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PRIVACY STATEMENT

The NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC  may gather two types of information about its users:

• Data that users provide through voluntary registration on our site.
• Aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our site.

Such information enables us to better tailor our content to users' needs and helps us understand the demographics of our audience. Information is gathered using the following:

• User Registration - Although many features of this web site are available to anonymous users, some areas require registration prior to accessing content. By registering, users take advantage of various personalized features such as the ability to invoke unique functions and content based on their identity. During registration, users supply information required to enable transactions including, but not limited to, username, password, address, e-mail address and country.
• Usage Tracking - The NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC tracks user traffic patterns throughout this site; however, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. PolyOne does segment overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
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A cookie cannot read data off a hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above) when users register for access to restricted areas of this site. When users register, NEU uses a cookie to store the user ID. Cookies enable users to enter various parts of the NEU site as a registered user without having to log on each time and to visit other restricted areas of the site with similar security settings.

Use of Collected Information

The NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our site, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users. NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC does not share user lists with outside parties, including advertisers, but may share the information within its family of companies (NEU's subsidiaries and affiliates). We use tracking information to determine which areas of our site are most (and least) popular based on traffic to those areas. This helps us continue to build a better service for our users.

Opt-Out Policy
NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC  gives users options wherever necessary and practical. Users may choose not to participate in certain interactive areas, including the MSDS or Technical Service Report portions of this site, which alleviates the need to collect any information from the user.

Safe Harbor Compliance
NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC complies with the safe harbor standards developed by the U.S. Department of Commerce in connection with the European Union Directive on Data Protection. The principal information collected by NEU that is subject to the safe harbor standards is information about NEU's employees used to administer the employment relationship. NEU employees seeking more information on NEU's Privacy Policy should refer to the policy statement on the Company's intranet site. NEU also may collect information from customers and suppliers necessary to conclude business transactions, including name, address, phone number, e-mail address and credit-related information.

Unless required by law or regulation, NEU will not disclose personal information to third parties that are not acting on behalf of NEU or use such information for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected without first giving the person who provided the information the right to "opt out" from the disclosure or use.

Your California Privacy Rights
Beginning on January 1, 2005, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of NEU who are California residents to request certain information regarding NEU's disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To request such information, please contact us.

NEU has adopted measures to minimize the risk of unauthorized disclosure, loss or misuse of personal information provided to the Company. Any nonemployee who desires to review, amend or correct information relating to them, or has a question about personal information submitted to NEU should contact the NEU Specialty Engineered Materials, LLC , attention Law Department,  at 33587 Walker Road, Avon Lake, Ohio 44012. Employees should contact their local human resources representative