Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. We know that maintaining your trust requires that we protect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our online information practices and the choices that you, as a visitor to this site, can make about the collection and use of your information.

This Statement of Privacy applies to https://michelsequipment.us, Michels Corporation and its affiliated entities and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Michels Corporation include https://michelsequipment.us, Michels and Michels affiliated entities. By using the https://michelsequipment.us website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with potential services discussed on our Site https://michelsequipment.us, Michels Corporation and Michels affiliated entities may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

• First and Last Name
• Company Name
• Mailing Address
• Phone Number
• E-mail Address
• Area of interest, preferred product/service and/or email subscription preference.

The information may be collected through automation in code and cookies, and may include:

• Device identifiers
• Browser information
• IP Address
• On-site pages visited
• Log data (e.g. access times, hardware and software information)

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

If you purchase https://michelsequipment.us products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. We do not retain this data after a billing transaction has occurred.

Use of your Personal Information

Michels Corporation and its affiliated entities collect and use your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

Michels Corporation and Michels affiliated entities may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from https://michelsequipment.us, Michels Corporation and Michels affiliated entities.

How we may use your personal information:

• To provide customer service and respond to inquiries by users
• To send automated emails to which a user has subscribed
• For analytics and measurement, to understand how the site is being used in order to make improvements
• To serve more relevant ads on the internet. By visiting certain pages of this site, you may have data stored that would allow you to be served an ad by us through our internet advertising partners.

Sharing your Personal Information

We will not share your personal information with other companies or organizations, with the possible exception of Michels affiliated entities. Michels does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. However, this information may be stored in a third-party database for use by our internal employees.

We reserve the right to disclose any personal information as needed if such information is requested by law enforcement agencies or if we are required to do so by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or by a government entity.

For more details on information collected from applicants please click here.

Michels 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 unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Michels may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Michels, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Michels may disclose your personal information, without notice, 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 Michels or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Michels; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Michels, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior

Michels may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Michels, in order to determine what Michels services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Michels to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Google Analytics tracks this history. We do not track mouse movements.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Michels. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Michels website.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

Michels secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Michels uses the following methods for this purpose:

-SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Children Under Thirteen (in the United States) or Children Under Sixteen (in the European Union/European Economic Area) 

Michels does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen in the United States or under the age of sixteen in the European Union/European Economic Area. If you are under the age of thirteen in the United States or under the age of sixteen in the European Union/European Economic Area, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Michels may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Michels or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Michels, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button in our emails, by calling us at 920.583.3132, or emailing us at [email protected].

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

Michels reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Michels welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Michels has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Michels at:

817 Main St., Brownsville, WI 53006-0128

Email Address:
[email protected]

Telephone number:
920.583.3132

Effective as of March 4, 2021