General Policy Terms
This privacy policy sets out how Powers Fasteners, Inc., its subsidiaries and controlled affiliates (“collectively, “Powers Fasteners”) collects, uses, protects and discloses information obtained from you when you use this website. We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means.

Powers Fasteners, Inc. is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Powers Fasteners, Inc. may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from September 15, 2011.

Your Consent
By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you visit this site or submit information via this site, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information That We May Collect
We may collect the following information:

• name and job title

• contact information, including email address

• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

Passive Information Collection and Cookies
As you navigate through this site, certain anonymous information can be passively collected using various technologies, such as cookies, Internet tags or web beacons, and navigational data collection. Your Internet browser automatically transmits to this site some of this anonymous information, such as the URL of the website from which you just came and the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the browser version your computer is currently using. This site may also collect anonymous information from your computer through cookies and Internet tags or web beacons. We may use and combine such passively collected anonymous information to provide better service to site visitors, customize the site based on your preferences, compile and analyze statistics and trends, and otherwise administer and improve the site for your use.

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You may set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent or to refuse cookies altogether, but certain features of this site might not work without cookies.

Children
This site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information via this site from visitors in this age group. We encourage parents to talk to their children about their use of the Internet and the information they disclose to websites.

Use of Information We Gather
We collect information to understand your needs and improve our services, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.

• Improvement of our products and services.

• Communication about new products, special offers or other information via the email address which you have provided.

• Market research purposes via email, phone, fax or mail.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. You should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free.

Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites. Such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

Controlling Your Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated, we may use information collected via this site to improve the content of our site, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you, for our marketing and research purposes, and for any other purpose specified. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting unless you tell us that you do not wish this to happen.