1. AUDIO-TECHNICA Values Your Privacy

This “Privacy Policy” of AUDIO-TECHNICA U.S., INC. and AUDIO-TECHNICA CANADA, INC. (collectively herein referred to as “AUDIO-TECHNICA”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) outlines how your personally identifiable information (your “User Information”) may be collected, used, and shared in connection with your access to and/or visitation or use of: (a) our site, https://www.outlet.audio-technica.com , (the “Site”);and/or (b) any third-party application or third-party sites, social networks, or social media sites (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, etc., collectively “Third-Party Applications”) utilized by us in connection with the Site, or our services. This Privacy Policy also describes your choices and rights regarding the use, access, and correction or deletion of your User Information held by us. By visiting our Site, you consent to the use of your User Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You may also be asked to provide clear and unequivocal affirmative consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your User Information via opt-in procedures.

 

The Site is owned and operated by AUDIO-TECHNICA and its affiliates. This Privacy Policy only applies to User Information obtained by AUDIO-TECHNICA in connection with or related to your use of the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by us through other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any Third-Party Application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from, or on, our Site.

 

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using the Site, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and your continued use of the Site means that you are consenting to be bound by the most recently updated version of this Privacy Policy.

 

 

2. Data Collection

General Information We Collect and How We Use It 

 

We collect User Information when you use our Site. Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected automatically. Our handling of your User Information is generally limited to product registration, electronic newsletter registration, addressing warranty-related issues, shipping products to end-users, outlet order processing, sponsoring and hosting giveaways, facilitating rebates, and handling and resolving general inquiries. You are not required to provide AUDIO-TECHNICA the personal data that we request, but if you choose not to do so, we may not be able to provide you with our services, or with a high quality of service or respond to any inquiries you may have.

 

Information Collected When You Use Our Site

 

Your User Information may be collected, used, and shared. As detailed below, the type of User Information collected may vary based on how it was gathered, but may include, among other things, your name, email address, physical address, company or organization information, phone number and other information that you voluntarily submit (e.g., when you submit information via the Contact link or submit an order on the Site), information automatically collected about your usage of our Site that does not include personally identifiable information (e.g., the content that you choose to view and how you interact), and information about you that third parties may share with us if such third parties have previously received your consent to do so. In general, your personally identifiable User Information means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. It does not include: (i) publicly available information from government records; (ii) de-identified or aggregate information; or (iii) certain other personal data protected by other sector-specific state or federal laws.

 

Moreover, we automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Site. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

 

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA does not collect or process any data on the Site regarding the following: race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union memberships; genetic or biometric data; health or mortality; or sexual orientation.

 

We collect several categories of information from and about users of our Site, including:

 

• Identity and Contact Information – We collect or use this information, including your first and last name, email address, social media handle, shipping address, billing address, phone number, position/job title, and if applicable, a recipient’s first and last name.

 

• Technical Data and Unique Device Identifiers – We collect IP addresses, operating systems, links clicked, pages visited, browser type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, and referring websites of visitors to our Site (when possible).

 

• Commercial Information – We collect records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

 

• Non-Identifying Information – We collect information that is about you but does not individually identify you, such as aggregate information about pages visited, length of time spent on our Site/pages, etc.

 

• Purchase Information – If you submit an order through our Site, we may collect your first, middle, and last name, home address, email address, telephone number, and credit card information or payment information.

 

• Application Information – If you submit an application for employment through our Sites, we may collect your first, middle, and last name, home address, email address, telephone number, information about your relationship with AUDIO-TECHNICA, education information, employment history information, job-related skills and qualifications, and personal/professional reference information.

 

On our Site, we collect your User Information through various means, including but not limited to:

 

• Purchase orders;

 

• Contact forms, including but not limited to, registration forms, application forms, and general inquiry forms, or when you email us directly;

 

• Responses to surveys we may conduct from time to time;

 

• Social media plugins; and

 

• Web-tracking and website analytics technologies, such as cookies and web beacons.

 

Voluntary Submission

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA may collect User Information that is voluntarily provided by you or with your permission. For example, we may ask you for information, such as your name, address, phone number, company or organization information, and e-mail address when you contact us via the ‘Contact’ link on the Site, or when you submit an order through the Site All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit the Site, but you may be required to provide your information by other means if we need such information to provide our services to you.

 

Our Third-Party Vendors

We may collect payment data. However, such information is processed by our third-party vendors, Stripe Inc. (“Stripe”) and PayPal Holdings, Inc. (“PayPal”) through online payment programs. For more information regarding such collection, please see Stripe’s privacy policy by clicking here, or PayPal’s privacy policy by clicking here.

 

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

We follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) when handling credit card data. AUDIO-TECHNICA currently accepts VISA, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express credit cards as authorized payment methods for our services. All payment transactions are processed by either of our third-party payment processors, Stripe or PayPal, through their online payment programs, in adherence to PCI-DSS, and other applicable standards. AUDIO-TECHNICA at its sole election may discontinue support for any payment method or it may support additional payment methods (i.e., Apple Pay, Google Wallet or Amazon Payments).

 

Web Beacons

 

Our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on the Site in order to recognize users, assess traffic patterns, identify preferred content, and measure Site engagement. We may also include web beacons in our e-mail messages in order to count how many e-mail messages have been opened, for example.

 

Some of these web beacons may also be placed by third-party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These web beacons may be used by third-party service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain web pages and compiles anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our third-party service providers to learn which advertisements bring you to our website and/or how you use the Site.

 

Log Files

 

Our servers log information about your IP address, your browser type, and the current URL you are requesting. This information is always provided by your browser and automatically logged. These log files are stored in a secure location and used in our internal analysis of traffic patterns.

 

Cookies and Similar Tools

 

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. A cookie is a small data file that is written to a computer's hard drive by a web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect information, such as a user identification code or IP address that a website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The data read from these cookies may be linked to personally identifying (PII) and non-personally identifying (non-PII) information. We may collect and use non-PII to help us improve our services, customize your experience and analyze use of our services. This Privacy Policy does not limit our use or disclosure of collected non-PII. We reserve the right to collect, use and disclose such non-PII to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.

 

We and our partners may use cookies and similar technologies on the Site to personalize and optimize your browsing experience by: providing you tailored content, enabling social media features, safeguarding against spam and malware, analyzing trends, traffic, and user behavior, administering the website, gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole, tracking web and advertising analytics throughout the Site, remembering preferences and voluntarily-submitted information (e.g. name, email), performing location-related functionalities and analytics, participating in market research (e.g., website ratings), and educating AUDIO-TECHNICA about how the Site can continue to be improved. You may turn off cookies in your browser or have your browser warn you before accepting cookies. If you choose to turn off cookies, you may not be able to experience all of the features on our Site.

 

Cookies fall into the subcategories below.

 

Essential Cookies. Certain cookies are used for specific purposes that are essential to your secure use and navigation of the Site. Without them, AUDIO-TECHNICA may not be able to provide core Site functions and features to you, and the Site would not operate as well as you or AUDIO-TECHNICA would like. These cookies collect and use information such as your server preferences, single-session data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files, and other credential-related information. Essential cookies also help inform AUDIO-TECHNICA whether you require, or have already been served, an affirmative consent request in connection with our data policies. Essential cookies also include analytics cookies, which provide us data that allows AUDIO-TECHNICA to better understand its users and improve the Site based on what we have learned from that data.

 

Preference Cookies. Other cookies are used to collect and process information about your preferences and similar choices in connection with the Site in order to optimize your browsing experience. Preference cookies include social media cookies, which collect information about your social media usage and other data you may have provided in connection with such usage (if you access the Site through a social media website or Third-Party Application, you may have social media cookies). If you wish to modify or change your social media cookies, please visit the appropriate social media website and review the settings related to your applicable social media account(s).

 

Advertising Cookies. To help support the Site and further tailor your experience, AUDIO-TECHNICA and certain of our third-party providers may also use cookies on the Site to personalize the content you may be shown. Some advertisements may use advertising cookies to provide targeted advertisements that may be more consistent with your interests than non-targeted advertisements. AUDIO-TECHNICA does not provide user information to third parties except in connection with the Site or as required by law.

 

Analytics

 

Services providing analytic tools (“Analytic Services”), including without limitation Google Analytics®, are being used with the Site which transmits website traffic data to servers in the United States. Analytic Services do not collect personal information, identify individual users, or associate your IP address with any other data. We do not share any personally identifiable information with our Analytic Services in connection with their performing of any services on our Site.  We use reports provided by Analytic Services to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage. Each of these services has their own privacy policy that you should refer to. We also collect non-identifying information, such as IP addresses, operating systems, links clicked, pages visited, browser type, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, and referring websites of visitors to our Sites. This information is collected for statistical analysis purposes, such as to determine web-traffic trends and the effectiveness of our partnerships with other websites, and to maintain the security and operation of our Site. Google’s ability to use and share information about your visit to the Site is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy, which you can view by clicking here.

 

Third-Party Websites

 

The Site may contain links to websites not owned or controlled by AUDIO-TECHNICA. We do not have any control over these third-party websites and do not endorse them. We encourage you to be aware of third-party websites and their privacy policies, as we are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of third-party websites. Please review the privacy policy of each website you visit before you submit any personal information to any of these websites.

 

 

3. Data Usage

Use of Your Information

 

We collect, process and disclose your User Information in a way that is compatible with you and relevant to the purpose for which it was collected or authorized.

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA may retain your personal data. AUDIO-TECHNICA retains personal data only for so long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including as described in this Privacy Policy or in our service-specific privacy notices, or as required by law. We will retain your personal data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy and our service-specific privacy summaries.

 

Your User Information may be used for the purposes outlined below.

 

To Facilitate and Improve Our Services

 

To ensure that your orders end up in the right place and to provide customer support when needed, we collect or use the following information, including your first and last name, email address, social media handle, shipping address, billing address, phone number, position/job title, credit card information, shipping address, billing address, and, if applicable, a recipient’s first and last name. Moreover, we collect records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies for statistical purposes and to enable us to market more effectively to you. Additionally, your User Information may be used to present the Sites and their contents to you, request feedback, evaluate or conduct a sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, and for any other purpose with your consent.

 

To Provide Communications to You

 

From time to time, we may provide e-mails highlighting new features, promotions, or content on the Site to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to send such communications. For instance, if you have opted to receive our e-news, surveys, or other marketing information, including information related to giveaways, we may use this information to contact you for these purposes.

 

When we collect information from you, you may inform us if you do not wish to be contacted for marketing/market research purposes. If you do not want to receive promotional information from us or our representatives, please use the unsubscribe option in your user account or the email you received or email us at legal@atus.com to update your personal contact preferences. Note that unsubscribing from our emails will not prevent you from receiving transactional emails relating to orders, warranties, support, or service requests.

 

As Necessary to Provide Information or Services

 

We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing of information submitted on any contact form on the Site, the delivery of any orders, e-newsletter mailings, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service. In some instances, these companies may collect information directly from you and you will be notified of the involvement of the external service provider. Such companies are subject to agreements that require them to maintain the confidentiality of your information and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose. We reserve the right to not track how you interact with any of the provided services.

 

Sharing of Information

 

You may be requested to voluntarily provide certain User Information during your use of our Site. If you choose to do so, that User Information may be shared with AUDIO-TECHNICA and its affiliates as well as business partners and vendors providing hosting and other web-based or application-based services for AUDIO-TECHNICA.

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA may use third parties to provide e-mail messaging, text messaging, account management and hosting services for the Site, as well as shipping and handling of orders placed through the Site. When you sign up for services, we will share your User Information as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your User Information for any other purpose. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information by not using that particular service.

 

In the Event of Change in Ownership or Control

 

The ownership or control of the Site may change at some point in the future. Should that occur, we want AUDIO-TECHNICA to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In the event of a change in ownership, merger, bankruptcy or change in control of AUDIO-TECHNICA, your information may be shared with the person or business that owns or controls the Site. If so, you will be notified as described below in “Changes to Privacy Policy.” Opting out of receiving information from third parties will not affect our right to transfer your information to a new owner, but your choices will continue to be respected regarding the use of your information.

 

As Required By Law

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law, investigate fraud or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on AUDIO-TECHNICA, or to protect and defend the rights or property of AUDIO-TECHNICA.

 

Legal Bases for Data Usage

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA will not process your User Information without a lawful basis to do so. In general, AUDIO-TECHNICA will process your User Information on any of the following legal bases:

 

• Consent – We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.

• Legitimate Interests – We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.

• Performance of a Contract – Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.

• Legal Obligations – We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

• Vital Interests – We may disclose your information where we believe the processing is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those vital interests of another natural person.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

 

• Business Transfers – We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

When we collect and use your personal data for the purposes mentioned above or for other purposes, we will inform you before or at the time of collection. Where appropriate, we will ask for your consent to process your User Information. Where you have given consent for processing activities, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

4. Data Protection

How We Protect Your Information

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA takes the security of your User Information very seriously. We take every effort to protect your personal information from misuse, interference, loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Access to your User Information is only permitted among our employees and agents on a need-to-know basis and subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations when processed by third parties.

 

Your information may be stored on servers owned and operated by AUDIO-TECHNICA and its affiliates or by cloud/software service providers (“SaaS Services”) and located in the United States, or in the United Kingdom in certain instances involving non-PII or with our third-party provider Aware Digital. Our SaaS Services are committed to using industry-standard physical, electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect individuals’ privacy and to employing security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to maintain data accuracy, and to allow only the appropriate use of your User Information, we utilize industry standard physical, technical, and administrative controls and procedures to safeguard the information we collect. To help ensure the integrity and privacy of the User Information that you provide to us, we encrypt that information using secure socket layering (“SSL”). We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the User Information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.

 

However, it must be noted that “perfect security” does not exist today. If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached, please contact us using the contact information provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

 

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Any transmission of personal information by you is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on our Site.

 

5. Data Retention

How Long We Keep Your Information

 We will only keep your User Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than reasonably necessary.

 

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will actively review the personal data we hold and delete it securely, or in some cases, anonymize it when there is no longer a legal, business, or consumer need for it to be retained.

 

6. Privacy Rights and Considerations

Third-Party Policies

 You should review the privacy policies of any third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties. Please contact each third-party provider directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies or the information, they require for you to complete any transaction.

 

Children’s Online Privacy Information

CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (“COPPA”) NOTIFICATION

 

Our Site is not designed for persons under the age of thirteen (“13”). We are not responsible for any access or use of the Site by children or minors under the age of 13. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on our Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Site, or through any of their features, use any of the interactive features of our Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us as outlined below.

 

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 13 years of age. By using the Site, you represent that you are at least 13 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of this Site. If we learn that personal information from users less than 13 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data, we may have collected from children under age 13, please contact us.

 

Residents of the European Union

 AUDIO-TECHNICA does not actively target or market to any EU member state and does not, to its knowledge, process or control any EU citizen personally identifiable information. As this time, AUDIO-TECHNICA does not ship or sell its products to any location out of the United States. Despite this fact, this Privacy Policy and its enumerated policies are intended to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and provide appropriate protection and care with respect to the treatment of information from all of our visitors and users in accordance with the GDPR.

 

If you are a resident of the EU, you have specific rights concerning your User Information under the GDPR as outlined in more detail below. Further information and advice about your rights can be obtained from the data protection regulator in your country.

 

If you are a resident of the EU, under GDPR, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to access the personal data belonging to you that it processes;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to change or modify the data it processes about you when you believe the data is inaccurate;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to erase any personal information about you that it has collected;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to deliver the personal data it holds about you in a commonly used format and request that such data be transmitted to another controller;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to cease processing your personal data through an objection; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not to subject you to a decision based solely on automated processing.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en#member-pl.

 

If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under GDPR, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below under the section for “Contacting Data Controller.”

 

Residents of California

AUDIO-TECHNICA collects certain, limited personal information from you in connection with your use of the Sites. This information includes (i) your name and e-mail address, but only if you voluntarily provide this information in connection with a request to receive AUDIO-TECHNICA’s e-newsletter or make an order through the Site; (ii) information related to Web-Beacons; (iii) information related to Log Files; (iv) information related to Analytic Services; and (v) payment information, including credit card information, shipping address and billing address. This information is used by AUDIO-TECHNICA for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.

AUDIO-TECHNICA does not sell any personal information it collects about you to third parties. AUDIO-TECHNICA shares information related to Log Files, Web Beacons, and Analytic Services with third parties in connection with maintaining and improving the Sites.

 

If you are a resident of California, under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to disclose the categories and specific information that it has collected about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete any personal information about you that it has collected;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not to share your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”);

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to correct any inaccurate personal information it maintains about you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to restrict its use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under the CCPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined further below. AUDIO-TECHNICA may not discriminate against you if you exercise any of your rights under the CCPA.

 

We will confirm your receipt of your request within thirty (30) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 30-day timeframe, please contact our Privacy Team as outlined below.

 

We endeavor to substantively respond to verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

 

If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

 

The response we provide will explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

 

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

 

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of your child. You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request must:

 

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative; and

• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

 

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.

 

California Shine The Light Law

 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

 

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with us, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Sites. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Sites, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).

 

Residents of Colorado

 

If you are a resident of Colorado, under the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt-out of data processing for targeting advertising, sale or profiling using your personal data;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to grant you access to any data that we have collected about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to correct any data that we have collected about you that is incorrect or outdated;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete any data collected about you that we hold; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide your data in a format that allows it to be transferred to another entity.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under the CPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined further below.

 

            Residents of Connecticut

 

If you are a resident of Connecticut, under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to confirm whether we are processing your personal data, and to provide access to any such data we may process about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide you with a copy of your personal information in a portable and readily usable format;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to correct any inaccuracies in any personal data we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete personal data that is provided by, or obtained about, you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt0out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal data, and profiling in furtherance of solely automated decisions that produce significant effects.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under the CTDPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined further below.

 

            Residents of Virginia

 

If you are a resident of Virginia, under the Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act (“VCDPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to confirm whether we process your personal data, and to allow you with access to any such data;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete any of your personal data that we hold;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to correct any inaccuracies in the personal data we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide the data we hold about you in an easy, portable form for transferability;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt-out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt-out of the sale of your personal data; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt-out of profiling based upon your personal data.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under the VCDPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined further below. AUDIO-TECHNICA may not discriminate against you if you exercise any of your rights under the VCDPA.

           

            Residents of Utah

 

If you are a resident of Utah, under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to grant you with access to the personal data we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete your personal data that you have provided to us;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide you with a copy of your personal data that you have provided to us in a format that is portable, readily usable and transferable;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to allow you to opt-out of the processing of you personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, or the sale of your personal data.

If you would like to exercise your rights under the UCPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined further below.

 

Residents of Nevada

 

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request by emailing us at legal@atus.com or call us at 1-800-433-4669. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

 

Residents of Canada

 

If you are a resident of Canada, under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to correct any inaccurate or outdated personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to delete any inaccurate personal information we hold about you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to withdraw your consent to any activities for which you have previously consented.

When we collect information from you, you may inform us if you do not wish to be contacted for marketing/market research purposes in accordance with Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation. If you do not want to receive promotional information from us or our representatives, please use the unsubscribe option in your user account or the email you received, or email us at legal@audio.technica.ca to update your personal contact preferences. Note that unsubscribing from out emails will not prevent you from receiving transactional emails relating to orders, warranties, support, or service requests.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under the PIPEDA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

 Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

 

The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (“PIPEDA”) provides Canada residents with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. These laws include the right to access your personal information held in our records, a right to correct any inaccuracies in our records concerning your personal information, a right to delete any inaccurate personal information we hold about you, and a right to withdraw your consent to any activities for which you have previously consented. The AUDIO-TECHNICA Privacy Policy describes such rights related to the use of that information. If you would like to exercise your rights under PIPEDA, you may contact us at the following email address to submit your request:

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA CANADA, INC.

legal@audio-technica.ca

 

Residents of Argentina

 

If you are a resident of Argentina, under the Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you in an express and clear manner about (1) the purposes for which data will be processed and any possible third-party addresses or types of addresses; (2) the existence of the relevant database and the identity and address of its controller; (3) whether the providing the information is mandatory or voluntary and the consequences of refusing to provide information or providing false information; and (4) the possibility to access, update, correct, and delete your data, and the mechanism to do so;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA rectify, update, and, where applicable, suppress your data stored in our databases; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not subject you to automated decision-making that produce negative legal effects on you and request an explanation of the logic applied in that decision.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under PDPA, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Brazil

 

The Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (“LGPD”) provides residents of Brazil with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. These laws include the right to access your personal information held in our records, and a right to delete any inaccurate personal information we hold about you. If you are a resident of Brazil, under the LGPD, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you and about with whom we share your information with;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete any personal information about you that it has collected;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA make available your personal information is a portable format; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide access to information on whether we hold particular data.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under LGPD, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Bolivia

 

The Bolivian Political Constitution of 2009 (“BPC”) provides residents of Bolivia with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Bolivia, under the Bolivian Political Constitution of 2009, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you (1) that your information will be subject to processing; (2) of the purpose of the collection and registry of your data; (3) of the potential recipients of the information; (4) of the identity and domicile of the party responsible for the processing or its representative; and of the possibility of exercising your rights of access, rectification, updating, cancellation, or revocation to/of the data collected;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access, rectification rights, updating rights, cancellation rights, objection rights, and revocation rights to/of the data collected about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA give you opt-out rights to control our use of your data for marketing or advertising purposes; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not subject you to decisions that produce legal effects or that significantly affect you and that are based solely on automated processing.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under BPC, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Chile

 

The Law No. 19.628 on the Protection of Private Life (“LPPL”) provides residents of Chile with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Chile, under Law No. 19.628 on the Protection of Private Life and with anticipation of the passing of Bill No. 11144-07 Regulating the Processing and Protection of Personal Data and Creating the Personal Data Protection Authority (“Chile Data Privacy Legislation”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide access to information as to whether your personal data is being processed, the processed data and its origin, the purpose of the processing, the categories or classes of the recipients to whom the data has been communicated to and the identify of each recipient to whom data has been transferred to or is intended to be transferred, the period during which the data will be processed, and our legitimate interests when our processing has a basis other than your consent;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA modify or complete any of your personal data that is inaccurate, outdated, or incomplete;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete or remove your personal data according to certain conditions;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA refrain from processing your data in a specific manner if the processing affects any fundamental rights and freedoms, is carried out exclusively for the purpose of marketing goods or services, or if the processing is carried out with respect to data obtained from a publicly accessible source and there is no other legal basis for the processing;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide a copy of your data in a structured, generic, and common electronic format which allows it to be operated by different systems, and to communicate or transfer it to another data controller; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA refrain from acting on decisions related to your personal information that are based solely on the automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, and request that you are given an opportunity to express your point of view concerning the automated processing, and request a review of the automated decision.

If you would like to exercise your rights under the Chile Data Privacy Legislation, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Colombia

 

The Colombian Political Constitution (“CPC”) provides Colombian residents with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information If you are a resident of Colombia, under the CPC, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you about our use of your personal data;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to provide you with access to your personal data that we process;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA update or amend the personal information we hold about you where such information may be inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete any of your personal information we hold about you when processing is not compliant with principles, rights, and constitutional guarantees;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA acknowledge your objection to the processing of your personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with an easily accessible and comprehensible copy of the data we hold about you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide evidence of the consent granted to us for the processing of your information, except for when such consent is not required for the processing.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under CPC, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Costa Rico

 

If you are a resident of Costa Rico, under the Law on the Protection of Persons Regarding the Processing of their Personal Data (“PRPD”) provides residents of Costa Rico with specific rights. Under the PRPD you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to and a report of the personal information we collect and hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA modify any incomplete, inaccurate, and/or unclear data we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete your personal data we hold about you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not process any of your personal information without your express consent.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under PRPD, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Dominican Republic

 

If you are a resident of the Dominican Republic, under Dominican Republic’s Constitution (“DRC”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you in advance, and in an express and clear manner, of the purpose of the data processing and who the addressee would be; the existence of the file, record or data bank, and the identity and address of the person responsible for processing; and the possibility of you to access, rectify, and delete the data; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the information we hold about you on our database and modify, update, or delete the personal information we hold about you;

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under DRC, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of El Salvador

 

The Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”) provides residents of El Salvador with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of El Salvador, under the PDPL, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to rectify any inaccurate information we hold about you; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete any personal information we hold about you.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under PDPL, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Guatemala

 

If you are a resident of Guatemala, under certain criteria outlined by the Constitutional Court (“Guatemala Data Regulations”), you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA obtain your consent prior to the transfer or commercialization of your personal data;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA obtain your consent regarding the use of your personal data, and such use must be made with a purpose compatible with that for which consent was obtained;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA have appropriate controls in place for you to rectify or update any inaccurate information we hold about you;

If you would like to exercise your rights under the Guatemala Data Regulations, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Mexico

 

The General Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Mandated Parties (“GLPPD”) provides Mexican residents with specific “ARCO” rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Mexico, you have certain “ARCO” rights to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA rectify/correct any inaccurate information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA cancel or delete your personal information where the purposes of the processing have been fulfilled;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA observe and respond appropriately to your objection to the processing of your personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you, prior to collecting your personal data, of the characteristics of the processing; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA limit the use and disclosure of your personal information; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA acknowledge and respond appropriately to your revocation of consent to the processing of your personal data.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under GLPPD, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Nicaragua

 

The Law on Personal Data Protection (“LPDP”) provides residents of Nicaragua with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Nicaragua, under the LPDP, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide information about the personal data we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA rectify, modify, delete or complement, include, update or cancel any of the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal data we hold about you in a readable and understandable format; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA acknowledge your objection to the processing of your personal information and refrain from processing your personal information any further.

If you would like to exercise your rights under LPDP, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Panama

 

The Law No. 81 on Personal Data Protection (“L81PDP”) provides residents of Panama with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Panama, under Law No. 81 on PDP, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you any information we hold about you, the origin of such information, and the purpose for which we collect the information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to your personal information that we hold about you

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA correct any of your personal information in our records that you consider to be incorrect, irrelevant, outdated, inaccurate, false, or inappropriate;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete, refuse to provide, or revoke consents concerning any personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA refrain from processing your personal information in a specific manner;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with a copy of your personal information in a generic structured way with a commonly used format that may allow for the management and/or transmission to another custodian; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not subject you to decisions based solely on automated processing of your personal data that may produce a negative legal effect when the information assessed relates to, among other things, your personality, health status, job performance, credit status, or personal behavior.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under Law No. 81 on PDP, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Peru

 

The Political Constitution of Peru and the Personal Data Protection Law (“PDLP”) provides residents of Peru with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Peru, under the Political Constitution of Peru and the PDLP, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you, in detail, but in a simple, express and unequivocal manner, prior to the collection of your personal information, of all the relevant aspects of the processing of your personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA update, amend, rectify, and cancel your personal data when it is inaccurate, incomplete, false, or when it is no longer necessary or relevant to the purpose for which it was collected, or when the term for its processing has ended;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA respect your refusal to supply personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA adhere to your objection of the processing of your personal data when such objection is founded on legitimate reasons concerning a specific personal situation; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not subject you to a decision with legal effects over you, or that significantly affect you, based on the processing of personal data intended to evaluate certain aspects of your personality or conduct.

If you would like to exercise your rights under PDLP, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Uruguay

 

The Law No. 18.331 on the Protection of Personal Data (“LPPD”) provides residents of Uruguay with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Uruguay, under the Law No. 18.331 on PPD, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of the reason for the collection of your personal data, the recipients of our database or the types of recipients, the existence of our database, and the effect of providing your personal data or not providing your personal data to us;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA answer all of your questions concerning your personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of how to exercise your rights of access, rectification, update, inclusion, or deletion of any of your personal information;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you, in the event of a data transfer, of the recipient of your personal data and the activity the recipient undertakes, as well as the purpose of the transfer;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide you access to all information that concerns you in a clear manner;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA rectify all inaccurate data we hold about you, and update any incomplete information we hold about you;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA delete your personal data from our database;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA to block or withdraw your data from out database and processing activities;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA provide a portable copy of your personal information; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA not subject you to a decision with legal effects that significantly affect you, based on automated data processing.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under Law No. 18.331 on PPD, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

Residents of Venezuela

 

The Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (“CBPR”) provides residents of Venezuela with specific rights as to the privacy and management of their information. If you are a resident of Venezuela, under the CBPR, you have the right to:

 

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you about the collection of your data, the entity responsible for holding your data, the purpose for which the data is collected, and he manner by which you may exercise your right to self-determination;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of the automatic collection of your personal information, the purpose and use of your personal information, and the individuals to whom your information will be shared with;

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of your options regarding accessing, ratifying, deleting, and opposing the use of your personal data; and

• Request AUDIO-TECHNICA inform you of the safety measures applied to the protection of your data.

 

If you would like to exercise your rights under CBPR, you may contact AUDIO-TECHNICA as outlined below.

 

7. Revisions and Updates

 

Changes to Privacy Policy

 

We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary to reflect customer feedback, changes in our services, and changes in the law. The updated version will be indicated by a revised “Last updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible.

 

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by means of a notice on the Site prior to the change becoming effective. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices and to review our most current Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

 

8. Contact

Contacting Data Controller

 

To request to review, update, delete your personal information, or exercise any of your rights in accordance with this Privacy Policy, or if you have any additional questions regarding this Privacy Policy or how to remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free to contact us by the e-mail or the mailing address below:

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA

1221 Commerce Dr.,

Stow, OH 44224

Attention:  PRIVACY TEAM

By Email: legal@atus.com

 

AUDIO-TECHNICA will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question. © Copyright 2022, Audio-Technica U.S., INC. All Rights Reserved.