service-related emails, such as email alerts.
12. Your data is secure
We use a combination of firewall barriers, encryption techniques and authentication procedures, among others, to maintain the security of your online session and to protect BuyAmericanProducts.com accounts and systems from unauthorized access.
When you register for the Service, BuyAmericanProducts.com requires a password from you for your privacy and security. BuyAmericanProducts.com transmits information such as your Registration Information for BuyAmericanProducts.com securely. The degree to which the communication channel is encrypted between BuyAmericanProducts.com and partners' sites is defined by said partners.
Our servers are in a secure facility. Access requires multiple levels of authentication. Security personnel monitor the system 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
Our databases are protected from general employee access both physically and logically. We encrypt your Service password so that your password cannot be recovered, even by us. All digital backup mediums are encrypted.
We enforce physical access controls to our buildings.
However, it is important to understand that these precautions apply only to our Site and systems. We exercise no control over how your information is stored, maintained or displayed by third parties or on third-party sites.
13. Our service ensures secure communications with encryption
From the time you submit your email address and password, these communications between your computer and BuyAmericanProducts.com are encrypted. This enables client and server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering and message forgery.
14. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Email Address and Password
We maintain strict rules to help prevent others from guessing your password. We also recommend that you change your password periodically. Make sure that your password consists of a combination of upper and lower case letters, special characters, and numbers. It must be at least (8) eight and no more than (15) fifteen characters in length. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your email address and password. You may not provide these credentials to any third party. If you believe that they have been stolen or been made known to others, you must contact us immediately at support@BuyAmericanProducts.com, but in any event you should change your password immediately via the Service. We are not responsible if someone else accesses your account through Registration Information they have obtained from you or through a violation by you of this Privacy and Security Policy or the BuyAmericanProducts.com'sTerms of Use.
If you have a security related concern, please contact us at support@rBuyAmericanProducts.com. We will work closely with you to ensure a rapid and personal response to your concerns.
15. We post updates on our website whenever there is a change to our Privacy and Security Policy
We update this Privacy and Security Policy periodically. The date last revised appears at the top of the Policy. Changes take effect immediately upon posting.
16. Contact us if you have any questions or concerns
If you have questions, comments, concerns or feedback regarding this Privacy and Security Policy or any other privacy or security concerns, send an e-mail to support@BuyAmericanProducts.com.
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