Several areas of our Site allow you to make inquiries or request literature by filling out and submitting an online form.

The information you submit includes company information including address and contact information, user information, including fax and e-mail, comments and survey responses.

In order to make improvements to our Site, we may gather information that helps show how customers use the Site. For example, we might do research to determine which areas are accessed most frequently.

The information we gather when you visit our Site may be used in aggregate to improve the products we offer you, to improve the content of our Site or to notify you of problems with your order. We may also use information about your visits to our Site to target advertisements for goods and services to you. In the end, we hope this information will help us build a richly dynamic website that not only fulfills all your industrial product needs, but also provides and easy-to-use interface and an overall enjoyable shopping experience. In effect, we want to tailor our website so that you receive more of what you want from us and less of what you don't want.

Our website is designed to build HTML pages dynamically and according to account information. Therefore, the information that is stored within our databases is retrieved so that only those registered and authorized users have access to your account information. E-mail information is requested so that we can e-mail you a confirmation of your order. All other data is only used for transaction processing within business context as implied between buyer and seller agreements.

A cookie is a small file stored on your computer by a website to give you a unique ID. Cookies help make it easier for you to use our Site, and they help us provide you with the information you need – when and where you need it.

After you place an order on our Site, you will receive an e-mail confirmation of your order placement. You will receive these e-mails only if you have provided your e-mail address during checkout or as part of registering with the Site.

In addition, we may use e-mail for providing you with information on promotions, outages and other events. Please note that we do not sell or share e-mail addresses with other companies. We do use e-mail as a means of receiving feedback from our customers.

This Site contains links to other sites that are not owned, maintained or operated by Applied. Applied is not responsible for the content of any linked site or the use of any information collected from you by such sites.

Linked sites are not subject to this Privacy and Security Policy. The inclusion of a link from or to this Site does not imply recommendation or sponsorship and Applied disclaims any liability for such links. We encourage our users who visit external sites from links within this Site to read the privacy statements of those sites, as their privacy practices may differ from ours.

You will be added to our e-mail newsletter list only if you register to receive newsletters via a form on the Applied website. You may opt-out of receiving our newsletters by clicking on the subscription center link included in every e-mail we send.

Our members and their subscribers are given the opportunity to 'opt-in' to having their information used for purposes not directly related to our Site at the point where we ask for the information.

Users of our Site will always be notified if their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this to ensure that our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

Our website uses security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We store the information in a database in a secure environment at our data center.

We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone without your advance permission unless ordered by a court of law.

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our guests is of utmost concern to us. We exercise great care in providing secure transmission of your information from your PC to our servers. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, Applied can't ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

If required by law, we may provide any and all information we have about you to law enforcement or other government agencies, pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, or other order by a court of competent jurisdiction. In all cases, we will require written documentation of the request, proof of the identity of the law enforcement official making the request, and we will take steps to authenticate the validity of the request. Any law enforcement or government agency request submitted with less than a court-issued order will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis according to the need and urgency, as well as the particular law enforcement agency making the request.

Applied may update this policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on the Site and will be effective as of the date of posting. We ask that you check the Site periodically for updates to this and other policies.

Contact Information
For further information, please contact us.
Applied Industrial Technologies
Corporate Headquarters
1 Applied Plaza
Cleveland, OH 44115
216-426-4000
appliedindustrial@applied.com