CORTEVA PRIVACY STATEMENT
LAST UPDATED: 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
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:
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,
Information From Social Media Platforms
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.
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, these technologies do 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.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
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.
Other Technologies We Use
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:
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.
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:
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 INFORMTION
Because communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your communications to Us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMTION 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.
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 below link and submitting a privacy request form or using the information provided to Contact Us.
South Africa residents South Africa (EN) Privacy Request
South Africa residents South Africa (AF) Privacy Request
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