This Privacy Statement describes how DMC Global Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, the “Company”, “we”, “our”, and “us”) collect and process personal information in connection with your (“user”, “you”, or “your”) interaction with us. Personal information is information that could reasonably be used to identify you. The information set forth below is intended to explain how we collect, use, and distribute your information.

 

We sometimes receive, collect, store and process certain personal information from individuals in the European Union or European Economic Area (“EU”), and we endeavor to treat all such information as required by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR). If you are an EU resident or other individual whose personal information is subject to European data protection law, you have certain rights with respect to your personal information, and additional terms of this Privacy Policy apply to you and to your personal information. Please visit the section below entitled “GDPR Privacy Statement”.

Personal Information We Obtain

We may obtain personal information about you that you directly provide to us, including, for example, the following categories of information:

 

Personal Details and Contact Information: Name; mailing address; e-mail address; telephone and fax details and other contact information; nationality; photograph, voice recordings and video; signature and electronic signature.

 

Professional Affiliations: Business name, title and address.

 

Financial Information: Credit card number; bank account number and account details; tax returns; salary; assets and income; bankruptcy; credit history and credit score; or any additional information required for credit verification, compliance/ethics checks, or customer due diligence.

 

Commercial Data: Sales, purchases, transactions, supplier information, credentials to online services and platforms, and electronic content produced by data subjects using company systems, including online interactive and voice communications, such as blog, chat, webcam use and network sessions.

 

Marketing Communications: (e.g., when you submit questions or comments, select e-mail marketing communication preferences, indicate areas of interests, subscribe to newsletters, or participate in surveys, forums, webinars, recording of telephone calls).

 

Collection Required by Law: We may be required by law to collect certain personal information about you as a result of any contractual relationship we have with you.

 

Note: We also may collect certain information automatically by means of various software tools including internet protocol (“IP”) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (“ISP”), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, clicked pages and any other information your browser may provide (collectively, “Machine Data”). We may use such information to provide and improve our website, application and our products.

How We Collect Personal Information

We may collect personal information in various ways, such as when you interact with one of our websites or applications, when you enter into a transaction or contractual arrangement with us; when you participate in our programs; when you provide data to us; or in connection with your inquiries and communications with us. We may also collect personal information from other sources, including your employer, data companies, publicly accessible databases, and marketing partners.

 

When you visit the website or open our e-newsletter, we may place a “cookie” or other online tracking device (e.g., web beacons). Cookies are small, sometimes encrypted text files that are stored on computer hard drives by websites that you visit. They are used to help users navigate websites efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owner of the website. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

 

We store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all non-essential types of cookies we ask your permission. This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.  You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Privacy Preference Center on our website by clicking on the cookie icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.

 

We use these technologies to improve your experience by recognizing you when you visit the Site, such as by assigning a session ID and delivering content specific to your interests. The cookies we place may also collect information about your IP address or click stream data within the Site (i.e., the actions taken in connection with the Site). This information helps us improve the Site. We use the following types of cookies for the following purposes:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
  • Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

 

We use Google Analytics to collect information about your use of the website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often visitors visit the website, what pages visitors visit, and what other sites they visited prior to or after coming to the website. More information on how Google Analytics uses your data can be found at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

You can set your browser according to your wishes in such a way that the setting of cookies is generally prevented. In addition, we make available our Cookie Privacy Preference Center for you to consent to use of cookies (other than strictly necessary cookies) or withdraw your consent at any time.  You can delete cookies by clearing the cache in your browser.   You can remove or change your consent clicking on the icon in the bottom right corner of the screen.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes (collectively, the “Purposes”):

 

Identification and Authentication: We may use your personal information to verify your identity when you access and use our websites or applications and to ensure the security of your personal information.

 

Customer Service: To conclude and execute agreements with customers, including required screening activities, to fulfill orders for products, including establishing credit limits and processing payments, product delivery and warranty claims.

 

Marketing: To provide you with communications and offers for products and services.

 

Communicate With You: We may use your personal information to communicate with you such as to respond to requests, notify you about products, or send you updates.

 

Manage Operations: To manage our operations such as payment processing, product development or improvement, product safety, contract management, website or application administration, web-forum management, order or contract fulfillment, analytics, fraud prevention, corporate governance, reporting and legal compliance.

 

Comply with Law: We may use your personal information to exercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so (for example, to detect, prevent and respond to fraud claims, intellectual property infringement claims, to protect or property, or other violations of law or applicable terms and conditions) or to comply with other legal or regulatory requirements.

 

Anonymizing Information: We may also anonymize your personal information in such a way that you may not reasonably be re-identified by us or any other company and we may use this anonymized information for any purpose

 

How We Disclose Your Personal Information:

 

We may disclose your information to the following categories of recipients for the Purposes set forth above:

 

Affiliated Companies: We may share personal information listed above with our affiliates in connection with our business and operational purposes.

 

Service Providers: We may share personal information for the Purposes provided above to our suppliers, vendors, and partners. For example, we may share your personal information with service providers who assist us in processing payments, for technical support of our website or application, tracking and reporting functions, quality assurance, and other services.

 

Business Purposes: We may disclose personal information and other data to enforce our rights, protect our property, or protect the rights, property or safety of others, to the effect the sale of business assets, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions.

 

Legal Purposes: We will also disclose personal information and Machine Data when such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, regulation, governmental request or to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of us or our affiliates, our users, or the public.

 

Other Purposes: We may also disclose non-identifiable information about you. This aggregate information does not identify a user personally. We may disclose such aggregated information to current and prospective business partners, customers and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.

 

International Data Transfer: We are headquartered in the United States and our affiliates are located in various countries throughout the world. Personal Information may be accessed by or transferred to the United States or to our affiliates and data processors elsewhere in the world for the Purposes described in this Privacy Statement. When we access or transfer personal information, we do so in compliance with applicable law.

Protection And Retention Of Your Personal Information

We implement physical, technical, and organizational security measures designed to safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of the personal information we process.
In deciding how long to keep your personal information, we consider our business relationship with you as well as applicable law.

Changes To This Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Statement at any time, for any reason.  We will post the amended Privacy Statement on our website.  We will notify you of material changes as required by applicable law.

Contact Us

Questions, comments or complaints regarding this Privacy Statement can be mailed or emailed to:

 

DMC Global Inc.
11800 Ridge Parkway
Suite 300
Broomfield, CO 80021
Attn: Compliance Department
Email: compliance@dmcglobal.com

 

GDPR Privacy Statement

This section of our Privacy Statement applies to personal information which we hold in connection with our business operations in the EU and to which the EU GDPR applies.

 

Personal information subject to the EU GDPR will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy except as otherwise required by law. If there is any conflict between the requirements of the EU GDPR and the privacy practices described in the other portions of this Privacy Statement, we will abide by legal requirements in those circumstances.

 

What Personal Information do we hold about you and what do we hold it for?

 

In addition to the information provided above about why we use personal information and with whom we disclose it, we collect personal information and our legal bases for processing are described below:

 

Type of information

Legal basis

Contact information

For our legitimate business purposes

 

Where relevant, performance of our contract with you.

Personal Details and Professional Affiliations

For our legitimate business purposes

Financial information

For our legitimate business purposes and performance of our contract with you.

Commercial Data

For our legitimate business interests and performance of our contract with you.

Marketing Communications

For our legitimate business interests as a vendor to provide this service to make the support community available to you.

 

We may request your consent in circumstances where a legal justification over and above legitimate interests is required by applicable law

Cookies

For our legitimate business purposes and to improve and monitor the security of the website


We may also request your consent in circumstances where a legal justification over and above legitimate interests is required by applicable law (e.g., in relation to our use of certain cookies)

Collection required by Law

For our legitimate business purposes and for compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject

 

Where We Will Transfer Your Personal Information

 

We will process your personal information both within and outside the EEA and EU. Where we transfer personal data outside of the EEA or EU, we will implement appropriate and suitable safeguards to ensure that such personal information will be protected as required be applicable data protection law.

 

These measures generally include either: transferring personal information to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information by the European Commission under the EU GDPR (Article 45(1)) or transferring personal information where the recipient has agreed to a European Commission approved data transfer agreement in the form of the standard contractual clauses under the GDPR (Article 46(2)).

Your Rights Over Your Personal Information

Where your personal information is processed in connection with our operations in the EU, the EU GDPR provides you certain rights with respect to your personal information. These rights may only apply in certain circumstances and are subject to certain exemptions. Please see the table below for a summary of your rights.

 

Right of access to your personal information

You have the right to receive a copy of your personal information that we hold about you, subject to certain exemptions.

Any access request is free of charge. We may require further information to respond to your request (for instance, evidence of your identity and information to enable us to locate the specific Personal Information you require).

Right to rectify your personal information

You have the right to ask us to correct your personal information that we hold where it is incorrect or incomplete.

Right to erasure of your Personal Information

You have the right to ask that your personal information be deleted in certain circumstances. For example (i) where your personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise used; (ii) if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal ground for which we rely on for the continued use of your personal information; (iii) if you object to the use of your personal information (as set out below); (iv) if we have used your personal information unlawfully; or (v) if your personal information needs to be erased to comply with a legal obligation.

Right to restrict the use of your personal information

You have the right to suspend our use of your personal information in certain circumstances. For example (i) where you think your personal information is inaccurate and only for such period to enable us to verify the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) the use of your personal information is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal information and request that it is suspended instead; (iii) we no longer need your personal information, but your personal information is required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to the use of your personal information and we are verifying whether our grounds for the use of your personal information override your objection.

Right to data portability

You have the right to obtain your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and for it to be transferred to another organization, where it is technically feasible. The right only applies where the use of your personal information is based on your consent or for the performance of a contract, and when the use of your personal information is carried out by automated (i.e. electronic) means.

Right to object to the use of your personal information

You have the right to object to the use of your personal information in certain circumstances. For example (i) where you have grounds relating to your particular situation and we use your personal information for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party); and (ii) if you object to the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to use your personal information.

Right to complain to the relevant data protection authority

You have the right to complain to the relevant data protection authority where you think we have not used your personal information in accordance with data protection law.

 

If you wish to contact us with questions regarding your GDPR rights, of if you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR (including those above), you may contact us at compliance@dmcglobal.com.