Privacy Policy 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPEAt VALMONT France, we are committed to protecting your privacy and attach great importance to the relationship with our business partners, our customers and with any interested party in our business. This Privacy Statement (the “Statement”) describes the types of information, including Personal Data (“Information” or “Personal Data”), that we collect about our business partners, our customers and users of our website and our Customer Portal, how it is used and processed, to whom we may disclose it and your rights in relation to your Data. For ease of reference, all capitalized terms that are not defined in the body of this Statement are defined in Section 5 below.1 -WHO IS THE OWNER OF YOUR DATA? The holder of the processing of your data is the company VALMONT France SAS whose head office is located at a place called “Les Martoulets”, 03110 CHARMEIL, tel 04 70 58 86 86, Siret 35142592100027 2 WHO IS THE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DATA? The person responsible for processing your data is François FAYET, Site Director-Director Financial.You can contact the person responsible at the following address: “Les Martoulets”, 03110 CHARMEIL, tel 04 70 58 86 86, e-mail rgpd@valmont.comIn special circumstances, such as cross-border matters, VALMONT France and its affiliates will be jointly responsible for your Information and will collaborate, to the extent necessary, to comply with our obligations under applicable laws.3. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT VALMONT France collects Information that you provide voluntarily or that is collected by automated means, as indicated below. The Information we collect about our business partners and customers in connection with the provision of our products and services is primarily company data and commercial information.1. Information You Provide to Us – If you choose not to provide us with your Information, we may not be able to provide you with our products or services. You can still view most of the content on our website, but you may not be able to access certain options, offers and services and we may not be able to register you and provide you with access to our Customer Portal. Types of Information that may be requested from you and which you therefore choose to provide: • First and last name • Email address • Company mailing address • Telephone number • Zip code • Company • Job title • With respect to our Customer Portal, your login data (username and password)• Bank details and financial information necessary for us to make and receive payments2. Information we obtain by automated means – VALMONT France also collects certain Information automatically when you visit our websites and our Customer Portal. This includes, among other things: • IP addresses and domain names • Browser and platform type • History of page views on our websites • Your language and cookie preferences For more information about the cookies we use on our websites, please see
Legal Notices.4. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT 1. Processing purposes – We use the Information we collect for the following purposes: • To administer our websites • To communicate with you and respond to questions you have asked via our contact page • To prepare, enter into and execute contracts with you • For credit collection and accounting • For order management and customer relations • To communicate, in our discretion, changes to this Statement • To improve continuously our products and services• To personalize the content of our websites and provide you with a better experience• To analyze trends and statistics• To activate and manage the online accounts for which you have registered2. Legal basis for processing – VALMONT France may process your Information under different legal bases, namely: • The preparation and signing of a contract with you; and/or• If this is necessary for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending a legal right; and/or• Compliance with our legal or statutory obligations, such as anti-money laundering and fraud prevention regulations; and/or• Your consent, as applicable; and/or• Our legitimate interest as described above.3. If you provide us with Information relating to a Third Party, you confirm that you have the required legal basis to do so (consent or other legal basis, as applicable) and to share that Information with us and that you have made the contents of this Statement available to such Third Party.5. HOW WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT We will not share, sell, license, trade or rent your Information to or with any third party (except as noted below) without your consent. We will only share Information in the following cases:1. Affiliated Companies: we share Information within VALMONT France Affiliated Companies.2. Law Enforcement Purposes: We disclose Information if requested or required by government authorities (such as law enforcement authorities, courts and/or regulatory bodies) or to comply with a legal obligation. In addition, we also disclose Collected Information in order to exercise or protect legal rights or defend our interests in legal proceedings.3. Our third party service providers, agents and distributors (“Service Providers”): We share Information with our service providers who provide services to us or on our behalf. These service providers are contractually prohibited from using Information about you for any purpose other than to provide support, from sharing the Information we have disclosed to them and are required to protect your Information.4. Transfer of Information outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”): We may transfer Information to certain Affiliates located outside the EEA. Any such transfer is made in accordance with our Intra-Group Data Transfer Agreement. Transfer to other third parties outside the EEA will take place using a data transfer mechanism in accordance with GDPR standards.5. Fraud Prevention: We disclose Information when disclosure is necessary in connection with the investigation, prevention or response to suspected illegal or fraudulent activity or is necessary to protect the safety, rights or property of our users, others and/or our own rights or property.6. HOW WE PROTECT THE INFORMATION COLLECTED We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your Information against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage. We also limit access to your Information to those employees who reasonably need it to provide the products or services to you. 7. HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION We will retain the Information we collect for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described above or to comply with a legal obligation, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal right in accordance with applicable laws.8. YOUR RIGHTSThe GDPR and the privacy laws of other countries give you certain rights. These rights may vary depending on where you reside and are subject to various conditions under applicable laws. In certain cases, the exercise of your rights may make it impossible for us to achieve the objectives set out in section 4. If you wish to exercise your rights, please refer to section 10 below. We will do our best to provide you with the requested information within the legal deadline. However, if access to the Information cannot be provided within a reasonable time, we will provide you with an explanation and notify you of the date on which the information will be provided. If for any reason access is denied, we will provide you with an explanation of the reasons for such denial. Where applicable law provides, you have the following rights:1. Access: you have the right to obtain confirmation that we are Processing your Information and to obtain a copy of your Personal Data;2. Rectification: you have the right to request the rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data;3. Opposition: you have the right to object to the Processing of your Personal Data. You have the right at any time to object to the Processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes;4. Portability: You may receive the Personal Data provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Furthermore, you have the right to have your Personal Data transmitted, where technically possible, to other Data Controllers without hindrance. This right is only applicable if the Processing is based on your consent or a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means;5. Limitation: you can request the limitation of the Processing of your Personal Data in accordance with Article 18, paragraph 1, points a) to d), of the GDPR;6. Erasure: you can request the erasure of your Personal Data if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we collected it or where you have withdrawn your consent and there is no other legal ground justifying the Processing or where you have objected to it and there is no overriding legitimate ground justifying the Processing or where the Processing is unlawful or erasure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation;7. Right to file a complaint: you also have the right to file a complaint with the competent Supervisory Authority and before the competent courts;8. Right to refuse or withdraw consent: In cases where we ask for your consent, you are free to refuse to provide your consent and you can withdraw it at any time without suffering negative consequences of any kind. The legality of any Processing of your Personal Data carried out before the withdrawal of your consent will not be affected;9.CONTACTFor any rights you wish to exercise or any questions you may have about how we process your information, please contact us by sending an email to rgpd@valmont.com.10.CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENTWe may update this Statement from time to time, in accordance with legal requirements and/or any changes to the our information management practices. If applicable, we will notify you of these changes. A copy of the latest version of this Statement will be available on this page at any time.11. DEFINITIONSAffiliated Companies: means affiliated companies of VALMONT France., which are entities under common ownership or control of VALMONT. Applicable Laws: means any applicable national laws relating to data protection and privacy and, to the extent applicable, the GDPR. Data Controller: the natural or legal person, public authority, service or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data. GDPR: means the Data Protection Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the General Data Protection Regulation). Information: all types of information concerning you, including Personal Data personal.Personal data: any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.Processing or Processed or Processed: any operation or set of operations carried out or not using automated processes and applied to data or sets of personal data personal, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, conservation, adaptation or modification, extraction, consultation, use, communication by transmission, dissemination or any other form of making available, reconciliation or interconnection, limitation, erasure or destruction. Supervisory authority: means the national public supervisory authority which is competent to supervise and ensure compliance with any national data protection law falling within its jurisdiction. Third party or Third party: means a natural or legal person, a public authority, an agency or a body other than the data subject, the data controller, the subcontractor and the persons who, under the direct authority of the data controller or subcontractor, are authorized to process Personal Data. Websites of VALMONT France affiliated companies: /www.valmontstructures.eu Updated 11/18/2020
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