Privacy Policy — KBM HOGUE

KBM Office Equipment, Inc. DBA KBM-Hogue ("KBM-Hogue," "we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you interact with us, particularly in the context of business-to-business (B2B) transactions, including through our website, products, and services.

1. Information We Collect

Internet and Website Activity Information: When you visit our website, we and our website service providers may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring and exit pages, pages viewed, links selected, dates and times of visits, approximate location derived from your IP address, and other information concerning your interaction with our website.

We may collect this information through server logs, cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, and similar technologies. Some of these technologies may assign or recognize identifiers associated with your browser or device.

We do not intend for analytics, advertising, or similar technologies to collect information you enter into contact forms, search fields, chat features, or other text fields before you intentionally submit that information. We configure our website and service providers accordingly.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

To provide, manage, and improve our products and services.
To communicate with you regarding orders, invoices, contracts, and customer support.
To send updates, industry insights, and business-related communications (you may opt out at any time).
To analyze business trends and improve our offerings for corporate clients.
To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.
To operate, secure, maintain, troubleshoot, and measure the performance of our website.
To understand how visitors use our website and improve its design, content, and functionality.
To detect fraud, security incidents, malicious activity, and unauthorized use.
To provide analytics, advertising, or personalization only when you have made the applicable cookie choice or otherwise provided consent.

3. How We Disclose Information

We do not sell personal information for monetary payment.

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients for the purposes described in this Policy:

Website and Hosting Providers: We use service providers, including Squarespace, to host, operate, secure, and support our website.

Technology and IT Providers: We may disclose information to providers that supply cloud hosting, cybersecurity, data storage, email, customer relationship management, and technical support services.

Analytics Providers: If enabled and permitted by your cookie choices, analytics providers may receive information such as your IP address, browser or device information, pages viewed, and interactions with our website. [Identify any analytics providers presently used.]

Advertising and Social Media Providers: If we use advertising pixels, conversion tracking, or social-media integrations, and you consent to their use, the applicable providers may receive information about your browser, device, and website activity. [Delete this paragraph if no such tools are used; otherwise identify the providers.]

Professional Advisers: We may disclose information to attorneys, accountants, insurers, auditors, and other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.

Legal and Security Disclosures: We may disclose information when required by law, legal process, or government request, or when reasonably necessary to protect our rights, property, systems, users, employees, or others.

Business Transfers: Information may be transferred in connection with an actual or proposed merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar corporate transaction.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with third parties, except with service providers that help deliver the requested messages and are contractually restricted from using the information for their own marketing.

We require service providers to use personal information only for authorized purposes and to provide appropriate safeguards consistent with their services and applicable law.

4. Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your business information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

5. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you reside and whether an applicable privacy law covers our processing, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information; obtain a copy of certain information; limit certain uses; or opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information and targeted advertising.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. An authorized agent may submit a request where permitted by law, subject to appropriate verification.

Requests may be sent to info@kbm-hogue.com.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies for website operation, security, performance, analytics, and, when applicable, personalization or advertising.

Strictly Necessary Technologies: Certain technologies are necessary to provide requested website functionality, maintain security, prevent fraud, remember privacy choices, and operate the website. These technologies may function without a separate opt-in where permitted by law.

Analytics and Performance Technologies: These technologies help us understand website traffic and usage, including the pages visitors view and how they interact with the website.

Advertising and Personalization Technologies: If used, these technologies may help measure advertising, personalize content, or associate website activity with a browser, device, or account.

Nonessential analytics, advertising, and personalization technologies are disabled until you affirmatively select “Accept All” or enable the applicable category through “Manage Cookies.” Selecting “Decline All” prevents nonessential technologies from being activated. You may change or withdraw your choices at any time by selecting the “Cookie Settings” link available on our website.

When you affirmatively enable a category of nonessential technology, you consent to the collection and processing described for that category. Declining nonessential cookies will not prevent you from accessing the primary features of our website.

Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Doing so may affect certain website functions.

7. Browser Privacy Signals and Third-Party Tracking

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” signal. Because there is not currently a uniform industry standard for responding to these signals, our website does not respond to traditional Do Not Track signals. We instead provide the cookie choices described above.

Where required by applicable law, we recognize legally valid opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information associated with the browser or device sending the signal.

Third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites only when their technologies are present on our website and permitted by your cookie choices, except for technologies necessary to provide, secure, or maintain the website.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, comply with legal and contractual obligations, resolve disputes, maintain security, and enforce our agreements.

Retention periods depend on the type of information and its purpose. For example, business transaction records may be retained for tax, accounting, warranty, and contractual purposes, while website analytics information may be retained for a shorter period according to our settings and service-provider agreements.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal obligations, or services. The “Effective Date” at the top of this Policy identifies when the current version became effective.

If we make a material change, we will provide notice through the website or another appropriate method before the change becomes effective when required by law.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

KBM Office Equipment, Inc. DBA KBM-Hogue
225 W Santa Clara Street, Ste 2100, San Jose, CA 95113
408-351-7100
matt.denning@kbm-hogue.com

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