This privacy policy identifies the type
of information Clean Water Services, Inc. (“CWS Environmental”, “we”, “us”),
its affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, "CWS Environmental "),
collects from its customers and how CWS Environmental uses this information.
Your use of this website may also be governed by other terms and conditions
contained on separate user agreements.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
CWS
Environmental respects the privacy of its customers and takes steps to prevent
unauthorized disclosure of customer information to third parties. Customer
information includes any and all information received by CWS Environmental from
its customers, whether such information is received by email, online forms,
telephone, facsimile, mail or otherwise. Throughout our websites there are
forms that request information from you and/or allow you to purchase products
and services. These forms typically ask for contact information (such as name,
mailing address and email address), membership, login and password information
and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date and
verification code) required to process your order and ship products to you. CWS
Environmental will collect similar information when processing orders via telephone.
The provision of such information by you is entirely voluntary. If you elect or
opt in to receive information from us, we will ask for a valid email address
and telephone number so we can inform you of other products or services
available or to contact you about your opinion of current products and services
or potential new products and services that may be offered. You may opt out of
receiving future mailings from CWS Environmental by following the procedures
detailed in the Choice/Opt Out section located below, on forms located on our
website or in emails you receive from us. In certain cases, CWS Environmental,
may forward purchasing and shipping information to vendors who ship products or
provide services directly to consumers. Such third party vendors and suppliers
are not bound by this privacy policy.
Information Sharing
We
will share your Personal Information with third parties only in the ways that
are described in this privacy statement. We do not sell your Personal
Information to third parties. We may provide your Personal Information to
companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as
credit/debit card processing, shipping your order or offering customer service.
These companies are authorized to use your Personal Information only as
necessary to provide these services to us.We may also disclose your Personal
Information as required by law such as to comply with a subpoena or similar
legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect
our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or
respond to a government request.
Cookies
CWS
Environmental may use cookies or similar files or scripts throughout its
website to enhance your convenience in using our websites, to improve search
functionality or to hold information that you would otherwise need to re-key.
Cookies are text files collected by a user's web browser. If you do not wish to
accept cookies from our website, you may configure your web browser so that it
does not accept cookies; however, you may lose certain functions available on
our website. CWS Environmental also uses one or more companies to place
advertisements for our products and services and those of third parties on our
Site and third-party sites. Cookies and other technologies such as Web beacons
or tags are used to measure the effectiveness of our ads and to determine the
display of content and advertising to you based on your interests both on our
site , as well as on third-party sites where you may visit. To support this
interest based advertising solution, we, and companies who we have contracted
with, may use anonymous information about your visits to our and other Web
sites. The information collected and used by this process is always anonymous,
and does not enable any third-party to identify you individually. Although it
is our hope that you find the display of advertising to you based on your
anonymous interests valuable, if you would prefer not to participate in the
services offered through these solutions, you can always opt-out of this
activity by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) website by
clicking http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Monitoring
CWS
Environmental is under no obligation to monitor the conduct of its website
users, but it may investigate and respond if violations are reported. CWS
Environmental reserves the right to delete, remove or exclude any listing or
information, in its sole discretion, that does not meet its intent and guidelines
for the services offered on the website.
Changes to Privacy Policy
CWS
Environmental reserves the right to change its privacy policy at any time
without prior notice. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on this
page and will be effective immediately upon posting.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This
Policy and CWS Environmental collection and use of customer information shall
be governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the United States
and the state of Ohio. Any disputes arising out of this Policy shall be
adjudicated in a court of competent jurisdiction in Wood County, Ohio.
Security
We are
committed to preventing others from unauthorized access to the personal
information you provide to us, and we maintain commercially reasonable
procedures and technology designed for this purpose. This website has
reasonable technical and organizational security measures in place to protect
the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. However, we
cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat
those security measures. Although we cannot guarantee that our systems are 100%
secure 100% of the time, we periodically update our technology in order to
improve the protection of customer information. CWS Environmental does not send
emails to customers requesting billing, login or password information. If you
receive an email purporting to be from CWS Environmental that asks you to
provide personal or account information, or login and passwords, do not provide
such information unless you have first verified that the website or email is
from CWS Environmental. Such emails may be fraudulent and used in connection
with scams known as phishing. CWS Environmental asks that you report any
suspicious emails or websites to CWS Environmental.
Choice/Opt Out and Contact Information
You
may request copies of or have CWS Environmental make changes or corrections to
personal information in CWS Environmental possession by contacting CWS
Environmental at info@clnwtr.com. You may opt out of receiving further
communications from us or others by contacting us through the Contact Us
section.
Contact Information
You
can contact us about this privacy policy by writing or emailing us at:CWS
Environmental Inc. 1394 Bellard Drive, Bowling Green, OH 43402info@clnwtr.com