Lincoln Electric Supply Company (“Lincoln Electric“) operates https://www.lincolnelectricsupplyms.com and may operate other websites. It is Lincoln Electric’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Lincoln Electric 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. Lincoln Electric’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Lincoln Electric’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Lincoln Electric may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Lincoln Electric also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.lincolnelectricsupplyms.com blogs/sites. Lincoln Electric 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 Lincoln Electric’s websites choose to interact with Lincoln Electric in ways that require Lincoln Electric to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Lincoln Electric gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at https://www.lincolnelectricsupplyms.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Lincoln Electric are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Lincoln Electric collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Lincoln Electric. Lincoln Electric 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
Lincoln Electric may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Lincoln Electric may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Lincoln Electric does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Lincoln Electric 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 Lincoln Electric’s behalf or to provide services available at Lincoln Electric’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 Lincoln Electric’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Lincoln Electric 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, Lincoln Electric discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Lincoln Electric believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lincoln Electric, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Lincoln Electric website and have supplied your email address, Lincoln Electric 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 Lincoln Electric 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. Lincoln Electric 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. Lincoln Electric uses cookies to help Lincoln Electric identify and track visitors, their usage of Lincoln Electric website, and their website access preferences. Lincoln Electric visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Lincoln Electric’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Lincoln Electric’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Lincoln Electric, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Lincoln Electric 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 Lincoln Electric may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lincoln Electric may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Lincoln Electric’s sole discretion. Lincoln Electric encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a https://www.lincolnelectricsupplyms.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.
