Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how MP&E Cameras and Lighting (“we,” “us,” “our,” “MP&E,” “GEAR”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information both in connection with MP&E’s online and offline services, systems, websites, and apps that refer or link to this Privacy Policy (our “Services”), and as explained below, including without limitation, the collection and processing of personal information in connection with rentals or sales. This Privacy Policy applies regardless of the way you interact with our Services or the type of device or other means you use to access our Services.

MP&E reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the updated Policy here along with the date on which the Policy was changed. This Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any contractual rights or obligations.

MP&E uses reasonable technical, administrative, and physical measures to protect your personal information from loss, interference, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction, both during transmission and once we receive it. We also maintain reasonable procedures to help ensure that such data is reliable for its intended use and is accurate, complete and current. When your personal information is shared, MP&E will take a reasonable approach to prevent the unauthorized use of personal information.

Please note, however, that while MP&E attempts to safeguard your personal information, no method of transmitting or storing electronic information is ever completely secure, and thus we make no warranty, express, implied, or otherwise, that your information will never be accessed, used or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. Keep your user name and password confidential. If you elect to “Save and Finish Later” ensure you’ve entered the correct email address to receive the link and do not share the link with anyone you do not trust.

When you use our Services, we and third parties on our Services may automatically receive information using tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, and similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”). This information includes your browser type, IP address, type of operating system you use, the name of your internet service provider, mobile advertising identifiers, and pages visited on our Services. We use Cookies for a variety of reasons, including to provide and improve our Services and advertising and to show you advertising that is relevant to you, including across browsers and devices (also known as cross-device linking). Some Cookies are necessary to keep our Services secure. Others make sure you get a high-quality experience and receive relevant advertising.

Some of our Services include social network or other third-party plug-ins (such as Facebook’s “Like” button) that enable you to log in to certain Services, to comment on content available on our Services, and to share things you find on our Services with your social network. The providers of these plug-ins may be able to collect information about you even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in or widget and regardless of whether you have an account or other relationship with these social networks and third parties. If you use social network tools or visit social networking sites, you should read their privacy disclosures to learn what information they collect, use, and share.

What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file (often including a unique identifier), that is sent to a user’s browser from a website’s computers and stored on a user’s computer’s hard drive, tablet, or mobile device. The cookie stores a small amount of data on your device about your visit to the Services. Some Cookies are “session cookies,” which expire at the end of the browser session and can capture your activities during the browser session. Other Cookies are “persistent cookies” which remain on your device for the period specified in the Cookie and are able to capture your settings or activities on multiple websites.

Cookies allow websites to recognize your browser or device during your use of our Services and some Cookies also allow us to track your behavior when you use the services (e.g., websites or apps) of other entities. If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. While you visit our site, we’ll track: Products added to the quote list. All fields in the quote request form: name, email and message content. We’ll also use cookies to keep track of request a quote list while you’re browsing our site. Send you information about your request: The answer to your quote request. 

If you do not wish to receive Cookies, you may set your browser to reject Cookies or to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. You may also delete Cookies as soon as you leave the Services. Although you are not required to accept Cookies when you visit our Services, if you set your browser to reject Cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features and functionalities of the Services. For example, the Help portion of the toolbar on most web browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, how to have the browser notify you when new Cookies are dropped, and how to entirely disable Cookies.

We may use Adobe Analytics or Google Analytics to aggregate and analyze data about your use of our Services.

We may disclose or share information about you to provide the products and services you have requested or for administrative, analytical, and marketing purposes, including to verify your business information and reputation. These parties may include other Rental Houses, OEMs, Production Companies, References you provide to us, and Industry Associations who aggregate and share instances of fraud and abuse in our industry.[/accordion_item] [accordion_item icon=”hb-moon-arrow-down-15″ title=”Automatically Collected Information”]When you use our Services, we may receive technical information such as your browser type, the type of operating system you use, your geolocation, the name of your internet service provider, mobile advertising identifiers, and pages visited on our Services. MP&E gets this information by using technologies, including cookies, web beacons, and mobile device geolocation to provide and improve our Services and advertising, including across browsers and devices (also known as cross-device linking). We also use this information to verify that visitors meet the criteria required to process their requests and for reporting activity on our Services. For example, we may want to know how long the average user spends on our Services or which pages or features get the most attention. This technical information may be combined with information that is personally identifiable in order to personalize our Services and advertising to your interests, including across browsers and devices. Some of this information may be shared with third parties, as described in the section titled “Information collected by third parties on our Services.”

Additionally, and with your specific consent where required by law, MP&E may combine the information we receive from you with information collected from other sources. This information may be used to provide offers and / or services specifically tailored to your interests in accordance with applicable laws.

Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our Services may be provided by third parties, including third parties that are not affiliated with us. As noted above, these third parties may collect or receive technical information about your use of our Services, including through the use of Cookies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected on different websites and online services. Also, some third parties collect information about users of our Services in order to provide interest-based advertising (on our Services and elsewhere, including across browsers and devices, also known as cross-device linking).

For example, we may use third parties to collect, and share with us, usage information about how you interact with our Services, including personal information that you provide, website or app visits and interactions, and user inputs such as mouse clicks or keystrokes.

We’d also like to remind you that we provide additional links to resources we think you’ll find useful. These links will lead you to sites that are not affiliated with MP&E and may operate under different privacy practices. Our visitors are responsible for reviewing the privacy policies for such other websites, as we have no control over information that is submitted to these companies.