2. Trademarks
The trademark "Ecolab", the Ecolab logo and all product names and/or product get-ups on these pages are registered trademarks of Ecolab Inc., its affiliates, licensors or joint venture partners. Any unauthorized use or abuse of these trademarks is expressly prohibited and constitutes a violation of trademark law, copyright law, other intellectual property rights or unfair competition law.

3. Disclaimer for Third Party Websites
(a) The pages of this website may contain links (i.e. "hyperlinks") to other websites that are operated by third parties and whose contents are not known to Ecolab. Ecolab merely facilitates access to such websites and assumes no responsibility whatsoever for their contents. Our links to third party websites are merely intended to make navigating easier for you. Statements shown on linked pages are not made our own. We rather explicitly dissociate from any and all contents of any and all third party pages linked on the pages of our website. In particular, we do not assume any liability for any breaches of statutory provisions or infringements of third party rights that occur on such pages.

(b) For websites to which hyperlinks are provided from the Ecolab website, the owners of these websites are solely responsible for the content of these pages as well as for any sale of the products offered thereon and for the handling of any orders relating to the same.

(c) Ecolab does not assume any liability for any infringement of any copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property or personality rights that occurs on a page accessed by a hyperlink.
(d) In the event of an order or any other legal declaration in respect of a transaction, a contract is made solely between the user and the owner of the respective website or offering party or person presented therein, under no circumstances, however, between Ecolab and the user. Please note the general business conditions of the respective supplier on the hyperlinked website.
(e) This disclaimer applies to all hyperlinks shown in this domain and to the complete content of the pages to which such hyperlinks lead.

4. General Disclaimer
Any liability of Ecolab for damages arising out of the use of this website - irrespective of the legal cause, including tort – is limited to damages that are caused by intent or gross negligence. To the extent that there be a mandatory liability of Ecolab as a result of a breach of material contractual duties, the total amount of any claim for damages is limited to the foreseeable damages. This shall not affect Ecolab's liability under applicable Product Liability law or under any warranties given. The aforesaid limitations of liability also do not apply in the event of harm to life, bodily injury or harm to health of a person.

Ecolab employs great efforts to keep Ecolab websites free from viruses, however, we are unable to guarantee any absence of viruses. For this reason, we recommend that care be taken to assure adequate protection against viruses (e.g. using virus scanners) before downloading documents and data. Ecolab does not warrant any freedom from faults or errors of the services offered on the Ecolab website nor their availability.

5. Forecasts and Declarations of Intent
Forward-looking statements on this Internet site have been made according to the best of our knowledge and belief. However, the results actually achieved by Ecolab may differ greatly from these forward-looking statements, because they depend on a whole group of factors of a competitive and macroeconomic nature that are in some cases beyond the control of Ecolab. Without prejudice to any legal obligations to amend forward-looking statements, Ecolab has no intention of constantly updating all forward-looking statements contained in this website.

6. Ecolab Products
The products shown on this Internet website are examples of the products available from companies of the Ecolab Group worldwide. Ecolab does not warrant that a product shown is also available in your country. For a list of all the Ecolab products available in your country, please go to the Ecolab homepage for your country.

7. Miscellaneous
These General Terms of Use are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany without regard to the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods the application of which Convention to these General Terms of Use is hereby expressly excluded. To the extent permitted by applicable law, legal venue for all disputes relating to this website lies with Duesseldorf , Germany Should any provision of these General Terms of Use be or become invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.

Privacy Statement

1. General
Ecolab respects the privacy of each person who visits our website. Now we would like to inform you of the type of data collected by Ecolab and how they are used. You will also learn how you can check the accuracy of this information and arrange for the deletion of these data by Ecolab. Data are collected, processed and used in conformity with the data protection regulations of the country in which the responsible data processing department is located. We take any action required to ensure compliance. This Privacy Statement does not apply to websites accessible from hyperlinks on Ecolab websites.

2. Collection, use and processing of personal data
We collect data relating to a specific person for processing and usage purposes only, if you voluntarily decide to enter the data or expressly give your consent thereto. By doing so, you accept the following terms of use. When visiting our website, certain data are automatically stored on our servers for the purpose of system administration or for statistical or backup purposes. These data comprise the name of your Internet service provider, in some cases your IP address, the version of your browser software, the operating system of the computer used to access our website, the website you are using to visit us, the websites that you visit while you are with us and, if applicable, any search terms you have been using to find our website. Depending on the circumstances, such data may allow that conclusions be drawn about certain visitors to the website. However, no person-related data are used in this context. Such data are used solely after having been rendered anonymously. If Ecolab transfers data to an external service-provider, technical and organizational measures will be taken which guarantee that their transmission occurs in conformity with the statutory data protection regulations. Some services may require registration. When you register with us, you may need to complete certain fields (some are required and some are optional), as well as choose a user name and password. In these situations, if you choose to withhold any personal data requested by us, it may not be possible for you to gain access to the affected service and for us to respond to your query.

If you voluntarily supply us with personal-related data, we shall not use, process or transfer these data beyond the limits permitted by statute or defined by yourself in your declaration of consent. Furthermore, we will transfer your data only, if we are obliged to do so by official or court orders.

Any changes to this Privacy Statement will be published on this page. This enables you to inform yourself at any time about which data we are storing and how we collect and use such data.

3. Security
Ecolab will store your data safely and, therefore, take all precautionary measures to protect your data against loss, abuse or changes. Contractual partners of Ecolab who have access to your data in order to provide services to you on behalf of Ecolab are contractually obliged to keep such information in confidence and may not use these data for any other purpose. In some cases, it will be necessary that we transfer your inquiries to affiliated companies of the Ecolab Group. Also in these cases your data will be treated confidential.

4. Person-related Data of Children
Ecolab does not wish to collect data on children below the age of 14 years. Where necessary, Ecolab will expressly draw the children's attention in an appropriate place to the fact that they shall not send any person-related information to Ecolab. Should parents or other legal guardians discover that the children under their supervision have made person-related data available to Ecolab, we request that they contact us at the address below (see Section 6 below), if these data shall be deleted. We shall then arrange for the deletion of these data without delay.

5. "Cookies"
To facilitate the use of our website, we are using "cookies". Cookies are small units of data temporarily stored on the hard disk of your computer by your browser that are necessary for using our website. The information contained in cookies serves, e.g., the purpose of session control, in particular improved navigation and allows for a high level of user-friendliness of a website. The cookies that we use do not store any person-related data. The majority of web browsers automatically accepts cookies. You can avoid this by changing the settings of your browser. You can remove the cookies stored on your PC any time by deleting the temporary Internet files (Browser bar "Tools/Extras"-"Internet options").

6. Your Wishes and Queries / Data Protection Officer
Stored data will be deleted by Ecolab upon expiration of the statutory or contractual filing period or if Ecolab no longer requires the same. At any time, you may, of course, ask for the deletion of your data. You are also entitled at any time to revoke your consent to the use or processing of your person-related data with future effect. In these cases, or if you have any other wishes in connection with your person-related data, please send an e-mail or a letter to our data protection officer, Mr. Thomas Schneider. Please also contact us this way, if you would like to know whether we have collected data about you and, if so, which data. We shall endeavor to comply with your wish immediately.

7. Further Information
The Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) stipulates in § 4 g that the following data shall be made available to anyone in a suitable manner in accordance with § 4 e:

(a) Name of the responsible entity: Ecolab GmbH & Co OHG

(b) Management Board: Ecolab Beteiligungs GmbH, Douglas M. Baker

(c) Address of the responsible entity: Reisholzer Werftstrasse 38-42, 40589 Duesseldorf, Germany

(d) Intended purpose of data collection, processing or use:

- The object of the company is the manufacture and distribution of chemical products of all kinds, especially detergents, cleaning agents and care products

- Chemical industry products

- Technical equipments and installations

Ecolab may acquire domestic and foreign companies of all kinds or participate in them and do any business and action which is conducive to the objects of the corporation.

(e) Description of the groups of persons affected and the respective data or data categories:

Data relating to customers, employees, pensioners, employees of affiliated companies, employees of external companies (subcontractors), leasing personnel, job applicants, external inventors or heirs, respectively, suppliers and service-providers, external customers, consumers, visitors to the corporation’s site, investors as well as financial analysts and shareholders - insofar as necessary for fulfilling the purposes specified under Section 4.

(f) Recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data may be disclosed notified: Public authorities, health insurance funds and employers' liability association in the event of the presence of the relevant legal regulations, external contractors in accordance with § 11 BDSG, external service-providers, Ecolab pensioners' association, affiliated companies and internal departments for fulfilling the purposes specified in Section 4.