NSK wants all users to get the most out of NSK’s website and to understand the efforts that NSK takes to protect each user’s individual information. NSK is registered under data protection 1998 and users privacy is extremely important to us.
NSK also wants users to understand the types of information that NSK collects about users, the methods for collecting that information, and the uses of this information.
Personal Information
NSK only collects information, which could identify you personally on a voluntary basis through your affirmative submission of email and/or online forms and/or requests to use specific software. Examples of personal information may include name, title, company, address, phone number, fax number, email address, and other such data.
We use the personal information you provide to us in the following ways unless otherwise stated on specific pages of the website or indicated at the time we collect the information: to respond to your requests, answer questions, as a communication tool regarding our products and/or services, improving NSK’s operations, and as a means to better understand your needs as an NSK customer or potential customer.
Such information may be shared by companies within the NSK family of companies including any company that we contract to manage our website or perform statistical reporting on our website on our behalf, but we do not sell, rent or market any personal information about you to third parties outside of the NSK companies. Any third party involved in our website reporting or management will be legally bound to confidentiality.
Non-Personal Information
NSK in some instances automatically collects typical web server log data as a result of your visit to our site. This data is non-personally-identifiable such as the site that referred you to us, domain name, IP address, browser type and version, computer operating system and platform, information searched for, pages viewed, time spent on our site, and access times. We use this information to generate statistics and measure the activity our site produces for the benefit of its users. This data helps NSK administer and improve its site. NSK may disclose non-personal statistical information to third parties with whom it has contractual obligations.
NSK is not able to link the IP address and personal data, i.e. no user profiles are created. The stored data is used exclusively for purposes of identification and investigating unauthorized access. This evaluation is performed solely by employees or service providers authorized by us.
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Most browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether it will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent. Setting your browser to reject cookies means NSK’s site will not recognize you when you return which means all of your specific data must be sent to the website each time you use a form. Accepting cookies means the private data you choose to provide can reside on NSK’s web server, and the only information transmitted in subsequent visits over the Internet is your ID cookie and any new information that you choose to provide. NSK uses cookies to allow NSK to identify returning visitors to the NSK website. Such identification enhances NSK’s one-to-one relationships with users by, for example, automatically populating forms with the user’s data.
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
To enable you to move around the website and use its features, some cookies are strictly necessary. Without these, it will not be possible to identify the number of unique users of the site or provide certain features, such as automatic sign in the NSK services.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES
The Functionality Cookies record information about your choices and allow us to customize our offer to you.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Such cookies are used across the NSK website for internal purposes to offer you a better user experience. Such information helps us to understand how our visitors use the website and how we can get better in presenting our content to you.
So different design ideas can be tested as well.
We generally contract with independent measurement and research companies to perform these services for us and in this case, these cookies maybe come from a third party company (third party cookies).
Third party cookies are shown in the list below, as well information as to opt out of receiving them.
NSK’s site contains links to other web sites. Please be aware that this privacy statement does not cover these sites and NSK is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites.
Newsletter
If you have agreed to your personal data being collected, processed and used by NSK when you signed up for our newsletter, we will save, use and process the data set out below in your profile. This information helps us to send you relevant content tailored to your interests and to better evaluate our communications. In the scope of your declared consent, NSK shall send you newsletters and store and use the information on your profile as follows:
• If you open our emails, click the links they contain or submit a web form after clicking a link, we note this and save this information on your profile.
• If you open our emails or click the links they contain, we note this and store the topics that are of interest to you.
• If you use our sharing features to recommend information from us via email or on social networks, we note this and save the networks on which the information was recommended and the use of the recommendation by third parties on your profile. Third-party personal data is never stored without their consent.
• If you access images in emails or click on links, we identify the type of the end device used and store this in your profile.
• If you access our web offering via a link from a message sent by us, we integrate information about your website visit into your profile. This also includes integration of your purchasing history into your profile.
• If you access images in emails or click on links, we map your IP address to establish the location from which the access was made and store this in your profile.
The submission of your declaration of consent to advertising and market research is voluntary and may be revoked at any time with future effect. A revocation may be made via email to info@nsk-corp.com.
Social Networks
In order to make our Internet offering more attractive and user-friendly, NSK works closely with selected social media partners (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google). These platforms can be temporarily integrated using plug-ins. If you access a page of our website using such a plug-in, your browser creates a direct, brief connection to its servers. The primary purpose of this is to show you the content of the plug-in. In this case the cooperation partner is given your IP address and other device-related data. In practice this IP address cannot be easily mapped to you by name. Under certain circumstances the cooperation partner may also store a cookie on your computer, which is deleted when your browser is closed (see the section on cookies). You can choose whether to accept cookies or not in your browser settings.
You can view the purpose and scope of the data collection, further processing and use of the data by social media partners as well as rights aimed at protecting your privacy in the respective data protection notices.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding NSK’s privacy policy please contact us at: info@nsk-corp.com or via our mailing address:
NSK Americas
Marketing
4200 Goss Road
Ann Arbor, MI
48105