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Privacy Policy

Updated October 10, 2025

Your privacy is important to Methods Machine Tools, Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“Methods,” “we,” “our,” or “us”). This Privacy Statement applies to our website and services, including www.methodsmachine.com, and all related web-based services (the “Website”).

This Privacy Statement explains what Personal Data we collect from visitors to the Website, how we use and disclose that Personal Data, and the rights and choices you have in connection with that information, including how you can limit certain uses and disclosures of your Personal Data. When we refer to “Personal Data,” we mean information about an identified individual or about an individual whom we could identify. Subject to applicable law, Personal Data generally does not include publicly available information or anonymized or de-identified data. See the Aggregated, De-Identified, and Anonymized Information section for more information. .

This Privacy Statement does not apply to third-party websites, products, or services, even if they link to the Website. We recommend you review the privacy practices of those third parties before connecting or accessing third-party websites and disclosing any Personal Data. See the section titled Links to Other Sites for more information.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to our job opportunities hosted by Paylocity or to Personal Data we collect or use about job applicants or employees, except for California residents. We collect, use, and disclose Personal Data about job applicants or employees for different reasons than other Personal Data we may collect, use, or disclose. For information about how we collect, use, or disclose Personal Data about job applicants or employees who are California residents, please see the Additional Information for Job Applicants and Employees About the CCPA section. For information about how we collect, use, or disclose Personal Data about job applicants or employees who are located elsewhere, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section.

Without prejudice to your rights under applicable laws, this Privacy Statement is not contractual and does not form part of your contract with Methods or its affiliates or subsidiaries.

If you have questions or requests regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section.

Our Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information

Types of Personal Data We Collect and Why

We may collect the following categories of Personal Data, for the purposes stated in the chart.

How We Collect Information

We may collect Personal Data from the following sources:

Parties To Whom We May Disclose Information

We disclose Personal Data (and may have sold or shared Personal Data for purposes of California law) as shown in the following table. For more information about California law, see the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) section.

Aggregated, De-Identified, and Anonymized Information

We may create aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information from Personal Data by removing certain data components (such as your name, email address, or linkable tracking ID) that make the data identifiable, or through aggregation, obfuscation, or other means. For example, we may use aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information to understand how to improve or enhance the Website. Subject to applicable law, our use of such aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information is not Personal Data or subject to this Privacy Statement.

Cookies, Pixels, Advertising, and Other Technologies

Cookies, Pixels, and Tags

When you access the Website, our servers automatically collect and record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address associated with your computer. We may also collect additional information such as a device ID, browser type and version, the operating system of your device, language, country, the date and time of visits, your IP address, the pages viewed, time spent on the Website, and the websites visited just before and just after the Website. This information is used to help us administer the Website, and it is transmitted automatically by your web browser. This information may be appended to your profile information to remember your preferences and diagnose technical problems.

We may use cookies to collect this information. Cookies are small data files sent by a website and stored on the computer or device at the request of that site. Cookies store information related to a user’s browser to enable us to recognize your device on return visits to the Sites and to remember your preferences.

Most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. If you want to block the use and saving of cookies from the Website on to the computer’s hard drive, you should take the necessary steps within your web browser’s settings to block all cookies from the Services and external serving vendors. Please note that if you choose to erase or block your cookies, certain functionality may not operate correctly. For information on how to disable cookies, refer to your browser’s documentation.

We may also use web beacons, pixels, or similar collection mechanisms, and in certain circumstances may collect IP addresses, screen resolution, browser software, operating system types, clickstream patterns, dates and times that our site is accessed, and other categories of data. By using the Website, you consent to the use of those technologies.

Google Analytics

The Website currently uses Google Analytics. For information about how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services . If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.

Interest-Based Advertising

We do not display advertisements on the Website, but we do participate in interest-based advertising to place advertisements on unaffiliated sites using information you provide us when you interact with the Website. Interest-based ads, also known as personalized ads, are ads that are targeted to you based on your web browsing and app usage over time and across websites or apps. For example, the Website may use third-party ad servers, retargeting services, and web analytics systems, such as Google, to analyze aggregate web usage statistics and provide us the ability to display advertisements about our services to you when you have left our site. In addition, certain pages of the Website contain embedded information from Third-Party Sites (for example, YouTube videos) and loading or interacting with that embedded information may be used for Interest-based advertising on other websites by third parties.

You have the option to restrict the use of information for interest-based advertising and to opt out of receiving interest-based ads. Some of these third parties may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services to deliver advertising based on your interests and preferences, as inferred from your browsing history. Some of these ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information that those third-party Providers collect about your visits to this site and elsewhere over time.

To learn more about this type of advertising and how to opt out of this form of advertising, you may either visit optout.aboutads.info to opt out of sites and services participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) self-regulatory program, or visit optout.networkadvertising.org to opt out of this form of advertising by members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). Note that electing to opt out will not stop advertisements from appearing in your browser or applications, although it may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. This opt-out works through cookies set on a particular browser, so if you delete cookies from a web browser, or use a different browser, you will need to opt out again.

Your choice to opt out on a particular browser or device will apply only to the collection and use of information from that particular browser or device. Opting out on a particular device will not opt you out of information collection on other devices, nor will it limit cross-device sharing on those other devices. If you use different browsers on a device or multiple devices, for each browser and device you wish to opt out, please opt out each device and browser separately at optout.aboutads.info and at optout.networkadvertising.org.

Do Not Track

The Website is not designed to support Do-Not-Track functionality. Do-Not-Track is a preference you can set on your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be “tracked” by third parties. The Website does not respond to Do-Not-Track Signals as it does not track you when you leave the Website. Our third-party service providers, who provide ad serving, retargeting services, and web analytics services to us, may not respond to Do-Not-Track signals. If an individual comes to the Website directly with a Do-Not-Track signal enabled on their browser, we do not look for the Do-Not-Track signal or respond to it; even if the Website looks for the Do-Not-Track signal, it does not respond to it.

Your Choices

You have certain choices with respect to your Personal Data.

We may use your contact information to send you email messages regarding updates to the Website, such as the publication of new information and content, promotional offers, or to communicate with you about our products and services, industry news, press releases, and announcements about advanced machine engineering, factory automation, and our R&D innovations. You may opt out of receiving these emails at any time via the unsubscribe link contained in the email message.

We will communicate with you only according to your preferences provided to us. We may use your contact information to send you messages regarding updates to the Website. You may opt out of receiving these messages by following the unsubscribe link contained in the message, or by contacting us through the information contained in the Contact Us section. You may not be able to opt out of receiving certain messages from us, such as transactional communications or legal notices.

Location of the Website

Our Website is provided primarily in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, any information you provide to us will be transferred to, processed, and/or maintained in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, the transfer of Personal Data may be necessary to provide you with the requested information and services and/or to perform any requested transaction.

Specifically, information we collect from you might be processed in the United States, and by using these services you acknowledge and consent to the processing of your data in the United States.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website contains links to other websites, including social networking websites, mobile applications, or Internet locations (collectively “Third-Party Sites”). Our Website may include social network sharing widgets or other embedded content (such as YouTube videos) that may provide information to their associated social networks or third parties about your interactions with our web pages that you visit, even if you do not click on or otherwise interact with the plug-in, widget, or embedded content. Information is transmitted from your browser and may include an identifier assigned by the social network or third party, information about your browser type, operating system, device type, IP address, and the URL of the web page where the widget appears. We have no control over and are not responsible for third-party websites, their privacy practices, their content, or any goods or services available through the Third-Party Sites, including embedded content. Our Privacy Statement does not apply to Third-Party Sites; any information you provide to a Third-Party Site is subject to that Third-Party Site’s privacy policy or privacy practices.

The fact that we link to a website is not an endorsement or representation of an affiliation with that website. You should carefully review the applicable privacy policies before using or engaging with any Third-Party Site on our Website.

Children’s Data

The Website is not directed to or intended for use by children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13, or knowingly allow such persons to register for our services, without parental consent. No one under age 13 may provide any Personal Data to us or on the Website. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for the Website or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected Personal Data from an individual under age 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete the data as permitted by law. If you believe that we might have any information from or about an individual under age 13, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which the data were obtained and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include but are not limited to the following:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the services to you;
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject;
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position; and/or
  • Whether our operational needs require maintaining your personal data, such as for maintaining solicitation preferences (including for former customers and non-customers) or systems administration.

Additional Information for California Residents

Shine The Light law

Under California’s “Shine The Light” law (California Civil Code § 1798.83), California residents are entitled to request, once a year and free of charge, certain information regarding what types of their Personal Data may be disclosed to third parties and, in some cases, affiliates, for those third parties’ and affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. Under this law, a business is to either provide California residents certain information upon request or permit California residents to opt out of this type of disclosure. You may request this information by contacting us using the information in the Contact Us section and indicate in the email subject line, “California Shine The Light Request.” Please include your mailing address, state of residence, and email address with your request.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives California residents enhanced rights with respect to their Personal Data that is collected by businesses.

First, California residents may opt out of having their Personal Data sold to or shared with other persons or parties.

Second, California residents have a right to know:

What specific pieces of information a business has about the resident;

Categories of Personal Data it has collected about the resident;

Categories of sources from which the Personal Data is collected;

Categories of Personal Data that the business sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose about the resident;

Categories of third parties to whom the Personal Data was sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose; and

The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing Personal Data.

Third, California residents can request that the Personal Data a business has collected from them be deleted from the business’s systems and records, subject to certain exceptions.

Fourth, California residents can request that inaccurate Personal Data a business maintains about them be corrected.

Fifth, California residents can request to limit use and disclosure of their sensitive Personal Data. Methods does not process sensitive Personal Data of California residents, except as described in the

Methods is covered under the CCPA as we collect and process the Personal Data of California residents. This Privacy Statement provides the required notices to California residents. The CCPA also prohibits covered businesses from providing discriminatory treatment to California residents if they exercise their rights under the Act.

The CCPA defines “sale” to include data transfers for monetary or other valuable consideration. We do not sell personal information about visitors to the Sites for money; however, based on the CCPA’s broader definitions of “sell” and “share,” we may “sell” or “share” your personal information as the CCPA defines those terms. As stated above in the data collection sections, we collect and transmit your data to third-party service providers in order to deliver services to you. The CCPA requires us to state that we do not have actual knowledge that we have sold or shared the Personal Data of California residents under 16 years of age.

To make a “do not sell or share” request, “request to know,” “request to delete,” or “request to correct” your Personal Data, please contact us by email or telephone using the information in the

We will confirm receipt of your request to know, delete, or correct within 10 days along with a description of what steps we will take to verify and respond. We must provide the requested information or delete your Personal Data within 45 days of receipt of your request but can use an additional 45 days, and we will let you know if additional time is needed.

When contacting us, we may ask you to provide certain, limited Personal Data, such as your name, email address, and/or username to verify your request and to match with our records and systems. We will not retain this Personal Data or use it for any other purpose. To inquire about exercising these rights, please contact us using the information in the

Contact Us: If you email us, please put in the subject line of your email the words “California Data Subject Request,” and explain in your email which of the rights listed above you are requesting. You may submit multiple requests at once in an email.

Additional Information for Job Applicants and Employees About the CCPA

This subsection contains information about how we may collect, use, and disclose the Personal Data about California residents related to any job application or employment with us. This subsection does not contain information about how we may collect, use, and disclose Personal Data about California residents not related to any job application or employment with us, which is described in the remainder of this Privacy Statement. This subsection does not apply to non-California residents.

For example, if you are a California resident and apply for a job with us through the Careers page on our Website, the Privacy Statement outside of this subsection explains how we may collect, use, or disclose the Personal Data we collect or generate about you as you browse or navigate our website. This subsection explains how we may collect, use, or disclose the Personal Data you submit by clicking “Apply Now For This Position” on our Website to apply for a job.

In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of information about job applicants and employees who are California residents:

We may have collected Personal Data about job applicants or employees from the following sources:

We disclose Personal Data of job applicants and employees as follows, and we may have done so in the past 12 months:

The CCPA requires us to state that we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information about job applicants or employees for purposes other than to perform the services reasonably expected by an average job applicant or employee who applies for a job or is employed by us; to prevent, detect, and investigate security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, or confidentiality of stored or transmitted Personal Data; to resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at us and to prosecute those reasonable for those actions; or to collect or process sensitive personal information where such collection or processing is for the purpose of inferring characteristics about a job applicant. We do not sell or share the Personal Data related to For more information about how we may sell or share Personal Data of California residents, see the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) section. The CCPA requires us to state that we do not have actual knowledge that we have sold or shared Personal Data of job applicants or employees under 16 years of age. We do not have employees under 18 years of age.

Additional Information for Individuals in Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia

Each state listed above has a law that gives its residents enhanced rights with respect to certain of their Personal Data in certain situations. Those rights are limited and subject to exceptions. For purposes of this section, when we refer to “Certain States,” we mean Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia — the states listed above.

For example, Certain States’ laws do not apply to publicly available Personal Data or to Personal Data of an employee. And Certain States’ laws apply only to state residents when acting in an individual or household context, but not when they are acting in a commercial or employment context. For these states, that means if you are using our products and services in connection with employment, these disclosures are unlikely to apply to you or your Personal Data.

See the tables at the bottom of this privacy statement for more information about the scope of these states’ laws.

The scope of applicable state privacy laws varies state to state. For purposes of this section, when we refer to “State Regulated Personal Data,” we mean the Personal Data linked or reasonably linkable to a resident of a Certain State that is within the scope of that state’s law. It also means that what is regulated Personal Data depends upon the state in which you reside. Click here for more information about the scope of these states’ laws.

For each of the Certain States, based on how we interact with residents of that state and our use of their Personal Data, we may be subject to that state’s law granting its residents rights with respect to certain of their Personal Data in certain situations.

Depending on the state in which you reside, you may have certain or all of these rights:

First, you may be able opt out of some or all of these things:

  1. Processing your State Regulated Personal Data for purposes of targeted advertising;
  2. The sale of your State Regulated Personal Data; or
  3. Profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

Second, you may be able to ask us to confirm if we are processing your State Regulated Personal Data and to provide a copy of your State Regulated Personal Data.

Third, you may be able to receive your State Regulated Personal Data in a portable and, if technically feasible, readily usable format. Depending upon the state you reside in, this right may be part of the right to access your State Regulated Personal Data and not a separate right.

Fourth, you may be able to ask us to correct inaccuracies in your State Regulated Personal Data.

Fifth, you may be able to ask us to delete your State Regulated Personal Data.

Sixth, if you are a Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, or Oregon resident, you may be able to ask us for a list of third parties to which we have disclosed your State Regulated Personal Data.

Seventh, if you are a Minnesota resident, you may be able to ask us for certain information about any profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significant effects concerning you.

To exercise your rights, please go contact us using the information in the Contact Us section. If you email us, please put in the subject line of your email your state of residence and the words “Data Subject Request,” and explain in your email which of the rights listed above you are requesting. You may submit multiple requests at once in an email.

Although it varies state to state, generally and subject to certain exceptions, there is ordinarily no cost for residents of any of the Certain States to submit their first request in a year. (Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia residents can ordinarily submit two requests in a year without being charged a fee.) If you submit more requests than that in a twelve-month period, we may charge you a reasonable fee to cover the administrative costs of complying with your requests or decline to act on your requests. We can use commercially reasonable efforts to authenticate you are who you say you are, and if we are unable to do so, we may ask you to provide more information reasonably necessary to authenticate you. If we cannot authenticate you or your authority, we will deny the request.

If you submit a request, we will tell you what the result is of your request (including, if you submit a Right to Access, your State Regulated Personal Data) without undue delay and within 45 days after we receive your request. In some cases, we may extend that deadline by 45 days, to 90 days in total. If we extend the deadline, we will tell you that and why.

Each of these laws includes exceptions for Personal Data regulated under other laws or maintained for certain reasons or in certain contexts. For example, these laws do not apply to publicly available information, including information that we reasonably believe residents of those states have lawfully made available to the general public. As another example, we will not delete State Regulated Personal Data when we need to maintain it to comply with a legal obligation.

If we don’t grant your request, we will tell you why we did not.

If you are a resident of any of the Certain States, other than Utah, you may appeal our decision by emailing us using the information in the Contact Us section with the subject line “Appeal of Request” and including our response to your request.  We will also include this information in our response to your request. If you appeal our decision, we will have a certain amount of time to respond, as set by state law.

If you do not agree with the result of our appeal, you can complain to the attorney general in your state.

If you are a Utah resident, you do not have the right to appeal our decision.

We may use your State Regulated Personal Data for targeted advertising. See the Interest-Based Advertising section for more information.

Additional Information for Individuals in Iowa

We may be subject to Iowa’s Consumer Data Protection law based on our interactions with Iowa residents and our use of their Personal Data.  Iowa’s Consumer Data Protection law provides Iowa residents enhanced rights with respect to their Personal Data when acting in an individual or household context, but not when they are acting in a commercial or employment context.  If you are using our products and services in the context of your employment or in a commercial context, this law may not apply to you.  That means if you are using our products and services in connection with employment, these disclosures are unlikely to apply to you or your Personal Data.

In this section, “Iowa Regulated Personal Data” refers to Personal Data that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable Iowa resident.  Iowa Regulated Personal Data does not include de-identified or publicly available information, as defined in Iowa’s Consumer Data Protection law.  Iowa Regulated Personal Data also exclude other types of data, such as data processed or maintained in the course of your applying to, employed by, or acting as an agent or independent contractor, to the extent that the data is collected and used within the context of that role.

Based on how we interact with Iowa residents and our use of their Personal Data, we may be subject to that state’s law granting its residents rights with respect to certain of their Personal Data in certain situations.  If you are an Iowa resident, you may have certain or all of these rights:

First, you may be able opt out the sale of your Iowa Regulated Personal Data.

Second, you may be able to ask us to confirm if we are processing your Iowa Regulated Personal Data and to provide a copy of your Iowa Regulated Personal Data, including in a portable and, if technically feasible, readily usable format.

Third, you may be able to ask us to delete your Iowa Regulated Personal Data.

To exercise your rights, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section.  If you email us, please put in the subject line of your email the words “Iowa Data Subject Request,” and explain in your email which of the rights listed above you are requesting.  You may submit multiple requests at once in an email.

Generally and subject to certain exceptions, there is ordinarily no cost for an Iowa resident to submit their first two requests in a year.  If you submit more requests than that in a twelve-month period, we may charge you a reasonable fee to cover the administrative costs of complying with your requests or decline to act on your requests.  We can use commercially reasonable efforts to authenticate you are who you say you are, and if we are unable to do so, we may ask you to provide more information reasonably necessary to authenticate you.  If we cannot authenticate you or your authority, we will deny the request.

If you submit a request, we will tell you what the result is of your request (including, if you submit a Right to Access, your Iowa Regulated Personal Data) without undue delay and within 90 days after we receive your request.  In some cases, we may extend that deadline by 45 days, to 105 days in total.  If we extend the deadline, we will tell you that and why.

Iowa’s Consumer Data Protection law includes exceptions for Personal Data regulated under other laws or maintained for certain reasons or in certain contexts.  For example, these laws do not apply to publicly available information, including information that we reasonably believe Iowa residents have lawfully made available to the general public.  As another example, we will not delete Iowa Regulated Personal Data when we need to maintain it to comply with a legal obligation.

If we don’t grant your request, we will tell you why we did not.

You may appeal our decision by emailing us using the information in the Contact Us section with the subject line “Appeal of Request” and including our response to your request.  We will also include this information in our response to your request.  If you appeal our decision, we will have 60 days to respond to your appeal.

If you do not agree with the result of our appeal, you can complain to the Iowa attorney general.

We may use your Iowa Regulated Personal Data for targeted advertising. See the Interest-Based Advertising section for more information.

Updates to Our Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement may be revised from time to time by updating this posting. The “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Statement indicates when it was last revised. Any changes are effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Website. We encourage you to routinely review this Privacy Statement to learn about updates to our privacy practices.

Contact Us

For more information or if you have questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@methodsmachine.com by telephone at (877) 668-4262, or by mail at:

65 Union Avenue
Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776