PRIVACY POLICY
I. Purpose
Harsco Corporation and all of its subsidiaries and affiliated entities (“hereafter, “Harsco” or “We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This notice (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to Harsco, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting any of our websites you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this notice.
II. Information Harsco Collects From You
Harsco will collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give Harsco. This is information about you that you give Harsco by filling in forms on the company’s websites or by corresponding with Harsco by phone, e-mail or otherwise. The information you give Harsco may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number and financial information.
- Information Harsco collects about you. With regard to each of your visits to Harsco’s website, we will automatically collect the following information:
- Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
- Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), products you viewed, page response times, download errors, duration of page visits, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call Harsco.
- Information Harsco receives from other sources. This is information Harsco receives about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. In this case, we will have informed you when we collected that data if we intend to share this data internally and combine it with data collected on this site. We will also have told you for what purpose we will share and combine your data. We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers and search information providers). We will notify you when we receive information about you from them and the purposes for which we intend to use that information.
- Harsco’s or its third parties’ legitimate business interests (for example, in maintaining and promoting Harsco’s business by providing customers with feedback opportunities or other instances where we have carried out a legitimate interests assessment and have established an existing legitimate interest)
- The performance of a contract that Harsco has in place with you
- Your consent where appropriate
- To protect your vital interests
- Compliance with Harsco’s legal obligations
- to carry out its obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and Harsco and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
- to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- Selected third parties, including business partners, suppliers and subcontractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist Harsco in the improvement and optimisation of its site
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
- If all or some of Harsco’s assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers and employees will be one of the transferred assets
- If Harsco is under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Harsco, its customers, or others