Disclaimer

General conditions of use for the Brenntag.it site

1. Provisions on general data and information

BRENNTAG S.p.A. undertakes to guarantee that all information and data contained within this website is

correct. However, BRENNTAG S.p.A. refuses all responsibility or guarantee that all information and data

supplied is up to date, correct and complete. The same principle is applicable to all other websites referred to

via hypertext links. In the same way, BRENNTAG S.p.A. cannot be held responsible for the content of websites

reached via said links. BRENNTAG S.p.A. reserves the right to change or supplement the information or data

supplied without prior notice.

2. Responsibility

BRENNTAG S.P.A. refuses all responsibility for any consequences to users or third parties caused by

malfunction, fault, interruption in availability or functioning of the Brenntag.it website and the Brenntag.com

Portal. Likewise, BRENNTAG S.p.A. refuses all commitment and responsibility as to the lawful conformity of any

services offered by partner companies on the Brenntag.com Portal.

Should other companies of the Brenntag Group offer their own services on the Brenntag.com Portal, the

General Terms and Conditions of the specific company of the BRENNTAG Group offering said services will apply.

BRENNTAG S.p.A. may be held responsible only and exclusively for their own actions or those of their

employees or representatives. BRENNTAG S.p.A.’s responsibility will however by limited to the damage that

could have reasonably been foreseen at the moment of signing the contract, unless the national law applicable

to the specific case states otherwise.

3. Copyright and distinguishing marks

All the material published on this site, including, for example, the distinguishing marks and graphic solutions, is

protected by intellectual and industrial property rights belonging, according to the cases, to BRENNTAG S.p.A.

or other companies of the BRENNTAG Group. Access to the Brenntag.it website and the Brenntag.com Portal

does not give the user any right to the above-mentioned material, including that of reproducing, changing,

distributing or publishing, even in part or with any means, said material nor the information contained within it,

without express written permission from BRENNTAG S.p.A.

4. Applicable law

All rights regarding the use of any contents and services offered on the Brenntag.it website, as well as access to

the same, are regulated by Italian law. For any dispute regarding the afore-mentioned ambits, Milan is to be

considered the place of lawful jurisdiction.

Data protection

BRENNTAG S.p.A. undertakes to protect the security of personal data of the users of the Brenntag.it website,

such as addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses, adopting security measures provided for by the law

and technology. However, as Internet data transmission cannot reach levels of absolute security, users of the

Brenntag.it website and the Brenntag.com Portal are responsible for protecting themselves with suitable

computer protection mechanisms, as well as checking the correctness of any information supplied.

1. Users’ personal information

The information of users registered on the Brenntag.it site is processed by BRENNTAG S.p.A. in order to supply

any available services and improve the BRENNTAG products, as well as for carrying out online surveys or

answer clients’ requests and inform them about current offers.

The users’ personal data is gathered upon request of the user. Users are not obliged to give data and will suffer

no consequence for not communicating said data. This information is required, however, should the user wish

to register on the Brenntag.it site and access any services on offer.

All personal information is processed by Brenntag S.p.A. telematically and with electronic tools, exclusively by

persons employed in compliance with article 30 of Legislative Decree 196/03, who work with manual, computer

and telematic tools in such a way as to guarantee security and confidentiality of the information itself.

The information supplied by the users may be made available to other companies of the BRENNTAG Group

located outside of the Italian territory.

The users registered on the Brenntag.it site can contact BRENNTAG S.p.A. for their rights provided for by article

7 of Legislative Decree nr. 196/03.

2. Non-personal data

The information sent automatically (or rather, not via registration) by the users may be used by BRENNTAG

S.p.A. and the Group’s companies in order to trace statistics and improve the contents or presentation of the

site.

3. "Cookies" –information automatically memorised by the user’s computer

Upon visiting one of the websites of the BRENNTAG.com Portal, it is possible that the users’ computer saves

information in the form of “cookie” files which are then automatically recognised when next visiting the site.

Cookies, for example, allow a website to adapt to the users’ interests or to save any passwords associated to

them, so as to avoid having to enter them each time a site is visited. To stop a computer being recognised at

future visits, it is necessary to set up the Internet browser so that cookies are cancelled from the computer’s

hard disk, or blocked or saved only following prior warning to the user.

4. Underage users

Users under the age of 18 cannot send personal information to the Brenntag.it website or the BRENNTAG.com

Portal without permission from a parent or guardian. BRENNTAG S.p.A. cannot be held responsible in the event

a minor transmits personal information.

5. Links to other websites

The Brenntag.it site may contain links to other websites. BRENNTAG S.p.A. is not responsible for data

processing carried out on said sites, nor for any relative contents or services offered in them; BRENNTAG S.p.A.

does not have any control over any information, products or services offered in said links, or on whether they

conform to the applicable laws. Moreover, BRENNTAG S.p.A. refuses all responsibility for the content and

operative technical methods of said external sites, in particular regarding the computer security aspects: to this

end the user is obliged to protect himself with the appropriate anti-virus systems, as well as obtain accurate

information regarding the policies established therein.

Furthermore, each website that can be accessed via link from the Brenntag.it website has its own privacy policy

that is different and independent from that of BRENNTAG S.p.A., upon which this last has no control. Users are

therefore invited to carefully read the confidentiality policies adopted on third party sites.

6. Questions and comments

Should you have any questions or comments regarding data protection as applied by BRENNTAG S.p.A. (for

example, on the inspection and updating of personal data) please contact us through the “Information Request”

section.