Website Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Website Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how we use the personal information we collect about you, via our website www.fairchildproducts.com (the “Website”). This Policy was last updated on 27 June 2018. We may amend this Policy from time to time.
This Website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect personal information relating to children.
We are Fairchild Industrial Products Company a Delaware corporation whose principal place of business is 3920 West Point Blvd, Winston-Salem NC 27103, United States.
Fairchild Industrial Products Company is a member of a group of companies whose ultimate parent company is Rotork plc (a company registered in England and Wales under company number (00578327) (the “Rotork Group“). If you would like a complete, up-to-date list of Rotork Group companies that may process your personal information please contact us using the contact details listed in section 3
If you have any questions about how we use your personal information, or if you have any other privacy-related questions, please contact us by any of the following means:
Personal information you provide to us
We collect personal information which you provide to us when you access and browse our Website (including when you submit personal information through data entry fields on the Website) and when you obtain products or services, or otherwise interact with us. For example, we may collect the following information from you:
Personal information we collect automatically
When you use our Website, we also collect the following information about you automatically:
We collect certain personal information automatically through the use of “cookies.” A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. These cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our Website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website.
We use various types of cookies, including session cookies which improve your internet browsing experience (for example, by helping to load web pages more quickly) and analytical cookies. We use analytical cookies to enable us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Website and to see how visitors move around our Website. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Read more about the individual analytical cookies we use and how to recognise them below. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For further information about cookies, including how to refuse cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
1st Party Cookies (i.e. Rotork Cookies) | |
Cookie Name | Purpose |
PHPSESSID | Unique identifier for each browser session. |
3rd Party Cookies | ||
Supplier Name | Cookie Names | Purpose |
Google Analytics | __utma __utmb __utmc __utmt __utmz _ga _gat _gid | We use Google Analytics to gather Website statistics. It provides useful information, such as which areas of our Website are the most popular. |
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YouTube | GPS NID PREF VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE YSC IDE | We use YouTube to play the videos and animations which can be found on the Website. |
We may use your personal information in the following ways:
We will not sell or rent your personal information to any third party unless you have consented to this. If you do consent but later change your mind, you may contact us by emailing information@rotork.com and we will cease any such activity.
We may share your personal information with the following parties:
With whom do we share your personal information? | Why do we share it? |
Our marketing and sales partners | We may share your personal information with our marketing and sales partners, who help us manage our advertising, and enable us to send you information about products and services you may be interested in. These partners help us to manage our customer information and personalise emails. |
Third parties requiring information for legal reasons | We may share your personal information with others if the law requires us to, or if we think it is necessary to comply with the law. We may also share your personal information if we need to do so to protect or defend our legal rights, or those of others. |
Third party investigators, authorities or law enforcement bodies | We may share your personal information to investigate suspected unlawful activity. |
Potential buyers or investors | If we ever wish to sell our business, we may need to share your personal information with a potential buyer or an investor. |
Members of the Rotork Group | We may share your personal information with members of the Rotork Group where required for business operational reasons, or so that they can send you information about products and services you may be interested in. |
If you are obtaining our products or services from within the European Economic Area (“EEA”), then we are required to ensure that we only process your personal information where we have a legal basis to do so. When we process your personal information we will only do so where at least one of the following applies:
If you have registered an account with us, we will normally only keep your personal information for as long as your account is active. When you close your account with us, we will normally delete your personal information. Sometimes, however, we may keep your personal information after you have closed your account. For example:
We may transfer personal information that we collect from you to third party data processors or other members of the Rotork Group located in countries that are outside of the EEA in connection with the above purposes.
If we transfer your personal information outside the EEA we will only do so where one of the following applies:
if such transfer is needed to enable us to perform our contractual obligations to you relating to products or services we have agreed to provide to you. We will only do this where such transfers are occasional and necessary.
We take data privacy seriously and we only use your personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so, and only to the extent that we need to use it. Whilst we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information, no transmission over the internet can ever be guaranteed secure. You should always think carefully before providing or sharing information which you wish to keep private or confidential.
You may “opt out” of receiving marketing or promotional messages from us by following the instructions in those messages. You may also opt out of such marketing by getting in touch by emailing us on information@rotork.com If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your account or our on-going business relations.
If you are based in the EEA or United Kingdom and accessing our Website, you also have the following rights:
If you need help or wish to exercise any of the above rights or have questions about them, please contact us using the details in section 3.
We will consider all such requests and provide our response as soon as we can. Please note, however, that personal information may be exempt from such requests in certain circumstances, which may include circumstances where we need to keep processing your personal information for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with the information necessary to confirm your identity. If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us via the contact details set out in section 3.
This Website may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. Please note that we cannot be responsible for personal information that third parties may collect, store and use through their websites. You should always read the policy of each website you visit carefully.
If you have any complaints, queries or questions about how we use your personal information, you may contact us using the contact details set out in section 3. We will then get in touch with you to see how we can help.
If you have a complaint about how we use your personal information, we would always prefer you to contact us first. However, you may also make a complaint to the relevant data privacy regulator if you wish to do so. Please let us know if you are unsure about how to get in touch with the data privacy regulator.
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