Last Updated: July 8, 2024
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Alpar Laboratories, Inc. (“Alpar” or “we” or “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes your personal information when you visit and interact with the FOR- BID™ website, available at https://www.for-bid.com/ (“Website”) This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we use and share it, and the rights you have relating to your personal information.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our privacy practices and how we collect, use, disclose, and treat the personal information collected through our Website. By visiting our Website, you agree that you have read, understood, and consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information at any time. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with certain of the information, features, opportunities, and communications that are available through our Website.
Table of Contents
- WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
- HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- COOKIES
- YOUR CHOICES
- RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
- LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES AND ONLINE SERVICES
- INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
- INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
- PRIVACY OF MINORS
- CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
- CONTACT US
1. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
We collect personal information that you provide directly to us:
Contact Information. If you request more information about our products, we will collect your name and email address, and any other information that you provide to us to contact you about the products and services we offer.
Survey Information. You may provide us with other personal information when you fill in a form, respond to our surveys or questionnaires, provide us with feedback, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Website.
Aggregated Information.
- Website Tracking/Analytics. When you visit our Website, we rely on automatic data collection technology to collect certain information, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system and language, the number and frequency of your visits to the Website. We collect this information to produce anonymized metrics and statistical information that does not identify you as an individual. We combine information about you with information about other users to learn more about our customer base, for example, statistical, demographic and usage data. If we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information and treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- Tracking Technologies: We collect this aggregated information through third party cookies and pixels. Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous identifier. Pixels are small electronic files used to record information about how you use the Website. Some browsers offer you the ability to opt out of cookie-based and other online tracking. Our Website does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” signals or other browser-based signals.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the personal information we collect for the following reasons:
- Operating and managing Website and any services offered via the Website;
- Replying to your questions, inquiries, or customer service requests or to send you notices, updates, security alerts, or support any administrative messages;
- Providing you with information about our products that you request from us or when you subscribe to receive such information;
- Monitoring and analyzing trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services and to improve our Website;
- Preventing and addressing fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm;
- Detecting, investigating and preventing fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities on the Website and to protect the rights and property of us and our customers;
- Improving the Website and our other websites, apps, products and services;
- Fulfilling any other purpose at your direction;
- Fulfilling our legal obligations as set out by the applicable laws and regulations; and
- Carrying out any other purpose as described to you at the time your personal information was collected.
3. HOW WE DISCLOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may disclose your personal information in the following ways:
Service Providers. With third-party service providers who process your personal information on our behalf when they provide services to us, for example data analytics, research, and retargeting services. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how you and our other customers use the Website. For more information about how Google uses your personal information please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Merger or Business Recombination. In connection with, or during negotiations of, any reorganization, restructuring, merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company or other transfer assets. In these instances, we will transfer information, including personal information, provided that the receiving party agrees to respect your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We may be legally required to disclose or share your personal information without your consent in some circumstances, for example to comply with a court order or law enforcement. In such circumstances, we will only disclose your personal information if we have a good-faith belief that such sharing is required under applicable legal obligations.
4. COOKIES
To enhance your Website our third-party authorized agents use cookies, small data files that we store on your computer’s hard drive. Rest assured, the cookies we and our partners use do not store personally information. The cookies we may use on our Website include:
- Analytics Cookies. Analytics cookies are used by us and by third parties who process data for us for data analytics purposes so that we can manage and improve the performance and design of our Website and for monitoring, auditing, research and reporting. We use web analytics cookies such as Google Analytics to assist us in understanding how people use the Website and related marketing and promotions. Google Analytics is not used for interest-based marketing. To manage your preferences with respect to Google Analytics click here. You can opt out of data collection or use by Google Analytics by clicking the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout (requires you to install a browser add-on).
- Retargeting Cookies. We permit limited third parties to place cookies through the Website to provide us with better insights into the use of the Website or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our Website. For example, we may utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns of the Website. Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of the Website which Google uses to compile reports on Website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify their cookie, but this may or may not be associated with any other data held by Google.
By using this Website, you agree that we can place cookies on your computer or device as explained above. However, you can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please note that removing or blocking cookies may limit system performance and may impact your user experience and parts of the Website may no longer be fully accessible. If you refuse cookies, this may limit system performance and may even cause certain features of the Website to malfunction or not to work at all. You can learn more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org/ manage-cookies
We do not use technology that recognizes a “Do-Not-Track” signal from your web browser.
5. YOUR CHOICES; ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
You may choose to receive emails and other communications from us through the Website. You may unsubscribe from receiving such communications through the “Manage Preferences” and/or “Unsubscribe” or similar types of links found at the bottom of any of our email-correspondence. Where we have made opt-in or opt-out settings available, we will honor the choices you make. You may also unsubscribe by contacting our Privacy Officer using the contact information provided below.
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual obligations and reasonable notice, by contacting our Privacy Officer using the contact information set out below. All communications with respect to such withdrawal or variation of consent should be in writing and addressed to our Privacy Officer.
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. You have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you. If you want to review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information, you may also send an email to our Privacy Officer using the contact information provided below to request access to, correct, or delete any 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.
We may request specific information from you to: (i) help us confirm your identity; (ii) provide you with the personal information that we hold about you; or (iii) make your requested changes to your personal information. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you, or which we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions. If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information provided below.
6. RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will not keep your personal information will not be kept for longer than is necessary for the specific purpose for which it was collected, unless we are permitted or required to retain your personal information for a longer period of time under applicable law. We are under no obligation to store such personal information indefinitely and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such personal information. In addition, you should be aware that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases without some residual data because of backups or other technology-related reasons.
7. SECURITY
We use reasonable administrative, technological, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. These measures are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risks of processing your personal information. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES AND ONLINE SERVICES
The Website may contain links to other websites or online services that are operated and maintained by third-parties and that are not under our control or maintained by us. For example, when you use our Website you be directed to a third party site to purchase our products and be required to enter certain billing information through such third-party in order for that party to ship our products and fulfill your orders on our behalf. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by us of those other websites, the content displayed therein, or the persons or entities associated therewith. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third-party sites, services, or content. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those third-party sites or services.
9. INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
We may include applications on the Website from third-party social media platforms, which allow users to interact with and/or share content, or like our posts on these platforms. Your interaction with these third-party platforms normally allows them to collect some information about you through cookies or other tracking technologies they place on your device. In some instances, these platforms may place cookies on our Website that allow it to recognize you even when you do not interact with their program. Please visit these third-party platforms’ respective privacy policies to learn more about their data collection practices and your privacy rights and controls they make available to you when you interact with such platforms.
10. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We are based in the United States. If you are accessing the Website from outside of the United States, please be aware that information collected through the Website may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the United States. Data protection laws in the United States may be different from those of your country of residence. Your use of the Website or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of information about you in the United States as set out in this Privacy Policy.
11. MINORS
The Website is not intended for anyone under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction of residence). No one under the age of majority may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from persons under the age of majority. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under the age of majority, without verification of parental consent, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under the age of majority, please contact us at [email protected].
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
From time to time, we have the right to modify this Privacy Policy. We’re likely to update this Privacy Policy in the future and when we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of this Privacy Policy. When we make significant changes, will notify you through the Website, such as on our homepage, or via email or other communication. Please come back and check this page from time to time for the latest information on our privacy practices.
13. CONTACT US
If you have questions or concerns about the information in this Privacy Policy, our handling of your personal information, or your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact our Privacy Officer at [email protected].