Privacy Policy / Terms of Use Agreement

Privacy Policy / Terms of Use The August Thomsen Corp. ("Ateco") is committed to protecting your privacy while you use our website, www.atecousa.com. Our privacy policy statement describes how we gather information and what we do with that information. Who We Are and How to Reach Us This website is operated by The August Thomsen Corp. ("Ateco") and contains material derived in whole or in part from its operations. Ateco is the only operator of this website. You may contact us directly if you have any questions regarding the content and material on this website or if you have any questions about our privacy policies. Please contact us at: Webmaster August Thomsen Corp 36 Sea Cliff Avenue Glen Cove, NY 11542 Collection of Personal Information Our website provides visitors with detailed information about Ateco, its products and services. Visitors can also request, order and purchase our products through our online store. To operate and maintain these features, we collect certain non-personal and personal information from our visitors. We collect personal information from visitors, which may include first and last name, home and e-mail address, telephone number, Ateco account information, and credit card information, when a visitor submits an inquiry, orders our products or requests customer service. We may also request personal information if we decide to survey visitors about various topics, including their how we can improve our products, website and services. Response to our surveys is entirely voluntary. For website features that request personal information, you agree to provide accurate and current information about yourself. Your participation in our website features will be canceled without notice if at any time we discover that you provide false information, or violate any term of our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Usage Agreement. We may retain personal information collected over our website for an indefinite amount of time to comply with various federal and state laws. This site contains links to other sites. Once you leave www.atecousa.com, Ateco is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites that we link to. Like most web site administrators we use log files that record information such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and page navigation. We gather this information to track web site visitor movement in the aggregate, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Our goal in gathering this information is to learn how our customers and the public are using our service. IP addresses that are recorded by our log files are not linked to personally identifiable information. Cookies This site uses cookies or other tracking devices. A cookie is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that a website places on your hard drive when you visit a site. The "cookie" is able to store information such as data about your computer, the type of browser you use, and how many times your computer visits a certain site. Cookies do not allow the website to access personal information that you have not already provided. We may use cookies when you log-in to our site, to track the number of a promotion entry, research how often visitors are visiting our website and specific pages, estimate the audience size for internal purposes, and to track visitor preferences. You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is sent. Please contact your software manufacturer for questions on how to disable your cookies. You do not need to have cookies turned on to browse most of our website. However, if you set your browser to reject all cookies, you may find that some areas on the website will be slower, may not function at all, and/or you may not be able to participate in certain features on our website that require you to log-in or register. Disclosing Your Information to Parties Other than Ateco Ateco does not make its customer information or mailing lists available to other companies or partners. However, we will share or disclose personal information collected over our website with companies other than Ateco when it is required by law, disclosure is necessary to operate the website or provide our services, and/or to protect the safety of our visitors, employees or property. How to Add, Change, or Delete Personal Information You may be able to add, change or delete certain personal information submitted to us online by contacting us. Certain information fields are required and cannot be deleted for security purposes or in accordance with various laws. We encourage you to keep us informed about any changes in your personal information. Security We require our employees to protect the privacy of all information collected over our website. Only employees and persons with specific authorization have access to databases containing visitors' personal information. The databases are protected in a secure facility. Financial and/or credit card information is transmitted via encrypted technology. Notification of Changes in the Privacy Policy We may review our security measures and Privacy Policy on a periodic basis, and we may modify our policies as we deem appropriate. We may also change or update our Privacy Policy if we add new services or features and will post these changes in this policy. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy on a regular basis. Children's Privacy Policy Ateco respects the privacy of your child and we want to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of thirteen. We have developed this site to appeal to adult visitors (visitors who are eighteen and older). Although visitors of all ages may navigate through our website, we only collect personal information from adult visitors who have requested information about Ateco products who can verify credit and billing information. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. If upon notification by a parent or guardian, or discovery by other means, that a child under thirteen has improperly registered on this site by using false information, we will immediately cancel the child's membership and/or participation, and delete the child's personally identifiable information from our records. Terms of Use: I. Atecousa.com Visitor Code of Conduct This website is owned and operated by August Thomsen Corp. ("Ateco"). This 'Terms of Usage Agreement' ("Agreement") informs visitors of the rules and policies that govern this website. We use the term "visitors" to include any person that accesses our website at any point on the site for any amount of time, unless designated otherwise. Visitors are expected to follow any posted guidelines or rules. We may update this Agreement from time to time without notice. Any changes in our terms of usage will be incorporated into a revised Agreement that we will post on this website. All visitors have the obligation to review changes to this Agreement. Unless otherwise specified, such changes shall be effective when they are posted. Your access or use of this website constitutes your agreement to be bound by this Agreement, including any changes that exist when you re-access our site. If you do not agree with these Terms of Usage, or any of our posted guidelines, please do not use this site. To participate in features offered on our website, we may request that you submit certain personally identifiable information about yourself, including your name and personal contact information ("personal information"). We may also gather certain types of non-personal information about your visit to protect the security of our visitors or our site or to make our content more enjoyable for all our visitors. All information gathered from visitors by this website will be governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated in this Terms of Usage Agreement by reference. If there is a conflict between the terms of this Agreement and our Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy will prevail. Please carefully review our Privacy Policy to understand our collection, use and disclosure practices. Visitors are responsible for providing accurate, timely and complete information to us and our operational providers, agents and affiliates in connection with a visitor's participation and/or use of this website. Your membership and/or participation in our website activities will be canceled without notice if, at any time, we discover that you provide false information or violate any term of this Agreement or our Privacy Policy. Ateco, its operational and promotional providers, program producers and promoters, parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries and sponsors are not liable or responsible for any claims relating to any inaccurate, untimely, false or incomplete information provided to us or from a visitor's failure to fully comply with any provision of this Agreement. If necessary, and in accordance with applicable law, Ateco will cooperate with local, state and/or federal authorities to protect our website, visitors, parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries and operational providers or to prevent unauthorized use of the site. Disclaimer of Warranties The information on our website is provided "AS IS." Ateco does not warrant, either expressly or by implication, the accuracy of any Materials or information provided on the site or their suitability for any particular purpose, and expressly disclaims all warranties, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Although the information provided to visitors on this site is obtained or compiled from sources we believe to be reliable, Ateco cannot and does not guarantee the accuracy, validity, timeliness, completeness or reliability of any information or data made available to visitors or its suitability for any particular purpose. Neither Ateco, nor any of its parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, members, directors, officer, employees, agents, operational or promotional providers, program producers or sponsors are liable or shall have responsibility of any kind to any visitor for any loss or damage that a visitor incurs in the event of (i) any failure or interruption of this site; (ii) any act or omission of any third party involved in making this site or the data contained herein available to visitors; (iii) any other cause relating to a visitor's access or use, or inability to access or use, any portion of this site or Materials on this site; (iv) or from any visitor's failure to comply with this Agreement, whether or not the circumstances giving rise to such cause may have been within the control of Ateco or any vendor providing software, services or support. In no event will Ateco, its parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, members, officers or employees be liable to any visitor for any direct, special, indirect, consequential, or incidental damages or any other loss or damages of any kind even if Ateco, its affiliates or any other party has been advised of the possibility thereof. Please be advised that once you leave our website, your use of the Internet will be governed by the Terms of Usage Agreements and Privacy Policies, if any, of the particular site that you are accessing, including those of our operational providers, advertisers, sponsors and promotional partners. Ateco, its parents, partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, members, directors, officers, employees and agents will not be responsible or liable for the content, activities, or privacy practices of the other sites, or any loss or damage that could result from leaving our website.