Last updated: October 14, 2003
LawsonProducts.com knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting LawsonProducts.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
What Personal Information About Customers Does LawsonProducts.com Gather?
Lawson Products, Inc. ("Lawson Products") collects various types of information from all of its customers including visitors to LawsonProducts.com (the "Site"). The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at LawsonProducts.com. Lawson Products' web server collects general data pertaining to each Site visitor, including the IP address, the domain name, the web page, the length of time spent and the pages accessed while visiting this Site. This information is collected to, among other things, aggregate information from online and offline sources, facilitate system administration, improve the content of this Site, customize and improve the user experience for Site visitors and customers, and improve customer service generally. Lawson Products also collects personally identifiable and transactional information provided by companies and Site visitors that purchase products from the Site. This information includes shipping information, credit cardholder name and card number/expiration date. Lawson Products may also retain the content of the communications that are sent to Lawson Products customer service representatives. This information helps Lawson Products to respond to inquiries regarding this Site.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file stored on your computer by a web site to give you a unique ID (each, a "Cookie"). Lawson Products uses Cookies to track new visitors to this Site and recognize past customers so that Lawson Products may present more personalized content. Cookies are used to assist Lawson Products in customizing Site information such as pricing, customer history and the storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits. Cookies used by this Site do not contain any personally identifiable information. Lawson Products cannot identify a customer unless that information is provided voluntarily. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you configure your computer to block or erase cookies you will not be able to use certain features of this Site.
Use of the Information Collected
Lawson Products uses the information that is collected from Site visitors and customers to, among other things, better serve customers, improve the content of this Site, and customize the shopping experience for Site visitors and customers. Lawson Products may also use the information collected to notify Site visitors of changes to this Site, to notify Site visitors of new products, and for any other legitimate and lawful business purpose of Lawson Products. Lawson Products may choose to share information with third parties, such as suppliers, financial institutions, and third party service providers, and with any successor to Lawson Products's interest. Lawson Products may disclose information about any Site visitor in response to subpoenas, investigative requests (with or without subpoena) and other legal process, to exercise Lawson Products's legal rights and defend against legal claims.
Does LawsonProducts.com Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with subsidiaries Lawson Products, Inc. controls that either are subject to this Privacy Notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Privacy Notice.
· Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
· Promotional Offers: Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of LawsonProducts.com customers on behalf of their agent. If you do not want to receive such offers, please send email to info@lawsonproducts.com.
· Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that Lawson Products, Inc., or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.
· Protection of LawsonProducts.com and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of LawsonProducts.com, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
· We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. Lawson Products, however, cannot guarantee that any electronic commerce is totally secure.
· It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
Unsubscribing from E-Mail Marketing
Each Site visitor can unsubscribe from receiving e-mails containing promotional offers from Lawson Products simply by sending a request indicating such desire to info@lawsonproducts.com.
Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit LawsonProducts.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Illinois. If you have any concern about privacy at LawsonProducts.com, please send us a thorough description to info@LawsonProducts.com, and we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Links
This Site may be linked to other sites that are not owned, maintained or operated by Lawson Products and not subject to the same Privacy and other Policies. Lawson Products is not responsible of the content of those sites or the use of any information collected from you by those sites. The inclusion of any link to such sites does not imply any recommendation or sponsorship of such sites and Lawson Products disclaims any liability for links: (i) from another website to this Site, and (ii) to another website from this Site.
Policy Updates
Lawson Products may update this policy from time to time. Please check the Site periodically for updates. Policy updates shall be effective the date the change is posted on the Site. Notice of any material changes in the manner in which Lawson Products handles personally identifiable information under this policy will be provided on the Site. |
