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This Cookie Policy explains how the Ansell group of companies (hereinafter: “Ansell”, “we”, “us”, “our”) use automatic data collection technologies, including cookies, web beacons, and social media plugins by when you navigate through and interact with our global and local websites (hereinafter: “Website”).

If you want general information about how Ansell processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy. You can contact us via email at privacy@ansell.com

Please also review the specific Addendum below for further information regarding specific requirements that may apply to You depending on the jurisdiction where you are located.

Ansell reserves the right to from time to time modify, change or amend this Cookie Policy at its own discretion. Such modification, change or amendment will be communicated via the Website. If you do not accept the modifications, changes or amendments, you are not allowed to use our Website anymore. By continuing to use the Website after having been informed of the use of automatic data collection technologies, you acknowledge that you have read and accept this Cookie Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

1.1. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, mobile/desktop applications, and/or social media channels we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Geolocation Information: this includes technical information associated with the device you use, such as your IP-address, browser type, geographical location and operating system; and
  • Internet/Electronic Activity Information: this includes information concerning your visits to our Website and browsing behavior, such as how long you visit, what links you click on, what pages you visit and how many times you visit a page.

1.2. The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.
  • Provide a better user experience on our Website.

2. AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE

2.1. Social Media Plug-Ins. Social media plugins are small pieces of software developed and provided by social media service providers, which add social media integration when built into the Website.

2.2. Web beacons. Pages of our the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Ansell, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

2.3. Cookies. Cookies are small text files which are stored on a device’s hard drive and which contain certain information and sometimes personal data. Most data pertaining to these cookies, their placement and use allows Ansell to identify you, and Ansell uses them to gain insight in how you and other visitors use the Website by gathering statistical and usage data. You can avoid cookies being placed by configuring your browser as such. Guidelines about how to do this can be found here:

However, not allowing cookies when visiting the Website may cause certain or all features of the Website to stop working properly.

2.4. Third Party Use of Cookies. Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies [alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies] to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

2.5. Cookie List. Below is a detailed list of cookies we use on our Website. Our Website is scanned with our cookie scanning tool regularly to maintain a list as accurate as possible.

2.6. You may at all times withdraw your consent to our use of cookies. To exercise this right, it suffices to delete the cookies, which have been placed on your device. To do so, you are kindly asked to refer to the appropriate instructions of your browser manufacturer, as listed above.

EU ADDENDUM

If you are located in the EEA, and the processing of your personal data relates to the offering of our Websites, goods or services or the monitoring of your behaviour in the EEA (for example, through our EU web shop at www.shop.ansell.com), or the processing of your personal data is carried out in the context of the activities of one of Ansell group companies established in the EEA, as identified under the Section "Controller of your personal data" below (Ansell, we, us), you may have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the EU ePrivacy Directive, and implementing national laws. We invite you to read this EU Addendum which contains important additional information about the processing of your personal data.

Where applicable, this EU Addendum is intended to supplement, and does not replace, Ansell's Cookie Policy above. This EU Addendum takes precedence over anything contradictory in our Cookie Policy.

IN GENERAL

Our Website(s) use(s) cookies and similar technologies for the purposes and in the manner described in the Cookie Policy and this EU Addendum. Where legally required, we will collect your prior consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies, as described below.

By clicking on "Allow all" on our Cookie Banner or selecting your cookie preferences and clicking on "Confirm My Choices" in our in our Privacy Preference Centre [insert hyperlink to Privacy Preference Centre] , you are agreeing to our use of cookies and similar technologies in line with your current cookie settings/preference and in accordance with this Cookie Policy and its EU Addendum. You may also reject cookies, except strictly necessary cookies, by clicking "Reject all" on our Cookie Banner.

You will always be able to withdraw your consent and change your choice by amending your cookie preferences or browser settings in the future. If you disable cookies that we use, this may affect your user experience while being on this Website.

CONTROLLER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Under the GDPR, the identity and contact details of the data controller and, where applicable, of the controller's representative, must be provided. In general, the data controller of your personal data is the Ansell company that is operating the Website(s). For the purpose of the EU web shop www.shop.ansell.com, this is Ansell Healthcare Europe NV, a company based in Belgium, with registered office at Boulevard International 55, 1070 Anderlecht, Belgium, VAT BE 0437.593.328 RPR/RPM Brussels. You will find further details under the "How to Contact us section below".

Subject to your prior consent where legally required, we collect information automatically on our Website(s) and maintain it or associate it with personal data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties, in which case we treat it as personal data and process it for the purpose described in our Cookie Policy, in accordance with our Privacy Policy. For further details regarding the way we collect and process your personal data on the Website(s), please refer to our Privacy Policy at www.ansell.com.

THIRD PARTIES AND ADVERTISING PARTNERS

You can access a list of our advertising partners mentioned in the Targeting Cookies section of our Cookie Policy here.

YOUR RIGHTS

You, as individual whose personal data is processed as described in this Cookie Policy and its EU Addendum, have a number of rights which are summarized in our Privacy Policy and its EU Addendum, including the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing, data portability, objection, as well as the right to lodge complaints with the competent authority. If you wish to know more about or exercise any of the rights, please refer to our Privacy Policy and EU Addendum.

If you have declared your consent for any personal data processing activities as described in this Cookie Policy, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to withdrawal of the consent. For the placement of cookies in particular, you will always be able to withdraw your consent in our Privacy Preference Centre [insert link]. If you disable cookies that we use, this may impact your user experience while on this Website.