PRIVACY POLICY 

This Website (www.alberdingkusa.com) is owned and operated by Alberdingk Boley, Inc. (“Alberdingk Boley” or “we”). Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. We want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This Privacy Policy discloses what information we gather and how we use it. 

 1. Information Collected And Tracked By Alberdingk Boley, Inc. In general, when you visit our Website and access information, you remain anonymous. A. Optional Voluntary Information. We do not automatically collect any Personal Information (defined as your name, street address, email address, and any other personally identifying information you may provide). There are occasions when we may ask you to voluntarily submit your Personal Information to register you as an account holder, enable you to order products from this Website, adjust our Website to your personal preferences, send you e-mail and postal mail newsletters and announcements, and/or for other similar business purposes. We give you the opportunity to elect not to receive future materials from us. If you sign up for an electronic newsletter, electronic announcement, or e-mail list, each message will include instructions on how to “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” from that list. B. Usage Tracking. We collect tracking information and monitor traffic patterns throughout this Website, including the search terms that users enter in our search function, as applicable. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. We do break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser). This information allows us to better tailor our content to users’ needs. C. Cookies. We may place text files called “cookies” in the browser files of your computer. The cookies themselves do not contain Personal Information, although they will enable us to relate your use of this Website to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser; however you must have cookies turned on to use this Website. D. Other Data Collection. We may collect data from or about you in other ways not specifically described in this policy. For example, you might contact us with a question. We maintain such data like other business records. All opinions, ideas, suggestions, and other feedback submitted through our Website may be used by Alberdingk Boley, without any restriction and free of charge, and nothing contained in this Privacy Policy shall limit or otherwise affect this. We may also collect non-personally identifiable information such as the type of internet browser you are using, the type of computer operating system you are using, and the domain name of the Website from which you linked into our Website or an advertisement. 

 2. Use Of Information And Protection Of Your Privacy. Alberdingk Boley does not disclose its mailing lists to any outside parties. Also, we will not share your Personal Information with any outside parties without your permission, unless such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public. Please note that Alberdingk Boley will fully cooperate with any court order or other legal process and will provide your Personal Information to the extent required in any legal proceeding. We may use third party contractors who can access our databases for the purpose of conducting repairs or upgrades to our computer system. We may also use third party service providers and give access to your personal information as part of the services they provide to us. We hold all such third parties to the same privacy standards to which we hold ourselves. We require these third parties to use and disclose your Personal Information only as necessary to perform their services. 

 3. Children. Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Alberdingk Boley will never knowingly request Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with any Personal Information, we will delete that information from our systems. 

 4. Security. Alberdingk Boley operates secure data networks protected by industry standard security protocols, such as (if and where appropriate) firewalls, encryption, and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our users. 

 5. Unsubscribe / Opt-Out Policy. If you sign up for our electronic correspondence (including newsletters and announcements) or an e-mail list, each message will include instructions on how to “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” from that list. You may also log into your account to modify your preferences and update any of your personal information. This does NOT opt you out of receiving e-mail correspondence about your orders, as applicable. 

 6. Changes. We reserve the right, at any time, to modify, alter, update or remove portions of this Privacy Policy in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all use of the Website thereafter. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of revised Privacy Policy terms means that you accept and agree to the changes. If you do not want to be bound by any revisions to the Privacy Policy, you will need to refrain from using the Website. You are expected to check this page each time you access this Website so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding in you. We will post at the bottom of this page the date on which the Privacy Policy was last updated.