Divergent Adhesives and its worldwide subsidiaries (“Divergent Adhesives,†“weâ€, “ourâ€) are committed to protecting your privacy. There are various ways that you might interact with Divergent Adhesives, and the information you provide when doing so allows us to improve our services. By using this website (“Siteâ€) and by supplying your details to Divergent Adhesives, you consent to Divergent Adhesives collecting and processing your information.

Our privacy policy explains:

• What information we collect, and why we collect it
• How we use that information
• How we protect that information
• How you can control your information, including accessing, updating and deleting what we store
• How we share information collected

Information We Collect & Share

Divergent Adhesives may collect or record basic personal information (e.g., name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number) which you voluntarily provide through forms on our Site, through electronic mail you send to us, or through other means of communication between you and Divergent Adhesives.

Divergent Adhesives only collects personal information of a more sensitive nature e.g. social security or other governmental ID numbers, credit card details and account numbers) where it is appropriate or necessary for conducting business. This information will be collected, stored, accessed and processed in a secure manner. Divergent Adhesives may also collect general non-personal information pertaining to users of our sites, including IP addresses, source domain names, specific web pages, length of time spent, and pages accessed. This information is collected, among other things, to aggregate statistical information, facilitate system administration and improve the Site.

Divergent Adhesives also collects, uses, and discloses identifiable information about individual contacts for Divergent Adhesives’s customers (“Business Contact Informationâ€) in the ordinary course of its business for managing and maintaining customer relationships. In particular, Divergent Adhesives may obtain the following types of Business Contact Information: name, address, invoice information including bank account information, and order information. Unless otherwise specified or prohibited, Divergent Adhesives may share information with affiliates, business partners, service providers, subsidiaries or contractors who are required to provide you with services which you have requested from us.

Divergent Adhesives may also post links to third party websites as a service to you. These third party websites are operated by companies that are outside of our control, and your activities at those third party websites will be governed by the policies and practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties before disclosing any information, as we are not responsible for the privacy policies of those websites.

How We Use Information

Divergent Adhesives uses the information we collect to provide you with services which you request and to improve our existing services and the content of our Site. When you contact Divergent Adhesives, we may keep a record of your communication to help solve any issues that you might be facing. Depending on the country in which you live, work or access our Site(s), your information may be retained for a reasonable time for use in future contact with you, or for future improvements to Divergent Adhesives services. In the event the information you provide to us is an application for employment, that application will be held in accordance with our HR records management policy. You have the option to opt-out or opt-in for further communications from Divergent Adhesives.

Divergent Adhesives may also use or disclose your personal information when Divergent Adhesives believes, in good faith, that such use or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property or safety of Divergent Adhesives, Divergent Adhesives’s users, or others. Divergent Adhesives reserves the right to transfer and disclose your information if Divergent Adhesives becomes involved in a business divestiture, change of control, sale, merger, or acquisition of all or a part of its business.

Web User Tracking – Use of Cookies

Cookies are a technology that can be used to help personalize your use of a website. A cookie is an element of information that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it or decline at any time. To enable Divergent Adhesives to access the effectiveness and usefulness of this Site, and to give you the best user experience, we collect and store information on pages viewed by you, your domain names and similar information. Our Site makes use of anonymous cookies for the purposes of:

• Completion and support of Site activity;
• Site and system administration;
• Research and development;
• Anonymous user analysis, user profiling, and decision-making.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

Divergent Adhesives uses reasonable measures to safeguard personally identifiable information, which measures are appropriate to the type of information maintained, and follows applicable laws regarding safeguarding any such information under our control. In addition, in some areas of our Sites, Divergent Adhesives may use encryption technology to enhance information privacy and help prevent loss, misuse, or alteration of the information under Divergent Adhesives’s control. Divergent Adhesives also employs industry-standard measures and processes for detecting and responding to inappropriate attempts to breach our systems.

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, can be 100% secure. Therefore, Divergent Adhesives cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. The Internet by its nature is a public forum, and Divergent Adhesives encourages you to use caution when disclosing information online. Often, you are in the best situation to protect yourself online. You are responsible for protecting your username and password from third party access, and for selecting passwords that are secure.

Monitoring and Enforcement

Divergent Adhesives regularly reviews our compliance with our privacy policy. We also adhere to several self-regulatory frameworks in addition to complying with applicable law. If we receive formal written complaints, we will follow up with the person making the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities to resolve any complaints that cannot be resolved directly.

Compliance

Divergent Adhesives adheres to US and other international regulations such as PIPEDA, the European Union (“EU”) Data Protection (95/46/EC) and ePrivacy (2002/58/EC) Directives (as transposed into national law), and the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Privacy Principles published by the US Department of Commerce (“Safe Harbor”), detailed below.

PIPEDA (Canada)

Divergent Adhesives recognizes and has controls in place to ensure that the privacy of personal information about an “identifiable individual” used in the course of “commercial activity” is protected and managed in such a manner which meets or exceeds the guidelines set out in PIPEDA and applicable provincial legislation.

Safe Harbor (European Union and Switzerland)

Divergent Adhesives recognizes that the EU has an “omnibus” information protection regime established pursuant to the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) (the “Directive”) and that Switzerland has enacted the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (“FADP”). Among other things, the Directive and FADP generally restricts the export of personal information from the European Economic Area and Switzerland to the United States, unless the US recipient can give “adequate protection” to such personal information when it is received or processed in the United States. Divergent Adhesives has signed up to Safe Harbor and has certified that it offers such “adequate protection”.

From time to time Divergent Adhesives affiliates pass to Divergent Adhesives in the United States certain individually identifiable information about individual contacts for Divergent Adhesives’s customers in the EU and Switzerland (“EU and Swiss Business Contact Information”), individuals in the EU or Switzerland who are customers or employees of Divergent Adhesives’s customers (“EU and Swiss Customer Information”) and about individuals in the EU who are Divergent Adhesives’s or its affiliates’ employees (“EU and Swiss Employee Information”). EU and Swiss Business Contact Information and EU and Swiss Customer Information are collectively referred to as “EU and Swiss Personal Informationâ€. Information regarding Divergent Adhesives’s practices concerning EU and Swiss Employee Information is provided to affected EU and Swiss employees through other company policies and procedures. In certain situations, individuals may seek to opt-out of disclosures of their EU and Swiss Business Contact Information by contacting Divergent Adhesives as specified at the end of this Safe Harbor section. For more information about the Safe Harbor, please refer to the U.S. Department of Commerce website at http://www.export.gov/safeharbor.

Divergent Adhesives may obtain in the US the following types of EU and Swiss Business Contact Information: name, address, invoice information including bank account information, and order information. Divergent Adhesives uses EU and Swiss Business Contact Information for the following purposes: managing customer relationships, managing orders, tracking payments and ensuring payment, and otherwise maintaining the customer relationship. Divergent Adhesives may disclose EU and Swiss Business Contact Information to its affiliates, subsidiaries, business partners, and service providers for the purposes listed above.

In situations where Divergent Adhesives discloses EU and Swiss Business Contact Information to any third parties acting as service providers or “agents” on behalf of Divergent Adhesives, Divergent Adhesives will require the recipient to protect the disclosed EU and Swiss Business Contact Information in accordance with the relevant Safe Harbor Principles, or otherwise take steps to ensure that the EU and Swiss Business Contact Information is appropriately protected. With respect to any sharing of EU and Swiss Business Contact Information for purposes of marketing Divergent Adhesives products and services, Divergent Adhesives obtains promises from its affiliates, subsidiaries and business partners that such entities will use and disclose such EU and Swiss Business Contact Information for purposes of marketing Divergent Adhesives products and services only. In certain situations, individuals may seek to opt-out of disclosures of their EU and Swiss Business Contact Information by contacting Divergent Adhesives as specified at the end of this Safe Harbor section.

Divergent Adhesives takes appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard EU and Swiss Personal Information against unauthorized or unlawful processing of, or accidental loss, damage, misuse, unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized alteration, or destruction, and maintains reasonable procedures to help ensure that such information is relevant for its intended use, accurate, complete, current and not excessive and that such information is not retained longer than is reasonably necessary.

Divergent Adhesives may disclose EU and Swiss Personal Information as necessary in connection with the sale or transfer of all or part of its business, where required or permitted by law, where Divergent Adhesives believes that such disclosures are appropriate in connection with a law enforcement request or as otherwise permitted by Safe Harbor, or in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud or in order to comply with, enforce or apply Divergent Adhesives agreements.

Information Processor Activities

Divergent Adhesives operates as an information processor for our business customers located in the EU. Divergent Adhesives’s business customers remain the information controllers with respect to any EU Customer Information that they provide to Divergent Adhesives for our provision of services. Divergent Adhesives therefore acts in accordance with the instructions of such customers regarding the collection, processing, storage, deletion and transfer of EU Customer Information, as well as other matters such as the provision of access to and rectification of EU Customer Information.

Individuals may contact the Divergent Adhesives Safe Harbor Privacy Contact identified below to review any personal information held about them. Divergent Adhesives reserves the right to take reasonable steps to authenticate the identity of any such individual seeking access to such personal information. Questions, comments, or access requests regarding the Safe Harbor or EU Personal Information should be directed to Sonny Callaham. If you cannot resolve the issue directly with the Divergent Adhesives Safe Harbor Privacy Contact, you may contact your local information protection authority for further information.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection – COPPA

Divergent Adhesives does not sell its services to children. As such, our Sites are designed for adult user interaction. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information

If you have provided Divergent Adhesives with your personal information, you may have the right to inspect the information stored by us for accuracy, or may request that the information be removed from our files. Divergent Adhesives will make a reasonable effort to comply with such requests except where it would require a disproportionate effort (for example developing a new system or changing an existing practice). We may require that you verify your identity before we act on a request to edit or remove your information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Divergent Adhesives may change this privacy policy from time to time. If this privacy policy changes, the revised privacy policy will be posted at the “Privacy Policy ” link on the Site’s home page. In the event that the change is significant or material, we will notify you of such a change by revising the link on the home page to read “Newly Revised Privacy Policy.” Please check the privacy policy frequently. Your continued use of the Site constitutes acceptance of such changes in the privacy policy, except where further steps are required by applicable law.

Contacting Divergent Adhesives

If there are any questions regarding this policy, please contact Sonny Callaham at sonny@divergentadhesives.com.

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