Privacy and Cookie Policy

Bellingham Cold Storage (“BCS”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates news.bellcold.com, bellcold.com, and our WebOPTICS™ service (the “Site” or “Sites”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Sites.

We use your Personal Information only for providing service and improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

While using the WebOPTICS™ service (“WebOPTICS” or the “Service”), we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name and email address (“Personal Information”).

WebOPTICS™ is Opt-In only, and only available to our current customers or their delegates.

We use Personal Information only to authorize certain business actions, and communicate their results in email, that arise directly in conjuction with your use of the Service.

We do not collect any Personal Information on the remainder of the Sites.

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

We use Log Data to monitor security on our Sites.

We use the third party Google Analytics service to collect, monitor and analyze similar data regarding visitor traffic on our Sites for the purpose of improving our site design. No personally identifying data is included in this type of reporting.

All of our activity falls within the bounds of the Google Analytics Terms of Service.

“Cookies” are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use cookies to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site, in particular the WebOPTICS service.

Google Analytics uses cookies to help collect the aforementioned visitor traffic data.

We neither share nor sell any Google Analytics cookies, reports, or data collected with any third parties.

WebOPTICS may use its own 1st-party cookies, used exclusively to provide access to the Service and maintain session security while using the Service.

We neither share nor sell WebOPTICS cookies, customer data, or Service usage to any third parties.

To opt out of all Google Analytics tracking software, please use the Google Opt-Out browser plug-in.

WebOPTICS™ requires cookies. If you object to the use of cookies, please do not use WebOPTICS.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of (6/7/18) and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy and Cookie Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy and Cookie Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Sites or WebOPTICS after we post any modifications to the Privacy and Cookie Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy and Cookie Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy and Cookie Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our Site.

If you have any questions about this Privacy and Cookie Policy, please contact us.