Terms of use

This Emerson UK Pension Plan (the Plan) website (the Website) is owned by, and operated for and on behalf of Emerson UK Trustees Ltd. (the Trustees or we).

You may only make use of the Website for the purpose that it was made available to you (e.g. to obtain information about the Plan) and in accordance with is governed by these terms and conditions of use, including the Privacy Policy below, and any additional terms we notify to you (the Terms). Access and use by you of this Website constitutes your acceptance of the Terms. The Terms take effect from the date on which you first use this Website.

The Website may be updated at any time and the Trustees recommend that you check these Terms regularly as you’ll be bound by the amended Terms from the next time you access the Website. If the Trustees amend the Terms, we will notify users by displaying a pop-up box stating that the Terms have changed and by posting the amended version of the Terms with an updated effective date on this Website.

The availability of the Website at any given time isn’t guaranteed, and the Website may be modified, suspended or withdrawn by the Trustees at any time without notice.

The Trustees make no representations or warranties about the Website or its contents, which are provided ‘as is’. To the maximum extent permitted by law: (i) the Trustees exclude all implied warranties regarding the Website or its contents, including without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose, title and non-infringement; and (ii) the total liability of the Trustees to you, for any claim arising out of or in connection with the Website, its contents or their use, is limited to any amounts you paid (if any) to the Trustees to use the Website.

Privacy Policy

We take the issue of data protection very seriously. Our policy is set out in this Privacy Policy.

The Trustees are a registered data controller under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (2018). Details of the Trustee’s notification to the regulator for data protection may be found in the Information Commissioner’s Office Public Register of Data Controllers at www.ico.org.uk under registration number Z997777X.

Set out below is an explanation of how the Trustees process information about users of the Website.

Collection of your personal information
In general, you can visit and use this Website without giving the Trustees any information and the Trustees will not know who you are in such circumstances. However, there’s the option on certain pages within this Website to choose to submit personal information (including your name and contact details) to the Trustees if you want to ask questions or give feedback.

The way the Trustees use your information
The Trustees will use any information you provide through this Website to help answer any queries you submit via this Website in relation to your Plan or the administration of your Plan. The Trustees may disclose information about you:

to third parties where it’s necessary to respond to your query or deal with your feedback (which may involve disclosing your details to Emerson, or the administrator of the Plan);
where the Trustees are required to do so by law;
because a court, the police or other enforcement agency has asked for it; or
in other limited circumstances permitted by law.

The Trustee’s commitment to data security
To prevent unauthorised access and help maintain data security, the Trustees have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information within this Website.

How to get copies of or amend your personal information
You may request details of personal information which the Trustees hold about you under the GDPR (2018). A small fee may be payable.

If you would like a copy of the information the Trustees hold about you, please contact the Emerson Plan Secretary of Willis Towers Watson at: Emerson.Trustee.Secretary@willistowerswatson.com

Cookies

What are cookies?
When you connect to this Website one or more cookies will be placed on your computer. A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a small text file placed on an internet user's computing device.

The cookies on this Website are performance cookies created and used by the Website to allow Website functions to operate, such as recalling your preferences, and to allow the monitoring of the Website usage, which helps us improve the user experience on the Website. By using this Website, you agree that Emerson and the Trustees can place these types of cookies on your device.

Performance cookies
Performance cookies are cookies used to improve a website, for example for analytics that let companies see how their website is used and where to make improvements.

The performance cookies used by this Website are set out below:

Feature
Sitecore Analytics

Purpose
These cookies help us to deliver personalised content to you and provide anonymous reports to us on how visitors use our site.

Cookie details
SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE - Randomly generated identifier assigned to a visitor to help identify returning visits to the site. Expires one year after creation.

Feature
Google Analytics

Purpose
These cookies are used to provide meaningful reports about how visitors use this Website. The member areas of the Website also have a second set of Google Analytics cookies which are exactly the same, apart from a 2_prefix, and have the same purpose.

Cookie details
_utma - tracks the number of times a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred. Google Analytics uses the information from this cookie to calculate things such as days and visits to purchase. Expires two years after creation.

_utmz - tracks where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what links are clicked on, what keyword was used, and where they are in the world. Expires six months after creation.
_utmc - works with _utmb to calculate how long a visit takes. Expires when the browser is closed.

_utmb - works with _utmc to calculate how long a visit takes. Expires 30 minutes after creation._umtv - allows us to identify areas of the sites under certain categories and tracks visitor statistics across these categories. Expires when the browser is closed.

Feature
Accessibility

Purpose
These cookies help us display content in a way that is easier/more comfortable for you to read.

Cookie details
page_size - stores the chosen font size so that a visitor doesn't have to change it on every page.

Disabling cookies
If you don’t wish to receive cookies from this Website you can adjust your browser settings to refuse or screen cookies. You can find instructions on how to configure this within the Help function within your web browser.

If you set your web browser to refuse cookies from this Website, please be aware this may impair the functionality and your usability of the Website. For more information on cookies and browser settings, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org

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SC_ANALYTICS_GLOBAL_COOKIE	Sitecore Holding II A/S www.oneemerson.co.uk	10 years	This cookie is associated with the Sitecore Content Management System.
CookieScriptConsent	CookieScript www.oneemerson.co.uk	28 days	This cookie is used by Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly.
__cf_bm	Cloudflare Inc. .vimeo.com	30 minutes	This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots. This is beneficial for the website, in order to make valid reports on the use of their website.

Name	Provider / Domain	Expiration	Description
_ga	Google LLC .oneemerson.co.uk	2 years	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports.
_gid	Google LLC .oneemerson.co.uk	1 day	This cookie is set by Google Analytics. It stores and update a unique value for each page visited and is used to count and track pageviews.
_gat	Google LLC .oneemerson.co.uk	1 minute	This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites.