Songshun Steel Privacy Policy

Songshun Steel, Inc. (“Company,” “Songshun Steel,” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy and any applicable laws when you use the website at www.steelpurchase.com and any related website or domain operated by Songshun Steel (the “Sites”), or any Services (defined in the next paragraph) accessed from any Sites, or both of the Sites and Services.

Songshun Steel offers various services (the “Services”) to provide businesses and individuals access to a rich collection of resources related to search engine optimization and inbound marketing, including without limitation search engine optimization tools, link analysis tools, downloadable toolbars, application program interfaces (“APIs”), site profile services, search analytics, blogs, user-generated content, personalized content, and industry surveys and opinion polls.

This privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Sites or use our Services in general, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On the Sites.
      Under GDPR, this policy also applies to Personal Data to the extent that you as a Data Subject under GDPR provide that Personal Data to or it is collected from you on the websites of certain Songshun Steel partners who provide a service registering you for Songshun Steel events and those partners in their capacity as Data Controllers share any event attendee/participant Personal Data with Songshun Steel.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Sites.
  • Through mobile and desktop applications you download from the Sites or in connection with the Services, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and the Sites.
  • From third parties, whether they are partners or vendors.
    Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your only recourse is not to use our Sites or Services. By accessing or using the Sites or Services, you agree to this privacy policy.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your only recourse is not to use our Sites or Services. By accessing or using the Sites or Services, you agree to this privacy policy.

GDPR Lawful Bases for Processing Personal Data of Data Subjects

Under GDPR, Songshun Steel may only Process the Personal Data of a Data Subject lawfully if Songshun Steel has at least one of six lawful bases for Processing the Personal Data. Currently under this version of the privacy policy, Songshun Steel relies on at least one of the following legal bases to process Personal Data under GDPR:

  • In order to perform pursuant to one or more legal agreements (contracts) with you,
  • With your consent, and
  • Pursuant to a Legitimate Interest, in which Songshun Steel considers the purpose it has for Processing your Personal Data, whether the Processing is necessary for that Purpose, and whether your own personal interests as a Data Subject outweigh Songshun Steel’s purpose in Processing your Personal Data.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

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

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, or telephone number (“personal information”);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your company name and job title; and/or
  • About your Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Sites, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site using cookies and other tracking technologies defined and discussed with more detail below. Information collected automatically may include usage details, email address, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners and third-party service providers who we believe in good faith are providing or sharing with us data in compliance with applicable laws or with whom you have authorized either these third parties or us or both to collect and use the data.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Sites or Services may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Sites. This includes without limitation information provided at the time of subscribing to the Services, and when you report a problem with our Sites.
  • 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.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Sites and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Sites.
  • Your search queries on the Sites.
  • Information you enter into our Sites about your marketing activities so that we can provide Services to you.

 

You also may provide information to be published, displayed, or transmitted (hereinafter “posted”) on public areas of the Sites, or transmitted to other users of the Sites or third parties (collectively, “Interactive Content”). Your Interactive Content is posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk; we cannot control the actions of other users of the Sites with whom you may choose to share your Interactive Content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that Interactive Content will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Usage Details, IP Addresses, Cookies, and Other Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Sites and Services, we may automatically collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including without limitation:

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

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not identify any individual*. It helps us to improve our Sites and Services and to deliver better and more personalized future services by enabling us to do things such as:

  1. Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  2. Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Sites according to your individual interests.
  3. Speed up user searches.
  4. Recognize you when you return to our Sites.
  5. Provide better services in the future.

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

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.

Flash cookies. Certain features of our Sites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Sites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Web beacons. Pages of our the Sites 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 those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us. However, to the extent the information we collect by automatic means constitutes Personal Data under GDPR either before or after we collect it, our processing of that Personal Data will comply with GDPR.

How We Use Your Information

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

  1. To present our Sites and their content to you.
  2. To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  3. To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  4. To provide you with notices about your subscriptions to the Services, including expiration and renewal notices.
  5. To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  6. To notify you about changes to our Sites or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  7. To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Sites.
  8. In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  9. For any other purpose with your consent.

We never sell your personal information or provide it to others for their own and exclusive marketing purposes.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may collect and disclose anonymous and aggregated information about our users and subscribers, and other information that does not identify any individual without restriction for the purposes of product research, to improve our Services and for other commercial purposes.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Sites like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Sites.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Sites or via our Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Sites or via the Services.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or possibly through a notice on the Sites’ home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom 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 Sites and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Updated February 17, 2023

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask any other questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices on subjects in which a process for making request is not already provided above, contact us by email.