Thank you for visiting Barnes Industrial's Web site, which is located at www.bgiindustrial.com. This Privacy Policy contains information about our commitment to your privacy, including:

• The information we collect and how we use it;
• Your rights to access or update your personally identifiable information;
• Your rights to opt-out of receiving communications from us;
• Our pledge to have reasonable security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under our control.

Information Collection and Use

Barnes Industrial's Web site collects two kinds of information from you: personal information that you choose to supply us, and non-personal information such as your IP address. To learn how to opt-out of receiving further information from Barnes Group, see the section marked "Choices" below.

1. Personal Information

If you submit feedback, questions or requests for information about Barnes products and services, we may request your name, mailing address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address in order to respond to your inquiries. Barnes may share this information within our organization and with third parties that help design and maintain our Web site, but only to the extent necessary to effectively respond to your inquiry. We may collect and store this information until an appropriate response can be sent to you.

Unless you specifically request from us information on our products or services, none of the information collected on this Web site is used for marketing purposes, and as such we will not use your personally identifiable information to send you anything you do not request. In addition, we do not maintain customer or other distribution lists using personally identifiable information collected on our Web site.

2. Non-Personally Identifiable Information

    a. Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data placed on your hard drive when you visit our Web site. Cookies help us track traffic to our site, which helps us identify what parts of our site interests visitors most. We do not link cookie information with any personally identifiable information. You have a choice with respect to whether cookies are placed on your hard drive. See the section called "Choice" below.

    b. IP Addresses

An IP Address is a number used by computers on a network to identify your computer so that data can be transmitted to you. We may collect IP Address information in order to administer our Web site and gather broad demographic information.

    c. Other Data

We may collect capture information on the types of browser and monitor visitors use while on our Web site. This data is aggregated to give us broad demographic information, which we use to improve the content and design of our web site.

3. Information Sharing

The Barnes Industrial Web site uses a third-party vendor for the collection of non-personally identifiable information described above. This third-party vendor provides this data to us through a secure, password-protected environment.

We may share your personally and non-personally identifiable information with third parties that help design and manage our Web site and databases.

Choice

Barnes Industrial provides you with the following choices regarding the use of your information:

• You may set your browser to: (1) inform you when cookies are being set before a cookie is stored on your hard drive; (2) not accept cookies at all; and (3) erase cookies from your hard drive. However, if you choose to reject or erase cookies, your ability to navigate this site may be limited.

• You may choose to not provide us with any personally identifiable information. However, if you so choose, we will be unable to respond to your inquiries. Furthermore, your ability to navigate this site may be curtailed.

• If you would like to opt-out of receiving further optional information from us, please send an e-mail to info@barnesgroupinc.com. Please include your name and e-mail address in the body of the e-mail, and reference "Remove" on the subject line.

• If you would like to change or modify information you have previously provided us, please send an e-mail to info@barnesgroupinc.com.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of our Web site, please contact:

    Director, Investor Relations
    Barnes Group Inc.
    123 Main Street
    Bristol, CT 06010

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post a new Privacy Policy on our homepage so you will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. We will use the information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected.

Links to Third Party Web-sites

Throughout the Barnes Industrial Web site, there are links to other Web sites not affiliated with Barnes Industrial. While we provide these links as a service to our visitors, we accept no responsibility for the content or privacy practices these third-party Web sites employ.

Special Policy With Regard To Information From Children Under 13

Barnes Industrial's Web site is not targeted to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly request personally identifiable information from any child under the age of 13 without parental consent. When we do receive such information, we delete it as soon as we become aware of it, and we do not use it or share it with third parties.

Security

We make every effort to have reasonable security procedures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under our control. Additionally, our third-party vendor uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to collect and transmit your data to us.

If you have any questions regarding the security of our Web site, please contact info@barnesgroupinc.com.

Insolvency

In the unlikely event that Barnes Industrial ever becomes insolvent and seeks protection under Bankruptcy laws, we may share your personal and non-personal information with a third party that intends to continue business subject to this privacy policy, as it may be amended from time to time.