UNITED SALT CORPORATION
PRIVACY POLICY
EFFECTIVE APRIL 19, 2021
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) applies only to the collection and use of Personal Information (defined below) and other information gathered on the website (“Site”) owned and/or operated by or on behalf of United Salt Corporation (“USC”). This Site is a commercial website and is intended for use by our customers, and prospective customers and their respective employees and agents to obtain information about USC’s products. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect about you, why we collect the information, as well as how we collect and use the information.
This Privacy Policy is intended for individuals in the United States. If you live outside of the United States and choose to use the Site connected with this Privacy Policy, you do so at your own risk and understand that your information will be sent to and stored in the United States. By using our Site or otherwise providing Personal Information to us, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings given such terms in our Site Terms of Use. When we refer to “you” or “your,” we mean the person accessing this Site. If the person accessing this Site acts on behalf of, or for the purposes of, another person, including a business or other organization, “you” or “your” also means that other person, including a business organization.
I. The Types of Information We Collect and How it’s Collected
The web servers that serve the Site may gather certain navigational information about where visitors go on our Site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Site and services. In the process of gathering navigational information, anonymous information may be collected which will provide information regarding a visitor’s use of our Site. Anonymous information means information that does not directly or indirectly identify, and cannot reasonably be used to identify, a particular individual. Examples of anonymous information may include information about your Internet browser, domain type, service provider and IP address information collected through tracking technologies.
In order to operate the Site and provide you with information, products and services that may be requested by or of interest to you, we may collect and retain Personal Information. “Personal Information” generally means any information that identifies you as an individual, and any other information we associate with it. Information that you provide us may include information you input on Contact Us forms, surveys, enrollment forms or similar online fields. This information might include your name, postal address, e-mail address, and/or telephone number. Personal Information can also include any information you provide in communications with us, such as via social media, e-mail or customer service providers of USC or its affiliates. If you contact or interact with us through a social media site, we may collect your social media identifier and related information as well. We may also collect Personal Information passively when you use the Site, such as by our web servers and by third party analytics tools we use. For instance, our system logs may record certain information about visitors to our Site, including the web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device and mobile ad identifiers, browser information, interaction with the Site, pages viewed, app usage, and other such information. We may collect similar information from emails you receive from us that can help us track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients.
Our Site or our providers may use cookies and other technologies to help us understand how you use the Site and enable us to personalize your experience. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
We may detect the physical location of your device by, for example, using GPS information collected by location information shared by your web browser. We collect this information for purposes of enhancing or facilitating our services, such as enabling certain functionalities of the Site that can provide you with information about promotions or relevant product information near you. Should you wish to opt out of the collection of this information, please adjust the settings of your device so that information about your physical location is not sent to us or third parties by (a) disabling location services within the device settings; or (b) denying certain websites permission to access location information by changing the relevant preferences and permissions in your mobile device or browser settings. Please note that your location may still be derived by other device settings, so please consult your device user guide for further information.
As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each website you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as “clickstream data,” can be collected and stored by a website’s server. Clickstream data can identify the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the website from which you linked to our Site. We may use clickstream data as a form of non-Personal Information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Site, how visitors navigate throughout our Site and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors.
We may use your device’s physical location to better understand how our Site and other services and functionality are being used and to provide you with relevant and personalized location-based services and content, including advertising.
We (or our hosting and other providers) may collect traffic information from visitors for statistical analysis and Site improvement. When you access our Site, we or our hosting provider may collect information about your visit in a log file on a server. Log file information may include, but is not limited to, Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of clicks. We or our hosting provider use this information to analyze trends, administer sites, track users’ movements in the aggregate and gather demographic information for aggregate use. We and/or our hosting provider may review this information to better understand overall trends and to determine what kinds of content are popular with and useful to users.
Our Site may contain links to other websites operated by other parties whose practices may be different from ours. When you click on such links and visit such other websites, you need to be aware that we may not control such other websites or such other websites’ business practices and that this Privacy Policy does not apply to such other websites.
Some social network have features that allow those sites to place cookies on your browser and collect certain of your Personal Information, which may include your name and personal social network account information. These other features are operated solely by the respective third parties and their service providers, and not by USC. USC has no control over or access to the information collected, stored or used by such third-party social networks, and the information practices by such third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You should carefully read the privacy policies of each applicable social network before you decide to use such functionalities and features.
II. How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use your Personal Information to help us improve our product and service offerings, to respond to your inquiries and requests, to improve our Site’s functionality, process queries on our Site, to contact you when necessary in connection with products or services you accessed or inquired about via our Site, and to send you information, offers and other promotional materials from us or selected third parties. We use information about our users’ activities and usage of our Site to operate our Site, to improve the quality of the Site, to enhance your experience, to create new services and features, to determine the effectiveness of our Site, and for further internal, commercial purposes. We may also use your Personal Information to comply with applicable law and legal process, to respond to requests from public and government authorities, to protect the security of our Site, to enforce our terms and conditions, to protect our operations or those of our affiliates, to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, security and/or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
III. Security
We have employed security measures to reduce the risk of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of your Personal Information. Unfortunately, no system or network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the Contact Us section.
IV. Disclosure of Information
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose information about your individual visits to our Site, or Personal Information that you provide, to any outside parties, except when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, or (ii) protect the rights, property or safety of USC, our users or others. We may also provide your Personal Information and other information that you have provided to us through the Site to other companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as to host or maintain our Site; for data processing services; to provide website or data security; to provide operational, analytical or reporting services; or to provide technical support.
We consider the information that you provide to us to be a business asset of ours. Accordingly, USC may also disclose Personal Information and other information to a third party in connection with the sale, assignment or transfer of some or all of the assets of USC or its subsidiaries or affiliates or as the result of a change in control of USC, in which case we will contractually require any such third party to treat any such Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may also disclose Personal Information that you have provided to us to our subsidiary and parent companies and businesses, and other affiliated legal entities and businesses with whom we are under common corporate control. Please note that no attorney/client or similar relationship exists between you and USC, and therefore no communication between us, or information you provide to us or input via use of a Site, will be subject to any confidentiality obligation or privilege against disclosure.
USC reserves the right to use and disclose Personal Information to the extent permitted by applicable laws and as necessary for business needs.
V. Correcting or Updating Personal Information
If your Personal Information changes or if you have reason to believe that your Personal Information as we maintain it is incorrect, you may contact us through the Contact Us form and we will attempt to accommodate all reasonable requests for such changes.
VI. Choice/Opt-out
You may request that we delete your personal information. Note that deletion requests are subject to certain limitations, for example, we may retain Personal Information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active account, and to process transactions and facilitate customer requests. However, will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the changes and/or deletions you request. Our compliance with such requests may take 30 days or longer. If you give your Personal Information to us again by using the Site or under other circumstances that permit us to use your information, we will regard your opt-out as having been rescinded.
VII. California Resident Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may request (1) information about what Personal Information we have about you, (2) to delete your personal information, and (3) not to sell your personal information. If you would like to make such a request, please use our Contact Us page. You also have the right to be notified that we may collect your personal information, of the types of personal information we may collect, and what we may do with that information. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with such information, but you may always reach out on our Contact Us page for more information. Finally, we will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). We will not make you waive these rights.
VIII. Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to change, modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. Continued use of this Site after any such revision or modification constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy as so revised or modified.
IX. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can reach us through the Contact Us page. You can also send us snail mail at:
Attn: Legal
United Salt Corporation
4800 San Felipe Street
Houston, TX 77018
