Privacy Policy

Main Street Technologies (Main Street) is committed to making our website as user friendly, useful, accurate, and secure as possible. This privacy policy discloses how we collect, protect, use and share information gathered about you on our website, and when you contact our company. We hope this disclosure will help increase your confidence in Main Street and in our website.

The following Privacy Policy pertains to Main Street and its website only. This Privacy Policy does not reflect the policies of any other websites to which we have provided a URL link.

Privacy Policy Q&A

What personally identifiable information is collected from this site?
You can browse Main Street’s website without your personally identifiable information being collected. For instance, you can view information on our website and look up information in our Promotions, Support Directory or Clearance Items anonymously and without giving or having Main Street collect any personally identifiable information.

When you contact Main Street, submit a request from the Main Street website, log in to Main Street’s Online Store or place an order with Main Street, we may collect the following personally identifiable information from you:

Your first and last name
Title or position, company, department
Your (or your comapany's) address, phone and fax number, email address
Online Store log-in and password
Reason for calling, products quoted and ordered and any other information that will help us better assist you

Note: Main Street and its web hosting and web site providers do not collect cookies with personally identifiable information. However, cookies are collected when you access our Online Store and are used only to enable you to access each web page in our store, so that you do not need to re-enter your login and password information at each page.

Who collects this information?
The personally identifiable information used only by Main Street is collected by

Main Street, when you contact us, or submit a request from our website
CNET, a TRUSTe program member, when you login to Main Street’s Online Store

How is this information used?
The personally identifiable information collected by Main Street is used to provide better service to our customers in the following ways:

Processing of quote requests, purchase orders and customer-service requests
Required sales reporting to product manufacturers
Mailing lists used by Main Street

With whom is this information shared?
Main Street does not sell personally identifiable information. However, it may be shared with the third-party companies we work with in the normal course of quoting, processing and shipping orders, as follows:

Placing orders with product distributors and manufacturers
Delivery of orders by parcel service companies and shipping carriers
Processing of credit card orders by merchant service banks
Requests for special bid pricing from product distributors and manufacturers
Receipt of public-sector discounts from product distributors and manufacturers

What choices do visitors have about collection, use and distribution of this information?
You may contact us any time to request that we remove your personal identifiable information from our contact-management database, at which time your name will be added to our Do Not Contact list. However, if at any time you have placed an order with Main Street, your order details and contact information cannot be removed from our Accounting database.

If you no longer wish to receive email communication from Main Street, you may reply to any email message from Main Street, with the word “REMOVE” typed in the subject line, or you may contact us by phone, fax, or a separate email message to make this request.

What security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of this information?
Main Street makes every effort to guard against loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration of personally identifiable information in the following ways:

It's included in our company policies and procedures.
Our employees are trained and sign confidentiality agreements.
The Main Street web server does not store any personally identifiable information, so it cannot be compromised by unauthorized access.
The Main Street Online Store uses Thwarte Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Security Authority, with 128-bit encryption, the strongest available encryption used through a web browser.

How can visitors access and correct any inaccuracies in this information?
If you have any questions or comments, regarding this privacy policy or your personally identifiable information collected by Main Street, please contact us.