Privacy Policy
Last modified: April 30, 2024
Introduction
Central Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respect your
privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may
provide when you visit the website http://www.cwimamfg.com (our “Website”) and our
practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
• On this Website.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
This policy does not apply to information collected by:
• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by
Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any
application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from
or on 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. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy
policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your
continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those
changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may
provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal
information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information
on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases
through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or
provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number,
email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. 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 contact@cwimamfg.com.
California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the
collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more
information.
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, e-mail
address, or telephone number (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your employer name
or employer postal address; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, 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 cookies,
web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.
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. This includes
information provided at the time of completing our member application, submitting a
contact form, or applying for our marketing e-mails. We may also ask you for
information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you
report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (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.
• Your search queries on the 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. Please be aware that 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, 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, location 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.
Some parts of CWIMA 's Website uses cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this
in order to determine the usefulness of CWIMA information to our users and to see how
effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. CWIMA does not
correlate this information with data about individual users, nor does it share this information or
sell it to any third party.
If you prefer not to receive cookies on CWIMA sites, you can set your browser to warn
you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence.
You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information. 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 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.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash
cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to,
from, and on our Website. 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 the Website and our e-mails 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 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).
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by
third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
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. If
you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the
responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted
advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information.
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 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 or any products or services we offer or
provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’
services and events that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information
in this way, please contact us at contact@cwimamfg.com. For more information, see
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display
advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your
personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise
interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
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 subsidiaries and 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 the Company’s
assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar
proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website
users is among the assets transferred.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out
of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and
Disclose Your Information.
• 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.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or
safety of the Company, 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. To learn how you
can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on
Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this
site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to
share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for
promotional purposes, please notify us at contact@cwimamfg.com.
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact
information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or
services, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to
contact@cwimamfg.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you
may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This
opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of other
transactions.
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 can opt out of receiving targeted ads from
members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please
see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have
provided to us by sending us an email at contact@cwimamfg.com. We cannot delete
your personal information except by also deleting your user account. 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.
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.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices.
Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
Your State Privacy Rights
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with
rights to:
• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's
nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
o targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
o sales; or
o profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant
effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please
contact us at contact@cwimamfg.com.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal
information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to
contact@cwimamfg.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data
triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from
accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
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 Website, 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 Website
like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the
Website.
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 Website. 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 Website.
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. The date the privacy policy was
last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an upto-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 contact@cwimamfg.com