CHURCH & DWIGHT PRIVACY POLICY (LONG FORM)

Church & Dwight UK Limited (“Church & Dwight”, “we” or “us”), have established this Internet Privacy Policy which applies to your use of this website and all other Church & Dwight UK websites (each, a “Site” and, collectively, the “Sites”). Please read the following to learn about our policies regarding the personal information you share with us on our Sites.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”), the data controller under this Internet Privacy Policy is Church & Dwight.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect personally identifiable information about you in a number of places on our Sites when you voluntarily provide it to us. This information may include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and/or payment card information. For example:

  • we collect your name and e-mail address when you sign up to receive our newsletter, sign up for our online coupon program, or share a solution to an everyday problem on a Site;
  • we collect your name, address, phone number and e-mail address when you contact us with a question or enter a contest or promotion on a Site.

We also use “Cookies” to collect information about your visit to a Site and to manage information concerning your preferences. A Cookie is a small encrypted computer code added to a file on your computer as a record of its visit. It does not collect or provide your name or any other personal information about you. Cookies help us to note information about your visit to a Site, such as your IP address, operating system and web browser. This information may be used by us to:

  • store information about your preferences and so deliver a more personalised service;
  • enhance your future use of the Site; and
  • recognise you when you return as a repeat visitor to a Site.

Under NO circumstances is any data collected by Cookies tied to any of your personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address. You can control what Cookies are accepted by your computer through the settings on your web browser or by deleting them from your computer. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you log in to our Site. Please note that if you choose to refuse Cookies you may be unable to access certain parts of our Site.

Our Sites are intended for visitors over eighteen years of age. We do not target our Sites to appeal to children under the age of thirteen and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

How will we use your information?

We use the personally identifiable information that you voluntarily provide to us for a number of purposes, including:

  • to respond to your questions, requests or comments;
  • to notify you about contests and promotional events, allow you to participate in such contests and events, and notify you in the event that you are a winner of any such contest or event;
  • to contact you with reminders, updates and news;
  • for marketing, advertising or promotional use;
  • to conduct polls, surveys and consumer testing;
  • to protect the security of our visitors, systems and/or Sites; and/or
  • to improve our services.

Church & Dwight may retain personally identifiable information and other information collected through our Sites for as long as is reasonable for the purposes for which it was collected. The personal information collected through this Site may be combined and maintained with personal information we collect from you offline.

We may also use your e-mail address, or permit our brands to use your e-mail address, to provide you with promotional emails about Church & Dwight and/or our brands.. You can opt out of receiving e-mail communications from us or our brands at any time by ticking the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data, or thereafter following the instructions which are contained in all e-mail communications.

How might we share your personal information with others?

We will not rent, sell or exchange your personally identifiable information with any third party for their marketing purposes. We may, however, share your personally identifiable information as follows:

  • we may use third party service providers to provide specific business support services to us which may involve limited access to your personally identifiable information. We require these companies to use the information only to provide the contracted services and prohibit them from transferring the information to another party except as needed to provide the contracted services. Examples of such business support services include fulfilling coupons, sending e-mails, conducting and administering contests and promotions, and executing surveys;
  • if you make a purchase on one of our Sites, we may share your personally identifiable Information and payment card data with others, for example with a payment card processing company and/or a shipping or fulfillment company, to complete your purchase and process your order;
  • we may disclose your personally identifiable information with other parties when you consent to the disclosure or when are required to do so or permitted to do so by law, regulation, legal process or enforceable government request; and
  • we also may disclose personal information to other third parties as necessary in conjunction with entering into an agreement for the sale of our business or assets, the purchase of another business or assets, or if we are involved in insolvency proceedings. The recipient of personally identifiable information following such actions may have privacy policies that differ from those in this policy.

How do we keep your information secure?

We follow industry-standard practices to protect the security of personally identifiable information collected through our Sites. We require our employees to protect the privacy of visitors' personal information and restrict access to databases containing visitors’ personally identifiable information.

Unfortunately, any information transmitted over the Internet may be subject to breaches of security. Despite our security measures, we cannot guarantee the security of information you send to or receive from us. Any electronic transmissions that you submit or accept are at your own risk.

How can you access your information?

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of [£10] to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

What about other websites?

Our Sites may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties, including those of online retailers that sell our products. The privacy policies on these third party websites may be different from this policy and we are not responsible for the information collection practices or the content of the third party sites to which we link. You access such linked sites at your own risk and should read the privacy policy of any linked site before sharing your personally identifiable information on such site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we update or change the terms of this policy, we will post changes in a revised Privacy Policy available on this Site.

How can you contact us?

You may contact us directly if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and our Sites at Wear Bay Road, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 6PG, F.A.O, Attention: Consumer Relations or consumer.relations@churchdwight.co.uk.

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