Privacy Policy

Steeger USA (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://steegerusa.com website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://steegerusa.com

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Cookies and Usage Data

Usage Data

We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

Use of Data

Steeger USA uses the collected data for various purposes:

To provide and maintain the Service
To notify you about changes to our Service
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
To provide customer care and support
To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
To monitor the usage of the Service
To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Steeger USA will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

Steeger USA may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of Steeger USA
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: webmaster@barry-wehmiller.com

CALIFORNIA ADDENDUM TO PRIVACY NOTICE

Last updated: 20 February 2023

Introduction

This California Addendum to the Privacy Notice describes the Company’s practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of the personal information of Stakeholders who are California residents (“California Stakeholders”), describes the rights of California Stakeholders under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), and explains how California Stakeholders may contact the Company to exercise their rights, if applicable (the “Addendum”). This Addendum supplements the Company’s Privacy Notice above.

Individuals who have a disability may be able to use a screen reader or other assistive device to review the contents of this Privacy Notice. If you require additional disability assistance, please reach out to your contact person in the Company, or call the Barry-Wehmiller company that you have a relationship with (contact details listed at https://www.barrywehmiller.com/business). You might also contact us through the “Contact us section” of our website, advise of a request for disability assistance and request a call back.

Personal Information Collected

Within the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information from California Stakeholders:

Identifiers: an individual’s name, contact details, IP address, government identifiers.
Customer records: a signature, billing and financial information, credit card data, employment history.
Commercial Information: records of Stakeholders, including their business and the machine/equipment/service being used.
Internet or other similar network activity: browsing history, search history, interactions with websites, applications, or advertisements.
Geolocation data: IP address.
Professional or employment-related information: current or past job history.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information to “infer” characteristics as defined under the CCPA, or for any purpose other than that which is necessary to provide you with our services as specific in the CCPA.

Sales and Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell personal information, including within the preceding 12 months.

We may share your personal information for purposes of cross-context, targeted behavioral advertising, including with the preceding 12 months.

Retention Periods

Personal Information will be retained in accordance with applicable records retention policies of the Company, or as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes in accordance with applicable legislation, whichever is longer. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (for example, for as long as you are a client with us or keep using our services) and the length of time thereafter during which we may have a legitimate need to reference your personal information to address issues that may arise.

Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or

Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides Consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Right to Know – In certain circumstances, you have the right to request the Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
Right to Delete – You may have the right to request the Company delete your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct – You may have the right to request the Company to correct any inaccurate personal information we may hold about you. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate personal information, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purpose for our processing.
Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising – You may opt-out of the processing of your personal information obtained from your activities on nonaffiliated websites for the purposes of targeted advertising. To opt-out of targeted advertising, you must toggle “off” the Targeting Cookies in our center for managing consent preferences, found here: [LINK] or enable global privacy control settings on your browser. Note that this right to opt-out does not apply where we have appropriately limited our partners to be our “service providers” or “processors” as these terms are defined under the CCPA.
Right to Non-Discrimination – We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights.
California’s “Shine the Light” Law – In addition to the rights described above, California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section §1798.83) permits California residents that have an established business relationship with us to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain types of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the right to opt-out of targeted advertising (or “sales” of personal information as that term is defined in state law), please visit the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” section, here [LINK] to learn more about and to exercise this right.

To exercise any of the remaining rights described above, please submit a request to us by one of the following methods:

Via email at: dataprotection@barry-wehmiller.com
Via post at:

Group Data Protection Officer
Legal Team
Barry-Wehmiller Group
8020 Forsyth Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63105
United States of America

Changes to this Addendum

We may update this Addendum from time to time. Any changes will be posted on the applicable websites.

Questions About This Notice

If you have any questions about this Addendum, the ways in which the Company collects and uses your information described herein and in the Privacy Notice, your choices and rights regarding such use, or if you wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact via email at dataprotection@barry-wehmiller.com or via post as noted above.