Privacy
Harcourt Industrial, Inc. Privacy Policy
As part of industry best practices, we want you to know that Harcourt Industrial, Inc. uses cookies to help improve the web browsing experience for our customers, including Google Analytics data collection and other programs. More details below.
Your privacy is important to Harcourt Industrial. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available at the bottom of all pages on our company website.
The way we use information:
Harcourt Industrial uses information that is collected from our company website to better serve our customers and to improve the contents of this website. Harcourt may also use information to notify visitors and customers of changes to the site, new products, and for any other legitimate and lawful business purpose of Harcourt. We use email addresses to answer the email we receive and to provide information on Harcourt and our products and services. Such address are not used for any other purpose outside the scope of this notice and are not shared with third parties.
1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration Information. You will be required provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your contact information when you register to be a member of “harcourt.co”; register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see Harcourt servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.
2. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial Websites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, and the time spent on our website. We may also use small technology or pieces of code to determine which advertisements and promotions users have seen and how users responded to them.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use said information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in one of our messages or by emailing us at sales@harcourt.co.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each Website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Please note that if you are browsing in a private session any forms that you submit on the site may not be received.
Which Harcourt Industrial, Inc. Might Use Cookies?
Harcourt has contracted with recognized industry leaders for website management and analytics including software companies (this list is current as of Sept. 2022): Google, Google Analytics, Olark, and Campaign Monitor. These companies maintain their own strict privacy policies.
Google allows you to change your display advertising settings by visiting www.google.com/settings/ads
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you use our harcourt.co, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our website and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.
Protection of Certain Personally Identifying Information
Harcourt discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees and website contractors that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Harcourt’s behalf or to provide services available at harcourt.co, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Harcourt’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Harcourt will not rent or sell potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees and contractors, as described above, Harcourt discloses potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Harcourt believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Harcourt, third parties or the public at large. Harcourt takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally identifying and personally identifying information.
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Website may be transmitted securely via phone. Please contact sales@harcourt.co if you have any requests, questions, comments, or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing sales@harcourt.co.
Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.
What About Other Websites Linked to Our Website?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Websites linked to or from our website nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our website.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link on our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our website, you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
Last Updated September 2022
