Privacy Policy

• You have clearly given your voluntary consent to the processing;
• The processing is necessary for entering into, or performance of a contract to which you are party;
• The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation;
• The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of an individual;
• The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest; or
• We, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in using your personal information to achieve the purposes of processing, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights.

• From you when you contact us via the “Contact Us” section on the Website, or otherwise actively provide us with information;
• From business partners, third parties, and service providers (referred to as “processors” in certain jurisdictions), including advertising networks and data analytics providers;
• Automatically from your computer or mobile device through cookies and other online tracking technologies (see the Cookies section of this Policy for more information);
• From public sources of data such as government databases or entities; and
• From our commercial partners, enterprise clients, and customers who request certain services to be provided.

The specific pieces of personal information that NEC X collects, uses, and discloses depends on how you use our Websites and/or on our marketing efforts.

The categories of personal information we may collect on our Website include:

• Contact and identity information (such as your first name, last name, username or similar identifier, institution, specialty, email address(es), mailing or billing address(es), telephone numbers, country).

• Internet or other Electronic/Online Network Activity Information (such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, domain name from which you accessed the Website, type of mobile device, date and time you visit the Website, areas or pages of the Website that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing the Website, the number of times you return to the Website, and other click-stream data).

Though our marketing efforts (including trade show and product demonstrations), we may also collect the following categories of personal information:

• Personal identifiers (such as your Social Security number, Driver’s License/State ID number, and/or Passport number).

• Financial information (such as credit/debit card number, billing information, and/or bank account number).

• Marketing and communications data (such as information on when you receive and read marketing communications, the events you attend, and/or marketing and communications preferences).

• Employment/Professional information (such as occupation, title, and/or work experience).

• Profile data (such as information you provide on our electronic portals and platforms, including usernames and passwords, purchases or orders, interests, biography, profile settings, marketing and communication preferences, alert and display preferences, date and stage of registration, account status and level of access, comments, feedback, and/or survey responses).

• Usage data (such information related to your use of our website, electronic portals, platforms, mobile applications, local area networking facilities and similar electronic services, interactions with mobile applications).

• Demographic information (such as age, date of birth, gender, and/or ethnicity).

• Personal characteristics (such as veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, and/or familial information).

• Health-related information (such as medical history).

• Biometric information (such as fingerprints, face scans, voice recordings, and/or photographs/images).

• Sensory data (such as audio recordings of customer support calls, electronic, thermal, visual, and/or similar information).

• Geo-location information (such as city, state, zip code, physical location and/or movements).

• Internet or other Electronic/Online Network Activity information (such as IP address, browsing history, search history, device type, operating system, and/or duration of session).

• Inferences drawn from the above categories of personal information reflecting your preferences, characteristics, behaviors, attitudes and/or abilities.

In addition to the above categories, you may provide us with additional pieces of information when you fill in a form or communicate with us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine various types of data that we collect, including data from our commercial partners, enterprise clients, customers, or other sources for use in an aggregated and anonymized manner.

We may use cookies, web beacons or similar online tracking technologies to collect the information described above. A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer or device when you access the Website. We may also use cookies to: (1) provide you with customized content or offers on the Website; (2) monitor Website usage; (3) remember you when you return to the Website; and (4) conduct internal research to improve our content and services. You are free to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Websites or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

We use the data we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide a product or service to our commercial partners, enterprise clients, and customers;

• To provide trouble shooting services and to protect our services, products, and solutions against security and cyber threats, and to prevent such threats;

• To conduct customer experience surveys to validate customer needs and improve and develop our services;

• To respond to requests that you send us, such as orders, questions or product registrations;

• To administer, protect and improve our Website and our systems;

• To better understand the preferences of our Website visitors;

• To compile aggregated statistics about Website usage;

• To help personalize your customer support experience or use of our Website;

• To improve our products and services and for other internal business purposes;

• To administer our business pages on social media sites;

• To provide you with information about our technologies, product or service releases, news, and other communications;

• To assess your interest in job opportunities and communicate with you about potential employment at NEC X;

• Any other business purpose permitted by applicable law or as we describe at the point where we collect the data.

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, to satisfy any legal or regulatory obligations, or to resolve disputes, we will retain your personal information (including the categories of personal information discussed in the sections above) for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it. In determining what constitutes an appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether those purposes can be achieved through other means.

NEC X does not sell your personal information for money. However, we disclose the categories of personal information listed above with the following categories of recipients for the purposes outlined in this Policy:

• Affiliated Entities. We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates, including future subsidiaries and affiliates of NEC X, to use your information consistent with this Policy.

• Service Providers. We may disclose personal information with Service Providers who provide us with services, such as data analysis, online advertising, payment processing, order fulfillment, IT services, credit information services, customer service, and other similar services. We grant our service providers access to personal information only to the extent needed for them to perform their functions, and we require them to protect the confidentiality and security of such personal information.

• Commercial Purposes. We may disclose personal information with unaffiliated parties (commercial partners and/or enterprise clients) who partner with us on our commercial activities or enter into commercial agreements with us to deliver our services. Depending on the choices you have made and the nature of the joint activity, these parties may contact you regarding products or services of interest. However, we do not sell or share personal information with these unaffiliated parties.

• Government Authorities. We may disclose personal information to government authorities. For example, we may do so as required by law or in the interest of protecting or exercising our or others’ legal rights, such as, without limitation, in connection with requests from law enforcement officials and in connection with court proceedings.

• Business Transfers or Assignments. 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, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer any information that we collect from Website users or offline to a third party.

• Permission. We may disclose personal information with recipients where you have granted us permission, and we reserve the right to fully use and disclose any information collected via the Website that is not in personally identifiable form.

Depending on your jurisdiction, applicable law may entitle you to certain rights and choices as it pertains to your personal information. Specifically, when the applicable laws become effective, if you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you have the rights to know (including, depending on state, whether your personal information is sold or disclosed and the purpose, what types of inferences we make about you, and with whom your personal information was disclosed), delete, access, and opt out of the selling, sharing, and profiling of personal information. If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia, you have the right to correct your personal information that is no longer accurate, current, or complete. If you are a resident of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia, you have the right to opt-in for us to use your sensitive personal information. If you are a resident of California or Utah, you have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. If you are a resident of California, you also have the right to non-discrimination.

We do not “sell” or “share” personal information for money. Under some state laws, the manner in which we may use cookies may constitute a “sale.” You may have the right to opt out of the sale of personal information depending on how your state defines “sale.” Please see our Cookies section for more on how we use cookies and other online tracking technologies.

We do not use sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you; notwithstanding any of the forgoing, if NEC X discloses sensitive personal information, it would only be for the following enumerated reasons: to provide our goods and services, or as needed; to ensure security and integrity; to prevent fraud or illegal activity; for physical safety; for short-term, transient use, including for non-personalized advertising; to perform services on behalf of the business; and to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance such services or devices.

We reserve the right to deny your request if we cannot verify your identity. Where we deny your request in whole or in part, we will inform you of the denial, provide an explanation of our actions, and the reason(s) for the denial. Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, or Virginia may have the right to appeal requests that have been denied by contacting us at privacy@nec-x.com.

Transmissions over the Internet are never 100% secure or error-free. While we take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, we cannot warrant the security of any information users transmit to us.

NEC X, Inc.

459 Hamilton Ave., Suite 306 Palo Alto, CA 94301