Privacy

Your privacy is important to Garlock Safety Systems, Inc.. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. collects, and the ways in which Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. uses that personal information.

Personal information collection

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided when placing an order for Products and, if applicable, at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  • Details of your visits to our Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

Using personal information

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. may use your personal information to:

  • administer this website;
  • personalize the website for you;
  • send to you products that you purchase;
  • supply to you services that you purchase;
  • send to you statements and invoices;
  • collect payments from you; and
  • send you marketing communications.

Where Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights.

Securing your data

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Information relating to electronic transactions entered into via this website will be protected by encryption technology.

Cross-border data transfers

Information that Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Updating this statement

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. may update this privacy policy by posting a new version on this website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.

Other websites

This website contains links to other websites.
Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

About cookies

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers, and stored by the web browsers.

The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on our website

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. uses the following cookies on this website:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Google Analytics

Cookie Name Description
_utma Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels, search queries and visits to this website.
_utmb Google Analytics stores IP address anonymously on its servers in the US, and neither CIVIC or Google associate your IP address with any personally identifiable information.
>_utmc >These cookies enable Google to determine whether you are a return visitor to the site, and to track the pages that you visit during your session.
_utmz These cookies are set only after the user has given consent to us to use cookies.

Purpose

Collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages visited.

Additional Information
Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
You can choose to opt out of Google Analytics.

Marketing Automation and Website Forms

We use ActiveCampaign for marketing automation purposes and to collect information through website forms. ActiveCampaign helps us manage our marketing campaigns and allows us to personalize our communications with you. When you fill out a form on our website, the information you provide may be stored in ActiveCampaign for future use. We may use this information to send you marketing communications or to better understand your needs and preferences. By providing your information, you consent to the use of ActiveCampaign in this way.

For more information about their policy visit https://www.activecampaign.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Refusing cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

Contact

Garlock Safety Systems, Inc.
If you have any questions about this privacy and cookies policy or Garlock Safety Systems, Inc. treatment of your personal information, please write:

  • by email to websupport@garlockequip.com; or
  • by post to Garlock Safety Systems, Inc.
    Attn: Marketing
    2601 Niagara Lane North,
    Plymouth, MN 55447
Cookie Name Description
visitor_idxxxxx Visitor Cookie: The visitor cookie includes the name “visitor_id” plus the unique identifier, which is derived from the tracking code placed on your site. The value stored is the unique ID for the visitor. For example, cookie name “visitor_id12345″ stores the visitor value “123456789,” where 12345 is the account identifier and 123456789 represents the visitor ID. This cookie is set by our tracking code on visitors and prospects.
pi_opt_in Opt In Cookie:  The persistent cookie named “pi_opt_in” is what we use to stay in compliance with the “Do Not Track” initiative. Pardot’s tracking code can optionally respect these headers and does not use cookie-based tracking for any visitors with that setting enabled.

What is not tracked?

  • Page views
  • Form and landing page views
  • File downloads
  • Custom redirect clicks

What is still tracked?

  • Form and landing page submissions
  • Email sends, opens, and clicks