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Privacy Policy

Last updated:  July 12, 2022

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes how your personal information is collected and used when you visit the website of the Official Committee of Talc Claimants at www.LTLTalcCommittee.com and all subdomains (collectively, the “Site”).

This policy is incorporated into the Terms and Conditions www.LTLTalcCommittee.com (the “Terms”) that govern your use of the Site. Any capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the definitions provided in the Terms.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to this Policy.  By using the Site, you consent to the practices described in this Policy.

This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy www.LTLTalcCommittee.com). Your continued use of this Site after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16 MAY NOT USE THE SITE

The Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on the Site or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at:

Email:    [email protected]

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect several types of information from and about users who visit the Site.

Information you provide to us 

You may visit the Site without providing any identifying information about yourself.  You have the option to register to create an account on the Site, and if you do, we collect the personally identifiable information that you provide to us.  We may also collect certain information from you in other circumstances.  This information may include:

  • Information that you provide by completing forms on the Site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use the Site, as well as any documentation that you may submit in connection with your claim. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the Site.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

By using the Site, creating an account, or contacting us, you are giving us your consent to collect and use the information that you submit (“User Provided Information”) for all of the other purposes described in this Policy.

Information we collect automatically

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

  • Details of your visits to the Site, including the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Site.
  • Information about your computer, mobile device, and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”  When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and User Provided Information.

The Device Information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve the Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

We may collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier.
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons” (also called “pixel tags,” “clear gifs,” and “single-pixel gifs”) are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site. Web beacons permit us, for example, to count users who have visited particular pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Site are served by third parties, such as advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information. www.LTLTalcCommittee.com

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use, store, and process the Personal Information that we collect to provide and improve our Site and services, and to offer a secure, safe, and trusted experience.  For example, we may use your Personal Information:

  • to present the Site and its contents to you.
  • to protect against or deter fraudulent, illegal, or harmful conduct.
  • to provide you with information and other services that you may request from us;
  • to provide you with notice about your claim.
  • to notify you about changes to our Site or any developments with your claim.
  • to improve and optimize the Site and our services.
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features on the Site.
  • to respond to correspondence we receive from you.
  • to resolve disputes.
  • for any other purpose, with your consent.

We will keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill our obligations to you, maintain our legitimate business operations, and/or exercise, defend or establish our rights. The precise length of time that we retain your Personal Information depends on why we collected it and how we use it, but we will not retain your Personal Information for longer than necessary for our business purposes or for legal requirements.  We may retain User Submitted Information indefinitely.  We will retain information about you that is connected with your account or our services for as long as you have an active account with us. We will take reasonable measures to delete this personal information if you delete/deactivate your account. However, you acknowledge that we may retain some information after you have deactivated, or we have deleted, your account if we reasonably believe that it is necessary to enable us to meet our legal obligations or to exercise, defend, or establish our rights.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Google Analytics and Hotjar to help us understand how our customers use the Site.  You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.  You can opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.  For further details about Hotjar’s use of Personal Information, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide, as well as information that you provide to us about third parties, as described in this Policy:

  • to service providers who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • with your consent.

Please note that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.  As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

  • to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
  • to enforce or apply our Terms LTLTalcCommittee.com and other agreements we may have with you; and
  • if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Committee or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Once you leave our Site or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Site’s Terms.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

You may also send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us.  We may need to delete your user account if you request that we delete some particular Personal Information.  We may not accommodate a request to change or delete Personal information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights www.LTLTalcCommittee.com below for more information.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.  Information that you provide to us is encrypted during transmission using TLS, SSL, or similar technology, and will be stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you.  Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.  We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.  Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Site.  Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

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 our CCPA Privacy Notice for California Residents www.LTLTalcCommittee.com.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site that are California residents to request certain information regarding the disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected] or write us at LTL Talc Committee, c/o Brown Rudnick LLP, 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, Attn: Susan Sieger-Grimm.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.  It is our practice to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the Site home page.  If we make material changes to how we treat Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Site home page.  The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.  You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Policy to check for any changes.

CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail at LTL Talc Committee, c/o Brown Rudnick LLP, 7 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, Attn: Susan Sieger-Grimm.

 

 

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