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Privacy Policy

Your Privacy is Important to Us

Applied Power Technologies, Inc. (APT) is a customer-focused, vendor-independent systems integrators in the power and energy market. We understand the power of privacy, as it is one of our areas of expertise. Please read our privacy policy below and feel free to reach out with any questions.

Our main website address is: https://apt4power.com/.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Cookie contains no personal data and discards when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year.

• If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.
• If you log out of your account, the login cookies are removed.
• If you edit or publish an article, additional cookies save in your browser.
• Cookies include no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may

• Collect data about you
• Use cookies
• Use embed additional third-party tracking
• Monitor your interaction with that embedded content
  • Including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Forms

If you fill out a contact form on our website we send and store that data to address your concern. Our website administrators receive an email with your provided information so we can address your concern. Additionally, we store your form entries in a local database, incase of data loss in the sent email.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. We try to remove all metadata from images and compress them, but visitors to the website may be able download and extract any location data from images on the website.

We send images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data is either be stripped or returned as it is. WPMU DEV servers do not store the data.

We uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. See the Gravatar service Privacy Policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We reserve the collect analytics data and send this information to advertising platforms.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, we retain the comment and metadata indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

If syncing data to a 3rd party service (e.g MailChimp or SendinBlue), data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data kept for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

We check visitor requests and comments through an automated spam detection and security service. We may also send them to our outbound email marketing platforms, MailChimp and SendinBlue. See MailChimp’s Privacy Policy and SendinBlue’s Privacy Policy.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Our website uses the latest encryption standards to secure and protect your data requests. We require a minimum of the TLS 1.2 protocol for all encrypted data requests, and support the latest encryption standards as they are developed (ex. TLS 1.3). Addittionally, we use Cloudflare’s advanced Content Delivery Network, along with many other security protocols, to protect the website and your personal data from malicious attackers.

What third parties we receive data from

We collect analytics data to continue to improve popular sections of our website with Google Analytics and Cloudflare. See Google’s Privacy Policy and Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy. We also utilize the third party email marketing platforms MailChimp and SendinBlue to send out promotional material. See MailChimp’s Privacy Policy and SendinBlue’s Privacy Policy.