ITW Industrial Decorating Solutions (a division of Illinois Tool Works Inc. businesses consisting of ITW Trans Tech, United Silicone, ITW Morlock GmbH (“Morlock”) and ITW CER SASU (“CER”) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the ITW Industrial Decorating Solutions website and governs data collection and usage. By using the ITW Industrial Decorating Solutions Group website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
The personal information that we may collect about you through the Website broadly falls into the following
categories:
Information that you provide voluntarily
Certain parts of our Websites may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily, such as through completing
a Web form:
• name, and address of the company for the sample request ;
• personal contact information (phone, email)
• project information, technical information, samples needed, design and production, desired
carrier/shipper, charrier/shipper account # (if applicable), competitor’s name if replacement of product;
• user preferences (e.g., preferred language settings);
• content of any communication sent through the website, including any information posted in social communities on the website or otherwise shared with ITW MORLOCK and/or other users : Transtech, United Silicone, ITW CER;
• any other information that you enter on, or upload to, the website (e.g., content that you fill into an online form, a photo that you upload).
Information that we collect automatically
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal information under
applicable data protection laws.
Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include:
• IP address, operating system, browser type, browser version, browser configuration, name of internet service provider, and other types of computer and connection related information relevant to identifying your type of device, connecting to the website, enabling data exchange with you and your device, and
ensuring a convenient use of the website;
• URL and IP address of the website from which you accessed, or were directed to, our website, including
date and time;
• subpages visited while on our website, links followed on the website, including date and time;
• the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) click stream to, through and from the website, including date and
time;
• search terms entered; and
• services/products viewed or searched for on the website.
Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our Website, where they come from, and what content or products on our Website are of interest to them. We use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our Website to our visitors.
Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies, as explained further under the heading “Cookies and similar tracking technology” below.
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only
(i) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights,
(ii) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or
(iii) where we have your consent to do so.
We will process your personal information for any of the purposes below:
We will seek your consent before collecting, processing and using your personal information for the above-mentioned purposes, if and to the extent legally required. Likewise, if we wish to use your personal information for a new or different purpose that is not compatible with the purpose for which we collected or received it, we will notify you and will only make such other use if it is required or permitted by applicable law or if you have consented to it.
For the purposes mentioned above, only a limited number of individuals within ITW MORLOCK (e.g. individuals in sales, marketing, IT, accounting departments and HR, as well as certain managers with assigned responsibility) will receive access to your personal information.
If you have questions or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.
For the purposes mentioned above, we may share your personal information with third parties. To make improvements to our website we may gather information that helps us understand how customers use it. For example, we may research the collected information to determine which areas of the site our customers most frequently access.
ITW MORLOCK may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will not include individual identifying information. Personal information such as your name and email address will not be used in our research.
We do not sell, trade, rent, disclose, transfer or otherwise share your personal information, except as follows:
• Our group companies, third party service providers and partners: We may employ third party service providers (i.e., companies or individuals engaged by us) to perform certain functions on our behalf and under our instructions. Examples include database management, maintenance services, web analytics, handling in- bound inquiries, sending postal mail and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data. Third party service providers may for instance include IT companies. Any third-party provider who provides data processing services to us, or who otherwise processes personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice will have access only to such personal information as it needs to perform its specific functions, and only for the purpose of performing these functions. We will ensure that any third-party service provider is aware of and abides by these obligations. We will also ensure that any third-party service provider processes your personal information as required by applicable data protection laws and that they adopt adequate technical and organizational security measures.
List of our current group companies:
ITW Trans Tech, United Silicone, ITW Morlock GmbH (“Morlock”) and ITW CER SASU (“CER”)
List of our current service providers:
Foremost Media / USA (https://foremostmedia.com/
Google Analytics (https:/analytics.google.com/analytics/web/)
Courts, competent law enforcement authorities and regulatory, government agency: We may share personal information when we believe it necessary to comply with applicable law or regulation, to exercise, establish or protect our legal rights, or to protect your vital interests, the rights or safety of our website, other users, or third parties (e.g., for fraud protection purposes). Without limitation, this may include casespersonal in which we are required to share personal information by the law or binding order of courts, law enforcement authorities or regulators.
Potential or actual buyers (and its or their agents and advisers): As we continue to develop our business, we might sell all or parts of our website or business. We may disclose your personal information to an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business or website, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice.
• Any other person: if agreed by you (e.g., where you consent to other types of data transfers in connection with enrolling for a specific service).
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
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 your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible in accordance with our standard backup deletion/destruction policies.
You have the following data protection rights:
Our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world, mainly in Europe, EEA and USA. Accordingly, your personal information may be transferred to, or processed in, in any country other than the country in which you are resident. This may include countries where applicable data protection laws provide a lesser degree of protection than your home country. Specifically, our Website servers are in USA.
This means that when we collect your personal information, we may process it in any of these countries. For instance, if you are located within the EU/EEA or Switzerland, the country where the recipient is located may not qualify as a safe country within the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC), the EU General Data Protection
Regulation (679/2016) or the Federal Data Protection Act of Switzerland. In such cases, ITW MORLOCK will nevertheless ensure an adequate level of protection for your personal information in compliance with applicable data protection
laws. This includes implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies; these require all group companies to protect personal information they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection law.
We are committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the information that you provide to us and we put in place appropriate technical, physical and organizational security measures to protect against any unauthorized access or damage to, or disclosure or loss of, the personal information that we collect and process about you. The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.
You should also be aware that communications over the internet, such as e-mails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted.
We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers and similar technologies to collect and store information (which may include your personal information) about how you interact with our websites, communications and services and selected third party websites which belong to our partner advertising networks. We may use these technologies to show you relevant adverts based upon this information; this is called interest-based advertising.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device which uniquely identify your device. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device.
Web beacons (also known as “Pixel tags“) are small blocks of code on webpages or in our emails that allow us to read and set cookies. Web beacons are often used in connection with cookies to help operate our websites, emails and collect information about online.
Some cookies expire when the browsing session ends. Some cookies expire after some number of years. Cookies can be deleted by clearing them in the user’s browser. Google Analytics stores data for 26 months.
This privacy notice does not apply to third party websites which our websites link to or which advertise on our websites. These third-party websites operate their own privacy notice or policy which we encourage you to read.
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, for example, to keep it up to date or to comply with changing legal, technical or business requirements. When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you consistent with the significance of the changes we make. We will obtain your consent to any material.
Privacy Notice changes if and where this is required by applicable data protection laws.
You can see when this Privacy Notice was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed in this Privacy Notice.