IF YOU VISIT OUR WEB SITES TO BROWSE, READ, OR DOWNLOAD INFORMATION:

ciequipment.com automatically collects and stores: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and your operating system; the date and time you access our sites; and the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to our sites.

Carolina Industrial Equipment (CIE) uses this information only as anonymous aggregate data to determine the number of visitors to different sections of our sites, to ensure the sites are working properly, and to help us make our sites more useful. We do not use it to track or record information about individuals. Generally, we delete this information after five years.

Carolina Industrial Equipment and its parent company, Bortek Industries, Inc., may use cookies which track a user’s past visits on ciequipment.com and Bortek’s other websites (sweeperland.com, bortekindustries.com, bortekpwx.com, bortekshop.com, and hammerheadclean.com) for the purpose of displaying remarketing ads on third-party websites such as Google. Carolina Industrial Equipment may also share customer data with third parties (e.g. Google) as necessary to perform services on your behalf. We use Google Signals data collection for the purpose of remarketing, refining our advertising budget and strategies, and understanding our web traffic so that we can design our websites to better fit your needs. If you wish to opt out of our use of cookies, you may disable cookies in your web browser’s settings, through Google’s ad settings page, or through the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. Your Google activity can be removed from your account from the My Activity page ( https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity ). Google also provides a browser add-on for opting out of Google Analytics across any website you access (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/).

Website Terms of Use

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

CIE collects personal information when you register or contact us from our website. As a buyer, we collect your name, address, email, and telephone number. If you upload and archive documents, we also collect the name and address you wish payments to be made to.

CIE uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

CIE does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;

We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of CIE’s terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.

Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy services, stores, or assets. In such transactions, visitor information is usually one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the unlikely event that Bortek Industries, Inc. is acquired, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets.

Credit card information will never be disclosed by CIE, and follows the conditions of use established by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express.

TERMS OF SERVICE, NOTICES, AND REVISIONS

If you choose to visit ciequipment.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of North Carolina. If you have any concern about privacy at ciequipment.com, please send us a thorough description to info@sweeperland.com, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes.

NEWSLETTERS

We only send newsletters to you and will not sell your email address to 3rd parties. You may choose to opt-out of the newsletter at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in each newsletter or by contacting us directly. By default all contact from our website is entered into our CRM and newsletter distribution list. If you would prefer not to be added to our email distribution list, please specify this in the body of email or contact from submission to us.

COPYRIGHT

The digital images and transcripts of documents on ciequipment.com are the copyright of Carolina Industrial Equipment through our photo licenses with other providers or are the individual copyright of Carolina Industrial Equipment.

The index and all related website content are the copyright of Carolina Industrial Equipment.

PERMITTED USE

Visitors to this website are granted permission to access this material, to download and copy such material on to electronic, magnetic, optical or similar storage media and to make printed copies of any such downloaded material, provided that such activities and copies are for non-commercial private study and research only.

RESTRICTED USE

Visitors to this website may not copy, distribute, screen shot, reproduce, sell or publish any of the copyright material downloaded or copied from this website. For the avoidance of doubt, no permission is given for the transfer of any of this material to an open internet site. For permission, please contact info@sweeperland.com. Carolina Industrial Equipment monitors the web closely for violations of our use policy.