Effective Date: December 17, 2020
Scope of this policy
Jadex Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Jadex” or “we”) are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting personal data about you.
This privacy policy will inform you about how we collect and look after personal data (otherwise known as personal information) when you visit our websites, apply for a job with us, or when you submit a query. This policy also tells you about the rights you may have with respect to this personal data.
Whenever we collect information about you, we make decisions about how or why we process that personal data. We are responsible for ensuring that your personal data is used in accordance with data protection laws, to the extent they apply, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
This privacy policy is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below.
3. Changes to the privacy policy
4. The data we collect and process about you
6. How we use your personal data
10. Disclosures of your personal data
15. Children (and Adolescents’ Personal Data)
To the extent the GDPR applies, and for other data privacy laws with a data controller requirement, Jadex Inc. and its affiliates are the data controller that direct the purposes for which your personal data is processed. For a list of Jadex affiliates for which this policy applies, click here.
Jadex Inc. is located at: 1303 S. Batesville Road, Greer, SC 29650 (864-879-8100)
To the extent applicable, the websites covered by this policy may include links to third-party websites (including to those websites that allow you to purchase products or services bearing our various brands). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our websites, we encourage you to read the privacy policy on every website you visit.
We regularly review our privacy policy. Updated privacy policies will be made available through our websites. We will comply with applicable data privacy laws when making changes to our privacy practices. The date at the top of this privacy policy indicates the date when the policy was last updated and the updates went into effect.
“Personal data”, (also referred to as “personal information” or “personally identifiable information” in some jurisdictions/regions), means any information from which a person is identifiable or from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the person’s identity has been removed (anonymous or de-identified data), unless it still possible to identify the person from that data in combination with other data held by the data controller.
In the context of this privacy policy, “processing” means any activity relating to personal data, including by way of example, collection, storage, use, consultation, disclosure, sharing and transmission.
Depending on which websites you use, and your activity on those websites, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have categorized as follows:
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for various purposes. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data by law, as it will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users who are accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect the Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data, which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
In relation to our customers, and for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, we may collect trade union membership, but we do not collect other types of Special Categories of Personal Data (also referred to as “sensitive information” in some jurisdictions/regions) about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through:
The table below describes all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and (to the extent the GDPR applies) the legal bases we rely on to do so.
| Information we collect | Why we collect it | Lawful basis for the processing |
|---|---|---|
| If you place an order with us, we will collect the following Profile Data: your name, shipping and billing address, email address, telephone number, and payment information. | This information is necessary to provide you (or the company which you represent, where your order is on behalf a company) with the product you ordered, or to take steps at your request prior to providing you with the product. | Where you are contracting with us on your own behalf: necessary for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps to enter into a contract. Where you are contracting with us as a representative of a company (e.g. your employer): necessary for our legitimate interests of taking and fulfilling orders from companies (which does not unfairly cause you prejudice or affect your fundamental rights and liberties because it is used to complete the purchase you have requested). |
| If you complete a warranty card, or ask us to provide warranty services, we will collect the following Profile Data: your name, address, telephone number, and email address, in addition to the product(s) you purchased and the date of purchase. | This information is necessary to register your product for the warranty or for us to provide warranty services. | Where you are contracting with us on your own behalf: necessary for the performance of a contract or in order to take steps to enter into a contract. Where you are contracting with us as a representative of a company (e.g. your employer): necessary for our legitimate interests of providing warranties to companies in relation to their purchases (which does not unfairly cause you prejudice or affect your fundamental rights and liberties because it is used to enable the company to register for the warranty). |
| If you contact us via one of our online forms, request or agree to receive electronic communications or mailings from us, we may collect the following Profile Data: your name, email, phone number, or physical address. | This information is necessary to send you the information you have requested. | Consent. |
| If you visit our website or interact with our electronic communications, we collect your IP address as well as electronic activity information about your use and interaction with our website or communications, and geolocation data. You can find more information on how we collect information in our Cookies Policy. | This data is necessary for us to ensure the security and functionality of our website and related systems. Furthermore, this data is used to offer products and services that may be of interest to you (or the company whom you represent). | This is necessary for our legitimate interest of ensuring that our websites function and are secure for you to use (which does not unfairly cause you prejudice or affect your fundamental rights and liberties because it provides you with a functional and secure website). With respect to using this data to offer products and services that may be of interest to you: when you are using the website on your own behalf: consent.When you are using the website as a representative of a company (e.g. your employer): necessary for our legitimate interests of promoting our products/services to the company which you represent (which does not cause you unfair prejudice because it relates to offering goods/services to your company rather than to you as an individual) |
| If you apply for a job with us through our website, we will collect your name, address, telephone number, Social Security Number or other government identification, email address, employment and educational history, race, gender identity, veteran status, ancestry, and disability information. | This data is necessary to determine whether to extend an offer of employment. This data is also necessary to comply with our legal obligations (such as verifying the right to work). | Necessary in order to take steps prior to entering into an employment contract (or consent, if required for compliance with applicable data privacy laws). Necessary to comply with our legal obligations. |
| If you receive a conditional offer of employment from us, we may conduct a credit, drug and/or criminal history check, in accordance with and/or where permitted by local law. | This data is necessary to determine whether to confirm an employment offer. | Consent. |
Where we rely on consent, depending on the applicable data protection/privacy law which applies, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in marketing emails or text messages. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you.
In cases where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you or the company whom you represent (for example, to provide you or the company whom you represent with goods or services). In such cases, we may have to cancel a product or service you or the company whom you represent have with us, but we will notify you at the time when this occurs.
Furthermore, where our processing of your personal data is necessary for our legitimate interests, depending on the applicable data protection/privacy law which applies, you can object to this processing at any time. If you do this, we will need to show either a compelling reason why our processing should continue, which overrides your interests, rights and freedoms or that the processing is necessary for us to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.
The personal data about you that we collect includes information within the below categories of data. These categories also represent the categories of personal data that we have collected over the past 12 months. Note that the categories listed below are defined by California state law. Inclusion of a category in the list below indicates only that, depending on the services and products we provide you, we may collect some information within that category. It does not necessarily mean that we collect all information listed in a particular category for all of our customers.
Note that we may share any of the below categories of information with our affiliates and service providers (see section 9 below), and we have done so in the past 12 months. The source of this data comes either directly from you, through our service providers, or from third parties which carry our products and send certain information to us to fulfill the order. In the case of Internet or other electronic network activity information, we gather that information via automated means.
| Category | Purpose of processing |
|---|---|
| Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | A subset of this data is processed in connection with a number of our operational functions, including to take and deliver orders, to respond to your queries, and to service our warranties. It may also be used for marketing purposes, including offering you products that may interest you. |
| Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, your name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. | A subset of this data is processed in connection with a number of our operational functions, including to take and deliver orders and to service our warranties. It may also be used for marketing purposes, including offering you products that may interest you. |
| Characteristics of classes protected under federal or California law, including: familial status, disability, sex, national origin, religion, color, race, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, ancestry, source of income, age, or genetic information. | This information is collected and processed where required by law or, if you are an applicant, to provide you with specific benefits or accommodations you may elect to receive. |
| Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | A subset of this data is processed in connection with a number of our operational functions, including to take and deliver orders and to service our warranties. It may also be used for marketing purposes, including offering you products that may interest you. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement. | This data is processed in order to optimize performance of our websites. It is also processed to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, and for data analytics. |
| Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | This data is processed in connection with a number of our operational functions, including recording sales calls and other calls. |
| Professional or employment-related information. | A subset of this data is processed in connection with a number of our operational functions, including to take and deliver orders and to service our warranties. It may also be used for marketing purposes, including offering you products that may interest you. |
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We may disclose your personal data to our affiliated companies, when required by law, or to our service providers (e.g., when necessary for the administration and maintenance of our IT systems). Where you have provided us with your personal data in your capacity as a representative of a company, we may disclose your personal data to that company. We require our service providers to provide written assurances regarding the security and privacy protections they have in place to protect any personal data transferred or disclosed to them, as well as their compliance with our security requirements and any applicable laws and regulations.
The third parties we may share your personal data with include:
Consistent with applicable data protection regulations, we may share personal data with our affiliates or other third parties, as detailed in paragraph 9. This means that your personal data processed in relation to this privacy policy may be stored and processed outside of your home country (and/or region), including in countries/regions that may not offer the same level of protection for your personal data as your home country (where you are an EU resident, this includes the processing of your personal data outside of the EU, including but not limited to the United States). Some of the countries and regions where your personal data may be processed include: the United States and the U.K.
Where transfers from the U.K. or E.U. to the United States take place (or to any other country outside of the E.U.), or when we engage in a follow-on transfer from such country, we will use an appropriate legal mechanism, including (but not limited to) the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (or relevant exemptions where applicable under data protection regulations).
We have put in place security measures (which will include, where relevant, those required by applicable law) to try to protect your personal data processed in relation to this privacy policy from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to employees, agents, contractors, and other staff who need to know for business purposes. They will only process your personal data processed in relation to this privacy policy according to our instructions and they are subject to the duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data security breach, and we will notify you and any applicable regulators of such a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes that we process it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation with respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from the unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.
In some circumstances, we will anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without providing further notice to you.
In certain circumstances, the following rights may be available to you, depending on your jurisdiction or depending on the jurisdiction in which the data was collected, including the right to:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). However, where permitted under applicable privacy laws, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. If we refuse to give you access to your personal data, we will give you a written notice (if required to do so by applicable law) setting out the reasons for our decision (except where it would be unreasonable for us to do so) and any mechanisms that are available to you to complain about the refusal.
We will not discriminate against you in any way for exercising your rights.
Please note that under California law, we are only obligated to respond to personal information requests from the same consumer up to two times in a 12-month period. In addition, under California law, and for the protection of your personal information, we may be limited in what personal information we can disclose. Furthermore, if you are a representative of a commercial entity, you may be entitled to these rights effective January 1, 2023.
Depending on the applicable data protection/privacy law which applies, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with local state regulators/data protection authorities – please see paragraph 15.
Where required to do so by applicable privacy laws, we will inform (promptly) the entities with whom we have a shared use of your data about the correction, deletion, anonymization or blocking of your personal data, so that they may repeat the same procedures, except in cases where this communication is demonstrably impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us verify your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). Where applicable, this is a security measure to ensure that the personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. For example, we may verify the email address we have on file with the email address from which you are sending a request. We may also ask you to verify certain past orders, or to confirm your last four digits on a card you recently used to place an order. If you have an account with us, we may ask you to verify yourself by logging in. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request, in order to speed up our response.
If you would like to appoint an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide the agent with written, signed permission to submit privacy right requests on your behalf, or provide a letter from your attorney. The agent or attorney must provide this authorization at the time of request. Note that we may require you to verify your identity with us directly before we provide any requested information to your approved agent.
Information collected for purposes of verifying your request will only be used for verification.
How to submit an access or delete request
If you would like to request access to your personal information or to have us delete personal information, please contact us via the methods indicated below.
These websites are not intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children under the age of 16 (in relation to the processing of personal data detailed in this privacy policy).
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights, please call us at 864-879-8100 or email us at [email protected]
If you are contacting us to complain about an alleged breach of this privacy policy or our privacy obligations at law, please provide us with as much detail as possible in relation to your complaint. We will take any privacy complaint seriously and any complaint will be assessed with the aim of resolving it in a timely and efficient manner. We request that you cooperate with us during this process and provide us with any information that we may need.
Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy you might have, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with local state regulators/data protection authorities if you believe that we have infringed applicable privacy or data protection requirements when processing personal data about you.
The appropriate data protection authority in the United Kingdom is:
The Information Commissioner’s Office
Water Lane, Wycliffe House
Wilmslow – Cheshire SK9 5AF
Telephone: +44 1625 545 745
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: https://ico.org.uk