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Privacy Policy

Last Updated April 6, 2009

Nalco Company and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (“Nalco”) welcome our customers, commercial visitors, business associates, investors and other interested parties to the Nalco Web site (“Web site” or “Site”), and encourage you to read this Privacy Policy and our Legal Terms and Conditions applicable to your usage of this Site. While Nalco is the commercial operator of this Site, Nalco uses service providers to assist in providing software, content and hosting for our Sites. By using this Site (which is located in the United States) or other Nalco sites accessible through this Site, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, and agree that Nalco may collect, process, transfer, use and disclose your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use
Other Data
Cookies
Security
Links to Other Web sites
Data Retention
Changes to this Privacy Policy

Information Collection and Use

Nalco respects the privacy of visitors to our Web site and is committed to maintaining all reasonable precautions to assure the privacy and security of this Web site. During your use of this Web site, personally identifiable information may be collected and processed by Nalco. In general, Nalco collects personal contact information (such as name, company, address, telephone number and e-mail address), which you knowingly provide, for use in our commercial relationship. At times during your visit to this Site or other related Nalco Web sites, Nalco may ask you to provide additional information online in order to better serve you. Nalco will only use this information, which will be stored in the United States, (i) to provide access to specific sections of our Site; (ii) to support your commercial relationship with us, such as fulfilling orders and requests for product information; and (iii) to advise you of new products and services. Nalco also collects information in an aggregated form to measure number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed, and other relevant statistics. This Site is intended to be used by Nalco customers, vendors, commercial visitors, business associates, investors and other interested parties for their business purposes, and is not intended for individuals under 18 years of age.

Personal data collected by Nalco may be transferred among Nalco’s various divisions , subsidiaries and affiliates, and may involve the transfer of data from countries within the European Economic Area to countries outside the E.E.A. By submitting data to this Site, the user is consenting to transfers of personal data across country borders.

Other Data

In addition, certain online technical applications require the entry of business and technical data. By providing the requested information, you are consenting to the processing and storage of such information by Nalco. Unless advised that you want this information removed from Nalco’s server, the information may be retained by Nalco and used for future commercial communications. Nalco will take all reasonable precautions to assure that no such information will be provided or divulged to other third party personnel, except, if applicable, those third party personnel performing Site hosting, maintenance and related Site service activities.

Cookies

Nalco may also use Web site "cookies" to help you use our services more easily and to help us continuously improve our Web site. "Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored on your computer that help you move more quickly through a Web site by recording information from your last visit to a Site. Some of the Web pages of this Site use cookies to better serve your needs during return visits to this Site. Your browser can be set to notify you when a cookie is received so that you may choose whether to accept it.

Security

Nalco takes reasonable precautions to keep all information obtained from our online visitors secure against unauthorized access and use, and Nalco periodically reviews our security measures in an effort to ensure your privacy. Nalco will not, without your permission, give, sell or provide to others for a fee any information that you provide to us, except as set forth herein. Nalco will always ask for and obtain your permission before sharing your information with anyone other than Nalco Company subsidiaries and affiliates, unless Nalco believes in good faith that the law requires disclosure, or in conjunction with the sale of the business to which your individual online profile relates.

Links to Other Web sites

Our Web site may contain “links” to web sites owned and operated by third parties. By accessing these links, which are provided for your convenience, you will leave our Site and will be subject to the privacy practices of the other Web site. This Nalco Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information you provide to unrelated third parties.

Data Retention

Data will be retained during the time period that you are authorized to use this Web site, including any Nalco tools accessible through this Site. Upon termination of such authorization, your personal data related to use of this Web site will be removed.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Nalco reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in order that it accurately reflects the regulatory environment and our data collection principles. When material changes are made to this Privacy Policy, Nalco will post the revised Privacy Statement on our Site.

If you wish to verify any voluntary information collected about you, or if you wish to be removed from our Web site database, please contact us at webmaster@nalco.com.