This Privacy Statement describes how The Dow Chemical Company and its affiliates (“Dow”) may collect information from or about you when you visit this website (www.dow.com) and other Dow websites that display or link to this Privacy Statement.
Dow values your privacy, and is providing this Privacy Statement to explain what information we collect and how that information may be used by Dow when you interact with Dow online.
In some countries, your use of Dow’s website could be considered consent by you to Dow’s use of this information. If you do not want us to collect or use your information as set out in this Privacy Statement, please do not use our websites or provide us with your information.
Please take a few minutes to review this Privacy Statement. If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us.
This Privacy Statement includes the following:
Who Is Collecting Your Information
What Information We Collect
Additional Information for EU-based Users
Additional Information for California Residents
How Dow May Use and Share Your Information
Location of Information
Use of Special Features or Areas of Our Website
Children’s Privacy
Security
External Links
Changes to This Privacy Statement
Your Choices
Access, Update or Correct Your Personal Information
Contact Dow
Information collected through www.dow.com is maintained by The Dow Chemical Company, Global Dow Center, 2211 H.H. Dow Way, Midland, Michigan 48674, and/or Dow’s affiliates. Dow can be reached through the contact information provided at the end of this Privacy Statement.
When you interact with Dow online or in response to Dow’s marketing communications, Dow collects “Personal Data” about you, by which we mean information that may identify you personally, either alone or in combination with other information available to Dow. Information that we collect includes the following:
Information You Provide.
Supplemental Information.
Information Sent to Us by Your Web Browser.
Cookies and Other Technologies.
| FIRST PARTY COOKIES | |||
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| Category | Type | Duration | Purpose |
| Technical | Browsing/Session | Session | These are used with the only purpose to ensure that the site functions properly and to improve the service offered, as well as allowing easier browsing based on a set of criteria selected by the visitor (e.g.. language, country, form information and/or products selected for purchase). They are removed when the browser is closed. |
| Technical | Functional | Permanent | They are used when user clicked Accept button on the Cookie Notification. This is stored to hide the cookie notification overlay on the next visit of the site. |
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| Category | Type/Provider | Duration | Purpose | Privacy policy & opt-out |
| Analytics Cookies | Adobe Analytics |
Session and Permanent (2 years) |
The purpose of these cookies is to differentiate requests from different browsers and to store helpful information that an application can use later. They may also be used to associate browsing information with non-identifiable user IDs. In particular, these cookies are used to anonymously define new visitors, help analyze clickstream data, and track historical activity on the website, such as response to particular campaigns. According to Adobe, these cookies are removed when the browser is closed. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
| Adobe Audience Manager |
5 Months | This cookie assigns a unique ID to a site visitor, which helps Audience Manger perform basic functions such as visitor identification, ID synchronization, segmentation, modeling, reporting, etc. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
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| everesttech.net / Adobe Marketing Cloud |
2 Hours - 2 Years |
This ad exchange-specific cookie synchronizes the Media Optimizer user ID with the partner's ad exchange platform and records the date. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
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| Omniture / Adobe Marketing Cloud |
2 Years | These cookies are used to track site visitors by giving each visitor a unique visitor ID. Ideally, this is a persistent cookie with an extended expiration period. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
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| Google Analytics | Permanent (10 Minutes and 2 Years) |
They are used to anonymously monitor visitor behavior on the site for statistical survey purposes, as well as to allow Dow to optimize the site performance and offer a better browsing experience. |
For more information, click on https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en To opt-out, click on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en |
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| AddThis | 1 Year | These cookies are used for analytics reports using what the vendor describes as aggregate data for sharable social content on the page. It keeps track of the count of shared pages through “AddThis”. |
For more information, click on http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy To opt-out, click on http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out |
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| Facebook/Instagram | 1 Week - 2 Years |
They are used to measure the performance of ad campaigns for businesses that use Facebook/Instagram products. These cookies help to serve and measure ads across different browsers and devices used by the same person. They also help you opt out of seeing ads from Facebook/Instagram based on your activity on third-party websites. |
For more information, click on https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950?helpref=faq_content For more information click on https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ |
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| Coveo | 2 Years | These cookies are used for tracking all the interactions with the Coveo search tool. A random unique value is generated with the user visits the site, and it is used to keep related metrics like the number of distinct users who submitted a query or click on an item. |
For more information, click on https://www.coveo.com/privacy |
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| 1 Week - 2 Years | These cookies collect data through a range of plug-ins and integration that is primarily used for tracking and targeting ads. | For more information and to opt-out, click on https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/other-policy-requirements/interest-based-opt-out-policy.html | ||
| Contentsquare | 30 minutes - 13 months | These cookies collect anonymous data related to the user's visits to the website, such as ContentSquare’s user identifier, the number of pageviews within the running session, custom variables, exclude some visitors from the collection and save the user consent to be tracked. | For more information, click on https://www.contentsquare.com/privacy-and-security/ | |
| Profiling Cookies | Google DoubleClick | 540 Days | These cookies are used to select online advertising messages based on what is pertinent to the visitor, in line with the information collected during browsing and to prevent the visitor from viewing previously displayed ads. Per the vendor, consent is requested for the use of these cookies. |
For more information and to opt-out, click on https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/ For further information, click on https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/2839090?hl=en |
| Facebook/Instagram | 90 Days | These cookies require consent and are used to select advertising messages in Facebook/Instagram consistent with a user’s preferences and interests based on information collected during the browsing of a site. According to the vendor, these adverts are served using what they define as non-personally identifiable information. |
For more information, click on https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950?helpref=faq_content To opt-out, click on https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 |
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| AddThis | 1 Year | These cookies are used to keep track of masked activities and enables marketers to provide more targeted online advertising. They are usually presented in sites to allow users to share the content on various networking and sharing platforms. |
For more information, click on http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy To opt-out, click on http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out |
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| Adobe Marketing Cloud | 2 Years | They are used to store unique visitor IDs used by Marketing Cloud Solutions. It tracks visitors across Dow’s different domains and enable data sharing among different Experience Cloud solutions and helps to personalize and improve the performance of the website. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
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| Adobe Target | 2 Years | These cookies are used for performance and statistics of marketing box content. |
For more information, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html To opt-out, click on http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html |
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| YouTube | 9 Months - 2 Years |
These are used by Google for storing user preferences and other purposes as set forth by the vendor. |
For more information, click on https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies To opt-out, click on https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en |
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| Oracle Eloqua | 2 Years | They are used to store a unique Eloqua Customer ID (GUID) used to identify visitors on the site. Also, if a form is sent on the site, the information sent will be associated with the Eloqua cookie on the browser and will be used to personalize the communications and track the pages that are visited. |
For more information click on https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/marketing-cloud-data-cloud-privacy-policy.html To opt-out, click on https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/opt-status.html |
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| Amobee (formerly Adconian Media Group) |
6 Hours - 4 Years |
These cookies are used to provide real-time bidding to sell targeted audience advertising space based on behavioral profiles. |
For more information, click https://www.amobee.com/trust/technology/#cookies To opt-out, click http://www.amobee.com/trust/consumer-opt-out |
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| Quantserve | 10 Months | They are used to track behavior on a website. Ultimately, this cookie is supplied by a third party who controls the right to update the purpose or use. |
For more information and to opt-out, click https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ |
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| Quantcast | 1 Year | These cookies are used provide website rankings, and the data they collect is also used for audience segmentation and targeted advertising. |
For more information and to opt-out, click https://www.quantcast.com/opt-out/ |
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| TripleLift | 1 - 2 Months | They provide programmatic native advertising services. |
For more information, click https://triplelift.com/privacy/ To opt-out click https://triplelift.com/consumer-opt-out/ |
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| IPONWEB | 1 Year | These cookies are used to provide a real-time bidding platform for targeted online advertising. |
For more information and to opt-out, click http://www.bidswitch.com/policies/ |
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| QUMU |
30 Years | They are used for make the Qumu experience more convenient and personal. Their cookies help to better understand user behavior, preferences and usage of the video solution. |
For more information, click on https://qumu.com/en/privacy/ |
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| 1 Day - 1 Year |
This cookies collect anonymous data related to the user's visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded, with the purpose of displaying targeted ads. | For more information and to opt-out, click https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy | ||
Analytics.
Ad Remarketing.
Data protection regulations in Europe require Dow to disclose additional information regarding Personal Data collected from European users, and to limit Dow’s use of such information in specific ways. This section provides additional information applicable to European Personal Data, which may not apply to users in other geographies.
Legal Basis for Processing.
European Personal Data may only be processed by Dow where and to the extent that such processing is:
Data Subject Rights.
European users of this website have the legal right to request Dow undertake specific actions with respect to their Personal Data, including:
Cross-Border Transfers of Data.
The information that Dow collects from you will be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, or by other entities acting as data processors on our behalf. Dow has implemented international data transfer agreements on the basis of the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses in order to provide appropriate and suitable safeguards for the transfer of this information. You may request a copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses by contacting the privacy contact for your geographic region listed below.
Data Retention.
Dow will process and store your Personal Data for the duration of our relationship with you, which may be a long term, and as long as necessary to fulfill our contractual and legal obligations. Dow will delete your data:
Any requests or inquiries relating to Dow’s handling of EU information may be made by contacting us.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) requires Dow to disclose certain additional information to California residents. This Section provides such additional information applicable to visitors, users and others who reside in the State of California, which may not apply to users in other geographies.
Information We Collect.
Our website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“Personal Information”). In particular, our website has collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
| A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | NO |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES |
| E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES |
| G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. | NO |
| H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
| I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | NO |
| J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
| K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO |
Personal Information does not include:
How We Collect Information About You.
We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above either directly from you (e.g., from forms you complete or products and services you purchase) or indirectly from you (e.g., from observing your actions on our website).
Use of Personal Information.
We may use the Personal Information we collect for any legitimate and lawful business purpose, including those listed in the Section below titled “How Dow May Use and Share Your Information.”
Sharing Personal Information.
We may share your Personal Information as described in the Section below titled “How Dow May Use and Share Your Information.”
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, Dow has disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:
Sales of Personal Information.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, Dow has not sold any Personal Information.
Your Rights and Choices.
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. The following describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights.
You have the right to request that Dow delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights.
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a twelve (12) month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the twelve (12) month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Non-Discrimination.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
Subject to applicable local law, Dow may use the personal information we collect through our website for any legitimate and lawful business purpose, including but not limited to the following:
Dow may use or disclose aggregated or anonymized data about our users, if that information does not identify any individual, in Dow’s sole discretion.
Dow may share your information with Dow affiliates for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Statement. Dow may also share your information with third parties in specific cases such as:
Other than as described above, Dow does not provide or sell your personal information to third parties.
Dow is a global organization with its corporate headquarters in the United States. Our servers, databases, and service providers are located in the United States and in other countries. Different countries have different privacy laws and requirements, and some, including the United States, may provide less legal protection for your personal information than others. If you object to the transfer of your information to the United States, please do not use Dow’s website or provide Dow with that information.
This Privacy Statement may be supplemented by additional privacy statements that may be specific to individual Dow websites or features, such as our investor and career sites. Dow’s websites may include special features such as surveys, licensed content, online stores, or password protected areas, such as a customer-only area or a careers area, and these areas or websites may be subject to additional terms of use or privacy statements which may further specify additional personal information Dow may collect in these areas, why we need that information, and choices you may have about the use of that information. For more information please see our Global Customer Privacy Notice.
When you sign up to use a special feature or password-protected area, you may be asked to agree to additional terms governing your use of the special feature or password-protected area. In such cases, you may be asked to expressly consent to the additional terms, for example, by checking a box or clicking on a button marked “I agree.” (This type of agreement is known as a “click-through” agreement.) If any of the terms of a click-through agreement or another agreement between you and Dow are different than the terms of this Privacy Statement, the terms of that agreement will control over this Privacy Statement.
Dow’s website is not intended for children under 16 years of age, and Dow does not knowingly collect information from children to sell or promote our products or services. No one under the age of 16 may provide information to Dow on or through our website, and if we learn that we have received information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information.
Dow may host educational programs in science for students and teachers in our communities, but we do not invite minors to contact us or provide us with personal information. Visitors must be 18 years of age or older to submit registration or survey information. Parents or legal guardians may register to obtain information or participate in a survey on behalf of their children.
If you believe a child under the age of eighteen has sent personal contact information to Dow, please contact us immediately and we will use reasonable efforts to promptly remove that information from our systems.
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality, integrity and security of your personal information. We urge users to be careful with personal information while using the Internet.
SSL Protection. Many Dow websites, including dow.com, are able to provide a secure connection between your computer and our server be established. We use an encryption technology called Secure Socket Layers (SSL). A secure connection is maintained until you leave the secure area of the site. Although we use SSL encryption to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information as it travels over the Internet, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet and we cannot guarantee the safety of transmitting personal information over the Internet.
Password Protection. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your passwords. We have the right to assume that anyone accessing one of our websites using a password assigned to you has the right to do so. You will be solely responsible for the activities of anyone accessing our website using a password assigned to you, even if the individual is not, in fact authorized by you. If you have reason to believe that your password has been compromised or used without authorization, you must promptly change it using the functionality provided on the site or notify Dow that your account has been compromised.
Some of our websites may contain links to other websites on the Internet that are not under the control of or maintained by Dow. Such links do not constitute an endorsement by Dow of those websites, the content displayed, or the persons or entities associated with them. By visiting a linked website from a Dow website, you acknowledge that Dow is providing these links to you only as a convenience and you agree that Dow is not responsible for the content of such websites. External sites are governed by their own terms and policies and are not governed by Dow's Privacy Statement, Terms of Use, Accessibility Statement, or other terms and policies.
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement and related business practices at any time by posting updated text on this site and updated effective date at the bottom of this page. As we add new features and functionality to our websites or Dow policies or applicable laws evolve, we may need to update or revise this Privacy Statement. We reserve the right to do so, at any time and without prior notice, by posting a revised version on our website. These changes will be effective as of the date we post a revised version on our website.
If we make changes to this Privacy Statement that materially change how we treat your personal data, we will make a reasonable effort to notify you promptly through reasonable means.
We respect your right to make choices about how you would like to interact with Dow and the extent of the personal information you choose to share with Dow. In some cases, we will ask you to indicate your choices at the time we collect your personal information. If you have previously agreed to receive email or marketing communications from Dow, you may "opt-out" at any time by using the unsubscribe feature included in the e-mails we send.
If you have created an account or a personal profile on one of our websites, you may be able to access and update some or all of your personal information on your account settings or profile page. If you wish to access, update or correct other personal information, please contact us. We will contact you and may ask you for additional information to verify your identity. In most cases, we will update information as requested. In some cases, however, we may limit or deny your request if permitted or required by law or if we are unable to verify your identity.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or our privacy practices, you may contact us by phone at the numbers listed at https://www.dow.com/en-us/contact. You may also contact us via email. You may also send postal correspondence to:
In the United States:
The Dow Chemical Company
Data Privacy Director
2211 H.H. Dow Way
Midland, Michigan 48674
FGLPRIV@dow.com
In Canada:
Dow Chemical Canada ULC.
Privacy Officer
2100- 450 1 ST SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1
403-267-3527
burt@dow.com
DowAgroSciencesCanada Inc.
Privacy Officer
2100- 450 1 ST SW Calgary AB T2P 5H1
403-735-8861
saudette@dow.com
In Europe:
Dow Benelux Integrated Center B.V.
Dow Customer Information Group
Herbert H. Dowweg 5
4542 NM Hoek, The Netherlands
In Asia-Pacific:
Dow Chemical MalaysiaSdnBhd
Level 6, CP Tower,Jalan16/11
PusatDagang, Section 16
46350PetalingJaya
SelangorDarulEhsan
Malaysia
In Latin America:
DowQuimicaS.A.
RuaAlexandre Dumas 1671
ChacaraSanto Antonio
São Paulo
Brazil 04717-903
If you have concerns that someone affiliated with Dow has used your information in a manner that is not appropriate, you may also contact the Dow EthicsLine. The Dow EthicsLine can be accessed using a toll-free help line, with multi-lingual capabilities, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide. The Dow EthicsLine can also be accessed using an online form that provides the option of submitting a written report. In addition, you always have the option of contacting the Office of Ethics and Compliance at 989-636-2544 or via email Ethics@Dow.com.
Effective Date: May 11, 2018
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