RAMPF MOLDS INDUSTRIES, INC. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to www.rampf.com and governs data collection and usage. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website(s) (the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to information collected through the Website and through services we may provide through the Website, as well as information you provide to us through direct communications relating to your use of the Website. It does not apply to information collected through other channels, such as information collected offline, in person, or over the telephone, except where otherwise expressly stated. Through the Website, you may access third-party websites, applications, or services that are not operated or controlled by the Company. This Policy does not apply to those third parties, and you should review their respective privacy policies, data practices, and terms of use.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your Personal Information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you should not use the Website.

For purposes of this Policy, “Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with an identified or identifiable individual, as defined under applicable privacy laws. Depending on the applicable law, Personal Information may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, location information, online identifiers, payment information, and other information associated or reasonably capable of being associated with you.

In order to operate the Website in an efficient and effective manner, we may collect Personal Information, including, but not limited to: name, email address, mailing address, home address, phone number, geographic location; account history, account transactions; demographic information including your age, gender, education, family or marital status; device and technical information, including your IP address, operating system and version, browser type and settings, and other information regarding the device used to access the Website; content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile or in any communications with the Company;  information relating to products or services you request or purchase; and other information that may, directly or indirectly, reveal your personal identity and which you may provide to Company during your use of the Website. 

If you make payments on or through the Website, payment information, such as credit or debit card information and billing address, may be collected and processed by us and/or third-party payment processors. Where payment information is collected directly by a third-party payment processor, that information may be subject to the processor’s privacy policy and other applicable terms.

Certain information identified above may be considered “sensitive” or otherwise subject to heightened protection under applicable law. Where required by applicable law, we will process sensitive Personal Information only where permitted by applicable law and, where required, with your consent or other legally recognized authorization. If you choose not to provide certain information, we may not be able to provide you with certain features, products, services, or information.

If you connect to the Website using Facebook, Instagram, Google, or another social networking site (each, a “Social Networking Site”), we may receive information that you authorize the Social Networking Site to share with us. Depending on your settings and the applicable Social Networking Site, this information may include your name, public profile information, email address, location, or other information you have authorized the Social Networking Site to provide.

Any information that we receive from a Social Networking Site will be treated as Personal Information under this Policy to the extent applicable law requires. The information we receive may depend on the privacy settings you maintain with the applicable Social Networking Site. Please review the privacy policies and data practices of the applicable Social Networking Site for additional information.

The Website may contain links to third-party websites or services. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of use of any third-party websites or services you access.

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources and combine that information with information we collect directly from you. These sources may include service providers that perform services on our behalf, business partners, payment processors, analytics providers, security and fraud-prevention providers, marketing providers, publicly available sources, and other third parties, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we and certain third parties may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This information may include your computer and internet connection, IP address, operating system, browser type and settings, browser versions, details regarding your visits to the Website, including duration and time of visit, traffic data, referring website, and other usage and technical information.

We may use this information to understand how users interact with the Website, maintain and improve the Website, analyze trends and usage, monitor the performance and security of the Website, and for other purposes described in this Policy.

Where permitted by applicable law, we may also collect location information associated with your use of the Website. If the Website requests permission to access precise location information from your device, you may control access through your device or browser settings.

The Company may use cookies (a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Website), flash cookies, web beacons, log file information or other similar technology in connection with automatic data collection for the purpose of: running the website and storing your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website (essential cookies); providing custom, personalized content and information (functionality cookies); monitoring aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors of Website and pages viewed (analytical cookies); and customizing your ad experience on the Website (marketing cookies). 

Essential cookies are used as necessary for the operation of the Website. All non-essential cookies and similar technologies, including analytical and marketing cookies, are disabled by default and will only be activated if you provide your consent through the Website's cookie consent banner. You may accept or decline these optional cookies through the banner and may change your preferences at any time through the Website's cookie or privacy preference settings.

If you provide consent, the Company may use analytics and advertising technologies, including Google Analytics, Google Analytics Dynamic Remarketing, Google Ads/AdWords Conversion Tracking, and YouTube integrations, to analyze Website usage, measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing campaigns, and, where applicable, deliver or facilitate relevant advertising on other platforms. The specific technologies used may vary over time.

The Company may use customer relationship management (“CRM”) systems, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, to maintain business and customer relationship information and support business operations. To the extent a CRM system incorporates website visitor-tracking or identification functionality, the Company may use such functionality to understand Website interactions and associate Website activity with known business contacts, where permitted by applicable law.

Where required by applicable law, we will obtain consent before placing or using non-essential cookies or similar technologies. Depending on the Website and the technologies used, you may be able to manage certain cookie preferences through a cookie or privacy preference mechanism provided on the Website. You may also be able to control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling or blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Website. 

The Company may collect and process Personal Information to present our Website and its contents to you to: provide you with the products and services that you request or purchase from us and any information or notices relating thereto; respond to your inquiries, requests, and communications; communicate with you regarding our products and/or services, our marketing, and other topics; research, develop, and improve the products and/or services; analyze Website usage and trends and monitor and improve the performance, functionality, and security of our Website; carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any transactions between you and the Company, including for billing, collection, and enforcing our policies; notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services offered or provided by the Company; contact you about products or services that may be of interest to you; carry out our business purpose; promote our products and services, business, and offerings; detect, prevent, and address fraud, security incidents, abuse, and other unlawful or unauthorized activity; comply with all applicable laws, such as tax laws and regulations, and respond to legal process or governmental requests and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; and fulfill any other purpose for which you provide Personal Information. 

If you provide your email address or other contact information, we may use it to send you communications regarding your transactions, requests, or use of the Website. Where permitted by applicable law, we may also send you marketing communications regarding our products, services, and other offerings. You may opt out of marketing communications by following the instructions provided in the applicable communication. Opting out of marketing communications will not necessarily prevent us from sending you non-marketing or transactional communications.

We may also use Personal Information to customize the Website, improve the user experience, maintain Website security, and conduct analytics. We may aggregate or deidentify information so that it is no longer reasonably capable of being associated with an individual and may use such information for lawful business purposes.

Personal Information may be collected and used by the Company to customize the Website to provide a better user experience and to enhance or maintain Website security. We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. The Company may also aggregate certain non-personally identifiable information about its users and use such anonymous information to prepare reports that it provides to its users. The Company may also disclose your Personal Information to our contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our organization to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries, as well as to certain third-party vendors, including payment processors, banks, and website support service providers, for the purposes of processing your payments to the Company. Personal Information may also be disclosed to third parties in order to evaluate a possible business transaction such as a merger or sale of the company; provided, however, that the recipient of Personal Information will be required to maintain such Personal Information in confidence where appropriate and as required by applicable law. The Company may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries and affiliates as deemed necessary in the general course of business. The Company may also disclose specific Personal Information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the law, pursuant to a court order, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement, to protect the interests or safety of the Company or other users of the Website, to detect, prevent, or investigate fraud, security incidents, or other unlawful or unauthorized activity, and where we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of our organization, our customers, or others. The Company may use your Personal Information to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or other Company policy or terms of use. The Company may also disclose Personal Information as necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. By using the Website, you hereby authorize such use of your Personal Information as described in this section.

We may disclose aggregated or deidentified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual for lawful business purposes.

The Company is part of a global corporate group and has a parent company located in Germany. In connection with our business operations and the provision of our services, including our recruitment activities, we may share your Personal Information with our German parent company and other entities within our corporate group for general business purposes and other purposes described in this Policy.

We do not sell Personal Information to third parties. You may expressly direct the Company to keep your Personal Information private and to not sell any of your Personal Information by contacting us at contact@rampf.com.

The Company may store Personal Information on servers operated by the Company or by third-party service providers engaged by the Company. We retain Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, operate and maintain the Website, provide products and services, comply with legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, establish or defend legal claims, enforce agreements, and maintain appropriate business and transaction records. Contact-form submissions and related correspondence are generally retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry and maintain appropriate business records. The period for which we retain particular Personal Information will depend on factors including the nature and sensitivity of the information, the purposes for which it was collected, our legal and business obligations, applicable limitation periods, and potential risks associated with unauthorized use or disclosure. When Personal Information is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise retained, we will delete, destroy, or deidentify it in accordance with applicable law and our applicable retention practices.

If you enter credit card or other payment information on the Website in connection with a purchase of products or services, that information may be transferred, through the use of encryption, to and processed directly by a third-party payment service provider. In some circumstances, you may be redirected to the payment service provider’s website or payment interface.

You should review the applicable payment service provider’s privacy policy and other applicable terms for information regarding its collection, use, and protection of payment information.

The Company maintains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information against unauthorized access, acquisition, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. The Company uses SSL Protocol for secure data transmission. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

No method of transmitting information over the Internet or storing information electronically is completely secure. Accordingly, while we use measures designed to protect Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or collected by the Company.

In the event of a security incident involving Personal Information, the Company will investigate the incident and provide notice to affected individuals and applicable regulatory authorities to the extent and in the manner required by applicable law. The Company will provide any required notice in the manner and within the timeframes prescribed by applicable law.

To the extent provided by applicable law, every user of the Website is entitled to the following: (i) the right to request copies of your Personal Information and information regarding the categories of Personal Information collected, the sources from which it was collected, and the purposes for which it is used or disclosed; (ii) the right to request that the Company correct any Personal Information that you believe is inaccurate or incomplete; (iii) the right to request that the Company erase your Personal Information; (iv) the right to request the Company restrict its processing of your Personal Information; (v) where applicable, the right to request that the Company transfer your Personal Information to another organization or directly to you (the “right to data portability”); (vi) the right to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information, the sharing of your Personal Information for purposes of targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, and certain profiling activities, where applicable; (vii) the right to limit the use or disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information, where applicable; and (viii) where applicable, the right to appeal the Company’s decision regarding a privacy rights request. The Company will not discriminate against you for exercising any privacy rights available to you under applicable law, except as otherwise permitted by law. You acknowledge that any requests made pursuant to this section must be in writing and provided to the Company at 90 Western Maryland Parkway, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 or at contact@rampf.com. The Company may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request, and will respond to requests within the time period and in accordance with the procedures and exceptions required or permitted by applicable law. Further, these rights are subject to applicable legal limitations and exceptions.

Certain jurisdictions provide additional privacy rights. The following provisions apply to individuals whose Personal Information is subject to the applicable laws described below.

Canada

If your Personal Information is subject to applicable Canadian privacy law, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) or applicable provincial privacy legislation, you may have rights regarding access to and correction of your Personal Information, withdrawal of consent, and other rights provided by applicable law, subject to applicable limitations and exceptions. 

If you are located in Quebec, certain privacy laws, including Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, as amended by Law 25, impose additional requirements concerning the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information. Where consent is required, the Company will obtain consent in accordance with applicable law.

You may exercise applicable rights by contacting us at contact@rampf.com. We will respond to requests in accordance with applicable Canadian privacy law.

California and Other U.S. State Privacy Laws

If you are a California resident and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended (“CCPA”), applies to the Company’s processing of your Personal Information, you may have additional rights under the CCPA. These may include the right to know and access your Personal Information, including information regarding the categories of Personal Information collected, the purposes for which Personal Information is collected or used, the sources from which Personal Information is collected, and the categories of recipients to whom Personal Information is disclosed; the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information; and the right to request deletion of your Personal Information, subject to applicable exceptions.

You may also have the right to opt out of certain sales or sharing of Personal Information, including certain processing for cross-context behavioral advertising, and the right to limit certain uses and disclosures of Sensitive Personal Information, as well as other rights provided by applicable California law.

For additional information regarding California privacy rights and how to exercise them, please contact us at contact@rampf.com or 301-791-6880.

California residents may also have rights under California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section 1798.83) concerning certain disclosures of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at contact@rampf.com.

If you are a resident of Maryland, Virginia, or another U.S. state with a comprehensive consumer privacy law that applies to the Company’s processing of your Personal Information, you may have additional rights under applicable state law. Depending on the applicable law and subject to applicable limitations and exceptions, these rights may include the right to confirm whether we process your Personal Information; access and obtain a copy of your Personal Information; correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information; request deletion of your Personal Information; obtain your Personal Information in a portable format; and opt out of certain processing activities, including the sale of Personal Information, targeted advertising, and certain profiling.

Certain state privacy laws may also provide additional rights, including the right to appeal our decision regarding a privacy rights request or the right to limit certain processing of Sensitive Personal Information. The availability and scope of these rights vary depending on the state in which you reside and whether the applicable law applies to the Company.

To exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us at contact@rampf.com or 90 Western Maryland Parkway, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. We will process and respond to requests in accordance with the requirements, limitations, exceptions, and procedures applicable under the law governing your request.

Other Jurisdictions

Residents of other jurisdictions may have additional privacy rights under applicable law. If you believe such rights apply to you, please contact us at contact@rampf.com, and we will address your request in accordance with applicable law.
 

Where permitted by applicable law, the Company may send you marketing communications concerning our products, services, promotions, or other offerings. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the applicable communication or by contacting us at contact@rampf.com. If you receive text messages from the Company, you may opt out by following the instructions provided in the applicable text message. Opting out of marketing communications will not prevent the Company from sending transactional, administrative, legal, security, or other non-marketing communications where permitted by applicable law.

You have the right to withdraw any consent you have provided for the processing of your personal data at any time. We provide accessible and user-friendly mechanisms to withdraw consent that are at least as easy to use as the mechanisms by which consent was originally provided. Upon receipt of a valid request to withdraw consent, we will cease processing your personal data for the purposes based on consent as soon as practicable after receipt of such request, subject to applicable legal obligations. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing conducted prior to the withdrawal.

Personal Information collected through the Website may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States, Germany, and other countries in which the Company, its affiliates, or its service providers operate. Where required by applicable law, the Company will implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers, which may include standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions, or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.  

The Company may update or modify this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices, technology, applicable law, or other circumstances. The date this Policy was last updated is identified at the top of the Policy. We will post any updated Policy on the Website. Where required by applicable law, we will provide additional notice regarding material changes.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to release and hold harmless the Company and its affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives, from claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to (a) your violation of this Privacy Policy, (b) your violation of applicable law or the rights of any third party in connection with your use of the Website, or (c) any information or materials submitted by you through the Website in violation of this Privacy Policy or applicable law. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Company and its affiliates, and each of their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives, from and against any third-party claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to the matters described above. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to release, waive, or limit any rights or remedies that cannot be waived, released, or limited under applicable law.

By using the Website, you agree to promptly notify the Company in writing of any disputes or claims arising out of or relating to the Website or the Personal Information that is collected, processed, stored, retained, shared, transferred, or disposed of by the Company, and agree to work with the Company in good faith to promptly resolve such dispute or claim on reasonable terms. To the extent you and the Company are unable to resolve such dispute, you and the Company hereby agree that such dispute shall be submitted to a neutral third-party mediator located in the State of Maryland before the commencement of any legal action.

If the Company sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets or undergoes any other change in management or ownership control of the Company, Personal Information may be among those assets that are transferred. The Company will ensure that the security measures set forth herein remain throughout the transition.

The Website is not directed to children. The Company does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without appropriate authorization where required by applicable law. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this platform. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from a child in circumstances where collection was not permitted by applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete such information. If you believe that we may have collected Personal Information from a child in circumstances where collection was not permitted by applicable law, please contact us at 301-791-6880, contact@rampf.com, or 90 Western Maryland Parkway, Hagerstown, Maryland 21740. 

To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Policy and any dispute arising out of or relating to this Policy shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland, without regard to its conflict of laws principles. To the extent permitted by applicable law, any action arising out of or relating to this Policy shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Washington County, Maryland, and you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such courts and further agree to accept service of process pursuant to the State of Maryland Rules and procedures.

YOU HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY FOR ANY DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR OTHERWISE RELATED TO THIS POLICY OR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE.

If you have questions about this Policy or our privacy practices, or if you wish to exercise a privacy right, please contact us at: