At Chart Industries, Inc. ("Chart," "we," "our," or "us"), we understand that privacy is an important issue for our customers and suppliers, and users of and visitors to ("you," "your") our websites www.chartindustries.com and the other websites set forth on Annex 1 ("Websites"). This Privacy Notice ("Notice") provides you with information about the processing of your personal data in connection with the use of our Websites and its functionalities or in the course of a contractual relationship with one of the Chart entities listed below in Annex 2, which may include the transfer of your personal data to and among Chart Industries, Inc. and its affiliates (together "Chart"). This Notice does not apply to Chart employees or job applicants.
Our Websites are operated by Chart Industries, Inc., with its business address at 3055 Torrington Drive, Ball Ground, GA 30107, USA. Since Chart Industries, Inc. as a company is not residing in the EU, it has appointed Chart Germany GmbH, Am Mooshof 15, 47574 Goch, Germany, as its EU representative for data protection according to Art. 27 of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").
Chart has appointed Dr. Annette Demmel as its external Data Protection Officer for its German entities, and she can be reached at SPB DPO Services GmbH, Unter den Linden 21, 10117 Berlin, annette.demmel@spb-dpo-services.com.
2.1 Website Visitors
We process the following categories of data when you use our Websites:
2.2 Customers
We process the following categories of personal data if you are a Chart customer:
2.3 Suppliers
We process the following categories of personal data if you are a Chart supplier:
3.1 Website Visitors
Your personal data will be processed for the purpose of enabling you to use the Websites. In addition, we process your personal data to prevent and correct malfunctions of the Websites, as well as to optimize your use of the Websites. The legal basis for this processing is an agreement concerning the use of our Websites and our legitimate interest in its trouble-free operation pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 b) and Art. 6 para. 1 f) of the GDPR. For the legal and processing purposes of the services provided by Google Analytics, please refer to Section 7. If you contact us, we will process your personal data in order to answer your request or otherwise communicate with you. The legal basis for this processing is to answer your inquiry pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 b) GDPR.
3.2 Customers
3.3 Suppliers
Your personal data may be transferred and stored in the US and other countries outside of the EU and/or European Economic Area ("EEA") where Chart’s subsidiaries, services providers and business partners are located. Chart enters into data processing agreements with its service providers and business partners, whenever personal data is processed. A complete list of countries where Chart entities are located can be found in Annex 2. As some of the Chart entities and service providers that Chart shares your personal data with are located outside of the EU and/or the EEA, Chart puts in place data transfer agreements based on the applicable EU Standard Contractual Clauses or relies on other available data transfer mechanisms. You may request a copy and/or information of these mechanisms by contacting globaldataprivacy@chartindustries.com. The transfer of personal data among the Chart entities is based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, which are incorporated into Chart’s Intragroup Data Transfer and Processing Agreement. You may request a copy of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses by contacting globaldataprivacy@chartindustries.com.
5.1 Affiliates and Subsidiaries
We may share your personal data among the Chart entities. A complete list of Chart entities can be found in Annex 2. Your personal data is only accessible to employees of Chart, who within their job responsibility execute the purposes listed above and have a need to process your personal data in this regard.
5.2 Third Parties
We may share your personal data with third party service providers to assist with the purposes listed above, such as IT service providers to maintain IT systems, payment administration, banks, insurance companies, and telecommunication companies. Employees of these third party service providers may receive access to your personal data. However, Chart shares your personal data only with trusted service providers pursuant to contractual agreements that include appropriate safeguards to protect your personal data. It is specified that, upon formal request, your personal data may be transmitted to the authorities. Chart does not sell your personal data
We may share your personal data with third parties such as law enforcement or other government agencies to comply with law or legal requirements, to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, and to protect our rights and the property and safety of Chart, our employees, and other Websites users.
If we, or some or all of our assets, are acquired by another entity, including through a sale or in connection with a bankruptcy, we will share your personal data with that entity.
Chart retains personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the stated purpose for which the personal data was processed and thereafter for retention periods that are: (i) mandated by law; (ii) for preserving, resolving, defending or enforcing our legal/contractual rights; or (iii) needed to maintain adequate and accurate business and financial records. We will delete personal data as soon as the respective purpose for its use no longer exists and no requirement to retain it for any of the purposes described above remains.
Cookies that Chart places are in place for the duration specified in the applicable cookie policy. Please refer to Section 7 for further information on the deletion of cookies used by our business partners.
If our contact with you results in the conclusion of a contract, Chart may be required to store your personal data for a period of six to ten years in accordance with statutory retention periods.
If you have provided us with personal data for which you have given your consent, Chart will store your personal data, unless you revoke your consent, in which case Chart will delete your data within four weeks of receipt of the withdrawal of consent.
Our Websites use tools and plugins set forth on Annex 3.
You may choose not to provide us with personal data or to provide incomplete data, (e.g., by disabling cookies). However, in such cases, we may not be able to provide you with all the functionalities of our Websites. Additionally, we may not be able to further engage in, or continue a contractual relationship with you or your company or provide information to you or your employer because certain administrative and statutory obligations require your personal data. For example, if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all functions offered on our Websites or other services offered as a result. If you decide not to give your consent, for example, in connection with a newsletter subscription, Chart may not be able to provide you with the information requested.
Chart takes cyber security very seriously and maintains reasonable technical, organizational, and physical safeguards to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, disclosure, alteration, or use.
Except for the data processing described under Section 7, which is also used for profiling, we do not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling.
The Websites may contain hyperlinks to and from other websites of third parties. If you use one of these hyperlinks, we are unable to assume any responsibility or liability for the content of third parties websites or their compliance with data protection law.
Our Websites are intended for individuals 16 years of age and older. The Websites are not directed at, marketed to, nor intended for, children under 16 years of age. Chart does not knowingly collect any information, including personal data from a child under the age of 16. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under the age of 16, please contact us at the address below and we will use reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from our databases.
You may contact us in writing at our business address above or via email at globaldataprivacy@chartindustries.com in order to exercise the following rights to the extent provided by law:
In cases where we have asked for your consent to process your personal data, you are free to refuse to give consent and you can withdraw your consent at any time. In addition, you have a right to file a complaint with the regulatory authorities for data protection in connection with the processing of your personal data.
California Residents: Chart primarily provides services directly to businesses and not to individual consumers. Chart does not intentionally interact with or collect information about individual consumers outside of the business-to-business ("B2B") context. Thus, references to "website visitors", "customers" and "suppliers," described in this Notice only include individuals interacting with us in connection with our B2B functions, such as due diligence of another business or providing or receiving a good or service to or from another business. Only consumers acting in such a B2B capacity are permitted to use our Websites or provide information to us.
Chart reserves the right to amend this Notice at any time with effect for the future. The current version will be effective when posted on the Websites. Please check this Notice periodically for updates. When required, we will notify you of any changes to this Notice. When required under applicable law, we will seek affirmative consent from you before making material changes to the way we handle personal data previously collected from you.
(December 2019)
Domains
Chart entities
Chart entity | Jurisdiction of Formation |
Chart International, Inc. | Delaware |
Chart Inc. | Delaware |
Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc. | Delaware |
Chart Lifecycle, Inc. | Delaware |
Hetsco, Inc. | Delaware |
Thermax, Inc. | Massachusetts |
Chart Asia, Inc. | Delaware |
Hudson Products Corporation | Texas |
Hudson Products Middle East LLC | Delaware |
Skaff, LLC | Delaware |
Prefontaine Properties, Inc. | New Hampshire |
Skaff Cryogenics, Inc. | New Hampshire |
E&C FinFan, Inc. | Delaware |
Cryo-Lease, LLC | Florida |
Chart entity | Jurisdiction of Formation |
Chart Industries Luxembourg S.a.r.l. | Luxembourg |
Chart Ferox, a.s | Czech Republic |
Chart Germany GmbH | Germany |
GOFA Gocher Fahrzeugbau GmbH | Germany |
VCT Vogel GmbH | Germany |
Flow Instruments & Engineering GmbH | Germany |
Chart S.a.r.l. & Co. KG | Germany |
Chart Industries (Gibraltar) Limited | Gibraltar |
Chart Industries Limited | United Kingdom |
Hudson Products Srl | Italy |
Cofimco S.r.l. | Italy |
Fema s.r.l. | Italy |
Industrie Meccaniche di Bagnolo s.r.l. | Italy |
VRV Services s.r.l. | Italy |
VRV S.r.l. | Italy |
Cryo Diffusion S.A.S. | France |
Chart entity | Jurisdiction of Formation |
Lien Hwa Lox Cryogenic Equipment Corporation | Taiwan |
PT. Thermax | Indonesia |
MVE CryoSystems Japan Kabushiki Kaisha | Japan |
Chart D&S India Private Limited | India |
Chart Asia Investment Company Limited | Hong Kong |
Chart Cryogenic Distribution Equipment (Changzhou) Company Limited | China |
Nanjing New Metallurgy Electric Engineering Co., Ltd. | China |
Chart Industries (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. | Malaysia |
Cofimco Industrial Fans India Private Ltd. | India |
Cofimco International (Shanghai) Trading Co, Inc. | China |
Hudson-Cofimco Limited | Hong Kong |
Cofimco Fan (Changshu) Co., Ltd. | China |
VRV Asia Pacific Private Ltd. | India |
Chart entity | Jurisdiction of Formation |
Chart Australia Pty. Ltd. | Australia NSW |
Chart entity | Jurisdiction of Formation |
Chart Latin America S.A.S. | Colombia |
Hudson Heat Transfer International, Inc. | Panama |
Hudson Products de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. | Mexico |
Google Analytics
Our Websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Ltd. ("Google") with its business address at Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies, i.e. small text files stored on your computer that allow an analysis of your use of the Websites. We use Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp ()". As a result, IP addresses are processed in an abbreviated form and no direct relation to an individual can be drawn. We use Google Analytics to analyze and improve our Websites. Chart receives statistics that help us to improve our online presence. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is our legitimate interest in user-friendly Websites pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR. The information generated by cookies about your use of the Websites is usually transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States. If you turn on IP anonymization on the Websites, your IP address will be truncated by Google within an EU Member State and/or the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances will the complete IP address be sent to the Google server in the US and stored there. Google has subjected itself to the EU-US Privacy Shield in such exceptional cases in which your personal information is transmitted to the US. For further information, please refer to www.privacy-shield.gov/EU-US-Framework. Google will use this information on behalf of Chart to evaluate your use of the Websites, to generate reports on Website activities, and to provide Chart with other services related to the use of Websites and the Internet.
According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be matched with other Google data.
You can block the storage of cookies on your device by adjusting the settings in your browser. In this case, you may not be able to use all functionalities of our Websites. You may also block the collection of data generated by the cookie and the data related to your use of the Websites (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by using the following browser plug-in: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
An overview of data privacy at Google can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html, or please refer to its privacy policy at http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy.