Rio Tinto produces iron ore for steel, aluminium for cars and smart phones, copper for wind turbines, diamonds that set the standard for responsible sourcing, titanium for household products, and borates for crops that feed the world.
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The Simandou project is imminently due to become the world’s largest greenfield mining project and the largest ever undertaken on the African continent. This once-in-a-generation megaproject will not only place Guinea on the world stage as a top global producer of high-quality, low impurity iron ore, it will also set a new benchmark for large scale project development throughout the region.
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Online privacy and cookies

This Privacy and Cookies Policy describes how Rio Tinto SimFer, Immeuble Camayenne, Corniche Nord, Commune Dixinn, BP848, Conakry, Republic of Guinea, processes personal and other data collected or obtained via this website.

Rio Tinto SimFer controls personal data that is collected or obtained via this website.

Online privacy statement

How we process personal data that are collected or obtained via this website

With the exception of the use of cookies (explained below), Rio Tinto SimFer generally does not set out to collect personal data via this website.

However, if you decide to provide your personal data to Rio Tinto SimFer via this website (e.g. by sending an email), we will process that personal data in order for us to respond to your inquiry and, if necessary, to manage our business relationship with you or your company. We will not process that personal data for any other purposes, except if it is necessary in order to fulfil our legal obligations, or in another way in accordance with the legal authorisations and notice that we send to you.

The legal foundations for the processing of personal data are the following:

the legitimate interest of Rio Tinto SimFer to perform its business activities (when we process data obtained via your emails); and
your consent (when we process data via cookies)

We do not retain personal data for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purpose of the processing (e.g. for us to respond to your email).

We may share the personal data that we process with our service providers (such as companies that provide IT services to us) to the extent that the sharing of the data is necessary to provide such services.

We may transmit your personal data to countries outside of Guinea only if:

the country to which data is being transmitted is a member of the Council of Europe Convention for the Protection of Individuals with Regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data, or the European Commission has adopted a decision on the appropriate level of data protection for that country; or
we use the Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission, which establish the minimum terms and conditions that must be met in order for personal data to be protected in an adequate manner.

Data subjects are entitled to:

request access to the personal data that Rio Tinto SimFer has about them;
request the correction of inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date personal data;
request the deletion of their personal data;
receive information about how their personal data is processed;
object to the processing of their personal data;
request the restriction of the processing of their personal data under the terms and conditions stipulated by law;
withdraw their consent to processing, which they previously gave with regards to Rio Tinto SimFer’s processing of their personal data. A withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of processing based on consent prior to withdrawal; and
submit a complaint to the personal data protection authority.

Privacy statement regarding cookies

Information about our use of cookies

With your consent, our website uses cookies in order to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience while you are browsing our website, and also enables us to improve our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers, which we store in your browser or on your computer’s hard drive, if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transmitted to your computer’s hard drive.

We use the following cookies:

Cookies for the functioning of the website / Analytical cookies

These enable us to recognise and establish the number of visitors, and to see how visitors journey around our website as they use it. This helps us to improve the way in which our website functions, for example, by ensuring that users can easily find what they are looking for. You can block cookies by activating the setting in your browser that enables you to reject the storing of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies), you may not be able to access all or parts of our website. You can find more information about the individual cookies that we use and for what purposes we use them in the tables below:

Analytical cookies

All data that these cookies collect are statistical and, therefore anonymous. Via these cookies, we count the number of visits and traffic sources, therefore enabling us to measure and improve the operation of our websites. These cookies tell us, for example, which pages are the most and which are the least visited, and how traffic flows on our websites.

The provider of these cookies (Google Analytics cookies) is Google, Inc. The information that these cookies generate regarding the usage of our website, including the IP address from which you access the site, is transmitted to a Google server in the United States of America and stored there. This information is used for the purpose of analysing the usage of websites and creating reports intended for website administrators about activities on these websites, without linking the IP address to other data that Google possesses. Please note that Google may transmit these data to third parties, based on a legal obligation or if the third parties are processing the data on behalf of Google.

More about Google Analytics can be found at this link.

Tools that we use on the website

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (‘Google’), on our websites. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files that are stored on your device and which enable an analysis of your use of the website. The data generated by the cookies regarding your use of the website are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and kept there. By activating IP anonymisation, Google will shorten your IP address beforehand in European Union Member States or in other countries that are parties to the European Economic Area Agreement.

On our behalf, Google will use this data to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on activities on our website, and to provide other services related to activities on our website and Internet usage. The IP address that your browser sent as part of Google Analytics will not appear with other Google data.

You can stop the storage of cookies by adjusting the settings of your web browser. However, we would like to highlight that in doing so you may not be able to use all functions on our website to their full extent. You can also stop Google from collecting data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of our website (including your IP address), and from Google processing these data using the browser plug-in that is available at the following link. Download and install the web browser plug-in from this link: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Our websites use analytical functions for remarketing, Google Signals, reports on impressions on the Google advertising network, the integration of DoubleClick Campaign Manager, and Google Analytics performance reports according to demographic characteristics and interests.

In order for us to be able to obtain information about the usage of our website on different devices, we use a pseudonymised user ID using cookie technology that does not contain any private data and does not transmit those data to Google. The collection and storage of data can be refused at any time with future effect by using Google’s browser plug-in: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You must apply the opt-out of data collection and storage on all devices you use, for example, in a different browser or on a mobile device. You can find further information about Universal Analytics here: support.google.com/analytics/answer/2838718.

We also use Google Analytics for statistical purposes to analyse data on DoubleClick and AdWords cookies. You can deactivate the analysis via the ad settings manager: adssettings.google.com.
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Online security and the transmission of personal data via this website

This website relies on a number of security measures to protect data that are exchanged via this site, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems and virus scanning tools. They are intended to protect the information that you provide to us, and we to you, from access by unauthorised persons or viruses. However, please note that risks are entailed in the transmission of information via the Internet and other network or electronic transmission systems, and that we cannot guarantee the security of the information that transmitted in this manner.

This website may contain links to third-party websites (i.e. not provided by Rio Tinto SimFer). Before you give personal data to third-party websites, we recommend that you review the privacy policies of those websites. Rio Tinto SimFer is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites. Please note that such third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control, and therefore we recommend that you also check their cookie policy.

If you have further questions regarding the processing of your data, you can contact us at [email protected].