隐私政策

PQ，包括其关联公司和子公司（统称 "PQPQ"或"我们"）致力于保护您的隐私。本隐私政策（以下简称 "政策"）的目的是政策"）的目的是通知您我们可能向您收集或您可能向 PQ 提供的个人信息类型，以及处理此类个人信息的规范做法。

请仔细阅读本政策，以了解 PQ 有关您的信息的政策和做法，以及我们将如何处理这些信息。如果您不同意我们的政策和做法，您可以选择不使用我们的网站 (www.pqcorp.com 或"网站"）或不向 PQ 提供您的信息。通过访问和使用本网站或以其他方式向 PQ 提供您的个人信息，即表示您同意本政策，并同意此处所述的个人资料收集、使用和披露做法。本政策可能不时更改，在我们作出更改后，您继续使用 PQ 的网站或服务将被视为接受这些更改，请定期检查政策的更新。

范围

本政策适用于通过 PQ 网站或其他电子方式从客户、员工、网站访问者和求职者处收集的个人信息。

本政策不适用于任何第三方收集的个人信息，包括通过可能链接到本网站或可从本网站或在本网站上访问的任何应用程序或内容（包括广告）收集的个人信息。

我们收集的信息

PQ 收集和使用个人信息的方式有所不同，取决于您是员工、求职者、业务合作伙伴还是 PQ 网站的访问者。请根据您与 PQ 的关系和对本网站的使用情况查看以下部分。

业务合作伙伴

PQ 可能会收集当前或潜在业务伙伴（包括客户、供应商、供货商、服务提供商和网站访问者）的个人信息。

我们收集的信息

• 您的姓名和联系信息，包括您的姓名、电子邮件地址、邮寄地址或实际地址、公司和电话号码，可能会通过您通过我们的网站或其他电子方式提交给 PQ 的表格收集。这些联系信息用于建立和维持提供或接收商品或服务所需的业务通信。对于客户，这些通信可能还包括提供您可能感兴趣的产品或服务。根据您与 PQ 的关系，可能会收集您的税务识别信息，以用于报税目的。 
• 您对 PQ 的产品或服务的兴趣也可能根据您通过我们的网站或其他电子方式提交给 PQ 的表格或调查回复收集，包括以前购买或考虑过的产品或服务。还可能通过与 PQ 代表（包括销售人员、技术服务人员、客户服务人员或其他人员）的互动收集产品兴趣。您的产品兴趣用于向您提供我们认为您可能感兴趣的产品或服务信息。
• 当您访问公共 PQ 系统（包括我们的网站）或与之互动时，我们将收集并记录您的访问设备和访问信息。这些信息可根据需要用于故障排除和维护系统的可靠运行。如有需要，还可用于安全目的或取证调查。
• 根据所提供的服务以及对 PQ 系统、资源或财产的访问权限，出于安全目的，您的个人信息可能被用于进行背景调查。背景调查会利用公开信息，包括您自愿公开的信息。例如，您在社交媒体平台上分享的信息，特别是公开可见的账户（如 LinkedIn）。背景调查通常由第三方服务提供商进行，并受此类提供商的标准条款约束。

雇员和潜在雇员

PQ 收集求职者、在职员工和前员工的个人信息。

我们通过各种方法和渠道收集个人信息。当您自愿向我们提供您的个人信息时，我们会通过表格提交信息，或通过电子邮件、电话、我们的网站或类似方式与 PQ 联系，直接收集您的个人信息。我们也可能从职业介绍所、薪资或工作招聘服务提供商处获得您的个人信息。

我们收集的信息

• 我们会根据需要收集您的姓名和联系信息，包括电子邮件地址、邮寄地址或住址以及电话号码，以便建立和保持处理申请或管理雇佣关系所需的业务联系。
• 从求职申请开始，在个人的就业前和就业生命周期中，可能会收集求职者或员工的其他个人信息，其中可能包括政府颁发的税号、驾驶执照号码、教育经历、证书、就业经历、技能清单和绩效考核等。
• 可能会收集求职者的个人信息，以评估求职者是否适合该职位，并在整个招聘过程中处理申请。从员工处收集的个人信息用于管理员工的就业、薪酬、福利、工资单、培训、职业发展，并遵守所有适用的法律义务，包括向有关当局进行必要的监管报告。有关收集的个人信息和收集方法的详细信息，员工、前员工和申请人应咨询当地或各自的人力资源部门。
• 经个人授权，个人的个人信息可用于出于安全目的进行背景调查。背景调查会利用公开信息，包括您自愿公开的信息。例如，您在社交媒体平台上分享的信息，特别是公开可见的账户（如 LinkedIn）。背景调查通常由第三方服务提供商进行，并受此类提供商的标准条款约束。在同意接受背景调查之前，您应查看此类服务提供商的隐私政策。
  
  当您访问或与 PQ 系统（如本网站）互动时，将收集和记录有关您访问设备和访问的信息。这些信息将根据需要用于故障排除和维护系统的可靠运行。如有需要，还可用于安全目的和取证。 

其他可能的信息收集

虽然 PQ 一般不会收集以下信息，但在某些情况下可能会收集和使用这些信息：

• 饼干 访问我们的网站，即表示您同意我们根据我们的 Cookie 政策使用 Cookie。 PQ Cookie 政策.
• 受加州或联邦法律保护的分类： 例如，年龄、出生日期、性别、军人或退伍军人身份、婚姻状况、国籍、公民身份、怀孕及相关医疗状况、遗传信息或其他类似标识符。收集这些数据的目的可能是为了提供服务或产品、背景调查、人力资源目的、安全或遵守所有适用的法律义务。
• 互联网或其他电子网络活动信息： 例如，包括（但不限于）浏览历史和搜索历史在内的信息。这些信息可能会用于安全目的，包括防止未经授权的访问或披露，保持数据的准确性，保护您个人信息的保密性、完整性和可用性，只允许适当使用您的个人信息，或通过测试、研究、分析和产品开发改进我们的网站、服务和产品。
• 从上述类别中确定的任何信息中得出的推断，用于创建客户档案。 这些信息可用于提供服务、产品或客户服务。

数据来源

除上述途径外，PQ 还可能从以下来源获取您的个人信息：

1. 直接来自您（无论您是客户、员工、申请者还是潜在员工），当您自愿向我们提供您的个人信息时。例如
   1. 当您在表格上提交信息时。
   2. 当您通过我们的网站、电子邮件、电话或其他类似方式与 PQ 联系时。
   3. 当您注册身份以验证计算机系统（如计时器、网络、访问控制、在表格上提交信息）时。参见供应商信息。
2. 直接或间接来自供应商、服务提供商或其他第三方。例如
   1. Our business customers or our service providers (in the course of or as part of the provision of services).
   2. Information you voluntarily made public (i.e. for our use in background checks).
   3. Information you have shared on social media platforms, specifically publicly visible accounts (i.e. LinkedIn).
   4. Information you have provided to a recruiting service provider.
3. From your use, visit or activity on any of our websites. For example:
   1. Directly (through your submission of information).
   2. Indirectly (through information disclosed by your device or browser, such as an IP address)

With Whom We Share Your Personal Information

PQ may share your personal information, as described above, solely with the following third parties:

1. Service Providers (including, contractors, service providers, and other third parties) as needed in performing the contracted work.
2. Affiliates/Subsidiaries and Related Entities.
3. Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
4. External advisors, such as auditors or outside legal counsel.
5. Governmental, legal, regulatory, or other similar authorities and/or local government agencies, upon request or where required.

PQ does not sell personal information to anyone.

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Information

This section applies to you if you are a natural person who lives in California, as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a natural person who resides in Canada or does business with PQ’s Canadian facilities, as set forth in the Privacy Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), or a natural person in the European Union, as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The CCPA, PIPEDA and GDPR provide you various PrivacyRelated Rights (“Rights”) with respect to your personal information. This section provides you with general information regarding these Rights. The following resources include more specific information about the CCPA, PIPEDA and GDPR, and your respective rights thereunder (if applicable):

CCPA: https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

PIPEDA: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personalinformationprotection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/

GDPR: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens_en

Right to Notice: At or before the point of collection of personal information, customers, Employees, Job Applicants and other individuals residing in the State of California are entitled to a notice that provides the categories of personal information collected about them, and the purposes for that collection.

Right to Know/Right to Access: A customer has the right to request information regarding our collection, disclosure, sale and/or use of their personal information over the previous twelve (12) months. A customer may request that PQ disclose:

• Categories of personal information that We have collected about you;
• Categories of sources from which your personal information is collected;
• Categories of personal information about you that We have sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
• Categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; and • Specific pieces of personal information that We have collected about you.

When providing you with your information electronically, PQ will, to the extent possible, deliver the information in a portable manner that allows you to transfer the information to another entity.

PQ may reject your request to know if your identity cannot be verified (your request is not a verifiable customer request), or if the information has already been provided twice within a twelve (12) month period. PQ may also refuse to provide you with specific pieces of information that We have collected about you if disclosure creates a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of that personal information, your account with PQ or the security of our systems.

Right of Deletion: A customer has the right to request the deletion of any personal information that We have collected from them, or that We maintain about them. Following our receipt of your verifiable customer request, PQ will delete (and direct our Service Providers to delete) your personal information, subject to the exceptions permitted under the CCPA, PIPEDA, GDPR, or other applicable privacy law, and any legal obligations that We have to retain that information.

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of your Personal Information: The CCPA provides a customer with the right to opt-out of the sale (as defined under the law) of his/her personal information. PQ does not sell personal information, and thus does not provide you with a mechanism for optingout.

Right to Non-Discrimination: PQ will not discriminate against a customer in response to the decision to exercise any of the privacy rights granted to you under the CCPA.

Asserting Your Rights – Submitting a Request to Know or Delete: As previously stated, PQ may reject your request if We cannot verify your identity. Please follow the instructions below, and provide the requested information to allow us to adequately address your request.

1. If you are a current or former employee of PQ residing in the State of California, Canada or European Union, you may submit your request via email at webenhance@pqcorp.com. In the email, please indicate which Right you are exercising. In order to verify your identity, your request must include the following:
   1. Your full name and email address associated with your profile;
   2. Your preferred contact phone number; and
   3. Your hire date. Where possible, we require your hire date to be provided in the MM/DD/YY format.
2. If you previously applied for employment with PQ (job applicants) and reside in the State of California, Canada or European Union, you may submit your request via email at webenhance@pqcorp.com. In the email, please indicate which Right you are exercising. In order to verify your identity, your request must include the following:
   1. Your full name and email address associated with your profile;
   2. Your preferred contact phone number; and
   3. The number of employment opportunities you have applied for with PQ, as well as the Job Title and Job Code associated with each application, to the extent available.
3. If you have provided PQ with your information via our website and reside in the State of California, Canada or the European Union, you may submit your request via email at webenhance@pqcorp.com.
   1. Your full name and email address, as provided by you to PQ via our website;
   2. Your preferred contact phone number; and
   3. A brief description of why you believe PQ has your personal information (i.e. you have submitted a “contact us” form through our website). Please note that any information you provide to PQ under this section will be used solely for verification purposes and deleted once verification is established.

Authorized Agents: You may exercise your right to know or your request for deletion of your personal information, through the use of an authorized agent. A request from an authorized agent on your behalf will only be accepted if the authorized agent provides us with written proof they are authorized to act on your behalf. We may also first require the authorized agent to verify their identity, before accepting the request. PQ may deny requests from authorized agents that fail to provide proof of their status as an authorized agent or verification of their identity. 

Disclosure of your Personal Information when Required by Law

PQ may also disclose your personal data as required by law, with or without notice, when PQ believes that disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with the law, including a regulatory requirement, legal process served on PQ or the PQ Website, government request, or other court order.
• Protect and defend the rights or property of PQ and its users.
• • Protect the personal safety of users of PQ, or the public.

PQ may also disclose aggregate information about users of the Website that is not personally identifiable to third parties without restriction.

Data Integrity

As to its website visitors, its own employees or its own job applicants, PQ will take reasonable steps to provide that your PI is accurate, complete, and current, to its intended use. We provide individuals with reasonable access to the PI that they provide to us, as well as the ability to review and correct such information. For access requests please contact us in accordance with the procedure above under “Your Rights Regarding Your Information.”

As to its own employees and its own job applicants, PQ will take reasonable steps to provide that personal information is accurate, complete, and current, to its intended use. PQ will only use personal information in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the individual.

How We Store and Protect Your Information

To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to allow only the appropriate use of your personal information, we utilize physical, technical, and administrative controls and procedures to safeguard the information we collect.

To protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information, PQ utilizes a variety of physical and logical access controls, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, network and database monitoring, anti-virus, and backup systems. We use encrypted sessions when collecting or transferring sensitive data through our websites.

We limit access to your personal information and data to those persons who have a specific business purpose for maintaining and processing such information. PQ’s employees who have been granted physical access to your personal information are made aware of their 9 responsibilities to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of that information and have been provided training and instruction on how to do so.

PQ will retain your personal data so long as your account is active or it is reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy or to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and as applicable to agreements with our customers.

Privacy Policies of Other Websites

PQ’s websites may contain links to third-party sites for your convenience and/or information. If you access those links, you will leave PQ’s website and be redirected to a third-party site. PQ does not control those sites or the privacy practices of those third-party sites, which may differ from PQ ’s privacy practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites, and the personal data you choose to provide to third-party websites is not covered by this Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website or company before submitting your personal information to them.

International Information Transfers

PQ is a global organization with its corporate headquarters in the United States. Our servers, databases, and service providers are located in the United States, the EU, Canada and other jurisdictions around the world. Different countries have different privacy laws and requirements, and some, including the United States, may provide less legal protection for your personal information than others. If you object to the transfer of your information to the United States or other jurisdictions, please do not use PQ’s website or provide PQ with that information.

Children Under the Age of 16

PQ’s website is not intended for children under 16 years of age, and PQ does not knowingly collect information from children to sell or promote our products or services. No one under the age of 16 may provide information to PQ on or through our website, and if we learn that we have received information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information. If you believe a child under the age of 16 has sent personal contact information to PQ, please contact us immediately and we will use reasonable efforts to promptly remove that information from our systems.

This section does not apply to jurisdictions where PQ may have a presence, which permit children under the age of 16 to work for or apprentice with PQ, subject to applicable parental consent requirements. In such cases, PQ will comply with the laws of the applicable jurisdiction.

Changes to this Policy

PQ will occasionally update this Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. Any changes will be posted on this page and effective upon updating this Website. This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 28, 2020 August 2, 2021.

By continuing to use the Website and services provided by PQ, you indicate you consent to the data collection, use, and disclosure practices described in the updated Policy. You are responsible for periodically reviewing this Policy to be informed of how PQ is treating your personal information.

Dispute Resolution

PQ will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding the use and disclosure of personal information in accordance with the principles contained in this Notice. PQ agrees to cooperate with Data Protection Authorities located in the European Union. We strongly encourage you to raise any complaints you may have with regard to this Privacy Notice and/or our activation of this Notice to us prior to proceeding to the dispute resolution procedure described in this paragraph.

If you think your data protection rights have been breached and you are located in the European Union, you may file a complaint with your national Data Protection Authority, found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

If you think your data protection rights have been breached and you are located in Canada, you may file a complaint related to Canadian Human Rights, found here: https://www.chrc.ga.ca.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this Policy, please contact us by emailing webenhance@pqcorp.com, or write to the following address:

PQ

Data Protection Compliance Team

300 Lindenwood Drive

Malvern, PA 19355