Privacy Policy

L.D. Beyer has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the website: www.ldbeyer.com.

Personal Information and Data Gathering

Registration is required to use certain features of our site. We will collect general contact information, such as name and e-mail address, as well as demographic information, such as age, gender and zip code. Data collected from online user-completed forms is stored in secure, password protected server locations. Demographic information collected is used to help us, or our partners, to analyze our aggregate user base and better tailor our site, promotions or other features to better serve that user base. Contact information is also used to better understand our user base.

From time to time, L.D. Beyer will contact our registered users who have opted in to be e-mailed with promotional information that we feel would be applicable to, and desired by that user. At any time a user wishing to opt-out of these e-mails, may do so by selecting Unsubscribe from the promotional email. Once opted-out, the user will not receive any further communication from us, aside from any system messages that are necessary to that user in specific transactions, such as e-commerce order summaries.

Further use of personal information and data gathered by L.D. Beyer

On occasion, L.D. Beyer will sponsor sweepstakes and other promotions that are managed by third-party organizations. Information and data gathered in those instances will be held by the third-party and will normally by shared with L.D. Beyer. Once shared with L.D. Beyer that data and information is subject to L.D. Beyer’s stated privacy policy. Information and data retained by the third-party will be subject to the privacy policy stated by the third-party. L.D. Beyer will make a reasonable best-effort to have the third-party utilize that information in accordance to L.D. Beyer’s stated privacy policy, however, cannot take final responsibility for the third-parties’ actions.

Information and data gathered solely by L.D. Beyer will never be sold, traded or shared with third-parties for any other reason other than for assisting L.D. Beyer in its analysis, research and promotional needs.

This site may contain links to other sites. L.D. Beyer is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

Public Forums

This site may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. We also encourage visitors to be courteous in communicating with others and to be smart about choosing when and to whom to release personal information online. Never disclose any personal information that is of a sensitive or confidential nature on any public area of our site.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All registration information is stored in secure locations on password-protected servers.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. Please select the Unsubscribe link to “opt-out” of this feature, and have yourself removed from our databases. This will not affect the use of cookies and other system data that we gather from you, as this is generally anonymous information that is used in aggregate form.