This policy is intended to help you understand how Apex Industrial Technologies, LLC its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Apex” “we,” or “us”) collect, use and safeguard the information you provide on our sites.

What we collect

We aggregate both anonymous and personal data. What we collect depends on what you do when you use our sites, blogs and on what personal information you elect to give us.

Anonymous data

We collect anonymous data when you visit our sites, including your Internet address, the time of your visit and the pages that you view. We use this information to monitor and improve the performance of our sites so that we can continue to effectively and reliably provide useful services for our visitors and readers.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies allow us to count page visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site, using a service provided by Google Analytics.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you. They may be set by us or by third party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. These cookies are typically set by advertising partners. In our site, they are only used for analytics purposes. They will not be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use at https://cookiepedia.co.uk/giving-consent-to-cookies.

Personal information

If you wish, you can provide us with personal information about yourself by using the contact forms and email addresses on this site. This information includes your name, business name, mailing address, email address and phone number. We only collect this information directly from you and only when you elect to provide it. Your personal information is kept private and is not shared with anyone. If you accept the opportunity to be contacted by us, either by personal email, telephone, mail or email newsletter, you can revoke that acceptance at any time by contacting us at the contact points specified below.

Depending upon which of our services you are utilizing, the types of non-public personal information that we may collect include:

• Name, postal address, email address, and telephone number, birth date, shipping address;
• Information we receive from you on applications, forms and in other communications to us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone or by any other means;
• Information about your transactions with us or others;
• Information from your transactions with us; and
• Information we receive from your computer when you visit our site that is unique to e-commerce transactions. It may include the site you visited before ours, your operating system and statistical information on Web traffic and usage patterns.

 

All personal information is private and confidential. Any information we gather through our online forms or information that you otherwise provide to us for purposes of conducting business will not be released to third parties without your written consent. We do not sell participant information. We do not provide participant information to persons or organizations outside Apex that are doing business on Apex behalf for their own marketing purposes.

Profile

We may store information that we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to create a profile of our users. A profile is stored information that we keep on individual users that details their viewing preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the user’s personally identifiable information to provide offers and improve the content of the site for the user. This profile is used to tailor a user’s visit to our sites, and to direct pertinent information to them. We do not share your profile with other third parties.

What we share

We DO NOT sell, lease or otherwise share any aggregate non-personably identifiable data or personal information about our visitors with or to any third party companies or individuals.
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Apexsupplychain.com or its web sites; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Apex; or (c) act to protect the personal safety of the employees of Apex and other users of the sites.

Use of Personal Data

Personal information provided by users who are 13 or more years of age may be used for marketing and informational purposes only by Apex and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Apex does not rent, sell or otherwise distribute to third parties, your personal information entered on this site. While we use all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, Apex will have no liability for disclosure of any information obtained due to errors in transmission or the unauthorized acts of third parties.

Children’s Privacy

We believe that protecting the privacy of children is very important. Our sites are not designed to attract individuals under the age of 18. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we do not collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe that Apex has any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us at the contact points specified below.

Linked Sites

Our sites, blogs may contain links to various other sites. Apex assumes no responsibility for the content or practices of sites linked through our sites and such linking should not suggest or imply any affiliation or endorsement by Apex of the linked site. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our sites.

Choice/Opt-out

Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used for marketing and information communications. Users can change or opt-out on how they are contacted at any time by writing to the contact points specified below

Business Transitions

If Apex goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition, or sales of a portion of its assets, your personal information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. You will be notified via prominent notice on our site for 30 days prior to a change of ownership or control of your personal information. If, as a result of the business transition, your personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, you will be given choice consistent with the one outlined in “Revisions to this policy” (below).

Security

We follow industry standards and practices to safeguard all of the information, anonymous and personal, that we collect. If users have any questions about the security at our sites, users can contact us at the contact points specified below.

Revisions to this policy

Apex reserves the right to periodically revise this policy. Please check this page periodically for changes. The document revision date displayed below will indicate when this policy was last revised. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If we are planning to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you via email. You will have a choice as to whether or not you allow us to continue to use and maintain your information under our new policy. Of course, if you have opted out of all communication with us, or deleted/deactivated your account, you will not be contacted and your personal information will not be used or maintained under the new policy.

Apex Statement on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Please read the Apex GDPR Statement for information on how we handle and protect your data.

Contact Information:

Questions about this privacy policy – and privacy policy matters – should be directed to info@apexsupplychain.com.

For all other inquiries, please refer to the Contact section of this website.

This document was last revised May 22 2018.