Privacy Policy

Few people actually read privacy policies. Nevertheless, we want you to understand the nature of our policy. The full policy is contained below, but the following bullets summarize key information we thought you should know:

• If you register or provide personal information, we won't spam you. If we need to contact you, it will only be in regard to SupplierSource or a related service.
• We won't sell your information to third parties without obtaining your permission. We may, however, share your company name and geography with suppliers whose profiles you view.
• We collect site activity data (which may be traceable to you) which we will use to learn how people are using our service and identify how we can improve it.

SupplierSource's privacy policy

The SupplierSource service helps engineers and designers search for custom manufacturing services (the “Service”). SolidWorks provides access to the SupplierSource service to the engineering and manufacturing community as a convenience. We know you may have questions regarding the privacy of your interactions on and through the SupplierSource service. We hope this privacy policy statement will answer any questions you may have, but if it does not, please feel free to contact us at the email address or postal address shown below.

1. If you register with the site by providing your contact information (name, title, Company, address, and email) SolidWorks may use such information to contact you with respect to the Service [including providing you with a newsletter or other information regarding the Service] or other SolidWorks and partner products or services. SolidWorks may share any or all of your contact information with the suppliers whose links you click through
2. Security:SolidWorks maintains a variety of security practices for your information. Use of a user name and password is intended to protect against unauthorized access to your account information. We use secure server technology to protect some communications and maintain data at locations that are secured from physical public access.
3. SolidWorks may collect information such as number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed, etc., and this information will be traceable back to you. SolidWorks uses this information to analyze how people use the SupplierSource service and to generate ideas on how the service might be improved.
4. SolidWorks stores the personal data of users and web site visitors indefinitely and may maintain and process such information directly or indirectly in one or more databases. If you provide personal information to SolidWorks, you agree and consent to SolidWorks' storage and usage of this information anywhere that SolidWorks and its affiliates maintain offices, for a variety of purposes, including those described above.
5. SolidWorks may also disclose such personal information if required by law or if SolidWorks believes in good faith that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process (such as a warrant, subpoena or other court order) or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of SolidWorks, our customers or the public.
6. SolidWorks may transfer your contact information to a purchaser of the SupplierSource business or of its entire business
7. Cookies: SupplierSource uses “cookies” on its own behalf and from time to time on behalf of suppliers so that we are aware of which supplier information you are viewing and can better serve you with tailored information when you return to our site. Cookies are identifiers that a web site can send to your browser to keep on your computer to facilitate your next visit to our site. It may do such things as store the fact that you utilized certain aspects of the service so that the next time you visit our site we recognize you have certain interests. You can, if you wish, set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it.

If you wish to discontinue use of the service and would like us to delete your contact information, please let us know (contact information below).

Updating personal information and "opting out"

You may change your address, phone number, email address or other information by sending us an email message at privacy@solidworks.com or by notifying us in writing at:

SolidWorks Corporation
300 Baker Avenue
Concord, MA 01742
Attn: Legal Department

If at any time you wish to "opt out" of receiving information from SolidWorks related to the Service please notify us by sending us an email or written message at the addresses shown above.

Third Party Actions SolidWorks does not monitor nor control all of the acts and postings of the manufacturers and Users of the SupplierSource services. Therefore, SolidWorks is not responsible for any actions of suppliers, Users or third parties.

Links to Other Websites SolidWorks provides certain links to other websites as a convenience to you. SolidWorks does not monitor nor control the content of any other website and assumes no responsibility or liability of any kind for any material or communications available at such websites.

Changes to this Policy SolidWorks may change this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted to this site, so we encourage you to review our privacy policy from time to time.