Privacy Policy

Last updated Nov, 2019

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for hwww.oldershawsteel.com. The statement does not include the privacy practices for third party sites. We encourage our users who visit external sites from links within www.oldershawsteel.com to read the privacy statements of those sites, as their privacy practices may differ from ours.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact us via

Phone
(416) 255-0194

If you prefer to write us our postal address is below.

Oldershaw Steel Services
30 Drummond Street
Etobicoke, Ontario
Canada M8V 1Y8

WHAT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IS BEING COLLECTED?

When you visit the Oldershaw’s website, in order for us to provide you with the more information regarding a question, concern or advice you have the option of filling out an online form regarding your inquiry. You are asked to provide us with personally identifiable information such as your name, phone number and e-mail address. We will store a record of your inquiry along with your e-mail address. As well, we have an optional feedback survey which is used to enhance our website and services, there is no personal information collected in this survey. In addition, our web servers track various technical details about your visit, such as your computer’s IP address and which pages you visited, however that information does not typically contain any personally identifiable information about you.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

HOW IS THE INFORMATION BEING USED?

The sole purpose of the online request a quote form is to gather information for quotation purposes. The personal information given in the online inquiry form provides us with a means of contacting you regarding your inquiry.

WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION?

It is important to note that Oldershaw will never disclose your personal information with third parties. Your personal information can only be accessed by Oldershaw. We will never disclose any personal information to parties outside of Oldershaw without your explicit prior consent with the exception of the following:

The following are the only times at which Oldershaw may disclose your personal information: upon request by a legal authority or in good faith when such action is deemed necessary (a) in order to abide by applicable laws or regulations or to intervene in a lawsuit against Oldershaw; (b) in order to protect or defend the legal or property rights of Oldershaw or those of its users; and (c) to intervene, under extreme circumstances, in order to protect the personal safety of Oldershaw employees or the safety of the general public.

WHAT ARE COOKIES AND HOW DO WE USE THEM?

A cookie is a block of text placed in a file on the user’s hard drive by a website you’ve visited. These types of cookies cannot identify an individual user specifically, such as by name or address, unless the cookie data is attached to personally identifiable information. Oldershaw uses cookies to observe our site visitor’s navigation throughout the site. This helps us identify ways to improve our site efficiency.

Contact forms

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

WHAT CHOICES ARE AVAILABLE TO YOU REGARDING THE COLLECTION, USE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE INFORMATION AND HOW YOU CAN CORRECT ANY INACCURACIES IN INFORMATION?

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future or if you have a correction or update to your e-mail, please let us know by calling, sending an e-mail, or by writing to us at the above postal address.

THIRD PARTY SITES:

Oldershaw’s website contains links to third-party websites; these are provided solely for your convenience. Clicking on these links will take you outside of the Oldershaw’s website. Please be advised that Oldershaw has no control over these third-party sites and, while the Oldershaw website may feature such links, Oldershaw will not, at any time, accept liability for these sites. We encourage our users who visit external sites from links within www.oldershawsteel.com to read the privacy statements of those sites, as their privacy practices may differ from ours.