Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 8, 2020; Date of Last Update: July 18th, 2024

Albemarle Corporation and its affiliates (“Albemarle”, “our”, “us”, or “we”) provide this Website Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to describe how we collect, use and disclose personal data obtained through albemarle.com or other websites that link to this Policy (the “Site”).

Click on one of the links below to jump to the section that interests you:

Our Collection of Personal Data
Our Use of Personal Data
Sensitive Information
Retention of Your Personal Data
Our Disclosure of Personal Data
Cookies and Other Similar Online Tracking Technologies
International Transfers
Security
Email Marketing
Children’s Information
Links of Other Websites and External Features
Specific Rights
Additional Notice for International Users
Changes to this Policy
Contact Us

1. Our Collection of Personal Data

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person and includes the term “personal information” as used in applicable data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy applies to personal data we collect from you through this Site and in other contexts, including offline. Unless otherwise noted, the disclosures in this Privacy Policy apply to our current practices, as well as our activities in the twelve (12) months preceding the Date of Last Update.

We and our vendors may obtain personal data about you in several ways, including directly from you; automatically through our Site; from the organization you represent; information you provide publicly; and from our service providers, our partners, and other third parties. The personal data we or our vendors obtain about you may vary depending on how you interact with us and may not include all of the examples listed below.

We may obtain the following types of personal data about you below.

California law requires that we tell you if we share information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising. For each category below we have indicated if we do this. To modify your preferences read our “Notice of right to opt-out of sales and sharing of personal information” in the Specific Rights section below).

Contact information, including your name, title, affiliated company name, email address, telephone numbers and physical address (including street, city, state, postal or zip code and/or country). We may sell or share this information for cross-contextual advertising.
Recruitment information, including affiliated entity, job title, work experience, a resume/curriculum vitae, professional references, information about education and job background; information about professional training and certifications; and other information submitted in connection with a job application or inquiry.
Demographic information, including your nationality, citizenship and country of residence.
Communications content, including inquiries about and orders for our products and services; survey responses; and recommendations or other feedback from you about our Site as well as our products and services generally.
Transactional data, including details of payments to and from you, including purchase order history and information needed to facilitate payment transactions.
Internet or other electronic network activity data, including browser type, language preferences, operating system, internet or mobile network provider, Site access time, duration of visit, referring website address, websites that you visit immediately before and after you visit our Site, browsing and search history on our Site, IP address and other information related to your interactions with our Site. We may sell or share this information for cross-contextual advertising.
Marketing and communications data, including your marketing preferences and your registration to our events. We may sell or share this information for cross-contextual advertising.
Geolocation information, including your physical location inferred from your IP address. We may also collect precise geolocation, which is considered “sensitive” under certain laws.

We may combine the information that we collect via our Site, our services, other users, and other parties with other information we hold about you. Your personal data may be converted into deidentified, anonymized, or aggregated data, as permitted by law.

2. Our Use of Personal Data

We or our vendors may use the personal data described above for the following purposes:

Services and transactions, including providing information on our products or services you have purchased or otherwise use; registering purchased products; processing product orders; handling warranty claims; answering customer service requests; managing applications and registrations; and facilitating the use of our Site.
Site operations, including maintaining, operating, optimizing, and providing access to our Site; identifying Site visitors; monitoring and analyzing Site usage and trends; evaluating how our Site performs; repairing or improving the quality of our Site; tracking and responding to quality and security issues; and ensuring the Site operates effectively.
Communications, including responding to your questions or feedback; confirming your preferences; providing you with information about our services; contacting you regarding products, services, billing and transactions; and understanding how you interact with our correspondence.
Improving our business, Site, products and services, including evaluating how our Site performs, repairing or improving the quality of our Site, tracking and responding to quality and security issues; and developing new or enhanced products and service offerings.
Business operations, including performing system administration and technology management; carrying out internal administration, such as recordkeeping and auditing; identifying prospective customers, partners, service providers, and vendors; managing our relationships with our customers, partners, service providers, and vendors; and fulfilling purposes that we describe to you at the time we collect your information.
Advertising and marketing, including sending marketing and promotional materials relating to our products, offerings, and promotions; measuring the use of our services and effectiveness of our advertising and marketing; developing insights to improve our Site and provide our users with enhanced features and functionalities; and providing behavior-based and targeted advertising.
Employment applications, including assessing your fitness for employment with us; performing background checks; and assessing employment eligibility. We may use artificial intelligence, algorithms, and other automated means to process your personal data as part of managing our recruitment process, and information provided in employment applications may be used to train such automated means.
Security and integrity, including protecting our Site from cyber risks; authenticating Site users; enforcing our policies and terms; protecting our rights; fulfilling our legal obligations; preventing, identifying, investigating, and responding to fraud, illegal or malicious activities, and other activity that violates or may violate applicable laws, regulations, legal process or our policies; and generally safeguarding our Site.
Inferences, we use your information to create a profile reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Legal and compliance, including managing risks, investigations, reporting, and other compliance activities; responding to court orders or other government and law enforcement mandates or requests; identifying or managing legal actions related to our or others’ rights or property; supporting actual or threatened claims, defenses or declarations in a case or before any jurisdictional and/or administrative authority, arbitration or mediation panel; and enforcing compliance with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes as well as industry standards and our company policies, including export control requirements.
Corporate restructuring, including evaluating or executing a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, as part of regular business operations or pursuant to a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.

3. Sensitive Information

We do not use or disclose sensitive information, as that term is defined by California law, for inferring characteristics or for reasons other than those permitted by law.

4. Retention of Your Personal Data

We maintain personal data for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, or as otherwise authorized or permitted by applicable laws or regulations, including where retention of your personal data is reasonably necessary to:

Manage your relationship with us, carry out our operations, or satisfy another purpose for which we collected the personal data;
Carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the personal data was collected; or
Protect or defend our rights or property.

Where personal data is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires. For more information about our retention policies, please contact us using the details in the Contact Us section below.

5. Our Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data to the following parties:

Our group companies. We may disclose your personal data to our affiliates, subsidiaries, branch locations, and other related entities and group companies as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Service providers. We may disclose your personal data to our service providers and other vendors that we have contracted to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting websites, conducting surveys, processing transactions, analyzing our Site, performing analyses to improve the quality of our business, Site, products and services, and otherwise help us operate our business. We may disclose your personal data with providers of cookies and other online tracking technologies, as described below in the Cookies and Other Online Tracking Technologies section.
Ad tech companies and other providers. We may disclose your personal data to vendors that provide personalized advertising, perform analytics, and as otherwise described below in the Cookies and Other Online Tracking Technologies section.
Business partners (that are not owned by or affiliated with us). We may disclose your personal data with trusted business partners for purposes that include sending marketing communications to you. By participating in or providing your information in relation to such activities, you direct us to provide your information to those partners. Separate privacy policies may apply to these partners’ uses of your personal data.
Disclosures in connection with corporate transactions. Circumstances may arise where for strategic or other business reasons Albemarle decides to sell, buy, divest, merge, or otherwise reorganize its business. We may disclose information we maintain about you to prospective or actual purchasers, investors, or successor entities in connection with a contemplated or an actual reorganization of our business, or in connection with financing, a sale, or other transactions involving the disposal of all or part of our business or assets. This may include processing for the purpose of permitting the due diligence required to determine whether to proceed with a transaction.
Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulatory agencies, other government entities, professional advisors, affected parties, and other external parties. We may disclose personal data if required or authorized to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or with legal process served on us, to protect and defend our rights or property or, in urgent circumstances, to protect the personal safety of any individual. This may include in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders; for law enforcement or public safety purposes; in connection with any legal process; to comply with export control requirements; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies; to comply with laws, regulations, or other legal obligations; to protect and defend our rights and property or the rights and property of other parties; to enforce our Terms of Use, this Policy, or agreements with third parties; or for crime-prevention purposes. We may also disclose your personal data to regulators to determine your eligibility under export control regulations to receive information about certain technologies.

6. Cookies and Other Online Tracking Technologies

We and our vendors use cookies and other online tracking technologies (collectively “Cookies”) to:

Collect and analyze information about your interactions with our Site, including the pages on our Site you viewed or links you clicked and how you interacted with our content during your visit or over multiple visits;
Store information to improve Site functionality;
Help you access and navigate the Site more efficiently;
Customize your browsing experience, including by showing you information more likely to be relevant to you; and
Deliver and customize advertisements and track campaign efficacy.

We and our vendors may collect personal data about your online activities over time and across different devices and websites when you visit the Site and link information collected by Cookies to other information collected about you.

We may engage web analytics service providers, such as Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel, to help us understand and analyze how visitors interact with our Site. We use such data to administer and improve the quality of our Site and serve ads on our behalf across the internet. We may also implement Google Analytics Advertising Features such as dynamic remarketing, interest-based advertising, and audience targeting. For more information on how Google Analytics and other Google products use data, visit policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. To opt out of Google Analytics Cookies, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To adjust your Google advertising settings, visit adssettings.google.com.

You may also customize your preferences by logging into your Facebook account and navigate to the Privacy Center at Meta’s Privacy Center or review your Ad Preferences at Facebook’s ad preferences page.

Additionally, to learn more about Microsoft’s data practices, you can visit Microsoft’s privacy page.

Do Not Track. Your web browser may have settings that allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites or use online services. Like many websites, our Site is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, visit allaboutdnt.com. You may set your browser to notify you of or decline the receipt of Cookies; however, certain features of the Site may not function properly or be available if your browser is configured to disable Cookies.

Some vendors may participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) and its AdChoices opt-out program or the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). For more information about opting out or to use the DAA opt-out tool visit youradchoices.com/ (for web browsers) or aboutads.info/appchoices (for mobile apps). For more information about opting out or to use the NAI opt-out tool, visit networkadvertising.org/choices/ (for web browsers) or networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice/ for (mobile apps).

We are not responsible for the effectiveness or accuracy of other parties’ notices or opt-out mechanisms.

7. International Transfers

Albemarle is a global organization, and your personal data may be transferred to, held, stored, or used across various locations worldwide in accordance with applicable law. This means that when we collect your personal data it may be processed in countries that may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country. However, Albemarle will take reasonable steps to protect your privacy and to provide a level of protection of personal data that is at least as protective to that of your country of residence.

By using the Site, you acknowledge your personal data may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions outside your own, including the United States and Ireland, as described in this Privacy Policy.

8. Security

We use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative measures to safeguard personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage. However, because transmission via the internet and online digital storage is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of any information we may have collected from or about you through our Site.

9. Email Marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out from marketing communications sent via email at any time, free of charge by using the “unsubscribe” link in any email marketing materials you receive from us, or by contacting us using the contact information listed in this Policy.

10. Children’s Information

The Site is not intended for, nor targeted to, children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect or store personal data from anyone under the age of 16. If we are made aware that we have received personal data from someone under 16, we will use reasonable efforts to remove that personal data from our records.

11. Links to Other Websites and External Features

Our Site may contain links to, or features provided by, third-party online services. For example, you may be able to share content from the Site to your social media profile on a third-party online service. The inclusion of a link to another website or online service does not imply our endorsement. We provide these external links merely for your convenience and we have no control over, do not review, and are not responsible for external online services. We have no liability or responsibility for those third-party online services, their policies, or their collection or other processing of your personal data. The practices of those third parties are governed by their own privacy policies. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those third parties.

12. Specific Rights

In some jurisdictions you may have specific rights. This includes in California, the European Union, the United Kingdom and jurisdictions with similar laws. References to “personal information” in this section are equivalent to “personal data” as used elsewhere in this Policy. These rights are not absolute. These rights depend on your jurisdiction and your relationship with us:

Right to know. You have the right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including:
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including:
  - The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected and the categories of recipients to which we disclose personal information;
  - Our business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, sharing, or disclosing personal information; and
  - The categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category identified, the categories of recipients to which we sold, shared, or disclosed; and
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to delete your personal information. You have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to correct inaccurate information. You have the right to request that we correct personal information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request to access or update your personal information.
Right to opt out of sales and sharing of personal information. You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information, and to request that we do not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We do not sell or share the personal information of consumers, as defined in California outside of the context of Cookies. To opt out of the sale or share of your personal information through Cookies, please click the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer of the Site.
Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal information (CA Only). California residents have the right to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information if it is used or disclosed in certain ways. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that would trigger this right under the CCPA
Right to opt-out of automated processing. You may have certain rights related to such automated processing, which may vary depending on your location and your relationship with us. You will not be subject to decisions that will have a significant impact on you based solely on automated decision-making unless we have notified you and have a lawful basis for doing so.
Right to withdraw consent. You may have the right to withdraw consent if we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Right to object to processing. You may have the rights to object to the processing of your personal information; ask us to restrict processing of your personal information; or receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

We will not discriminate against you for choosing to exercise any of these rights.

To submit a request related to your privacy rights, please contact us at [email protected] or call 1-800-461-9330. Please note that when submitting a request, you may be asked to provide information so we can verify your identity before action is taken. You may designate an authorized agent to make the request on your behalf. An authorized agent must submit proof to us that he or she has been authorized by you to act on your behalf, and you may still need to verify your identity directly with us before we can process the request.

13. Additional Notice for International Users

This section applies to personal data we obtain about individuals located outside the United States (“International Users”). For International Users, the Privacy Policy disclosures that apply to personal data we obtain through the Site also apply to personal data we obtain in other contexts, including offline. We obtain, use, and disclose personal data through the Site and other contexts as described in the Our Collection of Personal Data, Our Use of Personal Data, and Our Disclosure of Personal Data sections above.

As described in this Policy, you may be required to provide the personal data listed in the Our Collection of Personal Data section in order to use our services. Please see the Our Use of Personal Data section to learn more about our purposes for processing your personal data.

In most cases our legal basis for processing your personal data will be performance of a contract, as necessary for the performance of the services we provide to you, or in order to take steps prior to, and in anticipation of, performing such services. However, our legal basis of processing will depend on the category of personal data and the context for collection so may also be processed under the following legal bases:

Legal obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, including compliance with applicable laws, regulations, governmental, and quasi-governmental requests, court orders, or subpoenas;
Consent: the processing is based on your consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specified purposes (for example, marketing communications, non-essential Cookies, sensitive data collection).
Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary to meet our legitimate interests, for example to develop and improve our Site, products, and/or services for the benefit of our customers and help ensure the security and integrity of our services. When we rely on our legitimate interests, we take into account the effects that these actions might have on you. If you have questions about our decisions regarding our legitimate interests, you may contact us by using the email address below; or
Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect your vital interests (for example, health and safety reasons if you attend a meeting at an Albemarle location).

If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please send an email to [email protected].

14. Changes to this Policy

We may occasionally update this Policy, as indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Policy. We will take any additional steps required by law to notify you of material changes to this Policy. Your continued use of the Site after any update to this Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at [email protected].

Our representative in the EU is:
Albemarle Germany GmbH
Main Airport Center

Unterschweinstiege 2-14
60549 Frankfurt
Germany