Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Privacy Notice



Last Updated: June 1, 2024

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. and its affiliates ("Church & Dwight") know that your privacy is important to you, and we want you to know that it is important to us too. This Notice explains the types of information we collect, how we may use, disclose and protect your information, and the choices available to you.

This Notice applies to information we obtain through the Church & Dwight websites (including mobile versions of our websites), our mobile software applications, and the various social networking platforms that we use (each, a "Site"). This Notice also applies to information that you may provide to us, or that we may obtain about you, through offline channels, such as over the phone, by mail, or in person.


What information do we collect?
The types of personal information we may collect about you include your name; company name; age or year of birth; postal addresses; e-mail addresses; telephone numbers; wireless device addresses (including text message addresses); gender; dietary information; credit card and other payment information; purchase, site browsing and transaction history; geolocation data; health-related information if you provide it to us in connection with our products, a product claim, or otherwise; job history and application information; and interests, hobbies and demographic information.

We may collect your personal information in various ways, such as when you conduct a transaction on our Site; engage in a promotion; create an account on our Site; sign up for our newsletters; use our services; make online purchases; enter sweepstakes and contests; complete surveys, quizzes or questionnaires; submit a product review; interact with the Site "Chat" feature; participate in product affinity groups and loyalty programs; apply for employment with us; interact with us at a trade shows or lunch 'n learns; or submit a complaint, comment or question to us. We also may obtain information about you from third-party sources.

A "tell-a-friend" tool provided on the Site and/or in our e-mails allows you to send information about our products and offerings to another person. You may also be able to purchase gifts for another person. When you use these offerings, we may ask you for the name and contact information of the other person.


Automated Collection of Information
When you visit our Site, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as cookies, pixel tags, web server logs and other technologies. The information we collect in this manner may include your device IP address, unique device identifier, web browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, clickstream data, and dates and times of Site visits.

  • Cookies are small data files stored on your computer or device at the request of a website. A cookie assigns a unique numerical identifier to your web browser, and may enable us to recognize you as the same user who was at our Site in the past, and relate your use of the Site to other information about you. Cookies may also be used to enhance your experience on the Site (for example, by storing your username so you can log in easily, keeping you logged into the Site after you have provided your password, and storing the contents of your shopping cart as you browse), to collect general usage and aggregated statistical information about our sites, detect and prevent fraud, and tailor the advertising you receive from us to your interests. Most browsers can be set to detect cookies and give you an opportunity to reject them, but please note that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of the Site.
  • A pixel tag (also known as a "clear GIF" or "web beacon") is a tiny image that links webpages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. This can be placed on a webpage or in our electronic communications to you to help us measure the effectiveness of our content by, for example, counting the number of individuals who visit us online or verifying whether you've opened one of our emails or visited our Site.

How is your information used?
We may use the information we collect from and about you to perform business functions such as:

  • enabling users to use our Site and its features
  • processing and fulfilling your transactions
  • administering the Site and your account with us
  • responding to your requests, questions, and concerns
  • administering promotions and communicating with contest entrants and winners
  • conducting market research
  • developing new features and offerings on the Site
  • communicating with you about our and others' products, services and events that we think might interest you
  • protecting our rights and property
  • processing employment applications
  • complying with and enforcing applicable legal and regulatory requirements, industry standards and our policies and terms
  • recovering debt and protecting against and preventing fraud, unauthorized transactions, claims and other liabilities
  • customizing our Site to your interests and history with us
  • tailoring ads displayed to you on third-party websites to your interests and history with us
  • operating, evaluating and improving our business (including developing new products and services; managing our communications; performing data analytics; deidentifying personal information; determining and managing the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing; analyzing our products, services and Site; and performing accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation and collection activities)

We may also use the information for other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection. To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.


With whom do we share information?
We may share the information we collect about you with service providers who provide services to us on our behalf based on our instructions. We do not authorize these service providers to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements. We may also share your information:

  • with our affiliates, and with your permission with other third parties, for their marketing and other purposes
  • with our co-sponsor(s) if we obtain your information in connection with a contest, sweepstakes, offering, or other promotional activity that is jointly offered by us and any third parties, unless you ask us not to as indicated in the "Your Choices" section below
  • where we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or property, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud or respond to a government, judicial or other legal request, or to comply with our legal obligations
  • with credit bureaus, such as in the event of late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on your account

We also reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer (or contemplate the sale or transfer of) all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, divestiture, dissolution or liquidation).


Third-Party Analytics Services
We may use third-party analytics services on our Sites, such as Google Analytics. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web beacons and web server logs to help us analyze your use of the Site. The information collected through these means (including IP address) may be disclosed to these analytics providers, and other relevant third parties who use the information to evaluate use of the Site. To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/learn/privacy.html or https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en.


Online Tracking and Interest-Based Advertising
On our Site, we and third parties (such as ad networks, web analytics companies and social media and networking platforms) may collect information about your online activities over time and across our Site and third-party websites, to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to your interests. We also may share the information we collect about you and your online activities with third parties for interest-based advertising purposes. You may see certain ads on other websites based on your visits to our Site because we participate in advertising networks administered by third-party vendors. Ad networks allow us to target our messaging to users considering demographic data, users' inferred interests and browsing context. These networks track your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web beacons and web server logs. The networks use this information to show you advertisements that are tailored to your individual interests. The information our ad network vendors collect includes information about your visits to websites that participate in the vendors' advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For more information about third-party advertisers and how to opt out of interest-based advertising, visit the NAI's consumer website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or Aboutads info at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Our Site is not designed to respond to "do not track" signals received from browsers.


Your Choices
You may be able to review, update or modify certain information in your user account on the Site by logging in to the "My Account" or similar area of the Site.

You also may have the right to opt in to or opt out of certain of our uses and disclosures of your personal information. You also may tell us that you do not want to continue to receive our promotional messages by clicking here. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional correspondence from us, we may still contact you in connection with your relationship, activities, transactions and communications with us.

To opt out of interest-based advertising, visit the NAI's consumer website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or Aboutads info at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

To exercise your choices, you may also contact us as specified in the Contact Us section below.

If you reside in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah or Virginia, you have certain rights regarding your personal information.

  • California Consumer Privacy Rights. If you are a California resident, for more information about your privacy rights, please see the “California Consumer Privacy Statement” section of this Privacy Notice.
  • California and Colorado participants in our loyalty or other promotional programs. If you are a California or Colorado resident participating in our loyalty or other promotional programs, please see the "Notice of Financial Incentives & Non-Discrimination/Bona Fide Loyalty Program" section of this Privacy Notice.
  • Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia Consumer Privacy Rights. If you are a Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah or Virginia resident and you interact with us in an individual or household capacity (and not in a commercial or employment context), you have certain rights regarding your personal information, as described below.
    • You may request access to or deletion of your personal information by clicking here.
      • For Oregon residents only, you may request a list of the specific third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information by clicking here.
      • For Delaware, New Jersey and Tennessee residents only, you may request a list of categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed or sold your personal data, and the categories of personal information disclosed or sold to such third parties by clicking here.
    • You may opt out of the processing of your personal information for purposes of targeted advertising, or the sale of your personal information by clicking here.
    • For Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas and Virginia residents only, you also may request correction of your personal information by clicking here.

To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon or Texas resident, please email us at privacychd@churchdwight.com.
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia residents may appeal our decision with respect to a request you have submitted by emailing us at privacychd@churchdwight.com.


Security
We maintain safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or use.


Children's Personal Information
Our Site is designed for a general audience and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) through our Site. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under thirteen (13), we will promptly delete the information from our records. If you believe a child under thirteen (13) may have provided us with personal information, please contact us as specified in the Contact Us section of this Privacy Notice.


Links To Third-Party Websites and Services
For your convenience and information, the Site may contain links, banners, widgets or advertisements that lead to other websites not owned or operated by us. For example, our Site may include tools that allow you to share and/or publicly post content or information from our Site to your profile on a third-party social network. We are not responsible for these other sites, and their posted privacy policies (not this Notice) will govern the collection and use of your information on them. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each website visited after leaving the Site to learn about how your information is treated by others.
In addition, we use several social networking platforms to communicate with our customers, some of which are operated by third parties, such as Facebook. This Notice applies to our use of information you submit to us on such platforms, but it does not apply to what those third party platforms do with your information.


Changes to this Privacy Notice
We may change this Notice from time to time. When we do, we will let you know by posting the changed Notice on this page with a new "Last Updated" date. For significant changes, we may also tell you about changes by additional means, such as by posting a prominent notice on our Site and indicating at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated.


Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments regarding our privacy practices, you may contact us at:
Consumer Relations
Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
469 N. Harrison St.
Princeton, NJ 08540
U.S.A.
Phone: 1-833-775-0044
privacychd@churchdwight.com


NOTICE OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVES & NON-DISCRIMINATION/BONA FIDE LOYALTY PROGRAM
We offer our customers certain programs and opportunities, as described below, which provide certain perks such as rewards, free product samples and exclusive offers. When you sign up for one of these programs, we typically ask you to provide your name and contact information (such as email address and/or telephone number). Because our programs involve the collection of personal information and offering of certain benefits, they might be interpreted as a “bona fide loyalty program” under Colorado law or a “financial incentive” program under California law. Generally, we do not assign monetary or other value to personal information. However, in the context of a “financial incentive” under California law, the value of your personal information to us is related to purchases you make as a result of the offers or benefits that you receive by participating in one of the below programs, which value varies based on the product(s) you purchase and the extent to which you use those offers or benefits on future purchases from us. Such value must also be measured in conjunction with any expenses we incur, including but not limited to, the discounted or free products or services, or other benefits that you obtain or that are provided as part of the incentives, as well as the expense to us related to offering those products, services, and benefits to you as a participant. For example, a $10.00 discount will vary in value depending on the product(s) purchased by you.


Loyalty Program
Some of our Sites offer our customers a loyalty program (each, a “Program”), which provides members with exclusive member perks, such as exclusive deals and other benefits and rewards. You may enroll in the Program by opting in when you sign up for an account on the applicable Site. When you sign up, you may be required to provide personal information, including your first and last name and email address. You may also have the option to provide your mobile telephone number. The purpose of the Program is to encourage repeat business with us and to enhance your shopping experience. We will never discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of the privacy rights described in this Notice.

You may cancel your participation in a Program at any time by contacting the Customer Relations team for the applicable Site by email and/or as otherwise directed in the applicable Program’s terms, located on the applicable Site.

We do not collect any personal data or sensitive data through a Program that will be sold or processed for targeted advertising, nor will any third parties (as defined by applicable law) receive any personal information collected through the Program. We do share some of the personal information collected through a Program with our service providers, including our email, SMS and platform providers, solely to provide the services and benefits under the Program. As defined by applicable state law, the Program does not have any benefits that are provided by a Program partner, nor does any Program benefit require the processing of personal information for sale or targeted advertising. If you exercise your right to delete your personal information and it impacts your Program membership and/or the ability to receive any Program benefit, we shall notify the customer in accordance with applicable state law. For example, an account may be required for participation in a Program and an email address is required to create and maintain an account. If you decide to delete your email address associated with a particular Program, you will no longer have a Program account and we will no longer be able to provide you with any benefits under that Program as you would no longer be able to participate in the Program without an account.


Sampling Programs
Some of our Sites offer our customers an opportunity to receive free product samples or to participate in a sampling program which provides members with the opportunity to receive free product samples (each, a “Sampling Program”). You may receive free product samples from the applicable Site by submitting a sample request on the Site, enrolling in an affinity program on the Site which offers samples to its participants, or enrolling in a Sampling Program by opting in on the Site, as applicable. When you submit a sample request, enroll in an affinity program or enroll in a Sampling Program, you may be required to provide personal information, including your first and last name, email address and mailing address. The purpose of a Sampling Program is to encourage repeat business with us, to enhance your shopping experience and to obtain product reviews. We will never discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of the privacy rights described in this Notice.

You may cancel your participation in a Sampling Program at any time by contacting the Consumer Relations team for the applicable Site by email and/or as otherwise directed in the applicable Program’s terms, located on the applicable Site.


Promotional Marketing
Some of our Sites offer our customers the opportunity to sign up for special offers and promotions (collectively, the “Promotions”), such as discounts on purchases. You can sign up for the Promotions on the applicable Site. When you sign up for the Promotions, we ask you to provide your email address and/or mobile telephone number.

At any time, you may opt out of future Promotions offered (i) by email by clicking the unsubscribe link in the Promotions email that you receive from us and (ii) by text message to your mobile telephone number by texting STOP to cancel.



Last Updated: June 1, 2024

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY STATEMENT
This California Consumer Privacy Statement (“Statement”) supplements the Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Privacy Notice and applies solely to California consumers, such as our customers, website visitors, business partners and job applicants. This Statement does not apply to Church & Dwight Co., Inc. personnel.
This Statement uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the "CCPA/CPRA").

  1. Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement) the following categories of personal information about you:

    • Identifiers: identifiers such as a real name, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as telephone number, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology), online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number and other similar identifiers
    • Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80: signature, education, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, other financial information, and health-related information
    • Protected Classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as race, national origin, sex, gender, disability, citizenship status, and military and veteran status
    • Commercial Information: commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
    • Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements
    • Geolocation Data
    • Sensory Information: audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, and similar information
    • Employment Information: professional or employment-related information
    • Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement) the categories of personal information listed above for the purposes described in our Privacy Notice and for certain business purposes specified in the CCPA/CPRA, such as:

    • Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytics services, providing storage, or providing similar services
    • Providing advertising and marketing services to you, except for cross-context behavioral advertising (which is addressed in Section 5 of this Statement)
    • Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance
    • Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us
    • Helping to ensure security and integrity, to the extent the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes
    • Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
    • Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
    • Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us

In addition, we may use certain personal information for purposes of managing career opportunities with Church & Dwight or managing our relationships with current or prospective partners, corporate customers, vendors, suppliers and other business partner personnel.
We do not use or disclose (and have not used or disclosed during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Privacy Notice) “sensitive personal information” (as defined under the CCPA/CPRA) for any purpose other than those expressly permitted under the CCPA/CPRA.

  1. Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in our Privacy Notice and this Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of data collection, taking into account applicable statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law, as well as our records retention requirements and policies.

  1. Sources of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have obtained personal information about you from various sources, as follows:

    • Directly from you or your devices, such as through your use of the Site, customer service calls and our "Contact Us" feature
    • From your friends, through our "tell-a-friend" tool
    • Our affiliates
    • Vendors who provide services on our behalf
    • Social networks
    • Online advertising companies and advertising networks
    • Sweepstakes and contests, affinity groups, or other marketing campaigns
    • Consumer relations interactions
    • Recruiting and talent agencies
    • References you provide to us, such as when applying for an employment opportunity with Church & Dwight
    • Background and credit check providers
  1. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary compensation. We may share your personal information by allowing certain third parties (such as certain online advertising partners) to collect your personal information via automated technologies on our Sites for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. This kind of sharing may be considered a “sale” under California law when the personal information is exchanged for non-monetary consideration. You have the right to opt out of these types of disclosures of your information.
We may sell or share (and may have sold or shared) during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement the following categories of personal information about you to certain online advertising partners:

    • Identifiers
    • Online Activity
    • Inferences

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. We do not sell or share sensitive personal information.

  1. Disclosure of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:



Category of Personal Information

Category of Third Party

Identifiers

Our affiliates and business partners; vendors who have provided services on our behalf; co-sponsors of contests, sweepstakes or other promotions; advertising networks; internet service providers; data analytics providers; government entities; operating systems and platforms; social networks

Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80 Law

Business partners; vendors who have provided services on our behalf

Protected Classifications

Vendors who have provided services on our behalf; government entities

Commercial Information

Our affiliates and business partners; vendors who have provided services on our behalf

Online Activity

Our affiliates and business partners; vendors who have provided services on our behalf; co-sponsors of contests, sweepstakes or other promotions; advertising networks; internet service providers; data analytics providers; operating systems and platforms; social networks

Geolocation data

Our affiliates and business partners; vendors who have provided services on our behalf; co-sponsors of contests, sweepstakes or other promotions; advertising networks; internet service providers; data analytics providers; operating systems and platforms; social networks

Sensory Information

Vendors who have provided services on our behalf; operating systems and platforms

Employment Information

Our affiliates; vendors who have provided services on our behalf; operating systems and platforms

Inferences

Our affiliates; vendors who have provided services on our behalf; advertising networks; data analytics providers;;

  1. California Consumer Privacy Rights

You have certain choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information, as described below.
Access: You may have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold about you during the past 12 months.
Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
Shine the Light Request: You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (1) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (2) the identity of those third parties.

How to Submit a Request: To submit an access, correction or deletion request, click here or call us at 833-775-0044. To submit a Shine the Light request, click here. To opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, call 833-775-0044, click here, or enable the Global Privacy Control signal. For more information about how to use the Global Privacy Control signal, please see https://globalprivacycontrol.org/. To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer, email us at privacychd@churchdwight.com.

Verifying Requests: To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you have an account with us, we may ask you to verify your identity by requiring you to sign in to your account. If you do not have an account and request access to, correction of or deletion of your personal information, we may require you to provide any of the following information: name, email address and telephone number. In addition, if you do not have an account and you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, correction, deletion or opt-out of sale request on your behalf (1) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (2) for access, correction and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above).

Additional Information: If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request. This Statement is available in alternative formats upon request. Please contact 833-775-0044 to request this Statement in an alternative format.