Privacy Policy

Sioux Chief Manufacturing Co., Inc. ("Sioux Chief") operates the website located at www.siouxchief.com (the "Site"). As a result of your use of the Site or upon opening an account with Sioux Chief, Sioux Chief will obtain certain personal information about you. The privacy and security of your personal information is important to Sioux Chief. Sioux Chief is committed to protecting your privacy and the personal information that you provide to it while using the Site. Sioux Chief has adopted this Privacy Policy to govern its operation of the Site and its use of your personal information and to inform you of how Sioux Chief uses or may use your personal information and the steps that Sioux Chief has undertaken to protect your personal information.

By using the Site, you agree on your behalf (and on behalf of any company for which you use the Site) to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the use of your personal information (and the personal information of the other company) by Sioux Chief as provided for herein.

The personal information collected by Sioux Chief consists of non-personally identifiable information which by itself cannot be used to identify or contact you and personally identifiable information which identifies you or can be used to identify or contact you.

Non-personally identifiable information consists of general information regarding the users of the Site. This information includes information of the type that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser types, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), language preference, operating system, date and time of each visitor request, and other anonymous statistical data involving the use of the Site. This non-personally identifiable information may be stored by Sioux Chief in log files.

Sioux Chief may also collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of cookies (which are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit the Site) and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. Cookies and these other technologies are used by Sioux Chief to identify and track visitors to the Site, monitor the activities of users, identify a user's usage of the Site and ascertain website access preferences. Cookies also facilitate navigation through the Site, store information regarding the Site so that a user does not have to reenter the same information each time it uses the Site and provide a user with customized content.

Sioux Chief treats information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personally identifiable information. To the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, Sioux Chief will also treat these identifiers as personally identifiable information. Additionally, to the extent that non-personally identifiable information is combined with personally identifiable information, Sioux Chief will treat the combined information as personally identifiable information.

If you do not wish to have cookies placed on your computer, you should set your browser to refuse cookies before accessing the Site. Such a setting, however, may cause certain features of the Site to not function properly.

You may choose to interact with Sioux Chief in ways that require it to gather and store personally identifiable information. Such personally identifiable information may include your name, physical address, e-mail address, telephone number, age, and billing and credit information. Sioux Chief will collect personally identifiable information from you when you (i) register to use the Site, participate in specific events or receive newsletters offered by Sioux Chief; (ii) order products or services from Sioux Chief; (iii) respond to a survey or questionnaire; or (iv) request or submit information to Sioux Chief related to employment opportunities with it. The amount and type of personally identifiable information that Sioux Chief gathers depends upon the nature of your interaction with it. In each case, Sioux Chief will only collect such information as is necessary or appropriate for us to properly accomplish the purpose for which you contacted the Site. Sioux Chief does not disclose personally identifiable information other than as specified in this Privacy Policy. You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information, with the understanding that you may not be able to access certain sections of the Site, purchase products and/or services from Sioux Chief or participate in other events or opportunities offered by Sioux Chief.

Sioux Chief may also collect statistical information about the behavior of users of the Site including information regarding a user's use and navigation of the Site. Sioux Chief may display this information publicly or provide it to others, but any such use will be in an aggregate form and will not associate this information with a specific user. Except as provided for herein, Sioux Chief will not disclose such statistical information with any personally identifiable information.

The personal information collected by Sioux Chief is used to (i) improve the Site, (ii) better understand how the Site is used, (iii) enhance a user's experience with the Site, (iv) provide products and/or services to you and (v) protect Sioux Chief and its other customers and users of the Site. If you register to use the Site, Sioux Chief may use your personally identifiable information to send you a welcome notice, an electronic newsletter, information about Sioux Chief's products and/or services and/or other information that Sioux Chief believes may be of interest to you (such as information to keep you up to date with Sioux Chief and its products and services). Sioux Chief will also use your personally identifiable information to fulfill any orders from you for Sioux Chief's products and/or services, to approve you for credit and to respond to specific questions that you may submit to Sioux Chief regarding its products and/or services. After you register as a user of the Site, you can always instruct Sioux Chief to discontinue any further communications with you.

Except for the limited circumstances provided for herein, Sioux Chief will not disclose, sell, rent or license any of your personal information gathered by it through the Site to any unaffiliated third parties without your consent to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Sioux Chief does disclose personal information (both non-personally identifiable information and personally identifiable information) to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that need the information in order to perform services requested by Sioux Chief, including, but not limited to, fulfilling an order for products and/or services, authorizing credit, completing a credit card payment, processing a return request, providing customer service and participating in the manufacture, storage or shipment of products and the performance of services on behalf of Sioux Chief.

In addition to a disclosure to Sioux Chief's employees, contractors and affiliated organizations as described above, Sioux Chief may also disclose personal information about you (including, personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information) in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the rights or property of Sioux Chief or its affiliated organizations or the safety and/or security of any other person or organization or for purposes of national security, law enforcement or issues of public importance. Sioux Chief may also disclose personal information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce Sioux Chief's terms and conditions or to protect its operations or the privacy of other users of the Site.

Sioux Chief may also provide non-personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations for the purpose of developing new products and/or services, marketing or advertising products and/or services offered by Sioux Chief, and monitoring the use and operation of the Site. If you send Sioux Chief a request (for example, via supporting e-mail or one of Sioux Chief's feedback mechanisms), Sioux Chief reserves the right to publish this information in order to help Sioux Chief clarify or respond to your request or to help Sioux Chief support other users.

The personal information acquired by Sioux Chief is a business asset of Sioux Chief. If Sioux Chief is sold or otherwise reorganizes, merges with another entity or sells all or substantially all of its assets, or in the unlikely event that Sioux Chief goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, the personal information retained by Sioux Chief would be one of the assets that is or may be transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and hereby consent to the sale, assignment or transfer of Sioux Chief's personal information.

Sioux Chief has taken such measures and has adopted such administrative, technical and physical procedures as it believes are reasonably necessary to protect any personal information that it receives from you through the Site against the unauthorized access, use, misuse, theft, alteration or destruction of such personal information. The security measures adopted by Sioux Chief include the encryption of all web pages where personally identifiable information is collected and the restriction of access to personal information to those employees, vendors and authorized agents who need it to process it for Sioux Chief, to perform a specific task or function for Sioux Chief or to provide products and/or services that you may have requested. Sioux Chief requires that any employees, vendors or other third parties who are given access to your personal information agree to abide by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Notwithstanding the security actions taken by Sioux Chief, there is always a risk when transmitting information over the Internet. Accordingly, Sioux Chief cannot guarantee the security and privacy of any information that you provide to it through the Site.

The Site links with other websites not owned or operated by Sioux Chief. If you link to one of these websites, Sioux Chief is not responsible for the content or security of the other website. The existence of a link to another website does not mean that Sioux Chief endorses the other website and Sioux Chief specifically disclaims any liability with respect to the use of another website. You are directed to these other websites for information for the privacy practices adopted by these websites.

Sioux Chief acknowledges the need to protect the privacy of children. As a result, access to the Site is limited to users who are over the age of 18. Sioux Chief requests that persons under the age of 18 not access or use the Site or submit or post any information on the Site. Sioux Chief will not knowingly collect personal information from any person that it actually knows is under the age of 18.

Sioux Chief permits you to contact Sioux Chief to update or correct the your personally identifiable information, change preferences regarding use of the personal information collected by Sioux Chief and/or request that the personal information be deleted from Sioux Chief's system. If you wish to initiate such an update, correction, change and/or deletion, you are encouraged to contact Sioux Chief at www.siouxchief.com.

Sioux Chief reserves the right to alter or amend the Privacy Policy in whole or in part at any time and from time to time. All changes will be incorporated to the Privacy Policy posted on the Site. You are encouraged to review the Site from time to time to obtain the latest version of Sioux Chief's Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you are may contact Sioux Chief at any time.