PRIVACY STATEMENT
Umbrella Technologies, Inc. (“UTI”) has a strong commitment to providing excellent service to all of our customers and visitors of this web site, including respecting your concerns about privacy. For this reason, UTI has prepared this privacy statement (“Privacy Statement”). If you would like to contact us regarding this Privacy Statement, please send us an email to info@umbtech.com or write to us: “Umbrella Technologies” Box 37, Pittsboro, NC 27312 – USA.
Browsing this Web Site
Visitors who browse this web site do so on an anonymous basis.
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through this web site, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
1. The Internet domain and IP address from which you access this web site;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access this web site;
3. The date and time of access;
4. The particular web pages accessed; and
5. If you linked to this web site from another website, the address of that other web site.
We use this information to help us make our web site more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our web site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits without their consent. This means that, unless you voluntarily and knowingly provide us with personal information, UTI will not know your identity, your e-mail address, or any other information personally identifiable to you.
Employment
If you choose to apply for employment online, you will be required to provide us certain personal information, such as your name, street address, telephone number and e-mail address.
Umbrella Technologies, Inc., in considering an application for employment, may verify the information set forth the application and obtain additional background information relating to applicant background. The applicant thereby authorizes all persons, schools, companies, corporations, credit bureaus, and law enforcement agencies to supply any information concerning the applicants background. The information provided by the applicant to us (UTI) may be stored for a period of up to six years, at the sole discretion of UTI.
Children’s Privacy
This web site is not intended for children and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from children.
Securing Your Information
The UTI Companies treat the information you provide to us as confidential information. We use the same methods and procedures to protect such confidential information as we do to protect our own confidential information. If you submit information to the UTI Companies through this web site or by e-mail, such information is stored on a secure server that resides behind firewalls designed to block unauthorized access from third parties. Because laws applicable to personal information vary by country, our affiliates may have additional measures that vary depending on the applicable legal requirements. Information collected on this web site is covered by this Privacy Statement.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
As mentioned previously, from time to time the UTI Companies may use the services of third parties, which provide services on behalf of the UTI Companies. In such event, such parties are contractually prohibited from using personally identifiable information for any purpose other than for the specific purpose for which they were engaged by us. We prohibit the sale or transfer of personally identifiable information to any person or entity other than the UTI Companies and our third party service providers without your approval.
Use of Cookies
This web site makes use of “cookie” technology. “Cookies” are pieces of electronic information that your browser and your operating system store on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can store a user’s ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of previous selections or purchases. Cookies can enhance the user’s visit, and the use of cookies has become an industry standard, used by most major commercial websites. Such cookies expire automatically after one year, but you may manually delete cookies earlier. These cookies transmit no information about you or your computer back to UTI. If you do not wish to receive these cookies, you may set your browser to reject the cookies, although doing so may affect your ability to perform certain transactions on our web site. You should consult the instructions for your particular browser to determine how to delete cookies, whether your browser is able to turn off cookies, and the procedures for doing so.
Opt-Out
Periodically, the UTI Companies may send you information regarding products or services through direct mailings or e-mails. It is our intention to only send you communications that you want to receive. At any time, you may notify us that you want to “opt-out” and not receive any such tangible or electronic communications by providing your name, postal and e-mail addresses to us at info@UTIbbq.com , and in any event clearly stating in your communication that you wish to “opt-out” from receiving such information. In addition, if you subscribe for any UTI e-mail newsletter you will find instructions on how to unsubscribe at the bottom of such newsletters. Otherwise, we may periodically contact you via e-mail and provide information about our special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. Every time you receive an e-mail from us about special offers or promotions you will be provided the choice to opt-out of future e-mails. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving future marketing materials from the UTI Companies, we are still permitted to contact you for business related purposes.
External Web Sites
UTI is only responsible for the privacy policies of this web site. The privacy practices of third party web sites are not covered by this Privacy Statement and UTI is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other third party web sites, including without limitation their use of cookies, spyware or similar concerns.
Legal
This is a United States web site and is subject to laws of the United States. UTI will disclose personally identifiable information without your permission when required by law, or as otherwise provided in the “Legal Terms of Use” governing this web site. As mentioned previously, laws related to personally identifiable information vary by jurisdiction.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
From time to time this Privacy Statement may be changed by UTI, without notice. However, any such changes will be promptly reflected on this web site, so that you will always know what information we collect, how we might use such information and whether we will disclose such information to any person or entity other than the UTI Companies.
Umbrella Technologies, Inc. Web Site Terms of Use
The Umbrella Technologies, Inc. Web Site (the “Site”) is an online information website provided by Umbrella Technologies, Inc., subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth below. PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE. Umbrella Technologies, Inc. MAY MODIFY THIS AGREEMENT AT ANY TIME, AND SUCH MODIFICATIONS SHALL BE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY UPON POSTING OF THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT ON THE SITE. YOU AGREE TO REVIEW THE AGREEMENT PERIODICALLY TO BE AWARE OF SUCH MODIFICATIONS AND YOUR CONTINUED ACCESS OR USE OF THE SITE SHALL BE DEEMED YOUR CONCLUSIVE ACCEPTANCE OF THE MODIFIED AGREEMENT.
1. Copyright, Licenses and Idea Submissions.
The entire contents of the Site are protected by international copyright and trademark laws. The owner of the copyrights and trademarks are Umbrella Technologies, Inc., its affiliates or other third party licensors. YOU MAY NOT MODIFY, COPY, REPRODUCE, REPUBLISH, UPLOAD, POST, TRANSMIT, OR DISTRIBUTE, IN ANY MANNER, THE MATERIAL ON THE SITE, INCLUTIING TEXT, GRAPHICS, CODE AND/OR SOFTWARE. You may print and download portions of material from the different areas of the Site solely for your own non-commercial use provided that you agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notices from the materials. You agree to grant to Umbrella Technologies, Inc. a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license, with the right to sub-license, to reproduce, distribute, transmit, create derivative works of, publicly display and publicly perform any materials and other information (including, without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products and services) you submit to any public areas of the Site (such as bulletin boards, forums and newsgroups) or by e-mail to Umbrella Technologies, Inc. by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed. You also grant to Umbrella Technologies, Inc. the right to use your name in connection with the submitted materials and other information as well as in connection with all advertising, marketing and promotional material related thereto. You agree that you shall have no recourse against Umbrella Technologies, Inc. for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your communications to Umbrella Technologies, Inc..
TRADEMARKS.
UTI ™, UMAX™, iXCE™, iXFLO™, iXMD™, iX2™, EUCRYPTA™, Micro LDRI™, HDSems™, UTIAQ™, UNET™, NavTech™, ULink™, UGolf™, SigmaOx™ SiPlasma™, UMax CNC ™, and/or any other names of Umbrella Technologies, Inc. or its publications, products, content or services referenced herein or on the Site are the exclusive trademarks or servicemarks of Umbrella Technologies, Inc.. Other product and company names mentioned in the Site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
2. Use of the Site.
You understand that, except for information, products or services clearly identified as being supplied by Umbrella Technologies, Inc., Umbrella Technologies, Inc. does not operate, control or endorse any information, products or services on the Internet in any way. Except for Umbrella Technologies, Inc.- identified information, products or services, all information, products and services offered through the Site or on the Internet generally are offered by third parties that are not affiliated with Umbrella Technologies, Inc.. You also understand that Umbrella Technologies, Inc. cannot and does not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading through the Site will be free of infection or viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other code that manifest contaminating or destructive properties. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to the Site for the reconstruction of any lost data.
YOU ASSUME TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK FOR YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND THE INTERNET. Umbrella Technologies, Inc. PROVIDES THE SITE AND RELATED INFORMATION “AS IS” AND DOES NOT MAKE ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR ENDORSEMENTS WHATSOEVER (INCLUTIING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF TITLE OR NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE). Umbrella Technologies, Inc. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE OR THAT DEFECTS IN THE SITE WILL BE CORRECTED.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
IN NO EVENT WILL Umbrella Technologies, Inc. BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM ATTRIBUTABLE TO ERRORS, OMISSIONS, OR OTHER INACCURACIES IN THE MATERIALS OR INFORMATION DOWNLOADED THROUGH THE SITE. BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, Umbrella Technologies, Inc.’S LIABILITY IS LIMITED TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
Umbrella Technologies, Inc. makes no representations whatsoever about any other web site which you may access through this one or which may link to this Site. When you access a non-Umbrella Technologies, Inc. Web site, please understand that it is independent from Umbrella Technologies, Inc., and that Umbrella Technologies, Inc. has no control over the content on that Web site. In addition, a link to a Umbrella Technologies, Inc. Web site does not mean that Umbrella Technologies, Inc. endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such Web site.
3. Indemnification.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Umbrella Technologies, Inc., its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers and any third party information providers to the Site from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of this Agreement (including negligent or wrongful conduct) by you or any other person accessing the Site.
4. Third Party Rights.
The provisions of paragraphs 2 (Use of the Site), and 3 (Indemnification) are for the benefit of Umbrella Technologies, Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers, and any third party information providers to the Site. Each of these individuals or entities shall have the right to assert and enforce those provisions directly against you on its own behalf.
5.Term; Termination.
This Agreement may be terminated by either party without notice at any time for any reason. The provisions of paragraphs 1 (Copyright, Licenses and Idea Submissions), 2 (Use of the Site), 3 (Indemnification), 4 (Third Party Rights) and 6 (Miscellaneous) shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
6.Miscellaneous.
This Agreement shall all be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of North Carolina applicable to agreements made and to be performed in North Carolina. You agree that any legal action or proceeding between Umbrella Technologies, Inc. and you for any purpose concerning this Agreement or the parties’ obligations hereunder shall be brought exclusively in a federal or state court of competent jurisdiction sitting in Chatham County, NC. Any cause of action or claim you may have with respect to the Site must be commenced within thirty (30) days after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred. Umbrella Technologies, Inc.’s failure to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. Neither the course of conduct between the parties nor trade practice shall act to modify any provision of this Agreement. Umbrella Technologies, Inc. may assign its rights and duties under this Agreement to any party at any time without notice to you.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
Some of the information on this Web site may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or the future financial performance of Umbrella Technologies, Inc.. We wish to caution you that these statements are only predictions and that the actual events or results may differ materially.
