Privacy Policy for Wholesalecentral.com

This Privacy Policy applies to the WholesaleCentral.com website (the "Site") owned and operated by Sumner Communications, Inc. ("Sumner") and governs data collection and usage on the Site. By using the Site, you consent to the collection of your data and our data practices as described in this Policy.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is a part of the Terms of Use for this Site. To access the Terms of Use, click here https://www.wholesalecentral.com/tos.htm.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of the information that you provide to us in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We do update this Privacy Policy from time to time so please review this Privacy Policy regularly. If we materially alter our Privacy Policy, we will notify you of such changes by posting a notice on our Site. Your continued use of the Site will be deemed your agreement that your information may be used in accordance with the new policy. If you do not agree with the changes, then you should stop using the Site, and you should notify us that you do not want your information used in accordance with the changes.

Information Which We Collect

In operating our Site, we may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information about your device hardware and software may be automatically collected by Sumner. We may collect:
    • IP address, browser type, domain names, date/time, access times
    • Website addresses, requested pages and query string
    • IP address, user name, file name transferred, FTP client, date/time
    • Visitor ID (our tag, cookie), search string (product or category search), search history, visitor data (form type) listing ID, visitor detail (first name, last name, address, country, city, state, zip, phone, email)

      For more information on this collection and use of tracking technologies see "Use of Cookies" section below.

  • If you are a merchant, we will collect your account registration information (e.g. name, address, business name, telephone number, and/or sales tax exemption status, your customer order information, sales information, advertising details and clickstream data.
  • If you are a merchant, we may collect your customer credit card information. We delete such credit card information fourteen (14) days after you, as the merchant, retrieve such information. Note that we may collect your credit card information when you sign up to be a supplier member, however, we do not process or store your credit card data -our third party payment processor tokenizes the information and stores it in compliance with applicable laws and standards.
  • If you purchase products through our Site, we may collect information about your order, including your name and contact information including your shipping and/or billing address, item descriptions and quantities, and content of your message.
  • If you contact a tradeshow through the Site, we may collect your contact information including email address, company name, first name, last name, phone number and content of your message.
  • We may ask you to provide us with contact and demographic information when you register on our Site. We use this information to send our Site's users, like you, information about the Site or Sumner's operations. We also use this information to contact you both online and offline when needed.
  • If you communicate with us for any reason, we will collect your name, email address and the content of your message.

Use of Cookies

The Sumner website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your device by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the features of the Site.

We do track our users across time and across websites. By continuing to browse the Site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Site.

Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or location).

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Site and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services such as Google Analytics) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Use of Your Information

The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our products and/or services to you in the best possible manner. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with information relating to our services and/or products;
  • To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information;
  • To provide third parties with statistical information about the users of our Site;
  • To monitor and conduct an analysis of our Site traffic and usage patterns;
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order or governmental regulations;
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.

Disclosing Your Information

Where applicable, we may disclose your information to any affiliated business entities or third parties necessary to provide products and/or services to you. This includes, where applicable, third parties involved in the administration and operation of our business. We may also disclose your personal information to other third parties, such as:

  • Where we sell or share any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party, whether through bankruptcy proceedings or other sale or merger.
  • Where we are legally required to disclose your information, including, but not limited to, pursuant to a valid subpoena, order, search warrant or other law enforcement request.
  • When we are contractually obligated to disclose it.

Where we disclose information for a purpose set forth herein, we enter a contract with the third party that describes the purpose and requires the third-party recipient to both keep that information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

Security

To secure your information, we have put in place commercially suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on our site.

Nonetheless, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically on our site, and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk.

Third Party Websites

By accessing third party websites through our Site, you are consenting to the terms and privacy policies of those websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.

Users Only of Legal Age of Majority

Our site is designed and intended for those who have reached the age of majority (18 years of age). By using our site, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age or older. We are not liable for any damages that may result from a user's misrepresentation of age.

Sumner does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. No one under age thirteen is authorized to submit or post any information, including personal information, on our site. Under no circumstances may anyone under age thirteen use our site. Parents or legal guardians of children under 13 cannot agree to these terms on their behalf.

Accessibility Statement

We are committed to making sure that our Site is accessible to everyone. For more information, please see our Accessibility Statement here https://www.wholesalecentral.com/accessibility-statement.htm

Contact Information

Sumner welcomes your questions, complaints or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact Sumner at:
https://www.wholesalecentral.com/aboutus.htm

Or by writing to:

Sumner Communications, Inc
6 Research Drive, Suite 420
Shelton, CT 06484

(203) 748-2050
(800) 999-8281

Effective Date: June 8, 2023