Statement of Privacy Policy

What This Statement of Privacy Policy Covers

It is an inherent understanding that each individual has responsibility for the content of their communication and how that content is transmitted over the Internet. In our effort to conduct business in an ethical manner as well as to earn and maintain the public’s trust, please be advised that when using this Web site, this Statement of Privacy Policy covers how mecanamix.com (“Mecanamix”) treats personal information that Mecanamix collects and receives. This would also include information related to your past use of the Mecanamix products and services. Personal information is defined as information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, or other contact information, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

Links to Other Web Sites

This policy applies only to information collected by this Web site. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Mecanamix does not own, control, affiliate with, or to the people that Mecanamix does not employ or manage. If and when Mecanamix offers links to other Web sites, a benefit to you is your convenient access to those other on-line products and services you might be interested in. When linking to another Web site then, that Web site will likely contain their own policy statements which can materially differ from the level of concern and protection provided by Mecanamix. Please take the time to review the policy statements of any Web sites that you visit. When Mecanamix provides a link to another Web site, Mecanamix does not endorse, censor, have the authority to control, or otherwise have permission to alter any information on those other Web sites not owned and operated by Mecanamix. Further, Mecanamix is not responsible for, nor endorses or guarantees the performance or any other results from that linked Web site. If you decide to access any linked Web sites, you do so at your own risk with no recourse to Mecanamix. Further – MECANAMIX.COM (“MECANAMIX”) MAKES NO CONTENT, PRODUCT, AND/OR SERVICE WARRANTIES OBTAINED FROM WEB SITES THAT MAY BE LINKED FROM MECANAMIX. ANY LINKED WEB SITES ARE PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS”, “WITH ALL FAULTS”, AND “AS AVAILABLE” TOGETHER WITH THEIR ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AND CURRENTNESS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OF FITNESS, OR FOR THE MERCHANTABILITY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE REGARDING THE INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, SECURITY, OR ACCURACY THEREIN AVAILABLE FROM ANY WEB SITE LINK. FURTHER, MECANAMIX DOES NOT ENDORSE AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OR RELIABILITY OF ANY ADVICE, OPINIONS, OR STATEMENTS MADE OR PRESENTED FROM ANY WEB SITE LINK NOR FOR ANY CONTENT CAPABILITIES OR RELIABILITIES OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED FROM A LINKED WEB SITE. IT IS ALSO YOUR SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO FULLY EVALUATE THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, AND USEFULNESS OF ANY ADVICE, GUIDANCE, INDICATIONS, OPINIONS, RESULTS OR OTHER CONTENT OBTAINED FROM ANY LINKED WEB SITE.

Children – Minors

Mecanamix does not knowingly or intentionally solicit or collect data or sell to children or minors who are younger than eighteen (18) years old since their birth (delivery). With or without parental or legal guardian consent, if you are less than eighteen (18) years of age since birth, you are instructed to not provide information or otherwise purchase any products and services offered by Mecanamix. Use of Mecanamix products and services are void where prohibited, which may be further defined within the governmental jurisdiction from which you are accessing this Web site. By posting content to the Mecanamix Web site, you represent and warrant that (a) all information you submit is truthful and accurate; (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information; (c) you are older than eighteen (18) years of age since birth (delivery); and (d) your use of Mecanamix products and services does not violate any applicable law or regulation.

Confidentiality and Security

• Mecanamix limits access to personal information about you to its employees, partners and affiliates who we believe have a reasonable need to come into contact with that information in order to provide products and services to you, or to do their jobs;
• We utilize electronic, procedural and physical safeguards to protect personal information about you;
• In utilizing an on-line payment by credit card system, we work with industry-standard security protocols in order to protect sensitive data transmissions. The most widely used systems for electronic payments is currently Secure Socket Layer (SSL) between a consumer and a merchant, and SSL or Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) between a merchant and its financial institution.

Information Collection and Use

• Mecanamix collects personal information when you order, request or use Mecanamix products and services, when you visit the Mecanamix Web site, when you ask a question or share information within the Mecanamix Web site, and when you enter any Mecanamix promotions or special offer codes;
• When you post content to the Mecanamix Web site, you may be asked for information such as your name, e-mail address, postal zip code, country name, company name, and contact information. Once you post content to the Mecanamix Web site or use our products and services, you are not anonymous to us;
• Mecanamix may automatically receive and record information on server logs from your browser, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, Mecanamix cookie information, and the Web page(s) you request or visit;
• Mecanamix collects information about your transactions with us, and shares it with our business partners and affiliates doing business in domestic and any trans-ocean locations, including information about your use of the products and services that we offer;
• When you post content to the Mecanamix Web site you have the option to provide personal information about yourself and your business, such as your personal interests, gender, age, education, occupation and so forth, as part of the content and material you post to the Mecanamix Web site, but you are strongly discouraged from posting any personal information on the Mecanamix Web site, as it will be publicly available to anyone who views it. Mecanamix is not responsible for any personally identifiable information you choose to post on the Mecanamix Web site, and will remove such information only in our sole and absolute discretion;
• All personally identifiable and other information that you choose to include as part of any content you post to the Mecanamix Web site may be republished by Mecanamix, its partners and affiliates in both their domestic and any trans-ocean locations, in book, newspaper column, article or electronic form, in any medium whatsoever whether now existing or hereafter created, with such changes, edits and modifications as Mecanamix may deem necessary or appropriate, and by posting content to the Mecanamix Web site or by using Mecanamix products and services you irrevocably and unconditionally grant Mecanamix the right and permission to do so;
• By posting content to the Mecanamix Web site you irrevocably and unconditionally transfer and assign to Mecanamix, its partners and affiliates in both their domestic and any trans-ocean locations, all of your intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright throughout the world, to such content, without any right to royalty or other compensation for the use of same;
• Mecanamix also uses information for the following general purposes: to customize our Web site, advertising and content, to fulfill your requests for products and services, to improve our services and customer relations, to contact you, and to conduct research.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Mecanamix does not lease, rent, or sell personal information about you with other people or non-affiliated companies except to provide products or services that you have requested, to answer questions you post to the Mecanamix Web site, when we have your permission, and under the following circumstances:

• Mecanamix provides information to trusted partners and affiliates who work on behalf of, or with Mecanamix. These individuals and companies, both at their domestic and any trans-ocean locations, may use your personal information which is reasonably necessary such as your name, phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address, to help Mecanamix communicate with you about offers from Mecanamix and our partners and affiliates. However, these partners and affiliates do not have any independent right to share this information;
• Mecanamix may display targeted advertisements based on personal information but will not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement. However, by interacting with or viewing an advertisement you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the advertisement, as advertisers (including ad serving companies) may assume that people who interact with, view, or click on targeted ads to market products and services meet the targeting criteria. Mecanamix advertisers may include financial service providers (such as banks, insurance agents, stock brokers and mortgage lenders) and non-financial companies (such as retail stores, airlines, software companies, equipment suppliers, and service contractors);
• Mecanamix may contract with other entities to place our advertisements and manage search engine links and the like on other websites, to have those entities provide tracking and reporting services so as to allow Mecanamix to gauge the cost effectiveness of advertising expenditures and to conduct various website optimization functions as necessary. In performing these business functions, Mecanamix would use personal information but will not provide any personal information to those service entities;
• In the event that Mecanamix is acquired or merged with another company or otherwise the business is sold, Mecanamix will transfer its information about you to the new company or new owner(s). In any of these events, you can expect any changes to the Statement of Privacy Policy to be posted on this Web site by the gaining entity;
• In order to investigate, prevent, or otherwise take action regarding illegal activities such as suspicion of fraud, network security attacks, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Mecanamix stated terms through use or stated limitations and so forth, Mecanamix will share information with law enforcement and others as required and allowed by law. Mecanamix is also obligated to disclose any available information to law enforcement in order to comply with the legal process such as lawful subpoenas, court orders, and to establish or exercise our legal rights and/or defend ourselves against any legal claims. In the event a legal process requires the release of information about you, Mecanamix would notify you as allowed by law, so as to give you the opportunity to exercise your legal rights.

Unsolicited Communications

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post information to this Web site, that information can be accessed by the public. In turn, that information can be used by others to send you unsolicited communications. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in response to such unsolicited communications.

Transactional Data Processing

Mecanamix recognizes the importance of protecting and safeguarding transactional information. Your credit card data is processed within the requirements of applicable U.S. laws, regulations and standards by utilizing electronic, procedural and physical safeguards. Before you attempt to enter and then transmit your transactional data for payment, a secure encrypted session such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology is established so that your credit card payment is processed for payment in a secure manner. With procedural, physical and software firewall safeguards in place, Mecanamix and select partners (example, its financial institution) and affiliates also perform normal business operations on transactional data such as the processing of accounting records-reports, analysis of product purchase logs, and facilitate the investigation of any complaints. However, as effective as encryption technology and data masking may be, no commercially available security system has proven to be absolutely impenetrable. Thus Mecanamix complies with applicable U.S. laws, regulations and standards but cannot absolutely guarantee that encrypted information transmitted over the Internet will not be intercepted nor can we absolutely guarantee the secure electronic storage of your transactional information for it has been demonstrated from time to time that a determined hacker can develop tools to override or bypass security systems. However, in the event Mecanamix is associated with a transactional data breach, Mecanamix will cooperate with law enforcement to the fullest extent possible.

Cookies

When you access this Web site, an information file named a “cookie” may be placed in your computer’s memory and accessed at several different points during your Web site session. A cookie is transparently collected information generated by Web servers that does not capture or extract your personal information. Rather, a cookie helps to identify items such as the server your computer is logged onto, your browser and session identification numbers, and to help authenticate when you implement a secure webpage to enter credit card transactional data [making an on-line purchase with your non-swiped credit card].

• Mecanamix attempts to set and access cookies in your computer’s memory and may let its partners, affiliates and advertisers also set and access their respective cookies but the advertisers do not have access to the Mecanamix cookies. The cookies of those partners, affiliates and advertisers are also subject to their own privacy policies;
• With most Internet browsers you can adjust your computer browser settings to be informed when a cookie is being placed, and you can accept or decline all cookies. Please refer to your browser instructions or its help screen to learn more about these control functions. If you reject cookies however, functionality can be limited as you must accept a cookie in order to use secure encryption technology (secure web pages) during your credit card transaction process;
• On non-Company Web sites, linked from the Mecanamix Web site or not, the use of cookies is subject to the desires of the Web site owner’s privacy policies which may substantially differ from the policy of Mecanamix, to which we have no control over.

User ID’s, Passwords and any secure sessions

To obtain access to certain Mecanamix services such as your purchase of a licensed rights information product or technical author-writer access to masked product purchase logs, you could be asked to provide, or be provided personal information such as a User ID with Password. You agree that the information you provide during any secure session will be accurate, complete, and that you will not attempt to enter any Web site under the name of another person in a fraudulent manner. When you are finished with a secure session please make sure you “log out” and close out your browser as Web pages may be “cached”, meaning that some pages could be saved in your computer’s temporary memory (if you “Back” button, a previously viewed page may be shown). Also in some instances, you may not be able to access any secure session pages. This may be due to a hardware and/or software firewall being employed on the computer you are using, that in turn is configured to generally restrict Internet access – an issue for computers linked to some employer related network-server systems.

Changes to this Statement of Privacy Policy

Mecanamix reserves the right to modify this Statement of Privacy Policy at any time, so please review this Web page frequently. A user of the Mecanamix Web site, through the Statement of Terms Through Use, is bound by any policy changes after they are posted.