Rio Tinto Alcan respects the privacy of our site visitors. We provide this statement to inform you of our policies and practices regarding how we use information we gather about you.
We may place cookies on your hard drive. Internet cookies are small files that may be placed on your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies are used to (a) remind us of who you are in order to deliver you better service; (b) estimate our audience size by determining repeat usage of the Website; (c) track your progress and entries in promotions, sweepstakes and contests, if any; and (d) measure certain traffic patterns for use as a research tool to understand how our users’ habits are similar or different from one another. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. By not accepting cookies, some Webpages may not display properly or you may not be permitted to access certain information. We may also log your domain and IP address automatically when you visit our Website, however this information does not identify you as an individual, but only the computer that you are using to view the Website and your approximate geographic location.
Rio Tinto Alcan will not sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information to others without your consent. The personally identifiable information you provide will be used to support your customer relationship with Rio Tinto Alcan. Your personally identifiable information may be shared with agents, contractors or business partners for the purpose of performing services for Rio Tinto Alcan.
We want to help you quickly find information on Rio Tinto Alcan and alert you to specific offers, updated information, and other new products and services from Rio Tinto Alcan. Accordingly, we may send you direct mailings or contact you by telephone about our various products and services or other products and services we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply “opt-out” by the means provided for in the mailings or by contacting alcancable@alcan.com. To “opt-out” means that you have notified Rio Tinto Alcan that we no longer have permission to use your information for promotional marketing purposes.
Notwithstanding, Rio Tinto Alcan does research on our users’ demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided to us during your use of the Rio Tinto Alcan Web site. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Aggregated data does not include personally identifiable information. Rio Tinto Alcan may share this aggregated data with others.
When you are on a Rio Tinto Alcan site and are asked for information, including personal information, you are sharing that information with Rio Tinto Alcan, its subsidiaries and its related companies alone, unless specifically stated otherwise. If personally identifiable information is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than Rio Tinto Alcan or an agent for Rio Tinto Alcan, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service or purchasing those particular goods.
You can request the personally identifiable information that Rio Tinto Alcan has collected about you, correct factual inaccuracies in your information, remove personal information from Rio Tinto Alcan’s data bases and/or update your personal information by contacting alcancable@alcan.com.
This Website contains links to other Rio Tinto Alcan business and third-party websites. Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the privacy statements of those websites. Rio Tinto Alcan takes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of any websites other than this one.
If you have any concern about your privacy in connection with this policy, please send us a thorough description to alcancable@alcan.com and we will try to resolve it. As we plan to keep our privacy statement current, this information can be subject to change. When appropriate, a revised privacy statement will be posted on our website which will incorporate any changes. We recommend you return periodically to review the latest policy.
(This Privacy Policy was last updated: 23 June 2008)