Slate Black Industries, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement of Privacy applies to Slate Black Industries, LLC storefront and Website www.slateblackindustries.com governs data collection and usage at all Slate Black Industries, LLC sites and services; it does not apply to other online or offline sites, products or services. Please read the Slate Black Industries, LLC Statement of Privacy. Slate Black Industries, LLC is a general audience web site, intended for users of all ages. Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Statement of Privacy.
Collection of your Personal Information
As an E-commerce Web site, Slate Black Industries, LLC collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Information collected by Slate Black Industries, LLC issued solely for the purpose of billing and shipping your online purchases. Slate Black Industries, LLC does not collect any information about your computer hardware and software.
Slate Black Industries, LLC encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Slate Black Industries, LLC so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Slate Black Industries, LLC web site.
Use of your Personal Information
Slate Black Industries, LLC and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to process product orders and deliver the products requested. It is possible that Slate Black Industries, LLC may also use personal information to inform you of other products or services available from Slate Black Industries, LLC and its affiliates. Slate Black Industries, LLC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Slate Black Industries, LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Slate Black Industries, LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Slate Black Industries, LLC does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Slate Black Industries, LLC may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Slate Black Industries, LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Slate Black Industries, including its Web site; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Slate Black Industries, LLC or the public.
Personal information collected on this site may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Slate Black Industries, LLC or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. Slate Black Industries, LLC abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
Control your Personal Information
Slate Black Industries, LLC offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information. You may go notify us of your preferences by emailing [email protected]
Slate Black Industries, LLC. Please be sure to provide complete account information so we can identify you in our records.
You may also stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Slate Black Industries, LLC by responding directly to any email you receive with a request to remove you from the mailing list.
Our Commitment to Your Security
In order to use some of the features of this Site, you may be required to create an account with us. For your protection, this account will only be accessible by means of a password or similar security measure. If you believe that your password or email address has been compromised, you should change your account with us immediately. If you forget your password, follow the instructions on the login page.
Security of your Personal Information
Slate Black Industries, LLC is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we use a secure payment gateway so your information is protected.
In order to use some of the features of this Site, you may be required to create an account with us. For your protection, this account will only be accessible by means of a password or similar security measure. If you believe that your password or email address has been compromised, you should change your account with us immediately. If you forget your password, follow the instructions on the login page.
Types of Information Collected
At this Web site, we may collect both personally identifiable information and non-personal information from you.
Personally identifiable information. You don't have to provide us with your personally identifiable information (such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, etc.) in order to read most of what's posted on this Site. We may, however, collect personally identifiable information about you when you submit comments in response to one of our stories, sign up to receive information from us, open an account with us, submit an email through the Site, enter a contest, respond to a survey, make a forum submission, email us, purchase something through the Site, or at times in which we alert you that you must submit personally identifiable information. Without this information, we would not be able to respond to your inquiries, entries and requests. Please also note that any features of the Site, such as ads and blogs, may be operated by third parties. These third parties may also obtain personally identifiable information from you in order to use their services. Please check their privacy policies for information about their privacy practices. In some cases these third parties may provide your personally identifiable information to Slate Black Industries, LLC.
Non-personal information. Non-personal information, such as which pages on the Site are accessed, what information is downloaded, what type of browser and operating system are being used, which Internet service provider is being used, and other information of this general type may be collected about visitors to the Site. This information does not allow us to personally identify the Site visitor. By collecting this information we learn how best to develop our Web site to meet the needs and desires of our visitors.
Methods of Information Collection
Personally identifiable information is collected when submitted by you, such as when you sign up for an account with us or when you send us an email. Personally identifiable information may also be collected when you include it as part of a comment, letter, forum submission or blog entry that you submit to us. Your personally identifiable information may be collected by third party service providers and then provided to Slate Black Industries, LLC by the third party. Non-personal information may be collected via "cookies" (small text files placed on your computer's hard drive), "web beacons" or other technology.
How We Use Your Information
1. Personally identifiable information. If you sign up for an account with us (which is required in order to make certain submissions), then we may use your personally identifiable information to maintain your account and to correspond with you. We may also use it to send you materials that we think would be of interest to you. We may also provide your personally identifiable information to advertisers or others. If you enter one of our contests, then we may use your personally identifiable information for purposes of the contest (such as to notify you if you win) and/or in accordance with the contest rules. We may also provide your personally identifiable information to the sponsor(s) of the contest, publish information concerning the winner of the contest, and/or for any other lawful purposes. If you email us, submit a letter to us, or ask to be placed on a mailing list that we maintain, then we may contact you and send information to you. If you register to purchase merchandise through this Web site, then we may use your personally identifiable information to maintain your account and/or process your order. If we receive your personally identifiable information from a third party service provider, then we may use the information to contact you and to assist in performing the service for which you have registered with the third party. In addition to the uses listed above, we may use your personally identifiable information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, as part of a statistical Web site usage analysis, and/or to improve the features and content of this Web site. We may also use your personally identifiable information to assist in delivery of content that is customized to your interests. We do not collect personally identifiable information on an automatic basis, but we may combine non-personal information (which may be automatically collected) with your previously submitted personally identifiable information. We may also use your personally identifiable information as set forth elsewhere in this Privacy Statement.
Non-personal information. We may use your non-personal information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, as part of a statistical Web site usage analysis, to improve the features and content of this Web site, and/or for other purposes to assist our business. We may share such information with advertisers and other third parties, typically in the aggregate. We may also use your non-personal information as set forth elsewhere in this Privacy Statement.
Links from the Site to advertisers and other third parties. Please be aware that Slate Black Industries, LLC any advertisers, business partners, sponsors, service providers and other third parties accessible through the Site (such as via links from this Site and/or framed on this Site) may have their own privacy practices. Slate Black Industries, LLC is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of the third parties when providing information to them. These third parties may provide the personally identifiable information that they collect to Slate Black Industries, LLC and may also use the information in accordance with their own privacy practices. Financial institutions, such as those which process credit card orders, are subject to federal privacy laws.
Other third parties. During the course of its business, Slate Black Industries, LLC uses third party service providers, such as lawyers and accountants, to perform a variety of functions. In some instances, Slate Black Industries, LLC may need to provide personal and/or non-personal information about you to such third parties. However, all third party service providers which are not linked from the Site are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any purpose other than for which they were selected to work with Slate Black Industries, 5. Public forum. If you submit a comment, personal ad, email, blog entry, forum entry, or similar submission, the information in your submission may be published to the general public. Please exercise caution when making such submissions. Please note that most such submissions are not reviewed prior to publication. We will not be responsible to read, respond to, or perform in accordance with any requests for privacy or confidentiality that are included with the submission or at any time.
Other uses. In addition to the uses set forth elsewhere in this Privacy Statement, Slate Black Industries, LLC may use or disclose personal or non-personal information: (i) in cases where we believe in good faith that it is necessary to prevent a crime, an injury or financial loss to ourselves or to third parties; (ii) to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of this Site (including violation of the Terms of Use); (iii) pursuant to a court order, warrant, subpoena, discovery request, or as required by law; (iv) in conjunction with the sale or offering for sale of some or all of Slate Black Industries; (v) in the event of Slate Black Industries LLC bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, or similar financial circumstances; and/or (vi) when you have been made aware of the possibility of use or disclosure of the information at or prior to the time of collection.
Changes to this Statement
Slate Black Industries, LLC and its subsidiary Slate Black Industries, LLC will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how Slate Black Industries, LLC will use your personal information, Slate Black Industries, LLC will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. Slate Black Industries, LLC encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Slate Black Industries, LLC is protecting your information.
This Privacy Statement may be changed from time to time, so we encourage you to check back with every visit to the Site. If you do not agree to one or more of the changes, you may choose to "opt out," using the procedures set forth above. Once the change has been made, all information collected by the Site before or after the change will be subject to the new terms of the Privacy Statement. The current version of this Privacy Statement is effective March 2, 2019.
Contact: Slate Black Industries, LLC
Email: [email protected] Phone: (832) 510-4564
Address: 21175 SH249, PO Box 480
Houston, Texas 77070