We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Purchasing & Procurement Center, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
Purchasing & Procurement Center strives to maintain the higheststandards of decency, fairness and integrity in all ouroperations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting ourcustomers’, consumers’ and online visitors’ privacy on ourwebsite.
Personal Information
Purchasing & Procurement Center collects personally identifiableinformation from the visitors to our website only on avoluntary basis. Personal information collected on avoluntary basis may include name, postal address, emailaddress, company name and telephone number.
This information is collected if you request informationfrom us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, and signup to join our email list or request some other service orinformation from us. The information collected is internallyreviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notifyour visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries.
Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored inour files. If we make material changes in the collection ofpersonally identifiable information we will inform you byplacing a notice on our site. Personal information receivedfrom any visitor will be used for internal purposes andmay be shared with relevant third parties.
Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We may use cookies to help you personalize your onlineexperience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred toyour computer’s hard drive through your Web browser toenable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose ofa cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned toa specific page. For example, if you personalize the sitespages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookieenables Purchasing & Procurement Center to recall your specificinformation on subsequent visits.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies bymodifying your Web browser; however, if you choose todecline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience theinteractive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitoryour journey around a single website or collection of sites.They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly usedby sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic.They may be used in association with cookies to understandhow visitors interact with the pages and content on thepages of a web site.
We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies andweb beacons in the course of ads being served on our website to ascertain how many times you’ve seen anadvertisement. No personally identifiable information yougive us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, sothey cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.
Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google,which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users base don their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. Youmay opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notifyyou when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can beused to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn’t cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases, we may collect information about you that isnot personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, toadminister the site, to track users’ movements around thesite and to gather demographic information about our userbase as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizationsfor commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If Purchasing & Procurement Center is sold, the information we haveobtained from you through your voluntary participation inour site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the salein order that the service being provided to you maycontinue. In that event, you will receive notice through ourwebsite of that change in control and practices, and we willmake reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honorsany opt-out requests you might make of us.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of ourcommitment to protect your personal information. If you havesubmitted personal information through our website and wouldlike that information deleted from our records or would liketo update or correct that information, please use our Contact Us page.
Updates and Effective Date
Purchasing & Procurement Center reserves the right to make changes inthis policy. If there is a material change in our privacypractices, we will indicate on our site that our privacypractices have changed and provide a link to the new privacypolicy. We encourage you to periodically review this policyso that you will know what information we collect and how weuse it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to Purchasing & Procurement Center PrivacyPolicy as posted here on this website, please do not usethis site or any services offered by this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacypolicy.