Privacy Policy
Associated Spring Inc. (“We,” “our,” or “us”) respects your (“You” and “your”) privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) explains how we collect, share and use personal information or personal data (together, “PI”) about you. This Policy encompasses the website located at https://amft.com/, the websites noted below in the “When Does this Policy Apply” section (together, “Website” or “Websites”), and via the applications, products, and services that link to this policy (“Services”). We address here our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing PI, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.
When Does this Policy Apply?
· This Policy applies to information we collect:
o Through the Services.
o In communications, comprising email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, event registrations, upon your completion of contact forms, and through certain methods of automatic data collection specified below.
o When you interact with us offline;
o When you interact with our advertising and applications (including mobile apps) on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.
o Through our third party business partners who help us with customer relationship management, including SALESFORCE;
o When you visit the websites of our affiliates:
- HANGGI, please see https://www.hanggi.ch/en/
- E. WINKEMANN, please see https://www.winkemann.de/en/
- SKO-DIE, please see https://sko-die.com/
- AH METAL SOLUTIONS, please see https://www.ah-metalsolutions.com
- ASSOCIATED SPRING, please see https://associatedspring.com
We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we treat it. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
Children’s and Minors’ Data
Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any PI from children under the age of eighteen. If we learn we have collected or received PI from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
The PI That We Collect or Process
“Personal information” and “Personal data” is data or information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, or payment information (for example, account information
such as name, postal address, and email address, any other identifier we may use to contact you online or offline).
The types of PI we collect or process include:
o Contact information (name, email address, phone number, mailing address) and other information you provide us to communicate regarding products, services, support, and contracts.
o Transactional data (purchase history, payment details—no full credit card numbers are stored) to process orders, billing, and account reconciliation.
o Technical information (Internet protocol, or “IP” address of customers, users, and visitors, device/browser type, usage logs) to ensure site functionality, security, and performance optimization of the Services.
o Location data (approximate, based on IP address or user input – not precise GPS tracking) to tailor service availability and meet compliance requirements.
o Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.
o Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any reviews you make through the Services or emails, chats, or other communications.
California Residents: California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA
If you are a California resident, you have certain rights pursuant to CCPA in connection with your PI:
RIGHT TO KNOW: You can request that we disclose to you: (1) the categories and/or specific pieces of PI we have collected about you, (2) the categories of sources for that PI, (3) the purposes for which we use this information, (4) the categories of third parties with whom we disclose the information, and (5) the categories of information that we sell or disclose to third parties. You can make a request to know up to twice a year, free of charge.
RIGHT TO DELETE: You may request that we delete PI collected from you and tell our service providers to do the same, subject to certain exceptions (such as if we are legally required to keep the information).
RIGHT TO OPT OF SALE OR SHARING: You may request that we stop selling or sharing your personal PI (“opt-out”), including via a user-enabled global privacy control available on some Internet browsers or through certain Internet browser extensions. We cannot sell or share your PI after we receive your opt-out request unless you later authorize us to do so again.
RIGHT TO CORRECT: You may ask us to correct inaccurate information that we have about you.
RIGHT TO LIMIT USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE PI: You can direct us to only use your sensitive PI (for example, your social security number, financial account information, your precise geolocation data, or your genetic data) for limited purposes, such as providing you with the services you requested.
You also have the right to be notified, before or at the point we collect your PI of the types of PI we are collecting about you and what we do with that information.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We cannot make you waive these rights, and any contract provision that says you waive these rights is unenforceable.
Some of the information identified above, including identification document information may be considered sensitive data under certain laws. If required under applicable law, we will collect and process sensitive PI only with your consent. If you choose not to provide or allow us to collect some information, we may not be able to provide you with requested features, services, or information.
We also collect:
o Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from PI. For example, we may aggregate PI to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
o Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with PI so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as PI.
How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data
You Provide Information to Us
We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when you create or update an account, place an order, subscribe, make a purchase, participate in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions, or create, upload, or post content to the Services, including reviews, and media such as photos, videos, or audio recordings. We also collect information when you register for a conference or trade show, complete a contact form, or communicate offline or electronically with us.
Automatically Through Our Services
As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include PI. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.
We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services, known as behavioral tracking.
Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:
· Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.
· Web Beacons. Some parts of the Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited the Website or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
· Artificial Intelligence, or “AI.” We rely on partners to assist us in delivering and managing the Services, including partners who provide customer relationship management, or CRM services. Such CRM partners, including SALESFORCE, utilize tools incorporating AI to collect and store PI.
To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a PI sale, targeted advertising, or profiling under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by contacting sales@amft.com. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.
When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties include:
o Advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers.
o Analytics companies.
o Your device manufacturer.
o Your internet or mobile service provider.
o Social media sites, including LINKEDIN.
These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your PI or they may collect information, including PI, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the provider responsible directly.
From Business Partners and Service Providers
We may receive PI about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as email platform providers, content delivery services, payment processors, promotions services, analytics, security and anti-fraud services, and data brokers. We may also receive PI from business partners that we engage to share consumer information with us, including your personal preferences and demographic
information such as age, gender, and income level so that we can better provide you with a personalized experience, including personalized content services.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any PI, to:
o Provide you with the Services and any content, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
o Communicate with you about us and the Services.
o Fulfill and manage subscriptions, purchases, orders, deliveries, payments, returns, and exchanges.
o Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
o Provide you with notices about your account including expiration and renewal notices.
o Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your PI to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.
o Promote our Services, business, and offerings by publishing advertising on our own Services and by placing ads on third parties’ services. We may use your information to model, segment, target, offer, market, and advertise our Services.
o Conduct our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing and collection.
o Notify you when Services updates are available and about changes to any products or
services we offer or provide through them.
o In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
o For any other purpose with your consent.
The usage information we collect, whether connected to your PI or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
o Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
o Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Services according to your individual needs and interests.
o Speed up your searches.
o Recognize you when you return to our Services.
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the opt-out form that appears when you first access the Websites, any other instance the opt-form is depicted, or you may adjust your user preferences in your account profile.
We use location information we collect to assist in:
· Sales and lead routing,
· Content, language, and commerce localization,
· Compliance and legal controls,
· Performance and operations,
· Analytics and business intelligence,
· Legal jurisdiction and dispute resolution, and
· Personalization and UX improvements
Who We Disclose Your Information To
We may disclose aggregated information about you and information that does not identify any individual without restriction.
We may also disclose PI that we collect, or you provide as described in this Policy:
o To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
o To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep PI confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
o To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Associated Spring’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which PI held by Associated Spring is among the assets transferred.
o To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep PI confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
o To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
o For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
o With your consent.
We may also disclose your PI:
o To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request. o To enforce or apply our terms of use https://amft.com/docs/Terms-and-Conditions-of-Sale.pdf and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
o If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
The categories of PI we may disclose include:
o Account and contact information.
o Account history, including information about your subscription, account, transactions, purchases, order history, or discounts.
o Demographic information.
o Location information, including general geographic location.
o Device information.
o Content and information you elect to provide to us.
o Images, voice recordings, and videos collected or stored in connection with the Services, if you have consented to such information collection].]
Your Rights and Choices About Your Information
This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.
Advertising, Marketing, Cookies, and other Tracking Technologies Choices:
o Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect information through other tracking technologies by contacting sales@amft.com. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly.
o Promotions by Us. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by contacting sales@amft.com.
o Targeted Advertising by the Company. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target audience preferences, you can opt out by contacting sales@amft.com.
o Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your PI with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for advertising and marketing purposes, you can opt out by contacting sales@amft.com. You can also opt out by logging into your account and adjusting your account settings and preferences or sending us an email stating your request to sales@amft.com. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Location Data Choices:
o Location Data. You can choose whether to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some Services features may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Your State Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your PI, including:
o Access and Data Portability. You may confirm whether we process your PI and access a copy of the PI we process. To the extent feasible and required by state law, depending on your state, data will be provided in a portable format. Depending on your state, you may have the right to receive additional information, and it will be included in the response to your access request.
o Correction. You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your PI that we maintain, considering the information’s nature and processing purpose.
o Deletion. You may request that we delete PI about you that we maintain, subject to certain exception under applicable law.
o Opt Out of Using PI for Targeted Advertising, Profiling, and Sales. You may request that we do not use your PI for these purposes.
Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact sales@amft.com.
Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data “sales” as defined under certain laws. When we detect such a signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your choices indicated by a GPC setting as required by applicable law.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain PI sales. To learn more about your rights under Nevada law, you may visit https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-603a.html
If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access California’s privacy statement and learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
How We Protect Your PI
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your PI from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your PI transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. Email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of PI is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depend on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your PI against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
How We Retain Your PI
We keep the categories of PI described in this Policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain PI. At the end of the retention period, PI will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
If you are a California resident, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa for more information about the retention periods that apply to the PI categories we collect.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the Privacy Policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this Policy by updating the “last updated” date and posting the updated Policy on the Services. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this Policy, but you should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.
Contact Information
To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:
[or via our toll-free number: 1-888-771-1210]