Privacy Policy

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The purpose of this policy is to make visitors to this Teck website aware of how Teck collects, uses, manages, and discloses personal information.

Definitions

"Personal information" is information about an identifiable individual that is not the person's business contact information or work product information. "Teck" is Teck Resources Limited and its affiliated entities.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Generally, Teck collects the following information regarding visitors to our website: domain name, name, information regarding what pages are accessed, information volunteered by you, such as survey information, e-mail address, or website registrations, and your preferred means of communication. Teck collects and logs this information for statistical purposes. 

Recruiting

This website allows you to provide personal information for the purposes recruiting or job applications. You may be asked to provide personal information such as: your job qualifications, educational and employment background, and other information such as resumes, transcripts, employment references. As part of the reference checking process, Teck may collect information from third parties.

Visitors using this site for the purposes of recruitment and job application understand that their personal information will be available to all Teck recruiters and HR personnel. Teck may use the personal information at its discretion with hiring managers for potential future positions. To the extent that you no longer wish to have your personal information available to Teck for recruiting purposes, you will contact Teck to request that the personal information be removed. The personal information you provide can be used for the recruiting and hiring process as well as other legal and regulatory requirements. 

Teck may share your personal information for reasonable purposes in connection with recruiting, employment, and other legal and regulatory requirements. Teck may share this personal information with other Teck operators or to partnerships or joint ventures to which Teck is a party. Teck may also collect personal information from third parties such as occupational and educational references and prior employers to the extent this is permitted by applicable law.

Cookies on this site

This website collects and stores information for analytics purposes. We may link the information associated with the cookies placed on your browser with other personal information you have provided to us for analytics purposes. You may choose to disable those cookies. However, that may affect your experience or limit your ability to navigate this site. 

Disclosure of Personal Information

As a general proposition, any personal information that Teck collects will not be disclosed to third parties. The intent is that the information will be used for the exclusive use of Teck as described above. However, in order to improve integrity of the data, to assist in maintaining security over the data, or as authorized or required by law, some personal information may be required to be disclosed.

Security

Teck takes reasonable security measures to protect personal information from loss, unauthorized access, destruction, misuse, modification and disclosure. Teck treats the information with a high degree of regard and awareness for the private nature of the data. Our primary objective is to maintain the integrity and security of the data. Teck cannot guarantee secure transmission over this internet. From time to time your personal information may be disclosed outside Canada in which case it may be subject to the lawful access requirements of the jurisdiction in which it is held.

Care of Personal Information

We retain your personal information for at least one year if we use it to make a decision about you and longer for any legal or contractual requirements.

We take reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date for the purposes for which it is collected and used.

You may have the right to access your personal information or seek a correction to it. To do so, please contact our privacy officer.

Privacy Officer

The Teck employee who is responsible for maintaining the privacy of information collected via the website interface can be reached at privacy.officer@teck.com. Any questions or complaints about Teck's collection, use or disclosure of personal information through this website should be made to that individual.

Consent

If you do not consent to having your personal information collected, used and disclosed as set out in this policy, or if you require further information to make this decision, or if you wish to withdraw consent, please email the website privacy officer at privacy.officer@teck.com.

Updating this Privacy Policy

The content of this Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time, so we suggest that you return to the website on a regular basis and carefully read the information provided.

Last updated: February 11, 2019