Data Privacy

FOBOHA Privacy Policy
Website Privacy Notice – last updated May 22, 2023

Barnes Group Inc. respects your right to privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, share, and use personal information about you in connection with our business activities, including when you access our website. This Privacy Notice provides information regarding how you can exercise your privacy rights. This Privacy Notice only applies to personal information that we collect through our websites at Onebarnes.com, BarnesAero.com and foboha.com.

Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), which includes the member states of the European Union (“EU”), Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, should consult the sections of this policy relating to “EEA Residents” and “International Data Transfers” for provisions that may apply to them.

California residents should consult the section titled “Your California Privacy Rights” for rights that apply to them.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.

What personal information do we collect and why?

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

Information that you provide voluntarily

Certain parts of our Website may ask you to provide personal information voluntarily: for example, we may ask you to provide your contact details, such as your name, postal address, email address, or phone number, in order to register an account with us, to subscribe to marketing communications from us, when submitting feedback, questions and requests, completing surveys and/or participating in online promotions. We use this personal information to (i) add you to our mailing list; (ii) contact you; (iii) provide you with information regarding our products and services; (iv) provide you with services, including selling our products; and (v) provide answers to your inquiries or questions. The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

Information that we collect automatically

When you visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the EEA, this information may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws.

Specifically, the information we collect automatically may include information like your IP address, device type, unique device identification numbers, browser-type, broad geographic location (e.g., country or city-level location) and other technical information. We may also collect information about how your device has interacted with our website, including the pages accessed and links clicked.

Collecting this information enables us to better understand the visitors who come to our website, where they come from, and what content on our website is of interest to them. We may combine information we obtain from individuals from more than one source, and we use this information for our internal analytics purposes and to improve the quality and relevance of our website to our visitors.

Some of this information may be collected using cookies or similar tracking technology.

In general, we will use the personal information we collect from you only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you (such as archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes) if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.

Cookies and similar tracking technology

We and third parties performing website services for us may send cookies and similar tracking technology (collectively, “Cookies”) to your computer to collect and use personal information about you. We use cookies to track your activity on our website. You can set your browser to inform you when cookies are set, or to prevent cookies from being set altogether. Please note, if you decline the use of cookies, you may experience reduced functionality and a slower website response time.

For further information about the types of Cookies we use, why, and how you can control Cookies, please see our Cookie Notice I.

Who do we share your personal information with?
We do not sell, trade, or license personal information about you for marketing purposes.

We may share your personal information with the following categories of recipients:

Our group companies, third-party services providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (for example, to support the delivery of, provide functionality on, or help to enhance the security of our website), or who otherwise process personal information for purposes that are described in this Privacy Notice or notified to you when we collect your personal information;
Any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party where we believe disclosure is necessary (i) as a matter of applicable law or regulation, (ii) to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights, or (iii) to protect your vital interests or those of any other person;
An actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Notice; and/or
Any other person with your consent to the disclosure.
Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA visitors only)
If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area, including the member states of the EU as well as visitors from Switzerland and the UK all processing of personal data is performed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. Under the GDPR, we are the controller and processor of the personal information you provide.

We will normally collect personal information from you only (i) where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, (ii) where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights, or (iii) where we have your consent to do so.  In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.

If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our platform and communicating with you as necessary to provide our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest, for instance, when responding to your queries, improving our platform, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities.  

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.  

California Privacy Rights

If you are an individual or household from the State of California, all processing of personal information is performed in accordance with California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) and (CPRA).

We do not share personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes.

California consumers may have the following rights:

The right to know and the right to delete personal information we collect and use.
The right to request we disclose the categories of personal information we collect.
The right to correct the personal information we collect and use.
The right, in certain circumstances, to delete the personal information we collect and use.
How do we keep your personal information secure?
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you.  The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.  Specific measures we use include encryption, secure passwords, physical access controls, internal access controls, firewalls, rapid recovery and virus protection.

International data transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident.  These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.  Our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world.  This means that when we collect your personal information, and we may process it in any of these countries.

We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice.  This includes implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies.

Data retention

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

Your data protection rights

If you are a resident of the EEA, including Switzerland and the United Kingdom, you have the following data protection rights:

Access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information.
Object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information.  
You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time.  
If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time.  Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information.  For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “How to contact us” heading below.  We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Updates to this Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time in response to changing legal, technical or business developments.  When we update our Privacy Notice, we will take appropriate measures to inform you, consistent with the significance of the changes we make and as required by applicable data protection laws.

How to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us by email: privacy@onebarnes.com or mail: Barnes Group Inc., Compliance Office, 123 Main Street, Bristol, Connecticut 06010.

The data controller of your personal information is Barnes group Inc.

Cookie Notice

This Cookie Notice explains how Barnes Group Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively “Barnes”) use cookies and similar technologies on our websites.  It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files sent to and stored on users’ computers or mobile devices when you visit a website.  Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently.  They do not damage users’ computers or files.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Barnes) are called "first party cookies".  Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third party cookies".

Why do we use cookies?

We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our websites to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the performance and functionality on our websites.  Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (for example, advertising, interactive content and analytics).  The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Our websites may also use web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs").  These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enables us to recognize when someone has visited our websites.  A web beacon can be used to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our websites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our websites from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns.  In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

Do you use Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects?

Our websites may also use so-called "Flash Cookies" (also known as Local Shared Objects or "LSOs") to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of our services, for fraud prevention and for other site operations.

If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash Cookies storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash Cookies by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash Cookies (referred to "information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash Cookies that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time).

Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash Cookies may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our services or online content.

Do you serve targeted advertising?

Third parties may serve cookies on your computer or mobile device to serve advertising through our websites. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that you may be interested in. They may also employ technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This can be accomplished by the third party’s use of cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services of potential interest to you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or them to identify your name, contact details or other personally identifying details unless you choose to provide these.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.  If you do not want cookies to be accessible by this or any Barnes website, you should adjust the settings on your web browser to deny or disable the use of cookies.

If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted.  

How often will you update this Cookie Notice?

We may update this Cookie Notice from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.  Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Notice regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date of the latest version of this Cookie Notice is provided at the end of this Notice.

How can I contact Barnes?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at info@onebarnes.com.  If you are in a country that is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation and would like to contact the local Data Protection Officer or local privacy point of contact, please note that in your email so that your inquiry may be directed to the appropriate person.

Last updated: May 25, 2018