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General information
Contacting us via email or by registering with Platts under our free email alerts, subscribe and checkout areas, reveals your email address and any other contact information (such as phone number or postal address) you provide through this site. We will use your contact information (just the contact information not information collected through cookies) to help us process your order, service your account and respond to your inquiries.
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Use of your details by other McGraw-Hill Companies
Occasionally, and subject to applicable laws, Platts also makes our customers’ names and e-mail addresses and other similar contact information available to other businesses within The McGraw-Hill Companies, as well as to other reputable information companies, so that they can inform you about other products and services that may interest you. If at any time you would like your name removed from lists that are shared for these purposes, simply click the easy-to-use External Distribution Opt-Out button at the bottom of this screen for prompt removal of your name.
Sharing Platts.com site information and your colleague's email address
Throughout the site we offer you the chance to send a colleague an article or a note telling them about the site. Feel free to take advantage of these opportunities knowing that we will protect your colleague's privacy. We will only use your colleague's email address in order to send the message you asked us to send. We do not hold this information in any database for any subsequent use by Platts.
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From time to time, we may also share your information with outside vendors who will be authorized to use this information solely to perform services (such as a "mailing" house) on our behalf. If you have questions about our privacy practices or if you would like to exercise your right to access and correct the accuracy of your information, please send a request to Platts Privacy Official, Platts, 3333 Walnut Street, Boulder, CO 80301, USA, or to unsubscribe@platts.com or call +1 720-548-5546. This information will be maintained in a secure database in the United States and accessed only by authorized employees. For more information about The McGraw-Hill Companies' Customer Privacy Policy, visit our Web site at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/privacy.html.
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