PRIVACY POLICY
Our Commitment to Privacy
United Technologies Corporation’s Pratt & Whitney division (P&W)
appreciates your interest in its products and services and your use of its
websites and/or portals. P&W recognizes that building long-term business
relationships depends in large part on trust. Earning your trust begins
with P&W’s commitment to protecting your privacy. This privacy statement
applies only to personal data collected during visits to P&W’s websites
and portals. It does not apply to personal data collected offline or manually
processed data.
Notice
P&W provides this online privacy statement to make you aware of P&W’s
privacy practices and the choices you may make about the way P&W collects
and uses personal information you provide through P&W’s websites and
portals. This statement is accessible on the home pages of P&W’s websites
and portals and on every web page on those websites and portals.
Publicly Accessible Websites
You can visit P&W’s publicly accessible websites (websites that do
not require a password for access; e.g., www.pw.utc.com) without identifying
yourself or revealing any personal information unless you choose to do so.
Visitors to P&W’s publicly accessible websites are asked to provide
personal information such as name, mailing address, and e-mail address only
if they want to communicate with P&W (e.g., to ask a question or request
information) or submit a resume. P&W uses this personal information
to communicate with you (e.g., answer your questions, respond to your requests,
process your resume). If you choose not to provide P&W with personal
information, you can still access certain portions of P&W’s publicly
accessible websites.
P&W collects non-personally identifiable information online such as
a user’s domain name, browser type, date and time of access, and pages viewed
to better understand your needs and to provide better service. P&W uses
non-personally identifiable information that it collects online to measure
the number of visitors to a website and to determine the features of the
website that users find useful based on the amount of traffic to those features.
P&W uses this information to enhance the user’s experience at the website
and to prepare future content based on users’ interests.
Password-protected Websites and Portals
P&W also sponsors a number of password-protected websites and portals
that it makes available to customers, suppliers, employees and others by
invitation only. Before accessing these websites or portals, you must complete
a registration process, which requires you to provide personal information
such as name, business affiliation, e-mail address, and in some cases nationality,
to obtain access credentials. P&W uses the personal information you
supply during registration to verify your identify and permission to access
a particular website or portal, to provide you with customized content,
to log your use of certain portions of P&W’s password-protected websites
or portals, to engage in transactions with you or your company, and/or to
determine your eligibility to view and/or use export controlled content.
In some cases, you may be asked to provide additional personal information
after your initial registration to verify information you previously provided
or to obtain access to additional services. If you choose not to provide
P&W with required personal information during or after the registration
process, P&W may deny you access to some or all portions of P&W’s
password-protected websites or portals.
In addition to personal information P&W collects from users of its
password-protected websites and portals, P&W collects non-personally
identifiable information online such as a user’s domain name, browser type,
date and time of access, and pages viewed to better understand your needs
and to provide better service. P&W uses non-personally identifiable
information that it collects online to measure the number of visitors to
a website or portal and to determine the features of the website or portal
that users find useful based on the amount of traffic to those features.
P&W uses this information to enhance the user’s experience at the website
or portal and to prepare future content based on users’ interests.
Sharing the Information
Except as discussed below, P&W will not sell, rent, or lease to third
parties the personal information it collects online from you. P&W may
share personal information collected from you with P&W affiliates and
information technology contractors for the purposes described in this statement.
P&W will not otherwise share your personal information with third parties
without your consent, unless required by law or as disclosed to you when
the information is collected. If P&W shares your personal information
with a third party, such party will either be subject to P&W’s policies
or contractually required to provide the same privacy protection as P&W
in handling your personal information.
Choice and Onward Transfer of Data
As described above, P&W will offer the opportunity to opt out of disclosure
to third parties (other than P&W affiliates and information technology
contractors) of personal information P&W collects online from you. P&W
will not use the personal information you provide online for purposes incompatible
with those described above or that you later authorize without first notifying
and offering you an opportunity to opt out of such use.
Access
P&W strives to keep your personal information accurate. P&W provides
access to the personal information it collects online from you so that you
may review, update, amend, correct, or delete it. If you choose to delete
it, P&W will use reasonable efforts to remove your personal information
from its files. Note that deleting certain information may make you ineligible
to access certain content or features on P&W’s websites or portals and
may result in cancellation of access privileges to password-protected websites
and portals. To protect your privacy and security, P&W also will take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your
personal information. To access your personal information, return to the
web page where you originally entered it and follow the instructions on
that web page.
Security and Integrity
P&W is committed to ensuring the security and integrity of your information.
P&W has adopted reasonable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures
to safeguard the personal information you provide to P&W online. These
procedures protect the information against unauthorized access or disclosure,
loss or misuse, and alteration or destruction. They also help ensure that
the information is accurate and used properly.
Oversight
P&W has an Internal Privacy Program that implements this online privacy
statement. We are continuously working to improve the P&W web experience
and our online privacy policies and practices.
P&W’s Internal Privacy Program has an internal complaint procedure
for investigating complaints about our privacy practices.
Children
Although P&W’s website is not directed at children, P&W is committed
to complying with all applicable laws and requirements, such as the Children’s
Online Privacy Protection Act. P&W does not knowingly collect information
from children under the age of 13. If P&W learns that it has personal
information relating to a child under the age of 13, P&W will delete
that information from its systems.
Links to Unrelated Party Websites
Links to unrelated party websites found on P&W’s websites or portals
are provided solely as a convenience. If you use these links, you leave
the P&W website or portal. P&W has not reviewed these unrelated
party sites, and does not control and is not responsible for any of these
sites, their content, or their privacy policies and practices.
How P&W Uses Cookies
P&W may use cookies to obtain non-personal information from you when
you visit P&W’s websites or portals. A cookie is a small text file placed
on your computer's hard drive that allows web sites to recognize repeat
users, facilitate users’ access to sites, and compile aggregate data that
will allow content improvements at the website or portal. If users do not
want cookies to be accessible to P&W, most browser programs allow users
to deny or disable the use of cookies. If you choose not to disable the
use of cookies, then your browser adds the text in a small file. Cookies
allow a web application to respond to you as an individual. By gathering
and remembering information about your preferences, the web application
can tailor its operation to your needs, likes, and dislikes. Cookies also
help us analyze web traffic and let us know when you visit a particular
site. If you choose to deny or disable the use of cookies some functions
of P&W’s websites or portals may not be available to you.
Overall, P&W’s limited use of cookies helps P&W operate more effective
websites and portals by monitoring what's working and what isn't through
traffic analysis. P&W wants to be sure you understand that accepting
a cookie does not give P&W access to your computer or any personal information
other than the data you choose to share with P&W.
Periodic Changes
Please note that P&W reviews its online privacy practices from time
to time and those practices are subject to change. Therefore, users should
periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current
version of our online privacy statement.
Your Acceptance of Our Privacy Practices
By using this website, you signify your acceptance of this privacy statement,
and you adhere to the terms and conditions posted on the website. If you
do not agree with any of these terms, please do not use this site or submit
any personal information.
Effective Date May 31, 2002
