Alpha Industries, Inc. Privacy Policy

Alpha Industries, Inc. Privacy Policy

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. To protect your privacy and help you to make informed choices, this Privacy Policy explains our information practices, how you can choose how we use your data, and your rights regarding your data. If you do not agree with our policies or practices, regarding our treatment or use of your information, your choice is not to use the alphaindustries.com website (“Site”).

In summary, we will only use your information:
• To optimize our website performance; or
• With your consent.

This is explained in more detail below.

By accessing or using this Site, and/or accepting our Terms of Service [LINK], you agree to this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.

If you have any inquiries about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact us at customerservice@alphaindustries.com

This Privacy Policy applies to the websites and mobile applications owned and operated by Alpha Industries, Inc., or any of its affiliates. We refer to these websites (the “Site” or “Sites”) and, as applicable, mobile applications (the “Apps”) collectively as the "Platform" and along with the information, goods and/or services made available to users of the Platform, relevant news, content, applications, and sponsored programs, advertising, email communications, and discussion forums, (“Services.”) References to “we” or “us” or “our” mean Alpha Industries, Inc., including any company we control.

Contents
1. About us
2. Children Under the Age of 13
3. What information we collect and how we collect it
4. How we collect personal information
5. How and why we use personal information
6. How we share personal information
7. General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018
8. Data security
9. How long we keep personal information
10. Third party links
11. Accessing and correcting your information
12. Legal Disclosures
13. Changes to this policy or your data
14. Contacting Us


1. About Us

This website http://www.alphaindustries.com/ (the "Site") is operated by Alpha Industries, Inc., also referred to as the "Company", "we", "us" and "our"), a corporation organized under the laws of the Virginia. We are a data controller.

Our offices are located at:

Alpha Industries, Inc.
12005 Sunrise Valley Dr, Ste 150
Reston, VA 20191 USA

You may contact us about any questions you have regarding this Privacy Policy at either our postal address above, or by e-mail directed to customerservice@alphaindustries.com

2. Children Under the Age of 13

Our Site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may use or direct any information to the Site. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Site, use any of its features, subscribe to our mailing list, use any of the interactive links or post anything on the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use, or otherwise use the Platform. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verified parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we may have any information from or about a child under 13, in connection with the access or use of this Site, please contact us at customerservice@alphaindustries.com

The Services provided by us through the Site and Platform include facilitating and undertaking the sales of apparel and related accessories.

If you do choose to access the Platform and use the Services, you must agree to our Terms of Service [LINK] which is the contract between us and you. By accepting our Terms of Service, you also confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy. If you do not want us to collect, use or share information about you and your use of the Services as described in this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services. By using the Services, you acknowledge that we will store, use and otherwise process your information in the United States, where we are located. Except as may be otherwise be noted in this Privacy Policy, we are the data controller responsible for the processing of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

3. What Information We Collect and How We Collect It.

The type of information we collect depends on how you use the Site and our Services and how you interact with us. We collect your personal data when you use our Services, create a new user account with us, provide us with information via a web form, add or update information in your account, or otherwise interact with us. “personal information” means any data which can be associated with you as an individual, either directly or indirectly, and is collected on a voluntary basis from you.

The personal information we collect via the Site may include:

• Identity information, including data that identifies you, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, biographical data, social media links, and/or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
• Technical data, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and/or platform, and other technology information relating to the devices you use to access the Site.
• Usage data, which includes information about your use of the Site, and any communications we may receive from you.
• Shipping, billing, and other information you provide in connection with the purchase or shipping of an item or items, and, where applicable, relevant shipping information such as shipment number and tracking information.
• Marketing and communications data, including your preferences in terms of receiving marketing and other communications from us.
• Additional information you may provide, such as information through a web form, or by updating or adding information to your account, inquiries, dispute resolution, customer service calls recorded with your consent, customer service chats, or if you contact us for any other reason regarding our services, including your preferences in terms of receiving marketing and other communications from us.
• Other data that we are required or entitled by applicable law to collect and process, including data that we need for authentication or identification, or for verification of the data we collect.

The Site is not intended to store or transmit “special categories” of personal information, such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, information, or criminal convictions and offenses.


4. How We Collect Personal Information

We collect information from you in three different ways.

a) Personal information you provide to us.

If you subscribe (sign up) to our mailing list, inform us of your marketing and communications preferences, or post or submit any text, comments, photo, video, communication, information, submit customer care requests or inquiries, or other material (“User Content”) on or through the Site, you will provide us with your identity, contact information, and IP address. This data is collected through direct solicitation and your voluntary submissions. You will also provide us with personal information when you correspond with us. We do not embed tracking codes in our regular daily email correspondence.

b) Personal information we collect automatically as you navigate the Site.

The Site presently does not, but reserves the right in the future to use third party advertising providers to display advertisements based on your visits to the Site and other web sites you have visited, which allows targeted advertisements to be delivered to you for products and services about which you may be interested. The Site may also use a third party traffic measurement service to analyze how visitors use the Site, Third party advertising providers and advertisers (whose ads are displayed via the advertising provider) may use cookies, web beacons, embedded scripts (described below) or other similar mechanisms to automatically collect web site usage information, to, among other purposes, deliver advertisements, in which you might be interested, prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times, and to conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain advertisements to you. Cookies, web beacons and embedded scripts and other similar mechanisms used to collect web site usage information from advertising providers and advertisers, are governed by their respective privacy policy and not this Privacy Policy. We do not, however, share any personal information with these third parties in connection with the services they perform on the Site.

In addition, as you use the Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including your browser type, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, and your usage habits, patterns and preferences, including:
• Data that is generated as part of one of your transactions with the site, such as purchase amounts, time and location of purchase and payment methods.
• Data that is generated through your other actions when you use our Services and which is linked to your account, e.g. when you place items in your shopping cart.
• Data regarding all other interactions with our Services, including your communications with us.
• Computer and connection information, such as statistics regarding your use of our services, information on data traffic to and from websites, referral URL, information on advertisements, your IP address, your access times, your browser history data, your language settings and your weblog information.

We collect this data using cookies, beacons and similar technologies while you use our Services. We collect this data from the devices (including mobile devices) with which you use our Services. The data collected may also include the following usage- and device-related information:

• Data about the pages you visit, the access time, frequency and duration of visits, the links on which you click and other actions you take as part of your use of our Services and in advertising and email content.
• Your user segment.
• Model or device type, operating system and version, browser type and settings, device ID or individual device identifier, advertisement ID, individual device token, and cookie-related data (e.g. cookie ID).
• The IP address from which your device accesses our Services.
• Location data, including the location data of your mobile device. Please note that most mobile devices allow you to manage or disable the use of location services for all applications in the settings menu.

We also use Google Analytics to help us analyze user habits while visiting our Site. The data gathered from cookies may be transmitted to Google servers in the United States. We employ IP address anonymization to ensure that there is no direct reporting of individual user IPs as part of this process. The information will be used by Google only for the purpose of evaluating website use, creating website activity reports, and other services relating to website activity and internet usage on our behalf. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

You can remove cookies from your computer through the browser settings. Please note however that doing so may affect, limit or degrade your ability to use of some features on the Site and other websites. Management of cookie settings varies from one browser to another, and the "Help" menu of your web browser should provide instructions how to manage cookies. For your convenience, the links below are to instructions provided by major web browsers relating to such management in those specific browsers:

• Chrome (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647 or https://support.google.com/chrome/search?q=hot+to+delete+cookies&from_promoted_search=true)
• Internet Explorer (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/278835)
• Firefox (http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored)
• Opera (https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/)
• Safari (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5042)
• Safari for iPad and iPhone (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677)

c) Information You Provide to Third Parties. If you use the Site’s interactive features (where available) to communicate with other users, or to access a third party site that is linked to the Site, the other user(s) or third party site may provide us, directly or indirectly with your personal information. For example, another user may post your email address and name, or a third party website may report a purchase you made from that site.

5. How and Why We Use personal information

a) You have given us permission to do so.
If you subscribe to our mailing list, we will send you updates and marketing information that you have consented to receive. Similarly, if you contact us with a question or comment, we may need your contact, identity, technical and/or usage information to respond.

b) We have a legitimate interest (reasonable business purpose) for doing so.
We will use your information for our legitimate business reasons where doing so will not unduly affect your rights. As such:

• We will use your identity, contact and usage information to keep our records up to date.
• We will use your technical information to:
o Make the Site available, to improve it, to conduct system maintenance, support, troubleshooting, reporting and to host data;
o Ensure that the Site is secure;
o Analyze how users interact with the Site; and
o Address technical issues you may experience with the Site.

We may also use any or all of the information above to administer and manage our business in general, which include engaging in “Know Your Customer” and anti-money laundering checks as required by law, regulation, or best business practices. If you feel that your interests and fundamental rights outweigh our business purposes, and that we should therefore stop processing your data, please let us know.

c) We need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligations.
In certain circumstances, we may need to retain or use your data to comply with laws or regulations to which we are or may become subject.

6. How We Share personal information
We may share your information with our trusted third party service providers (including information technology providers such as website and mailing list hosts). We may provide your account information to companies that help us with our business activities. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
When we share your information with our service providers, we will take commercially reasonable steps to help ensure that your data is kept secure and used only in accordance with this notice.
We may share personal information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation or legal request (including a court order or government investigation or inquiry), to detect, investigate and defend against fraudulent or unlawful activity and violations of our Terms of Service [LINK], to enforce or apply our Terms of Service [LINK] or other agreements, in the context of a Company reorganization, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our employees, users, or others.

Investigations. We may use your information to detect, investigate and defend against fraudulent or unlawful activity and violations of our Terms of Service.

7. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)
This Site is hosted on servers located in the United States. We endeavor to meet those data protection laws and regulations (including the General Data Protection Regulation, or “GDPR” and, as and when effective, the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018) to which we may be subject.

General Data Protection Regulation

The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was passed by the European Parliament and establishes a standard for data privacy for all member states of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) (“EU”). It purpose is to give EEA residents (described as “data subjects” by the GDPR) certain rights over their personal information, including, the:

• Right of access: Individuals can ask for a copy of the personal information retained about them and an explanation of how it is being used.
• Right to rectification: Individuals have the right to correct, revise or remove any of the personal information retained about them at any time.
• Right to be forgotten: Individuals can ask to delete their personal information. At your request, we will remove your contact information from the system, and we will not contact you again.
• Right to restrict processing: If an individual believes, for example, that their personal information is inaccurate or collected unlawfully, the individual may request limited use of their personal information.
• Right of portability: Individuals have the right to receive their personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
• Right to object: Where an individual decides that they no longer wish to allow their personal information to be included in analytics or to receive direct marketing emails or other personalized (targeted) marketing content at any time, the individual may opt out of use of their data for these purposes.

If you are a data subject falling under the scope of the GDPR, you can exercise the above rights. Please note that these rights are not absolute, and limitations/exceptions may apply in some cases.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), which is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, be grateful if you would contact us in the first instance so we can endeavor to deal with your concerns direct.

In respect of transfers outside of the Company, we either implement the Model Clauses pursuant to Commission decision 2004/915/EC or 2010/87/EU (as appropriate) with the recipient of your personal information; and/or ensure that the recipient of your data is registered with the EU-US Privacy Shield.

You can obtain further information in this respect (including a copy of the Model Clauses) by contacting us.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at customerservice@alphaindustries.com or by postal mail at:

Alpha Industries, Inc.
12005 Sunrise Valley Dr, Ste 150
Reston, VA 20191 USA

California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018

As of January 1, 2020, you may have certain additional rights, under the California Consumer California Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). In its current form, which will not be effective until January 1, 2020, and subject to certain exceptions and limitations, the CCPA regulates and provides for the disclosure of:
• Personal information collected;
• The sale or transfer of personal data;
• The categories of information collected during the prior 12 months; and
• The categories of personal information sold or disclosed for business purposes during the prior 12 months.

The CCPA also requires the disclosure of categories of information collected, and the purposes for which the collected information will be used.

The CCPA also provides for non-discrimination for exercise of privacy rights under the CCPA. Further, under the CCPA, you will have the right to have your personal information held by us deleted, and if we sell personal information, you will have the right to opt out of such sale.

Notwithstanding the above, the CCPA provides that we may:

• Complete any transaction for which we have collected personal information, provide goods or services requested by you, or that is reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing relationship with you, or to otherwise perform a contract between us and you;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent;
• To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations as a consumer based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with a legal obligation;
• Collect, use, retain, sell, or disclose your information if it has been de-identified or aggregated;
• Collect, or sell your information personal information if every aspect of your use of the Platform and our Services takes place wholly outside California; and
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information to us.

8. Data Security

The safety of your personal information is important to us, and we use various technical and organizational measures to secure it.

We employ commercially reasonable encryption (TLS technology), data security, and intrusion prevention technologies to protect and secure all personal information in our possession. Our data environment is monitored 24/7 for malicious activity and/or anomalous behavior either of which triggers our incidence response. However, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure , and unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Although we take commercially reasonable measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, and any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for maintaining the security and confidentiality of your account username and password.

9. How Long We Keep Personal Information

We will retain your personal information only for as long as it necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including 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 data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of that personal information, the purposes for which we processed the data and whether we those purposes may be achieved by another means, and the applicable legal requirements

We will retain your personal information only for as long as it necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

10. Third Party Links

This Site may contain links to other websites whose information practices may be different than ours. Please consult all third party Sites' privacy notices. We have no control and disclaim any and all responsibility and liability in connection with information that is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.

11. Accessing or Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page, or by sending an email to us at customerservice@alphaindustries.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

12. Legal Disclosures

We may need to share your data when we believe it is required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others.

It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you, (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, We will attempt to notify you about legal demands for your personal information when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are over-broad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy or your data

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any update to this Privacy Policy on the Site. It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during our relationship. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting of the modified Privacy Policy unless we advise otherwise. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by email (sent to the email address included in your account profile) and/or by means of a notice on the Sites before the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices. By continuing to use the Services after changes are made to this Privacy Policy, you agree to such changes.

14. Contacting Us

If you have general questions about your account or the Services, contact us at customerservice@alphaindustries.com. For questions about this Privacy Policy or how your personal information may be used when you use the Services, please contact our Privacy Office by email at customerservice@alphaindustries.com or at the following address:

Alpha Industries, Inc.
12005 Sunrise Valley Dr, Ste 150
Reston, VA 20191 USA