This is the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service online privacy policy ("Policy"). This Policy applies only to activities Berkel Midwest Sales & Service engages in on its website (the “Web site") and does not apply to Berkel Midwest Sales & Service activities that are "offline" or unrelated to the website. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

Collection of your Personal Information

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Berkel Midwest Sales & Service also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Berkel Midwest Sales & Service. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Berkel Midwest Sales & Service for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service Web site.

Links to Other Sites

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from our site so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information. Berkel Midwest Sales & Service is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of Berkel Midwest Sales & Service and our family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service collects and uses your personal information to operate our web site and deliver the services you have requested. Berkel Midwest Sales & Service also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Berkel Midwest Sales & Service. Berkel Midwest Sales & Service may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. In addition, Berkel Midwest Sales & Service may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries.

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service may share your personal information with third parties such as Google and Facebook to show you relevant interest-based ads. Interest-based ads are ads presented to you based on your interaction with the web site and other browsing behaviors that are more tailored to your interests. These Interest-based ads may be presented to you while you are browsing our site or third party sites. To measure how you interact with those ads. You may opt-out of these interest-based ads from Berkel Midwest Sales & Service by visiting the third party site and opting out of the use of cookies for interest-based advertising. Please note that if you choose to opt out, you may continue to see ads, but they will not be based on your interactions with our Web site.

Other than stated above, Berkel Midwest Sales & Service does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide the above stated services to Berkel Midwest Sales & Service, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of this information.

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service keeps track of the web sites and pages our customers visit within the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service website, in order to determine which of our services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Berkel Midwest Sales & Service to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

The Berkel Midwest Sales & Service web site will also disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Berkel Midwest Sales & Service or the Web site.

Use of Cookies

The Berkel Midwest Sales & Service web site uses cookies to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Berkel Midwest Sales & Service pages, or register with the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service site or services, a cookie helps Berkel Midwest Sales & Service to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Berkel Midwest Sales & Service web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service features that you customized.

Additionally, Berkel Midwest Sales & Service may use your cookies to collect non-personal information on how you browse and interact with the Web site, and this information may be used to provide you with interest-based ads. 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 interactive features of the Berkel Midwest Sales & Service services or Web sites you visit.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Your personal identifiable information may be provided to a party if we file for bankruptcy, or there is a transfer of the assets or ownership of Berkel Midwest Sales & Service in connection with proposed or consummated corporate reorganizations, such as mergers or acquisitions.

Changes to your Personal Information and how it may be used

You can access and update certain information relating to your online account by signing into your account and going to the My Account section of the Web site.

Security of your Personal Information

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service takes reasonable steps to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. This includes taking reasonable steps to secure the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, reasonably secure environment. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol is used. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the Web page

Changes to this Policy

We reserve the right to modify or change this privacy policy at any time, simply by posting such changes on the site. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting.

Contact Information

Berkel Midwest Sales & Service welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Berkel Midwest Sales & Service has not adhered to this Statement, please contact our corporate office at 800-921-9151 or rickc@berkelmidwest.com. We value your business and your trust.