YOUR CONSENT AND PREFERENCES

Whirlpool Corporation's data collection practices follow these guidelines:

Whirlpool Corporation will not send you promotional e-mail communications unless you have indicated your willingness to receive such information. This is called an "Opt-In" preference. You can generally indicate your opt-in preference by responding to a question when your email information is collected through an online form or by other means. In addition, you may establish or update your preferences at any time by completing this form. We will update our database within a reasonable time in accordance with your stated preference.

Whirlpool Corporation may contact you with promotional communications by direct (postal) mail, fax or phone, unless you have specified your preference not to receive such communications. This is called an "Opt-out" preference. To establish an opt-out preference, please complete this form. We will update our database within a reasonable time in accordance with your stated preference.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies help us identify your computer the next time you visit and are used to enable some functions on our web sites. Whirlpool Corporation's third party service providers and business partners may also use cookies to collect non-personal information from visitors to our sites. We will use such information to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and web sites.

The use of cookies is a common operating procedure for most web sites. If you are not comfortable with our use of cookies, please review your browser software to learn how it may be set to notify you when you receive a cookie or to reject all cookies. However, disabling cookies will limit some functionality of your experiences on our web sites.

WHAT ABOUT THE SECURITY OF LINKED SITES?

Some of our web sites may contain links to web sites owned by other companies. Because Whirlpool Corporation has no control over the privacy practices or content of these linked sites, we recommend that you carefully review the privacy statement of each site you visit. Whirlpool Corporation is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of sites owned by other companies.

By E-mail:

universal@universalgroup.org

If we make photocopies of information related to your request, we reserve the right to recover related photocopy charges.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES

By using this web site or any other Whirlpool Corporation web site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement applies only to information provided by or collected from customers in the United States and is not intended to describe data handling procedures for information collected by other linked web sites or business partners.

We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Statement at any time.