Purpose and Application

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India Limited (“AM/NS India” or “the Company”) has adopted data protection policy and related procedures (“Binding Corporate Rules”). These Binding Corporate Rules provides a global and simplified legal basis for all databases and applications sharing Personal Data. The AM/NS India data protection procedure is a group-wide procedure ensuring a minimum standard of protection for Personal Data shared at global level.

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose and otherwise process your Personal Data obtained through this Web Site (https://www.amns.in ) and also describes the rights you have with respect to your Personal Data (“Policy”). Some online forms may have a specific policy or privacy statement that differs from this Policy. Please review the Policy or privacy statement for any information that applies specifically to that particular form.

Definitions

“Data Principal” means the natural person to whom the Personal Data relates to;

“Personal Data” means data about or relating to a natural person who is directly or indirectly identifiable, having regard to any characteristic, trait, attribute or any other feature of the identity of such natural person, or any combination of such features, or any combination of such features with any other information;

“Personally Identifiable Information (PII)” means any data that could potentially be used to identify a particular person. Examples include first name, last name, mobile number, email addresses, internet protocol (‘ip’) addresses etc.;

“Process or Processing” in relation to personal data, means an operation or set of operations performed on personal data, and may include operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, use, alignment or combination, indexing, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, restriction, erasure or destruction;

“Web Site” means https://www.amns.in.

Personal Data

Personal Data comprises of all the details that AM/NS India collects, and processes directly or indirectly about you as a Data Principal, for instance, information regarding your identity and contact details (such as name, email-ID), including information received from third parties and information collected through use of AM/NS India’s Web Site, Cookies or other similar tools.

In general, you are not required to disclose your Personal Data as a condition of using this Web Site. No Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as your name, address, or e-mail address, is automatically collected from your visit to the Web Site.

Personal Information that you choose to submit

AM/NS India Web Site’s various registration forms and surveys may request that you give us contact information (such as your name, mailing and/or e-mail address) and profile data (such as your preferences). In many cases, you choose the amount of information you supply (e.g. when sending us information through the Web Site, you may choose to include only an e-mail address for replies). There may be cases, however, where some of the information requested is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. In such cases, if you do not provide mandatory personal information with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to receive the applicable services.

If you request information through this Web Site and supply AM/NS India with your e-mail address or your name and postal address, you accept that this data will be used for the purpose of providing the requested information and that AM/NS India may use this data in the future to provide other information about AM/NS India that might be of interest to you.

Correction and Modification of Personal Data

You have the right to review your Personal Data, to correct your Personal Data, if necessary, and to withdraw your consent to the use or Processing of your Personal Data. For this purpose, you may submit one of the below forms.

If you are not a former employee of AM/NS India, please use this form: https://www.amns.in/data_consent_form?type=user

AM/NS India may disclose user information in special cases when we have reasons to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with AM/NS India’s rights or property, other users of the Web Site, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

PII is never sold or leased to any third parties outside of AM/NS India and its subsidiaries or associates. We may share information provided by you with service providers we have retained to perform services on our behalf. In this case, the service provider is committed to use your data only for AM/NS India purposes.

Processing of Personal Data

AM/NS India may Process your Personal Data where such relevant PII is required to be Processed for the following, but not limited to, AM/NS India purposes:

  • Processing applications for products and services;
  • Providing products and services; (It is not feasible for an organization to provide product / service without Processing);
  • Monitoring and improving our Web Site and its content;
  • Conducting market research and surveys with the aim of improving our products and services;
  • Sending you information about our products and services for marketing purposes and promotions;
  • Complying with applicable local or foreign law, regulation, policy, voluntary codes, directive, judgement or court order, as well as any contractual obligation pursuant to agreements between AM/NS India and any authority, regulator or enforcement agency or body or any request coming from said entities;
  • Establishing, exercising or defending legal rights in connection with legal proceedings (including any prospective legal proceedings) and seeking professional or legal advice in relation to such legal proceedings.

AM/NS India Processes your Personal Data for the performance of the contracts/agreements concluded with you, compliance with applicable legal or regulatory obligations or AM/NS India legitimate interests to provide you with adequate and qualitative products and services and to prevent against any substantial risk.

Access to Personal Data

Your Personal Data Processed by AM/NS India will only be accessible by a limited list of recipients on a need to know basis or where required by law.

Careers

If you apply for jobs through the Web Site, you accept that the application will be Processed by AM/NS India. The Company will use the Personal Data supplied by the applicants for the purpose of Processing the application. Data Principals have the right to consult their Personal Data, to correct the Personal Data, if necessary, and to withdraw their consent to the use of their Personal Data. The timeline for the withdrawal for the consent to the use of Personal Data by the Data Principal, will be in accordance with the internal company policies and procedures.

Cookies

AM/NS India uses Cookies across its Web Site to improve performance and enhance the experience.

Definition of Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded on your computer by websites that you visit. The Cookie will help the website recognize your device the next time you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Cookies can be used for a variety of purposes such as remembering your preference, measuring your activity and optimizing your user experience.

Usage of Cookies

When consulting the AM/NS India Web Site, Cookies may get placed on your computer, mobile or tablet. Cookies could contain the following data:

  • Information about the browser; an identifier, in the form of a unique identification number.
  • An expiration date (some Cookies only)
Cookies used by AM/NS India and its purpose
Following are the Cookies we normally use and why:
  • Google Analytics (utma; utmb; utmc; utmz)
    These Cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The Cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
    https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • YouTube cookies (PREF; VISITOR_INFOR1_LIVE; YSC; demographics; DKV) We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set Cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store PII Cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. Read more at YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
Purpose for which Cookies are used –
Generally, Cookies perform the following functions
  • Enabling our Web Site to function properly -
    Some Cookies are essential for the functioning of our Web Site. For example, Cookies ensure that you are shown the correct webpages for your location, or to identify when we have a broken link or technical issue with the Web Site.
  • Analyzing visitor’s behavior -
    We may use Cookies to analyze how our visitors use our Web Site and to monitor Web Site performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by making sure that our content and layout remains relevant to you. For example, Cookies to keep track of which pages and links are most popular and which are not providing the information that’s required by our visitors.
  • Optimizing and personalizing -
    Cookies are used to optimize the webpages that you visit and to personalize the content that is shown to you across all our digital assets, based on our understanding of your requirement.
Manage your Cookies

You can control whether to accept Cookies or not. If you decide to not accept Cookies, some features and services on our Web Site will not function properly.

If you prefer not to accept Cookies, you can either:

  • Change your browser setting to notify when you receive a Cookie, which gives you the discretion to choose whether or not to accept it; or
  • Set your browser to automatically not accept any Cookies. You can manage Cookies in the privacy settings of the web browser you are using. Please keep in mind that if you use your browser settings to block all the Cookies, you may not be able to access parts of our or others’ website.

You can modify the Cookies setting by the links provided below. These links will guide you through the process of modifying your browser settings:

  • Apple Safari – https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
  • Google Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d
  • Mozilla Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

Retention of Personal Data

Your Personal Data being Processed by AM/NS India is stored for the purpose for which it was collected in line with legal, regulatory or statutory obligations and in such form, which is identifiable to the extent necessary. In situations where the purpose is fulfilled or where the specified period has expired, your Personal Data will be deleted or archived to comply with legal retention obligations in accordance with the law.

Access & Control your Personal Data

Subject to applicable law, regulations and/or guidelines, you may have the right to Data Principal’s right in relation to your Personal Data being collected, used, Processed and stored by the Company. AM/NS India shall provide information to the Data Principal on a request pertaining to Data Principal’s rights without undue delay and within one month of receipt of the request. This period can be extended considering the complexity and number of requests. The extension shall be reasoned with proper notice for delay.

Security

Security for all PII is extremely important to us. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, AM/NS India cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.

Changes to this Policy

This Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our online information practices. AM/NS India has sole discretion in updation of this Policy. When changes are made to this Policy it will be posted on the Web Site and the "last updated" date at the top of this Policy will be revised. We also encourage users to periodically check this Policy to understand how AM/NS India protects, uses and Processes your information/ data.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Policy, the practices of our sites, or your dealings with our sites, you can contact: AM/NS India, i-desk@amns.in

Information provided by you via general e-mail inquiries to AM/NS India such as your e-mail address is used only to respond to your inquiries in the ordinary course of business, and is never shared with third parties.

Jurisdiction

Please be informed that any proceedings arising out of or relating to your use of this Web Site, its content and services will be subject to the laws of India and the Courts in Mumbai, India shall have exclusive jurisdiction.