Who we are
APS Materials respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of apsmaterials.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through apsmaterials.com (the Website), whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the website, the company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the website.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the website. By using the website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
The Website provides three forms through which you can contact us: the contact form, the quote request form, and the certificate request form. Between them these collect your name, work email address, phone number, position or title, company website, the division or certificate you select, how you heard about us, your message, and any drawings, specifications, photographs or datasheets you choose to attach.
Form submissions are handled by Formspree, a third-party form provider in the United States, which passes them on to the relevant APS Materials team by email. Nothing you submit is stored on the website itself.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
This website sets no cookies of its own. The analytics service and the embedded content described below may set cookies in your browser.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
As you navigate through our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type. The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
How long we retain your data
Enquiries submitted through the forms on this website, together with any files attached to them, are retained indefinitely. We keep them so that we can pick up an enquiry, a quotation or a coating specification again whenever you come back to us, however long that is.
This website has no user accounts or profiles, so there is no account data to retain.
What rights you have over your data
You can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, including anything you have sent us through a form on this website, and you can ask us to erase it. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Write to us using the details on our contact page.
Where we send your data
Form submissions are processed by Formspree in the United States and forwarded by email to the APS Materials team responsible for your enquiry. We do not share them with anyone else and we do not sell them.