Privacy Policy

Last updated: 10/22/2023

Great Lakes Clay (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://greatlakesclay.com (the “Site”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.

We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use

We collect information from you via the Sites in several different ways including, for example, when you provide us with your information to register as a customer for our Sites, subscribe to our newsletter, receive information or mailings, buy a product or service from us, make a comment or enquiry or contact our Customer Services Team.

Site Visitors: when you visit one of our Sites, we collect various types of information, such as browser type, IP address, date and time of visit, average time spent on the Site, cookie ID, hyperlinks that you have clicked, and websites you visited before arriving at our Site. We also collect information such as, your name and email address when you contact our Customer Services Team.

Guest Checkout: when you place an order for goods via one of our Sites as a guest, we collect your name, contact details, order details, and tokenized payment details.

Account Holders: when you open an account with us and place an order for goods via one of our Sites as an account holder, we collect your name, contact details, passwords, transactional history, and tokenized payment details.

You may also provide us with personal data in other ways, such as if you communicate with us through social media or participate in our promotions.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this.

SMS marketing

If you are located in the USA and/or you are a customer of Great Lakes Clay Inc:

By entering your phone number in the checkout and initializing a purchase or subscribing via our subscription form or a keyword, you agree that we may send you text notifications (for your order, including abandoned cart reminders) and text marketing offers. Text marketing messages will not exceed 30 a month. You acknowledge that consent is not a condition for any purchase.

If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving text marketing messages and notifications, reply with STOP to any mobile message sent from us or use the unsubscribe link we provide you within any of our messages. You understand and agree that alternative methods of opting out, such as using alternative words or requests will not be accounted as a reasonable means of opting out. Message and data rates may apply.

For any questions, please text HELP to the number you receive the messages from. You can also contact us for more information. If you wish to opt-out, please follow the procedures above.

Cookies / Tracking technology / Logfiles

Like many websites, the Site employs cookies and web beacons (also known as clear GIF technology or “action tags”) to speed up your navigation of the Site, recognize you and your access privileges, and track your Site usage.

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored as text files by your Internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies from web sites or to remove cookies from your hard drive, but if you do, you will not be able to access or use portions of the Site. We have to use cookies to enable you to select products, place them in an online shopping cart, and to purchase those products. If you do this, we keep a record of your browsing activity and purchases. THE SITE’S COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USER’S HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USER’S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Our cookies are not “spyware.”

Web beacons assist in delivering cookies and help us determine whether a web page on the Site has been viewed and, if so, how many times. For example, any electronic image on the Site, such as an ad banner, can function as a web beacon.

We may use third-party advertising companies to help tailor site content to users or to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and web beacons to measure advertising effectiveness (such as the web pages visited or products purchased and in what amount). Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any personal data collected by us.

As an example, Facebook collects certain information via cookies and web beacons to determine which web pages are visited or what products are purchased. Please note that any information collected by Facebook via cookies and web beacons is not linked to any customer’s personal data collected by us.

Sharing of information

We may use trusted third parties to provide us with services (e.g., technical support for the Sites, fulfilment of your order, payment processing, marketing, data analyses firms, web-hosting companies, and support services) who may have access to your personal data. All service providers are permitted to use data only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf.

We may share your personal data with competent authorities, courts and bodies in response to a court order, summons or subpoena, regulatory requests, or as permitted or required by law when we reasonably believe it is necessary or appropriate to investigate, prevent or take action against illegal activities, suspected fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person.

We may also disclose your personal data to any third party that acquires, or is interested in acquiring, all or part of our assets or shares, or that succeeds us in carrying on all or part of our business.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information via email, social media and SMS.

Security

To protect your personal data, we take reasonable precautions and follow the industry’s best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Your personally identifiable information is kept secure and encrypted during the type of transmission.

For payments we are using a certified payment gateway provider. All credit card details are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). All payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. We therefore do not see or keep your credit card information.

While we use industry-standard precautions to safeguard your personal data, we cannot guarantee complete security. 100% complete security does not presently exist anywhere online or offline.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 10/23/2023 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.