Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement for Pier Gear

Effective: March 1, 2021
Updated: March 1, 2021

Pier Gear has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to our visitors' and guests' privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Pier Gear web site and use by our offices. This policy also describes other important topics related to your privacy.

We do not sell any customer information to any third party. Neither do we provide any individually identifiable customer information to any third party except as follows:

• in response to subpoenas, court orders or legal process, or if we find that your actions on our web site violate any laws or commonly acceptable web site use practices;
• in order to finalize a payment for services requested and agreed to with our staff. This information may be shared with your financial institution or credit card issuer as indicated;

 

Information Gathering

Personally Identifiable Information:

The Pier Gear web site only collect the personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide either during your visit to our websites, via e-mail correspondence or during the completion of our on-line forms. This information may consist of the following: your name, address, telephone number, and your e-mail address. The information you voluntarily supply will be used by Pier Gear to respond to your inquiries, supply you with requested information on services, product updates, to issue reminders for or to track orders you have made with Pier Gear. Your information is considered private and confidential and treated with the strictest confidence.

How to Update Your Personal Information

If you are not yet a customer or client, but have submitted personal information to Pier Gear electronically and would like it removed or modified, please contact us at Tom@Piergear.com We will gladly and expediently comply with your request. Please note that certain confidential customer or client files related to services that have been provided are part of a permanent record that must be kept in accordance with federal law.

Disclosure to Third Parties

We may share and disclose information with third party service providers performing services on our behalf. We share information, including Personal Information, with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them (such as hosting and data analyses). We may share information as needed to operate other related services. We may share personally identifiable information about you with other trusted companies or people to perform functions for which we engage them when (1) you have consented to our sharing of the information, or (2) we need to share the information in order to provide a service requested by you. These companies or individuals may use your personally identifiable information only to the extent necessary to assist us and are required to protect the information.

Notwithstanding any other statements or representations in this Policy or elsewhere on our website, we reserve the right to disclose any information in our possession if we are required to do so by law or we believe, in good faith, that such a disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, defend our rights or property, or to respond to an emergency situation.

Non-personal Automatically Retrieved Information (such as that used by your browser):

We also collect general non-personal information used to help improve the navigation features of our website. This may include items such as; browser type, IP address, external links you clicked to reach our site, and pages you visit while viewing our website. The IP address may be stored with the personally identifiable information you provide in order to allow us to provide more finely tuned customer service both now and in the future. To administer the collection of non-personal information, authorized third parties may be utilized by Pier Gear to collect, track and process the general non-personal information described.

Some of our Web pages may set "cookies," which are small pieces of data that may be sent to your web browser and stored on your computer. This allows our server to recognize you when you visit our web site in the future. Most web browsers can be configured to not accept cookies, or to notify you if a cookie is being sent to you. With the proper setting in your browser, you can choose to accept or reject the cookie. Cookies which are set on your computer and used within the Pier Gear website does NOT contain specific individual identity, passwords or other confidential information.

Third Party Links

The Pier Gear web site may contain links to third-party websites and services (“Third Party Services”) with which we have no affiliation. A link to any Third Party Service does not mean that we endorse it or the quality or accuracy of information presented on it. If you decide to visit any Third Party Services, you are subject to its privacy policy and practices and not this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to carefully review the legal and privacy notices of all other digital services that you visit.

Security & Authorized Access to Information Gathered:

This site has certain security measures in place to protect against loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. We utilize a Secure Site Certificate enabling SSL encryption for your confidential information. Online servers are further protected from unauthorized electronic access by firewall technology that recognizes, reports and locks out unusual or apparently un-authorized access attempts.

Databases are regularly backed up and saved to protect against loss of information. Backup storage media and online servers are maintained in a physically secured and environmentally controlled facility with monitored physical access controlled by password, biometric and physical security measures

Access to visitor or guest information (including backup media) by staff and contractors is controlled by both policy and electronic means. Only authorized staff has access to customer data. Individual staff members may be allowed to access only certain parts of customer information as may be required to perform their job functions. All staff or contractors with any access to customer data are under signed agreement not to misuse or disclose such information to any third party except as may be required by law or job function.

Other Important Information:

The Pier Gear web site may contain links to other sites. We do not endorse or otherwise accept responsibility for the content or privacy policies of those sites.

Contact Information Relative to our Privacy Policy:

Email:  Tom@Piergear.com

Phone: (402) 885-0091

Pier Gear reserves the right to modify this privacy policy at any time.