CodeLine Online Privacy Policy

Summary

Pentair Water Treatment (d/b/a) has adopted the following Privacy Policy regarding your personal information. We respect your privacy and the privacy of all who take time to visit us online. Any information that you provide on this site will not be sold, leased, traded, or rented to any 3rd party.

Generally you can visit us on the Internet without volunteering any information about yourself at all. Our web servers do collect minimal browsing information, not email addresses, about our visitors without attempting to “identify” any of them. We use this aggregate browsing information (looking at all site visits at once) to measure and improve the online information and services we provide our website visitors.

You should read this entire privacy policy, as well as our website’s “Terms of Use” statement, to fully understand our position on privacy as well as any and all obligations you have in using our website and the information it contains. By using our website, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

In the following sections of this document you’ll find a more detailed description of how we safeguard and how we use the information you provide. If you have any questions about this please feel free to get in touch with us.

Details

The Privacy Policy appearing below, are, and shall, apply to, govern and determine the use of information gathered on CodeLine, Inc. ("CodeLine") and/or the Structural North America division of Essef Corporation ("Essef") can be used. CodeLine and Essef are affiliated companies, who collectively do business as "Pentair Water Treatment". Unless otherwise specifically set forth herein, the term "Pentair Water Treatment" applies equally to products manufactured, sold and/or distributed by CodeLine and Essef.

Why do we gather personal information?

The information we gather about you and your visit helps us to:

• Measure the effectiveness of the services and information we provide online
• Create a more customized user experience online
• Make improvements in our user’s online experience
• Provide limited, necessary information to specific, value-added partners--only after you’ve volunteered information for that purpose and have agreed to that next level of contact. This would typically be (but not necessarily limited to) a user investigating a product and requesting a distributor contact for availability or pricing information. You will not be contacted at this level without your consent.

What types of information do we gather?

Browser: We analyze our website log files to help us improve the value of the information and experience available on our website. These logs do not identify you or anyone else personally and we make no attempt to associate or link the log information with specific users that browse our website. We may share non-personal information with third parties.

Cookies: “Cookies” are small data files that are placed on your hard drive during visits to certain websites. Some of our sites may use cookies to collect, store, and sometimes track information for statistical purposes to improve the products and services we provide and to manage our telecommunications networks. We do not publish nor share cookie information with 3rd parties and we do not access any 3rd party cookies.

Registration: If somebody wants to download information we created a single process for all our sites to allow certain information to be downloaded. To use certain services offered on this web site, we ask a user to provide personal information (e.g., name, address, customer identification number). Some information is mandatory while other information is optional. Whenever this type of information is required we will try to inform you about the purpose at the time of the collection. You will be able to elect to not provide the information but we may be limited in the types of services we can provide in that situation.

What do we do with this information?

All information gathered is used to provide a richer online experience for users and to assist us in making continued improvements to our online information and services. It is also collected to track who is agreeing to the terms of use of your websites, and who is downloading copyrighted material.

We do not sell, share, rent, trade, or lease any personal information we collect.

In addition we may use a user’s email address, phone number or address to obtain feedback, to send promotional materials, or to provide our free email performance bulletin updates. A user can choose if he wants to receive regular updates by email. Users can also opt-out on a later date by responding with an unsubscribe request. We may disclose your personal information when required by.

How do we safeguard this information?

Certain users may have online accounts that are password protected for your privacy and security. In certain areas we may use industry standard security measures (e.g., Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), etc.) to protect data transmissions.

External Links

Upon occasion we may provide links to other useful Internet sites that are not under the control of the Pentair Water Treatment; we make no claims regarding the privacy policies of those sites.

Revisions to this policy

We may amend this policy upon occasion. If substantial changes are made in the way personal information is used we will post a prominent notice in our privacy policy or other locations in our website.

Your Consent

By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.