Effective April 2023
Our Cookies Policy has been updated.
Cookies Policy
Please see below Chloride's Cookies Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating web domain on your subsequent visits to that domain. Most web pages contain elements from multiple web domains so when you visit the Website, your browser may receive cookies from several sources. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. Cookies allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, remember preferences and generally improve your experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests by tracking your browsing across websites. Session cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser and persistent cookies remain on your device after the browser is closed.
What types of cookies do we use?
For the time being we do not use any "Cookies". Your Personal Information may be collected from the use of third-party cookies and other similar tracking technology (collectively "Third-Party Cookies"). Chloride is not responsible for these third parties' dissemination of your Personal Information.
Strictly necessary cookies
Not applicable for the time being
Performance cookies
Not applicable for the time being
Website functionality cookies
Not applicable for the time being
Use of IP addresses and web logs
Not applicable for the time being
Privacy Policy
This privacy notice explains how Chloride processes the personal data you provide when using our website. Chloride is a French legal entity and, as site owner, acts as joint data controller together with the different companies of the Chloride group to which your personal data may be transmitted to manage the relationship with you and to accommodate your requests. Please read this privacy notice carefully before using our website because it will help you understand what data we collect, how we use and share the data, and what your choices are in that respect.
Personal data processed
Through your use of the website, we may collect personal data provided by you, including without limitation: (a) contact information, such as your first and last name, email address, phone number, and home address (b) your company, job title, and employment status (c) your personal details (name, date, and place of birth), contact details, education, career, and professional skills, when linked to submission of your application to the recruitment page. The terms of this privacy notice apply also to personal data received from third parties, unless we inform you otherwise. Vertiv is not responsible for the dissemination of your personal data by third parties.
Purposes of the processing
Your personal data may be processed for the following purposes: (a) Compliance: to fulfil obligations provided by law and regulations. (b) Customer services: to provide you with a response to your questions (e.g., concerning products, services, or warranties) and to inform you about contests, surveys, and sweepstakes; to arrange a meeting with a Chloride expert; to provide you with e-books, whitepapers, reports, and other documents regarding our business, products and services; (c) Marketing: • to send marketing communications (e.g., newsletters on latest trends and technologies, and news regarding our business, events, new products and services, and updates/news on existing products and services); (d) Recruitment: • Evaluate your profile, attitudes, and professional skills as part of Chloride’s personnel selection process The legal bases for processing personal data are the following: • for purpose (a): to fulfil legal obligations • for purpose (b): to enter into a contract with you to provide customer services as a user or, at your request, to take pre-contractual measures • for purpose (c): Chloride’s legitimate interest (as stated in Recital 47 of EU Regulation 679/2016) • for purpose (d): to manage your application and your consent if special categories of personal data are processed, and to carry out pre-contractual steps, at your request.
Nature of providing the requested data
Providing your personal data is required for the purposes under points (a), (b) and (d); consequently, refusal to provide the requested data or its inaccuracy may prevent Chloride from providing you with an customer services and to manage your application to a recruitment posting. Providing your personal data for marketing under point (c) is optional; however, refusal to provide the data for this purpose may prevent Chloride from providing you additional or tailored information on products/services. You may revoke your consent at any time.
Methods and place of processing and place of storage of personal data
Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the principles of correctness, lawfulness, and transparency. Rest assured that we maintain appropriate security, technical, and organizational measures that ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of unauthorized access to, and accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, and unauthorized disclosure of, personal data transmitted, stored, or otherwise processed. We ensure that our affiliates third-party service providers who access or handle personal data on our behalf maintain the same safeguards. Your personal data will be processed manually or electronically using automated tools that ensure the security and confidentiality of the data. Your processed data are stored at our registered office or at the office of any external providers we entrust to store personal data. If you wish to know the list of our external providers, please contact us. We will process only personal data necessary for the above purposes. The people authorized to process personal data will immediately delete or make anonymous personal data unnecessary for the above purposes.
Data retention period
Your personal data will be kept by us: • for contractual purposes: for the entire duration of your subscription on this website and, following the withdrawal of your registration, for the period thereafter which is necessary for the purposes of (i) establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims and keeping accounting records of Vertiv and the companies of the Chloride group, and (ii) fulfilment of legal obligations applicable to Chloride and the companies of the Chloride group. Please bear in mind that the statute of limitations and other applicable regulations may vary for each jurisdiction: for further information you may contact Chloride at gdpr@chloride.com or the DPO at dpo@chloride.com . • for sending newsletters, advertising material, and other communications on new products/services and updates/news on existing products/services, for carrying out surveys, including on customer satisfaction and for application to recruitment posts: for the time strictly necessary for the purposes they were collected and for a maximum of 24 months from their collection, unless it is necessary under, or permitted by, applicable laws to keep them longer The data will be deleted or rendered anonymous at the end of the above-listed periods.
Data dissemination, sharing and communication
Personal data will be disseminated only to the extent necessary for Chloride to fulfil the obligations provided by law or regulations. Your data may be processed by our employees authorized to process personal data for the purposes set out above. Chloride may appoint external data processors to manage customer relationship databases; to send newsletters and to carry out the recruitment process. The list of the above entities/individuals is kept up-to-date, and you can access it at our office on request.
Right to access, correct, and supplement data and object to processing and to submit complaints
You have the right to obtain confirmation of the existence or non-existence of personal data relating to you. You also have the right to be informed of the following: • the origin of the personal data • the purpose and methods of data processing • the logic applied to the data processed electronically • the identity of the data controller and the data processors • the identity of the individuals or categories of individuals to whom your personal data may be sent to or who may acquire your data as appointed representatives of our company in your country of residence or as individuals authorized to process your data You equally have the right to: (a) have your data updated, corrected, and supplemented (b) have the processing of your personal data restricted, any unlawfully processed data erased, made anonymous, or blocked (c) require a declaration attesting that the people/companies we communicate or disseminate your data to have been notified and given full details of any of the operations under points (a) and (b) above having been carried out, unless this proves impossible or implies an effort that is clearly disproportionate to the right to be protected (d) obtain, in a structured format commonly used and readable by electronic devices, the personal data provided you give us and to have the data transmitted, directly or through Chloride, to another data controller (known as data portability) You also have the right to object, in whole or in part, to: • the processing of your personal data to carry out profiling, to send you advertising material and direct sales messages and to conduct market or commercial communication surveys To exercise your above rights, please email our Data Protection Officer at: dpo@chloride.com If you believe that we or a person/company we have communicated your data to has violated your rights, you may file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority in your country and other competent supervisory authorities.
Contact details of the Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
Chloride S.A.S, whose global headquarters is located at 30 avenue des Frères Montgolfier, 69680 Chassieu, France acts as the Joint Data Controller of your personal data together with the other companies of the Chloride group with which your personal data may be shared. To contact us in this respect, please email dpo@chloride.com