EFFECTIVE DATE: December 5, 2022
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“IFF”) collect, use, and disclose data from visitors of our websites (“Sites”) in accordance with the following statement (“Privacy Statement”). The Privacy Statement does not apply to any data IFF collects offline or through web or mobile sites that do not link to this Privacy Statement.
Additional information for visitors in the EEA/UK is available here.
For visitors outside the EEA/UK: By visiting our Sites, you agree that your data will be handled as described in this Privacy Statement.
Types of Data Collection; Data Collected
Purposes of Data Collection
How We May Disclose Personal Data
Third-Party Links
Security
What Choices Do I Have Regarding Use of My Data?
Children Under 13
Information Storage and International Transfers
Contact
Changes to this Privacy Statement
Information for Individuals Located in the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom (UK)
The information we collect from you depends on how you use our Sites. If you send a request through our website, we will collect the data that you submit to us. For example, if you request ingredients and/or samples, register for e-mail alerts or webcasts, or if you receive commercial documentation from IFF, either via an IFF website, to enable the fulfillment of the request you may provide information such as your name, title, company, address, country, phone, fax, and/or e-mail.
IFF automatically collects certain information when you use our Sites, including but not limited to the activities you perform on our Sites, the type of hardware and software you are using (for example, your operating system or browser), information stored in cookies, IP address, access times, the web pages from which you came, the regions from which you navigate the web page, and the web page(s) you access (as applicable).
IFF uses cookies, pixel tags, or similar tracking technology or other technologies (“cookies”) on the IFF websites, to customize and improve the Sites and for certain additional purposes including analysis of what information you are accessing or downloading and how you are interacting with that information after the download is completed. Please refer to the IFF Cookie Policy for details of the types of cookies IFF uses and the purposes for which the cookies and the data collected through them are used.
IFF uses your personal data for its business purposes including to:
When permitted by applicable law, including, if applicable, when we have obtained your consent, we may disclose your personal data to our affiliates, business partners, vendors, and others as follows:
We also may disclose your personal data in the following circumstances:
Our Sites may contain links to third-party websites. Any access to and use of such linked websites is not governed by this Privacy Statement, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites. We are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites.
No data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secured. As a result, while IFF strives to protect your personal data through implementation of security measures, IFF cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to IFF.
We may send periodic promotional emails to you, with your consent if required by applicable law. You may opt-out of promotional emails at any time by following the opt-out instructions contained in the email. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests. If you opt-out of receiving promotional emails, we may still send you emails about any services you have requested or received from us.
Our Sites and services are not designed for children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with information, we will delete such information from our systems.
IFF and its affiliates and service providers process and store your personal data on servers around the world, including in the United States.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Statement, please contact IFF’s Chief Privacy Officer by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail addressed to
Chief Privacy Officer,
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.,
521 West 57th Street, New York, New York 10019.
This Privacy Statement is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Privacy Statement from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically.
We will post any changes to this Privacy Statement on our site. If we make any changes to this Privacy Statement that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal data we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Sites.
SCOPE OF NOTICE
This section of this Privacy Statement applies only if you use our Site from a country that is a Member State of the EEA or from the UK, and it supplements the information in the remainder of our Privacy Statement, above. IFF or its respective subsidiary or affiliate is the controller of your personal data. The data controller will depend on who you are: a visitor of this website, an investor, or an IFF customer or supplier.
IFF legal entities and their full details can be found in the latest annual report.
Legal bases for processing
We rely on one of several different legal bases to process your personal data, which are as follows:
1.To take necessary steps prior to entering into a contract with you, and to perform a contract with you- we need to process your personal data to fulfil sample requests, answer questions and requests from you, and provide customer support. Where we request personal data in order to fulfil a request, or perform a contract, and you do not provide that personal data, we may not be able to respond to your request or perform our obligations under the contract.
2.Based on legitimate interests – we process personal data from you to further our legitimate interests in protecting the security and safety of our customers and stakeholders; in minimizing our legal exposure and protect our reputation by detecting and preventing fraud; in building our reputation by protecting and defending the rights or property of others; and in growing our business by enforcing our own rights and interests. We consider your privacy interests in this regard and redact personal data to the largest extent practicable.
3.Based on compliance with EEA/UK legal obligations to which we are subject – we may need to process your personal data to comply with relevant laws, regulatory requirements and to respond to lawful requests, court orders, and legal process; and
4.Based on your freely given consent, for tracking your activities in accordance with the IFF Cookie Policy, and (where required by law) for sending marketing communication.
PURPOSES FOR USING YOUR DATA
IFF collects personal data through our sites:
USER’S RIGHTS
Subject to the conditions set forth in applicable law, you have the following rights with regard to our processing of your personal data:
Right to access, correct and delete your personal data – IFF will strive to ensure that all personal data you provide us is correct. However, you also have a responsibility to ensure you provide us accurate personal data, and that changes in personal circumstances (for example, change of address, etc.) are notified to IFF so that we keep your personal data up-to-date.
You have the right to request access to any of your personal data that IFF may hold, and to request correction of any inaccurate personal data relating to you. You furthermore have the right to request deletion of any irrelevant personal data we hold about you.
Right to withdraw consent – In the event your personal data is processed on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time by sending an email to [email protected] specifying your request, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Data portability – To the extent that we use your personal data for performance of contract and that personal data is processed by automatic means, you have the right to receive all such personal data that you have provided to IFF in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and also to require us to transmit it to another data controller where this is technically feasible.
Right to restrict personal data use – You have the right to restrict our use of your personal data where (i) you contest the accuracy of the personal data; (ii) the use is unlawful, but you do not want us to erase the personal data; (iii) we no longer need the personal data for the relevant purposes, but you require it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to our personal data use justified on where we need to process the personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Rights to object to processing of your personal data – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation (where processing is based on our legitimate interests). You also have right to object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling).
Lodge a complaint – You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in your country of residence, if you consider that the collection and use of your personal data infringes this Notice or applicable law.
For further information regarding your rights, or to exercise any of your rights (other than the right to lodge a complaint with an authority), please contact [email protected]. You can lodge a complaint by contacting the authority directly.
TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
Your personal data may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, such as the United States, and, by using the Site, you understand that your personal data will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.
When transferring personal data to entities located in a country outside the EEA or UK that is not deemed to have an adequate level of data protection, we take measures to provide adequate protection for your personal data. We enter into data processing agreements and data transfer agreements that include standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Such data processing agreements are available upon request by contacting [email protected]. Where required, we conduct transfer risk assessments and enter into supplementary measures to protect any personal data we transfer outside the EEA or UK to countries that do not have an adequate level of data protection.
DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the relevant activity unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
For more information, please contact us at: [email protected].
GDPR REPRESENTATIVE
International Flavors & Fragrances I.F.F. (Nederland) B.V. is International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.’s representative in the European Union and may be contacted at:B.V. Liebergerweg 72–98, 1221 JT,Hilversum, The Netherlands,Attn: Law DepartmentTel: +31 35 688 3911 or at [email protected].
CONTACT
If you have questions about this statement, please contact us at [email protected].
To contact the German Data Protection Officer for Frutarom Savory Solutions Germany GmbH,Frutarom Production GmbH and extrakt chemie Dr. Bruno Stellmach GmbH,please send an email to [email protected].
To contact the German Data Protection Officer for all other IFF entities,please send an email to [email protected].
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