privacy policy

General

You can access our web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. However, while visiting the HGVT site, we may ask you to register and/or provide information that personally identifies you ("Personal Information") for purposes of interacting with our site, including, for example, when you ask for information, enter a contest, order subscriptions, or download material. HGVT intends to give you as much control as possible over your Personal Information. If you choose to provide HGVT with your Personal Information, it is our intent to let you know how we will use your Personal Information.

HGVT uses your Personal Information to help you quickly find goods, services or information on the site. We track the domains from which this site is visited and use that data to analyze for trends and statistics, and then discard it. If you choose not to have your Personal Information used as a basis for further contact with you by HGVT or one of its business partners, you may "opt out". If you choose not to give us your Personal Information, you can still use most of this site. You merely will not be able to access areas that require registration. Additionally, if you do not want HGVT to send you e-mail or postal mail regarding HGVT or its services, you may "opt out" at the time you give us your Personal Information.

HGVT does not knowingly collect personal data from children. Nor does HGVT take specific steps to protect the privacy of children who disclose their personal data to us.

What are cookies and how does HGVT use them?

A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Some HGVT pages may use cookies so that we may better serve you when you return to our site. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

This Web site uses a session cookie to enable e-commerce functionality. When you enter the HGVT Web site, a cookie is sent to your browser. The cookie is stored by your browser, but is not written to your hard disk. This cookie contains a number generated by the HGVT web server. It is used to uniquely identify your browser for the duration of your visit to the HGVT site. This cookie is not used to gather information about your visit to the HGVT site. The cookie is simply used to link you to your unique order.

Who is collecting information?

When you are on the www.hgvt.us site and are asked for personal information, you are providing that information to HGVT or its parent company, Electrocomponents plc, alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. Please be aware that www.hgvt.us has links to other sites which may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those web sites linked to www.hgvt.us are not covered by this privacy statement.

If any link is offered connecting to a third party Web site, it is as an accommodation to the respective third party site owner and without charge. Sites linked to and from this site are not necessarily under the control of HGVT and HGVT shall have no responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. HGVT does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or services) to or from which this site is linked. If you decide to access any of the third party sites linked to this site, you do so entirely at your own risk. HGVT hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, tradenames, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties.

Site Technologies

HGVT does not provide the technologies used to build its site, and therefore neither recommends nor endorses the same. Any information regarding identified technologies, their capabilities, limitations, applications, etc., should be sought directly from their manufacturers. HGVT hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks, service marks, tradenames, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other intellectual property interests of third parties.

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