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Gillette Privacy Principles

At Gillette, we recognize that you buy our products not only because they are great products. You also buy them because they are developed, produced, sold and guaranteed by a Company that has earned the trust of consumers around the world for more than 100 years. Making sure that we keep that trust is very important to us, so we want you to know exactly how we protect and use information about you in connection with our business.

As a consumer products company, Gillette is constantly looking to develop quality products that you want. We also try to make sure that the products we sell are available where you want them and at prices you find attractive. To do that, we use information from a variety of sources to find out how we can better serve your product needs and to introduce you to our products. We also are interested in information that helps us develop customized offers for you.

We believe, however, that you should be in control of your own personal information. We do not wish to have any personal information that you don't want us to have.

To safeguard your privacy with respect to the Internet, we are guided by the policies and practices in this Privacy Policy.

 

The Gillette Company Website Privacy Policy

The web site you have entered is operated by or on behalf of The Gillette Company, and/or its affiliates and divisions, including but not limited to DURACELL, Braun and Oral-B ("Gillette"). This Privacy Policy also applies to subsidiaries of The Gillette Company, such as Gillette Australia Pty Ltd. Gillette is committed to protecting your personal privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information that are collected by Gillette on its web sites, how we may use this information and how we protect it. This Policy also explains the choices that you can make about the way your information is collected and used.

This Privacy Policy also applies to information collected by means other than the Gillette web sites.

Our Privacy Policy includes the following topics. For specific information regarding any particular topic, please click on the link below:

Sites Covered by This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all websites operated by or on behalf of Gillette (the "Gillette web sites").

The Gillette web sites may provide links to third-party web sites that are beyond Gillette's control. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these third-party web sites, or banners, sweepstakes and other advertisements or promotions that Gillette may sponsor or participate in on web sites owned by third parties. These third-party web sites may send their own cookies to users, or otherwise collect data or solicit personal information. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company (which may differ from Gillette's) before providing Personal Information. Gillette does not endorse and makes no guarantee or representation as to the sufficiency, accuracy or completeness of the content or privacy policy of any third-party web site to which you may be linked from a Gillette site.

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Your Consent to This Privacy Policy

By using our web sites, you indicate that you agree with the terms of our current Privacy Policy as posted on our sites as well as the terms of our Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with this Policy or our Terms and Conditions, please do not use our sites or provide any Personal Information to us.

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The Information We Collect and How We Use It

Gillette will not collect any personally-identifiable information about you, such as your name, address, telephone number or email address ("Personal Information") through its web sites unless you provide it to us yourself. Circumstances in which you may choose to provide us Personal Information include: providing your name and mailing address while entering a contest so that we may notify you if you win, providing your email address so that we may send you information you request, or registering as a user so that you may gain access to a particular section of a site. If you do not wish for us to collect any Personal Information about you, do not submit it to us.

When we do collect Personal Information that you provide to us, we may store, process and use it for the following purposes: to send you information you have requested such as information about us, promotional information about our products, or details of any offers or promotions; to assist us in improving our products, services or the content of our sites; to contact you in connection with a contest or promotion; to send you products that you may have purchased on one of our sites; or for our own internal marketing and research purposes.

The web site you entered may also collect Personal Information from you about a third party (e.g., the site might allow you to send an email or message to a friend, in which case we will need that person's name and email address). Please note that we use such information only for the specified purpose (e.g., to deliver the email message) and we will not contact the third party again by email unless and until the third party consents.

We may also enhance your Personal Information by linking it to data obtained from third parties, such as non-personally identifiable information (e.g., demographic and geographic characteristics) as well as other publicly available data such as census information. Such enhanced information allows us to provide our users with a more customized experience.

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With Whom We May Share Information

In the course of doing business, we employ other companies to perform a variety of functions on our behalf. For example, at times we may retain third parties to analyze, update and correct data we collect on our web sites, including Personal Information, to help us improve our products, our database and our web sites. We may also share Personal Information with agents, suppliers, fulfillment houses and other third parties to allow delivery of prizes, information, products or services. These suppliers and other third parties may have access to your Personal Information if it is necessary to perform their functions for Gillette, but they are not authorized by us to use your Personal Information in any way other than the intended use.

In addition, we may use Personal Information obtained from a variety of sources (including third party mailers and new technology sources) to design consumer offers and send consumers product samples. If you do not wish to receive any of these offers or products, you may notify us at privacy@gillette.com , and we will make every effort to ensure you are not contacted.

Except as stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, rent, transfer or intentionally disclose your Personal Information without your prior consent. We will comply with all applicable laws in the relevant jurisdiction in connection with your Personal Information. We may release your Personal Information if required to do so by law or legal process or to a third party to which ownership of Gillette is transferred via an acquisition, merger, sale of assets or otherwise.

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Important Note Regarding Cross-Border Data Transfers

The laws and regulations in different countries impose different requirements on the Internet and data protection. Gillette is based in the United States , as are the servers that make our sites available worldwide. All matters relating to our sites are governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States . If you are located outside of the United States , please note that any information you provide may be transferred to the United States , which may not have privacy laws similar to those in your own country, and that by submitting the information you authorize this transfer.

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Use of Cookies

Like most companies, while you are visiting one of our sites, we may store some information (called a "cookie") on your computer's hard drive. The use of cookies allow us to tailor our sites to your individual preferences and save time if you visit the site again. It also helps us study the browsing patterns of our visitors and improve our web site design and content. However, the use of our sites is not conditional on use of cookies. Most internet browsers allow you to set them to warn you before a cookie is stored or block cookies altogether. You may set your browser to block cookies on our sites, although this could impair your use of the sites.

Through the use of "cookies," Gillette may automatically collect some technical information which is not personally-identifiable. Examples of this include the type of internet browser you are using and the domain name of the web site from which you linked to one of our sites. We may aggregate this type of information for market research purposes and to improve our web sites. We do not use "cookies" to obtain personal information about any of our visitors.

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Bulletin Boards and Chat Rooms

From time to time, portions of our sites may allow you to post information which other visitors to the site will be able to access (such as on a "bulletin board" or during an interactive "chat" with other visitors). By posting information, you are deemed to consent to such use of that information. In the event that you choose to post information in this context, it becomes generally available to the public, and we have no ability to control or limit its use by visitors to our sites. Therefore, we encourage you not to post any information you consider private or sensitive on our sites.

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Protection of Children's Personal Information

Gillette is committed to protecting the online privacy of children and making the Internet safe. It is our policy not to gather any personal data on any of our websites that are directed at children. If age information is gathered on our websites that are not directed at children, it is our policy not to collect personal data from children under 13.

We encourage parents/guardians of children under 13 to regularly check and monitor their children's use of email and other activities online.

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Data Protection and Security

We take commercially reasonable precautions to keep your Personal Information secure. All access to the information we collect is subject to physical, electronic and managerial restrictions to prevent unauthorized access, modification or misuse. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online, and you do so at your own risk.

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Manage Your Personal Information; Unsubscribe

We will retain your Personal Information for a reasonable time in the normal course of business. We will destroy or permanently de-identify your information when it is no longer needed. You are ultimately in control of the Personal Information that we collect and use. You can access personal information that we hold about you. We want to keep your data complete, up to date and accurate. Gillette provides its users with the following options to manage their Personal Information that is in reasonably retrievable form in our database:

. send us your request via email to privacy@gillette.com .
. send us your request via postal mail to:

Gillette Privacy Inquiries
The Gillette Company
Prudential Tower Building
Boston , MA 02199
U.S.A.

Please be sure to include your name, username and clear instructions regarding any change to your Personal Information or if you would like us to unsubscribe you from our database.

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Effective Date and Changes to Our Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of December 2004. In the event we change our Privacy Policy, we will post these changes promptly on this page. We encourage you to check this page periodically to ensure that you are aware of our current Privacy Policy.

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New Technologies

From time to time, new technologies are introduced that may have privacy implications. Gillette will carefully assess such technologies, and will use them in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the principles set out at the beginning of it. When we obtain such information, we will take reasonable steps to notify you. Where appropriate, Gillette may amend this Privacy Policy to address such new technologies.

One of the technologies that some consumers believe will enable companies to gather consumer personal information is electronic product code tags. Gillette does not anticipate using this technology for that purpose except at individual consumers' request.

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How to Contact Us

In the event you wish to contact us in connection with this Privacy Policy, you may email us at privacy@gillette.com , or write to us at the postal address provided above.

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