Business Transaction. We reserve the right to transfer any personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, divestiture, dissolution or liquidation).

Interest-Based Advertising. Kimberly-Clark may participate in interest-based (on-line behavior) advertising. This means that a third party may use technology, such as a cookie on your browser or a web beacon, to identify you on our website so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interest. You may see advertising on our website tailored to how you browse or shop, or you may see advertising for Kimberly-Clark products on other websites based on your browsing behavior across websites. To stop receiving interest-based advertising from companies who participatein the Digital Advertising Alliance, you can opt-out here. Even if you opt-out, you may still see advertisements, but they will be based on the context of the sites you visit and not based on your viewing activities. For more information on online-behavioral advertising, go here.

Notice to California Residents

This California Consumer Privacy Statement (“Statement”) applies solely to California customers and addresses personal information we collect online and offline. This Statement takes effect on January 1, 2023. This Statement does not apply to Kimberly-Clark personnel or job applicants.

This Statement uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CPRA”).

1. Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement) the following categories of personal information about you:

• Identifiers: identifiers such as your name, email address, IP address, and telephone number.
• Commercial Information: commercial information, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• Online Activity: As discussed in “Information We Collect” section above.
• Geolocation Data.
• Employment Information: professional or employment-related information.
• Inferences: inferences drawn from any of the information identified above.

We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement) your personal information for the purposes described in the “What We Do with Your Information” section above.

2. Sources of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you, such as when you contact us.
• From your devices, such as when you visit our Site or mobile applications.
• Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
• Vendors who provide services on our behalf.
• Our joint marketing partners.
• Online advertising services and advertising networks.
• Government entities.
• Social networks.
• Data brokers.
• Data analytics providers.

3. Selling or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell or share your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration without your consent.

We may allow certain third parties (such as online advertising services) to collect your personal information via automated technologies on our Site in exchange for non-monetary consideration. We share the categories of personal information listed below for the business and commercial purposes of online advertising and to provide third-party social network features and functionality on our Site. Those third parties may include TradeDesk and Google. You can use our cookie preferences tool to see an up-to-date list of the third parties collecting information on our Sites. Those third parties may use your personal information to optimize our properties, display cross-contextual advertising and manage their own platforms. Please see the “Cookies and Similar Tracking Technology” section above to learn more about those third parties’ collection of information. You have the right to opt out of this disclosure of your information, which may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under California law, as set forth below.

During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have sold or shared the following categories of personal information:

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age without affirmative authorization if we have actual knowledge of the individual’s age.

4. Disclosing Personal Information to Third Parties

During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have disclosed your personal information with certain categories of third parties and service providers, as described below.

We may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you listed below for the commercial and business purposes set forth in this Statement to the following categories of third parties:

In addition to the categories of third parties identified above, during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have disclosed personal information about you with the following additional categories of third parties:

• Government entities

5. California Residents’ Privacy Rights

Privacy Rights. You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below. If you exercise any of these choices and rights, we will not disadvantage you. You will not be denied or charged different prices or rates for goods or services or provided a different level or quality of goods or services.

• Know: You have the right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
• Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Correct: You have the right to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
• Opt-Out of Sale or Share:You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, by either clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” links on our sites or by calling 888-525-8373. Once we receive and verify your lawful request, we will not sell or share your personal information unless you later allow us to do so. We may ask for your permission to resume sale or sharing of your personal information later, but we will wait at least 12 months before doing so. You may also opt-out of our sharing and selling through certain browser enabled opt-out preference signals, such as the Global Privacy Control. You can learn more about that option here: https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
• Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: In some instances, we may use or disclose your sensitive personal information. You have the right to direct us to limit our use and disclosure of such sensitive information by either clicking the “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” links on our Sites or by calling 888-525-8373. Please contact us and we will delete or limit our use of the information.

How to Submit a Request.. To submit a request to know, delete, or correct, click the “Manage My Privacy” link at the bottom of our Sites, call us at 888-525-8378 or write to us at Kimberly-Clark Professional, 1400 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA 30076. To opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, please click “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” links on our Site or send us an email at [email protected]. To limit the use of your sensitive personal information, please click “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” links on our Site or send us an email at [email protected].

Authorized Agents. You may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a customer, please contact us as described above.

Verifying Requests. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you have an account with us, we may verify your identity by requiring you to sign into your account. If you do not have an account with us and you request access to or deletion of your personal information, or similar rights, we may require you to provide any of the following information: first name, last name, city, mailing address, zip, phone, and/or email address (and verify that such email address is yours). If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, deletion, opt-out of share or sale request, or to limit the use of your sensitive personal information on your behalf (a) we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so, and (b) for access and deletion requests, we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above).

Financial Incentives. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CPRA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. Signing up for a points program such as KCP Advantage Rewards or participating in a financial incentive program administered by us or our partners may entitle you to receive special offers and benefits from us. To administer such programs, we may need to sell, collect, disclose, or retain your personal information. We calculate the value of your data based on the expenses incurred from the points issued to you (if you signup for a points program like KCP Advantage Rewards) and from the revenue we generate from the sale, collection, or retention of your personal information. You may end your online account (which will withdraw you from the financial incentives) at any time by calling us at 888-525-8378 or writing us at Kimberly-Clark Professional, 1400 Holcomb Bridge Road, Roswell, GA 30076.

Data Retention. We keep records and personal information for specified periods of time, depending on business needs, privacy interests and the law. As a general matter, we only retain personal information for as long as it is needed or useful for accomplishing a business, legal or tax purpose. After such period, the data is deleted or fully anonymized: