blinx  PRIVACY POLICY

We at blinx  are committed to protecting your privacy. Our goal is to provide you with a positive experience on our websites and when using our products and services, while at the same time keeping your Personal Information, as defined below, secure. Our privacy practices are described below, as well as in separate notices given when an product or service is purchased (our “Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy covers all blinx products and blinx websites. By visiting blinx websites, using blinx products or providing us with your Personal Information (as defined below), you are accepting and consenting to the practices, terms and conditions described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may be accessed through audio readers.

You will not need to consent to this Privacy Policy, but do acknowledge you have read and understood its terms.

Types of Information Covered by This Privacy Policy

Personal Information. This means any information that (either in isolation or in combination with other information) can be used to identify you directly or indirectly. Some examples of Personal Information include your name, address, email address, phone number, any ID number or location data.

Aggregated Information. Information may be aggregated and/or anonymized. When information is aggregated, it is combined with information about other customers and users. Aggregated information that includes Personal Information is considered Personal Information until it has been anonymized.

Anonymized Information. When information is anonymized, Personal Information is removed from collected data and the remaining portion of the data is repurposed for internal or external use, such as, for example, to determine how many users of a particular router include an Internet-enabled television in a home network environment, or how many users viewed a particular website video or advertisement. Such information cannot be used to identify you. Some examples include usage data relating to blinx websites and blinx products, language preferences and blinx website page views.

In most cases, usage data collected when you visit blinx websites or use blinx products is both aggregated and anonymized so it does not identify you personally and therefore is not Personal Information. Certain blinx products have privacy notices that indicate when usage data contains Personal Information.

Children’s Personal Information. The blinx websites and blinx products are not directed to, nor does blinx knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If we are informed that we have collected the Personal Information of a child under the age of 16, we will delete that Personal Information from our systems. If you believe we might have inadvertently collected Personal Information from or about a child under the age of 16, please contact us here. We also do not sell the information of minors under the age of 16 years of age.

How We Collect Information

We collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. If you fill in forms on blinx websites or correspond with us by phone, email or otherwise, you may be providing us with information about you, which may include Personal Information. This includes information you provide when you register on blinx websites, register or return a blinx Product, subscribe to any of our services, search for a product, place an order on blinx websites, participate in discussion forums or other social media functions on blinx websites, enter a competition, promotion or survey, participate in a training session or other event, download firmware, software and apps, or when you report a problem with blinx websites or blinx products or otherwise request support. Personal Information you give us may include your name, address, email address, phone number and other contact information, financial and credit card information and any other information that can be used to personally identify you.

Information we collect about you. We automatically collect information when you use blinx websites or blinx products, including:

• technical information, including the Internet protocol (“IP”) address used to connect your computer or other device to the Internet, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plugin types and versions, operating system and platform and language preferences. This information is all normally provided by your web browser, and we do not specifically request it;
• information about your visit to blinxwebsites, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (“URL”) clickstream to, through and from blinx  websites (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times; download errors; length of visits to certain pages; videos watched; page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouseovers); and methods used to browse away from the page;
• any phone number or email address used to contact customer support;
• usage data about how and when you use blinxproducts, other devices that are connected to blinx  products and what features of blinx  products you use;
• technical information and data gathered when your blinx products are connected to the Internet, such as how many and which devices are connected to your home network, when you use the devices and the amount of network traffic generated. We also collect environmental data when you use certain blinx products, such as utility settings, temperature and light readings in the home, motion detection and alarm events; and
• if you consent, certain apps collect information about your location. If you do not want this information collected, do not consent, or consult your device manual for instructions on how to change location settings.

Information we receive from other sources We work closely with third parties who provide services to us (including, for example, business partners, subcontractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and we may receive information about you from them.

How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for a number of purposes. These purposes will be consistent with the reason you provided the information to us or for a directly related purpose. The uses we make of such information are to:

• set up an account for you on blinxwebsites or blinx products;
• facilitate your purchase and/or download of blinxproducts;
• authenticate use of your account or purchases and/or use of a blinxProduct;
• register your blinx Product in our product database;
• carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;
• assist you with customer support;
• communicate about and administer participation in customer promotions and surveys;
• provide the blinx products you request;
• provide you with information about the blinxproducts you use, such as new features, bug fixes, service downtimes or upgrades;
• help us develop new blinxproducts and improve current blinx products;
• provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. We (or selected third parties) will contact you by electronic means only if you have opted in to receive marketing information. “Opt-in” means that you have taken an affirmative action to receive information, such as by checking a box or clicking a button;
• notify you about changes to blinxwebsites and blinx products and changes to our terms, conditions and policies;
• administer blinxwebsites and blinx products for internal operational purposes, including troubleshooting, data and statistical analysis, testing, research and survey purposes;
• improve blinx websites and blinxproducts and to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device;
• ensure the security of blinx websites and blinxproducts;
• monitor and regulate interactive features of blinxwebsites and blinx products that you choose to participate in, including online forums and chat rooms relating to blinx products;
• help you navigate blinxwebsites;
• help you access and use certain features of blinxproducts remotely and to help you monitor and safeguard your home and home network;
• provide you with information and recommendations about Internet and utility usage in your home;
• measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others who visit blinxwebsites and to deliver relevant personalized advertising to you and others; and
• determine which aspects of blinxwebsites and blinx  products are most useful to you and other users of blinx websites and blinx  

Why We Use Information

Where we process your Personal Information to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations that we owe to you and for our legitimate interests to provide products and services, to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business. If you choose not to provide us with the Personal Information, we need to provide you with a product or service, we will not be able to provide it. When you purchase and/or download new blinx products, we will only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and any notification provided to you at the time of purchase or download.

We also use your Personal Information to protect our business (for example, against fraud), or to comply with legal requirements to which we are subject (for example, tax or financial reporting requirements).

We will always seek your consent before we send you any direct marketing communications.

Sharing Information

Under no circumstances do we rent or sell your Personal Information. We will only share your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes if you have granted us permission to do so, and in accordance with the Marketing section below. We share Personal Information in the following ways:

• within blinx for purposes of data processing or storage;
• within blinx ‘s corporate group, including with our subsidiaries, affiliated companies and divisions, all of whom may use your information for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;
• with business partners, service vendors, authorized thirdparty agents or contractors to provide a requested service or transaction, including processing orders, hosting websites, storing your information, providing email communications on our behalf and providing customer support. For example, when making purchases on the blinx website stores, blinxuses a payment processor to verify your payment card information. Your payment card information is passed through to the payment processor and is not collected or stored by blinx The payment processor is authorized to use this information only to authenticate your purchase and for no other purpose. We only provide these third parties with the minimum amount of Personal Information necessary to complete or provide the requested service or transaction, and we do not allow third parties to use your Personal Information for a different purpose than what was disclosed to you;
• with service providers, advisors or other third parties to the extent reasonably necessary to proceed with the negotiation or completion of a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of our assets. If blinx merges with or acquires or is acquired by another entity, Personal Information would be transferred as a whole to the successor entity;
• to comply with the law or legal process (such as responding to subpoenas or court orders), to comply with government reporting obligations and to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; and
• to protect our legal rights or those of others, such as protecting the blinx brand or investigating violations of blinxterms of use, violations of law, intellectual property infringement, misuse of blinx websites, fraud or potential threats to personal safety.

In addition, we share aggregated anonymized information, including usage data about blinx products, with third parties for a variety of purposes, including to analyze trends about home networking and utility use, to show third parties how their products could work with blinx products and to generally improve home networking. We’ve taken steps to ensure that this information cannot be linked back to you and we require third parties to keep all shared information in its anonymized form.

Any third parties with whom we share your Personal Information are required to maintain the confidentiality of the information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure these third parties comply with the same privacy principles that govern our collection of your Personal Information.

We will ask for your consent, such as by email response, opt-in box or click through agreement acceptance, before we use or share your Personal Information for any other purpose.

Marketing

You have the right to ask us not to process your Personal Information for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your Personal Information) if we intend to use your Personal Information for marketing purposes, or if we intend to disclose your Personal Information to any third party for marketing purposes.

We will give you choices about your Personal Information. Some choices are presented up front in the form of opt-in notices or acceptance boxes for marketing to you or sharing your Personal Information with third parties. You always have the choice to opt-out if you later change your mind. One form of opt-out is clicking the Unsubscribe link in a marketing email. This will take you off our marketing email list. Please note that these opt-in/opt-out choices do not apply to the receipt of mandatory website, service or software communications, such as update or downtime information, or receipt of order or shipping confirmations on blinx website stores, which you may receive periodically as part of blinx performing its contract with you, unless you cancel your service or order or terminate use of software in accordance with the applicable terms of use or license agreement.

If you do not wish to receive direct marketing material from us or a third party, in addition to following the “Unsubscribe” instructions in a marketing email, you can send us a request here.

Accessing and Updating Your Personal Information

We need your help in keeping your Personal Information accurate and up to date, so please notify us of any changes to your Personal Information. You can access and update your Personal Information and communication preferences at any time in the following ways:

• by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any email you receive from us;
• by sending a request to us here. Please be sure to include your name, email address and specific relevant information about the information you would like to change or the material that you no longer wish to receive; or
• for many blinx websites and blinxproducts, by signing into your online account located at the URL provided when you signed up for the blinx website or service.

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These can differ by country and jurisdiction. You may have the following rights::

• correct your data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• transfer Personal Information you have provided to us to a third party if we are processing that data on either on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you;
• delete your Personal Information, unless we are required to retain it by law, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or for another one of our business purposes; and/or

You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Information by sending the request to us in our contacts page.

Authorized Agent

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request to access your information, delete your information, or opt out of the sale of your information. To designate an agent for these purposes:

• You must provide us with a copy of a written and signed permission given to your authorized agent; and
• You must verify your own identity directly with us.

Retention of Personal Information

We will only retain your Personal Information to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as required for legitimate business purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise permitted by law. When we no longer need to use Personal Information, we will remove it from our systems and records and/or take steps to anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Cookies, Web Beacons and Other Web Tools

To learn more about how we use cookies, web beacons and other web tools, and how to control which cookies, web beacons and other web tools are used, please see our Cookie Policy.

Security

We strive to maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the information collected by blinx websites and blinx products. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not 100% secure. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information, we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

It is important to note that if you use a computer or device that can be accessed by others, other people may be able to access unencrypted Personal Information. If you do not want your information to be available to others, exercise caution when using public computers or devices or when using any computer or device to which users unauthorized by you may have access.

We recommend that you take every precaution in protecting your Personal Information when you are on the Internet. For example, change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers when creating passwords, and make sure you use a secure browser. You should also be aware that names that you give your Wi-Fi-enabled devices, home networks and services (also known as “friendly names”) may be detectable by others outside your home, so you should not use Personal Information as part of your friendly names.

Updates and Upgrades

blinx products may be updated or upgraded from time to time to provide additional features, address technical issues, and generally make your user experience better. Some blinx products include an auto-update feature, which gives us the ability to make updates automatically. You can change auto-update options by changing your settings within the blinx Product account information. In very limited cases, updates may still be automatically applied, regardless of the auto-update setting. For example, we may provide an automatic update that prevents or fixes a security vulnerability or breach to your network.

Third Party and Social Media Linked Sites

blinx websites and online services may contain links to websites or online services operated by third parties. blinx products may also use or offer products and services from third parties, such as a third party app that works with a blinx Product. Once you leave blinx websites and blinx products, your activities are governed by the terms of use and privacy policies of the third party websites and online services. blinx is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites and online services, and we encourage you to carefully read the terms of use and privacy policies of any website and online service you visit.

blinx websites and blinx products may contain social media features, such as Facebook, Instagram, Youtube “Like” buttons. These features may collect information about your device’s IP address, set cookies to facilitate interaction with social media features or link you to a social media website where you may post Personal Information. All interactions with social media features are governed by the privacy policy of the social media company providing the feature.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it frequently. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version here, with an updated revision date. If we make material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or prominently post a notice on this website.

How to Contact Us

Should you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this Privacy Policy, please fill the form or contact us and our customer relations specialist will contact you as soon as possible.

If you have complaints or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the above email. We treat all complaints about a breach of the privacy laws seriously. Someone from blinx will investigate your complaint and respond to you within a reasonable time.

Updated Effective January 1, 2020