Privacy & Cookies Policies

Verdant Specialty Solutions (“Verdant” or “the Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect and use personal data about you and what rights you have under the applicable laws, particularly under EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This Privacy Notice applies to the processing of personal data by any Verdant Specialty Solutions company in the EU with respect to:

  • contact persons and representatives of Verdant’s prospective, current and former customers, suppliers and other business partners

  • persons who visit our websites or submit their contact information e.g. to subscribe to our publications, leave an inquiry, request information, fill out a survey, participate in a competition or attend an event

  • other stakeholders who interact with us such as prospective investors or analysts

Legal basis

We will only process your personal data when the law allows us to. Our legal basis for processing your data is:

  • the performance of a contract between us and a customer, supplier or another business partner as well as taking steps prior to entering into a contract, e.g. to manage requests for information or quotation

  • legitimate interest of Verdant based on a business or other relationship, which includes e.g. relationship management and marketing of our products and services

  • your consent or compliance with a legal obligation

Data collection

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

·       Information about your browser, network and device

·       Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·       Your IP address

Squarespace uses this data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches and timestamps.

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Our website also uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for or as required by applicable legislation. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data, the purposes for which we process the data, the time limits on legal claims and the applicable legal requirements.

Our data controller 

Data controller, i.e. the legal entity responsible for collection and use of personal data under this Privacy Notice, is Verdant Specialty Solutions LLC whose address is 811 Main St 18th Floor, Houston, TX 77002. Our Privacy Team can be contacted via email at gdpr@verdantspecialty.com. 

In limited circumstances, other companies of Verdant may also operate as data controllers, either independently or jointly with Verdant, for their own purposes and under the same principles as defined in this Notice.  

Withdrawal of consent  

In cases where your consent is the legal basis for processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact our data controller at gdpr@verdantspecialty.com. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legal basis for doing so.

Complaints

If you are not satisfied with the response, you’ve received or if you feel that we have not dealt correctly with your personal data, you have the right to make a complaint to the relevant data protection regulator, also known as a “supervisory authority”. The relevant supervisory authority is likely to be the supervisory authority of the country where you are located or where the alleged infringement took place.

Changes to this privacy notice

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time. The current version can always be found on our website. We recommend that you revisit this Privacy Notice from time to time to review any possible changes.