Last revised: March 1, 2024

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Adhesives Research, Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at jboogaard@arglobal.com.

When you visit our website https://www.adhesivesresearch.com/, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy policy. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Sites and our services.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as https://www.adhesivesresearch.com/) and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events, including, but not limited to, email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our website (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the “Sites”).

This privacy policy does not apply to information collected by:

• Us offline or through any other means,
• Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Sites.

Please read this privacy policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with us. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Sites. By accessing or using the Sites, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see also the section below titled “DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?”).

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS AND RESIDENTS OF OTHER STATES HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect information that you provide to us such as name, address, contact information, passwords and security data, and payment information.

We collect information that you voluntarily provide to us when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities on the Sites, including filling out forms on the Sites, or otherwise contacting us.

The information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:

Name and Contact Data. We may collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data when you provide it to us.

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchase, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processor and you should review its privacy policies and contact the payment processor directly to respond to your questions.

We request that all information that you provide to us be true, complete and accurate, and that you notify us of any changes to such information.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Sites.

As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Sites, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Sites.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

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 Sites 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 Sites according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Sites.

We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information See also the section below titled “DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?”

Information collected from other sources

In short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, and other outside sources.

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, as well as from other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include: social media profile information; marketing leads and search results and links, including paid listing (such as sponsored links).

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION:

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use information collected via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you or your business, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To present our Sites and its contents to you.
• To send you marketing and promotional communications about our products and services. We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the information for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time including after you have previously opted into our marketing emails (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS” below).
• For other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing and your experience. We may also use your information in any other way we may describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share information based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process or share your information if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose. We may also process or share your information for any purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process or share your information when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests, including to our subsidiaries and affiliates, and to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process or share your information to fulfill the terms of our contract or to otherwise fulfil the purpose for which you provide it.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your information or share your information in the following situations:

Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Site users is among the assets transferred.

4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

The tracking technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Sites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Sites.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Sites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Sites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Sites and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Sites statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Sites content and verifying system and server integrity). Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you choose to refuse or remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites. To opt-out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our Sites visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ . To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Sites may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

See also the section below titled “CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES.”

5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). Typically, no purpose in this policy will require us keeping your information for longer than 2 years.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal or sensitive information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You should only access the services with a secure environment.

7. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from our market to children under 18 years of age.

Our Sites are not intended for children under 18 years of age and we do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Sites, you represent that you are at least 18. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data, we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at jboogaard@arglobal.com

8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

In some regions (like the European Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if applicable, to data portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. To make such a request, please use the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

9.CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS OR RESIDENTS OF OTHER STATES HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California or residents of certain other states, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit here.

States including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• Data portability.
• Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for:
  – targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
  – sales; or
  – profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at jboogaard@arglobal.com.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: jboogaard@arglobal.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?

In Short: Yes, we will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

12. HOW CAN YOU CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO), John Boogaard, by email at jboogaard@arglobal.com, or by post to:

Adhesives Research, Inc.
John Boogaard
400 Seaks Run Rd.
Glen Rock,
PA 17327
United States

1-800-445-6240

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, the “data controller” of your personal information is Adhesives Research, Inc. Adhesives Research, Inc. has appointed Claran Gloster to be its representative in the EEA. You can contact them directly regarding the processing of your information by Adhesives Research, Inc., by email at cgloster@arglobal.com, or by post to:

Raheen Business Park
Raheen,
Limerick
V94 VH22
Ireland

If you have any further questions or comments about us or our policies, email us at jboogaard@arglobal.com or by post to:

Adhesives Research, Inc.
John Boogaard
400 Seaks Run Rd.
Glen Rock,
PA 17327
United States

Phone: + 1 800-445-6240