Legal Information for Vulcan-Hart Internet Sites

Vulcan-Hart Corporation has created the following policy statements to provide its customers and website visitors with important information on the contents of the website and the uses of data gathered through the website.  Visitors and customers who access the websites of Vulcan-Hart Corporation, its affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions (collectively, "Vulcan-Hart") should be aware of our information gathering and dissemination practices for the websites including www.vulcanhart.com, our intellectual property, and warranties as to the content of the website.  Your access of this website does constitute your agreement to these polices.  Vulcan-Hart retains the right to modify, supplement or delete any provisions of these policy statements at any time, with effectiveness retroactively and without notice.  In the event that there is a change, Vulcan-Hart will endeavor to supplement the information on this web page.  Vulcan-Hart may change this policy in the future.

 

1.            PRIVACY AND SECURITY

Any user's submissions to our website are not considered to be in confidence.  Vulcan-Hart Corporation and its subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates ("Vulcan-Hart") do not want to receive confidential or proprietary information from any user through its websites.  Should any user of information on this server provide Vulcan-Hart with information, including but not limited to, feedback, data, answers, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, ideas or the like, such information shall be deemed to be unsolicited, nonproprietary and non-confidential and shall become the property of Vulcan-Hart.  Vulcan-Hart assumes no obligation to protect such information from disclosure.  The submission of such information to Vulcan-Hart shall in no way prevent the purchase, manufacture or use of similar products, services, plans and ideas by Vulcan-Hart for any purpose whatsoever and Vulcan-Hart shall be free to reproduce, use, display, broadcast, disclose, transmit and distribute the information to others without restriction.  Vulcan-Hart cannot prevent the "harvesting" of information from this website, and a user may be contacted by Vulcan-Hart or other unrelated third parties by e-mail or otherwise, within or outside of this website.  In addition, while there is no limitation on how a user's information may be used, we may use a user's IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website, or help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.

Our site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping cart as well as for other purposes.  In addition we use cookies to deliver content specific to your interest and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.  However, you should be aware that we may use these cookies for other purposes now and in the future.

Vulcan-Hart has no obligation to monitor information residing on or transmitted to this website.  However, anyone using this server agrees that Vulcan-Hart may monitor the website contents periodically to (1) comply with any necessary laws, regulations or other government requests and (2) to operate the server properly or to protect itself and its users.  Vulcan-Hart reserves the right to modify, reject or eliminate any information residing on or transmitted to its website.

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information such as their name, address and e-mail address.  We may use this contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and for other purposes such as also contacting the visitor when necessary or for marketing purposes of Vulcan-Hart and other companies.

This site contains links to other sites.  Vulcan-Hart is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of websites and any reference to any products, services, processes, hypertext links to third parties or other information by trademark, trade name, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply Vulcan-Hart's endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation.  Product and service information are the sole responsibility of each individual vendor and Vulcan-Hart does not claim to provide any warranties as to their trademarks, trade names or trade dress.

Our site uses order forms for customers to request information, purchase products and request services.  As a result, we do collect visitor's contact information, unique identifiers and financial information in some of these order forms.  Contact information is often used to fulfill customer's requests for information to send orders and to provide other information about our costs to our customers.  It is also used to contact the customer when necessary.  The financial information is used to collect and bill the user for products and services.  Unique identifiers are collected from website visitors to verify the user's identity.  However, Vulcan-Hart does not guarantee that any of this information will remain private and confidential, and you acknowledge Vulcan-Hart may use this information for other business purposes.

Vulcan-Hart may and does partner with other companies to provide specific services such as using an outside shipping company to ship orders, a credit card processing company to bill users and other such items related to your visit to our website.  As a result, when a user accesses our services on the website, we may share this information with other third parties.  While our current policy does not authorize these other parties to use personally identifiable information except for the purposes of providing these services, Vulcan-Hart does not guarantee to users that this information will not be used in other matters by Vulcan-Hart or by these third party providers.

Vulcan-Hart may conduct on-line surveys of its website.  Our on-line surveys ask visitors for contact information like your website address.  We use contact data from our surveys to send the user information about our company and to provide website survey results when available.  We may also use them for marketing and other purposes.  The contact information and other information may be used to contact the visitor or for other business purposes by Vulcan-Hart or third parties.

Our website users are given the opportunity to opt out of having their e-mail addresses used for promotional purposes by Vulcan-Hart.  This opt out does not apply to information provided to Vulcan-Hart by its customers as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.  Website users who no longer wish to receive information or promotional materials from us by e-mail may opt out of receiving these communications.  We offer two methods for such opt-out choices.  When we have sent promotional e-mails, the user may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions or they may send an e-mail stating their request to us at webmaste@pmifeg.com.

 

2.            INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

This website is copyrighted by Vulcan-Hart 2000.  All rights reserved.  Permission to copy and distribute all documents and related graphics from this world-wide web server is granted subject to the following:  (1) materials provided herein for internal non-commercial use only and (2) any copies of documents contained within this server or portions thereof must be include the above copyright notice.  Each document published by Vulcan-Hart on this website may contain other proprietary notices or describe products, services, processes or technologies owned by Vulcan-Hart or third parties.  Nothing contained herein shall be construed as granting to the user a license under any copyright, trademark, patent, or other intellectual property of Vulcan-Hart or any third party.

The names, logo, product and service names design marks and slogans of Vulcan-Hart, its subsidiaries and its affiliates and its divisions are the trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of Vulcan-Hart or the applicable subsidiaries or affiliates.  All other products or service marks contained herein are the trademark of their respective owners.  The Vulcan-Hart name and logo may not be used in any commercial manner without the prior written consent of Vulcan-Hart.

3.            DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

The user of this system assumes all responsibility and risk for the use of this website and the internet generally.  Vulcan-Hart and its affiliates disclaim all warranties, representations or endorsements, express or implied, with regard to the information accessed from, or via, this website or the internet, including, but not limited to, all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.  Vulcan-Hart does not assume any legal liability or responsibilities for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed on the website or other material accessible form the website.  In no event shall Vulcan-Hart be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages or damages whatsoever resulting from the loss of use, data, or profits, whether in an action, contract, negligence or their tortuous action arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of the information on this website or the internet generally, including without limitation any lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs, or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if Vulcan-Hart is advised of the possibility of such damages and whether such damages arise in an action of contract, negligence or other tortuous legal action.  Vulcan-Hart shall not be liable for any damages of any kind whatsoever arising out of your reliance on the information on this website.  Vulcan-Hart assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable for any damages resulting from viruses that may affect your computer equipment, software, data or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in this website or any other linked websites on or in the internet generally or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from this website or any linked website or of the internet generally.

Any Vulcan-Hart material on this website may include technical and accuracy user typographical errors.  Vulcan-Hart has the right to make changes and updates to any information contained within this server without prior notice.  The information provided on this website is provided on an as-is and as-is available basis without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties, title infringement, or implied warranties, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.  No advice or information given by Vulcan-Hart or its affiliates or their respective employees shall create any warranty.  Neither Vulcan-Hart nor its affiliates warrants that the information on this website or on the internet generally will be uninterruptible or error free or that any information, software or other material accessible from this website is free of viruses or other harmful components.

4.  GOVERNING LAW

The posting of this website on the World Wide Web Vulcan-Hart is a passive activity in itself. Access to this website by persons in any jurisdiction does not imply that Vulcan-Hart intends to purposely avail itself of the privilege of conducting activities within such jurisdiction, nor does it imply that Vulcan-Hart invokes the benefits and protections of the law of such jurisdiction.  This site was developed in the United States of America in accordance with and shall be governed by your browsing in and use of the site shall be deemed acceptance of the laws of the State of Ohio and the United States of America.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, this site may be reviewed internationally and may contain references to products or services not available in all countries.  References to a particular product or service do not imply that Vulcan-Hart intends to make such products and services available in such countries.