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Additional Privacy Information for California Residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), requires that we provide California residents with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure, sale, sharing, and retention of personal information and of the rights of California residents regarding their personal information. This section of the Privacy Notice is intended solely for, and is applicable only as to, California residents. If you are not a California resident, this section does not apply to you and you should not rely on it.
The CCPA defines “personal information” to mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. Personal information does not include publicly available, deidentified or aggregated information or lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern.
Notice at Collection of Personal Information
We currently collect and, in the 12 months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Notice, have collected the categories of personal information listed above in this Privacy Notice.
We collect personal information directly from California residents and from the above-described sources. We do not collect all categories of personal information from each source. In addition, we collect personal information for the purposes stated above.
Sale, Sharing, and Disclosure of personal information
The CCPA defines “sale” as the transfer of personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration. Although we do not “sell” personal information as that term may be commonly interpreted, we engage in online activities that may constitute a sale or a sharing of personal information under California law. This may include showing you advertisements on other websites related to your activity on www.ecolab.com or associated with the job applicant website.
The following table identifies the categories of personal information that we sold or shared, as defined by California law, to third parties in the 12 months preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Notice and, for each category, the categories of third parties to whom we sold or shared personal information:
| Category of Personal Information |
Categories of Third Parties |
|---|---|
| Unique personal identifiers affiliated with certain website tracking technology as described in Ecolab’s Cookie Notice, and as you can opt-out of consistent with that Cookie Notice (e.g. device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or other similar technology; or other forms of persistent identifiers. Please note that, while this Privacy Notice applies across all websites, the applicability of cookies and the affiliated cookie notice may vary if you are on certain websites outside of www.ecolab.com. |
Advertising network; data analytics provider. |
We sold or shared personal information to third parties for the following business or commercial purposes:
- To better understand how you use our websites across the various devices you use, and to deliver tailored promotions to you;
- To track page content and viewing information, pages viewed, keystroke activity, time spent on pages, scroll activity, click/touch information, and mouse movements;
- To better understand your specific preferences and track your activity across our web-based offerings and advertisements.
The following table identifies the categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose in the 12 months preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Notice and, for each category, the categories of recipients to whom we disclosed personal information.
| Category of personal information (see above list for specific examples) |
Categories of Recipients |
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The following recipients will only receive the stated categories of personal information based on the particular business purpose of the relationship:
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We disclosed your personal information for the business or commercial purposes stated in the section “How does Ecolab use personal information?” For information about the purposes of specific data disclosures, please contact us as provided in this Notice.
We do not knowingly collect or sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about individuals and, consequently, do not collect sensitive personal information or use it for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights with respect to your personal information:
- The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which we collected personal information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information (if applicable), the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information (if applicable), and the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you;
- The right to delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
- The right to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you;
- If we sell or share personal information, the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing;
- If we use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use or disclosure; and
- The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of privacy rights conferred by the CCPA.
How to Submit a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct
You may submit a request to know, delete, and/or correct by contacting dataprivacy@ecolab.com. Depending on the nature of your relationship with Ecolab, we may ask you to confirm separately that you want your personal information deleted.
Our Process for Verifying a Request to Know, Delete, and/or Correct
We will comply with your request upon verification of your identity and, to the extent applicable, the identity of the California resident on whose behalf you are making such request. Our verification process may differ depending on whether you maintain a password-protected account with us.
If you maintain a password-protected account, we may verify your identity through existing authentication practices available through your account. Prior to disclosing or deleting the personal information, we will ask you to re-authenticate yourself with respect to that account.
If you do not maintain a password-protected account, or if you are an account-holder but we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity with your account, we will verify your identity either to a “reasonable degree of certainty” or a “reasonably high degree of certainty” depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and the risk of harm to you by unauthorized disclosure, deletion, or correction as applicable. To do so, we will ask you to verify data points based on information we have in our records concerning you.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of personal information
If you are a California resident, you have the right to direct us to stop selling or sharing your personal information by clicking the button below.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information
California residents have the right to limit our use or disclosure of sensitive personal information if we use it for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations. You may submit a request to limit our use of your sensitive personal information or inquire about Ecolab’s use of sensitive personal information by emailing dataprivacy@ecolab.com.