Privacy Notice

A. General Information

1. Our Commitment to Privacy and Trust

We care about your privacy and building trust with you is one of our highest priorities. This Privacy Notice (Notice) will explain how Maxisil, Inc. collects and uses your personal information and how to contact us if you have questions about our collection and use.

2. Information about Maxisil, Inc.

Maxisil, Inc., (Maxisil), is an Australian-owned supplier for professional construction products, incorporated in Texas, USA, with its headquarters in Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia. For over 20 years, Maxisil’s Products have been the go-to, trusted brand for premium silicone, tools, and tiling accessories in Australia. With our new, direct-to-consumer website, https://maxisil.com (Site), Maxisil is bringing our premium products (Products) to the United States (our Services). Maxisil aspires to build the same high-level of trust with our US customers, not only with our Products, but also as it concerns our use of their personal information and the protection of their privacy. As part of that effort, in this Notice we explain how Maxisil collects, uses and shares the personal information we hold about you, our customers.

In this Notice, any references to “Maxisil”, “we”, “our” or “us” or even the “Company” is a reference to Maxisil incorporated in Texas, USA, and based in Victoria, Australia.

3. Scope of this Privacy Notice

This Notice applies to Maxisil where we determine what, why and how we use the personal information we collect for sales of our Products, customer service, marketing or other legitimate business purposes, and how in that capacity we act as the “Controller” of the information we collect. To be clear, this Privacy Notice does not cover the personal information our customers choose to collect and share with Maxisil where we are not the Controller, but rather the Processor.

Note, our Site and Services may contain links to other websites, applications, and services from third parties. Please keep in mind when you link from our Site, the information you provide to the other third-party site or platform is governed by the privacy notices and terms set by those third parties – and not Maxisil.

B. Collection of Personal Information and Purposes of Use

4. Collection of Information and Its Use

Maxisil collects information relating to or identifying individuals (Personal Information) from several sources. The Personal Information we collect is generally determined by you and your interaction with us, our partners, publications, and other resources acting on our behalf.

Maxisil does not sell your data. We do disclose Personal Information for purposes of cross-contextual behavioral advertising, but we do not knowingly sell our customers’ Personal Information. Period.

               How and where does Maxisil collect information?

Maxisil collects Personal Information from potential customers, customers, participants at our events (in-person or virtual), business partners and vendors and their employees, advisors, contractors and individuals who choose to use our Products and Services (collectively, Individuals) who:

• Visit and/or shop our Site;
• Receive or send communications from/to us, including email, phone calls, texts, and mail;
• Use our Services as a customer or authorized user;
• Register for, attend and/or otherwise take part in our events, promotions, contests, etc.;
• Download or otherwise engage our content or publications;
• Submit an inquiry about an order, for support or information;
• Participate in online or recorded meetings or events;
• Participates as an influencer, where we collect information about social media posts;
• Engage with our customer service or our employees;
• Apply to work with us, view or share job postings on LinkedIn; or
• Work at a partner or supplier of ours and interact with our company in the course of doing business or contemplating doing business with us.

We collect personal information from a variety of sources, including but not limited to:

• The person who is the subject of the Personal Information;
• Publicly available sources (such as a voting record, your business information, social media);
• Third-Party Advertisers we have engaged to do advertising or targeted ads for us;
• Social media personalities acting as our Influencers;
• Social media posts and interactions on our accounts;
• Service Providers; and
• Business partners and/or vendors.

What type of personal information do we collect?

• Identifying Information: Maxisil collects this information when you place an order or take advantage of other offers online or contact us through the “Live Chat” feature powered by Drift on our site. For example, name, address, zip code, email, telephone and cell number(s), and security question answers.
• Payment Information: This information is collected when you make a purchase. For example, your credit card number and billing address, which is processed for us by PayPa While PayPal is acting on our behalf, PayPal has its own policies when it comes to what data they collect from you when you use PayPal’s services. Please click here for PayPal’s privacy notice.
• Information You Post: We collect this information when you post in a public space.
• Event Information: This information is gathered when you sign-up for events, such as contact information and mailing address.
• Demographic Information: Maxisil will collect this information when you take part in a contest, promotion, or survey. For example, email and name.
• Device Information: We collect device information when you visit our Site, such as the type of device you use to access our platforms, device ID, or IP address.
• Commercial Information: We collect this data when you make a purchase, such as details about the products purchased or considered, as well as other purchasing histories.
• Internet or other Network Activity Information: We collect this type of data when you visit our Site or interact with our other technologies. This information is either automatically collected or is customer-initiated. For example, your browsing history, search history, and other data about interactions with our Site or ads. See our Cookie Notice for more information.
• Other Information: If you use our Site, we may gather data about the browser you use, what site you came from, or what site you visit when you leave. When you call our customer service team, we record calls for quality assurance and operational purposes.

Like most websites and other places on the Internet, our Site may use cookies, web beacons, pixels and/or other technologies (collectively, cookies) to gather information. To read more about if or how we use cookies, please visit the Cookie Notice below. You can manage your consent site by visiting our Cookie Preferences center.

i. How We Use Personal Information

Maxisil collects Personal Information for several purposes, including but not only the following:

• Product and Service fulfillment.
  • Complete, fulfill, manage, and communicate about purchases, etc.;
  • Set up and service your profile (if any) on our Site;
  • Provide customer service and alert you about product or shipping status; and
  • Manage subscriptions, including order tracking, billing, and any messages with you about those orders, deliveries, or subscriptions.

• Internal operations.
  • Improve the effectiveness of our Site, webstore, vendors, and customer service;
  • Conduct research and analytics related to our operations; and
  • Perform other logistics and operation activities as needed.

• Credit card processing:
  • Processing your payments and address inquiries about your purchases; and
  • Offer additional products or services which could be of interest.

• Security, compliance, legal obligations, and fraud prevention.
  • Protect our assets (on and offline) and prevent fraudulent activities;
  • Validate credentials and authenticate customers’ accounts or transactions online;
  • Protect the security and integrity of our Site, services and our data; and
  • Assist any law enforcement and respond to legal/regulatory inquiries.

• Marketing, promotions, and advertising.
  • Send you information about products and promotions by email with MailChimp or mobile alerts;
  • Provide interactive features on our Site and social media, such as product ratings, reviews, and flash-sales;
  • Gather information about interests of our purchasers and generally where they are;
  • Spot your product and shopping preferences; and
  • Oversee any contests, promotions, or surveys.

Sometimes Information is Vital: Where we need to collect and use Personal Information by law, to complete a transaction with you, or fulfill a contract with you, and you fail to provide the Personal Information required, such deficiency is likely to prevent Maxisil from meeting our obligations.

Other People’s Privacy: If you provide us with Personal Information relating to another person, you must inform them of our identity and why their Personal Information is required and how it will be used, and they must have given consent to share their information with us. THEY have to consent to YOUR use of THEIR personal information. Please know you cannot consent for them.

ii. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose Personal Information to vetted third parties for business purposes. For example, Maxisil uses WooCommerce to provide our Site and manage and present our store content to visitors. WooCommerce then integrates (on our behalf) with Fed-Ex to properly and safely process your shipping requirements and deliver your order quickly and safely. As noted above, we use PayPal to process your credit card and other payments securely on Maxisil’s behalf.

We also utilize third-party service providers to expand our marketing efforts across the internet, including email providers like MailChimp and social media platforms such as Facebook. You can opt-out of third-party marketing use of your Personal Information through our Cookie Preferences center, which you may access here. You can learn more about our marketing efforts in our Cookie Notice below.

Reasons for sharing your information may include the following:

• General Business Purposes: We may share information with consultants and other service providers for customer or technical support, marketing, sales, operations, account management, chat-bot, and legitimate general business purposes;
• Compliance with the Law: We may disclose information to a third-party where we are legally required to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes or government requests;
• Protection of our Rights: We may also disclose information when needed to protect or exercise, establish or defend our legal rights;
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer information to support negotiations of or for a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business;
• Managing Events: If you use our Site to register for an event or webinar organized by a partner, we may share your Personal Information with that partner to process your registration and assist in your participation in the event; when this happens, our partner will process the Personal Information as a separate controller and their use and control over your Personal Information will be governed by their privacy notice and policies;
• Receiving Professional Advice: In certain instances, we may share Personal Information with professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers, including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers where we operate, who provide their professional services, but only to the extent we are legally obliged to do so or have a legitimate interest in sharing information;
• Publicly Shared Information: Any Personal Information or other data you choose to submit in communities, forums, blogs or chat rooms on our Sites may be read, collected and used by others who visit these forums, depending on account settings.

C. International Transfers, Security and Information Retention

1. Use of Personal Information in the US, and Elsewhere

Our Site servers are located in Australia, and our third-party service providers and partners have disclosed to us that they operate, for purposes of processing our data, in the United States and Australia. This means when we collect your Personal information, we process in the US and Australia. NOTE: MAXISIL IS A TEXAS CORPORATION IN THE UNITED STATES BUT HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. WE DO NOT HAVE A PRESENCE IN, BUSINESS IN, OR SOLICIT BUSINESS FROM OUTSIDE THE US OR AUSTRALIA. With that said, we act to and employ measures designed to reasonably protect the Personal Information we hold, including working with our hosting and e-commerce service providers to maintain the security of our systems.

2. Security

We use appropriate technical, organizational and administrative security measures designed to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of information.

3. Data Retention

Maxisil will retain Personal Information we collect from you for the length of time necessary to complete our relationship with you, or there is an ongoing legitimate business need to do so and we have a valid reason to use the Personal Information. We determine the length of our retention periods for Personal Information on the basis of the purposes for the information, the amount, nature and sensitivity of the information used, any potential risk from unauthorized use or disclosure of that Personal Information and whether we can achieve the purposes of the use through other means, as well as on the basis of applicable legal requirements (such as applicable statutes of limitation). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because it has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store and isolate it from further processing until deletion is possible.

D. Your Privacy Rights

1. GDPR or UK Data Privacy.

We do not have a presence in the UK, EU, Switzerland or other country in the European Economic Area. We do not market or solicit inquiry from those regions, or anywhere other than North America and Australia. If, as a resident of the UK, EU, Switzerland or other country in the European Economic Area, you believe we have collected Personal Data from you, you may submit a request to [email protected] to (a) object to processing of your Personal Data, (b) ask us to restrict processing of your Personal Data, (c) request portability of your Personal Data, or (d) request us to correct or delete your data.. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us through to [email protected] or by using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below. In any such inquiry, please provide us with the following:

• your name;
• type of request;
• approximate data of collection of the information; and
• a valid email address to contact you.

2. Automated Decision-Making.

Maxisil does not use or process any Personal Data or Personal Information which would subject a person to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects.

3. Opt-Out.

You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications (emails or texts) we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the marketing communications we send you, by texting “STOP” to a text, or by using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below. Please note opting-out of marketing communications from us does not opt you out of receiving important business communications related to your current relationship with us, such as communications about your subscriptions or event registrations, service announcements or security information.

4. Cookies

You can manage cookie preferences by visiting our Cookie Preferences center, which you can access at any time here.

5. Withdrawal of Consent.

If we have collected and used your Personal Information with your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the use conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

6. GPC.

We recognize the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. The GPC is a browser setting that allows consumers to opt-out of targeted advertisements and/or the sale of personal information through a pre-determined signal.  The GPC allows you to make a single opt-out request that applies to all websites that recognize the signal. Maxisil’s Site recognizes such a signal.

E. Important Information for Residents in States with Applicable Privacy Laws

This section of our Privacy Notice supplements the information contained above and applies to those visitors, users, and others who reside in a state in the United States with an active and enforceable data privacy law (consumers or you). We have adopted this Notice in our best effort to comply with each enforceable privacy law at the time of publication of this Privacy Notice, which includes the laws of California (California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Virginia (Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCPA), Connecticut (Connecticut Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring Act (CPOMA), and Colorado (Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) (collectively, the State Privacy Laws), in addition to other new privacy laws as they become effective in the future.

The terms in this Privacy Notice will have substantially the same meanings as those in each of the State Privacy Laws, to the extent they are reasonably interpreted in comity and uniformity with each other.

NOTE: This Notice does not apply to workforce-related personal information of California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals. At this time, Maxisil does not employ anyone in California.

1. Information We Collect

As noted above in Section B, we collect information that identifies, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to a particular consumer or household (Personal Information). Personal information, however, does not include:

• Publicly available information.
• Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from most State Privacy Laws, such as but not limited to:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), clinical trial data, or other qualifying research data;
  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.]

Maxisil has collected the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

2. Sources.

We collect the above categories of Personal Information from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or Products and Services you purchase.
• From publicly available sources such as a voting record, your business information, social media;
• Indirectly from you such as from observing your actions on our Site or social media accounts and third-party advertisers engaged to do ads for us; and
• From business partners or vendors, such as at events, conferences and through business contacts.

3. Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provided the information. For example, if you provide your Personal Information to purchase a Product, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new Product orders or process returns.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Site, Products, and services.
• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, payments and prevent fraud.
• To provide support and respond to inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To personalize your Site experience and to deliver content, Product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including offers and ads through our Site, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required).
• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Site, Products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Site, Products, and services.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA or other State Privacy Laws.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing notice and obtaining consent where necessary.

4. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share your Personal Information by disclosing it to a third-party for a valid business purposes under a written contracts that describe the purposes, requires the recipient to keep the Personal Information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract. In the preceding twelve (12) months, Maxisil has disclosed Personal Information for those business purposes identified below, to the categories of third-parties indicated in the chart below.

We do not knowingly sell Personal Information or knowingly allow our third-party recipients to do so.

5. Your Rights and Choices

The State Privacy Laws provide consumers (their residents) with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your rights under applicable laws and explains how to exercise those rights.

Right to Know and Data Portability

You have the right to request disclosure of certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months (the right to know). This right to know can or may include the right to a copy (data portability) of the personal information we hold about you. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see ), we will disclose to you:

• The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
• The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
• If we sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Right to Delete or Correct

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the right to delete). Within your right to delete, you may also have the right to correct information which we hold that is incorrect, which may include deleting or updating incorrect information we hold. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion or correction request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
• Comply with a legal obligation.

We will correct, delete or deidentify Personal Information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.

Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete

To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, please submit a request by either:

• Calling us at +61 1300 157 207
• Emailing us at [email protected]

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your Personal Information. You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you. You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete; however, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to Personal Information associated with that specific account. Note we may need additional information, which will not be retained after such a request is either fulfilled or denied.

We will only use Personal Information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.

Response Timing and Format

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Personal Information Sales or Sharing Opt-Out Rights

Maxisil Does Not Engage in the “Sale” of Personal Information

We do not collect the Personal Information of consumers and intentionally sell, or intentionally disclose Personal Information in any way that could constitute a sale for value. Please be aware, however, that our Site and applications may use cookies or similar technologies as described in our Cookie Notice.

Maxisil Does Engage in the “Sharing” of Personal Information for Targeted Advertising

Some State Privacy Laws provide you with the right to opt out of our “sharing” of your Personal Information with third parties for targeted advertising. The CCPA, for instance, defines “sharing” to include when your Personal Information is provided to third parties for purposes of serving you advertisements relevant to you based on your activity across our services and other sites on the internet. As it is so defined under certain State Privacy Laws, Maxisil does “share” personal information with third parties to conduct cross-context behavioral advertising (or targeted advertising) on our behalf.

Like many companies, our Site may use cookies or similar technologies which allow advertising partners to collect your Personal Information for our or their benefit. On our Site, we provide you with the right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information in the Cookie Preferences center, which provides you the notice and the opportunity to opt-out of our use of those cookies which would follow your use and behavior across our Site and the internet.

To opt-out (or to change your mind after opting-out), you may adjust your data collection preferences by accessing the Cookie Preferences center here.

Please note certain cookies and other technologies are used to allow our site to securely operate, provide you a better shopping experience, and facilitate purchases you make from Maxisil. Those essential, functional, and analytic technologies provide you with a more efficient and functional experience and help us to understand how you navigate and use our Site. When you refuse those technologies, it will affect how the site functions, and if our site recognizes you as a prior user, or not.

Also, some transfers of your Personal Information may not be considered “sharing,” and exemptions may apply under the State Privacy Laws. Your choices do not affect other disclosures of your information, as outlined in this Privacy Notice, such as when we process payments or prevent fraud.

Maxisil do not collect “sensitive” data as that is defined under most State Privacy Laws.

6. Do Not Track or Global Privacy Setting

We recognize the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. The GPC is a browser setting that allows consumers to opt-out of targeted advertisements and/or the sale of personal information through a pre-determined signal.  The GPC allows you to make a single opt-out request that applies to all websites that are able to recognize the signal. Maxisil’s Site recognizes such a signal.

Although our Site currently does not have the mechanisms to recognize all the various web browser Do Not Track signals, we do offer our customers choices to manage their cookie preferences as described in this and the Cookie Notice below. To learn more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track, please visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com.

7. Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights under applicable law. However, we may offer you certain financial incentives that can result in different prices or rates. Any permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

F. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We will need to update and amend this Notice when needed, which may be needed and may occur at any time. When we make changes to this Notice, we will post the updated notice on our Site and update the effective date. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your notice of and acceptance of such changes.

G. Children

Our Services and Site at this time are not geared or in any way directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from those under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please send an email to [email protected], or by any method identified in the “How to Contact Us” section below, and we will take steps needed to delete any under 16 Personal Information from our systems.

H. How To Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Notice or the ways in which MAXISIL collects and uses Personal Information it processes, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: +61 1300 157 207

Site: https://maxisil.com

Email: [email protected]

Postal Address:

MAXISIL

Attn: Customer Service

Head Office
55 Lakewood Boulevard,
Carrum Downs, Victoria 3201, AUSTRALIA

If you need to access this Notice in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact [email protected]  or +61 1300 157 207

Maxisil’s Cookie Notice

The Cookie Notice

Maxisil respects the privacy of visitors using our Site. This Cookie Notice is part of our Privacy Notice and provides you with clear and detailed information about the cookies and other technologies we use and our purposes for using them.

Like most other sites, our Site uses cookies, in combination with other code such as pixels, scripts, tags and beacons (for us here, “cookies”) to distinguish you from other users of our Site. You can find out more about the different types of cookies used on our Site below. You should be aware that refusing certain types of cookies may impact your experience of our Site. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the Cookie Preferences button at the bottom of this Cookie Notice and our Privacy Notice.

What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers a website asks your browser to store on your device. Cookies store bits of information used to help make our Site work. Cookies set by Maxisil are called “first party cookies” (e.g. cookies placed by www.Maxisil.com). We also use third-party cookies, which are cookies set by a domain other than the current site you are visiting. Additional information about cookies is available at: www.whoishostingthis.com.

Your Choices Regarding Cookies

Cookie Preferences Selection

You have the option of changing Cookie Preferences when you first visit Maxisil site through using the Cookie Preferences center or by clicking on the Cookie Preferences link at the bottom of this Notice. When you visit our Site, strictly necessary cookies will be placed on your device so our site is able to function. You will be asked to consent or agree to other cookies via the Cookie Preferences pop-up that appears when you land on our home page. You can give consent by clicking on the appropriate button, or by setting your preferences when prompted. Maxisil does not assume consent and does not use cookies other than strictly necessary cookies if consent is not expressly given.

Browser Settings

You may also alter your cookie settings on your internet browser to set a “Do Not Track” signal. Note, if your browser settings block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our Site. Internet browser cookie settings are usually found in the “settings,” “preferences” or “options” menu.  In order to understand more about these settings, the following links may be helpful. You can also use the “Help” option in your browser for more details.

• Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Safari
• Cookie settings in Chrome

Industry Programs

You can also take advantage of industry-sponsored programs that allow you to control the way companies advertise to you, such as the following:

• Global Privacy Control — Take Control Of Your Privacy
• The Network Advertising Initiative’s Opt-Out page Opt Out – NAI: Network Advertising Initiative (thenai.org)
• The Digital Advertising Alliance’s WebChoices tool WebChoices: Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice Tool for Web US (aboutads.info)

Note: Our Site recognizes the Global Privacy Control signal; we are unable to fully respond to every “Do Not Track” signal sent at this time.

Additional information on cookies and online advertising choices are offered by:

• Adobe Marketing Cloud: If you would like more information on how to remove yourself from the tracking and reporting functions performed for this website by Adobe Marketing Cloud, please visit the Opt-Out page at https://www.adobe.com/privacy/marketing-cloud.html

• Google: For information on how Google Analytics uses data, please visit “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services,” located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may also download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page

How Long Do Cookies Last?

Except for Strictly Necessary cookies, the cookies we run on our Site will expire as follows:

Session cookies: They allow site operators to follow a user’s actions through a browser session. A browser session begins when a user opens the browser window and ends when the browser window is closed. Session cookies are temporary. Once the browser is closed, all session cookies are deleted.

Persistent cookies: These remain on a visitor’s device for a time period set by the cookie. They are activated each time a user visits the site that created that cookie.

What Cookies Does Maxisil Use & Why?

The cookies used on our Site are categorized as follows:

• Strictly necessary
• Functional
• Analytics
• Targeting

Strictly Necessary Cookies 

These cookies are necessary for the Site to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They allow you to move around the Site and use essential features like secure areas. Without these cookies, we cannot provide the requested services. These cookies do not store information that could specifically identify you.

We use Strictly Necessary Cookies to:

• Identify and/or authenticate a user as being logged into the Site;
• Ensure a user connects to the right service if a change is made; and
• Security purposes.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies. However, if they are blocked, Maxisil cannot guarantee performance of the Site or security during a visit.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies are used to enable enhanced functionality and personalization. Such cookies may be set by third-party providers whose services are added to our Site.

Although important, these cookies are not required for your use of the Site. Without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies collect information about how you use our Site including pages visited and any errors experienced during your visit. Analytics cookies do not collect information that could specifically identify you and are only used to improve the Site, understand the interests of our users, and measure the effectiveness of content.

Analytics cookies are used for:

• Web analytics: to provide anonymous statistics on how the Site is used; and
• Error management: Improves the Site by measuring errors.

If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our Site nor be able to monitor its performance. Some analytics cookies are managed by third parties, such as Google Analytics.

Targeting Cookies

Targeting cookies are used to help attract customers with targeted ads and can be shared with other advertisers so the performance of the ads themselves can be monitored and measured. Targeting cookies can be used to build user profiles and from those, offer our customers the best suited ads for their needs. These cookies follow users across websites (from Facebook to here, and back to Facebook) to show ads in banners or other sites online even after you have left this Site and moved to another.

• Social media cookies and tags are used by us and social media platforms to enable users of the platforms to share content across our sites. We also work with social media platforms to deliver ads to you when you use these platforms. This targeting is done by the platform under its own terms of use and privacy policy.
• Advertising cookies and tags are used by us, our service providers, and third-parties to personalize the ads delivered to you on our site and on other sites. These cookies collect data about your online activity and allow ads to be displayed that may be of relevant interest to you. These cookies also record which ads you have seen and whether you engaged with the ad. These cookies help make sure that the ads you see are valuable to you and not repetitive.

If you do not add these cookies, then some of these services may not function properly.

Note: Maxisil does not request, require or knowingly allow such third parties to use cookies for purposes other than those identified above. You can manage the delivery of certain cookies in our Cookie Preferences center.