PRIVACY POLICY
Benchmark Industrial Services, Inc.-
Web site Privacy Statement
1. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
Benchmark Industrial Services, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our web site. By accessing Benchmark Industrial Service's web site, you acknowledge and fully understand Benchmark's Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Web site Privacy Statement.
2. PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES
Related services and offerings with links from this web site, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within their respective web site. Online merchants and others who participate in Benchmark Industrial's services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
Benchmark Industrial Services collects certain information from and about its users three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with cookies.
a. Web Server Logs
When you visit our web site, we may track information to administer the site and Benchmark may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hense, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality.
Benchmark Industrial Services reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our web site unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into www.oregonbenchmark.com a site that relies on third-party cookies).
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser setting then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our web site.
b. Personal Information Users
Visitors to our web site can submit information to inquire about goods and services. When you place these inquiries, we will request some personal information such as name, e-mail address, telephone number or facsimile number and other relevant information necessary to provide assistance and information for you. For Benchmark Industrial Services / www.oregonbenchmark.com web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes also called single-pixel gif's - that allow Benchmark to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Benchmark Industrial Services may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or e-mail communications. These web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persist ant cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our web site and how you use the site. Benchmark Industrial Services prohibits web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
4. CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
Benchmark Industrial Services has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "updated" date at the top of the Privacy Policy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of this web site and its information and services provided constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
5. CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, it's implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please send your comments care of: Benchmark Industrial Services, Inc., c/o Customer Services, 2245 NW Suffolk St., Portland, OR 97210 or you can reach us by email at:
