Privacy Policy

This Privacy statement provides an overview of how Rio Tinto processes personal data about people it does business with, whether online through this website, or in other ways.

Personal data is information that relates to you as an individual.

When we refer in this Privacy statement to Rio Tinto "processing" personal data, we mean any handling by Rio Tinto of personal data - for example, collecting, storing, using, transferring disclosing, deleting or accessing personal data.

What this Privacy statement covers

This Privacy statement applies to personal data that Rio Tinto processes as a result of dealings through this website, including your use of this website.

This Privacy Statement also applies to personal data that Rio Tinto processes as a result of other business dealings you may have with Rio Tinto.

As a global company, Rio Tinto is regulated under data protection laws and privacy laws that apply in its countries of operation. This Privacy statement is not intended to explain all the different legal obligations that apply to Rio Tinto around the globe under applicable privacy and data protection laws (Privacy Laws). However, it is intended to provide a general illustration of how Rio Tinto will process personal data about you.

If you use this website, you may choose to provide personal data to Rio Tinto (for example, by sending us an email). We will process the personal data that you provide through this website to answer your query and if relevant, to manage our business relationship with you or your company.

Cookies statement - our use of cookies and tracking data

A cookie is a short text file that may be stored on your hard drive when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies on this website:

1. "Google Analytics" cookies (a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc). Google Analytics sets four cookies that allow us to analyse traffic on the website. Google Analytics cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to this website and to see how visitors move around the site (in particular, what pages of the website are being visited). This helps us to improve the way our website works.
2. Display and preference settings cookies - for example, if you changed the size of the text on our website when you last visited, a cookie will remember that so that you don't need to do it again.
3. "Session cookies" - to identify and maintain a browsing session, and to remember whether you have rejected cookies through your browser settings.
4. Cookies that track whether a social networking option has been used to forward material from our website (so that we know which social networking tools are in use).

These cookies do not collect or track any personal data or information about you as an individual. Instead, they are focused on how the website is used, and seek to enhance the accessibility of the website.

We also log your domain and IP address automatically when you visit this website. This data identifies the computer that you are using to view this website and your approximate geographic location. Again, we do this to track usage patterns.

We do not use cookies or other tracking data to send you advertising or promotional material.

Note that most web browsers allow some control of cookies through browser settings. If you delete or block our cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly, because some of our cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of this website.

This Privacy statement places all users of this website on notice about our use of cookies. Your continued use of this website confirms to us that you are aware of our use of cookies and have no objection to this.

Online security

 

We take reasonable steps to protect the security of information (including personal data) that is provided by you or exchanged with you through this website.

Our security measures include using firewalls, intrusion detection systems and virus scanning tools to protect against unauthorised persons and viruses from accessing the information that you provide to us, and we to you. However, please be aware that there are inherent risks in transmitting information by use of the Internet and other online or electronic transmission systems and that we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted in this way.

This Privacy Statement was last updated in May 2012.