Privacy Policy

Introduction

syngentafoundation.com and syngentafoundation.org are owned and operated by Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). SFSA is committed to respecting the legal requirements that exist regarding the personal privacy of the individuals who use this Site. This Privacy Statement describes the SFSA current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by SFSA through this Site.

Definitions

The term "personal data" means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural or legal person, for example, the name, age, e-mail address or mailing address of the individual. The term "Site" refers to the Web site located at www.syngentafoundation.org. The term "SFSA" means Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. The term "affiliates" means any business entity throughout the world which controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Syngenta.

Notification of Changes to this Privacy Statement

SFSA is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to this Site. These ongoing improvements, changes in the law or changes in technology may require changes to this Privacy Statement. Syngenta reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Statement at any time without prior notice.

SFSA will notify you of changes to this Privacy Statement by posting an updated or modified version of this Privacy Statement on this Site. Your use of this Site following any such change constitutes your agreement that personal information collected from or about you through this Site after the revised Privacy Statement is posted will be subject to the terms of the revised Privacy Statement. Syngenta will not apply changes to this Privacy Statement to any personal data Syngenta collected before the revised Privacy Statement was posted on this Site.

For your convenience, whenever this Privacy Statement is changed, Syngenta will alert you by posting a notice on this site for thirty days.

Please review this Privacy Statement regularly. You may access the current version of this Privacy Statement at any time by clicking on the button marked "Privacy" at the bottom of each page of this Site.

This Privacy Statement was last revised on July 16, 2008.

Your Consent

This Privacy Statement is included in and is part of the www.syngentafoundation.org Terms of Use. By agreeing to the terms of the Terms of Use and using this Site, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data as set forth in this Privacy Statement. Your continued use of this Site constitutes your continuing consent to the terms of this Privacy Statement, as from time to time amended.

Personal Data Collected Through www.syngentafoundation.org

SFSA collects the personal data you provide to us when you use this Site. This information may include, for example, your name, the name of your company, your or your company's mailing address and your e-mail address.

SFSA uses the personal data you provide when you use this Site to provide the information, services and products you request. For example, we may use your e-mail address to respond to your comments and questions. In some cases, the site will allow registration to promotional events; we will use your email or mailing address to provide brochures, maps and event information.

 

Disclosure of Personal Data to Our Affiliates

Syngenta Foundation does not share personal data collected through this Site with its affiliates or other unrelated third parties.

In addition, there may be some other, limited circumstances in which SFSA or its affiliates may share or transfer the information in their databases to an unrelated third party, for example, to comply with a legal requirement, for the administration of justice, to protect your or your company's vital interests, or in the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.

Where appropriate, before disclosing personal information to a third party, SFSA will contractually require the third party to take adequate precautions to protect that data against unauthorized use or disclosure. If you do not want Syngenta to share your personal information with third parties under these strictly controlled conditions, please syngenta.foundation@syngenta.com.

Data Integrity and Security

www.syngentafoundation.org will take commercially reasonable measures to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of personal information in our databases and to protect the security of our databases. We keep your personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements. Our servers and our databases are protected by industry standard security technology, such as industry standard firewalls and password protection. The employees who have access to personal information have been trained to handle such data properly and in accordance with our security protocols. Although we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse, unauthorized disclosure, alternation or destruction of data, we try to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

Data Access and Corrections

Where your national legislation entitles you to do so, you may wish to access or correct personal information collected through this Site by writing to our stakeholder issues officer at: Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. WRO 1007.11.52, PO Box CH- 4002, Switzerland. Please provide enough information to permit us to identify your personal information. We will respond to your requests in a prompt and proper manner in accordance with applicable law. If we can accommodate your request without incurring significant expense, we will attempt to do. Requests to correct or delete personal data are subject to any applicable legal and ethical reporting or document retention obligations imposed on Syngenta.

The Syngenta Foundation does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of eighteen. If you are under eighteen, please do not give us any personal data. If you have reason to believe that a child has provided personal data to Syngenta, please contact us syngenta.foundation@syngenta.com and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

Link to Other Sites

This Privacy Statement applies only to www.syngentafoundation.org.

SyngentaFoundation.com contains hyperlinks to Web sites that are not operated by SFSA or one of its affiliates. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party Web sites or any association with their operators. SyngentaFoundation.com does not control these Web sites and is not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any Site you visit before using the Site or providing any personal information about yourself.

Governing Law

This Privacy Statement forms part of the www.syngentafoundation.org Terms of Use and as such shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Switzerland.

Questions About Our Privacy Statement

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or concerns about the way www.syngentafoundation.org processes your personal data, please write to our stakeholder issues officer at Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, WRO 1007.11.52, PO Box CH-4002, Switzerland, Attention: Stakeholder Issues.