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We are providing you with this policy to help you understand how we handle, protect
and limit certain nonpublic personal information about you that we collect to
enable us to provide you with certain personalized HR information on
ITWemployee. We take care to protect personal information about you and when we
use it, we do so with respect for your privacy. We may use personal information
about you to process transactions in your employee record, respond to inquiries
from you, or to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements. This Privacy Policy
applies only to ITWemployee and not to any other company activities nor to any
third-party sites that may be linked to or accessible from here. This site is
only accessible to US employees, and their dependents and authorized
beneficiaries, of ITW business units.
After reading this Privacy Policy, you will know:
- What personal information ITWemployee collects about you.
- How ITWemployee uses and discloses your information.
- How you can access and correct your personal information.
- How ITW protects the security of your personal information.
- How we handle changes to the Privacy Policy.
- How you can contact ITW with questions.
By using ITWemployee or providing personal information to us, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of
your personal information described in this Privacy Policy. You are further consenting to verify that when you login to the
site, you confirm the name on the record you are viewing is your own. If you do not wish to consent to the collection, use
and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, do not use ITWemployee and contact your
local human resources representative or otherwise contact ITW as described below.
ITWemployee actively collects information by asking specific questions on this site for the purpose of registration and granting of access.
ITWemployee uses this information for registration purposes to provide access to ITW and HR information resources, and to provide personalized
information to you about your benefits plan, health and wellness resources, and payroll information and resources.
Information may also be obtained and stored on ITWemployee that you or other users submit in connection with the information resources on the site.
The use and disclosure of this information is the responsibility of the originator of that information resource and the participants, not that
of ITWemployee.
ITWemployee uses personal information for purposes of registration and granting access to the site, and for supporting the site's personalized
HR self-service features. In connection with these purposes of use, ITWemployee may disclose personal information to third party vendors,
information technology service providers and subcontractors as necessary to support the site, and may otherwise disclose personal information
as required by law or necessary in connection with ITW's legitimate compliance or business requirements. ITWemployee will only use and disclose
the information for these above stated purposes.
If you have any questions regarding the information that ITWemployee has collected about you, and would like to correct any information that you
believe to be inaccurate, please contact us at:
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
3600 West Lake Avenue
Glenview, IL 60026
Phone Number 866.489.2468 option 4
ITW maintains reasonable security measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access or use. Personal information is stored within
a secured database that is not accessible outside of ITW. ITWemployee servers are protected by hardware and software firewalls. Access to personal
information is restricted to authorized personnel only. ITW also requires all vendors that support the site to maintain reasonable security measures.
ITW retains the personal information obtained on the site only as long as necessary to provide the information resources and other features on the site,
to support the internal organizational directory, and to address other legitimate compliance and business requirements.
ITWemployee contains links to other web sites operated by third parties that may be of interest to you which include:
- Health and benefits providers.
- Wellness vendors.
- Payroll providers.
- Retirement program vendors.
ITW is not responsible for the privacy practices of linked third party sites. Please review the privacy policies of such third party sites,
as they govern your interaction with those sites.
ITW reserves the right to update or modify the ITWemployee Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice by posting the revised version of
the Privacy Policy on ITWemployee. If we make material modifications to the Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on this site
with a link on the home page for 30 days prior to the implementation of the changes in the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the site
will constitute your consent to any such changes in the Privacy Policy except where otherwise required by applicable law. Should you wish your
personally identifiable information removed from ITWemployee, and to discontinue use, please send an email to:
hrisupport@itw.com
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about the use of ITWemployee, or Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
HRIS Department
3600 West Lake Avenue
Glenview, IL 60026
Phone Number 866.469.2468 option 4.
This Privacy Policy was last revised on June 1, 2010.