Terms and Condition of Use
Welcome to ProtekEquipment.com. Protek Equipment and its affiliated websites (collectively, “Sites”), provides you with tools, services, content or products (collectively, “Services”) that are subject to these Terms of Use. ProtekEquipment.com offers the Site, including all information, tools and services available on this Site, to you, the user, conditioned upon your acceptance of these Terms of Use. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your agreement to these Terms of Use. If you do not wish to be bound by these Terms of Use, please do not use this Site. Review this page frequently for our current Terms of Use, as it is subject to change.
Content You Submit
We ask that you do not send confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets through the Site, unless that information is necessary to place an order. Anything you submit or post to the Site and/or provide us, including without limitation, ideas, know-how, techniques, questions, reviews, comments, and suggestions (collectively, “Submissions”) is and will be treated as nonconfidential and nonproprietary, and we shall have the royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and transferable right to use, copy, distribute, display, publish, perform, sell, lease, transmit, adapt, create derivative works from such Submissions by any means and in any form, and to translate, modify, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or decompile such Submissions. All Submissions shall automatically become our sole and exclusive property and shall not be returned to you.
In addition to the rights applicable to any Submission, when you post comments or reviews to the Site, you also grant us the right to use the name that you submit with any review, comment or other content, if any, in connection with that review, comment or other content. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the reviews, comments and other content that you post on this Site and that use of your reviews, comments or other content by us will not infringe upon or violate the rights of any third party. You shall not use a false email address, pretend to be someone other than yourself or otherwise mislead us or third parties as to the origin of any Submissions or content. We may, but shall not be obligated to, remove or edit any Submissions (including comments or reviews) for any reason.
Copyright, License and Site Access
The following elements of the Site are the property of ProtekEquipment.com or our suppliers and are protected by United States and international copyright laws:
-All text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads and data compilations.
-All software
You have permission to electronically copy and print hard copies of pages from the Site solely for personal, non-commercial purposes related to placing an order or shopping. Unless we give you written permission in advance, any other use of the Site, its content and its information are strictly prohibited. ProtekEquipment.com reserves all rights not expressly granted herein.
Copyright Complaints
ProtekEquipment respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe your work has been infringed upon, please contact our customer relations department.
Limitations of Liability
Protek Equipment is not responsible for any infections, contaminations, delay in operation or transmission, line failure, errors, omissions, interruptions or defects arising out of your use of the Sites or Services with respect to the material provided and/or contained on this site. In no event shall Protek Equipment be liable for any special, direct, indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages of any kind, resulting from whatever cause, including but not limited to loss of use, loss profits or loss of data, whether in an action under theories of contract, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise, arising out of or in any way in connection with the use of or inability to use the information or materials on, or accessed through the Sites or Services. Notwithstanding the above, in no event shall Protek Equipment’s total liability to you for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action exceed the amounts paid to Protek Equipment by you in connection with the transaction claimed by you to give rise to your claim.
Your Account
If you use the Site, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. The Site reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in its sole discretion. You will be solely responsible for all access to and use of this Site by anyone using the password and identification originally assigned to you whether or not such access to and use of this site is actually authorized by you, including without limitation, all communications and transmissions and all obligations (including without limitations financial obligations) incurred through such access or use. You shall immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or identification or any other breach or threatened breach of this Site’s security.
Risk of Loss
All items purchased from Protek Equipment are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.
Product Description
Accuracy is of the upmost importance to us. However, we cannot guarantee that product descriptions or other content on the Site is 100% error free. If you purchase an item from the Site that is not as it is described, please return it in an unused condition. If a price is listed incorrectly due to a typographical error or an error in pricing or product information from the supplier, we reserve the right to refuse or cancel any orders for that particular item.
Termination
In addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, we may, without prior notice to you, immediately terminate the Terms of Use or revoke any or all of your rights granted under this Terms of Use. Upon any termination of this Agreement, you shall immediately cease all access to and use of the Site and we shall, in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies, immediately revoke all password(s) and account identification issued to you and deny your access to and use of this Site in whole or in part. Any termination of this Terms of Use agreement shall not affect the respective rights and obligations (including without limitation, payment obligations) of the parties arising before the date of termination.
Privacy Policy
Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. We utilize military-grade security and encryption technology to ensure that your personal and financial information remains private and safe. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
The Information We Collect:
This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the ProtekEquipment.com web site. On some pages, you can order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages include:
- Name
- User ID (if you have an account with us)
- Password (if you have an account with us)
- Address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Credit/Debit Card Information
On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order merchandise and want it sent to a third party, you will need to submit the recipient’s address. In this circumstance, the types of personal information collected are:
- Name
- Address
- Phone Number
- Email Address (if different from your own)
The Way We Use the Information
ProtekEquipment.com will use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. This information is not shared with or sold to outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order. Billing information is transmitted to our payment processor over a highly secure 128-bit encryption, ensuring that your information will not be intercepted by a third party.
We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.
We utilize a “Recommend this page” script which allows you to direct other people to certain pages within our web site. This script collects your name and email address as well as the name(s) and email address(es) of the person(s) you enter into the form. This information is collected for the sole purpose of sending an email and is not recorded in any database or mailing list.
We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our web site and improve your shopping experience. This information in no way identifies you personally. This information may be shared with outside parties for the purpose of enhancing our service.
Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by using the “LOGIN” functionality located at the top of most ProtekEquipment.com web pages. We use this procedure to better safeguard your information.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.