Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy page explains what information Grindstone Steel website collects from visitors accessing this website.

Grindstone Steel (“We,” “Us,” or “Our”) respects and protects the privacy of Our visitors’ personal Information, which is why We do not collect, use, disclose, transfer, or store your information from your visit to Grindstone Steel — https://www.grindstonesteel.com and its pages — (“Website”).

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the industry standard tactics, scripts, and cookies that collect information from visitors viewing a website that We do not use. The term "You" refers to anyone who uses, visits, and views Grindstone Steel website.

Anonymous, Private, and Secure

We do not offer a weblog for commenting, a community forum, a place to purchase items, or a newsletter to sign up for, as this is an informational website for historical entertainment purposes only.

Since We do not gather your personal Information, your experience is not personalized, this Website is not improved to better serve you, We do not provide customer service support, We cannot efficiently process your requests or transactions, We do not display any advertisements on this Website let alone tailor it to you, We cannot elicit reviews of services or products, We do not provide you offers, promotions, and the ability to follow up with you through correspondence (email, live chat, or phone).

We are also not able to use your personal information to provide you with offers and promotions from Our non-existent partners and/or affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

Links to External Websites

Grindstone Steel website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that when you follow a link to an outside website, this Privacy Policy and Our Terms of Use do not apply. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of external websites, as We have no control over what information external websites might collect from you or display. We conduct periodic inspections of the external websites for which We display links, to verify that their privacy policies and operating procedures align with Ours, thereby protecting Our visitors. If there is a link from Our website that violates Our guidelines, please notify Us.

If this Privacy Policy conflicts with Our “Terms of Use,” the “Terms of use” controls.

Cookies

A cookie is a tiny piece of Information placed, transferred, and stored on your computer, mobile phone, or any other device used to access a website by the website you visit for authentication purposes, such as when you revisit a site and need to log in. Cookies can also track your internet use. Every cookie expires after a specific period, but that period varies depending on the cookie’s purpose and your browser’s configuration. A “session” cookie is one that generally expires when you close your web browser or mobile application. A “persistent” cookie remains in your device, even after you close your browser or mobile application. A persistent cookie expires according to the duration set by the site that created it (or when you manually delete it). Grindstone Steel does not use cookies to collect and store data. If you look at your cookies, there is a cookie in there named Grindstone Steel, but when you read the data in that cookie, it is empty. The browser generates a placeholder for a cookie for any website, not Us.

Tracking Services and Analytics Data

Google Analytics

Unlike other websites, Grindstone Steel website Does not use Google Analytics to collect site visits, page hits, geographical Information, site traffic, and other Information about where the visitor came from (direct link or third-party link), pages visited, and the site’s popularity.

Log Files

A standard procedure for hosting companies service analytics. The information the the log files collect includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. Log files' information is not linked to any personal or private identifiable information.

Tracking Pixel & other trackers

This Website Does Not Use Tracking Pixels in Email Correspondence or on the Website; We do email the the old-fashioned way — send you an email and hope you read it and reply.

A tracking pixel (sometimes referred to as a web beacon, transparent GIF, pixel GIF, or pixel tag) is a tiny, invisible image embedded within an email or website. It allows advertisers or other entities, such as social media sites and shopping networks, to know when you open and read an email or visit a website, what links you click, and how many times you open the email or visit the site and click the links. Plus, what email app or browser you used, and where you were when you used it.

How to protect your privacy on the internet

We recognize that most people are not computer or internet-savvy. Still, they are familiar with using Facebook, sending emails, watching videos on YouTube, and playing games on their mobile devices. Most people do not care or worry about their digital footprint and how their internet activities, shopping habits, and search queries reveal their information to marketers and others. It is you, the people, who keep hackers, advertisers, and the dark web in business by allowing them to access and use your private data, which puts all of us at risk.

More information on how to keep your Privacy on the internet, read Davenport Website Designs’ articles on Security for you and your website, Fourteen Steps You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family, Your Privacy. Your Data. You Are Being Tracked!, What you should know about data privacy, and There is no privacy in the digital world to find out how you can protect yourself from prying eyes.