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1. Our commitment to protecting your privacy.
Your privacy is important to Nordson. We've developed this General Privacy Policy to address how Nordson, its subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information. To ensure that your personal data is secure, we communicate our information security and privacy guidelines to all Nordson employees and enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
For personal information received from the European Economic Area (EEA), Great Britain, and/or Switzerland, see Section 10 of this General Privacy Policy.
2. What information do we collect?
For visitors to our publicly available website, we collect information from you when you browse or register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address and/or phone number. We also collect certain information about your session which does not identify individual users when you visit our website, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data. We also use cookies as described in Section 5 below. Please note that this online General Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
For employees of Nordson, we collect various types of data about you that is needed for your working relationship with the company as well as organizational planning and management.
3. What do we use web visitor's information for?
We collect personal data for legitimate business purposes, which may include:
4. How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. These precautions may include password protections for online information systems and restricted access to personal data.
All inquiries from outside the company concerning identity, employment record, or performance of a current or terminated employee are referred to the Human Resources department and/or an attorney in the Law Department, who will verify the credentials of the agency representative before releasing information about a current or terminated employee.
Nordson takes reasonable and appropriate measures to secure your personal data.
Our publicly available website is hosted on a secure server.
5. Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites' or service providers' systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Our Cookie Notice has been revised to conform to GDPR standards and provides information on the cookies we apply.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and gather information about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools to our online visitors in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
6. Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer information to outside parties. This excludes third parties who assist us with human capital management, employee equity compensation, in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or other's rights, property, or safety, or share personal information as necessary to other corporate entities as part of a business transition such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
7. Choice, Data Integrity & Access
Nordson takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and current.
For our employees. Nordson provides individuals the opportunity to opt out from allowing the company to disclose his or her personal information to a third party or to use it for any purpose. Nordson reserves the right to maintain any personal information that it is required to keep or maintain for compliance purposes or to protect itself or preserve its legal rights under pending, threatened or potential legal action. Certain Nordson employees who are in the Workday human capital management system may review and correct his or her data at any time. All employees are asked to inform the Human Resources or Payroll departments, or his or her manager, immediately in the event of changes in personal information. If any information is inaccurate or incomplete, the individual may request that inaccurate information be corrected.
8. Collection of Personal Information from Children
We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
9. Changes to our General Privacy Policy
Nordson conducts an annual self-assessment in order to verify that this General Privacy Policy is published and implemented within the Company and that it complies with applicable law. If we decide to change our General Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the General Privacy Policy modification date below.
10. EU Privacy Policy
For details on how we process the personal data of website visitors from the EEA, Great Britain, and Switzerland, please see Nordson's Privacy Notice for European Economic Area Visitors to Nordson's Website ("EU Privacy Policy"). Our EU Privacy Policy applies to the way we collect and process personal data that is covered by the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The EU Privacy Policy will prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with this General Privacy Policy.
11. Inquiries/Contact Us
Nordson commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. Individuals may contact Gina Beredo, Deputy General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, at: nordson.privacy@nordson.com.
12. Biometric Data Policy (Illinois Residents Only)
Nordson may collect and use biometric data for health, safety, security, and other administrative functions, such as for performing wellness and health screening at our facilities, implementing timekeeping programs, implementing authentication and access controls with respect to Nordson computers and other technology resources, and undertaking security measures, such as video surveillance with biometric-enabled features. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Statement, it is Nordson policy to retain biometric data for no longer than one (1) year following the last interaction between the applicable individual and us, provided however, we may retain such biometric data beyond this retention timeframe when permitted or otherwise required to comply with an applicable law, or a valid warrant, subpoena, or order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, or for Nordson to establish, exercise, or defend against, legal claims so long as we retain such biometric data for the minimum time necessary in order to satisfy the same. Nordson has implemented and maintains commercially reasonable protocols for permanently destroying, or disposing of, biometric data in a manner that will not intentionally compromise its confidentiality. This paragraph only applies to individuals who reside in Illinois, United States and furnish, directly or indirectly, their biometric data to Nordson.
Date: 28 October 2022
Your privacy is important to Nordson. We've developed this General Privacy Policy to address how Nordson, its subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information. To ensure that your personal data is secure, we communicate our information security and privacy guidelines to all Nordson employees and enforce privacy safeguards within the company.
For personal information received from the European Economic Area (EEA), Great Britain, and/or Switzerland, see Section 10 of this General Privacy Policy.
2. What information do we collect?
For visitors to our publicly available website, we collect information from you when you browse or register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, e-mail address, mailing address and/or phone number. We also collect certain information about your session which does not identify individual users when you visit our website, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp and clickstream data. We also use cookies as described in Section 5 below. Please note that this online General Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
For employees of Nordson, we collect various types of data about you that is needed for your working relationship with the company as well as organizational planning and management.
3. What do we use web visitor's information for?
We collect personal data for legitimate business purposes, which may include:
- To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
- To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you)
- To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs)
- To process transactions
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
- To send periodic emails (the email address you provide may be used to send you information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions)
- To meet government, national security, public interest, or law enforcement requirements
- In an emergency where the health or security of an individual may be endangered
- Other purposes disclosed at the time of collection or otherwise compatible with the above
4. How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. These precautions may include password protections for online information systems and restricted access to personal data.
All inquiries from outside the company concerning identity, employment record, or performance of a current or terminated employee are referred to the Human Resources department and/or an attorney in the Law Department, who will verify the credentials of the agency representative before releasing information about a current or terminated employee.
Nordson takes reasonable and appropriate measures to secure your personal data.
Our publicly available website is hosted on a secure server.
5. Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites' or service providers' systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Our Cookie Notice has been revised to conform to GDPR standards and provides information on the cookies we apply.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and gather information about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools to our online visitors in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
6. Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer information to outside parties. This excludes third parties who assist us with human capital management, employee equity compensation, in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is necessary to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or other's rights, property, or safety, or share personal information as necessary to other corporate entities as part of a business transition such as a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
7. Choice, Data Integrity & Access
Nordson takes reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and current.
For our employees. Nordson provides individuals the opportunity to opt out from allowing the company to disclose his or her personal information to a third party or to use it for any purpose. Nordson reserves the right to maintain any personal information that it is required to keep or maintain for compliance purposes or to protect itself or preserve its legal rights under pending, threatened or potential legal action. Certain Nordson employees who are in the Workday human capital management system may review and correct his or her data at any time. All employees are asked to inform the Human Resources or Payroll departments, or his or her manager, immediately in the event of changes in personal information. If any information is inaccurate or incomplete, the individual may request that inaccurate information be corrected.
8. Collection of Personal Information from Children
We do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
9. Changes to our General Privacy Policy
Nordson conducts an annual self-assessment in order to verify that this General Privacy Policy is published and implemented within the Company and that it complies with applicable law. If we decide to change our General Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the General Privacy Policy modification date below.
10. EU Privacy Policy
For details on how we process the personal data of website visitors from the EEA, Great Britain, and Switzerland, please see Nordson's Privacy Notice for European Economic Area Visitors to Nordson's Website ("EU Privacy Policy"). Our EU Privacy Policy applies to the way we collect and process personal data that is covered by the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The EU Privacy Policy will prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with this General Privacy Policy.
11. Inquiries/Contact Us
Nordson commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. Individuals may contact Gina Beredo, Deputy General Counsel & Assistant Secretary, at: nordson.privacy@nordson.com.
12. Biometric Data Policy (Illinois Residents Only)
Nordson may collect and use biometric data for health, safety, security, and other administrative functions, such as for performing wellness and health screening at our facilities, implementing timekeeping programs, implementing authentication and access controls with respect to Nordson computers and other technology resources, and undertaking security measures, such as video surveillance with biometric-enabled features. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Statement, it is Nordson policy to retain biometric data for no longer than one (1) year following the last interaction between the applicable individual and us, provided however, we may retain such biometric data beyond this retention timeframe when permitted or otherwise required to comply with an applicable law, or a valid warrant, subpoena, or order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, or for Nordson to establish, exercise, or defend against, legal claims so long as we retain such biometric data for the minimum time necessary in order to satisfy the same. Nordson has implemented and maintains commercially reasonable protocols for permanently destroying, or disposing of, biometric data in a manner that will not intentionally compromise its confidentiality. This paragraph only applies to individuals who reside in Illinois, United States and furnish, directly or indirectly, their biometric data to Nordson.
Date: 28 October 2022