Privacy Policy

Griffon Corporation Website Privacy Policy

This Griffon Corporation Website Privacy Policy (“Website Privacy Policy”) describes the personal information Griffon Corporation (“Griffon,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects or receives from or about you when you visit our website at www.Griffon.com (“Website”) and the ways in which we use and share it. This Website Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect from you offline, or on websites operated by our subsidiaries or affiliates.

 

Information We Collect About You

We collect information about you in various ways. Some of this information may be considered “personal information” under applicable law. The personal information that you provide and that we collect or receive from you depends on the context of your interaction with us and our Website, the choices you make when you use our Website, and the features that you use.

You may provide information to third parties who act on our behalf. We collect and receive information when you provide your information to our third-party service providers and other partners who we engage to assist us in providing services to you. Such third parties may include website providers and entities that assist us in holding events. The information collected by such entities may include your name, contact details, IP address and other online identifiers, login ID or password.

We collect information from you automatically through tracking technologies. When you visit our Website we collect certain information from you automatically.  We may collect this information through cookies, web beacons, tags and scripts and other tracking technologies. We may combine this information with other information we collect about you on our Website or via other sources.

The information we collect automatically may include the following:

  • Your IP address.
  • Your device identifier.
  • Advertising identifiers.
  • Your general location.
  • The type of browser and/or operating system you are using.
  • The domain name of your Internet service provider.
  • Information regarding when you access or how you use our Website.
  • The URLs of the pages that you visit and information regarding how long you use various pages or aspects of our Website.

For more information regarding how we and third parties we engage may collect information from you automatically via cookies and other tracking technologies, please see Cookies, Online Tracking and Targeted Advertising below.

 

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect from you in a variety of ways, including:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you and to operate our Website.
  • To deliver the information, products or services you have requested from us.
  • To reach out to you about and market or promote new information, products or services to you that we believe you may be interested in.
  • To communicate with you, including to notify you about changes to our Website or products or services.
  • To help us improve our Website and deliver a more personalized experience. This includes by enabling us to estimate and analyze our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, speed up your searches and recognize you when you return to our Website.
  • To deliver targeted advertising to you. Please see Cookies, Online Tracking and Targeted Advertising below for further information about our and third parties’ use of cookies and other tracking technologies to provide you with relevant ads on our Website and other sites, and information about how to disable cookies and make other choices related to targeted advertising.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into with you. This includes as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce or defend the legal rights, privacy, safety or property of the Website, its employees or agents, or other users or to comply with law.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information, or otherwise at your direction or with your consent.
  • As permitted by law or as we may notify you.

 

How We Share Information

We may share the information that we collect pursuant to this Privacy Notice as follows:

  • With our affiliates.
  • With our service providers, business partners and vendors. These parties may include companies that host our Website, provide web analytics, perform data processing, distribute emails to you, serve targeted ads or measure ad performance, or help us communicate with you.
  • When you request any of our products or services. We will share your information to the extent necessary or appropriate to fulfill your request.
  • When required to do so by law. For example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request.

In addition, please note that if Griffon or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries or lines of business is merged, acquired, divested, financed, sold, disposed of or dissolved, including through merger, consolidation, sale or divestiture of assets, the relevant customer database, including personal information we may possess about you, and information collected pursuant to this Website Privacy Policy, may, in whole or in part, be sold, disposed of, transferred, divested, or otherwise disclosed as part of that transaction or proceeding.

 

 
Cookies, Online Tracking and Targeted Advertising
 

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We and third-party partners we engage may use cookies (i.e., small text files that are stored on your browser, computer, or mobile device), web beacons, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information, including personal information such as your IP address, from your browser.

Our Website may use session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be accessed every time you use our Website.

Our Website uses cookies and other tracking technologies for a variety of purposes, including functional, analytics and advertising purposes. For example, we, our service providers and other partners we engage use cookies and other tracking technologies:

  • For functional purposes, such as to provide the Website and its content to you.
  • For analytics purposes, such as to provide us with information about which portions of our Website are the most popular, enabling us to see what web pages a user visits and how much time a user spends on each page.
  • To personalize your experience on our Website (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site, to save your password in password-protected areas, or to tailor content, or product and service offerings to you).
  • For advertising purposes, such as to provide advertisements to you (known as targeted advertisements) that we or third parties believe may be relevant to your interests.

 

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Website contains links to third-party sites and services whose privacy practices may be different than ours. We may also allow you to connect with other third-party sites and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party sites and services and you should consult the  third-party sites’ and services’ privacy notices in order to better understand their privacy practices.

 

Security

Griffon takes seriously the obligation to safeguard personal information. Griffon has implemented procedures that are designed to restrict access to personal information to its personnel who need to know that information to perform their jobs. Physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards are in place to guard your personal information.

 

Children’s Privacy

Our Website is not intended for users under the age of 16, and Griffon does not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 16. No one under the age of 16 is permitted to access or use this Website or provide us with personal information.

 

Changes to the Website Privacy Policy

From time to time, Griffon may update or revise this Website Privacy Policy. If there are changes to the terms of this Website Privacy Policy, documents containing the revised policy on the relevant website(s) will be updated.

 

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Website Privacy Policy, please contact us at IR@Griffon.com.