NuTech Seed, LLC, and its affiliates are concerned about privacy issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. Together with DuPont’s Global Information Privacy Policy, this Privacy Statement describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through websites and mobile applications owned and controlled by us(respectively, the “Site” and the “App”), as well as all other means where notice is legally required. By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement.
Personal Information
Personal Information we may collect “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual, such as:- Name;
- Postal address (including billing and shipping addresses);
- Telephone or fax number;
- Email address;
- Gender;
- Date of Birth
- Credit and debit card number;
- Banking information, such as account and routing numbers;
- Vendor Tax ID numbers;
- National ID numbers such as Social Security Numbers;
- Financial information when you apply for credit;
- Passwords and reminder questions/answers;
- Purchase history.
- When you order a product or service or make a request.
- When you register your purchase of a product.
- When you request credit for the purchase of products and services.
- When you register for goods, services, subscriptions, technology forum, or other communications through the Site or App.
- When you participate in a contest, promotion, sweepstakes, rewards program, customer group, survey, or other promotion.
- When you participate in a blog, forum, or interact using social media or other electronic or digital communications.
- When we conduct market research, meet you at a trade show, or other event.
- When you apply for a job or to be an authorized sales professional.
- Respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as to send you e-mail alerts, text messages, and other written or electronic communications.
- Send you important information regarding the Site or App, changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, and/or other administrative information.
- Complete and fulfill your purchase, for example, to process your payments, have your order delivered to you, communicate with you regarding your purchase, and provide you with related customer service.
- Send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you, including information about trade shows.
- Evaluate your requests for credit to purchase products and services offered by NuTech Seed, LLC.
- Personalize your experience on the Site by presenting products and offers tailored to you.
- Allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions and to administer these activities. Some of these activities have additional rules, which could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these rules carefully.
- Permit you to send messages to a friend through the Site or App. By using this functionality, you are telling us that you are entitled to use and provide us with your friend’s name and email address.
- Allow you to communicate and interact with others through the Site or App (for example, through a blog, message board, messaging functionality, chat functionality, profile, or other social media).
- Permit you to register and participate in technology forums and other events.
- Enable our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, researching, and developing new products, enhancing our website, improving our services, making field notes, observations, and prescriptions, collecting and providing agronomic and farm management information, developing marketing events, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property, of you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
- Within the DuPont Group of Companies for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement. NuTech Seed, LLC, and the local affiliate with whom you are interacting are jointly responsible for the management of the jointly-used Personal Information.
- To third party service providers who provide services such as website, database, and server hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, product distribution, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, credit card processing, auditing services, and other similar services to enable them to provide services.
- To third parties such as agents, distributers, retailers, and sales professionals to facilitate the sale and distribution of our products and services, which may include marketing communications.
- To third party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and similar promotions.
- To a third party that may offer you credit to purchase products or services offered by us.
- To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Site.
- To a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
- As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
- By you, when you participate in features on our Site or App that provide the opportunity to interact with us and others (for example a blog, message board, messaging functionality, chat functionality, profile, field observations databases and applications, or other social media). When you use these features you should be aware that any information you submit, including your name, location and e-mail address, may be publicly available to others. We are not responsible for any information you choose to submit through these features and we strongly discourage you from disclosing any sensitive Personal Information (such as health or credit card information) through these features. If you use these features, your Personal Information may remain on the Site or App even after you cease use of the Site or App.
Non-Personal Information
Non-Personal Information We Collect “Non-Personal Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity, such as:- Browser information;
- Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies;
- Demographic information and other information provided by you;
- Aggregated information;
- Information about your agricultural operation, including, but not limited to:
- Field specific data, such as GPS coordinates, soil type, moisture patterns, yield, products used, agronomic observations, management practices, inputs, such as herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizers.
- Weather information
- Preferences concerning how you receive information
- Through your browser: Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system version and Internet browser type and version.
- Using cookies: Cookies allow a web server to transfer data to a computer for recordkeeping and other purposes. We use cookies and other technologies to, among other things, better serve you with more tailored information, to facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the Site, and to provide you with personalized marketing. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. Some features of the Site may not work properly if you decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
- Using pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar technologies: These may be used in connection with some Site pages and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Site users and email recipients, measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about Site usage and response rates.
- From you: Information such as your location, as well as other information, such as your preferred means of communication, is collected when you voluntarily provide this information. Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site or App.
- In the same ways we collect Personal Information, as described above.
- By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Site or App, (for example, we may use Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).