Effective Date: March 1, 2023

MAC Engineering understands the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies when you visit our website at www.macengineering.ca (our “website”) or interact with us, or use any and all of MAC Engineering’s products and services (collectively, our “services”).Our Privacy Policy describes our collection of information during your interactions with the services, and the rights and choices you have regarding your information. 

By using our website or any of our services, you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy and MAC Engineering’s Terms of Use. 

Table of Contents

1. Information Collection 

2. How We Disclose Information to Others

3. Your Privacy Rights

4. Exercising Your Privacy Rights

5. Your Privacy Choices

6. Third Party Websites

7. Security 

8. Age Restrictions

9. Changes to Privacy Policy

10. Contact Us

Information Collection

MAC Engineering collects certain personal information about you. According to California law, and adopted here, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. Personal information can be collected when you provide it directly to us or when you access the website. 

Information we collect (which is described in more details below) includes both personal information and unidentifiable information. We collect personal information when you use our services, interact with our website, submit contact information, interact with us offline, and/or become vendors or customers and otherwise when you use our services.

In the previous twelve months, we have collected various types of information, including:

(Examples of Specific Data and When the Data is Collected)

Browsing Information – We collect browsing information automatically when you visit our website.

• IP address
• Browser type
• Browser settings
• Device ID
• Operating system
• Cookie ID 

Commercial Information – We collect commercial information when you become our customer or vendor, or if you voluntarily provide it to us.

• Business address
• Business phone number
• Business email 

Contact Information – We collect contact information when you provide it to us via email, online form submission, live chat, or through other means.

• Name
• Contact details
• Home address
• Personal email
• Phone numbers
• Previous residence address

Financial Information –  We collect financial information when you place an order with us or through our vendor.

• Bank account information
• Payment card information 

Social Media Data – We collect this information automatically when you share information through social media widgets on our website. We also collect it when you voluntarily provide it to us.

• Profile username
• First name
• Last name
• Contact information
• Profile picture
• Post history 

We collect personal information from a variety of different sources, including:

• Website visitors. We collect browsing information automatically from those who visit our website. We collect contact information, commercial information, and social media data from those who provide it voluntarily via contact forms, email messages, and social media links.
• Customers, vendors, and service providers. We will collect commercial information, contact information, and financial information when you voluntarily become our customer, vendor, or service provider.
• Cookies and trackers. We use cookies and other embedded tracking technology like web beacons which automatically collect users’ browsing information when they use our website. You will find other parties’ trackers on our website. Other parties like our analytics and advertising partners place code with cookies or web beacons embedded in them. These are called third-party cookies. Some third-party cookies are used to track a particular user’s activity across the Internet. 

Sensitive Information. – MAC Engineering does not collect, use, or process personal information which is classified as sensitive information under certain US or foreign legislation, such as information about racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data or biometric data.

Personal information retention. – MAC Engineering uses several criteria to determine how long we should keep categories of personal information. We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the business purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Please understand that residual copies of the personal information can be stored in locations or formats that make complete erasure extremely difficult. The best way to ensure you control your information is to give us only the personal information that you are completely comfortable sharing with us.

How we use collected information, MAC Engineering uses personal information for a variety of business purposes, as described below. We use the information we obtain about you to:

• Process, validate, and deliver your purchases;
• Provide information about products or services you request;
• Conduct marketing research, such as questionnaires and surveys;
• With your consent to the extent required by law, alert you to special offers, updated information, and other new products or services from MAC Engineering;
• Deliver notices to you about the use of our website, like updates to this Privacy Policy; 
• Manage your participation in our events and other promotions, where you have signed up for such events and promotions;
• Analyze and enhance our marketing communications and strategies, like identifying when emails we have sent to you have been received and read;
• Protect against fraud, unauthorized transactions, and other liabilities;
• Secure our website by identifying potential hackers and unauthorized users;
• Enforce our Terms of Use;
• Comply with applicable legal requirements, court orders, legal proceedings, document requests, industry standards, and our internal policies; and
• For other purposes with your consent or where permitted by law. 

Disclosures. We may disclose your personal information in the following ways and circumstances:

• When you consent. Out of respect for your privacy, MAC Engineering will not disclose your personal information to others without your consent, except as specified in this Privacy Policy.
• With our service providers and vendors. We transfer all or a portion of your information to our service providers who help us deliver our products and services to you and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. MAC Engineering has disclosed consumer-provided information to our service providers for the purpose of providing products and services to our international consumers. These service providers may communicate with you to help facilitate access to MAC Engineering products and services. 
• These service providers are required by contract or law to only use or disclose the information as necessary to perform services on our behalf or as otherwise required by law. Although MAC Engineering requires these third parties meet our privacy and security requirements, MAC Engineering does not control the privacy or security policies of such third parties.

With our affiliated companies. We transfer the information that we collect to other MAC Engineering companies, subsidiaries, and related affiliates acting on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

• For a merger, acquisition, change in ownership, or reorganization. Personal information we have collected may be disclosed to a third party in the event of a merger, transfer of ownership or assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate reorganization. 
• For data analytics. We share your information with analytics service providers such as Google. Google may combine your browsing information, including information from your use of our website, to generate interest-based advertisements.
• When we are legally permitted or required to do so. MAC Engineering may disclose without your prior consent any information about you or your use of our website, if we believe disclosure is necessary, including to:
• Protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of MAC Engineering, employees, other users of the website, or the public;
• Enforce the Terms of Use that apply to use of the website;
• As required by a legally valid request from a competent governmental authority;
• Respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties;
• Law enforcement agencies, if we are required to do so; and
• Satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.

Your Privacy Rights

Residents of certain states including California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional rights and choices. Certain state laws grant you rights to control your personal information. Although some of these rights apply generally, certain rights will only apply to limited individuals or circumstances. Individual rights include:

• Right to Know and Access Information. You have the right to know about our information practices. Much of the information you are entitled to know or access is disclosed in this Privacy Policy. You also have the right to access the categories of data we collect, with whom we share or sell that information, and, in some cases, what specific personal information we associate with you or your account. 
• Right to Data Portability. If you request a copy of your specific information then we will provide it in an easily accessible format.
• Right to Deletion or Erasure. You may request that we delete the personal information we have collected about you. Depending on the applicable law, in some cases we are required or permitted to retain your information, even if you validly requested we delete or erase it. 
• Right to Correct Information. You may request we correct or rectify inaccurate information we have collected about you.
• Right to Limit Use of Information for Advertising. You may opt-out of our use of your personal information for advertising purposes.
• Right to Withdraw Consent. You may withdraw your consent to our data privacy practices.
• Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right to not experience discrimination from us for exercising the rights listed in this section. 

Exercising Your Privacy Rights

To exercise your right to access or delete, or change your personal information, you may submit a request through either:

• See the link in the footer of our website; or
• Email MAC Engineering at privacy@mac-eng.com. Please include your email address, full name, and your specific information about your request(s) and, if applicable, specifically what information you do not want to receive. If you would like to update or correct your email address, street address or other personal information with us, please include specific details about the information you wish to have updated or corrected.
• Call us at: +1 269-925-3295.

For requests submitted by form or email, you must provide enough information that allows us to verify your identity. Only you, or your authorized agent may make requests regarding your personal information. An authorized agent must have documentation that they are authorized to act on your behalf. MAC Engineering will attempt to fulfill or reject your request within the amount of time required by law. 

Your Privacy Choices 

Messaging and newsletter communications. You may control how you receive certain types of communications by unsubscribing within the body of the communication. Note that some messages are required, service-related messages like transaction confirmation messages, legal notices, or updates. 

Cookies and web tracking technologies. You may limit the automatic collection of information by Google, including the collection of personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services, by opting-out of such collection. Download the opt-out browser extension, located https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en to opt-out of the automatic collection of browsing and device data. 

Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to our website and other services. Our website may contain links to other websites including those that permit online transactions. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors, or other third parties we link to from our website. MAC Engineering does not endorse, approve, or certify these other websites, and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of the information contained on those websites. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.

Security

MAC Engineering takes reasonable steps to secure your personal information. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to ensure that personal information is stored and processed responsibly. However, no internet transmission is ever fully secure, and we cannot guarantee that information transmitted via our website will remain confidential at all times. 

Age Restrictions

MAC Engineering takes children’s privacy seriously. By accepting the Privacy Policy through your use of our website or services, you certify that you are either (i) 18 years of age or older or (ii) you are at least 13 years of age and are using the Site under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who has agreed to be bound by these Terms on your behalf. If you are under the age of 13, you are not permitted to use the website. If you are a parent or legal guardian who has agreed to be bound by these Terms on behalf of a child between the ages of 13 and 18, you agree to be fully responsible for such child’s use of the Site, including all financial charges and legal liability that such child may incur.

MAC Engineering does not have actual knowledge of any personal information about individuals under the age of 13 whose information has been collected through our website or services. If we become aware that a person submitting information to us is a minor, we delete the information as soon as we discover it and do not use it for any purpose nor disclose it to third parties. If you are a parent or guardian concerned that your child may have provided personal information to us, please contact us at privacy@mac-eng.com

Changes to Privacy Policy 

We may update or change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the changes on our website and will indicate the effective date. Your continued use of our website or our services after the changes are effective constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy. 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at:

MAC Engineering Headquarters Address:

2775 Meadowbrook Road

Benton Harbor, MI 49022 

privacy@mac-eng.com

+1 269-925-3295