Privacy Policy

Westlake Dimex is pleased about your visit to our website and your interest in our company.

The following privacy notice provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to identify you personally. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please see below.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS: If you are a California consumer, please see our Privacy Notice For Website Visitors who are California Consumers.

NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA) OR THE UK: If you are a resident of the EEA or the United Kingdom, you may have certain rights under applicable data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the UK Data Protection Act of 2018 (DPA).  Information on those rights is listed below under “D. Information about your rights.”  In addition to the legal bases for processing your personal data listed in this privacy notice, your consent is another legal basis.  Where our processing of your personal data is based on your consent for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw that consent.  If you withdraw your consent, Dimex will no longer process your personal data for that specific purpose unless we have another legitimate basis for processing under applicable laws.  By submitting your personal data to us, you consent to our transfer of that personal data to one of our contracted processors or service providers outside the European Economic Area should we need to do so.

A. Information about the controller

The controller responsible for the Westlake Dimex website (www.westlakedimex.com) is:

I.Name and contact details of the responsible body

Westlake Dimex 

28305 State Route 7

Marietta, Ohio 45750

Email: privacy@westlake.com

1-844-951-2065

B. Information about the processing of personal data

I. Informational use of the website 

In the case of the purely informational use of the website, the browser used on your end device will, for technical reasons, send certain information to the server of our website (for example, your IP address). We process this information to provide the website content. To ensure the security of the website’s IT infrastructure, this information is also stored temporarily in a web server log file.

To provide the website’s search functions, data that you enter into our search functions is temporarily processed on our web server.

You can find more details on the personal data processed when the website is used in a purely informational way and when the website’s search functions are used below:

Details of the personal data processed

Data categories	Personal data	Source of the data	Whether you are obligated to provide this data	Storage time
Log data that occurs when calling the website via Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) for technical reasons.	Log data that occurs when calling the website via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secure) (HTTP (S)) for technical reasons.   Date and time of request, IP address, type and version of your Internet browser, operating system used, page accessed, page visited previously (if reached via link to Dimex LLC website), amount of data transferred, name of requested file, access status (file transfer, file not found, etc.).	User of the website	You are not obligated to provide the data but, if you do not provide the data, we cannot provide the website content that you access.	Data is stored in server log files in a form that allows for the identification of data subjects for a maximum of 30 days unless a security-related event occurs (e.g., a DDoS attack).   In the case of a security-related event, server log files are stored until the security-related event has been eliminated and completely cleared up.
Search function data	Data that you enter in the search function of our website.   This includes all the information that you enter as search terms in the search form in the website.	User of the website	You are not obligated to provide the data but, if you do not provide the data, we cannot provide the website content that you access.	Data is stored in server log files in a form that allows for the identification of data subjects for a maximum of 30 days unless a security-related event occurs (e.g., a DDoS attack).   In the case of a security-related event, server log files are stored until the security-relevant event has been eliminated and completely cleared up.

Details of the processing of personal data

Purpose of the processing	Data categories	Automated decision-making	Legal basis	Recipient
In order to provide the website content, HTTP data is temporarily processed on our web server.	HTTP data	There is no automated decision-making.	Balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is the provision and availability of the content accessed by the user.	Hosting Provider
Providing the search capabilities of our website:   For this purpose, data that you enter into our search functions is temporarily processed on our web server.	HTTP data, Search function data	There is no automated decision-making.	Safeguard of a legitimate interest and balance of interests.   Our legitimate interest is the provision of the search functions of the website called by the user.	Hosting Provider
In order to ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to provide the website, in particular to detect, remove and document malicious documentation, HTTP data is temporarily processed on our web server.	HTTP data, Search function data	There is no automated decision-making.	Balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is to ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to provide the website, in particular to detect, remove and document fraud.	Hosting Provider
Providing reliable access to the website by supporting the server on which the website sits; creating, organizing, and compiling the content, graphics, and design that make up the website.	HTTP data	There is no automated decision-making.	Balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is providing reliable access to the website and its content, and making the website visually appealing and engaging.	IT Service Provider
Providing a stable, secure platform for the website; troubleshooting functionalities and design features; enhancing the performance and security of the website.	HTTP data	There is no automated decision-making.	Balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is providing a stable and secure website and making repairs and improvements as needed.	IT Service Provider

Details on the recipients of personal data

Recipient	Recipient’s role	Recipient’s location
Hosting Provider   (currently: WPEngine, Inc., 504 Lavaca Street, Suite 1000, Austin, Texas 78701 USA)	Processor	United States
IT Service Provider:   (currently: Sourdough LLC, Marietta, Ohio 45750 USA)	Processor	United States

 

II. Use of online contact forms

On the website, we offer you the opportunity to contact us via contact forms. We process the information provided by you in the contact forms to process your request. If necessary, we also store the information as evidence for the possible assertion, exercise, or defence of legal claims or for the fulfilment of statutory, especially commercial and tax, storage requirements.

When using the contact forms on the website, the browser used on your end device will, for technical reasons, send certain information to the server of our website (for example, your IP address). We process this information to provide the contact forms on the website and to ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to deliver the form.

You can find more details on the personal data processed when information is submitted via contact forms below:

1. Details of the personal data being processed

Data categories	Personal data	Source of the data	Obligation of provision	Storage time
Contact form HTTP data	Log data that occurs when calling the website via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Secure) (HTTP (S)) for technical reasons.   Date and time of request, IP address, type and version of your Internet browser, operating system used, page accessed, page visited previously (if reached via link to Dimex LLC website), amount of data transferred, name of requested file, access status (file transfer, file not found, etc.)	User of the contact form	There is no obligation to provide the data but, if you do not provide the data, we cannot provide the requested website content.	Data is stored in server log files in a form that allows for the identification of data subjects for a maximum of 30 days unless a security-related event occurs (e.g., a DDoS attack).   In the case of a security-related event, server log files are stored until the security-related event has been eliminated and completely cleared up.
Contact form data	Data that you provide us with in contact forms of the website.   This includes the information that you provide us in the respective contact form on the website. This includes above all the following mandatory information: last name, company, e-mail address, telephone number, your request in the free text field This also includes the following optional information: first name, fax number	User of the contact form	There is no obligation to provide the data but, if you do not provide the data, we cannot provide the requested website content.	Data is stored until your request has been settled.   In addition, we will store this information for the purposes of asserting, exercising, or defending legal claims, as well as for a transitional period of three years from the end of the year in which you provided us with the data and, in the event of any litigation, until it is terminated. In addition, we store this data as required under statutory, especially commercial and tax law, retention requirements.

2. Details of the processing of personal data

Purpose of the processing	Data categories	Automated decision-making	Legal basis	Recipient
Providing our contact form on the website:   For this purpose, data is processed temporarily on our web server.	Contact form HTTP data	There is no automated decision-making.	Balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is the provision and availability of the content accessed by the user.	Hosting Provider
To ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to provide the form, in particular to detect, correct, and document evidence of interference (e.g., DDoS attacks):   For this purpose, data is temporarily stored in log files on our web server and evaluated.	Contact form HTTP data   Contact form data	There is no automated decision-making.	Safeguard of a legitimate interest and balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is to ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to provide the form, in particular to detect, remove, and document evidence of incidents (such as DDoS attacks).	Hosting Provider
Storage and processing for the purposes of evidencing the possible assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.	Contact form data	There is no automated decision-making.	Safeguard of a legitimate interest and balance of interests   Our legitimate interest is the assertion, exercise, or defence of legal claims.
Storage of data to fulfil statutory, especially commercial and tax, storage requirements.   Depending on the type of documents, there may be commercial and tax-related retention requirements.	Contact form data	There is no automated decision-making.	Fulfilment of a legal obligation

Details of the recipients of personal data

Recipient	Role of the recipient	Headquarters
Hosting Provider	Processor	United States

 

Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). Personal data collected on this website are stored on the servers of the host. These may include, but are not limited to, IP addresses, contact requests, metadata and communications, contract information, contact information, names, web page access, and other data generated through a website.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider.

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and to follow our instructions with respect to such data.

We are using the following host:

WPEngine, Inc.

IV. Use of third-party plug-ins (for example, social media plug-ins or online map service plug-ins)

The website includes so-called third-party plug-ins that allow you to use third-party functionalities offered on the website. The plug-ins are integrated on the website via a so-called “2-click solution”. With this solution, the respective plug-in is not activated directly when the website is called, but only when you activate the activation button for the respective plug-in.

If you activate a third-party plug-in, you use a functionality offered by the provider of the respective plug-in on its own responsibility, which is only optically embedded in the presentation of our website. When activating the respective plug-in, the provider of the respective plug-in may possibly receive personal data from you. In addition, when the plug-in is activated, the provider of the particular plug-in may use cookies or similar technologies. We have no knowledge of the specific purposes, content and storage duration as well as the need for consent of the cookies or similar technologies used by the provider of the plug-in. Specific information on this can be found in the additional information provided by the respective third-party provider (see below).

Below you will find more detailed information:

1. Processing of personal data by providers of third-party plug-ins

The 2-click solution ensures that your Internet browser initially does not connect to servers of the provider of the respective plug-in when the website is accessed. When the website is called up, the provider of the respective plug-in cannot collect any personal data from you via the respective plug-in. The respective plug-in is activated only when you activate the button provided for activating the respective plug-in.

As a result of the activation, a connection is made to servers of the provider of the respective plug-in. This allows the provider of the respective activated plug-in to collect personal data from you. Activation of the respective plug-in is technically comparable to clicking on a link to an external website, with the difference that the content called up does not appear in a new window / tab of your Internet browser but optically embedded in our website.

The data exchange initiated by you through the activation and use of the plug-in takes place exclusively between your Internet browser and the servers of the provider of the respective plug-in. If you activate a third-party plug-in, you are therefore using a functionality offered by the provider of the respective plug-in, which is optically embedded in the presentation of our website.

When activating the respective plug-in, the provider of the respective plug-in (comparable to calling an external website via a link) can receive in particular your IP address as well as the address (URL) of the website from which you are activating. In addition, the provider of the respective activated plug-in can receive information from any cookies of the respective provider stored in your internet browser. The provider of the respective plug-in can thus at least receive the information that our website was called up under the IP address assigned to you at the time of the call by activating the respective plug-in. If you are registered as a user with the respective third-party provider, the provider of the respective plug-in can generally also assign the received data to your user account.

We have no knowledge of the data collected specifically by the provider of the respective plug-in. In addition, we have no knowledge of the specific purpose of processing the data collected by the provider of the respective plug-in or other details of the data processing of the respective provider. In particular, we do not know whether the respective provider processes the data collected solely for the purpose of providing the functionality of the respective plug-in (e.g., for the sharing of specific content or the submission of comments) or for any other purpose (e.g., formation of user profiles or for the personalization of advertising).

2. Information about the other third-party plug-ins used

GRAVITY FORMS

Our website uses the Gravity Forms plugin to collect and store personal information that you submit to us in the contact form on our website.  The provider is Rocketgenius, Inc., 1620 Centerville Turnpike, Suite 102, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23464-6500, USA.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize both its web offering and its advertising.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address will be shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

Browser Plugin

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en .

Objection to data collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which will prevent the collection of your data during future visits to this website: Google Analytics opt-out.

More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to verify whether data entry on our websites (e.g., in a contact form) is made by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g., IP address, time spent by the website visitor on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not made aware that an analysis is taking place.

The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.

For more information on Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please see the following links: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy  and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

GOOGLE MAPS

This website uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland / Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy location of the places indicated by us on the website. This represents a legitimate interest.

More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

GOOGLE TAG MANAGER

This website uses the Google Tag Manager. Through this service, website tags can be managed via an interface. The Google Tool Manager only implements tags. This means that no cookies are used and no personal data is stored. The Google Tool Manager triggers other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. If a deactivation has been made at domain or cookie level, it remains in place for all tracking tags, insofar as these are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.

GOOGLE WEB FONTS

To ensure that fonts used on this website are uniform, this website uses so-called Web Fonts provided by Google. When you access a page on our website, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache to correctly display text and fonts.

To do this, the browser you use will have to establish a connection with Google’s servers. As a result, Google will learn that your IP address was used to access this website. The website operator has a legitimate interest in a uniform presentation of the font on the operator’s website. If a respective declaration of consent has been obtained (e.g., consent to the archiving of cookies), the data will be processed exclusively on this basis. Any such consent may be revoked at any time.

If your browser should not support Web Fonts, a standard font installed on your computer will be used.

For more information on Google Web Fonts, please follow this link: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and consult Google’s Data Privacy Declaration under: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

C. Information about the use of cookies

I. General information about cookies

Cookies are small text files containing information that can be placed on the user’s device when visiting a website via the browser. When the website is called up again with the same device, the cookie and the information stored therein can be retrieved.

First- and Third-Party cookies – Depending on where a cookie comes from, so-called first-party and third-party cookies can be distinguished:

First-Party cookies	Cookies set and called by the operator of the website as controller or by a processor assigned to it.
Third-Party cookies	Cookies set and accessed by other controllers, other than the operator of the website, who are not acting as processors on behalf of the operator of the website.

 

Transient and persistent cookies – Depending on the validity period, so-called transient and persistent cookies can also be distinguished:

Transient cookies   (session-cookies)	Cookies that are automatically deleted when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies	Cookies that remain stored on your device after closing the browser for a certain period of time.

 

Consent-free and consent-requiring cookies – Depending on their function and purpose, the use of certain cookies may require the consent of the user. In this respect, cookies can be differentiated according to whether their consent requires the consent of the user:

Consent-free cookies	Cookies whose sole purpose is to carry out the transmission of a message via an electronic communications network.
	Cookies that are strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service that was explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to be able to provide this service (“essential cookies”)
Consent-requiring cookies	Cookies for all purposes other than those mentioned above.

 

II. Management of the cookies used on this website

Granting consent to the use of cookies and management of cookies using a cookie dashboard

When you visit our website, we display a “cookie banner” in which you can declare your consent to the use of cookies on this website by clicking on a button.

Management of cookies via browser settings

You can manage the use of cookies in the settings of your browser. Different browsers offer different ways to configure the cookie settings in the browser.  You can learn more at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/.

However, we would like to point out that some features of the website may not work or may not work properly if you generally disable cookies in your browser.

III. Cookies used on this website

The following cookies may be used on this website:

Name	First party/Third party	Purpose of use and content	Effective term	Consent necessary?
Essential Cookies
Opt-In Cookies
vuid	Third party	This statistics cookie placed by Vimeo is used to store the user’s usage history.  For more information, visit https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
player	Third party	Vimeo uses some cookies to check if users select some features or certain preferences.  For more information, visit https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy.	Transient (expires when session ends)	Yes
_ga	Third party	The Vimeo video player needs to use some cookies to play an embedded video.  For more information, visit https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_Secure-3PSIDCC	First party	Google cookie required to use website options and services.	Persistent: 1 year	Yes
_Secure3PAPISID	First party	Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_Secure-1PAPISID	First party	This Google cookie is required to use the website options and services.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
SAPISID	First party	Google Ads Optimization collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
HSID	First party	This functional Google Ads Optimization cookie provides fraud prevention.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_Secure-3PSID	First party	Google cookie builds a profile of website visitor interests to show relevant and personalized ads through retargeting.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_Secure-1PSID	First party	This Google cookie is required to use the website options and services.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
SID	First party	This marketing/tracking Google Ads Optimization cookie provides ad delivery or retargeting and prevents fraud.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
APISID	First party	Google Ads Optimization personalizes Google ads on websites based on recent searches and interactions.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
SSID	First party	Google Ads Optimization collects visitor information for videos hosted by YouTube on maps integrated with Google Maps.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_GRECAPTCHA	First party	This functional Google reCAPTCHA cookie provides spam protection.	Transient (expires when session ends)	Yes
NID	First party	A marketing/tracking Google Ads Optimization cookie that provides ad delivery or retargeting and stores user preferences.	Persistent: 6 months	Yes
OTZ	First party	Google cookie that links activities of website visitors to other devices that are previously logged in via the Google account.  In this way, advertisements are tailored to different devices.	Persistent: 1 month	Yes
SEARCH_SAMESITE	First party	SameSite prevents the browser from sending this Google cookie along with cross-site requests.  The main goal is to mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage.  It also protects against cross-site request forgery attacks.	Persistent: 6 months	Yes
OGPC	First party	Google Ads Optimization cookie that stores user preferences and information while viewing Google mapped pages.	Transient (expires when session ends)	Yes
1P_JAR	First party	Based on recent searches and previous interactions, custom ads are shown on Google sites.	Persistent: 1 week	Yes
cookie_notice_accepted	First party	This functional Cookie Notice for GDPR reads if cookies can be placed.	Persistent:	Yes
_gat_gtag_UA_108582063_1	First party	A marketing/tracking Google Analytics cookie that stores and tracks conversations.	Persistent: 1 hour	Yes
Google Analytics Cookies   These cookies are used by the web analysis tool Google Analytics to record and analyse the usage behaviour on our website, in order to improve the website.
_ga	First party	This Google Analytics cookie is used for statistics purposes, to store and count pageviews.	Persistent: 2 years	Yes
_gat#	First party	This Google Analytics cookie is used for statistics purposes, to read and filter requests from bots.	Persistent: 1 minute	Yes
_gid	First party	This Google Analytics cookie is used for statistics purposes, to store and count pageviews.	Persistent: 24 hours	Yes
#collect	First party	Sends data such as visitor’s behaviour and device to Google Analytics.  This cookie is able to keep track of the visitor across marketing channels and devices and is a pixel tracker type cookie.	Transient (expires when session ends)	Yes

 

D. Information about your rights

As a data subject, you have the following rights in relation to the processing of your personal data:

I. Right to obtain access and information

As a data subject, you have the right to obtain access and information under the conditions provided in Article 15 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  Thi means that you have the right to obtain confirmation from us as to whether we are processing your data and, if so, the right to access the personal data and the information listed in Article 15 paragraph 1 of the GDPR.

II. Right to rectification

As a data subject, you have the right to rectification under the conditions provided in Article 16 of the GDPR.  This means that you have the right to receive from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccuracies in your personal data and completion of incomplete personal data.

III. Right to deletion

As a data subject, you have the “right to be forgotten.”  This means that you can request the deletion of your personal data, unless there is a retention obligation. The right to cancellation is not an unqualified right. We may, for example, continue to process your personal information if such processing is necessary to comply with our statutory obligations or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

IV. Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to restriction of processing, which means that you have the right to obtain from us the restriction of processing if one of the conditions provided in Article 18 paragraph 1 of the GDPR applies.

V. Right to data portability

You have the right to data portability, which means that you have the right to receive your personal data that you provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from us if the processing is based on consent.  This right implies that, if technically possible, we transmit your personal data in a structured, common and machine-readable format for your own purposes;

VI. Right to objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes, which includes profiling to the extent it is related to such direct marketing.

VII. Right to revoke consent

If the processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. We will inform you of this before you grant your consent.

VIII. Right to complain to the supervisory authority

As the data subject, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority under the conditions of Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation.  For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

E. Status and Modification of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective February 16, 2022.

Due to technical advances or changes legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to adapt this privacy policy.

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Privacy Notice

For Website Visitors who are California Consumers

The protection of individuals’ personal information is important to us.  Personal information is any information that identifies a person or makes a person identifiable.  Because your personal information is important to us, we developed this Privacy Notice for Website Visitors who are California consumers, which we ask you to read carefully if you are a natural person who is a California resident.  Note that we do not and will not sell your personal information.  

1. What categories of personal information do we collect from website visitors and for what purposes do we use the information?

When someone visits our website, we obtain the following categories of personal information and use them for the purposes described in the table below.  In some cases, we may share your personal information with an affiliate or third-party service provider as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf.  We will not use your personal information beyond these purposes.

Categories of Personal Information Collected From Website Visitors within the past 12 months

Purposes of Use

· Identifiers                         · Internet or other similar network activity

· Respond to your inquiries or comments that you submit when you complete the Contact Us form on our site;   · Understand and analyse how you use our site and what products and services are most relevant to you; · Contact you about products or services we think may interest you; · Develop new products and determine how to market our products; · Comply with any legal requirements or obligations; and · Enforce our rights and assert defences in case of litigation.   · Provide the website content you request; · Provide the search function when you enter search terms into the search bar on the website; · Diagnose problems with, identify any security risks or errors, and ensure the security of the IT infrastructure used to provide our site; · Detect and prevent fraud and abuse of our site; · Collect aggregate statistics about the use of our site; · Understand and analyse how you use our site and what products and services are most relevant to you; · Improve and optimize the operation and performance of our site; · Contact you about products or services we think may interest you; · Develop new products and determine how to market our products; and · Comply with any legal requirements or obligations.

 

2. What are my rights with regard to my personal information?

You (or your authorized agent) have the right to make certain requests, described below, concerning your personal information we collect.  Before we act on any such requests, we must be able to reasonably verify that you have made the request about your own personal information.  We will attempt to verify that you are the consumer whose information you are requesting by attempting to match the identifying information you provide to the personal information we have on file.

If we are unable to reasonably verify that the person making the request is also the person or the authorized agent of the person whose information we hold, we may not be required to respond.  We may also not be required to respond to a request if the number of the requests you make exceeds a certain amount within a 12-month period.  We will not discriminate against you because you have exercised any of your legal rights.

You may submit your requests, as well as any questions or concerns, by sending an e-mail to: privacy@westlake.com or by calling 1-844-951-2065.

You Have The Right to Access Your Personal Information.

You have the right to access the personal information we collect about you.  After we verify your request, we will disclose and deliver, at no charge, the personal information we collect about you.  The information may be delivered by mail or electronically in a readily useable format.

You Have The Right to Know What Information We Collect About You.

 You have the right to request that we disclose the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which we have collected the personal information, the business purposes for collecting the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

As described above, we may disclose your personal information to affiliates or third-party service providers for a business purpose.  Other than affiliates or third-party service providers with whom we disclosed personal information for a business purpose, we have not shared any personal information within the past 12 months.  If we disclose your personal information for a business purpose, you have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories of personal information that we have collected about you and the categories of personal information that we have disclosed for a business purpose.

You Have The Right to Request That We Delete Your Personal Information.

 You have the right to request that we delete any personal information that we have collected about you.  After we verify your request, we will delete your personal information from our records and direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.  We may be unable to fulfil your request to delete your personal information if it is necessary for us to maintain your personal information to (1) complete a transaction for which your personal information was collected, provide a good or service that you requested, continue as reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract with you; (2) detect security incidents; protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity; (3) debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; (4) exercise a right provided for by or comply with law; or (5) enable solely internal uses that are lawful and compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

CHANGES TO THE NOTICE

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time.  If we make changes, the current version of this Privacy Notice will be posted here on our website.

February 12, 2022