Minerals Technologies Inc. (“MTI”)
Privacy Notice
MTI respects the rights and interests of individuals regarding data privacy and personal
information. This Privacy Notice describes MTI’s policies and practices regarding the
collection and use of personal information and sets forth your privacy rights when using
our internet website (“Website”). We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing
responsibility, and as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy
policies, we will from time to time update this Privacy Notice.
Information We Obtain and How we Use it
You may choose to provide personal information — including, but not limited to, your
first and last name, physical business address, business e-mail address, or business
telephone number — through the Website. Here are ways you may provide the
information and the types of information you may submit. We also describe how we may
use the information you provide and the purposes. You may contact us by filling in
information on forms or by sending an e-mail. Each form varies in the information
required and collected. In most cases, an asterisk (*) indicates the required information
on a form. You may choose to provide additional information within fields that are not
required. You may complete a form or send us an e-mail to purchase a product,
download a report or other material, register for a conference, submit a request,
respond to an e-mail or blog posting, ask a question, apply for a job, or make a
comment.
We may offer visitors to our Website various features, which we may change from time
to time. We may ask you to submit certain personal information so we can provide you
with those features.
We process personal information for certain legitimate business purposes, which
include some or all of the following: We may use the information provided to respond to
your inquiry, contact you about your request, ask a question, provide announcements
about products and future events, conduct surveys, consider your resume for
employment, and contact you for other reasons related to offering and improving our
services.
In addition to the uses discussed above, we may also use the personal information you
provide on our Website to operate, evaluate, and improve our business. Specific uses
include: advertising and marketing; performing market research; determining the
effectiveness of our advertising and marketing; developing new products and services;
managing our communications; analyzing our products, services, and website; and
administering our website. We may also use the information to protect against and
prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal
requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. In addition, we may use
the information we obtain through the Website in other ways for which we provide
specific notice at the time of collection.
Information We Obtain by Automated Means
When you visit our Website, we may collect certain information by automated means
using technologies such as cookies, non-cookie-based tokens, web server logs,
tracking pixels and web beacons. Cookies are files that websites send to your computer
or
information or settings in your browser. Your browser may tell you when you receive
certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies, however, without
cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Website. Non-
tokens are encoded URL-based identifiers that track e-mail click-thru activity or
time-sensitive password reset keys and will work in scenarios where cookies are
disabled or a session has not been initiated.
We also use third-party web analytic services on our Website, such as Google
Analytics. The service providers that administer those services may use cookies and
web beacons to help us analyze how users use the Website. The information collected
by the cookies and web beacons (including your IP address) is available to the service
providers, which use the information to evaluate your use of the Website.
We use information collected Internet through cookies, non-cookie-based tokens, web
beacons, and other automated means for purposes such as customizing and enhancing
our visitors’ visits to the Website, facilitating
about your visits to the Website, and understanding the manner in which our visitors
browse the Website in order to create a more relevant Web experience. We also use
the information to help diagnose technical and service problems, administer the
much time visitors spend on web pages of the Website, how visitors navigate through
the Website, and how we may tailor the Website to meet the needs of our visitors.
Our web servers may log information such as your operating system type, browser type,
domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the
country and time zone where your device is located. The web server logs may also
record information such as the address of the web page that referred you to our
Website and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. They may
also log information about your interaction with the Website, such as which pages you
visit.
Browser "Do Not Track" Settings
Your browser settings may allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites
and internet services you visit. Like many other websites and internet services, we do
not currently process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals from your browser or to other
mechanisms that enable choice. Both we and others (such as our service providers)
may collect personal information about our visitors’ online activities over time and
across third-party websites.
What Types of Information We Share and When
Except as otherwise described here, we do not sell or otherwise disclose personal
information we collect on our Website. We may share personal information we collect
on the Website with affiliates and service providers that perform services on our behalf.
We do not authorize those service providers to use or disclose the information except
as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.
In addition, we may disclose personal information about you (a) if we are required to do
so by law or legal process (such as court order or subpoena), (b) to law enforcement
authorities or other government officials, (c) when we believe disclosure is necessary or
appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or (d) in connection with an
investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity. We reserve the right to
transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a
portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution,
or liquidation). Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to
direct the transferee to use
consistent with our Internet Privacy Notice.
Your Rights in Your Personal Data
Requests regarding your Personal Data: access, correction, update and deletion
Subject to applicable law and certain exemptions, you may have the right to access,
rectify, oppose the processing, or delete your Personal Data. In order to exercise these
rights so that updates, corrections and/or deletions can be made in accordance with
applicable law, you can:
- either correct or delete your profile on our website;
- or contact the MTI Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@mineralstech.com
In many countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data
protection authority if you have concerns about how MTI processes your personal data.
Transfers of Personal Data
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to recipients in countries
other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries
may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially
provided the information. When we transfer your information to recipients in other
countries (such as the U.S.), we will protect that information as described in this Internet
Privacy Notice.
If you are located in countries that are members of the European Union (“EU”), we will
comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer
of personal information to recipients in countries outside of the EU.
Data Storage and Retention
Your personal data is stored by MTI on its servers, and on the servers of certain
database and data storage management services MTI engages, mostly located
in the United States. MTI retains data for the duration of the user’s business relationship
with MTI and in compliance with other legal, tax and operating requirements retention
obligations. For more information on how long and where your personal data is stored,
please contact the MTI Data Privacy Officer at dataprivacy@mineralstech.com
How We Protect Personal Information
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect the
personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized
destruction, loss, access, disclosure, alteration, or use. We will update these measures
as new technology becomes available, as appropriate.
Other MTI Websites
Through the Website, you may link to other websites operated by MTI and its affiliates
(together, “MTI Website”). Not all the MTI Website use this Internet Privacy Notice.
Individual MTI Website may have different Internet Privacy Notices that describe their
own use and collection practices. To the extent that the Internet Privacy Notice of an
affiliate is different from the Internet Privacy Notice for
the affiliate’s Internet Privacy Notice control the practices identified for that MTI Site.
Links to Other Websites
The Website may provide links to other sites. Companies other than MTI may operate
those websites. Linked websites may have their own privacy policies, which we strongly
suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for any use
of websites we do not operate, the content of any of those websites, or the privacy
practices of those websites.
Social Media
The Website includes social media tracking functions for sites
Facebook, YouTube
about which pages visitors visit on the Website and the IP address of the device you
use to connect to the Internet. They may also set a cookie to ensure the features are
functioning properly.
Social media tracking functions are hosted either by a third party or directly on the
Website. Your interactions with social media Website are governed by the privacy
policies of the companies that provide them. If you use any of the social media functions
on our Website, we strongly suggest you review the privacy policies of the companies
that provide those functions and features.
How to Contact the MTI Data Privacy Officer
If you have any questions or comments about this Internet Privacy Notice or any issue
relating to how we collect, use, or disclose personal information, or if you would like us
to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us as
indicated below.
E-mail us
Write to us
35 Highland Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18107
Attention: Data Privacy Officer
Updates to Our Internet Privacy Notice
We may update our Internet Privacy Notice periodically and without prior notice to you
to reflect changes in our personal information practices or relevant laws.