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GLOBAL PRIVACY STATEMENT
Revised 01/19/2024
At Corteva Agriscience we are committed to transparency and openness including providing clear and accurate information about our privacy practices. This Global Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) describes how Corteva Agriscience™ and its affiliates (“We”, “Us”, “Our”, or “Corteva”) collect, use, and disclose or otherwise process Personal Information. The Privacy Statement applies when you access or use our websites, our online applications, our social media pages, or how you otherwise interact with Us. We may provide additional or different notice of our privacy practices for certain products or services or where country specific information applies, in which case those notices will supplement or replace the disclosures in this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement does not apply to Our employees or job applicants where the Personal Information We collect about those individuals relates to their current, former, or potential role with Us. If you apply for a job through the Career Center website, Our use of the Personal Information you provide through the Career Center is governed by the Corteva Applicant Privacy Notice available on Career Center.
- Personal Information We Collect
- Information You Provide
- Information From Social Media Platforms
- Information from Business Partners and Other Third Parties
- Information From Our Digital Services
- Information through Your Browser or Device
- Use of Mobile Devices
- Cookies and Similar Technologies
- Other Technologies We Use
- Web Analytics
- Behavioral and Interest Based Advertising
- Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
- How We Use Personal Information
- How We Disclose Personal Information
- HOW WE SECURE PERSONAL INFORMATION
- RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
- THIRD PARTY SERVICES
- USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
- JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
- SENSITIVE INFORMATION
- THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
- YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES
- CONTACTING US
Personal Information We Collect
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.
Information You Provide
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:
- contact information including your name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number
- payment information including credit or debit card number
- financial information, such as government issued ID number, Social Security Number, citizenship, tax ID number, and banking information such as account number
- date of birth and gender
- signature, including digital signature
- place of employment, job title, phone number, address, and e-mail as related to your place of employment
- purchase history, preferences
In addition to the above, if you interact with Us through Our internet sites and applications (“Digital Services”) we may also collect,
- IP addresses
- general or precise geolocation data and satellite imagery
- device type, browser type, and operating system
- online browsing data or “clickstream data” (e.g., referring website address, date and time of access, pages visited, time spent on each page, links clicked, searched history), and inferred preferences
- preference management including opt-in, opt-out, and cookie management
- passwords and reminder questions/answers
If you visit one of our facilities or interact with Us over the phone, we may collect, where permitted by applicable law,
- video images (CCTV recording) or photograph images
- images of the face via facial recognition technology
- fingerprint images via fingerprint mapping technology
- voice recordings such as voicemail records
Information from Business Partners and Other Third Parties
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.
Information From Our Digital Services
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.
Information through Your Browser or Device
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.
Use of Mobile Devices
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.
Other Technologies We Use
- Beacons and Pixel Tags:Beacons and pixel tags are small graphics on a website page or in an e-mail message designed to track pages viewed or e-mail messages opened and can be used to deliver cookies to your computer. These technologies can also help analyze the effectiveness of websites by measuring the number of visitors or activity on a website.
- Plugins and Links to Third Party Sites: Our Digital Services may include plugins from social networks or other third parties such as Facebook, Meta, or Google. These plugins can place a cookie on your computer that tells the third-party site that you have visited one of Our Digital Services. If you have logged onto a third-party site that site may collect this information whether or not you have interacted with the third-party plugin in or linked Our Digital Services. We treat third party plugins as non-required cookies and so you may set your cookie preferences accordingly.
Web Analytics
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.
Behavioral and Interest Based Advertising
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.
Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
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.
How We Use Personal Information
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:
- Provide Our services and support Our customers
- To maintain or service accounts, verify customer information, provide customer service, and respond to Your inquiries, process, or to fulfill orders and transactions.
- To provide financing, fulfillment services, process payments, collections, and risk management.
- To send administrative information to you such as changes to Our terms, conditions, and policies, or warranty or recall information.
- Marketing, promotions, and personalization
- To send you marketing-related communications with information about Our services, new products, and other news about Corteva.
- To offer you the opportunity to participate in sweepstakes, contests, or other promotions.
- To develop and deliver marketing and other promotional communications tailored to your or Our other users’ interests and to analyze or predict Our user’s preferences in order to prepare aggregated trend reports on how Our digital content is used so We can improve our services and offerings.
- Legal and compliance
- For legal and regulatory compliance, including uses and disclosures of Personal Information required by law or for compliance with company policies and procedures or with civil, criminal, judicial, or regulatory inquiries, investigations, subpoenas, or summons.
- To exercise or defend the legal rights of Corteva and its officers, directors, employees, customers, contractors, and agents and for dispute resolution.
- Operations and general business purposes
- For corporate governance, including corporate accounting, audit, analysis and reporting, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
- For system administration and technology management, including optimizing Our Digital Services and data analytics.
- For business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Improve and develop new products and services
- For research for technological development, to design, maintain or improve the quality or safety of our products, services, and programs.
- Fraud prevention and security
- To protect the security and integrity of Our systems, networks, applications, and data, including detecting, analyzing, and resolving security threats, communicating with law enforcement and information security consortiums, debugging services or systems, identity management including verification and authentication for systems and technology.
- For premises security, safety and loss prevention, detection and prevention of fraud and other illegal activity.
How We Disclose Personal Information
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.
- To our parent company and affiliates. When we do so, these other Corteva entities will use and disclose Personal Information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Statement and consistent with requirements under applicable privacy and data protection laws.
- To our service providers we retain to facilitate support services they provide to us including but not limited to those providing support for customer service, advertising, marketing, communications and data analytics, information technology, information security, financial, audit, accounting, security, and legal services. These third parties are required to only use the Personal Information we share with them to perform the contracted for services and in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection law.
- To third-parties such as agents, retailers, distributors and business partners to provide products and services to our customers and in connection with licensing, joint development or similar arrangements. These third-parties are required to use Personal Information consistent with this Privacy Statement and/or only to perform the contracted for services and in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection law.
- To third-parties such as regulators, courts, law enforcement and governmental authority to comply with applicable law, regulations, court or other legal process when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence. In such a circumstance, we will take appropriate measures, consistent with applicable privacy and data protection law to protect the Personal Information.
- To third-parties such as those assisting to detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, misuse of Corteva products, services or Digital Services, intellectual property infringement, to enforce Our terms and conditions and Our contracts, and to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others. These third parties are required to only use the Personal Information we share with them to perform the contracted for services and in compliance with applicable privacy and data protection law.
- To third-parties in connection with a 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. In such a circumstance, we will take appropriate measures, consistent with applicable privacy and data protection law, to protect the Personal Information.
HOW WE SECURE PERSONAL INFORMATION
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.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
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:
- The length of time We have an ongoing relationship with you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Digital Services) and the length of time thereafter during which We may have a legitimate need to reference your Personal Information to address issues that may arise ;
- The sensitivity of the Personal Information and the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected;
- Whether there is a legal obligation to which We are subject (for example, certain laws require Us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them);
- Whether retention is advisable in light of Our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
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.
USE OF SERVICES BY MINORS
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.
JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
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.
SENSITIVE INFORMATION
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.
THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE
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.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Because communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your communications to Us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING CHINA
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING JAPAN
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING UNITED STATES
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.
- Different Corteva entities may be the Data Controllers of your Personal Information. Data Controllers for EU data are listed here.
- Processing – we process your personal information on one or more of the following legal bases
- As necessary to enter into a contract with you or a legal entity you represent, to perform our contractual obligations, to provide Offerings, to respond to requests from you or to provide customer support;
- Where we have a legitimate interest;
- As necessary to comply with relevant law and legal obligations, including to respond to lawful requests and orders; or
- With your consent
- Your rights, subject to applicable law, you have the right to :
- Ask whether we hold personal information about you and information about how it is processed;
- Request that inaccurate personal information is corrected;
- Request deletion of personal information that is no longer necessary for the purposes underlying the processing, processed based on withdrawn consent, or processed in non-compliance with applicable legal requirements;
- Request us to restrict the processing of personal information where the processing is inappropriate;
- Object to the processing of personal information; and
- Request portability of personal information that you have provided to us (which does not include information derived from the collected information), where the processing of such personal information is based on consent or a contract with you and is carried out by automated means.
- Transfers, some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to the 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. Transfers from the United Kingdom and Switzerland to countries not considered adequate by the respective countries are also governed by appropriate safeguards.
- You may also:
- In Germany, contact our German DPO via Email.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs at:
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
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.
YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS AND CHOICES
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).
CONTACTING US
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.