Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association and its affiliates (collectively, “Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association”) are committed to privacy and to transparency in our information practices. In this Privacy Notice (“Notice”), we describe our collection, use, disclosure and processing of personal information that we collect online via our websites, as well as related to our products and services.
1. Scope of this Notice
This privacy notice describes, generally, how Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association handles and processes personal information related to:
Our collection, use, disclosure and processing of personal information about individuals will vary depending upon the circumstances. This privacy notice is intended to describe our overall privacy and data protection practices.
This Notice does not apply to the personal information we process relating to our employees and non-employee workers and job applicants and candidates who apply for employment with us.
In this Notice, our use of the term “personal information” includes any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated, linked, or linkable with a particular individual.
2. What Personal Information We Collect
When you interact with us, we may collect and process the following categories of personal information:
For users of our Website: when you visit the Website, certain personal information may be passively collected, meaning it is gathered without your actively providing it. This data may include your IP address, location (city/state/country), Website usage information, and device information.
Categories of sources of personal information: We may collect personal information directly from you, as well as automatically related to your use of our Website and other services, as well as from third parties. For example, we collect personal information:
Sensitive Information: Unless we specifically request or invite it, we ask that you not send or otherwise disclose to us your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background, or trade union membership. In those cases where we may request or invite you to provide the foregoing information, we will only do so with your express consent, in accordance with applicable data protection law requirements. Where you provide us with such information without request from Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association, we reserve the right (but do not have any obligation) to erase any such information at our discretion.
Information about children: We do not knowingly collect personal information online from persons age sixteen and younger. We reserve the right to delete any data identified as having been provided by such persons at our discretion.
3. What We Do with Your Personal information
We may process your personal information for the following purposes:
We do not use your personal information for profiling or for any other automated decision making purposes, and we do not sell your personal information.
4. Information Sharing
Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association will process some of your personal information locally. As an organization, however, many of our activities can also be carried out by processing or consolidating information about you in specific or centralized databases and systems. As a result, your information may be shared with other entities within Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association in accordance with applicable laws, this Privacy Notice, any applicable specific local policy, and to support our business purposes.
As a general rule, we do not share your personal information with anyone outside Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association. However, we may share your personal information with certain third parties that perform business functions or provide services to us, including with the following categories of recipients: event registration service providers, vendor invoice tracking service providers, contract management service providers, and data processing vendors.
Your personal information may also be shared for legal reasons (e.g., to prevent crime or fraud, or to comply with a court order or legislation) or with your consent. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, reorganization, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
5. Data Retention
We store personal information as needed to accomplish the purposes identified in this Notice and to meet legal requirements, including legal and compliance requirements regarding records retention, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements. This means that we may be required to maintain your personal information, for example, to: (1) comply with our legal or regulatory compliance needs (e.g., maintaining records of transactions you have made with us); (2) to exercise, establish or defend legal claims; and/or (3) to protect against fraudulent or abusive activity on our services and systems.
We may retain different categories of information for different periods of time for the instances stated above. Retention periods for records maintained by us, including those containing personal data are established based upon business need, statutory and regulatory record keeping requirements in the geographies where we do business, and legal obligations. If you have any further questions about our handling of personal information, please contact us using the contact details below.
6. How We Manage this Notice
We will update this Notice from time to time and notify you of any changes by posting the revised Notice on our Website.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice or our data protection practices, please contact us by emailing info@unibell.org or writing to:
Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association 201 E. John Carpenter Freeway Suite 750 Irving, TX 75062
August 23, 2023
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