Privacy Policy

When you sign up for an account with us you provide us with your name, username, email, gender, and birth date. You will also be able to add a picture of yourself. In some cases we may ask for additional information for security reasons or to provide specific services to you. Once you register you can provide other information about yourself, for example, your city, state, country, networks, description, etc.

Content. When using Supply and Demand Industries you will be creating content. Examples include when you update your status, upload a photo, share a link, write in the forums, make a comment, send someone a message, etc.

Transactional Information. We may retain the details of transactions or payments you make on Supply and Demand Industries.

Friend Information. You can add users as friends and stay connected, you can also invite your friends who do not have an account to join.

Access Device and Browser Information. When you access Supply and Demand Industries from a computer, mobile phone, or other device, we may collect information from that device about your browser type, location, and IP address, as well as the pages you visit.

Cookie Information. We use "cookies" (small pieces of data we store for an extended period of time on your computer, mobile phone, or other device) to make S&DIndustries easier to use, to make our advertising better, and to protect both you and S&DIndustries. For example, we use them to store your login ID (but never your password) to make it easier for you to login whenever you come back. We also use them to confirm that you are logged into S&DIndustries. It will help you to stay logged in. You can remove or block cookies using the settings in your browser, but in some cases that may impact your ability to use S&DIndustries.

Information we receive from third parties:

Information from other websites. We may institute programs with advertising partners and other websites in which they share information with us:

If in any of these cases we receive data that we do not already have, we will “anonymize” it within 180 days, meaning we will stop associating the information with any particular user. If we institute these programs, we will only use the information in the ways we explain in the “How We Use Your Information” section below.

Sharing information on S&DIndustries. 

Name and Profile Picture. Your name and profile picture helps determine who you are when someone is searching for you. If you are uncomfortable with sharing your profile picture, you shouldn't add one.

Gender and Birth Date. In addition to name and email address, we require you to provide your gender and birth date during the registration process. We use your birthdate to distinguish your age and may show other users when it's your birthday.

Other. Here are some other things to remember:

“Everyone” Information. Information such as your name, profile picture, connections, ect. Such information may, for example, be accessed by everyone on the Internet (including people not logged into S&DIndustries), be indexed by third party search engines, and be imported, exported, distributed, and redistributed by us and others without privacy limitations. Such information may also be associated with you, including your name and profile picture, even outside of S&DIndustries, such as on public search engines and when you visit other sites on the internet. If you delete information from your profile it will be deleted from S&DIndustries, but have no control over its use outside of S&DIndustries.

Minors. We reserve the right to add special protections for minors (such as to provide them with an age-appropriate experience) and place restrictions on the ability of adults to share and connect with minors, recognizing this may provide minors a more limited experience on S&DIndustries

Third Parties. You should always review the policies of third party applications and websites to make sure you are comfortable with the ways in which they use information you share with them. We do not guarantee that they will follow our rules. If you find an application or website that violates our rules, you should report the violation to us on our help forum  and we will take action as necessary.

Exporting Information. You (and those you make your information available to) may use tools like RSS feeds, mobile phone address book applications, or copy and paste functions, to capture, export (and in some cases, import) information from S&DIndustries, including your information and information about you. For example, if you share your phone number with your friends, they may use third party applications to sync that information with the address book on their mobile phone.

Advertisements. Sometimes the advertisers who present ads on S&DIndustries use technological methods to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. You may also use your browser cookie settings to limit or prevent the placement of cookies by advertising networks. S&DIndustries does not share personally identifiable information with advertisers unless we get your permission.

Links. When you click on links on S&DIndustries you may leave our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy statements.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to try to provide a safe, efficient, and customized experience. Here are some of the details on how we do that:

To manage the service. We use the information we collect to provide our services and features to you, to measure and improve those services and features, and to provide you with customer support. We use the information to prevent potentially illegal activities. We also use a variety of technological systems to detect and address anomalous activity and screen content to prevent abuse such as spam. These efforts may on occasion result in a temporary or permanent suspension or termination of some functions for some users.

To contact you. We may contact you with service-related announcements from time to time. We may include content you see on S&DIndustries in the emails we send to you.

To serve personalized advertising to you. We don’t share your information with advertisers without your consent. (An example of consent would be if you asked us to provide your shipping address to an advertiser to receive a free sample.) We allow advertisers to choose the characteristics of users who will see their advertisements and we may use any of the non-personally identifiable attributes we have collected (including information you may have decided not to show to other users, such as your birth year or other sensitive personal information or preferences) to select the appropriate audience for those advertisements. For example, we might use your interest in soccer to show you ads for soccer equipment, but we do not tell the soccer equipment company who you are. Even though we do not share your information with advertisers without your consent, when you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement there is a possibility that the advertiser may place a cookie in your browser and note that it meets the criteria they selected.

To serve social ads. We occasionally pair advertisements we serve with relevant information we have about you and your friends to make advertisements more interesting and more tailored to you and your friends.

To supplement your profile. We may use information about you that we collect from other users to supplement your profile (such as when you are mentioned in a status update.

Memorializing Accounts. If we are notified that a user is deceased, we may memorialize the user’s account. In such cases we restrict profile access to confirmed friends, and allow friends and family to write on the user’s Profile in remembrance. We may close an account if we receive a formal request from the user’s next of kin or other proper legal request to do so.

How We Share Information

S&DIndustries is about sharing information with others — friends and people in your communities — We share your information with third parties when we believe the sharing is permitted by you, reasonably necessary to offer our services, or when legally required to do so. For example:

When you make a payment. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on S&DIndustries, we will share transaction information with only those third parties necessary to complete the transaction. We will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.

When you choose to share your information with marketers. You may choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers that are not associated with S&DIndustries through on-site offers. This is entirely at your discretion and we will not provide your information to these marketers without your consent.

To help your friends find you. By default, we make certain information you have posted to your profile available in search results on S&DIndustries to help your friends find you.

To help improve or promote our service. Sometimes we share aggregated information with third parties to help improve or promote our service.

To provide you with services. We may provide information to service providers that help us bring you the services we offer. For example, we may use third parties to help host our website, send out email updates about S&DIndustries, remove repetitive information from our user lists, process payments, or provide search results or links (including sponsored links). These service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time, but when this occurs we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections to limit their use of that information to helping us provide the service.

To advertise our services. We may ask advertisers outside of S&DIndustries to display ads promoting our services. We may ask them to deliver those ads based on the presence of a cookie, but in doing so will not share any other information with the advertiser.

To offer joint services. We may provide services jointly with other companies, such as the Spreadshirt service in the S&DIndustries Store. If you use these services, we may share your information to facilitate that service.

To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters) if we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law. This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. We may also share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to prevent fraud or other illegal activity, to prevent imminent bodily harm, or to protect ourselves and you from people violating our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities.

Transfer in the Event of Sale or Change of Control. If the ownership of all or substantially all of our business changes, we may transfer your information to the new owner so that the service can continue to operate. In such a case, your information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

How You Can Change or Remove Information

Editing your profile. You may change or remove your profile information at any time by going to your account options page and editing your Information, it will be updated immediately.

Limitations on removal. Even after you remove information from your profile or your account is deleted, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. However, your name will no longer be associated with that information on S&DIndustries. (For example, if you post something to another user’s profile and then your account is deleted, that post may remain) Additionally, we may retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct even if deletion has been requested. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your information, they may retain your information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.

Backup copies. Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 90 days, but will not be available to others.

Non-user contact information. If a user provides your email address to us, and you are not an S&DIndustries user but you want us to delete your address, you can request us to do so by emailing us: contact@supplyanddemandindustries.com. However, that request will only apply to addresses we have at the time of the request and not to any addresses that users provide to us later.

Risks inherent in sharing information. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot guarantee that only authorized persons will view your information. We cannot ensure that information you share on S&DIndustries will not become publicly available. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on S&DIndustries. You can reduce these risks by using common sense security practices such as choosing a strong password, using different passwords for different services, and using up to date antivirus software.

Report Violations. You should report any security violations to us on this help forum.

Other Terms

Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by publication here. If the changes are material, we will provide you additional, prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances.

Consent to Collection and Processing in the United States. By using Supply and Demand Industries, you consent to having your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.