Privacy Policy

Effective date: November 4, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Summit Enterprise Co., Limited ("Summit Gear," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses and discloses personal information through www.summit-gear.com (the "Site").

About the Site

Summit Gear designs and manufactures knives, hand tools, outdoor and utility products, and hardware components for other brands. We operate factories in Yangjiang, China and Haiphong, Vietnam.

The Site provides information only. It does not sell products and does not take orders or payments online. You can read the Site's pages and send us a project inquiry or message through the contact form.

Information We Collect

Information you provide. When you submit an inquiry or contact form, we collect:

  • first and last name,
  • company name and company website,
  • email address and phone number,
  • country,
  • the type of inquiry or reason for contacting us,
  • project details you choose to share, such as product category, project type, development stage, estimated order quantity, target launch date, preferred manufacturing location, the support you need, NDA preference, and any Open Design reference you selected,
  • how you heard about us, and
  • your message.

You may also send us files, drawings, specifications or other project materials by email after your inquiry.

Information collected automatically. When you visit the Site, standard server logs and cookies collect some technical information. This includes your IP address, browser type, device information, the pages you view, the referring page, and the date and time of your visit.

Cookies

The Site is hosted on Shopify. Shopify sets cookies and similar technologies that we use to:

  • operate the Site,
  • keep it secure, and
  • produce basic analytics through Shopify's built-in analytics.

We do not set cookies on the Site for targeted advertising. Shopify's cookie policy at https://www.shopify.com/legal/cookies describes the cookies Shopify sets. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies. If you block cookies that the Site needs to work, some features, such as the inquiry form, may not work properly. If a cookie preferences banner is shown on the Site, you can also change your choices there. Shopify describes its own data practices in its privacy policy at https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

How We Use Information

We use personal information to:

  • respond to your inquiry and communicate with you about it,
  • evaluate your project and prepare quotations,
  • manage our business relationship with you or your company,
  • operate, maintain and secure the Site, and to detect and prevent fraud, abuse or security incidents,
  • understand how the Site is used, through basic aggregated analytics, and
  • meet legal obligations and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We do not use personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those listed above without telling you first.

Legal Bases (EEA and UK)

If the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the UK GDPR applies, we process personal information on these legal bases:

  • Steps before entering a contract, or our legitimate interests where you contact us on behalf of a company: responding to your inquiry and preparing quotations.
  • Legitimate interests: managing business relationships, operating and securing the Site, and producing basic analytics.
  • Legal obligations: complying with laws that apply to us.
  • Consent: where applicable law requires consent for cookies or similar technologies.

No Sale or Advertising Use

  • We do not sell personal information.
  • We do not share personal information with third parties for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
  • We do not share personal information with advertising or marketing partners.
  • Shopify may process limited technical data for its own purposes, as described in its privacy policy.

How We Disclose Information

We disclose personal information to:

  • Service providers that act on our behalf. This includes Shopify, which hosts the Site, and our email, IT and form-handling providers. We require them to use the information only to provide services to us. Shopify may also process some technical data for its own purposes, as described in its privacy policy.
  • Our affiliated companies and factories that are involved in evaluating, quoting, producing or supporting your project.
  • Legal recipients. We disclose information when the law, a court order or a government authority requires it, or when we need to protect our rights, property or safety, or those of others.

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will take reasonable steps to ensure the recipient protects it in a manner consistent with this Policy.

Confidentiality of Project Information

We treat drawings, specifications, designs and other project information you provide as confidential. We use this information to evaluate, quote and carry out your project and to communicate with you about it. We share it with personnel, affiliated companies, factories and service providers that need it for those purposes, and otherwise only where the law requires.

If you and we have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) or a similar confidentiality agreement, we handle your project information under that agreement. If that agreement conflicts with this Policy, the agreement prevails.

International Transfers

Your personal information may be processed and stored in China, Vietnam and other countries where we or our service providers operate. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your country. We take reasonable steps to protect your information when it is transferred.

Retention

We keep personal information for as long as we need it to:

  • respond to your inquiry,
  • manage our business relationship, and
  • meet legal, accounting and record-keeping obligations or resolve disputes.

When we no longer need the information, we take steps to delete it or anonymize it.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical and organizational measures to protect personal information. No method of transmission over the internet and no method of storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Rights

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have the right to:

  • access the personal information we hold about you,
  • correct inaccurate information,
  • request deletion of your information,
  • object to or ask us to restrict certain processing,
  • receive a copy of certain information in a portable format, and
  • withdraw consent, where we rely on consent.

To make a request, email harlan@summit-gear.com. We may need to verify your identity before we respond. We will respond as the applicable law requires.

If the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, you may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. If you are a California resident, you may also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.

Children

The Site is for business users. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will take steps to delete it.

Third-Party Links

The Site may link to websites we do not control. This Policy does not apply to those websites. Please review their privacy policies.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and change the effective date above.

Contact

Summit Enterprise Co., Limited
Registered address: YUDONG 7TH ROAD EAST AND YONGXING 9TH ROAD NORTH, DONGCHENG TOWN, YANGDONG DISTRICT, YANGJIANG
Email: harlan@summit-gear.com