General

We do not collect personally identifiable information, except when you specifically and knowingly disclose such information. This information is generally collected when you order our products or services, register your products on the Website, fill out surveys, enter promotional events, correspond with us or discuss a service issue over the phone with an associate. If you disclose your personal information, we will only store and use such information that we need to meet your requests and our legitimate business objectives. We primarily use your personal information to provide you with an improved and customised online experience and service. We may also use the information we collect from you for the purpose of providing you with technical support, customer service and account maintenance.

Product Purchases

When purchasing through the Website, we employ a registration process which requires that you provide us with your first and last name, billing and shipping information (which includes your home or other physical address, the name of your city or town, your telephone number, your e-mail address or other personal contact information). If you choose not to provide your personal contact information at the point of collection, you will not be able to purchase products through the Website.

Credit Card Information

When you order any product or request an RMA (Returned Merchandise Authorisation) on our Website, you may be required to provide us with your credit card information including the credit card number, card security code (also called the CVV2 code), the expiry date and the billing address. You may be redirected to a third-party payment gateway or we may transmit all your credit card information to the appropriate payment gateway/card processor in an encrypted format for payment processing.

Product Updates and Promotional E-mails

We regularly send product updates and promotional e-mails as a service to our existing customers. We will use your personal information to send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current special offers, promotions and deals only if you elect to receive these e-mails. If you have elected to receive these e-mails and wish to stop receiving them in the future, please follow the opt-out instructions provided on the e-mails or log into your account on the Website and follow the instructions to make the appropriate changes.

General

We do not collect personally identifiable information, except when you specifically and knowingly disclose such information. This information is generally collected when you order our products or services, register your products on the Website, fill out surveys, enter promotional events, correspond with us or discuss a service issue over the phone with an associate. If you disclose your personal information, we will only store and use such information that we need to meet your requests and our legitimate business objectives. We primarily use your personal information to provide you with an improved and customised online experience and service. We may also use the information we collect from you for the purpose of providing you with technical support, customer service and account maintenance.

Log Files

Log files record a range of variables related to a visitor’s time on the Website. This includes, but is not limited to: IP addresses, browser versions and types, internet service providers, pages visited, entry/exit pages, referring sites, platform types, demographic information, connection speed, etc. We use this information to understand how our visitors are using the Website and to discover how we might modify the site to better serve our customers. This information is gathered automatically when you visit the Website and is not personally identifiable.

IP Addresses and System Specifications

When you access the Website, our servers may record your IP address. We may use IP addresses for system administration and troubleshooting, ensuring user compliance with our terms of service, investigating security breaches and compiling anonymous non-personal information such as how many users visited the Website.

Product Registration

When you register, we may ask for your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, type of product, serial number and date of purchase or other product-identifying information. If you choose not to provide this information, you will not be able to register products on the Website; however, you may continue to use the products.

Personal Contact Information

We use your contact information to complete and support your purchases from us, to facilitate and improve your use of the Website, to communicate with you, and to comply with any legal requirements. We also use this information to respond to any questions you might have and to provide you with information about special deals offered through the Website.

Online Surveys

In order to improve our products and services, we may use your personal information to send you online surveys. These surveys help us learn more about your experience with our products and services. Your responses to these surveys are treated as confidential information. If you do not wish to participate in a survey, you may simply decline when asked. You may also choose to opt out from participating in any future surveys. If you do so, we will not send you any survey requests in the future. Product Updates and Promotional E-mails We regularly send product updates and promotional e-mails as a service to our existing customers. We will use your personal information to send you newsletters and e-mails periodically listing current special offers, promotions and deals only if you elect to receive these e-mails. If you have elected to receive these e-mails and wish to stop receiving them in the future, please follow the opt-out instructions provided on the e-mails or log into your account on the Website and follow the instructions to make the appropriate changes.

Correspondence

If you contact us by telephone, e-mail, fax or letter with feedback, comments, questions or for any other reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence and collect your personal information to process your enquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. How do we collect your non-personal information — and why?

Cookies

The Website may contain “cookies”. Cookies are bits of electronic information generated by web servers and stored on your hard drive when you visit practically any website on the Internet. Cookies are often used to differentiate users, store user preferences and track user trends in general. We may use cookies to improve the quality of the Website and to better understand how users interact with the Website. We do not use cookies to retrieve individual personally identifying information about you from your computer. You can adjust your web browser security settings to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features of the Website we offer may not function properly.

Navigational Data

As you browse the Website, we may gather navigational data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to facilitate and improve the Website; to comply with any legal requirements; to serve, or have a third party serve specialised or relevant advertising content and/or recommendations to you on the Website; and for our internal purposes. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third party sites with information relating to the number of users linking to the Website from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

General

Personal information which we collect for a particular purpose will only be saved and used for that purpose, unless you have agreed to us using it for some other purpose, as described in this Privacy Policy. We sometimes share non-personal information with third parties about our user base, but that information does not include any personally identifiable information. Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, we do not trade, share, rent, sell or give away information concerning you to third parties.

Our Service Providers and Strategic Partners

We may disclose your personally identifiable information to our service providers and strategic partners. For instance, we will disclose your credit card information to our financial service providers and banks for processing. We will also disclose your name and address to the delivery service we use to deliver products you purchase on the Website. These third party service providers and partners will have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.

Aggregated General Information

We may share aggregated general information about the Website with our corporate partners, investors, advertisers or others. Aggregate general information includes without limitation the number of users of the Website, revenue including payments by the users, usage statistics and user feedback. Aggregated general information does not include any personally identifying information that could be used to contact or identify you.

Children’s Privacy

The Website complies with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and all other applicable laws and regulations protecting children’s privacy on the Internet. We do not allow persons under 18 years of age to create user accounts. Therefore, except as may be required by law, the Website does not knowingly collect, maintain or disclose any personal information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not: (i) create or attempt to create an account on the Website, (ii) sign up for any subscription service, or (iii) buy anything through the Website.

Security

Kingston takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to, or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of, users’ information. We restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our products, services and the Website. Our servers are protected by firewalls and are physically located in secure data facilities to further increase security. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology for mutual authentication, data encryption and data integrity. Although no computer is 100% safe from outside attacks, we believe that the steps we have taken to protect your personal information drastically reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of information involved.

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may change our policy at any time by posting a new version of it on the Website. We encourage you to check the Website regularly for information about revisions to this Privacy Policy. In the event that we change our Privacy Policy, such changes will affect all of the information we collect after any such change. If you object to the change to our Privacy Policy, then you must contact us in writing regarding your objection.

Questions and comments

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at webmaster@Kingston.com

Our Affiliates

We may share your personally identifiable information with legal entities that are directly or indirectly controlled by us or who share common control with us. These affiliates may use your personally identifiable information only in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Enforcement

We may disclose your personally identifiable information or otherwise use such information to communicate with you if required or permitted to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) conform to legal requirements or comply with legal process or any governmental request; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Kingston and its affiliates, licensors or licensees; (iii) enforce our applicable service agreements; or (iv) protect the personal safety or interests of Kingston’s employees and consultants, other users of the Website or members of the public in urgent circumstances. We may also disclose any of your personal information to law enforcement or other appropriate third parties in connection with criminal investigations, investigation of fraud, infringement of intellectual property rights, or other suspected illegal activities, or as otherwise may be required by applicable law, or, as we deem necessary at our sole discretion, in order to protect the legitimate legal and business interests of Kingston.

Change of Control

In the event that another company acquires all or substantially all of the assets related to the Website, or if we experience some other change of control event such as merger, insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, we reserve the right to include any or all user-related information among the assets transferred to the acquiring company. We cannot guarantee that any entity receiving such information in connection with any of these transactions will comply with all the terms of this policy.

Information for Parents and Guardians

As a parent or guardian you can request Kingston to remove personal information pertaining to your child that was submitted without your consent or by misrepresenting his or her age. At your request, we will take reasonable steps to remove such information from our database. All such requests should include the same user name, password and e-mail address that your child submitted and should be sent to sales@kingston.com.

Integrity

During the online account registration process, you can review, change or remove any information you have submitted. Our goal is to ensure that our information about you is as accurate as possible and encourage you to promptly update your information if it changes. You may, at any time, access your information to update, modify or delete any inaccuracies by accessing your account through the Website. You may also request that we remove your account information from our databases. We will endeavour to remove as much information as legally allowable. However, as we generally keep information related to past transactions for our records, we may not be able to completely remove all of your information.