Revised 6/1/2019
Corteva Agriscience™ (“Corteva” “we,” or “us”) is concerned about your privacy. We want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information. Together with the Corteva Cookies & Similar Technologies Policy, this Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) describes our practices in connection with information that we collect:
Collectively, we refer to the Websites, the Apps and our Social Media Pages, as the “Services.”
By providing Personal Information to Corteva, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement.
If you apply for a job through the Career Center on the Websites, our use of the Personal Information you provide through the Career Center is governed by the Corteva Applicant Privacy Notice.
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual, such as:
We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
- We receive your Personal Information from other sources, for example:
o publicly available databases and other third-party sources publicly available databases and other third-party sources
o joint marketing partners and service providers (including social media platforms), when they share the information with us
- If you connect your social media account to your Services account, you will share certain Personal Information from your social media account with us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that may be or you make accessible to us when you connect your social media account to your Services account.
- When you participate in a contest, promotion, sweepstakes, survey or other promotion.
- When you participate in a blog or forum.
We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you. If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
We and our service providers use Personal Information for the following purposes.
- Providing the Services’ functionality to you, such as arranging access to your registered account, and providing you with related customer service.
- Responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests, when you contact us via one of our online contact forms or otherwise, for example, when you send us questions, suggestions, compliments or complaints, or when you request a quote or other information about our Services.
- Completing your transactions and providing you with related customer service.
- Sending administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions and policies.
- Allowing you to send messages to another person if you choose to do so.
- Processing your application for credit.
- Sending you marketing-related communications (such as by email, text message, WhatsApp message, in-App notice and on social media platforms) with information about our services, new products and other news about our company.
- Facilitating social sharing functionality that you choose to use.
- Analyzing or predicting our users’ preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how our digital content is used, so we can improve our Services.
- Better understanding you, so that we can personalize our interactions with you and provide you with information and/or offers tailored to your interests.
- Better understanding your preferences so that we can deliver content via our Services that we believe will be relevant and interesting to you.
- We may offer you the opportunity to participate in a sweepstakes, contest or other promotion. Some of these promotions have additional rules containing information about how we will use and disclose your Personal Information.
- We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.
- Data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services.
- Audits, to verify that our internal processes function as intended and are compliant with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements.
- Fraud and security monitoring, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft.
- Developing new products and services.
- Enhancing, improving, or modifying our current products and services.
- Identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users.
- Determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users.
- Operating and expanding our business activities, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to our users so we can focus our energies on meeting our users’ interests.
We disclose Personal Information:
You can consult the list and location of entities in our group of companies here.
- These can include providers of services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
- On message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages). Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
- When you connect your Services account with your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.
- Additionally, the provider of the social sharing tool we use on the Services may collect information related to you, which may include Personal Information, when you share content from the Services through your social media account. The social sharing tool provider’s collection, use and sharing of information is subject to its own privacy policy and we are not responsible for its privacy, security or other practices.
We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, especially when we have a legal obligation or legitimate business interest to do so:
- This can include laws outside your country of residence.
- To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is important.
- These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
- For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is important.
- To enforce our terms and conditions; and
- To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
- We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). Such third parties may include, for example, an acquiring entity and its advisors.
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual.
If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Statement.
We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
Your choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information
We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information for marketing purposes. You may opt-out from:
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt-out.
How you can access, change or delete your Personal Information
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete Personal Information, object to the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us here or 8th Floor, ISquare Building, 15 Meralco Avenue, Pasig, Metro Manila 1605, Philippines.
We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, and whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).
If you are a resident of California, under 18 and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by clicking here. Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user.
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.
In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Apps or our Social Media Pages.
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13.
Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA: Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here[ EU Commission’s adequacy list online]. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission and binding corporate rules to protect your Personal Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by submitting a request here.
Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.
We may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Services. If you wish to make a payment through the Services, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Statement. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.
The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Statement indicates when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Statement on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us using our Privacy Request form, or:
Customer Information Center
8th Floor, ISquare Building, 15 Meralco Avenue,
Pasig, Metro Manila 1605, Philippines
(+632) 818 9911
Because communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your communications to us.
You may also:
The term “Personal Information” can have different meanings under applicable law. We generally use the term “Personal Information” to mean information that identifies an individual directly or indirectly or relates to an identifiable individual. If We are required by applicable law to treat information as Personal Information, we will do so in accordance with this Privacy Statement. Where We need to collect Personal Information to provide requested services or products and if you do not provide it, we may not be able to provide the services or products. If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to Us or to Our service providers or business partners, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit Us to use the Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
The types of Personal Information We may collect about you depends on how you interact with Us and the products and services you choose. When you place an order, establish an account, request a rebate, join a rewards program, register for a service, apply for financing, enter into a contest, sweepstakes or other promotion or offer, or contact Us for other reasons, We may collect your Personal Information from you or through your authorized representative including:
In addition to the above, if you interact with Us through Our internet sites and applications (“Digital Services”) we may also collect,
If you visit one of our facilities or interact with Us over the phone, we may collect, where permitted by applicable law,
If you interact with Us through social media or you connect your social media account to your online account with Us you will share certain Personal Information from your social media account with Us, for example, your name, email address, photo, list of social media contacts, and any other information that you make accessible to us when you connect your social media account to Our Digital Services. If you choose to interact with Us through your social media platform you should carefully review the privacy policies of those social media providers and your privacy settings to ensure you are comfortable with the information the social media platforms may make available to Us.
We also use third-party social media management and listening tools that collect publicly available content. To the extent that publicly available content includes Personal Information it will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
Our retailers, distributors and other business partners may provide information related to your purchases, such as contact and payment information including your name, personal postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, place of employment, job title, phone number, company postal address, and e-mail as related to place of employment.
We may also receive the above Personal Information from Our third-party service providers and business partners who provide support for customer service, web hosting, marketing, communications, event planning, data analytics, and financial services when they share information with Us, including information from publicly available sources.
Through our Digital Services We may collect Personal Information automatically or through the use of technologies such as cookies, server logs, web beacons, tags, and pixels. We may also partner with third parties who engage in analytics, reporting, and marketing on our behalf using information collected from Our Digital Services and these technologies. Typically, unless you access Our Digital Services through your account or in response to an e-mail from Us, the information collected through our Digital Services does not directly reveal your specific identity though inferences may be drawn from the information collected or linked with other information We may have that identifies you.
Depending on applicable law, we offer cookie consent options to enable you to opt-in or opt-out of the use of these technologies. Below we provide specific information with respect to types of technology We use and methods to communicate your privacy preferences.
When you access our Digital Services, certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), device manufacturer and model, screen resolution, operating system name and version, language, name and version of your browser, and name and version of the Digital Services (such as the application) you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Digital Services function properly and for security and fraud prevention. Most of this information cannot be used to determine who you are specifically unless you access our sites by logging into your account or responding to an e-mail from us. Even if your IP address does not identify who you are, we treat your IP address as your Personal Information.
When you download and use Our Digital Services, We and/or our service providers may collect your devices’ unique identifiers, advertising identifiers, operating system, mobile network information as well as application usage data, such as the date and time Our Digital Services on your device accesses Our servers and what information and files have been downloaded to the application based on your device number. Our Digital Services may also collect and transmit other information to enable application features. We use this information to ensure the Digital Services function properly and to enhance and personalize your experience and deliver relevant content or advertisements. You can set your advertising preferences for your mobile device. For more information how to set those choices visit https://thenai.org/opt-out/mobile-opt-out/.
In some instances, we may receive information about the location of your device through your device’s GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth, when you use Our Digital Services. We may use your device’s physical location to provide you with personalized location-based services and content. We may also share your device’s physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. You may prevent the sharing of your location by turning off GPS, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth, on your device. You may manage your location settings for your iPhone device by visiting https://support.apple.com/ and android device by visiting https://support.google.com/. By disabling the location-based services on your devices, you may not be able to use certain features of Our Digital Services.
Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device that you are using while you interact with online sites that can identify your device and can contain other information as well. We may collect information from cookies and similar tracking technologies on Our Digital Services as well as in HTML-formatted e-mail messages that we send to you. Cookies and similar technologies do not directly identify who you are, but they do allow Us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Digital Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other aggregated traffic data. Cookies can be placed on your device by Us and also by Our service providers, such as web analytic companies and internet advertising networks. If you have logged on to your Corteva account through one of our Digital Services or respond to an e-mail from us or accepted the Cookies in our website, we may be able to link the information We collect to other information that identifies you. We use the information collected for various purposes, to store and honor your preferences and settings, security and authentication, analytics, measuring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns, to serve you advertising for products and services that we believe will be of interest to you, and to fulfill other legitimate purposes described below.
The types of cookies We collect fall into one of three categories:
Where required by law, we obtain your consent before placing or using functional or advertising cookies and you can always opt in or out of functional or advertising cookies through the cookie preferences tool on Our Digital Services. This cookie preferences tool is enabled to process your preferences and in certain jurisdictions, to recognize and process a Universal Opt-Out signal. Some browsers have “do not track” settings. Because there is not yet a common understanding how to interpret these signals, We do not currently respond to browser “do not track” settings.
In addition, with most internet browsers or other software you can change your browser settings to erase cookies from your computer hard drive, block all cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple process in most browsers that allows you to decline the use of cookies. To learn more about opt-out in web browsers please visit https://optout.aboutads.info/ and https://optout.networkadvertising.org. To learn more about cookies, please visit your local digital advertising association such as:
Once you have set your cookie preferences, the specific choices you made will be followed. Please remember that if you delete your preferences, or use a different browser or computer, you will need to set your cookies preferences again.
Where permitted by law, we use third party web analytics services such as Google and Adobe to better understand how users engage with our Digital Services. As discussed above under Cookies and Similar Technologies, these third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across unaffiliated sites using cookies and other tracing technologies. We treat these cookies and technologies used to collect these analytics as non-required cookies and so you may set your cookie preferences accordingly. You can also learn more about Google’s privacy practices by visiting www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and Adobe’s privacy practices by visiting https://www.adobe.com/privacy.html and to opt-out by visiting https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html#customeruse.
Corteva may use third-party advertising companies to serve you online advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you based on your visits to our sites and other sites across the devices you use (commonly known as “behavioral advertising” or “interest-based advertising”). To do so, these advertising companies may collect information through the placement of cookies or other technologies as described above, on our Digital Services and combine it with information about your activities on other websites, mobile apps, and devices. You can prevent getting interest-based ads based on the placement of cookies by following the cookies opt-out steps detailed above, by declining cookies in your browser(s), declining the “access to data” requests that apps usually present when you install them, or by adjusting the ad tracking settings on your device. If you are in the United States and wish to opt out of targeted advertising or cross context behavioral advertising, you may click the opt-out button on our United States site homepage and/or complete an opt-out request form. More information can be found at US Privacy Notice (corteva.com).
Please note that even if you opt-out of advertising cookies or opt-out of behavioral and interest-based advertising you may still see advertisements from Us. These ads are not based on your behavior across various sites but based on the context of a specific site you visit. For instance, you may see an advertisement for a Corteva seed product when visiting a farming website.
Where permitted by law, We may use information provided by you and/or business partners such as purchase history, geolocation data, satellite imagery, as well as agricultural field operation data in the design or use of business analytics and/or artificial intelligence. We use this information for research, for technological development, and to design, maintain or improve the quality or safety of our products, services, and programs. For instance, we may use this information to forecast trends, for diagnostic purposes, to make agronomic recommendations to you, and to suggest services and products.
We and Our service providers use Personal Information for the following purposes when we have a legitimate business interest, your consent, or as otherwise permitted under applicable privacy and data protection laws:
We may disclose Personal Information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement to the following entities, including those in different countries. You can consult the list and location of entities in our group of companies here.
Personal Information will generally be stored in Corteva databases or databases maintained by Our service providers. We use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within Our organization and require by contract that Our service providers do as well. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with Us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.
We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.
The criteria used to determine Our retention periods include:
We may provide links to third-party websites or services when We believe the links are useful to you. This Privacy Statement does not address, and We are not responsible for, the privacy or security practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link.
In addition, We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices of other organizations, social media platform providers, operating system providers, wireless service providers or device manufacturers, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Digital Services or our Social Media Pages.
The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13.
Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where We have facilities or in which We engage service providers, and by using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries or regions outside of your country (or state/province) of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA: Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available here: EU Commission’s adequacy list online). For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, We have put in place adequate measures, such as Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission to protect your Personal Information. You may obtain a copy of these measures by submitting a privacy request available at the Contacting Us section below.
Unless We request it, We ask that you not send Us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Digital Services or otherwise to Us.
We may use a third-party payment service to process payments made through the Digital Services. If you wish to make a payment through the Digital Services, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by Us, and will be subject to the third-party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Statement. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information.
Because communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your communications to Us.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA, SWITZERLAND AND UNITED KINGDOM: This section applies only to Corteva processing of Personal Information of EEA, Switzerland and United Kingdom residents.
The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Statement indicates when this Privacy Statement was last revised. Any changes will become effective when We post the revised Privacy Statement on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement.
How you can access, change or delete your Personal Information
If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, restrict or delete Personal Information, object to the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may make such request by clicking on the appropriate link in the Privacy Rights Requests dropdown list below for the country in which you reside. If you do not find the link for a specific country, please submit your inquiry using the appropriate country information available in the Contact Information by Country dropdown list below.
We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.
In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, and whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from Our database. For your protection, We may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send Us your request, and We may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.
Please note that We may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you make a purchase or enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).
If you have any questions about your privacy choices or this Privacy Statement, you may Contact Us by clicking on the appropriate link in the Contact Information by Country dropdown list below and submitting a privacy request form or using the information provided to Contact Us.