INTRODUCTION
KIN-TEK Analytical, Inc. (KIN-TEK) respects and protects the privacy of our customers, prospective customers and others who use our website (Site) and our products and services. This privacy statement provides details about how your personal information is collected and used by KIN-TEK. Personal information is any information that identifies you or would enable someone to contact or locate you, such as your name, email address, phone number and other non-public information that is linked or linkable to a specific person.
This privacy statement applies to the website: KIN-TEK.com and any other sites owned or operated by KIN-TEK. We are located at 504 Laurel Street, La Marque, TX 77568.
Before using or submitting information to this Site, please read this entire Privacy Policy. By using this Site, you agree that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this Site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
This Site may collect both personally identifiable information (Personal Information) and information about your use of this Site that is not identifiable to you personally (Non-personal Information). All information collected by KIN-TEK is the property of KIN-TEK.
PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, and place of business. You may also have the opportunity to provide us with other Personal Information through certain sections of this Site, such as requesting information about our products and seeking technical assistance about our products. Your personal details are stored when you provide information through our Site and are stored by both KIN-TEK on its systems as well as by KIN-TEK’s third party service provider. We may use your Personal Information to respond to your requests and questions, to contact you with information that might be of interest to you, to fulfill the purpose for which you provide the Personal Information, for any purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information and for our internal business purposes. Your personal information is stored by KIN-TEK until we receive an unsubscribe request from you.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries and affiliates as well as to agents, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. We may transfer your Personal Information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, or other sale or transfer of some or all of KIN-TEK’s assets, whether as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal information is among the assets transferred. We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties if we believe that the disclosure is necessary to enforce this Privacy Policy or the terms governing your use of this Site, to protect the rights or property of KIN-TEK or another party, or to protect the confidentiality of another party. We may disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including in response to a government or regulatory request, or when we believe that an applicable law, regulation, or legal process requires it. We also may create aggregate information from your Personal Information that does not identify any individual. We may use such aggregate information for our management and business purposes and may share this aggregate information with third parties. This aggregate information will not identify you or your Personal Information.
SECURITY OF INFORMATION
We take reasonable steps to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, but do not and cannot guarantee such protection. Please bear in mind that transmissions over the internet are not completely secure, and any information you send to or from this Site may be accessible by others. More specifically, email sent to or from this Site may not be secure. As a result, you should take particular care in deciding what information you send via email. Any user names, passwords, or other unique access information you might use to access any part of this Site are your responsibility and therefore you should take care to safeguard them.
PROCESSING NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
Non-personal Information may include technical information such as the type of Internet browser you use, the date and time you access the Site, your Internet protocol address, and which pages you view on the Site. Like many other websites, this Site may collect some information passively as you navigate through the Site (that is, without you actively providing the information) using various technologies and means.
USE OF COOKIES BY KIN-TEK
A cookie is a small amount of data (a small file) sent to your computer by a website. The website tells your web browser (e.g., Internet Explorer) to store these cookies on your computer. There are two types of cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your web browser. Persistent cookies remain stored on your computer even after your web browser is closed. KIN-TEK, and its third party service providers that support some of the functionality of the Site, use persistent cookies to make navigating the Site easier, to analyze the use of the Site and so improve the quality of the Site.
REFUSING COOKIES
You can refuse cookies by adjusting your browser settings (e.g., Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, etc…) to disable all or certain cookies (see your web browser manual or help function). If you disable cookies, some services or functionality of the Site may not be available to you.
NO ERROR-FREE PERFORMANCE
We do not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. We may not always catch an unintended privacy issue, despite our efforts to do so. We will use reasonable efforts to comply with this Privacy Policy and will take prompt corrective action when we learn of any failure to comply with it.
KIN-TEK SITE AND OTHER WEBSITES
This Site and other websites operated by KIN-TEK or its subsidiaries may contain some links to other websites. When you click on one of these links you are being transferred to a website operated by someone other than KIN-TEK, and the operator of that website may have a different privacy policy. We do not share your Personal Information with these websites and we are not responsible for their individual privacy practices. We cannot accept any liability for the handling of your information by these parties. For further information, please read the privacy statement (if available) of the website you are visiting.
AMENDMENTS
KIN-TEK reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy periodically. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly for the latest version of our Privacy Policy. It is your responsibility to review the most recent version of the Privacy Policy and remain informed about any changes to it.
