Sun Coast Controls Mfg. Privacy Policy
Introduction
Your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, Sun Coast Controls Mfg., an Indiana corporation, and its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively “SCC”, “we”, “us” or “our”) have developed a privacy policy that covers our use, collection, transfer and storage of your information. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices.
What information we collect?
We may collect information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to your use of: (i) our social media posts and ads; (ii) contacting us; (iii) contact information collected in our marketing database; (iv) participating in an online survey; (v) your continuing business relationship with us; or (vi) voluntarily providing information to us through other means.
Any traffic entering our website is prompted with a pop-up to accept cookies and tracking. We collect this information through your Internet Protocol footprint to provide analytics regarding what other sites you have visited, products you have looked at, how you were directed to our site, how long you visited each site or page and to possible respond with banner ads. These actions do not collect contact information, but rather tracks your activities for web-related reporting purposes.
Information we collect may include your: (i) name; (ii) mailing address; (iii) phone number; (iv) email address; (v) contact preferences; (vi) notes you share with us; (vii) the company you work for or are affiliated with; and (viii) any other information you share with us.
The personal information we collect is used for a variety of purposes including but not limited to: keeping you posted on www.suncoastcontrols.com about the latest product announcements and upcoming events using our e-mail (which shall be acknowledged and provide the opportunity to express your preferences or unsubscribe); creating, developing, operating, delivering, and improving our products, services, content and advertising; addressing product or service concerns and for loss prevention and anti-fraud purposes; for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve SCC’s products, services, and customer communications; to administer programs in which you enroll.
How do we receive information about you?
We receive your Personal Information from various sources:
- When you voluntarily provide us your personal details in order to register on our Site;
- When you use or access our Site in connection with your use of our services;
- From third party providers, services and public registers (for example, traffic analytics vendors).
Disclosure to Third Parties
We may share information we collect about you with business partners that work with us to provide products and services, perform market analytics, or to help us market to current and potential customers. Personal information will only be shared by us to provide or otherwise improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes (except as may be otherwise described to you in connection with any promotional offers with any such third parties).
In addition, we may share aggregated, anonymous demographic information that we gather in accordance with this privacy notice for various purposes. This information is not linked to personal information and cannot be used to identify a particular person.
We may also disclose information we collect in order to comply with law, legal process, litigation and/or demands from public or governmental authorities (including law enforcement). In addition, we may disclose such information in order to protect the safety of our guests or to enforce our terms and conditions.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties for any reason.
Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not associated with SCC. Information collected about you on any such other website is covered by the privacy notice on that website, and not this privacy notice. We encourage you to review the privacy notice on that website before using or entering any personal information on that website, and to fully consider the risks associated with using or entering your personal information on that website. We are not responsible for the content, use, or the privacy policies or practices of those websites not affiliated with us.
We may make available website features that are operated by third party social networking services. If you use such features, we may receive information that those services have collected about you (such as your name, email address, gender, locale, time zone, languages ,social media profile URL, personal website URL, biographical information, contacts, birthday, photo, list of devices, education history, work history, hometown, interests, current city, political views, favorite athlete and teams, relationship status and information, religion, name of significant other, certain security settings information, and other such information). We urge you to review and understand the information provided to us by these third-party social networking services. We may use and disclose information we collect from these third-party social networking services consistent with other information we collect about you under this privacy notice.
We may also combine information collected from third parties with information we collect from you, and other information collected from cookies, web beacons and other technologies and use the aggregated information in connection with various purposes described herein.
Retention and Protection of Personal Information
We take the security of your information very seriously. To that end, we attempt to limit the collection and sharing of information we collect about you and limit our collection as set forth in this privacy notice. Although we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information, we attempt to prevent any unauthorized access or breach of our systems by following industry standard practices.
When you use any of the social media platforms that may be linked to from this site, the information and content you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the information you choose to share or submit in these instances, and we have no ability or obligation to protect it in any way.
Cookies
We and our trusted partners use cookies and other technologies in our related services, including when you visit our Site or access our services.
A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a website assign to your device while you are viewing a website. Cookies are very helpful and can be used for various different purposes. These purposes include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features, remembering your preferences and making the interaction between you and our Services quicker and easier. Cookies are also used to help ensure that the advertisements you see are relevant to you and your interests and to compile statistical data on your use of our Services.
The Site uses the following types of cookies:
a. 'session cookies'
which are stored only temporarily during a browsing session in order to allow normal use of the system and are deleted from your device when the browser is closed;
b. 'persistent cookies
' which are read only by the Site, saved on your computer for a fixed period and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Such cookies are used where we need to know who you are for repeat visits, for example to allow us to store your preferences for the next sign-in;
c. 'third party cookies'
which are set by other online services who run content on the page you are viewing, for example by third party analytics companies who monitor and analyze our web access.
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, but Personal Information that we store about you may be linked, by us, to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. You may remove the cookies by following the instructions of your device preferences; however, if you choose to disable cookies, some features of our Site may not operate properly and your online experience may be limited.
We also use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about your use of the Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users access the Site, what pages they visit when they do so, etc. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Site and services. Google Analytics collects the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit sites, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this Site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use
and the Google Privacy Policy.
Children
We understand the importance of taking extra precautions to protect the privacy and safety of children using our products and services. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under thirteen. If we become aware that we have collected information on a child under the age of thirteen, we will delete that information from our records.
Updates to Our Privacy Notice
This privacy notice may be updated from time-to-time and without prior notice to you. We will indicate at the top of the privacy notice the date at which it was most recently updated. If at any point we decide to use information we collect from you in a manner different than stated at the time it was collected, we will notify you by way of an email and by updating this notice. You will have a choice as to whether or not we continue using your information in this new manner.
Marketing
We may use your Personal Information, such as your name, email address, telephone number, etc. ourselves or by using our third party subcontractors for the purpose of providing you with promotional materials, concerning our services, which we believe may interest you.
Out of respect to your right to privacy we provide you within such marketing materials with means to decline receiving further marketing offers from us. If you unsubscribe we will remove your email address or telephone number from our marketing distribution lists.
Please note that even if you have unsubscribed from receiving marketing emails from us, we may send you other types of important e-mail communications without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. These may include customer service announcements or administrative notices.