Privacy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc. (Ascend Performance Materials), including its subsidiaries and affiliates, (collectively, the Company, We or Us) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

本声明解释作为数据控制者，我们如何收集与您互动有关的您的信息(您的个人数据), how Personal Data is processed by Us, how to contact Us with inquiries or complaints, and how to access, modify, or delete your Personal Data.  Please read this Statement carefully before using the website.  您可能还需要打印一份副本，以便提醒自己我们会如何处理您的个人数据. 

请注意，与阁下没有直接或间接关系的资料不会被视为个人资料，亦不受本声明的约束. Only information which can be connected to you is subject to this Statement.

You can find the addresses and contact details of the different Ascend entities here: http://53yr1h1.uc800hr.com/contact-us/locations/ 

WHY WE WILL USE YOUR INFORMATION 

We use Personal Data held about you in the following ways:

Website (including cookies for marketing purposes):

• To make the site work as you expect.
• 确保本网站的内容以最有效的方式呈现给您和您的电脑.
• To estimate Our audience size and usage patterns.
• To store information about your preferences, so We can customize Our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognize you when you return to Our site.
• To pass your data on to third-parties for marketing purposes, if you agree to the cookies allowing such processing. 
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of Our sites.

有关通过我们网站上实现的cookie处理您的数据的更多信息, see our Cookies notice. 

Answer to your requests

• To provide you with the information, products and services that you request from Us.
• To answer to the requests you submit Us through the contact form on Our website. 

Newsletter

• To provide you with Our latest news and information about upcoming events, if you subscribed to Our newsletter. 
• To notify you about changes to what We do.

Job Applications

• To manage the job applications that you would submit through Our site. 

Customers and vendors management

• To manage Our business relationship with customers and vendors. This includes the processing of customers, vendors (and their employees) prospects and business partners’ data. 
• 确保与客户和供应商的良好沟通，并提供适当的服务. 
• Compliance with legal obligations. 

Other

• To protect the integrity of Our website, Our services, and Our reputation.
• To prosecute or defend legal claims. 
• To protect other users of Our websites, and to ensure no unlawful or unethical activity occurs through Our systems.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA

Website (including cookies for marketing purposes): Your consent (except in relation to strictly necessary cookies; see Our Cookies Notice for more information). You can withdraw this consent at any time (see below “Your Rights”).

Answer to your requests: Legitimate interests, to be able to answer satisfactorily to your requests. 

Newsletter: consent, 您可以在我们的网站上注明您的电子邮件地址，并提交该地址以接收我们的时事通讯. 

Job Applications: necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. 

Customers and Vendors management (视具体用途而定):履行你所签署的合同所必需的, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract; legal obligation; legitimate interest. 

Other (depending on the exact purpose): Our legitimate interests to protect Us, Our reputation, the Integrity of Our website and Our users; legal obligation. 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

We will collect and process the following data about you (e.g. Website user and/or customers, vendors (and their employees) prospects, business partners ):

• Website (including cookies for marketing purposes): Technical details of your visits to Our site, including traffic data, IP Addresses, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access, Identity, contact details, information about product or service you may be interested by. 
• Answer to your requests: Region, first name, last name, email, reason of inquiry and additional message. This includes also any other information that you provide by filling in forms on Our websites, for example to receive information from Us about Our services, or to request further information. If you contact Us, 我们可能会根据我们的保留政策，在一段有限的时间内保留该通信的记录.
• Newsletter: email address. 
• Job Applications: Information you provided Us in the context of your application to a job (e.g. Name, contact details, CV).
• Customers and vendors management: contact details data, (e.g. name and email address); Professional Details; Financial data. 
• Other: identification data, contact details data, data about the use of our website.

HOW DO WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

We obtain information from you in three ways:

• by you typing your personal details in,
• by the automatic collection of information about you as you use Our websites (through cookies),
• or from third parties (for example, you employer if you are an employee of a customer or vendor).

Even though We can automatically process Personal Data, this will not be done in a way that has a significantly adverse impact on you.

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES

For specific information about the use of cookies and other web beacons on Our Website, we invite you to consult Our Cookies Notice. 

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are a global business. As a result, where necessary for the purposes identified, the data We collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, any of Our locations; which may be inside or outside the European Economic Area ("EEA").  

Our primary servers are in data centers and/or cloud based.  Data may also be processed by staff around the world working for Us. For example, 我们的工作人员可能需要访问您的数据，以响应您的信息请求或提供支持服务, among other things. Data may also be shared with Our vendors that may be located outside EU/EEA or UK.

In any case, 如果您位于欧洲经济区或英国，并且您的数据被发送到欧洲经济区/英国以外的国家，该国家尚未被欧洲经济区/英国认可为足够, and appropriate safeguard will be put in place. 这将确保您的数据在欧洲经济区/英国以外的传输符合适用法律, and that your data will be properly protected by the recipient of the data.

这种适当的保障措施可以采用标准合同条款的形式，整合到我们全球实体之间建立的集团内部数据共享协议中, or in contracts with Our vendors and customers. 

HOW LONG WE KEEP THE DATA 

我们将保存我们收集的有关您的个人资料，只要有必要，以实现我们收集这些资料的目的, 或履行法律义务所需的时间(法律或法规可能要求我们保留您的个人资料的最低期限)。. This will be done in accordance with Our internal retention policies. After the defined time period, your data will be securely erased.

您个人资料的保留期限将视乎我们处理该等资料的目的而定: 

Website (including cookies for marketing purposes): see our cookie policy. 

Answer to your request: for the time necessary to meet your request. 

Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or cancel your subscription to the Newsletter.

Job applications: for the time necessary to manage your application. 

Customers and Vendors management: As long as a business relationship between us and our client exist, and for all the subsequent legal retention period.

Other: as required per applicable laws or by Our internal retention policies and procedures. This will however never exceed the time necessary to meet the purposes defined above. 

DATA SECURITY

我们将采取合理的步骤，确保您的个人资料得到安全且符合本声明的处理. In particular, We will process your personal data in accordance with our internal policies and procedure, that set out security measures appropriate to protect your personal data.

我们给您(或您选择的)密码，使您能够访问我们网站的某些部分, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Please do not share your password with anyone.  

Once We have received your information, 我们将使用我们自己的程序和安全措施来防止未经授权的访问或任何其他安全事件, including personal data breach.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your Personal Data to any company in the Ascend Performance Materials group, where necessary for the purpose identified. You can find out more about the group and the companies in the group here: http://53yr1h1.uc800hr.com/contact-us/locations.

Where necessary for the purposes identified, We may also disclose your personal information to third parties, including:

• In the event that We sell or buy any business or assets, 在这种情况下，我们可能会向业务或资产的潜在卖方或买方披露您的个人数据.
• If Ascend Performance Materials or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case Personal Data held will be one of the transferred assets. Similarly, 在重组的情况下，您的个人信息可能会传递给利益继承人, liquidation or administration.
• 如果我们有责任披露或分享您的个人资料，以遵守任何法律义务, or in order to enforce or apply Our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Ascend Performance Materials, Our customers, employees or others.
• 在必要的情况下，数据可能会被披露给我们的服务提供商.
• 通过我们网站上的cookie收集的数据(包括与营销目的有关的数据)也可以由第三方存储. For more information, you can refer to our Cookies Notice.

LISTENING TO YOU

您可以要求我们不要出于营销目的处理您的个人数据(包括将您的个人数据传递给第三方). Additionally, if you think your Personal Data isn’t being processed in accordance with this Statement, you may object to such processing. We will respond to objections within a reasonable time. You can consent or not to processing of your Personal Data for marketing purposes through cookies, by indicating your choice on the cookies forms rely on to collect Personal Data. Afterwards, you can revoke your consent or object to processing at any time by contacting Us via email at personaldataprivacy@uc800hr.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites.  For example, if you use Our website to order goods or apply for a job, 您可能会被引导到另一个网站，在那里第三方可能会收集和处理您的个人数据.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, 请注意，他们有自己的隐私政策，我们对这些政策不承担任何责任或义务.  Please read the privacy policy of other websites before you submit any Personal Data.

YOUR RIGHTS

In some countries, mainly European Union countries and United Kingdoms, you may have additional legal rights related to the processing of your Personal Data.  These rights may include: obtaining and accessing information regarding the processing of your personal information; asking to have your incorrect or incomplete data rectified; requesting that we erase your personal information in certain circumstances; objecting to, and requesting that we restrict, our processing of your Personal Data; requesting the receipt or the transfer to another organization, in a machine-readable form, of your personal data; withdrawing your consent at any time when this is the legal basis to process your data; not being subject to automated individual decision-making; and lodging a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you think any of your rights have been infringed by us. We can, on request, 告知您与处理您的个人信息相关的数据保护机构.

请注意，这些权利也有例外情况，在某些情况下，我们在法律上有权拒绝您行使权利的请求. Generally this is when your attempt to exercise your rights infringe on another’s rights.

If you have any questions about your rights or would like to exercise them, please contact us via email at personaldataprivacy@uc800hr.com or ascend.dpo@mydata-trust.info if you are an EU or UK located person.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY STATEMENT

Any changes We make to this Privacy Statement in the future will be posted on this page. Please visit this page regularly to make sure you are comfortable with the Statement.

CONTACT

欢迎就本声明提出任何问题、意见和要求，并应发送至 personaldataprivacy@uc800hr.com or ascend.dpo@mydata-trust.info (if you are located in European Union or United Kingdoms). 

如果您对我们处理您个人数据的方式不满意，您可以通过相同的电子邮件地址与我们的隐私团队联系. In some countries, especially European Union and UK, if you continue to have unanswered concerns, you may also contact the relevant data protection authority. You can find your EU data protection authority by going to http://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en. If you want to lodge a complaint with the UK data protection authority, you can contact them at http://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complaints/   

This Privacy Notice was last updated in September, 2022.