Privacy Policy
Last updated: Aug 18, 2025 2:56 PM
We value your privacy very highly. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the https://www.barkerspecialty.com website (the “Website”) operated by Barker Specialty Company, a(n) Corporation formed in Connecticut, United States (“us, we, our”) as this Privacy Policy contains important information regarding your privacy and how we may use the information we collect about you.
Your access to or use of the Website is conditional upon your acceptance of and compliance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to everyone, including but not limited to visitors, users and others, who wish to access or use the Website.
By accessing or using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you do not have our permission to access or use the Website.
What information we collect and store
We collect and store any and all information that you enter on this Website. In the last 12 months, we have collected the following information about individuals using our Website:
With whom we share your personal information
We do not share nor disclose your personal information to any third parties.
How we protect your personal information
We have implemented the following measures to protect and safeguard your personal information:
- Limiting the amount of personal information that we collect to strictly necessary only
- Using SSL encryption or other secure technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks
- Destroying and/or deleting personal information once we no longer need it
- Performing regular risk assessments
- Mitigating risks by following a risk treatment plan
- Having comprehensive written security policies and procedures
- Screening (e.g. performing background checks) all employees with access to personal information
- Training our employees on best security practices
- Requiring our employees to sign confidentiality agreements
- Encrypting laptops, USBs and other portable media
- Implementing and monitoring intrusion prevention and detection systems (e.g. anti-virus software)
- Maintaining up-to-date software and safeguards
- Performing regular due diligence of vendors who have access to personal information
- Physically and/or logically separating systems containing personal information from public networks such as the Internet
- Implementing physical security measures
Sale of your information
We do not sell your personal information. Please see the “Your Rights” section below for more information about exercising your privacy rights regarding sales of your personal information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored on your device by your browser. This Website collects cookies. Please visit our Cookie Policy to learn more about what cookies we collect, why we collect them, and how to change your cookie settings.
Children's privacy
This Website is intended for use by a general audience and does not offer services to children. Should a child whom we know to be under 18 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond to that child to inform them that they cannot use this Website.
Analytics programs
This Website uses Google Analytics to collect information about you and your behaviors. If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
Information retention
We retain the following personal information for the following periods of time:
Identifying information
Data retention period
Until we no longer need the information to contact you.
Financial information
Data retention period
Until we no longer need the information to contact you.
Your rights
Depending upon where you reside‚ you may have the following rights with regard to your personal information:
The right to access the personal information that we hold about you.
The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose the personal information.
Applies To
Residents of California
The right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom.
Applies To
Residents of California
The right to receive the personal information that we hold about you in a portable and, to the extent feasible, a readily usable format that allows you to transmit this information to another entity.
The right to ask us to transmit your personal information that we have collected on you to another provider, where technically feasible.
The right to request that we amend any of the information that we have collected about you.
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information.
The right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to request that we delete some or all of the personal information that we have collected about you.
The right to lodge a complaint regarding our collection, sharing, and processing of your personal information with competent authorities in the proper jurisdiction.
The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for purposes of direct marketing.
The right to opt out of sales of your personal information.
Applies To
Residents of Nevada and California
The right to opt out of tracking of your location.
Applies To
Residents of Quebec
The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for the purposes of profiling in furtherance of decisions that could produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
The right to opt out of the sharing of your personal information with third parties for the purpose of targeted advertising.
Applies To
Residents of California
The right to opt out of the use of your personal information for automated decision making purposes.
The right to not be discriminated against based upon your exercise of your privacy rights.
Applies To
Residents of California
The right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.
Applies To
Residents of California
Exercising your rights
You may exercise the rights specified above by submitting a consumer request to:
Director of IT Security
[email protected]
203-272-2222
27 Realty Drive, Cheshire, CT 06410
USA
If you use our cookie consent banner to exercise your privacy rights, the opt out signal will be applied to your browser. If you opt-out by contacting us as stated above, your preference will be applied to your account and our databases, including offline sales.
We will need to verify your identity prior to effectuating your request. To verify your identity, you will need to provide us with the following information with your request:
- Name
- Postal / Shipping address
- Billing address
- Phone number
- Email address
- Account name
Please note that we may be unable to process your request if you do not provide us with the above information.
You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise your rights on your behalf. You may designate an agent via any of the ways used to submit requests on your behalf. We will request the agent to verify that he or she has the authority to submit requests on your behalf. We will do so by asking the agent to submit the following information:
Please note that we may not be able to process your request if your designated agent and/or you do not provide us with the above information.
We will respond to most consumer requests within 30 to 45 days of receipt, depending upon where you reside. However, some requests may take longer. We will notify you in writing if we need more time to respond. We have the ability to deny your request(s) if certain exceptions in the law apply. If we do deny your request, we will provide you with the reasons for such denial.
Accountability
The following person is accountable and responsible for our privacy practices and procedures:
Todd Zipadelli
Director of IT Security
203-272-2222
[email protected]
You may lodge a complaint with us by contacting the person accountable and responsible for our privacy practices and procedures at the contact information above. Residents of Canada may also lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by visiting this File a Privacy Complaint (Canada) page or calling 1-800-282-1376. Residents of Quebec may also lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Quebec by filling out this Quebec Privacy Commission page or calling 1-888-528-7741.
Location of data processing
All data processing activities undertaken by us take place in United States.
Data Protection Officer
Todd Zipadelli is our Data Protection Officer and may be reached via email at [email protected].
Third-party websites
This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their Privacy Policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.
Do Not Track
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. We do not support DNT. You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your browser.
Transferring data
For those users outside the United States, we will transfer your personal information for processing to the United States. This means that your information will be processed outside of your country of residence and it will be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities of that country and jurisdiction. Please note that we use standard contractual clauses, additional safeguards, and adequacy decisions to transfer data.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the updated Privacy Policy to this website.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].