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Privacy Notice

Last Updated: September 7, 2023

This Privacy Notice explains how Crane Company (“Crane”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes personal information in connection with our services. This Privacy Notice is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations, nor is it intended to set forth our privacy practices as they relate to Crane employees.

Region-Specific Disclosures

We may choose or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of personal information about residents of certain countries, regions or states. Please refer below for disclosures that may be applicable to you:

  • If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”), and Switzerland, please click here for additional EEA/UK/Swiss-specific privacy disclosures.
  • If you are a resident of the State of California in the United States, please click here for additional California-specific privacy disclosures.

What is Personal Information?

When we use the term “personal information” in this Privacy Notice, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to you. It does not include aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

Our Collection of Personal Information

From the first moment you interact with us, we are collecting personal information about you. Sometimes we collect personal information automatically when you interact with our services and sometimes we collect the personal information directly from you. We may also collect personal information about you from other sources and third parties, even before our first direct interaction.

Personal Information You Provide

We collect the following personal information you provide in connection with our products and services:

  • Contact Information, including but not limited to your first and last name, phone number, email address, mailing address and state and country of residence.
  • Professional Information, including but not limited to your title, company name, professional background and the nature of your relationship with us.
  • Service Information, including but not limited to product or service interests and orders.
  • Investor Information, including but not limited to your Crane share purchasing history, number of shares held, value of the shares, eligible dividends and the holder of record’s name, address, and contact information (as well as any investor alert mailing lists you have signed up for).
  • Job Applicant Information, including but not limited to email address and password for our careers page, LinkedIn account data, first name, last name, phone number, mailing address, information on your ability to work in the U.S., on visa sponsorship and employment visa status, and on how you heard from us, resume content and attachments including related descriptions, responses to additional questions (such as on U.S. citizenship, salary requirements, firearm license, willingness to work rotating shifts, weekends and holidays as needed), employment history information (such as title, company name, relevant descriptions and dates), education history information (degree achieved, school name), any other categories of personal information which is included in the documents you upload or responses you provide in relation to requests for additional information or your interview with us, and your eSignature including related data.
  • Inquiry and Communications Information, such as the content of your email, call or other communication with us, as well as recordings of your voice from calls with us (where permitted by law).

If you choose to contact us, we may need additional information to fulfill your request or respond to your inquiry. We may provide additional privacy disclosures where the scope of the inquiry/request and/or personal information we require fall outside the scope of this Privacy Notice. In that case, the additional privacy disclosures will govern how we may process the information you provide at that time.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

As is true of most digital platforms, we collect certain personal information automatically, including:

  • Log File Data, including Web browser type and version, the operating system used by your computer, the referrer Universal Resource Locator (URL), the “hostname” given to your computer, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the date and time you (i) accessed our website and (ii) took certain actions, such as subscribing to our investor alerts mailing list or clicking on the activation link in the related email, performing a job search, or using our contact form.
  • Analytics Data, including the electronic path you take to our services, through our services and when exiting our services, as well as your usage and activity on our services, such as the links and object you view, click or otherwise interact with (also known as “Clickstream Data”).
  • Location Data, including your general geographic location based on your IP address.

For information about our and, where applicable, our third-party partners’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices you may have in relation to its collection, please visit our Cookie Notice.

Personal Information from Other Sources and Third Parties

We also obtain personal information from other sources, which we may combine with personal information we collect either automatically or directly from you.

We may receive some of the same categories of personal information as described above from the following sources and third parties:

  • Crane Affiliates: We may receive personal information from other companies owned or controlled by Crane Company, and other companies owning or under common ownership with Crane Company, particularly when we collaborate in providing services.
  • Employers: We may obtain personal information about you from your employer. For example, we may obtain your contact information from your employer to allow us to communicate with you about your employer’s customer relationship with us.
  • Recruiters, References and Professional Networks: We may obtain personal information in relation to your job application from recruiters, your references or from professional networks (such as on our career page, where you have the voluntary option to fill in fields of the application form by using the information included in your LinkedIn profile or your Monster profile).
  • Service Providers: Service providers that perform services solely on our behalf, such as website hosting and recruiters, collect personal information and often share some or all of this information with us in connection with their services.
  • Information Providers: We may from time to time obtain information from third-party information providers to correct or supplement personal information we collect. For example, we may obtain updated contact information from third-party information providers to connect with an individual who may be interested in our services.
  • Publicly Available Information: We may also collect personal information from publicly available sources, such as government records or publicly available websites, to supplement other personal information we collect.
  • Inferences: We may generate inferences or predictions about you and your interests and preferences based on the other personal information we collect and the interactions we have with you.  

Our Use of Personal Information

We use personal information we collect to:

  • Communicate with You: We use personal information like contact information, professional information and inquiry and communications information to communicate with you about our services, including to inform you about new services, solicit feedback, respond to inquiries or keep you up to date with what’s going on with Crane and our services. Some of these communications may include marketing materials. You may ask us not to send marketing communications by following any available opt-out instructions in the marketing communications you receive. Please note we may continue to send you non-marketing communications even after you opt out.
  • Provide You with Services: We use personal information like contact information and professional information to provide you with our services. For example, we may use contact information and professional information to provide support while onboarding our services.
  • Facilitate Investor Services: We use personal information like contact information, professional information, and investor information to maintain a record of share ownership and facilitate investor services, including investor relation communications.
  • Review Your Job Application: We use personal information like contact information, professional information and job applicant information to assess your application for employment and facilitate the job application process (including interviews, where applicable). The information we collect in connection with your job application may be transferred to your employment record if you are offered and accept a position at Crane.
  • Otherwise Operate Our Business: We use personal information like contact information, professional information, service information, investor information, job applicant information, inquiry and communications information, log file data, analytics data, and location data to otherwise operate our business, including to:
    • Identify and communicate with customers who may be interested in our services.
    • Optimize customer experience with our services.
    • Remember customers and the choices they have made in relation to our services.
    • Connect with customers about requests and transactions they make on our services and other online services.
    • Diagnose errors and problems with existing service.
    • Develop and test new services.
    • Conduct research and analytics on service usage and activity trends.
    • Deliver marketing communications and advertisements based on customer representative interests and interactions with us.
    • Facilitate business transactions and reorganizations impacting the structure of our business.
  • Exercise or Comply with Legal Obligations and Rights: We use personal information to exercise or comply with legal obligations and rights including to enforce and carry out contracts and agreements and prevent, investigate, or provide notice of fraud or unlawful criminal activity.

Our Disclosure of Personal Information

We disclose personal information in the following ways:

  • Within Crane: Crane Company entities disclose personal information to other Crane Company affiliates for purposes and uses that are consistent with this Privacy Notice.  For example, we may disclose your contact information to facilitate communication between you and a local Crane Company representative.
  • Your Employer: We may share personal information about you with your employer. For example, where you represent your employer in their relationship with us, we may inform your employer of your communications with us.
  • Data Analytics Providers: We share information with data analytics providers who analyze statistics and trends relating to the usage of and activity relating to our services. These data analytics providers produce reports and make suggestions for our customer and business strategy based on the personal information and other information analyzed.
  • Marketing Partners: We coordinate and share personal information with our marketing partners, including advertisement networks, social networks, re-targeting partners and marketing communication providers, in order to communicate with you about our products and services and market our products and services to you.
  • Other Service Providers: In addition to the third parties identified above, we engage other third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf in connection with the use of personal information described in the Our Use of Personal Information section above. Depending on the function the third party serves, the service provider may process personal information on our behalf or have access to personal information while performing functions on our behalf. 
  • Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may take part in or be involved with a corporate business transaction or reorganization, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal information to a third party during negotiation of, in connection with or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal information may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
  • Legal Obligations and Rights: We may disclose personal information to third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
    • · in connection with the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
    • · to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
    • · to protect the rights and property of us, our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use;
    • · to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
    • · to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
    • · to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; or
    • · as otherwise required by applicable law.
  • Otherwise with Consent or Direction: We may disclose personal information about you to certain other third parties with your consent or at your direction.

Children’s Personal Information

Our websites and online services are not directed to, and we do not intend to, or knowingly, collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use our websites or online services or otherwise provide us with any personal information either directly or by other means. If a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our systems. If we learn that any personal information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete that personal information.

Third-Party Websites

Our websites and online services may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Except where we post, link to or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Notice, this Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services or the practices of other third parties. To learn about the personal information practices of third parties, please review their respective privacy notices.

Updates to This Privacy Notice

We will update this Privacy Notice, including its region-specific disclosures and the Cookie Notice, from time to time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Notice and of its region-specific disclosures as well as the Cookie Notice (where applicable). If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we will notify you by email to your registered email address, by prominent posting on this website or our online services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Privacy Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to [email protected].

Alternatively, inquiries may be addressed to:

Crane Company
Attn: Privacy Office
100 First Stamford Place, Stamford, CT 06902, USA


Cookie Notice

Effective Date/Last Updated: September 7, 2023

Unless otherwise expressly stated, capitalized terms in this Notice have the same meaning as defined in the PRIVACY NOTICE.

Scope of Notice

This Cookie Notice supplements the information contained in the PRIVACY NOTICE and its region-specific disclosures, including those for the ADDITIONAL CALIFORNIA PRIVACY DISCLOSURES, and the ADDITIONAL EEA, UK, AND SWISS PRIVACY DISCLOSURES, by explaining how we and our business partners and services providers use cookies and related technologies in the course of managing and providing our online services and our communications to you. It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

In some cases, we may use cookies and related technologies described in this Cookie Notice to collect personal information, or to collect information that becomes personal information if we combine it with other information. For more details about how we process your personal information, please review the PRIVACY NOTICE.

What Are Cookies and Related Technologies

Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer that allow us and, where applicable, our third-party partners and providers to collect certain information about your interactions with our email communications, websites and other online services.  We and, where applicable, our third-party partners and providers may also use other, related technologies to collect this information, such as web beacons, local storage, pixels, embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies and logging technologies (collectively, “cookies”).

Descriptions on Processing Activities Regarding Cookies

In the following table, you may find descriptions on (i) the types of cookies we use when you visit or interact with our website, our email communications, and other online services as well as (ii) related processing activities:

Civic Cookie Control

Individual cookie:
CookieControl

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

This cookie is set to remember the user’s preferences about cookies.


Categories of Personal Data

“- Cookie retention period

  • Cookie version
  • Your cookie selection on our cookie banner including, where applicable, consent as well as related date and time
  • Unique consent identifier, i.e., a random number assigned to you which allows for your browser and thus your cookie settings to be remembered.”

Retention Period

3 months


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Crane Building Services & Utilities, Crane House, Epsilon Terrace, West Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP3 9FJ


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is the necessity in order to provide you with the information society service requested by you, i.e., our website (Art. 5 (3) s 2 EPrivacy Directive).

For further related processing activities, the legal basis are our legitimate interests to provide you with a fully functioning website and to implement your cookie choices (Art. 6 (1) s 1 (f) GDPR).

Google Analytics

Individual cookie:
_ga
_ga*

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Processes information on website use and helps to understand how website visitors use a website through the creation of analytics reports. Google uses the data to analyse your user behaviour in order to improve Google’s products and to provide targeted ads and content.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie version
  • Domain and URL of our website
  • Unique identifier, i.e., a random number assigned to you which allows for you to be remembered;
  • Google user ID
  • IP address
  • Website or source from which you came to our site
  • Visited websites and website use including information about your interest further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

13 months


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Google, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

Google Recaptcha

Individual cookie:
_GRECAPTCHA

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

This cookie is used to distinguish between humans and bots, to filter bad traffic from our website forms.


Categories of Personal Data

  • IP address
  • Resources loaded, including styles or images
  • User Google account information
  • Behavior, like scrolling on a page, moving the mouse, clicking on links, time spent completing forms, and typing patterns
  • Browser history
  • CSS information
  • Browser plug-ins
  • Cookies
  • Further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

6 months


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is the necessity in order to provide you with the information society service requested by you, i.e., our website (Art. 5 (3) s 2 EPrivacy Directive).

For further related processing activities, the legal basis are our legitimate interests to provide you with a fully functioning website and to implement your cookie choices (Art. 6 (1) s 1 (f) GDPR).

YouTube

Individual Cookies:
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
YSC
Consent
DSID (DoubleClick)
IDE (DoubleClick)

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos, and viewed videos.
Registers unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen.
Used to detect if the visitor has accepted the marketing category in the cookie banner. This cookie is necessary for GDPR-compliance of the website


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie retention period
  • Cookie version
  • Cookie retention period
  • Cookie version
  • Unique identifier, i.e., a random number assigned to you which allows for you to be remembered;
  • Google user ID
  • IP address
  • Website or source from which you came to our site
  • Viewed videos, video progress
  • Visited websites and website use including information about your interest further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE = 180 days
YSC = Session
CONSENT = 2 years


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Google, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

Issuu

Individual Cookies:
__qca
iutk

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as the number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimising the website content.
Recognises the user’s device and what Issuu documents have been read.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Unique identifier, i.e., a random number assigned to you which allows for you to be remembered;
  • Visits to the website
  • Average time spent
  • Pages viewed
  • IP address
  • Further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

_qca = 1 week
iutk = 6 months


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device and can be read by Issuu Inc, 131 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, United States


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Google, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

QuantServe

Individual Cookie:
mc

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as what pages have been loaded.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Unique values that distinguish your browser profile(s) or device(s). Examples include a Cookie ID, device IP Address or other Device Identifiers or Device Configuration/Information.
  • Pseudonymous Identifiers, Imprecise/Approximate Location Information, HTTP Request Header Information, Device Information, and Browsing Data.
  • IP Address
  • Cookie (if available)
  • User Agent, which is a string (a line of text) identifying the device type, browser type, and version that the user is using to access the web server (“User Agent”)
  • Date, which includes the precise time of access
  • Referral URL, which is the web page you were on when the request was sent
  • TLS Session ID, which identifies a particular session of communication between the browser and the server
  • Content-Language, which is the languages of the intended audience for the enclosed content

Retention Period

11 months


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Quantcast International Limited, Beaux Lane House, Lower Mercer Street, Dublin 2, Ireland


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Quantcast, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

PureChat

Individual Cookies:

PCCSID*
_PCCID
thirdPartyCookiesEnabled

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Identifies the visitor across devices and visits, in order to optimize the chat-box function on the website. Determines whether the user has opted-out of third-party cookies.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie retention period
  • Cookie version
  • Domain and URL of our website
  • Data submitted as part of chat session + IP address
    -Further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

PCCSID = Session
_PCCID = 11 Months
thirdPartyCookiesEnabled = 1 day


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Ruby Receptionists, Inc (and their subsidiary Pure Chat, Inc) Ruby Receptionists, Inc. 805 SW Broadway, Suite 900. Portland, OR 97205


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Ruby Receptionists, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

Wufoo

Individual Cookies:
ep201
_splunk_rum_sid

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Load balancing, site traffic, preventing site abuse and load balancing users.
Detects and logs potential errors on third-party provided functions on the website.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie retention period
  • Cookie version
  • User engagement
  • Domain and URL of our website
  • Progress through form
  • Sign up source attribution
  • Event stitching
  • Time to complete form
  • Data submitted as part of form submission + IP Address
  • Further technical data which could be used in combination to identify you

Retention Period

ep201 = 30 minutes
_splunk_rum_sid = 15 minutes


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by SurveyMonkey Europe UC
2 Shelbourne Buildings, Second Floor, Shelbourne Rd, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is the necessity in order to provide you with the information society service requested by you, i.e., our website (Art. 5 (3) s 2 EPrivacy Directive).

For further related processing activities, the legal basis are our legitimate interests to provide you with a fully functioning website and to implement your cookie choices (Art. 6 (1) s 1 (f) GDPR).

Vimeo

Individual Cookies:
vuid
aka_debug

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

We embed videos from our official Vimeo channel. When you press play Vimeo may set cookies to enable the video to play and maintain the security of its service. These cookies do not directly identify anyone. If you have a Vimeo account and are logged in, Vimeo may set cookies for analytics and advertising purposes and collect data linked to your Vimeo account when you visit a page containing a Vimeo video. Please refer to Vimeo’s privacy policy and cookie policy.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie retention period
  • Cookie version
  • Video engagement

Retention Period

vuid = 1 months
aka_debug = Session


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookies are locally hosted on your device. It can be read by Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, 10th Floor, New York, New York 10001


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookies including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 5 (3) s 1 E-Privacy Directive

For further related processing activities by us and Vimeo, the legal basis is your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) s 1 (a) GDPR.

Cloudflare

Individual Cookie:
_cf_bm

Purpose of the Cookies and the Related Processing

Identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect site from bad bots.


Categories of Personal Data

  • Cookie version
  • Domain and URL of our website
  • Website traffic related information

Retention Period

30 minutes (session cookie, i.e., a cookie that only lasts for your session and is subsequently deleted)


Recipients and, where applicable, International Data Transfer

The cookie is locally hosted and encrypted. It can be read by Cloudflare, Inc., located at 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, California 94107, USA as our related service provider.


Legal Basis in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

For the saving of the cookie including the included information on your device and the accessing of it, the legal basis is the necessity in order to provide you with the information society service requested by you, i.e., our website (Art. 5 (3) s 2 EPrivacy Directive).

For further related processing activities, the legal basis are our legitimate interests to provide you with a fully functioning website and to implement your cookie choices (Art. 6 (1) s 1 (f) GDPR).

Please note that we link some of the personal information we collect through cookies with the other personal information that we collect about you and for the purposes described in our PRIVACY NOTICE.

Your Choices About Cookies

You can choose your preferred cookie settings, including disable cookies, via the cookie banner which you can find on our website.  Furthermore, if you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. However, this may only work in relation to cookies in the classical sense and not in relation related technologies, such as the ones’ set out above. Please further note that disabling or rejecting all cookies may negatively impact your experience using our online services, as some features and services on our online services may not work properly. Depending on your device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all cookies. You may also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.