1. Introduction
Big Holland (http:/bighollandmetal.com/) appreciates your business and trust. We are a American-based company. Please read this Privacy Policy, to be informed of our company policy regarding the information that we collect from you.
2. Data Collected
Purchase Data
The information you provide to us through our contact form or from any emails you send us will never be sold, rented, or otherwise marketed to any third party.
Comments
When you leave comments on the website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Contact Form
Information submitted through the contact form on our site is sent to our company email. Our web host has been fully compliant with the GDPR since May 2018.
Again, these submissions are only kept for customer service purposes. They are never used for marketing purposes or shared with third parties.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics on our site for anonymous reporting of site usage. So, no personalized data is stored.
Cases for Using the Personal Data
We use your personal information in the following cases:
- Providing quotes to potential customers
- Conducting business with customers
3. Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
Necessary Cookies (all site visitors)
- cfduid: Is used for our CDN CloudFlare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. See more information on privacy here: CloudFlare Privacy Policy.
- PHPSESSID: To identify your unique session on the website.
4. Third Party Access to Your Data
We don’t share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.
5. Security Measures
We use the SSL/HTTPS protocol throughout our site. This encrypts our user communications with the servers so that personally identifiable information is not captured/hijacked by third parties without authorization.
In the unlikely event of a data breach, system administrators will immediately take all needed steps to ensure system integrity.
6. Your Data Rights
General Rights
Any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes we cannot erase data because it is vital to you being an active customer (i.e. basic account information like an email address).
GDPR Rights
Your privacy is critically important to us. Going forward with the GDPR we aim to support the GDPR standard. For more details please see here: EU GDPR Information Portal.
7. Release of Your Data for Legal Purposes
At times it may become necessary or desirable to Big Holland, for legal purposes, to release your information in response to a request from a government agency or a private litigant. You agree that we may disclose your information to a third party where we believe, in good faith, that it is desirable to do so for the purposes of a civil action, criminal investigation, or other legal matter. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you, and release your information to, third parties where we believe that it is prudent to do so for legal reasons, such as our belief that you have engaged in fraudulent activities. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants.
Any passing on of personal data for legal purposes will only be done in compliance with laws of the United States of America.