Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: June 11, 2024
Merit Brass Co. (“Company” or “We”) is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Website Privacy Policy covers the collection, use, maintenance, and disclosure of data collected during the use of or access to www.meritbrass.com , www.mbwebxpress.com , and any other Merit Brass Co. registered domains (our “Website”). By accessing or using the Website, you are subject to the terms and conditions of this Website Privacy Policy and consent to the use of your information for the purposes described herein. Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have additional rights concerning the information collected via this Website as detailed in Your State Privacy Rights.
The Website Privacy Policy applies to the data and information we collect:
· On this Website.
· In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
· Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
The Website Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:
· Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
· Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this Website Privacy Policy carefully and in full to understand our policies and practices regarding the data collection and handling of your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. This Website Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
If you wish to access, update, or request additional information on the use of your User Information collected via this Website or if you have any questions about our Website, services, or this Website Privacy Policy, please email us at https://meritbrass.com/contact-us .
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at 800-726-9800.
Residents of certain states under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights below for more information.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
We may collect the information that you provide by voluntarily filling in forms while using and/or accessing this Website (“User Information”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website. We may collect the following User Information:
We may also collect User Information from sources such as records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us, and your search queries on the Website. You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
We may also collect information about how users interact with our Website (“Usage Information”). This information is collected automatically as users navigate through this Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies. Usage Information may include information about your computer and internet connection, such as your browser type, operating system, and IP address. Usage Information may also include details of your visits and activity on our Website including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website. This data may include the pages and number of pages you view, referring and exit pages, the date and time of your visit, general geographic location, industry affiliation, the number of clicks to, from, and within the Website, and the duration of your visits to the Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us. The information we collect automatically may be only statistical data and does not include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
· Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
· Speed up your searches.
· Recognize you when you return to our Website.
Third-Party Use of Cookies And Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect from users for the following purposes:
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form or registration form), adjust your user preferences in your account profile or email us at mbmarketing@meritbrass.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose User or Usage Information we collect or you provide as described in this Website Privacy Policy:
· To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
· To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "email a friend" feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
· For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
· With your consent.
· Website hosting: We may disclose our personal information with our website hosting company if you are having issues interacting with the Website.
We may also disclose your User and/or Usage Information:
· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
· To enforce or apply our terms of use [https://meritbrass.com/en/website-terms-of-use] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We employ commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical to protect User Information from unauthorized access, disclosure or misuse. We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
The Website may contain links to third-party websites. Please be aware that if you access these links, you will be leaving our Website. We encourage users to read those websites’ privacy policies, as we may not be responsible for their content, links, or privacy procedures.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding your User and Usage Information. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
· Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
· You can also always opt-out by sending us an email with your request to mbmarketing@meritbrass.com or fill out our contact form at https://meritbrass.com/contact-us
· If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
Residents of certain states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have additional personal information rights and choices. Proposed state legislation that which may be enacted in the future may grant similar rights to residents of states not included in the list provided. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You can review and change your User Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at https://meritbrass.com/contact-us to request access to or correct personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Residents of certain states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have additional personal information rights and choices. Proposed state legislation that which may be enacted in the future may grant similar rights to residents of states not included in the aforementioned. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
YOUR STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about California residents' privacy rights, visit [CCPA AND CPRA PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS].
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
· Confirm whether we process their personal information.
· Access and delete certain personal information.
· Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose.
· Data portability.
· Opt-out of personal data processing for:
· targeted advertising;
· sales; or
· profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
· Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The scope of these rights may vary by state. Proposed state legislation that which may be enacted in the future may grant similar rights to residents of states not included in the aforementioned. To exercise any of these rights please email the marketing department here.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Website Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' information, including User Information or Usage Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Website Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and the Website Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns about the Website Privacy Policy please contact us at 800.726.9800 or click here.
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Last modified: June 11, 2024
This Website Privacy Policy for California residents supplements the information contained in any privacy related policies of Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our”) and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We have adopted this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA and CPRA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
The CCPA and CPRA define “Personal information” as information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a consumer or household. Under the CPRA, “Personal Information” further includes “Sensitive Personal Information” such as social security number, driver license number, state identification card, passport number, financial data, genetic data, biometric data, precise geolocation, and racial and ethnic origin, content of consumer communications (email, mail, or text), unless the business is the intended recipient, genetic data, and information collected concerning a consumer’s health, sex life, or sexual orientation.
Personal Information does not include:
o health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
o personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
We may collect information from you in different ways and for different purposes. The types of information we collect will depend on your interaction with us, including the types of products or services you use, and what you do on our website. The below section includes the categories of information that we may have collected within the last twelve (12) months or may collect and includes the examples of information under each category:
|
Category |
Examples |
Collected |
|
A. Identifiers. |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. |
es |
|
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). |
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. |
Yes |
|
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. |
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). |
No |
|
D. Commercial information. |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
Yes |
|
E. Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. |
No |
|
F. Internet or other similar network activity. |
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
Yes |
|
G. Geolocation data. |
Physical location or movements. |
No |
|
H. Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. |
No |
|
I. Professional or employment-related information. |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. |
No |
|
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). |
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. |
No |
|
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. |
No |
|
L. Sensitive Personal Information |
Identifiers listed in the preceding category B and precise geolocation, racial and ethnic origin. |
No |
HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED
We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
· Directly from customers, suppliers, employees or their agents. You may give us your information by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by mail, phone, fax, email or webform. This includes, but may not be limited to, personal data you provide when you:
o Purchase our products;
o Create a user account on our website;
o Subscribe to our publications;
o Request marketing be sent to you;
o Interact with our website;
o Interact with social media by visiting our pages, commenting on or liking posts;
o Enter a competition, promotion, or survey; or
o Provide information in-person at industry events or other venues, or providing information by phone, fax or email.
o Technical data from the following parties: (a) Analytics providers such as Google; (b) Advertising networks such as Google Adwords, Bing Adcenter and Amazon ads; (c) Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract. We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
YOUR RIGHTS
The CCPA and CPRA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your CCPA and CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
A. Right to Access
You have the right to know the information contained in this policy and our website Privacy Policy, and to request access to a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected about you directly or indirectly, including Personal Information collected by a service provider or contractor on our behalf.
B. Request to Know
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request to know, we will disclose to you:
C. Request to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request to delete, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your request to delete if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
D. Right to Correct
In certain circumstances, you have the right to request correction of any inaccurate personal information.
E. Right to Opt-Out/Do Not Sell Personal Information
We do not sell your Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration.
We do not share your Personal Information for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising. Cross-context behavioral advertising under the CPRA is “the targeting of advertising to a consumer based on the consumer’s personal information obtained from the consumer’s activity across businesses, distinctly-branded websites, applications, or services, other than the business, distinctly-branded website, application, or service with which the consumer intentionally interacts.
F. Right to Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Information
We limit our use of Sensitive Personal Information to only the purposes necessary to perform covered services, and for certain business and commercial purposes described above.
G. Right to Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA/CPRA, we will not:
H. Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your rights to requests described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you or a person legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request to know or request to delete. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request to know twice within a 12-month period. A verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request to know or request to delete if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. Depending on your type of request or the information requested by you, we may require additional information in order to verify your identity and fulfil your request.
To verify your identity, we will ask that you provide the following information when you submit your request:
We will only use this information to confirm your identity. If we cannot successfully verify your identity, we will inform you of that fact.
I. Response Timing and Format
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please contact mbmarketing@meritbrass.com. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request to know or request to delete unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
REQUESTING NOTICE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMAT/LANGUAGE
You may be able to request this Notice in another language where we provide such notices in the ordinary course of business or in an alternative format if you have a disability. Please contact us at the below contact to request an alternative format.
OTHER CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not share your information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you through a notice on our website homepage.
AFFILIATES PROVIDING THIS NOTICE
This policy is provided by Company and its subsidiaries that act as a business within the meaning of the CCPA and CPRA.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
800.726.9800
Contact the Marketing Department here.
