PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information Peter H. Mattson & Co., Inc. (the “Company” or “we”) collects from you or that you may provide when you visit or use our website (https://mattsonco.com), our pages, our emails, or our online forms or when you participate in our surveying events (collectively, our “Services”), as well as our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. 

1. User Consent. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time.  Your continued use of our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates. 
2. Links to Other Sites. Our Services may contain links or widgets related to third-party websites and services, such as social networking services. A link or other availability of any third-party services does not mean that we endorse it or have verified any information provided on it.  These other sites may have their own privacy policies and are not governed by this Privacy Policy.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security protections, or the content of sites owned and operated by third parties.  Other sites may collect and treat information differently, so we encourage you to carefully read and review the privacy policy for each site you visit.  
3. Information We Collect and How We Collect It. 

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, including information:

• By which you may be personally identified, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, or payment information (“personal information”);
• That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Services, and usage details.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

The information we collect on or through our Services may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Services. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our news feed or participating in a surveying event with us.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Services, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Services.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). 

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Services.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services. 
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Services may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Services. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. 
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Services and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity). 

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

4. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Some content or applications, including advertisements, on our Services are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
5. How We Use Your Information. We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To provide our Services to you.  
• To improve our Services and the interactions you have with our Services.
• To market products and services that may be of interest to you.
• For customer service, to detect fraud or illegal activities, or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, including for billing purposes. 
• To notify you about changes to our Services or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• For research and analysis purposes. 
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

6. Sharing of Information. We may share or disclose information as we describe at the time it is collected or as follows: 

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our users is among the assets transferred.
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.

7. Security of Your Information. We have implemented reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Services.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our Services. 
8. Accessing and Correcting Your Information. You may send us an email at Contact@Mattsonco.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
9. “Do Not Track” Disclosure. Certain web browsers may allow you to enable a “do not track” option that sends signals to the websites you visit indicating that you do not want your online activities tracked.  This is different from blocking cookies as browsers with the “do not track” option selected may still accept cookies.  At this time, we do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “do not track” signals.  
10. Your California Privacy Rights. If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit Privacy Policy for California Residents.   
11. Children Under the Age of 13. Our Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Services or through any of their features, register on our Services, make any purchases through our Services, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Services, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at Contact@Mattsonco.com.
12. United States Only. Our Services are intended for use by residents of the United States only.  All matters relating to our Services are governed by the laws of the United States.  If you are located outside of the United States and you contact us, please be advised that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States and that by submitting information you explicitly authorize this transfer and the processing of information within the United States.  
13. Changes to Our Privacy Policy. We may change or replace this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion at any time.  The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Services and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
14. Contact Information. To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, or to register a complaint or concern, please contact us at: Contact@Mattsonco.com.