This Privacy Statement explains how Plextor (“PLEXTOR,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your information. The Privacy Statement applies to all services and products, except those products that have a separate Privacy Statement.
Where applicable, you consent to the use of your information as described in this Privacy Statement each time you use our products or services, so we urge you to read this document in full and Contact Us if you have any questions.
PLEXTOR may collect information about you when you interact with us such as (but not limited to):
We need to know your basic personal data in order to provide you with services such as:
We only collect pertinent personal data from you in order to provide and oversee these services rendered to you.
We automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information each time you visit the website. We may use cookies, tags, server logs and other technology to acquire or store this information. We collect this anonymous information so that we may better understand how people are using the website and to improve the overall quality of our users’ online experience.
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit our website. For information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them, please read our Cookie Policy.
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.
As you browse the website and third-party sites, we may gather technical, usage and 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 requirements of law; to serve or have a third party serve specialized or relevant advertising content and/or recommendations to you on the website and third-party sites; 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.
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.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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 its unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your personal information. See the section headed “Your Rights” below for further information.
If you have consented to receive product news/promotional offers from us, we will send such content to the email address you have provided. However, you may choose to opt out of receiving such emails anytime via your profile settings or by following the opt-out instructions embedded in the emails.
If you login or register on any of our websites using credentials of a third party social media network such as Facebook or Twitter, you authorize us to collect your authentication information, which is generally limited to your name/username, e-mail address, and encrypted access credentials. We store/use such information as explained in this privacy statement. However, we are not responsible for the terms of use and privacy policies for any of these third-party social media networks. Please visit their websites for more information about their privacy policies and terms of use.
We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.
Additionally, we use tracking cookies from other companies. These tracking cookies allow us to recognize you on third-party websites and enable us to show you personalized content there. For example, if you visit one of our website pages, you may later see an ad for our brand or our SSD products when you visit a tech news site.
The third-party tracking cookies and advertising/analytics services we use are:
Cookies are small data files sent to your browser when you visit a site. We use cookies to do the following:
You may opt to disable cookies by clicking on the cookies notice at the top of our website and adjusting the settings in your browser. However, if you choose this, some website functionality may be impaired.
All the personal data we process is processed by our staff in Taiwan and the IT hosting and maintenance of this information is located on servers within Taiwan. We have a Data Protection policies in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal data. We will keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for 5 years after the last user activity, after which time it will be destroyed.
If you wish to correct, modify, or deleted your personal data, you may do so through the settings in your profile in the applicable platform. Where profile settings are not accessible/applicable, or if you wish to raise a complaint /question on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our PLEXTOR Data Protection Office at Data Protection.
We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose information from children under 16. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 16—or the equivalent minimum age depending on the jurisdiction, such as 13 in the United States—we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible. Please immediately Contact Us if you become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to 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. If you object to the change to our Privacy Policy, then you must contact us by any of the methods set out above regarding your objection.