What Personal Data We Collect

When you make a purchase, or attempt to make a purchase, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

• Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
• Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method

When you use our products and/or features, we collect the following types of Personal Data:

• Account Information such as your name, email address, and password
• Payment Information such as your billing address, phone number, credit card, debit card or other payment method

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect Personal Data from the following sources:

• From You. You may give us your Account Information, Payment Information, Financial Information, Demographic Data, Purchase Information, Content, Feedback, Product Information, by filling in forms, using our products or services, entering information online or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes Personal Data you provide, for example, when you:
• Create an account or purchase products on our website;
• Use our products or services;
• Create content through our products or services;
• Express interest in our products or services;
• Downloading software and/or our mobile application;
• Subscribe to our newsletter;
• Complete a voluntary market research survey;
• Contact us with an inquiry or to report a problem (by phone, email, social media, or messaging service);
• When you log in to our website via social media;
• Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect the following types of data (all as described above): Device Data about your equipment, Usage Data about your browsing actions and patterns, and Contact Data where tasks carried out via our website remain uncompleted, such as incomplete orders or abandoned baskets. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section (below) for further details.
• Third parties: We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties, including:
• Account Information and Payment Information from another individual when they purchase a gift for you on our website;
• Device and Usage Data from third parties, including analytics providers such as Google;
• Account Information and Payment Data from social media platforms when you log in to our website using such social media platforms;
• Content from communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to access your data on such third-party services or networks;
• Account Information and Payment Data from third parties, including organizations (such as law enforcement agencies), associations and groups, who share data for the purposes of fraud prevention and detection and credit risk reduction; and
• Account Information, Payment Data, and Financial Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services

  If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Policy. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the “Contact us” section below.

  Device and Usage Data

  When you visit a Baker's Gas & Welding Supplies, Inc. website, we automatically collect and store information about your visit using browser cookies (files which are sent by us to your computer), or similar technology. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

  Data we collect from third parties

  We may receive your Personal Data from third parties such as companies subscribing to Baker's Gas & Welding Supplies, Inc. services, partners and other sources. This Personal Data is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your Personal Data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions you should first contact the relevant third party for further information about your Personal Data. Where that third party is unresponsive to your rights, you may contact the Data Protection Officer at Baker's Gas & Welding Supplies, Inc. (contact details below).

  Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.

  Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data

  We collect and use your Personal Data with your consent to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.

  These purposes include:

  • To deliver your product or service
  • To fulfill orders including electronic and non-electronic shipment
  • Providing, Developing, and Improving our Products and Services
  • Deliver, maintain, debug and improve our products and services.
  • Enable you to access Baker's Gas & Welding Supplies, Inc. services and set up accounts.
  • Provide you with technical and customer support
  • Organize and Deliver Advertising and Marketing
  • Send you newsletters and other marketing communications about current and future products, programs and services, events, competitions, surveys and promotions held by us or hosted on our behalf; and
  • Organize events or register attendees and schedule meetings for events.

  Where we process your Personal Data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services and to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business for example against fraud. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be required if any changes are made to the type of data collected. Within our contract, if you fail to provide consent, some services may not be available to you.

  Where possible, we store and process data on servers within the general geographical region where you reside (note: this may not be within the country in which you reside). Your Personal Data may also be transferred to, and maintained on, servers residing outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. We will take appropriate steps to ensure that your Personal Data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy as well as applicable data protection law. More information about these clauses can be found here.

  Sharing and Disclosure

  We will share your Personal Data with third parties only in the ways set out in this Policy or set out at the point when the Personal Data is collected.

  Our online store is powered by Shopify. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Data here.

  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Data here. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here.

  We may also use your Personal Data to provide you with targeted marketing via advertisements or communications (such as newsletters). For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work. Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

  Legal Requirement

  We may use or disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connection with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.

  Service Providers and Other Third Parties

  We may use a third party service provider, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. We may share your Personal Data with marketing agencies, database service providers, backup and disaster recovery service providers, email service providers and others but only to maintain and improve our products and services. For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the “Contacting us” section below.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small file with information that your browser stores on your device. Information in this file is typically shared with the owner of the site in addition to potential partners and third parties to that business. The collection of this information may be used in the function of the site and/or to improve your experience.

How we use cookies

To give you the best experience possible, we use the following types of cookies:

• Functional cookies: these cookies are essential for the functioning of our site and cannot be disabled.
• Analytical cookies: these cookies allow us to analyze the use of our site and improve its performance.
• Advertising cookies: these cookies are used to personalize advertising content for you.
• Social media cookies: these cookies allow you to share content from our site on social media.

How to control your cookies

So long as the cookie is not strictly necessary, you may opt in or out of cookie use at any time. To alter the way in which we collect information from you, visit our Cookie Manager.

We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16 Years.

To request a copy for your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we've made the process simple:

Or Write to us at:

Data Privacy Officer of Baker's Gas & Welding Supplies, Inc.

2920 Douglas Road, Toledo, OH, 43606, United States