Privacy

Privacy Notice

 

This Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) describes the information that ICL Growing Solutions, including its affiliates in its corporate group of companies (collectively “ICL”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects and processes from users of the ICL Website available at www.icl-growingsolutions.com/en-gh/ (the “Website”).

 
It also describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining and processing your information, and the rights and options available to you with respect to the personal data we process via the Website.

 

Who is the data controller?

Everris International B.V.

Nijverheidsweg 1-5

6422PD Heerlen

The Netherlands

Telephone: +31 418 655 700

Email: info@iclsf.com

 

For questions related to data privacy you can contact us at DataPrivacy@icl-group.com.

 

What personal data do we process?

We process information you provide us when you submit an inquiry through our Website, by email or through another contact channel.

You can submit an inquiry through our online contact form or by calling, emailing or writing to us. We will collect the information you provide in the inquiry, which typically includes your name, email address, phone number, company, country, and the text of your message. We refer to this as “Inquiry Information”. The mandatory fields for completion of our online contact-us forms will be marked as such.

We process your contact information when you register to receive our newsletters and other marketing communications.

Where you explicitly consented to it, we will collect and process your contact information in order to send you our newsletters and other updates regarding ICL. We refer to this as “Contact Information”.

 

You do not have a legal obligation to provide us with the abovementioned information; however, if you choose not to provide this information we may not be able to respond to your inquiry or send you news and updates regarding ICL.

We also collect analytics information about your use of the Website.

When you use the Website, we record and collect certain information about your interactions with the Website, including the IP address from which you access the Website, time and date of access, type of browser used, language used, links clicked, and actions taken while using the Website. We refer to this as “Analytics Information”.

 

We do not process special categories of personal data through our website.

 

What is the purpose and legal basis for processing your data?

To respond to and handle your inquiry.

We will use your Inquiry Information to contact you about your enquiry and handle your inquiry.

 

The legal basis for collecting and processing Inquiry Information is our legitimate interests in responding to your inquiry.

To send you administrative and marketing communications.

We will use your information to send you newsletters and other marketing communications regarding ICL’s products and services, subject to your explicit consent.

 

The legal basis for processing your information for the purpose of sending you marketing communications is your consent.

 

To enhance and develop this Website, our products and our services.

We will use Analytics Information for development and enhancement of the Website, our email communications and the products and services we offer. We also use the Analytics Information to better understand the market in which ICL operates in and for managerial reporting and business planning.

 

The legal basis for processing Analytics Information is our legitimate interest in maintaining, developing and enhancing the Website, understanding our target audience and business market in which we operate.

 

Who are recipients of your data?

We will not share your information with third parties, except in the events listed below or when you provide us your explicit and informed consent.

 

We share your information with other companies with ICL Group

 

We share your information with related ICL group companies in order to operate this Website, provide the requested information or service to you or to carry out the business relationship with you, if applicable.

We share your information with our service providers who help us to operate the Website and our business.

We share your information with our service providers who assist us with the internal operations of our business and the Website. These companies, such as Amazon Web Services Inc., are authorized to use your personal information in this context only as necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own promotional purposes. 

 

These service providers may have access to your personal data in connection with the services they provide. In accordance with Article 28 GDPR we have taken suitable legal, technical and organizational measures with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data in accordance with relevant legal regulations.

We share your Information with competent authorities, if you abused your right to use the Website, or violated any applicable law.

If you have abused your rights to use the Website, or violated any applicable law, we may share your information with competent authorities and with third parties (such as legal counsels and advisors), for the purpose of handling of the violation or breach.

 

We share your Information if we are legally required to do so.

If we are required to disclose your information by a judicial, governmental or regulatory authority.

 

We share your Information with third-parties in any event of change in ICL’s structure.

If ICL’s or the Website’s operation is reorganized within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition), we will share your information only as required to enable the structural change in the operation of ICL.

 

We do not sell your information.

We do not sell your information, nor have we done so in the past 12 months.

 

We will transfer your personal data to third countries only in accordance with the GDPR.

Because we are part of an international group of companies and because some of our data processors are located outside of the EU we transfer your personal data to third countries in some cases. For each of these transfers, adequate safeguards have been applied including transfer to countries for which there is an EU adequacy decision or signing of standard contractual clauses.

 

How long will we retain your data?

We will retain your information for as long as we need it to operate the Website and interact with users, and thereafter as needed for record-keeping purposes.

We will retain your Information for the duration needed to support our ordinary business activities operating the Website and interacting with users of the Website. Thereafter, we will still retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish and defend legal claims and enforce our agreements.

 

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files, comprised of small amount of data, that are saved on your computer or other device (e.g. smartphone, tablet, etc.) when you use internet and visit various websites.

The information that the cookies maintain is read by the website you visit, during the session of your visit to the website (these are called ‘session’ cookies), and when you return to visit it again (these are called ‘persistent’ cookies).

We also use techniques called web beacons and web pixels for purposes similar to the use of cookies.

We use an add-on to provide you detailed information about the cookies and enable you to control the use of cookies.

We use an add-on to provide you more detailed information about the cookies we use. It also enables you to control the use of marketing cookies, preference cookies and statistics cookies.  You can change your mind at any time by enabling or disabling certain categories of cookies. However, you cannot disable the ‘necessary’ cookies because the website cannot operate without them. By enabling cookies, you give your consent to collect the data they are intended for.

We use cookies necessary to operate the Website, for statistics and to remember your preferences.

We use cookies when you visit our Website for a number of purposes, as briefly explained below:

 

Necessary. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website. The Website cannot operate properly without these cookies. You can set your device to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Website may not function properly.

 

Statistics. Analytics cookies that help us understand how you and other users interact with our Website by collecting data that does not directly identify you.

 

Preferences. Cookies that remember your choices when you use the Website and allow the Website to react by reflecting your preferences.

 

Marketing. Cookies that track your use of the Website and allow online advertisers to tailor ads that they believe are more relevant to you.

 

Security

We implement measures to secure your Information

We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure your personal information, it is not guaranteed, and you cannot expect that the Website will be immune from information security risks.

In the event of a data breach, we will promptly take steps to mitigate the breach and if required will notify relevant organizations, individuals and/or authorities.

 

Your data protection rights

 

Under the GDPR you have the following rights related to the processing of personal data:

Right to Access your personal data that we process and receive a copy of it.

 

Right to Rectify inaccurate personal data we have concerning you and to have incomplete personal data completed.

 

Right to Data Portability, that is, to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organization, or to you, in certain circumstances.

 

Right to withdraw your consent at any time, such as a consent to send you our newsletters and other marketing communications about ICL’s activities.

 

Right to Object to processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

 

Right to Restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

 

Right to Erasure. Under certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to erase your personal data. 

 

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may do so by contacting us by email to: DataPrivacy@icl-group.com

 

We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with information. Where we are not able to provide you with information that you have asked for, we will explain the reason for this.

 

Right to complain

If you are unhappy with how we process your data or have a concern about our use of your personal information, please tell us, so we have a chance to address your concerns. You can contact us at DataPrivacy@icl-group.com

 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU, click here

Minors

The Website is not directed to users under 18.

The Website is not directed to users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information or data from children under the age of 18 or knowingly allow children under the age of 18 to use the Website.

 

Changes to this privacy notice

 

From time to time, we may change this Notice. The latest version of the Notice will always be accessible on our Website.

 

Last Updated: June 15, 2023