Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to our Privacy Policy for our website, www.saftgard.com of Saf-T-Gard International, Inc. (“Saf-T-Gard” or “we” or “us”) in the United States.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights.

By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use our website.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE
2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
3. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
   
4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
   
5. DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
   
6. DATA SECURITY
   
7. DATA RETENTION
   
8. YOUR RIGHTS
   
9. CALIFORNIA RESIDENT’S PRIVACY RIGHTS (CCPA)

1. Important information and who we are

Saf-T-Gard International, Inc. was founded in 1936 as Latex Glove Manufacturing Co. by Leo and Lillian Rivkin in Chicago IL. Today, Saf-T-Gard is an leading manufacturer, distributor, importer, and exporter of safety solutions for industry. In 1979, Saf-T-Gard moved from Chicago and established its home in Northbrook, Illinois where Saf-T-Gard continues to have its headquarters. Saf-T-Gard actively operates the Voltgard® Test Lab, one of the largest, independent, NAIL4PETaccredited test labs for rubber insulating products in the United States. Saf-TGard has manufacturing locations and supply chains that span the globe.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how Saf-T-Gard collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you sign up to our newsletter, or purchase a product or service. This website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children consistent with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If we learn that we have received information directly from a child under age 13 without the parent or legal guardian’s verified consent, we will use that information only to respond to the child/parent/guardian to inform the child that he or she may not use the website. It is important that you read this Privacy Policy together with any other Privacy Policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This Privacy Policy supplements the other policies and is not intended to override them.

Saf-T-Gard’s Contact Information

Saf-T-Gard International, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Officer
205 Huehl Road Northbrook IL 60062
Email address: privacyofficer@saftgard.com

Changes to this Privacy Policy and Request to Notify Us of Changes

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy in our sole discretion. When we do, we will update this page and display the date of the update. We will notify you of any changes to this Privacy Policy. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of every website you visit.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

We or our service providers may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, job title.
  
• Contact Data includes billing address, shipping address, email address and telephone numbers.
  
• Financial Data includes payment card details, account numbers, expiration dates.
  
• Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
  
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  
• Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
  
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
  
• Job Application Data includes your qualifications, skills, experience, and employment history, whether or not you have a disability for which the organization needs to make reasonable adjustments; information about your ability to work in a particular jurisdiction; and other information requested in our on-line employment application portal or provided by you in your resume, CV, or other identity documents.
  

3. How we collect your personal data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through direct interactions. You may give us your personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by postal mail, phone, fax, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

• order our products or services;
  
• create an account on our website;
  
• apply for employment as part of our recruitment process;
  
• subscribe to our service or publications;
• request marketing to be sent to you;
• conduct a survey; or
• give us some feedback.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details. Employment application processes are not based on automatic decision-making.

Third-party sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties including third-party service providers. We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions upon our behalf. Examples include storing and analyzing data, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), providing customer service, processing employment applications, and payment processing. They have access to user information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.

4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances: (a) where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you; (b) where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and rights do not override those interests; (c) where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. We use your data in the following ways, most commonly:

• To register you as a new guest;
  
• To process and deliver your order, manage payments, fees, and charges;
  
• To manage our relationship with you;
  
• To facilitate the employment application process;
  
• To enable you to complete a survey;
  
• To administer and protect our website;
  
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you;
  
• To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences;
  
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
  

Marketing and Outreach

We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing. You can manage the marketing and outreach we provide to you by opting out, which is described in the “Opting Out” section below.

Opting Out

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by replying to a marketing email with “unsubscribe” in the subject line, clicking “unsubscribe” in the marketing email itself, or by Contacting us at any time.

Cookies

We may place “cookies” on the browser of your computer. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies may enhance the convenience and use of the website. For example, the information provided through cookies may be used to recognize you as a previous user of the website (so you do not have to enter your personal information every time), offer personalized information for your use, and otherwise facilitate your experience using the website. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits but doing so may affect your ability to access or use certain features of the website.

Web Beacons

We may also utilize web beacons on our website. A “web beacon,” also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF, links web pages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. The information collected through these automated means may include information that we gather and store about your visit to, and use of, the website, such as your IP address, type of browser and operating system used, date and time you access the website, pages you visit, and, if you linked to the website from another website, the address of that website. This data does not include Personal Information and is not treated as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy, but it may include the IP address of your device.

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We may transfer your information to other parties, for example to process transaction and provide you with products and services. Regardless of where we process your information, we still treat it in accordance with this policy and applicable law. This transfer may include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Those trusted third-party partners may:

• Provide you with various services
  
• Provide database maintenance and security
  
• Help us manage transactions
  
• Help us process and fulfill orders or requests
  

Saf-T-Gard will not sell or share any information collected via campaigns to any third parties for marketing purposes. Additionally, while Saf-T-Gard does use cookies on their website, these are not used for anything other than to match you up with your information and provide the best experience while using https://www.saftgard.com.

6. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

7. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. 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 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 requirements.

8. Your rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

• Request access to your personal data.
  
• Request correction of your personal data.
  
• Request erasure of your personal data.
  
• Object to processing of your personal data.
  
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  
• Request transfer of your personal data.
  
• Right to withdraw consent to us processing your personal data.
  

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, or if you have a complaint please Contact us. Saf-T-Gard commits to resolving complaints about our collection or use of your personal information. Inquiries or complaints regarding the processing of personal data should first be directed to Saf-T-Gard at privacyofficer@saftgard.com.

9. California residents’ privacy rights

Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). California consumers have a right to knowledge, access, and deletion of their personal information. In addition, California consumers also have a right to opt out of the sale of their personal information by a business and a right not to be discriminated against for exercising one of their California privacy rights.

California’s “Shine the Light” law permits individual California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us at privacyofficer@saftgard.com. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with our website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on our website.

California Specific Information

This component of the Privacy Policy applies solely to California residents:

• “Personal Information” includes information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. “Personal Information” does not include:
  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
  • Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), and California Financial Information Privacy Act (“FIPA”), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

The website has collected the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the past twelve months. If we have collected it, we may share it for a business purpose as set forth below pursuant to written agreements between us and the recipient which set for the specific conditions and use for such information. We do not sell your Personal Information.

• We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
  • Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on the website.
  • From third parties. For example, if you are applying for a job and authorize us to obtain Personal Information about you from a third party.
• Your Rights and Choices. The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents specific rights regarding your Personal Information. This section describes those rights and explains how we will work with you to exercise those rights.
  
• Right to Know and Data Portability. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the preceding 12 months (your “Right to Know”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:
  
  • The categories of Personal Information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collected about you.
    
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that Personal Information.
    
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that Personal Information.
    
  • If we sold or disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
    • Sales, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
    • Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the Personal Information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you.
  
  • Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (your “Right to Delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain certain information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
    1. Complete the transaction for which we collected your Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise fulfill any contractual obligations we have to you.
    2. Detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or preserve information so that law enforcement agencies may prosecute those responsible for such activities.
       
    3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
       
    4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another user to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by any local, state, or federal law, rule, or regulation.
       
    5. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the research, if you previously provided informed consent.
       
    6. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
       
    7. Comply with a legal obligation.
       
    8. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
       

We will delete or deidentify Personal Information not subject to one of the above exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.

• How to Exercise Right to Know and Right to Delete. You may exercise the rights summarized above by contacting us at +1 847 291- 1600/privacyofficer@saftgard.com. Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may exercise your Right to Know and/or Right to Delete. You may exercise your minor (under the age of 18) child’s Right to Know and/or Right to Delete. You may only submit two Right to Know requests in any twelve-month period. Each request must: (i) provide sufficient information to enable us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative; and (ii) Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
• Right to Opt-Out or Opt-In. We do not share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties, and do not intend to do so. If, in the event this policy ever changes, if you are age 16 or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your Personal Information at any time (the “Right to Opt-Out”). Consumers who opt-in to Personal Information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by emailing us at privacyofficer@saftgard.com
• Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
    
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
    
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
    
  • However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA which may result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.