Desso appreciates your interest in its products and your
visit to this website. Your privacy is important to us, and we want
you to feel comfortable visiting our sites. The protection of your
privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important
concern to which we pay special attention during our business
processes. When you register at the Desso website, we aim to
respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth how we handle
information we obtain from you and learn about you when you visit
our Web site.
Desso collects two types of information about you when you
visit our site:
1. personal information (including, by way of example
only, your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address),
and
2. non-personal, aggregate information (such as
information regarding the pages on our site that you have visited,
length of your visit and your IP address).
1.
Personally-Identifiable
The only personally-identifying information we
collect and store about you is the information that you choose to
provide to us. Any personal information which we collect will be
used solely for the purpose of providing our services, and we will
not hold it for any longer than is necessary for this
purpose.
Electronic Mail
We will gather your personally-identifiable
information when you send us an e-mail. We will use this
information to respond to your e-mail.
Sharing Your Information
We may share your personally-identifiable information
with companies within the Desso family or companies only in order
to provide our services.
We use outside logistic companies to distribute all
commercial and consumer orders. If you order from us, we will share
your personally-identifiable information with these companies to
fulfill your order. For orders within the European Union we will
also share our commercial customers' account numbers with our
logistic partners in order to fulfill commercial
orders.
An outside company responds to consumer and
commercial requests for additional information about our products.
We will share your personally-identifiable information with any
such company in order to respond to your request.
2. Non Personally-Identifiable
Information
When you access our websites, we may automatically
(i.e., not by registration) collect non-personal data (e.g. type of
Internet browser and operating system used, domain name of the Web
site from which you came, number of visits, average time spent on
the site, pages viewed). We may use this data and share it with our
worldwide affiliates to monitor the attractiveness of our Web sites
and improve their performance or content.
Cookies
At certain points in your visit to the Desso site,
our server may send a 'cookie' file to your computer. Your Web
browser may prompt you to accept this file unless you have set your
browser preferences to accept all cookies automatically. Cookies
are employed primarily as a service to our customers, to extend the
relevance and responsiveness of the Desso site. We may link cookie
information with any personally-identifiable information you
provide us.
Other Non-Personally-Identifiable
Information
The Desso website may collect non-personally
identifiable information during your visit, such as type of
browser, operating system, domain name or IP address. An IP address
is a number that is automatically or manually assigned to your
computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Webservers -- the big
computers that "serve" up Web pages -- automatically identify your
computer by its IP address. When you visit pages on Desso's website
our servers log your IP address. We do not link IP addresses to any
personally identifiable information. This means that your session
will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us. IP address
information is used only to improve the service of the Desso
site.
For statistical purposes, your IP address gets
logged. This provides us information from where you visited us.
This information is limited to country, region and place name. More
detailed location information is not collected through your IP
address.
Desso also collects information through 'referrers'
and various environmental variables. A 'referrer' is information
the web browser passes along to Desso's web server that references
the URL from which you came. 'Environmental variables' include,
among other things, the domain from which you access the Internet,
the time you accessed our Web site, type of Web browser and
operating system or platform used, the Internet address of the Web
site you left to visit Desso and the names of the pages you visit
while at our website.
We collect all of this information to allow us to
detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to
your interests and to enhance your experience on Desso's
website.
Profiling
To help us improve our website and to ensure that we
make every effort to provide you with information and offers that
are of interest to you, we may merge your personally-identifiable
information with click-stream data and other data we have
(including cookies and offline data). We will provide notice of
this, as well as an opportunity to opt-out of it, at the time and
place of information collection and before data is entered on our
system.
We may also develop a non-identifiable profile on you
based on the pages that you visit within our site.
Links
This Web site may contain links to other sites.
Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to read the
privacy statements of each and every website that they visit. This
privacy statement applies solely to information collected when you
visit the Desso website.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes 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 information in accordance
with the privacy policy under which the information was
collected.
Choice
Desso provides the following choices regarding the
use of your information. You
may set your browser to reject cookies and to erase cookies that
have already been placed on your hard drive. However, if you do so,
your ability to navigate this site will be limited.
You may choose not to provide us with any contact
information. If you do not
want your personal or non-personal information merged with cookie
and other information, you should not use the Desso website.
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