Greenway Steel, LLC (“Greenway Steel” or “we”) is an advocate of a sustainable steel industry. The development of carbon neutral steel manufacturing and products driven by global greenhouse gas reduction targets focused on climate change mitigation is our focus. We provide support and a platform for companies in the steel and steel products industries to determine their carbon footprint.
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.greenwaysteel.com (the “Website”) and/or use our software tool known as the Greenway Calculator (the “Platform”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On the Website and via the Platform
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the 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 do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website and/or Platform. By accessing or using the Website and/or Platform, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website and/or the Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Collection of your Personal Information
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and/or Platform, including information:
- By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, and telephone number (“personal information”);
- That is about you but individually does not identify you; and
- About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website or the Platform, and usage details.
We collect this information:
- directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website and/or Platform may include:
- information collected when filling in forms on the Website and/or Platform, including when registering for an account and using our “Contact Us” feature, or entering data on the Platform. We may also ask you for information when you enter a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners, sign up for special offers from selected third parties via our Website, and when you report a problem with the Website or our Platform.
- Records and copies of your correspondences (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website and/or Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, 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 is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but 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.
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 Website. 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 Website.
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 Platform and their 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 provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Website, Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though them.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Greenway Steel does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To our affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Greenway Steel’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information about our Website and/or Platform users is among the assets transferred.
- 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 to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- • To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Greenway Steel, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can 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.
Security of your Personal Information
Greenway Steel secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Greenway Steel uses the following methods for this purpose:
SSL Protocol When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through the Website cannot be guaranteed.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website or Platform and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at info@greenwaysteel.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. 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.
Please note that if you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
Children Under Thirteen
Greenway Steel does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use the Website and/or Platform. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@greenwaysteel.com.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Greenway Steel may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Greenway Steel or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Greenway Steel, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
Changes to this Policy
Greenway Steel reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our Website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the Website and/or the Platform after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
info@greenwaysteel.com