Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 29, 2026

“We,” “us,” “our,” and the like means AAkron Rule Corp. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) will help you understand how we collect and use Personal Information (as applicable laws may define this term or its equivalent) from those who visit our website, available at: https://www.aakronline.com/ (“Website”) or make use of our online facilities and services, and what we will and will not do with the information we collect. Our Policy has been created to meet most existing privacy standards.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Policy at any time, without notice to you, except as may be required by applicable law, and without liability to you or to any third party. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to visit this page periodically.

By using our Website, allowing the collection and/or providing your information, you are consenting to the Personal Information collection and processing expressed in this Policy. This Policy applies solely to the information collected by our Website.

Specifically, this Policy sets forth:

• What Personal Information (or information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or household, which may include: identifiers, commercial information, internet or other electronic network activity information, geolocation data, professional or employment-related information, or communications) may be collected from you through our Website;
• Why we collect Personal Information and the legal basis for such collection;
• How we may use the collected information and with whom it may be shared;
• What choices may be available to you regarding the use of your Personal Information; and
• Certain security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

WHAT INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

Where possible and if appropriate, Personal Information collected is anonymized and/or aggregated for our business purposes. In addition, we may collect anonymous demographic information, such as age, gender, the type of browser you are using, IP address, or type of operating system, which will assist us in providing and maintaining quality service and the Website. We may, from time to time, also obtain information regarding websites that users may generally frequent to identify popular services and products.

In connection with your use of our Website, you may wish to voluntarily disclose your Personal Information to us. If you elect not to do so, your ability to use the Website as intended may be impacted, you may not be able to register as a user, or receive requested information, products or services. In addition, we may collect Personal Information that may automatically be provided to us by your internet service provider or browser as a result of your visit to, or activity on, our Website, which may include information regarding your use of our Website through the use of cookies or tracking technologies (described below).

Specifically, the Website may collect various types of information, such as:

• Voluntarily provided information through fillable forms, surveys, membership applications, and emails which may include: your name, address, email address, company name, business address and industry, which may be used when you purchase products and/or services and to deliver the products and/or services you have requested, and certain payment information to process your transaction/s including whether the transaction was authorized or declined and the last four digits of your credit card, serving as the transaction number. When using the “Live Chat” form found on our Website, please do not provide any information beyond what is requested in the form.
• Information automatically collected when visiting our Website, which may include cookies, third-party tracking technologies (described below), and/or server logs.

HOW WE MAY USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

What are tracking technologies?

When you access the internet, the computers that host websites may automatically receive some information about your visit, or “usage data,” which may include browser type, webpages visited, and IP address. Our servers receive usage data when customers visit our Website. We may use various kinds of tracking technologies to collect information about the internet use related to our Website.

A “cookie” is a small data file transmitted from a website to your device’s hard drive. Cookies are usually defined in one of two ways, and we may use either (or both) of them. (a) Session cookies, which do not stay on your device after you close your browser, and (b) Persistent cookies, which remain on your device until you delete them or they expire. Cookies set by the website you are visiting are normally referred to as “first-party cookies,” and typically only track your activity on that particular site. Cookies set by other sites and companies (i.e., third parties) are called “third-party cookies,” and can be used to track you on other websites.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are always active. Declining cookies, however, may prevent you from taking full advantage of our Website’s functions or features.

What tracking technologies may be used on our Website?

We may use the following categories of cookies on our Website:

• a. Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies required for our Website’s security and proper functioning, including recording user identity, logins, account management, tracking viewed or purchased items (e.g., a shopping cart), and payment processing.
• b. Non-Essential Functionality Cookies. These cookies collect information about your device and settings you may configure on the website.
• c. Performance Cookies. These cookies collect anonymous information on how you use our Website to help us understand how you arrived at our Website, browse or use our Website and highlight areas where we can improve, such as navigation.

Google Analytics. Our Website sends aggregated information to Google Analytics, an independent company over which we have no control, for the purpose of providing us with the ability to conduct technical and statistical analysis on our Website’s performance. For more information on how Google Analytics supports our Website and uses information sent from our Website, please review Google’s privacy policy, which may be subject to change.

• d. Statistics Cookies. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.

We also use third-party tracking through embedded web links and content, such as media or functionality, provided in our emails and incorporated into the Website. Some of these links may help us identify who clicked on our link and this activity may then be attached to the Personal Information that we hold about you. This data is used to improve our service and to help us understand the performance of our marketing campaigns.

Our Website may contain embedded content, such as links to product and design catalogs, hosted on third-party platforms operated by our service providers, including ZoomCatalog. When you interact with these embedded content, certain information such as user identifiers for authentication, as well as usage data, technical information, and session and interaction details may be collected directly by the third-party provider and processed in accordance with its own practices.

Note that third-party tracking technologies may also be active on publicly-available websites, such as ours, which allow third parties whom you have authorized to collect certain information about you. As we have no control over these third-party cookies, they are not covered by our Policy nor are we responsible for such tracking. To stop such tracking, you should review your permissions and settings with these third parties.

How to disable our tracking technologies on our Website

If you do not wish to accept cookies or permit tracking technologies that we may use, you can manage your consent preferences in your browser or change your browser settings to refuse cookies from our Website. Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device.

Although some cookies can be blocked with little impact on your experience of a website, blocking all cookies may mean you may be unable to access certain features and content across the sites you visit.

DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS

“Do Not Track” signals are options available on your browser to tell operators of websites that you do not wish to have your online activity tracked. Our Website is not currently set up to respond to these signals.

WHY WE COLLECT, HOW WE USE, AND HOW LONG WE KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect Website visitors’ Personal Information for several reasons, including:

• To better understand your needs and provide you with the information, products, or services you have requested;
• To verify the validity of your payment information and to process your transaction;
• To improve our services and products;
• To send you promotional emails containing information we think you may like;
• To contact you to fill out surveys or participate in other types of market research, when we have your consent to do so;
• To customize our Website according to your online behavior and personal preferences;
• To diagnose problems with our server and to assist with technical or security issues; and
• To notify you of other possible products and/or services that we offer through our Website.

The Personal Information that we collect from you will be stored for no longer than necessary to provide products or services that you requested or as needed for our business purposes, except as may be required by law, or in response to a subpoena or search warrant or other legal process. The length of time we retain said information will be determined based upon the following criteria: the length of time your Personal Information remains relevant; the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate that we have fulfilled our duties and obligations; any limitation periods within which claims might be made; any retention periods prescribed by law or recommended by regulators, professional bodies or associations; the type of contract we have with you, the existence of your consent, our legitimate interest in keeping such information as stated in this Policy; compliance with laws, or in response to a subpoena or search warrant or other legal process.

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale of some or all of our business, whether as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, Personal Information may be transferred along with the business as part of any such transaction.

We maintain and reserve the right to contact you for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes in our products and services). In certain circumstances, we may use our Website, newspapers, or other public means to post a notice, consistent with legal requirements.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

We currently have no intention, nor do we, sell, rent or lease any of our customer lists and/or names to any third parties, subject to conditions on potential merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or sale, as mentioned above.

We may share your Personal Information with third parties:

• as necessary to provide services or products you have ordered (including ZoomCatalog);
• as necessary to verify the validity of your payment information and requested transaction, utilizing your card (credit or debit) or Automated Clearing House payments (including through our third-party service provider, First Data Merchant Services LLC). For more information on how First Data Merchant Services LLC supports our Website and uses information sent from our Website, please review its privacy policy, which may be subject to change;
• as described in this Policy or to which you have consented;
• as necessary and with your consent, for analytics and measurement purposes, to providers such as Google Analytics. These providers do not make raw IP addresses or other directly identifying information available to us, and we only receive aggregated insights, such as your approximate location data;
• as required by law, or in response to a subpoena or search warrant or other legal process;
• with outside auditors who have agreed to keep the information confidential;
• as necessary to enforce compliance with the Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Service (Terms);
• as necessary to maintain, safeguard and preserve all our rights and property, including our Website; and
• in any other way we describe when you provide the information or for any other purpose with your consent.

We may use various third-party social media features including but not limited to those relating to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other interactive programs, which are third parties over whom we have no control. These social media links direct you to our business pages on those platforms. If you interact with these features and/or leave our Website, this Policy no longer applies. These third-party platforms may collect your Personal Information and may require cookies to work properly. These third-parties, their services, and related websites and/or applications, are governed by their respective privacy policies.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 18

Our Website is not intended for, directed to, and does not knowingly collect Personal Information from, children under eighteen (18) years of age. By using our Website you represent that you are eighteen (18) years of age or older. If it is determined that Personal Information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under eighteen (18) years of age, we reserve the right to take the necessary steps to delete such information from our system’s database, or in the alternative, that verifiable parental consent is obtained for the use and storage of such information. Anyone under eighteen (18) years of age must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use our Website.

WE OPERATE ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES

If you use our Website outside of the United States or are located in a country other than the United States that has laws and policies governing the disclosure and management of your Personal Information, you understand and agree that the information you exchange with our Website may be maintained indefinitely on systems located within the United States or the systems of those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy that are located in the United States. We collect and process Personal Information only as described in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with applicable law. By using our Website, you understand and consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information to our facilities and to those third parties located in the United States with whom we share it as described in this Policy. If you do not agree, cease using our Website immediately.

DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS OF CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, MONTANA, NEW JERSEY, OREGON, AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

Data Privacy Rights of California Residents

Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), California residents are afforded certain rights with respect to their Personal Information. This section summarizes those rights and sets forth the procedures to exercise them.

Data Access, Deletion and Portability Rights

In addition to the information rights described in this Privacy Policy (including the categories of Personal Information collected from California residents during the preceding twelve months, the sources of that information, and the purposes for which it was collected), you may request no more than twice in any twelve-month period, additional details regarding our collection and use of your Personal Information.

Once we receive and verify a consumer request, we will disclose, as applicable and for the twelve-month period preceding the request:

• The categories of Personal Information that we collected from you.
• The categories of sources of Personal Information that we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing your Personal Information.
• If we sold or shared your Personal Information to a third party for a business purpose: (1) for sales, the categories of Personal Information that each category of third-party recipient(s) purchased and/or (2) for disclosures pursuant to a business purpose, the categories of Personal Information that each category of third-party recipient(s) obtained.
• The categories of third parties with whom we disclose that Personal Information.
• The specific Personal Information that we collected about you.

You may also:

• Request deletion of your Personal Information. Upon verification of a consumer request, we will delete your Personal Information and instruct our service providers to do the same, unless retention of the information is permitted or required by law.
• Request correction of inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you.
• Opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information. However, we do not sell such information.

Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.

The business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information is more fully explained above in the section “WHY WE COLLECT, HOW WE USE, AND HOW LONG WE KEEP PERSONAL INFORMATION.”

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights. Except as permitted by law, we will not deny goods or services, charge different prices or rates, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise the rights described in this section, please submit a request to us by contacting us at info@aakronline.com.

You may submit a request for access to, or portability of, your Personal Information no more than twice within a twelve-month period. Your verifiable consumer request must include sufficient information to enable us to reasonably confirm your identity as the individual whose Personal Information we collected and/or shared, and must describe your request with enough detail for us to properly evaluate and respond.

If your request does not meet these requirements, we will be unable to provide you with any Personal Information in our possession or under our control. Any Personal Information submitted in connection with a request to exercise your CCPA rights will be used solely for the purpose of verifying your identity.

Data Privacy Rights of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia Residents

The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CPDA), Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA), Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA), New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA), Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA), and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) grant their residents with specific rights concerning their Personal Information. This section outlines those rights and explains how eligible individuals may exercise them.

Data Access, Correction, Deletion and Portability Rights, and the Right to Opt-Out of the Processing of Personal Information

In addition to the right to confirm whether we process your Personal Information, you may be entitled to access such information and receive it in a portable and readily usable format that enables transmission to another entity without impediment, where processing is carried out by automated means. You may further have the right to request correction of inaccurate Personal Information, considering the nature of the information and the purposes of the processing. You may also have the right to request deletion of Personal Information provided by or obtained about you, and to opt-out of certain processing activities. These rights are subject to statutory limitations and exceptions.

How to Exercise Data Access and Data Portability Rights

Requests to exercise the rights described in this section may be submitted using the contact information set forth below under “QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS.” That same contact information may also be used to appeal any decision denying your request.

Further Information for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia Residents

Within the past twelve (12) months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information set forth below from you directly and third parties with whom you or we have a business relationship or that are involved in legal proceedings:

INFORMATION SECURITY; NO LIABILITY

We take reasonable precautions to protect your information when you submit Personal Information via our Website. 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 webpage.

We use encryption to protect certain information transmitted online and we also take reasonable measures to protect your information offline. The computers and servers in which we store Personal Information are kept in a protected environment to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of the user’s Personal Information under our control.

We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for authentication and private communications. We will maintain reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures in order to protect and safeguard your information. Unfortunately, information transferred over the internet is not completely secure. Accordingly, we do not guarantee that your information will not be misused or disclosed to third parties. You acknowledge and agree that any transmission of Personal Information to our Website is made at your own risk. We will have no liability to you for any misuse or disclosure of your information. If you share information with third parties via our Website, you do so at your own risk. Any such information you share with the third-party will not be governed by this Policy and we have no liability to you with respect to such information.

You understand that electronic communications may be accessed by unauthorized parties when communicated across the internet, network communications facilities, or other electronic means. You understand and agree that we are not responsible for any electronic communication or any of your information which may be lost, altered, intercepted, or stored without authorization during the transmission of any data whatsoever across networks not owned or operated by us.

ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

By using our Website, you are accepting the rules and guidelines in the Terms and this Policy. If you do not agree to the Terms and Policy, please do not access or use our Website. In addition, your continued use of our Website following the posting of any updates or changes to our Terms shall mean that you agree and accept such changes.

QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS

You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe from such communications, you may email or call us using the contact information below. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe or opt-out. Opting out does not limit our ability to send you non-marketing communications as may be necessary for service and transaction purposes.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Policy related to our Website, or if you need assistance regarding your Personal Information, please contact us at:

Contact Information:

8 Indianola Ave, Akron, NY 14001

info@aakronline.com

1-800-828-1570

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