Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us. It is the policy of Fortis Química website to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you on the Fortis Química website, and other websites we own and operate.
We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We do so by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. We also inform you why we are collecting it and how it will be used.
We only retain the information collected for as long as necessary to provide the requested service. When we store data, we protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
We do not publicly share personally identifiable information or disclose it to third parties, except when required by law.
Our website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites and cannot accept responsibility for their respective privacy policies.
You are free to refuse our request for personal information, understanding that we may not be able to provide some of the desired services.
Continued use of our website will be regarded as acceptance of our practices regarding privacy and personal information. If you have any questions about how we handle user data and personal information, please contact us through our form.
The data subject is hereby aware that the content of this Privacy Policy may be altered at the discretion of Fortis Química website, without prior notice or notification. In the event of changes, the modifications will have full effect from the moment they are made available on the website.
Cookie Policy
What are cookies?
As is common practice on almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are small files downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, but this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.
How we use cookies?
We use cookies for various reasons, detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave all cookies enabled if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting your browser settings (see your browser’s Help section for how to do this). Please be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain features and functionalities of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Cookies we set
- Email newsletters related cookies
- This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications valid only to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Survey-related cookies
- Periodically, we offer surveys and questionnaires to provide interesting information, helpful tools, or to better understand our user base. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already participated in a survey or to provide accurate results after changing pages.
- Form-related cookies
- When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember the user’s details for future correspondence.
- Site preference cookies
- In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use trusted third-party cookies. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit, so we can continue to produce engaging content.
- For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.
- Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit, which helps us understand how we can improve the site for you.
- Periodically, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way the site is presented. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site, while ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
- As we sell products, it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and, as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to analyze our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.
- The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
- For more information on Google AdSense, please refer to the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.
- We use advertisements to offset the costs of running this site and provide funding for future development. The behavioral advertising cookies used by this site are designed to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant ads whenever possible by anonymously tracking your interests and presenting similar things that may be of interest.
- Several partners advertise on our behalf, and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and, where applicable, allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.
User Commitment
The user undertakes to make proper use of the content and information provided by the Fortis Química website, with an enunciative but not limited to:
- A) Not engage in activities that are illegal or contrary to good faith and public order;
- B) Not disseminate racist, xenophobic, gambling, gambling, any type of illegal pornography, terrorism propaganda, or content against human rights;
- C) Not cause any damage to the physical (hardware) and logical (software) systems of the Fortis Química website, its suppliers, or third parties, or introduce or spread computer viruses or any other hardware or software systems that are capable of causing the aforementioned damage.
Data Subject Rights
Data subjects have the right to request information regarding their data from the Fortis Química website at any time through a formal request.
Requests will be analyzed as provided by current legislation, and for legal reasons, some requests may not be fulfilled.
Data subjects, according to the LGPD, can exercise their rights through:
Confirmation of the existence of processing;
- Access to their personal data;
- Correction of incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated data;
- Anonymization, blocking, or deletion of unnecessary, excessive, or data processed in non-compliance with the provisions of this Law;
- Portability of data to another service or product provider, upon express request, in accordance with the regulations of the national authority, respecting trade and industrial secrets;
- Deletion of personal data processed with the consent of the data subject;
- Information on public and private entities with which the controller has shared data;
- Information about the possibility of not giving consent and about the consequences of denial;
- Revocation of consent.
How to exercise your data subject rights?
If you do not wish to receive our marketing communications, you can unsubscribe from future emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in the marketing email.
For other requests regarding data subject rights, please contact us through our contact form.
More Information
We hope this is clear, and as mentioned before, if there is anything you are unsure whether you need or not, it is generally safer to leave cookies enabled if you interact with any of the features you use on our website.
The Fortis Química website will make efforts to safeguard the information and data collected from the user. However, considering that there is no fully effective and secure means of transmitting and retaining electronic data, the Fortis Química website cannot ensure that unauthorized third parties will not succeed in unauthorized access. Therefore, it disclaims any liability for damages and losses arising from the conduct of third parties, external attacks on the website such as viruses, database breaches, technical or operational defects, as well as connection failures resulting from the use of the website.