Privacy Policy

Website Privacy Policy

Introduction

Expanders Inc., an Ohio corporation (“Company” or “We” or “Us”), respects your privacy and has developed this policy to provide information to you. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website expanderscos.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to the information we collect on this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party; or
• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you disagree with our policies and practices, you cannot use our website. By accessing or using this Website, you acknowledge this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be an acknowledgment of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children and Minors Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under the age of 18 is permitted to access or provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children or minors under 18. If you are under 18, do not access, use, or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child or minor without verification of parental consent, where applicable law requires, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child or minor under 18, please contact us at privacy.use@expanderscos.com.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. We may collect this information:
• Directly from you when you provide it to us, or
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies,.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content on the Website is served by social networks and other third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, and content providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites 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. You should contact the responsible provider directly if you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers. The Website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service that Google, Inc. (“Google”) provides. Google Analytics uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer or other device to help the Website analyze how visitors use the Website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google may use this information to evaluate your use of the Website, compile reports on activity, and provide other services relating to activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Additional information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data is made available by Google at the following website: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Please note that Google indicates you may opt out of having or making your site activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on provided by Google. Google may make Additional information available at the following website: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en&ref_topic=2919631 .

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from applicable law and any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• In any other way, we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

We may use the information we collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy and as may otherwise be permitted by applicable law:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use https://www.expanderscos.com/policy/terms-of-use/ and other agreements.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Expanders, Inc., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction with other companies and organizations.

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

• Names
• Emails,
• Addresses
• Phone numbers, or
• Identifiers

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. You may be able to set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

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. You may be able to opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website at https://thenai.org/.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by emailing privacy.use@expanderscos.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. However, we may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Our policy is to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: privacy.use@expanderscos.com or write to us at:
Expanders, Inc.
Attn: Privacy
PO Box 4480
Dublin, OH 43016-0783