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Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using this Web site. By using this Web site, you agree to accept and fully comply with these terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, you should immediately leave the Web site and cease any further use of information or material you may have obtained from the Web site.

Copyright and Trademark Information

Rockwood Specialties, Inc., its parent, affiliates and subsidiaries (hereafter Rockwood Specialties) own the copyrights, trademarks and other rights to the information and material on this Website. You are authorized to view, download and reproduce the information and material on this Web site for your internal information only provided you retain all notices contained in the original material, use only images with surrounding text relating to the images, and include the following copyright notice:

© Rockwood Specialties. All rights reserved.

Except as noted above, no right or license is granted under any copyright, patent, or trademark of Rockwood Specialties to any other party. You may not publicize or commercially use any of the material on this Web site without the express prior written consent of Rockwood Specialties. Any unauthorized copying, alteration, distribution, transmission, performance, display, or other unauthorized use is prohibited.

Rockwood Specialties own or license all names, logos, trademarks or service marks contained in this Web site and they may not be used without the Company’s prior written consent. Rockwood Specialties’ trademarks belong exclusively to Rockwood Specialties or its licensors and are protected by US and international trademark laws and treaties. Trademarks of other parties are identified wherever possible and Rockwood Specialties acknowledges their rights.

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Disclaimers

THE INFORMATION AND MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS WEB SITE ARE PROVIDED TO YOU “AS IS” FOR YOUR INTERNAL INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF INFORMATION OR OTHER WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT WILL ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY OTHER LOSSES, COSTS, OR EXPENSE OF ANY KIND FOR YOUR USE OR YOUR INABILITY TO ACCESS AND USE THIS WEB SITE OR RELIANCE UPON ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL ACCESSED VIA IT OR ANY OTHER HYPERLINKED WEB SITE INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED, TO DAMAGES ARISING FROM LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, OR LOSS OF DATA, EVEN IF ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED ABOUT THE POSSIBLITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Rockwood Specialties provides the information and material on this Web site at no charge, subject to these terms and conditions. The information and material on this Web site could contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors, and will be changed, updated and deleted without notice. Rockwood Specialties makes no warranties or representations, express or implied as to the accuracy, completeness or any other aspect of the information or material on this Web site, compatibility with your computer equipment or that this Web site or its server is free of errors, viruses or worms and assumes no liability in connection with such destructive features or any use of information or material on this Web site.

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Submission of Information/Material

For general information, please see our Privacy Policy. Other than your personal identifiable information, any information or material submitted to Rockwood Specialties will be treated as NON-CONFIDENTIAL AND NON-PROPRIETARY, AND ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES WILL HAVE NO OBLIGATION TO USE OR EVALUATE ANY INFORMATION OR MATERIAL RECEIVED FROM YOU. BY TRANSMITTING INFORMATION TO THIS WEB SITE WITHOUT A WRITTEN AGREEMENT WITH ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES, YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ROCKWOOD SPECIALTIES MAY USE THAT INFORMATION FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER WITHOUT OBLIGATION TO YOU.

The following behavior is prohibited: you are not to transmit to this Web site any information or material which is unlawful, threatening, violent, abusive, harassing in nature, degrading, defamatory, libelous, deceptive, fraudulent, or which may give rise to civil or criminal liability, infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights or otherwise violate any law or regulations. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Rockwood Specialties from and against any and all, suits, actions or claims of any character, type or description, expenses, counsel fees, and compensation, brought or made for or on account of any injuries or damages received or sustained by any person or persons, or property, arising out of any such behavior.

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Jurisdiction, Choice of Law and Forum

The laws of the State of New York, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern these terms and conditions and your use of this Web site. You expressly agree that state or federal courts located in New York, New York, U.S.A., shall be the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to these terms and conditions or your use of this Web site. You further agree and submit to the exercise of personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating any such claim or action.

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Compliance with Laws and Export Controls

The information and material on this Web site is intended to provide information about Rockwood Specialties. The is no implication that the information and material published on this Web site are designed or appropriate for use outside of the United States. If you access our Web site from outside the United States, you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. To the extend any laws prohibit your viewing and use of this Web site, you may not view or use this Web site.

Any information or material you obtain from this Web site may not be exported or re-exported except in full compliance with all United States laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the United States Export Administration Laws and Regulations. Use contrary to those laws is prohibited.

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Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Rockwood Specialties with regard to this Web site. If any part of these terms and conditions is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining parts shall remain in full force and effect.

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INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY

1.1 Summary

Summary of our Internet privacy commitment to you:

• Rockwood¹ does not collect personally identifiable information about you without your knowledge;
• As a general rule, you may use Rockwood websites without providing any personally identifiable information;
• Rockwood will only use and share personally identifiable information (as defined below)² that you provide to us in ways that we have told you about.

1.2 About this Policy

Rockwood developed this Internet Privacy Policy (hereafter, "Policy") to demonstrate our commitment to protecting the privacy of the people we interact with online. This Policy applies to Rockwood online resources and communications (such as Rockwood websites, email communications, and other online tools) that link directly to this policy.

	We self-certify compliance with

Rockwood complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries. Rockwood has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view our certification page, please visit www.export.gov/safeharbor. Click here to read the Rockwood Safe Harbor Privacy Policy to learn more about Safe Harbor at Rockwood.

1.4 Information Collected About Your Computer or other Device

You can use Rockwood websites without disclosing any personally identifiable information. As part of the operation of our websites, our computers collect information about the computer or other device you use to access our websites. This information may include, for example, the type of web browser your computer uses, and the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device. We may use this information in the aggregate to measure and monitor the effectiveness of our website and for other purposes. This information does not identify you personally.

Rockwood may also use website tracking technologies such as cookies that are used to provide additional website functionality and improve the value of your website visit. Unless you have registered on our websites or otherwise volunteered personally identifiable information to us, these tracking technologies do not identify you personally.

We retain information collected in this manner for a period of time necessary to support the purposes for which it was collected.

1.5 Information You Volunteer

We do not collect personally identifiable information about you without your knowledge. There may be certain areas of Rockwood websites where you may register and provide us with personally identifiable information. This may include information about you and your company such as your name, title, company, address, telephone number, email address, interests and other similar types of information. We collect and retain this information for the general purposes of fulfilling your requests for products and services, to improve our services, to contact you and to conduct research. Rockwood will only use this information in ways specified when it is collected.

Rockwood websites may permit you to make choices about the disclosure and/or transfer of your personal information. In most cases, Rockwood asks you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your information.

You may volunteer to provide information to Rockwood online through other mechanisms. This might include, for example, clicking a "Contact Us" link or using email or other online tools to provide feedback, data, questions, comments, suggestions, plans, product ideas or the like. In these cases, please be aware that Rockwood will consider such information to be unsolicited, non-confidential and non-proprietary. Receipt of such information shall not in any way prevent or restrict the use, manufacture, development or sale by Rockwood or its subsidiaries of products or services based upon or similar to the information provided. Unless otherwise specified or agreed upon, Rockwood and its subsidiaries shall not have any obligation to compensate any party for any information provided through this web site.

Rockwood retains personally identifiable information as long as necessary to provide the services, products and information you request or as permitted by applicable law.

1.6 Sharing Personally Identifiable Information

Rockwood is the sole owner of personally identifiable information collected through its websites and will not sell this information to third parties without your prior consent. This information may be accessible across Rockwood, including its subsidiaries, divisions and groups worldwide, and to other individuals and organizations using this information solely at Rockwood's direction. Any such access and use will be done in a manner consistent with this Policy.

In some cases, Rockwood may share your personally identifiable information with third parties who partner with us to provide products and services to our customers. When we do so, we will require our business partners to use the personal information we share with them in a manner consistent with this Policy.

In certain limited circumstances Rockwood may share or transfer personal information to unrelated third parties. For example, we may provide information to a third party (i) at your request, (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or court order; (iii) to investigate a possible crime, such as identity theft; (iv) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of Rockwood or a Rockwood business unit; or (v) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information.

1.7 Securing Personally Identifiable Information

Your personally identifiable information will generally be stored in Rockwood databases or databases maintained by our service providers. Rockwood maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the Internet, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.

1.8 Children's Privacy

Rockwood understands the importance of protecting children's privacy online. Rockwood online resources and communications covered by this Policy are not designed for or intentionally targeted at children 13 years of age or younger. Rockwood does not intentionally collect or maintain personally identifiable information about anyone under the age of 13.

1.9 Access to Personal Information

You may view, correct and update the personally identifiable information that you provide to us online by sending an email to complianceofficer@rocksp.com or by writing to Rockwood Privacy Policy, 100 Overlook Center, Princeton, NJ 08540.

1.10 Questions

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us by email at complianceofficer@rocksp.com or by writing to us at Rockwood Privacy Policy, 100 Overlook Center, Princeton, NJ 08540.

1.11 Changes to this Policy

Rockwood may update this policy periodically. Rockwood reserves the right to update or modify this Policy at any time at its discretion, and without prior notice. If we make changes, we will post the revised version on our websites.

¹As used to in this Policy, "Rockwood" means Rockwood Specialties Inc., its subsidiaries, divisions and groups worldwide, excluding any joint ventures.
²As used in this Policy, the term "personally identifiable information" means information that can be used to distinguish or trace an individual's identity.

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