Samsung Developers U.S. Privacy Policy
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 the Samsung Developers website and related events (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:
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We
will collect personal information that you provide, such as your Samsung
Account ID, name, email address, country, language, job-related information,
and topics you’re interested in;
- We
will collect your question details and any communications you send or deliver
to us;
- We
will 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 (such as your IP address and device type), information related to
any downloads you make on the Business Services (such as apps and download
count), and information about bookmarked pages and shared pages; and
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We
will collect information about your participation events, including attendance
of events and activities within events.
We
may use information we collect for the following purposes:
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to
identify and authenticate you so you may use the Business Services;
- to
provide you with the Business Services;
- to respond
to your questions or requests made through or about the Business Services
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to
offer better and more customized services that take into account your service
usage record and other relevant information you provide;
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subject
to your separate consent where required by applicable law, to inform you about
new products and services;
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for
assessment and analysis of our market, customers, 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 services;
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to
provide maintenance services and to maintain a sufficient level of security on
the Business Services;
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to link
your Samsung Account to connected features or services, such as the Remote Test
Lab service;
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to deliver
advertising 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; and
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other
purposes with your separate consent where required by applicable law or as
described at the time your information is collected.
We will disclose your
information internally within our business and the following entities, but only
for the above purposes.
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Samsung affiliates;
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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.
Submissions
that you make to public areas of a website, mobile application, or other online
service, such as bulletin boards may be viewable to other users of the Business
Services. We do not control, and are not responsible for, how other users of
the Business Services may use this information. For example, personal
information that you submit in public areas could be collected and used by
others to send you unsolicited messages or for other purposes.
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.
What are your rights?
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 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 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.
Third-Party
Links and Products on Our Services
Our
Business Services 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.
Cookies,
Beacons and Similar Technologies
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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Notice to California Residents
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: support@samsungdevelopers.com