2. Information Practices: How we collect, use, retain, and disclose personal information.
Collection.
When you use our Services, we collect the following types of information from and about you. Some of this
information may be considered “personal information,” meaning it reasonably identifies you or is
reasonably associated with you. We also collect, use, and disclose aggregated or de-identified data that
does not identify you or your device and is not subject to this privacy policy.
Personal Information You Provide
You can browse our Services without actively submitting any information about yourself, but you may
choose to provide us with personal information through the Services. For example, you may provide:
Indentifiers: To register for an account with us, create a profile for your account, purchase
products, sign up to receive email updates, you may provide personal information such as name, physical
address, email address, phone number, the name of the business you represent, and similar information
you choose to provide.
Demographic Information: You can submit information such as age and gender, as well as your
interests if you register for an account.
Commercial information: We may obtain commercial information, such as your purchase history,
including records of products you have purchased, returned or are considering purchasing from us.
Professional or Employment-related and Education Information: You may submit an application,
resume or C.V. via the Services. To process your application for a position, we may also obtain
information about you from outside sources. Where you submit information on behalf of another person,
you confirm that you have made that person aware of how we may collect, use and disclose their
information, the reason you have provided it, how they can contact us, the terms of this Privacy Policy
and that you have the authority to disclose the information and to permit us to use it in accordance
with this Privacy Policy.
Payment Information (Categories of Information in California Civil Code 1798.80): You may submit
credit card or other payment or billing information in connection with the purchase or a good or
service.
Other Content and Information you Share on the Services: You may submit information or content,
such as by commenting on a blog or participating in online forums or communities, when you interact with
our Services.
We need to collect personal information in order to provide the requested Services to you. If you do not
provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services. If you disclose any
personal information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the
Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Automatically Collected Information.
We automatically collect personal information when you access and use our Services, including:
Identifiers: Identifiers such as your IP address, Internet service provider (ISP), mobile
advertising ID, media access control (MAC) address, and identifiers associated with browser cookies, web
beacons and similar technologies we deploy on our Services.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: We may collect information about the
devices and computers you use to access our Services such as browser type, language, operating system,
the referring web page, pages visited, and hyperlinks clicked. When you visit our Services, we collect
usage information sent to us by your computer, mobile, or other access device that tells us how you are
using the Services and other information about your internet activity (“usage information”).
Geolocation information: If you choose to install our mobile application and allow the use of your
device’s location, we may receive geolocation data. We may also use collect your IP address and use to
estimate your approximate location.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We use tracking technologies (including pixel tags, cookies, flash cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, embedded scripts, Javascript, local storage and e-tags/cache
browsers) to collect usage information. We may use software tools to measure and collect session
information, including page response times, download errors, time spent on certain pages and page
interaction information. For more information see Tracking Technologies
section.
Information from Outside Sources
We may collect personal information about you from other sources. For example, we may collect personal
information about you from analytics companies, advertising networks, demographic companies, publicly
available databases, joint marketing partners, and other vendors that provide us with information, so we
can better understand you and provide you with information, offers, and products and services that may
be of interest to you. If you apply for a position with us as an employee or contractor, we may obtain
information about you from former employers, schools, references, and credit bureaus.
Use.
We collect personal information for a variety of business and commercial purposes, such as to:
- Provide, maintain, and improve our Services, as well as to develop new content and features, which
we do to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or based on our legitimate interest, to
the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Process or fulfill orders and transactions, which we do to manage our contractual relationship with
you, based on our legitimate interest and/or to comply with a legal obligation, to the extent such a
lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Provide customer service (e.g., to resolve disputes, feedback, problems with your account/profile or
the Services), which we do to manage our contractual relationship with you, based on our legitimate
interest and/or to comply with a legal obligation, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by
applicable law;
- Process payments, which we do to manage our contractual relationship with you, based on our
legitimate interest and/or to comply with a legal obligation, to the extent such a lawful basis is
required by applicable law;
- Complete the transactions you request, perform our contractual obligations, and, as otherwise
anticipated within the context of our relationship, which we do to manage our contractual
relationship with you, based on our legitimate interest, and/or to comply with a legal obligation,
to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Create and manage your account, which we do to manage our contractual relationship with you, based
on our legitimate interest and/or to comply with a legal obligation, to the extent such a lawful
basis is required by applicable law;
- Send notifications related to your account and purchases, which we do to manage our contractual
relationship with you, based on our legitimate interest and/or to comply with a legal obligation, to
the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Send newsletters and promotional messages you request, which we do to manage our contractual
relationship with you, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Enable you to participate in public platforms or other interactive features of the Services (such as
post comments to blog entries), which we do to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or
to comply with a legal obligation, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Conduct internal research and development, which we do to manage our contractual relationship with
you and/or based on our legitimate interest, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by
applicable law;
- Analyze traffic and user activities on our Services, identify popular areas or features, and
optimize and personalize the Services, which we do to manage our contractual relationship with you
and/or based on our legitimate interest, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable
law;
- Target advertisements to you both on and off of our Services, which we do with your consent or where
we have a legitimate interest, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Debug, identify and repair errors that impair the functionality of our Services, which we do to
manage our contractual relationship with you and/or based on our legitimate interest, to the extent
such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Process and evaluate applications for positions as an employee or contractor with us, which we do to
manage our contractual relationship with you and based on our legitimate interest, to the extent
such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Protect the rights and property of onsemi and others and comply with our legal
obligations, including to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud and other illegal activities and to
enforce our agreements and when we have a legitimate interest or legal obligation, to the extent
such a lawful basis is required by applicable law;
- Accomplish other business and reasonable internal purposes, including to determine the effectiveness
of promotional campaigns and to conduct audits to verify that our internal process function as
intended and to address legal, regulatory or contractual requirements, which we do to manage our
contractual relationship with you, to comply with a legal obligation, and/or based on our legitimate
interest, to the extent such a lawful basis is required by applicable law
Data Retention.
Your information will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy, which is designed to
retain data for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purposes for
which it was collected and consistent with our contractual obligations, employment obligations, and
other business purposes, including global legal obligations. The criteria
used to determine our retention periods include: (i) the length of time we have an ongoing relationship
with you and provide the Services to you (for example, as long as you have
an account with us or keep using the Services); (ii) whether there is a legal obligation to which we are
subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your
transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or (iii) whether retention is
advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to the applicable
statutes of limitation, litigation or regulatory investigations). We may retain some information from
closed accounts so that we can comply with law, prevent fraud, assist with investigations, resolve
disputes, analyze or troubleshoot programs, enforce our Terms of Use, or
take other actions permitted by law. Likewise, if your account or membership is terminated or suspended,
we may maintain some information to prevent re-registration.
Disclosure.
Information collected may be shared with:
The onsemi Corporate Family: We may share the information we collect about you with the
onsemi corporate family and their and our affiliates and subsidiaries for the purposes
described in this Privacy Policy. You can consult the list and location of our affiliates here.
Service Providers: We may disclose your information to service providers who help with our
business operations (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, payment processing, web
hosting, product fulfillment, shipment, recruitment, employment, research, IT, to process opt-out
requests, to assist us in responding to consumer requests for access, deletion, or correction
of information, direct mail and email distribution, site analytics and
operations). We may also share your information with legal, financial, insurance and other
advisors in connection with
corporate transactions, the management of our business and operations, to defend against legal claims;
to investigate, prevent, or act against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to safety, or violations of onsemi’s terms of use; to protect our
operations, assets, and intellectual property; to allow us to pursue appropriate legal
remedies or limit damages; to pursue any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment,
transfer of assets, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or
stock; or as otherwise required by law.
Advertising Technology (“Ad Tech”) Vendors and Social Networks: On the Services, we may work with
third parties to serve advertisements, provide us with data collection, reporting, and ad response
measurement and assist with delivery of relevant marketing messages and advertisements. These third
parties may view, set, or edit their own tracking technologies/cookies that are deployed when you visit
our Services. The use of these technologies by these third parties is subject to their own privacy
policies and we encourage you to review them. They might also obtain information about other
applications that you have downloaded to your mobile device, the mobile websites you visit and other
information about you or your device in order to analyze and serve targeted advertising on the Services
and elsewhere. For more information about third party ad servers at our Services and your ability to
opt-out of targeted advertising from such third parties in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular
device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit Ad Choices. You may download the AppChoices app at
www.aboutads.info/appchoices to opt out in mobile apps.
Legal and Law Enforcement: We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or
appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:
- To comply with applicable law and regulations.This may include laws outside your country
of residence.
- To cooperate with public and government authorities.To respond to a request or to provide
information we believe is necessary or appropriate. These can include authorities outside your
country of residence.
- To cooperate with law enforcement.For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests
and orders or provide information we believe is important.
- For other legal reasons.To enforce our terms and conditions; and to protect our rights,
privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
Change of Control – New Owners: We may disclose or transfer your personal information to a third
party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other
disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any
bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Information You Post: If you post information or content, such as by posting photos, commenting on
a blog, or participating in online forums or communities, or when you interact with our Services through
social media sites, plug-ins or other applications, depending upon your privacy settings, this
information may become public on the Internet. We cannot prevent further use of this information. You
can control what data you share through privacy settings available on some social media sites. Please
refer to those third -party sites’ privacy policies and terms of use to learn more about their privacy
practices, which we do not control.
Other Entities with your Consent. Other third parties at your specific direction.