Freudenberg Household Products

Freudenberg Household Products

Last Updated: September 2022

ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY

ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the O-Cedar.com website (“Website”), which is operated by Freudenberg Household Products (“FHP”). This Privacy Statement explains the types of information FHP obtains about users of the Website and how the information is collected, used and disclosed by FHP. This Website is directed to users in the United States and, and this policy only applies to information collected through the Website. By submitting your personal information to us, you are accepting and consent to the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Our business changes from time to time and our Privacy Policy will change also. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of any amendment to this Privacy Statement shall indicate your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Policy, including if you wish to send us a request to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us at privacy@ocedar.com or call 1.800.543.8105 (Mon-Fri, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CT).

1. Types of Personal Information We Collect and When

1. Types of Personal Information We Collect and When

Server log information. Our Website captures certain information automatically. This information may include your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and computer operating system, time and date you visit, the pages you access, and the address of the page that directed you to our Website. We use this data to understand patterns of Website activity and to improve the Website so it is more useful for you. This information is not linked in any way to your personal information.
 

Cookies. Our Website uses cookies, which record small amounts of data in your web browser. These serve various purposes, including making our site work properly and optimizing your experience. The cookies we use – and how to control them – are listed in our Cookies Policy.
 

Personal information that you submit. We do not collect personal information from you unless you supply it voluntarily such as when you communicate with us by email, register on the Website, participate in Tell A Friend, submit a product review, enter a contest or sweepstakes or register for a newsletter. The types of personally identifiable information that may be requested include your name, mailing address, email address, date of birth, Social Security number or telephone number or other information relevant to a request for information.

Aggregated or anonymized information. In some instances, we receive information that either combines the information of numerous consumers or is transformed in such a way that the information can no longer be linked to a particular consumer or their household.

2. Purposes for Which We Collect Information

2. Purposes for Which We Collect Information

We request personal information when necessary to provide a service or to complete a transaction or otherwise run our business. Examples include subscribing to electronic newsletters, requesting product information, registering on the Website, entering a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion, responding to your questions or comments or completing online surveys or questionnaires.

3. How Do We Protect Personal Information?

3. How Do We Protect Personal Information?

Although we cannot guarantee impenetrability of our servers, we have established physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards for the information we collect on this Website that are reasonable given the nature of the information and its sensitivity.

4. What Do We Do With the Personal Information We Collect?

4. What Do We Do With the Personal Information We Collect?

When you submit product reviews or other content that will be posted on the Website please remember it becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

We will not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to third parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except that we may share this data with our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, and vendors we retain to provide services necessary to our operations. Such third parties could include website hosting companies, public relations companies, advertising and marketing agencies, and mail delivery service companies. These parties are under obligations to use the information only in support of our business, not their own.

We also reserve the right to release personal information (i) when we are under legal compulsion to do so (e.g., we have received a subpoena) or we otherwise believe that the law requires us to do so; (ii) when we believe it is necessary to protect and/or enforce the rights, property interests, or safety of FHP, our users or others; or (iii) as we deem necessary to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, prevent fraud, and otherwise enforce the Privacy Statement and any applicable Terms of Use for our Website.

Additionally, in the event that FHP is merged with or becomes part of another organization, or in the event that FHP is sold or it sells all or substantially all of its assets or is otherwise reorganized, the information you provide will be one of the transferred assets to the acquiring or reorganized entity. We may also transfer personal information to third parties where we are expressly authorized by applicable law to do so.

5. For California Residents

5. For California Residents

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), you have certain rights with regard to information that could reasonably be used to identify you or your family. This Privacy Notice is provided so that you can understand at or before the point of collection what we are collecting and why.

Right to Access and Data Portability. You have the right to understand what information we have collected about you, where it came from, why we collected it, with whom we have shared it. You are also entitled to a copy of the information.​​​​​​
 

Right to Erasure. With regard to the right of erasure of your personal information, we will erase your personal information when requested except when, as provided by CCPA, it is necessary to:

a.  Complete a transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us. b. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity. c. Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality. d. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law. e. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code. f. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent. g. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us. h. Comply with a legal obligation.

These rights do not extend to anonymized or aggregated information that can no longer be connected to you personally.

Consistent with CCPA, we will respond within 45 days of a verifiable request to provide or erase your personal information, unless we notify you that up to another 45 days will be needed.

Our website is not directed at persons under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly store personal information of any kind relating to such persons. If you are the parent or guardian of a minor and believe that minor’s personal information has been collected, please contact us so that we may delete it.

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information. FHP does not sell personal information and has not done so in the past twelve (12) months. In the event that FHP conducts activities that may constitute the sale of personal information under California law, it will provide the appropriate notice and an opportunity to opt out.

To exercise your rights, please contact privacy@ocedar.com or call 1.800.543.8105.

6. How Can You Opt Out of Emails and Block or Restrict Cookies?

6. How Can You Opt Out of Emails and Block or Restrict Cookies?

Emails. You can opt out of receiving future promotional electronic mailings from us by following the unsubscribe procedures indicated in each electronic mailing, such as “unsubscribe” or “manage your preferences."

Cookies. We use cookies to keep track of and enhance certain user activities on our Website such as saving your preferences and user-specific features. You may block or restrict cookies on your computer or purge them from your browser by adjusting your web browser preferences.

You can opt out here: Opt-out. By clicking on this "Opt-out" link, you will be automatically opting out of all tracking cookies.

You should consult the operating instructions that apply to your browser for instructions on how to configure your browser setting to meet your preferences.

However, because cookies may allow you to take advantage of some features or functions of our Website, we recommend that you leave them turned on.

More information is contained in our Cookies Policy.

7. What About Links to Other Websites?

7. What About Links to Other Websites?

This statement applies only to this Website. This Website may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the content or policies of such websites and recommend that you check the privacy statements posted on their websites.

How Do I Ask Questions and Provide Feedback Regarding Privacy?

We welcome your questions, comments and concerns about privacy. FHP is committed to the resolution of concerns about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. If you have any questions regarding this privacy statement or how we protect your personal data, please contact us at:

Freudenberg Household Products
Attn: Consumer Affairs/Privacy
2188 Diehl Road
Aurora, IL 60502
1.800.543.8105
privacy@ocedar.com

4832-3571-0894.4

8. Transfer Outside the United States

8. Transfer Outside the United States

Some of the parties identified above, including parties that have access to your personal information, may be located in foreign countries. This Privacy Policy serves as notice that your personal information may be transferred to a country outside the United States. By using our Online Platforms, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to such countries.

9. MailJet Newsletter

9. MailJet Newsletter

This website uses the services of Mailjet for sending and analyzing newsletters. The newsletter contains news, offers, product tests, competitions and further information about our brand. MailJet SAS. is a simplified joint-stock company under French law ("Société par actions simplifiée"), registered in the Paris Commercial Register under number 524 536 992, with registered office at 13-13 bis, rue de l'Aubrac – 75012 Paris. The parent company of MailJet is Mailgun Technologies, Inc, 112 E Pecan St. #1135, San Antonio, Texas 78205, United States of America.

If we have asked for your consent and you have given it, we will process your e-mail address in order to conduct e-mail marketing and, if necessary, other personal data in order to address you personally in the process. The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

The automatic information processing is notified to the French Data Protection Authority CNIL (under the numbers 1527459 and 1527474) and will be updated if necessary.

With the help of Mailjet we can analyze our newsletter campaigns. We also use remarketing measures to show you’re the relevant online advertising. When you open an e-mail sent with Mailjet, a file contained in the e-mail (so-called web beacon) connects to Mailjet's servers exclusively in Europe with Google Cloud Platform in Frankfurt (Germany) and St. Ghislain (Belgium). In this way, it can be determined whether a newsletter message has been opened and which links have been clicked, if any. In addition, technical information is collected (for example time of retrieval, IP address, browser type and operating system). This information cannot be assigned to the respective newsletter recipient. They are used exclusively for the statistical analysis of newsletter campaigns. The results of these analyses can be used to better adapt future newsletters to the interests of the recipients.

If you do not want analysis by Mailjet, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, we provide a corresponding link in every newsletter message. To withdraw your consent, you can use the link provided for this purpose in the emails or unsubscribe from the following link: https://www.ocedar.com/newsletter-unsubscribe

The data processing takes place on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter. The legality of the data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the revocation. 

The data stored by you for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by us until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and will be deleted from our servers as well as from the servers of Mailjet after unsubscribing from the newsletter. Data stored by us for other purposes remain unaffected by this. For more information, please refer to Mailjet's privacy policy at: https://www.mailjet.de/privacy-policy/ and https://www.mailjet.com/gdpr.

We have concluded a so-called "Data Processing Agreement" with MailJet, in which we oblige MailJet to protect the data of our customers and not to pass it on to third parties. Legal basis: Art. 6(1) a GDPR (consent).

10. Microsoft Clarity

10. Microsoft Clarity

Clarity enables us in making data-driven decisions on what works and what doesn’t. Clarity captures the interactions on our website such as how the page has rendered and what interactions users undertake such as mouse movements, clicks, scrolls. Clarity uses marketing cookies to track visitors across our website. When the script is installed, Clarity’s cookies send anonymous and non-personally identifiable information about website users. Clarity is a user behavior analytics tool that helps us understand how users interact with our website. Clarity is GDPR-compliant as a data controller. For more information, see the Microsoft Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/cookie-consent. You can opt out of Microsoft Clarity cookies by clicking on cookie settings and preferences here.

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