Privacy Practices Statement
Sioux Tools, Inc. Online Privacy Policy
Our Commitment to Privacy
The privacy of your personally identifiable information is important to us. As part of our commitment to the privacy of your personally identifiable information that we collect online (“Personal Information”), we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your Personal Information is collected and used at this site. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where Personal Information is requested. This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 4th, 2004.
The privacy practices set forth in this Privacy Policy are for this site only. Other Sioux Tools, Inc.(“Sioux Tools”) affiliate Web sites may have different practices. If you link to or otherwise visit any other Web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites. Also, if you are an employee of Sioux Tools or its affiliate, please note that other internal company policies apply to you related to employee use of company computer systems and networks.
Consent
Please read this policy carefully. Your use of this Web site constitutes your consent to the information collection, use, and disclosure practices described below.
Foreign Visitors
The Site is directed to persons located in the United States only, and is not intended for use by persons located in other jurisdictions.
Active Collection of Personal Information
In general, when you visit our site you remain anonymous. Personal Information is not actively collected at the Web site. However, we designate various email addresses by which you may contact us and submit Personal Information.
Passive Information Collection
The Web site may “passively” collect certain kinds of information during your visit, including but not limited to:
Cookies: “Cookies” are small text files sent from a website to the hard drive of a user’s computer to store bits of information related to that user. Cookies can store a variety of information, including IP addresses, navigational data, server information, data transfer times, user preferences, and passwords needed to access the special areas on the Site. We also use cookies to create a more personalized experience on our Web site, for instance, by making you aware of what’s new on our Web site since your last visit. You usually can configure your Internet browser to reject cookies. However, if you do so, you might not be able to access certain pages or use important functions on the Web site.
Other Passive Web site Tracking. This Web site also uses Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and log files to identify server problems, to improve site content, and compile aggregated statistics about Web site usage and clickstream data. We also use Web beacons to help personalize your experience, similarly to how we use cookies. Companies that help us place advertisements on our site use Web beacons to serve cookies and advertisements. We also use Web beacons to gather non-personally identifiable information about the number of users who visit our Web site, the areas which they spend their time visiting, and other demographic data. Only Sioux Tools, its affiliates and our advertising agency will have access to the data obtained with Web beacons.
Sioux Tools also reserves the right to introduce new passive tracking technologies and techniques related to the use of the Web site.
The Purposes for Which We Use and Disclose Personal Information
We use Personal Information to communicate with you, for example, to answer the e-mail and correspondence we receive, and to notify you of important changes in the functionality of the Web site or other notices related to the handling of your Personal Information.
We may use Personal Information to make recommendations for additional products or special offers and to provide you with updates on new products that we believe may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such information in the future, please contact us at siouxtoolstechsupport@snapon.com.
From time to time, we may share certain Personal Information with select third parties including other Sioux Tools affiliates and independent Sioux Tools distributors in your area to enable them to offer products or services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to share such Personal Information in the future, please contact us at siouxtoolstechsupport@snapon.com and we will take reasonable measures to avoid sharing such information in the future. Please note that such third parties are usually independent from Sioux Tools, and if you wish to stop all communications from such parties, you will need to address such issues with the third parties directly.
We may disclose Personal Information in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena or a law enforcement agency’s request. We also reserve the right to disclose Personal Information to protect the security of the Web site, to protect ourselves and our affiliated companies against liability, and/or in connection with any sale, assignment, or other transfer of all or a part of our business.
We will not use or share the Personal Information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without first providing you an opportunity to opt out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Customization and Aggregate data
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web site and gather information for product management and development at Sioux Tools. For example, we may tell our sales and marketing staff that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Web site, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. This aggregate information may also be shared with Sioux Tools’ affiliates and independent Sioux Tools distributors.
Our Commitment to Data Security
We maintain reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to protect Personal Information. If you are concerned about submitting your Personal Information online to us via an e-mail, please feel free to call a customer service representative at 1-800-722-7290.
Children’s Privacy
Sioux Tools has no intention of collecting personal information from children at this site.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
For questions related to updating or changing your account information, please send an e-mail to siouxtoolstechsupport@snapon.com. You may also contact us using the information below to ask us to remove your Personal Information from our records, electronic or otherwise. However, we will need to maintain certain Personal Information about your product purchases in our records for purposes such as warranty and product information.
Access
If Personal Information you have submitted through the Web site is no longer accurate, current, or complete, and you wish to update it, please send an e-mail to siouxtoolstechsupport@snapon.com. We will usually be glad to update your information, but we reserve the right to use Personal Information obtained previously to verify your identity, to administer our warranty program, or to take other actions that we believe are appropriate.
Collection of Personal Information by Third-Party Sites
Sometimes we may offer promotions or specials that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain Personal Data that you submit to participate in the promotion or special. Sioux Tools has no control over the third-party sponsors’ use of this information. We will notify you at the time of requesting Personal Information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information, and obtain your express consent for such disclosures.
Changes to the Policy
Our privacy practices, like the online medium itself, are subject to change. We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time in our sole discretion. Please check this policy frequently and particularly before you submit additional Personal Information via the Web site. All revisions to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the site via a link from the home page of the site. In the event that we change a significant or material term in this Privacy Policy, we will notify affected visitors by revising the link on the home page to read “Newly Revised Privacy Policy” that notifies visitors of the change.
How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please send an email to siouxtoolstechsupport@snapon.com or mail correspondence to Sioux Tools, Inc., 250 Snap-on Drive, P.O. Box 1596, Murphy, North Carolina 28906.
