Your Privacy
At Independence Tube corporation. (“ITC”), we have created this
privacy policy because we are concerned about protecting your privacy. We collect information to
process transactions between us and our customers, to better understand
our customers and potential customers and to personalize your experience
on our Web Site. Please
read on for more information about our privacy policy.
What information do we collect? How do we use it?
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We log browser information (e.g. Internet Protocol addresses
and browser types) to help diagnose problems with our server, gather
broad demographic info and to administer our Web Site. This information is also used
to help identify you when you visit our Web Site.
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We collect financial information such as credit card number
and other billing information which we as necessary or appropriate with
respect to transactions you initiate with respect to our products and
services.
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Our registration form requires users to give us contact
information (like their name and email address) and demographic
information (like their zip code, age or income level). The contact info is used to
contact the visitor when necessary (e.g. to notify of a question
answered, give shipping status etc.) The demographic and profile data is
used to tailor the visitor’s experience at our Site, and display
content according to their preferences and historical patterns. This info may be shared with
our affiliates, vendors, advertisers and others on an aggregate basis.
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We may conduct online surveys and ask visitors for demographic
information (e.g. zip code, revenue, age or education level). We may use their contact info
to uniquely identify the user so that duplicate surveys are not taken
from the same person. We use this data to tailor our visitor’s
experience, display Content according to their preferences or share with
others on an aggregate basis.
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We may run contests which to enter ask visitors for contact
information (like their email address) and demographic info (like their
zip code, age or revenue level). The contact information is used to contact the user to let them know
their status in the contest or to provide the user with other
contest-related information when necessary. The demographic data is used
to tailor our visitor’s experience, and display content according
to the users preferences.
This information may be shared with our affiliates, vendors, advertisers
and others on an aggregate basis.
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This Web Site may makes chat rooms, forums, message boards
and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any
information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information
and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal
information.
How does ITC protect customer information?
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This Web Site has security measures in place to protect the
loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Such measures include storing
all data in a locked and guarded facility. Access to personal data is
protected by passwords. Credit
Card numbers are stored in a separate data store with additional
security measures. Alternatively,
a user can choose to not have his card number stored, in which case we
will ask for it at the appropriate times.
What
about “cookies”?
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Our Web Site uses cookies to enhance your experience while
using our Web Site. Cookies are pieces of information that some Web Sites
transfer to the computer that is browsing that Web Site and are used for
record-keeping purposes at many Web sites. Use of cookies makes
Web-surfing easier by performing certain functions such as saving your
passwords, lists of potential purchases, your personal preferences
regarding your use of the particular Web Site and to make sure you
don’t see the same ad repeatedly. Many consider the use of cookies
to be an industry standard. We use cookies to deliver content specific to a users interests and to
save passwords so users don’t have to re-enter it each time they
visit our Web Site.
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We may use an outside contractor to display ads on our Web
Site. These ads may also contain cookies. While we use cookies in other
parts of our Web Site, cookies received with banner ads are collected by
our outside contractor, not by ITC, and are not part of our privacy
policy.
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Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer
not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser
to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it
is possible that some areas of our Web Site will not function properly
when you view them.
Will ITC disclose the information it collects to outside parties?
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Demographic data collected from registration, surveys or
contests may be shared with affiliates, vendors, advertisers and others
on an aggregate basis. No personally identifying information will be
shared.
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We do not currently sell, trade or rent the personal
information that you provide. We may choose to do so with trustworthy
customers or contractors in the future, but if you would like to opt out
of any disclosure you can by sending email to
Mike Koslosky.
How does ITC allow customers to update or change the information it
collects?
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Users can opt out of the I-Mail system and thus stop receiving
communications from us by sending email to
Mike Koslosky.
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Users can correct their personal, contact, and demographic
data by sending email to Mike Koslosky.
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You may opt out of any disclosure we may make to third parties
in the future by sending email to
Mike Koslosky.
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In summary
Tell us what you think
ITC welcomes your feedback on privacy. Send your comments to
Mike Koslosky.
We reserve the right to change this policy without notice to you and at any
time by posting a new privacy policy at this location.
©2018 Independence Tube Corporation
All Rights Reserved.
Terms under which this service is provided to
you. Our Privacy statement.
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