This is the official website of Advanced Materials business of the Aditya Birla Group. The data/ information displayed on this Website is related to the Advanced Materials business of Grasim Industries Limited (India), Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Pvt. Ltd and their subsidiaries in diverse geographies, engaged in the business of Advanced Materials and provides general information about the company/companies. Each of these companies are independent legal entity governed under applicable laws of jurisdiction in which it is incorporated/located.

Grasim Industries Limited (India), Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Pvt. Ltd and their subsidiaries (“Company”) are committed to protecting the privacy of every individual who visits www.abg-am.com (the “Website”). We have adopted the following Privacy Policy, which sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be handled and dealt by us through your use of the Website.

“we” / “us” / “our” mean Grasim Industries Limited (India), Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) Pvt. Ltd and their subsidiaries

Website means www.abg-am.com

“You” or “your” means any person who visits our Website.

This policy will be applicable to all personally identifiable information (PII) that you provide to the Company while visiting or using the website. This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

The Company expressly reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy periodically in future which will be exercised at its sole discretion, and at such intervals of its choosing the right without prior notice to the users. User shall review our Privacy Policy available at the Website regularly to be sure you are fully updated with our current practices and procedures in this area. Your continued use of the Website will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Website: Overview: As part of the normal operation of the Website, we collect and, in some cases, may disclose personally identifiable information about you. This Privacy Policy describes the personally identifiable information we collect about you and what may happen to that information.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any PII that you may provide to third parties (including the other Aditya Birla Group entities or Grasim Industries Limited entities or Aditya Birla Chemicals (Thailand) entities), such as through other sites linked to the Website. Please be aware that if you choose to visit such third party sites, you should contact such third parties directly to determine their respective privacy policies because that third party's privacy policy and not our Website's will govern your activities and any PII you disclose while visiting the third party site.

By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the conditions of the Terms of Use and governs all use of the Website by You.

We may collect your name, address, email address, telephone number, and other personally identifiable information you submit on the Website. Such personally identifiable information will not be posted in areas of the Website viewable by the public or users of the Site.

We may collect information that you share with us through your use of our Website, for example by: - E-mailing or writing to us using the contact details posted on our Website; or - Submitting other enquiries.

The Company may collect your PII in several ways from your use of this Website, for instance: a) when you contact us through the Website (through any form vis. e-mail address, hyperlink or social media address posted therein), b) when you register with us to receive products and/or services, c) when you complete surveys conducted by or for us, d) when you elect to receive any communications (including any newsletter, promotional offers) from us and e) information as may be voluntarily provided b you.

We automatically collect some information about your visit to the Website. This information helps us to make improvements to Website content and navigation and includes your IP address and the way you use and interact with its content, namely: a) Our web servers or affiliates who provide analytics and performance enhancement services collect IP address, operating system details, browsing details, device details and language settings. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar information. The Company uses this information to measure the site usage, improve content and to ensure safety and security, as well enhance performance of the Website. b) We may collect your PII automatically via Cookies, in line with the cookie settings on your browser. For more information about Cookies, please see the section below, titled “User of Cookies”.

Our primary goal in collecting personally identifiable information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to reach out to you in relation to programmes or products or services offered. This allows us to provide services and features that are most likely to meet your needs, and to customize the Website and our services to make your experience easier. We may use the information we collect from you: to provide you with information and services that you request from us and to process your requests (such as replying to your queries or complaints). We may use the information to evaluate your candidature for prospective career opportunities with us. This may allow us to drive marketing campaign, promotional communications for which you have consented. We use personally identifiable information in the files we maintain about you, and the other personally identifiable information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Website to provide you with services and in some cases to protect our vital interest.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be required to disclose personally identifiable information to the government, law enforcement agencies, or third parties under certain circumstances; third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications; or users or authorized users may independently abuse or misuse your information that they collect from the Website in violation of our Website’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Therefore, although we use industry standard information security practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information may be disclosed.

We may sometimes share data with our affiliates, associates, subsidiaries, joint ventures, group entities, and third party service providers that provide us with services and/or provide you with services. To the extent that these entities have access to your personally identifiable information, we will ask them to treat it at least as protectively as they treat personally identifiable information they obtain from their other authorized users or members. Our affiliates, subsidiaries, and joint ventures will follow privacy practices no less protective of all authorized users and members than our practices described in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible that the Company, its subsidiaries, associates, affiliates, joint ventures or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination occur, you should expect that, the Company would share some or all of your personally identifiable information in order to continue to maintain and provide access to the Website.

The PII that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at locations that may or may not be in India. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the territory of India, who work for or are engaged by the Company and its subsidiaries and other entities of the Aditya Birla Group.

The Company co-operates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws relating to matters, such as intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose any personally identifiable information about you to law enforcement and other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe reasonably necessary or appropriate, in connection with any investigation.

In case you request to remove your personally identifiable information from our records, we will retain such information in our files and databases, in order to use it in some unavoidable circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior personally identifiable information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints, including stored "back up" systems. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely removed from our databases in response to your requests.

The Website may use "cookies" (information stored on Your computer/Your Computer Resources which include mobiles phones and also APPs) by your browser at our request) and uses them to improve your experience of using the Website. "Cookies" is a term generally used for small text files a web site can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site, allow a site to track usage behaviors and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising, preferences etc. Cookies themselves do not personally identify you, but they do identify Your computer, computer resources and devices connected with computer resources and include Mobile phones. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the computer that has no meaning outside the assigning site. You are also being made aware that the Company cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data on the Company website. If You do not want information collected through the use of cookies, you may change the settings in the browsers that allows to deny or accept the cookie feature as per Your discretion and in the manner agreed by you.

Our Website has links that redirects you to our social networking pages such of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and others that may be added from time to time. Your visits and activity thereon vis-à-vis those portals shall be governed by their own privacy policies applicable for visiting their sites. Please go through their privacy policies to get information on their Privacy Practices.

The Company will use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information. Although we will put our best efforts to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features which are appropriate to the type of personal information you have provided to try to prevent unauthorized access or inadvertent disclosure. However, you agree and acknowledge that "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access. We are committed to protecting your PII in our custody and have taken reasonable steps to ensure appropriate physical, technical and managerial safeguards are in place to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, alteration, transmission and deletion. We use encryption at relevant points to protect your data. We have a process for regularly testing the effectiveness of our technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing.

We will retain data for a reasonable time and/or as may be statutorily required to be maintained as per applicable law/ or arising out of legitimate purposes. We shall take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify PII that is no longer needed, including that processed by third party vendors engaged by the Company from time to time.

We are processing your personal data basis the consent you have provided by accepting this Privacy Policy. We acknowledge your right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of the processing, data portability and object to the processing of your personal data. However, these rights are not absolute in nature and are subjected to contract, applicable legislation, record keeping requirement under applicable statutes, ongoing disputes or potential disputes the Company may foresee. To exercise these rights with respect to your personal data you may contact abg.am@adityabirla.com.

In the event of any misconduct/fraud/cybercrime, etc. on your part, the Company shall be at liberty to use your PII as evidence in the Court of law and shall also be entitled to carry out investigations/inquiries as it deems fit with the help of private agencies or authorities as it deems fit. By you consenting to this Notice, you agree to sharing of your PII for the aforesaid purposes and understand that exercise of your rights to that extent shall be restricted.

In the event, you are of the view that your personal data is not processed in accordance with the purposes as disclosed in this Privacy Policy or if you have any query related to your privacy of information or in relation to your rights under applicable law, please feel free to contact us at: abg.am@adityabirla.com

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page. Continued use of the Website will signify that you agree to any such changes.

If you have any questions or suggestions about our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us at: