Privacy

Effective: 03/25/2024

 

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”) knows how important privacy is to its customers and their employees and partners, and we strive to be clear about how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your information. This Privacy Policy provides an overview of our information practices with respect to personal information collected through Samsung Semiconductor website (the "Business Services").

 

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our personal information practices with respect to the Business Services or changes in applicable law. We will indicate at the top of this Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated. If we update the Privacy Policy, we will let you know in advance about changes we consider to be material by placing a notice on the Business Services or by emailing you, where appropriate.

We may collect various types of personal information in connection with the Business Services.

 

For example:

 

• We may collect personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address and contact details, job title and position, company, language, registration details, and any communications you send or deliver to us;

• We may collect data about your use of the Business Services, including the time and duration of your use; information stored in cookies that we have set on your device; and information about your device settings;

• We also may receive personal information about you from your employer or service provider or from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you.

• We may collect automatically generated data such as your, cookies, details of the usage of the Business Services, including the visit records for analytic purposes.

We may use information we collect for the following purposes:

 

• to provide products and services that you (or your employer) requested and to register or authenticate you or your device;

• to provide post-event content not open to public

• to provide information and notices regarding the event

• to provide marketing communications, upon separate consent, including invitations for future events

• to respond to your questions or requests for information;

• to offer better and more customized services and user experience that take into account your website usage, interest and service record and other relevant information;

• subject to your consent where required by applicable law, to inform you about new products and services;

• for assessment and analysis of our market, customers, products, and services (including asking you for your opinions on our products and services and carrying out customer surveys);

• to understand the way companies use the Business Services so that we can improve them and develop new products and services;

• to provide maintenance services and to maintain a sufficient level of security on the Business Services;

• to protect the rights, property, or safety of Samsung, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, employees or customers, for example, in legal proceedings, internal investigations and investigations by competent authorities;

• otherwise with your consent or as described to at the time your information is collected.

 

Through the Business Services, we may collect personal information about your online activities on websites and connected devices over time and across third-party websites, devices, apps and other online features and services. We may use third-party analytics services on the Business Services, such as those of Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics. The service providers that administer these analytics services help us to analyze your use of the Business Services and improve the Business Services. The information we obtain may be disclosed to or collected directly by these providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate use of the Business Services, help administer the Business Services and diagnose technical issues. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html and https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

We will disclose your information internally within our business and the following entities, but only for the above purposes.

 

• Samsung affiliates;

• third parties when necessary to provide you with requested products and services. For example, we may disclose your payment data to financial institutions as appropriate to process transactions that you have requested;

• companies that provide services for or on behalf of us, such as companies that help us with the billing process;

• other parties: (i) to comply with the law or respond to compulsory legal process (such as a search warrant or other court order); (ii) to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Business Services; (iii) to protect the rights, property, or safety of Samsung, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, or customers; (iv) as part of a merger or transfer, or in the event of a bankruptcy;

• with other third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

We have put in place reasonable physical and technical measures designed to safeguard the information we collect in connection with the Business Services.

Your use or participation in the Business Services may involve transfer, storage and processing of your information outside of your country of residence, consistent with this policy. Please note that the data protection and other laws of countries to which your information may be transferred might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. We will take appropriate measures, in compliance with applicable law, which are designed to ensure that your personal information remains protected.

Under the laws of some jurisdictions, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information, including the right to request details about the information we collect about you, delete information collected about you, and to correct inaccuracies in that information. In compliance with applicable law, we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law.

 

If you request deletion of personal information, you may not be able to access or use the Business Services, and residual personal information may continue to reside in Samsung's records and archives for some time, but Samsung will not use that information for commercial purposes. Where permitted under applicable law, Samsung reserves the right to keep your personal information, or a relevant part of it, if Samsung has suspended, limited, or terminated your access to the Business Services for violating the Samsung Terms of Use, when necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Samsung, or any of our respective affiliates, business partners, employees or customers.

 

To update your preferences, limit the communications you receive from us, or submit a request, please contact us as specified in the Contact section below.

 

The Business Services may offer choices related to the collection, deletion and sharing of certain information and communications about products, services and promotions. You can access ‘My page’ or ‘Cookie management tool’ to adjust the settings to learn about choices that may be available to you when you use the Business Service.

We take reasonable steps designed to ensure that we retain information about you only for so long as is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, as described in this Samsung Semiconductor Privacy Policy or any other notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law, as well as our records retention requirements and policies.

We, as well as certain third parties that provide content, advertising, or other functionality on our Business Services, may use cookies, beacons, and other technologies in certain areas of our Business Services.

Cookies

 

Cookies are small files that store information on your device. They enable the entity that put the cookie on your device to recognize you across different websites, services, devices, and/or browsing sessions. Cookies serve many useful purposes. For example:

 

• Cookies can remember your sign-in credentials so you don’t have to enter those credentials each time you log on to a service.

• Cookies help us and third parties understand which parts of our Business Services are the most popular because they help us to see which pages and features visitors are accessing and how much time they are spending on the pages. By studying this kind of information, we are better able to adapt the Business Services and provide you with a better experience.

• Cookies help us and third parties understand which ads you have seen so that you don’t receive the same ad each time you access the Business Service.

• Cookies help us and third parties provide you with relevant content and advertising by collecting information about your use of our Business Services and other websites and apps.

 

When you use a web browser to access the Business Services, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is sent. Each browser is different, so check the “Help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. The operating system of your device may contain additional controls for cookies.

 

Please note, however, that some Business Services may be designed to work using cookies and that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use those Business Services, or certain parts of them. The Business Services are not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers.

 

Other Local Storage

 

We, along with certain third parties, may use other kinds of local storage technologies, such as Local Shared Objects (also referred to as “Flash cookies”) and HTML5 local storage, in connection with our Business Services. These technologies are similar to the cookies discussed above in that they are stored on your device and can be used to store certain information about your activities and preferences. However, these technologies may make use of different parts of your device from standard cookies, and so you might not be able to control them using standard browser tools and settings. For information about disabling or deleting information contained in Flash cookies, please click here .

Beacons

 

We, along with certain third parties, also may use technologies called beacons (or “pixels”) that communicate information from your device to a server. Beacons can be embedded in online content, videos, and emails, and can allow a server to read certain types of information from your device, know when you have viewed particular content or a particular email message, determine the time and date on which you viewed the beacon, and the IP address of your device. We and certain third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of our Business Services and (in conjunction with cookies) to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.

If you are a California resident, for more information about your privacy rights, please see the California Consumer Privacy Statement section of the Samsung Privacy Policy for the U.S., available at: https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/california.

If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us at:

 

dsweb.sec@samsung.com, or through ‘Contact Us’ menu located on the website footer.

 

Effective Date: January 1, 2023

 

This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) describes the personal data that Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. (“SSI”) collects, how we use it, and when we share it as we interact with you, deliver our services, and conduct our business operations. It covers this website and any services or products offered by SSI (the “services”).

 

This Statement applies regardless of whether you use a computer, mobile phone, or tablet to access our services. This Statement applies to all personal data collection by SSI.

 

Please read this Statement carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal data. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our services. By accessing our services, you agree to this Privacy Statement. It also is important that you check back often for updates to the Statement. The most current version of the Statement will always be available here. You can check the “effective date” posted at the top to see when the Statement was last updated. Your continued use of our services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

Information We Collect:

 

We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you (personal data). In particular, through our services and over the last twelve (12) months, SSI has collected the following categories of personal data:

Personal Data We Collect Directly From You

 

• We collect personal data that you provide to us when you use our services, such as by utilizing SSI services or productions, we will collect information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, business address, business e-email address, business telephone number, or other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline. We will also collect records and copies of your correspondence, if you contact us.

• If you engage with SSI for marketing purposes, such as by expressing interest in SSI services or products by participating in a promotion, or attending a SSI or related marketing event, we will collect the information you submit to us (including name, email address, phone number, organization and job title) and the Samsung services or products that interest you. SSI may also collect your email if you subscribe to our blog for blog update notifications. You can unsubscribe from the blog at any time.

 

Personal Data Collected Indirectly From You

 

• We may also collect other electronic data from your use of our Sites automatically. This data may include your IP address, date/time stamp, data about your interaction with our Sites, and data collected from our use of cookies and similar tracking tools. SSI does not intend to collect any directly identifiable personal data from the website. Our website serves as an information gateway to provide you with the information about SSI as a company and its services and products offered. Our products are controlled by our parent company, Samsung Electronics Korea. Please refer to the respective product and website for the corresponding privacy statement.

• We also may collect other information about you, your device, or your use of the services in ways that we describe to you at the point of collection or otherwise with your consent.

 

Personal Data We Collect From Third Parties

 

• We may obtain personal data about you from our affiliates or business partners through your use of our services. For example, we may receive information about you from publicly and commercially available sources (as permitted by law), which we may combine with other information we receive from or about you. We also may receive information about you from third-party social networking services when you choose to connect with those services.

 

Information about your use of the Services

 

In addition to the information you provide, we may collect information about your use of our services through software on your device and other means. For example, we may collect:

 

• Device information – When you access our website and blog, we may collect your IP address, your operating system, your browser ID, and other information about your system and connection. If you are using mobile devices, we may also collect information about the cellular network associated with your mobile device, your mobile device’s operating system or platform, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s name and unique device ID, and information about the features of our Mobile App (i.e. blog) that you accessed.

• Log information – We may collect the time and duration of your use of the services, search query terms you enter through the services, any information stored in cookies that we have set on your device, and device event information such as system activity, error reports, and hardware settings. We may also access metadata and other information associated with files that you upload onto our blog site.

• Usage data – We may collect usage data about you whenever you interact with our services, which may include the dates and times you access the services and your browsing activities (such as what portions of the services you used). We also collect information regarding the performance of the services, including metrics related to the deliverability of emails and other communications you send through the services. If you are using our blog’s Mobile App, we may collect information about how often you use the Mobile App and other performance data. This information allows us to improve the content and operation of the app service, and facilitate research and analysis of the app service.

 

Use of Personal Data:

 

We use the information we collect for the following business or commercial purposes:

 

• To present our Site and services to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• For assessment and analysis of our market, customers, products, and services (including asking you for your opinions on our products and services and carrying out customer surveys).

• To improve the operation of the Site and the quality of the services.

• To notify you about changes to the Site and the products or services available from SSI, its affiliates, and its partners.

• To perform a contract with you or our clients.

• For our necessary legitimate interests. For example, to recover debts due to us, to keep records updated and study how customers interact with our products/services, for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganization or group restructuring exercise, to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy, to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy, or to develop our products/services and grow our business.

• To comply with legal obligations.

• To manage our relationship with you, which may include providing support, personalizing, and developing our website, marketing, products, and services for you.

• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.

• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it and/or to which you consent.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

 

We may combine information from or about you, including across different services or devices, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Statement.

 

Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties:

 

We may disclose your personal data to a third party for a business purpose. We may disclose your personal data for business purposes as noted in the chart above. For example, we may disclose your data:

 

• With affiliates and subsidiaries (the companies related to SSI by common ownership or control);

• With service providers we use to support our business (contracted companies that provide services for or on behalf of SSI, such as our website hosting company, and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them);

• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request or with law enforcement (when we are required to do so or to protect SSI and its customers);

• To enforce or apply our terms [LINK] and any other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• Third parties as part of a merger, transfer, or other corporate reorganization; and/or

• Other parties with your consent or at your direction.

 

We may also share aggregated, anonymous, or non-identifiable data without restriction.

 

Use of Cookies

 

The SSI website may use “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. We use cookies to:

 

• Authenticate access to remember your information so you will not have to re-enter it; and

• Improve the Site or services by using analytics to understand traffic patterns so we can find popular content and potential problems.

 

Required Cookie:

 

These cookies facilitate basic access and navigation of the Site. They do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.

 

Analytic Cookie:

 

We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how visitors use the Site. These cookies collect information in the aggregate to give us insight into how our website is being used. We anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics, and the anonymized data is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

 

To view an overview of the privacy of your Google Analytics cookies please go here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

You may install a Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on by going here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

 

Functionality Cookie:

 

Performance cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.

 

Marketing Cookie:

 

We use marketing cookies to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for purposes of third party advertising.

 

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser to prevent that and your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu or visiting www.allaboutcookies.org. For mobile devices, you can manage how your device and browser share certain device data by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your device. Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable certain types of cookies. Such services are not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers. Please note that without cookies you may not be able to use or benefit from all of the features of our services.

 

Sales and “Sharing” of Personal Data

 

In the preceding twelve (12) months, SSI has not sold personal information.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, SSI has not shared your personal information for targeted or cross contextual behavioral advertising.

 

Your Rights and Choices

 

You may have specific rights regarding your personal data. This section describes the rights you may have and explains how to exercise those rights. It also provides you with information about your right to appeal if we deny your request.

 

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

 

You may have the right to request that SSI disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal data over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Rights), we will disclose to you:

 

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.

• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.

• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

• If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, identification of the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

 

Deletion Request Rights

 

You have the right to request that SSI delete any of your personal data that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal data from our records, unless an exception applies. If an exception applies, we will advise you of the applicable exception and the reason for denying your request.

 

Correction Request Rights

 

You have the right to request that SSI correct any inaccurate personal information we may hold about you. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Rights), we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct inaccurate personal information, taking into the account the nature of the personal information and the purpose for our processing.

 

Exercising Rights; Designating an Authorized Agent

 

To exercise your rights described above, or to designate an authorized agent, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

 

• Sending an email to compliance@ssi.samsung.com.

• By mail:

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

ATTN: Legal/Compliance

3655 N First St.

San Jose, CA 95134

 

We may need to validate your request. In order to validate your request, we may ask you for the following information: your name and ways for us to understand your previous interaction history with Samsung Semiconductor Inc., e.g., the name of the company you work for or the name of your Samsung Semiconductor Inc. contact. Only you or an authorized agent may make a request related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please complete the following form here or provide us with a power of attorney or other legally binding written document signed by you and identifying your agent. We may also verify the identity of your designated agent.

 

We will use the information you provide to verify your request against the records we maintain. We will not use the information you provide to verify your request for any other purpose. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal data if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

 

You may appeal a denial of your request by emailing us at compliance@ssi.samsung.com.

 

Non-Discrimination

 

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

 

• Deny you goods or services.

• Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

• Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.

• Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

 

Other California Privacy Rights

 

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to compliance@ssi.samsung.com or write us at: Samsung Semiconductor, Inc., ATTN: Legal/Compliance, 3655 North 1st Street, San Jose, CA 95134.

 

Information Security

 

We have put in place reasonable physical and technical measures to safeguard the information we collect in connection with the services. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.

 

Third Party Links

 

Our Site may link to third-party websites and services that are outside our control. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by websites or other services. You should exercise caution, and review the privacy statements applicable to the third-party websites and services you use.

 

We also may make available to you certain services offered by third parties. SSI is not responsible for these third-party products or services.

 

For example:

 

SSI partners with a third party to manage our blog notification subscription service and to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third-party partner may use cookies and similar tracking tools in order to provide you with advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.

 

SSI also uses a third party recruiting firm to manage our career page on the website. All the data that you submit through the applicant web-form is directly collected by the third party recruiting firm on behalf of SSI.

 

Some of the content, advertising, and functionality on our services may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with us. Please refer to the third party partners’ privacy notices and legal terms.

 

Children

 

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without parental consent, unless permitted by law. If we learn that a child under the age of thirteen (13) has provided us with personal information, we will delete it in accordance with applicable law. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at compliance@ssi.samsung.com.

 

How To Contact Us

 

To ask us questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us by sending an email to: compliance@ssi.samsung.com

 

Or writing to us at:

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

ATTN: Legal/Compliance

3655 North 1st Street

San Jose, CA 95134