Privacy Statement
Modern Plastics Company Website has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Modern Plastics Company Website.
Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our web site. Your IP address is also used to help identify you during our “Live Tech Talk” website feature and in your shopping cart. We also monitor the traffic to our website including, but not limited to pages frequented, time spent on each page and repeat visits.
Advertisers/Paid Website Links
We offer "paid advertising" on the Modern Plastics website in our Paid Links section. We do permit certain links on our website, free of charge based on particular conditions and company criteria. All links are subject to removal at any time without notice, and the addition, acceptance and approval of new links is at the sole discretion of Modern Plastics. Modern Plastics reserves the right to reject, edit or discontinue any link on its website at will and without notice. The use of the Modern Plastics logo or the placing of Modern Plastics as a link on other websites is strictly forbidden without prior written approval. (Please e-mail proderick@modernplastics.com with your contact information and reason you would like to place Modern Plastics on your website.) An exception to this would be the "Modern Plastics Affiliate Program" which offers our link under pre-approved conditions and criteria we have established. The Modern Plastics Affiliate Program permits use of our logo and website link in addition to paying your company/self a sales commission for every sale that originates from your website. Please go to our homepage at www.modernplastics.com to sign up and read more.
We offer these links as a service, but use of these websites and/or products are at the users risk and discretion. (See "External Links" below for further information.)
Registration Forms
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like name, email and postal address). Contact information from the registration forms is used to ship purchases, information about our company, and to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary, and to share with other companies who may want to contact our customers.
Order Forms
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information, products and services. We collect contact information (like email address), and financial information (like account or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order forms is used to ship purchases, information about our company, and to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor when necessary, and to share with other companies who may want to contact our visitors.
External Links
This site contains links to other sites. Modern Plastics Company Website is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Links are provided as a service to our customers and prospects and are not legal associations of Modern Plastics, Inc.
Special Relationships
Our website is hosted by Polysort.com, and their sole purpose is to host the content of our website. From time to time, Polysort will have access to website customer and prospect information from our website during normal website maintenance or upgrades. Polysort also maintains a tracking data base for Modern Plastics of customer information who use contact forms in our website. This information is password accessible by Modern Plastics, and is not intended for usage by anyone other then Modern Plastics.
Since PolySort also hosts our company e-mail, from time to time they may need access to individual e-mail accounts to perform maintenance or repair work. In no way is customer information taken, used, or viewed by Polysort from Modern Plastics for any purpose other than to perform maintenance, repair or upgrade work.
Modern Plastics routinely contacts its suppliers, partner companies and co-workers and collaborates with them for fulfilling your quotes and other requests in a variety of formats (i.e. e-mail, phone, extranet and intranet sites, etc.). These are "typical business conversations" and they should be expected during the normal course of business operations but are no way intended to divulge information that is not pertinent to our customer’s request for quote or other requests.
Companies and individuals who e-mail prints, patent pending design information, proprietary materials, requests for quotes, and other requests, do so knowing that this information is subject to such conditions. Customers and companies that require strict confidentially should send Modern Plastics non-disclosure statements that will only be valid when signed by the President of Modern Plastics.
Public Forums
The Modern Plastics website has a "Live Tech Talk" feature available to its users. These "chat mail" conversations can be viewed by other plastic technical employees of Modern Plastics, and by Modern Plastics management for monitoring purposes. A written transcript of each conversation is maintained in a database for sales follow-up usage and other sales related contact purposes.
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes "public information" and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Security
This site and our company Modern Plastics, have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Modern Plastics uses e-mail extensively and hence maintains the latest anti-virus software and software updates to prevent spreading viruses to our customers and prospects.
From time to time, certain viruses may infiltrate our system and the possibility exists that customers in our database could receive a virus from a user at Modern Plastics. We realize this is a risk that we also face in accepting e-mail and one that our customers and prospects face, however it is a risk which we accept and one which all users assume when e-mail conversations take place between our companies.
Modern Plastics assumes no liability for the transmission of a virus to its customers and/or prospects from our e-mail servers. Modern Plastics strictly limits the distribution of passwords and access to its most critical components of its website - customer information. Passwords are regularly changed to prevent unauthorized access.
Website Usage In General
Modern Plastics website, www.modernplastics.com, is regularly maintained, reviewed and updated for its content. The information provided about Modern Plastics is intended to be truthful and honest and not to misrepresent the company in any way. Any technical data provided by our website, our “Live Tech Talk” feature, or by Modern Plastics employees is believed to be reliable, but is not to be construed as a warranty of representation for which we assume legal responsibility. Users of our website and its information should undertake sufficient verification and testing to determine the suitability for their own particular purpose of any products or information contained herein. No warrant of fitness for a particular purpose is made.
Choice/Opt-Out
Contact names and e-mail address information are regularly gathered for customer service purposes and inclusion in our HTML e-mailings. Your e-mail address or contact information is never given or sold to any other third party. If you elect not to receive news and information from Modern Plastics in any format (such as our "PlasticSolutions" Newsletter), please use the following options to notify us and will promptly take care of your request:
You can send email to customerservice@modernplastics.com. You can call the following telephone number: 800 243-9696.
Data Quality/Access
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided: You can send email to customerservice@modernplastics.com.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, you can contact: bcarbone@modernplastics.com.
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