Southwire Cookie Notice
Last Updated: June 14, 2022.
This Cookie Notice is part of our Privacy Policy. For more information about Southwire Company, LLC, and our affiliates (collectively, “Southwire” or “we”) and how we protect the privacy of our customers and users, please see our Privacy Policy. In order to provide you with access to Southwire’s websites, including but not limited to MySouthwire.com, Southwiretools.com, and GarvinIndustries.com (collectively, the “Websites”) and more personalized and responsive service we need to remember and store information about how you use our Websites. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for our Websites. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to our Websites on each subsequent visit so that it can recognize you and remember things like your user preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at http://www.aboutcookies.org.
When you visit our Websites, we may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them) to make your experience on our Websites more personal and interactive. Cookies allow us (including our analytics providers) to collect information such as the pages you viewed on our Websites, the number of times you accessed our Websites, the amount of time you spent on our Websites, and other web traffic data. We also use first-party cookies to conduct analytics on our Websites, as described further below.
Please note that Google and other third parties (such as social media platforms and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies as a result of you visiting other websites, over which we have no control.Managing Cookies. Your browser can disable, block, delete and manage cookies on your device. These tools are generally available in the help section of browsers. You can also use the quick links below, based on the browser type that you are using:
Please note that disabling, blocking, or deleting some cookies may cause you to lose the functionality of certain features on our Websites.
California Residents. When you use the Websites for the first time, cookies that are necessary to make the Websites operate (see those identified as “Necessary” cookies in the table below) will have been set, but other cookies will not have been set unless you have consented to those cookies being set at that time. If you have consented to cookies, then the Websites will remember this and continue to set cookies each time you visit.
By marking your consent in the cookie bar that appears when you first visit our Websites, you consent to our use of cookies as explained in this Cookie Notice. You can withdraw your consent at any time by turning off the cookies as described below but withdrawing your consent will not affect our use of the personal data processed using those cookies prior to you withdrawing that consent.
If you do not want a cookie to be stored, then you may withdraw your consent by turning off certain cookies listed below individually or you can select the appropriate options on your web browser to delete some or all cookies. How to alter your cookie setting will depend on the type of browser you use. Please note, however, that if you block some or all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to use or access all or parts of the Websites, such as being able to log on to the account portal.
Social Media Platforms. We have a presence on the following social media platforms:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
- Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig
- Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
- YouTube: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/cookie-policy?lang=en
The Websites includes links to these social media platforms and social sharing icons. Whenever you leave our Websites following the above links, cookies might be set by these social media platforms. Cookies might also be set by these social media platforms if you are logged in to any of these social media platforms or if you decide to share.
The cookie policies for those social media platforms are available through the following links and contain information on how to control the setting of cookies:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/
- Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/1896641480634370?ref=ig
- Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy
- YouTube: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/cookie-policy?lang=e
Cookies on the Websites. The table below sets out the types of cookies used on our Websites and provides details about what they are used for. We set our cookies under the following categories:
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Necessary: These cookies are necessary to the Websites as they help the Websites operate. These cookies are necessary to the Websites because they are needed to display content on the Websites and they allow you to access certain features on the Website, such as signing into a Website or adding items to a cart. There is no button to turn off essential cookies. These cookies do not contain any personal information and only lasts for the duration of your visit.
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Functional: These cookies allow our Websites to remember your preferences and choices (e.g. language, region) and to provide you with more enhanced personal features. Functional cookies can be used to remember your username, region, and language, among other preferences.
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Performance: These cookies are being used to collect information about how you use our Websites. Examples include: pages visited, length of time spent on each page, how you landed on the Website. Common website analytics providers are Google Analytics and Hotjar.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to learn more about the types of users that visit the Websites and to help improve the Websites. For example, Google Analytics provides us with certain data regarding the demographics of the users that visit the Websites. To provide this service, Google Analytics may collect certain information about you from your computer, including but not limited to: information regarding your visit (such as the pages you visit and the length of your visit), information about your device (such as your IP address), how you got to the Websites, and other information about you. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data (including how to control the information sent to Google) by visiting: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt-out of Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
- For further information about these cookies, visit https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage.
- You can learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data (including how to control the information sent to Google) by visiting https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.