Privacy Policy
Welcome to the MFG.com, Inc. and subsidiaries Websites including MFG.com, SourcingParts.com, MFGx.com, MFGTextiles.com and MFGQuote.com, collectively the "MFG.com" Websites. MFG.com provides access to its Websites to the public and members subject to the following Privacy Policy to reflect our firm commitment to you, our valued Members and Users. You are encouraged to read this Privacy Policy to ensure you understand MFG.com's practices.
Where MFG.com has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Privacy Policy, then you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of the Privacy Policy will govern your relationship with MFG.com. If there is any contradiction between what the English language version of the Privacy Policy says and what a translation says, then the English language version shall take precedence.
Collection of Your Personal Information
MFG.com collects personal and company information on our Websites. Personal information is any information that can be used to identify an individual or company, and may include, but is not limited to, IP address, company name, individuals name, email address, postal or other physical address, title, telephone number, cell phone number, fax number, occupation, and other information required to provide a service, deliver a product, or carry out a transaction you have requested.
Uses of Your Personal Information
We will only use your personal information in the way we specified when it was collected. We will not subsequently change the way your personal information is used without your consent. Some of the ways we may use your personal information include:
- To provide the ability to create personal profile areas and view protected content
- To provide the ability to contact you regarding our products and services by all contact information you have specified in your profile such as regular mail, email, phone and fax
- To provide customer feedback and support
- To provide contests, sweepstakes or other marketing or promotional activities. Personal information may be collected to administer those programs
- To conduct questionnaires and surveys in order to provide new and better products. Your participation in any questionnaires or survey is voluntary
- To understand more about you, so we can personalize newsletters and Websites to your preferences
- To meet contract obligations.
Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information
We need your help in keeping the personal information you have shared with us accurate and up to date. Please notify us of any changes to your personal information or directly enter the updated information to your personal profile online.
Non-personal Information Collection
In some instances, MFG.com may collect non-personal (aggregate or demographic) data through cookies, web logs, and web beacons. This information is used to better understand and improve the usability, performance and effectiveness of the MFG.com Websites.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third-parties for marketing purposes unless you have granted us permission to do so. We may share your personal information within MFG.com or any of our worldwide subsidiaries for purposes of data processing or storage. We may also share your personal information with authorized third-party agents or contractors in order to provide a requested service or transaction. We only provide third-party agents with the minimum amount of personal information necessary to complete the requested service or transaction.
We may respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process by disclosing your personal information and other related information, if necessary. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
We may collect and possibly share personal information and any other additional information available to us in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of MFG.com's Terms of Use, Security Policies or as otherwise required by law.
While navigating MFG.com's Websites you may be directed to content or functionality that is hosted by a third party supplier, not on MFG.com. This is typically done to host special events, such as contests or for MFG.com Partner sites. When information is collected on behalf of MFG.com exclusively, MFG.com's Privacy Policy will be referenced on the site and will govern how your information is used. For other, non-MFG.com sites, the site owner's privacy policy should be referenced. We will ask you for your opt-in consent to share your personal information with a third party for any other reason.
Personalization
We may customize our Websites or newsletters for certain users based on the information they previously provided or that was collected through MFG.com in order to enhance the overall web experience.
Security of Your Personal Information
MFG.com is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures, and organizational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When we transfer sensitive personal data (for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit. We recommend you to take every precaution in protecting your personal information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser.
Cookies
MFG.com utilizes cookies, although you can still access most elements of MFG.com Websites even if you choose to disable cookies in your browser. Some of our Websites will not allow you to complete certain activities if cookies are disabled.
We use multiple third parties to monitor web traffic, statistics, advertisement 'click-through', and other activities on MFG.com. Where authorized by MFG.com, such third parties may use cookies, MFG.com's web log files, web beacons, and other monitoring technologies to compile anonymous aggregate statistics on MFG.com's visitors. We also include web beacons in HTML-formatted e-mail newsletters in order to count how many newsletters (or particular articles, links, etc.) are being accessed.
Data Retention
MFG.com will not retain your personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws or regulations.
Newsgroups/Blogs/Wikis/Forums
MFG.com Newsgroups, Blogs, Wikis and Forums are public. Please consider this before posting material to them. MFG.com moderators of these Newsgroups, Blogs, Wiki's and Forums reserve the right to remove offensive or off-topic material including material that is considered by moderators to not be in the best interest of community standards.
Site Links
Our Websites contain links to other Websites. However, MFG.com is not responsible for the privacy content or conduct of any such Websites.
Logging Your IP Address
We log your IP address to help us locate any problems with our server as well as assisting us in the administration of the site.
Supplementary Information
Should your demographic information prove to be incomplete we may use outside third parties to supplement your record.
Removal from Database
Our users have the choice of not receiving communications from us. Users can also remove their information from our database in order not to receive future communications or to no longer benefit from our service. To be removed, contact us at support@mfg.com and title your e-mail REMOVE FROM DATABASE.
Corrections / Updates
Many of the MFG.com Websites will allow users on-line access to change and modify information previously provided. Also, certain users of the MFG.com Websites may contact us at support@mfg.com to have us make the changes for you.
This Privacy Policy was last updated October 15, 2009.
