Last updated: April 27, 2018
This Privacy Policy explains how information about you is collected, used, and disclosed by Essential Products, Inc. and our subsidiaries (“EP,” “we,” or “us”). This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you access or use our products and services (such as our devices, websites, mobile applications, and online services), or when you otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy, and in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website’s homepage or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy frequently to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you sign up to receive information about our products or services, create an account or profile, use any interactive features of our products or services, make a purchase, participate in our contests, promotions, and surveys, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we may collect directly from you include your name, username, email address, phone number, billing and shipping address, demographic information, and any other information you choose to provide. Additionally, if you use our products or services in connection with products or services offered by a third-party partner, you may provide us with information about your account with the third party in order to enable this functionality, such as the email address and password associated with your account.
In some cases, we may also collect information you provide about others, such as if you decide to purchase and ship products to friends or family. We use this information solely to fulfill your requests, and will not send marketing communications to these individuals, unless they separately opt in to receive communications from us.
When you make a purchase from us, we will collect and store limited payment information from you, such as payment card type, payment card expiration date, and a limited subset of your payment card number; however, we do not collect or store full payment card numbers and all transactions are processed by a third-party payment processor.
When you access or use our services or products, we automatically collect information about you, and we may associate it with information that you provide directly to us. For example, we may collect:
Log Information: We log information about your use of our website, such as IP address, web browser type and language, access times, referring and exit websites, and clickstream data.
Mobile Device Information: We collect information about your mobile device when you access or use our mobile applications, such as the hardware model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, Bluetooth signals, mobile network information, and performance and diagnostic data regarding your use of our applications. With your consent, we may also collect precise location information or access information stored in other applications on your device, such as contacts from your address book or photos from your photo gallery.
EP Device Information: We may collect information about your access to and use of our devices. For example, we may collect information about the following:
Device information, such as IP address, device settings and preferences, hardware model, operating system version, network carrier and network technology information, device serial number, Wi-Fi network password, account tokens, user ID, installed applications, device location, and third-party products and services you connect to the device;
Performance and log information, such as error logs, power status, app battery usage, system diagnostic logs, and reasons for reboots and network errors (for information about how to control the collection of this information, see “Essential Usage and Diagnostics” below); and
Audio and video information for devices that are equipped with a microphone or camera, if you enable or use specific features of our devices.
Please note that we collect information from an EP device only when it is connected to the Internet. Additionally, we associate the information we collect from a device with your account only when you associate the device with your account.
We may also obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through our products or services. For example, we may collect information about you when you post content to our pages or feeds on third-party social media sites.
We may use information about you for various purposes, including to:
We may share your information as follows and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
We may also share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties.
You have the ability to install or otherwise connect third-party products and services (such as mobile applications) on or to our devices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by such third parties, and we encourage you to learn more about these third parties’ privacy practices before using their products or services.
Our websites and mobile applications may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions you take on our services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
We may work with third-party social platforms, such as Facebook, to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign, unless you notify us that you prefer not to have information about you used in this way by sending an email to advertising-optout@essential.com indicating the email address you wish to have removed from customized ad campaigns.
EP implements security safeguards to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
EP is based in the United States and the information we collect may be transferred, processed, and stored in the United States and other countries, where you may not have the same rights and protections as you do under local law.
We comply with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks (collectively, the “Privacy Shield”) with respect to personal data we collect from the EU and Switzerland and transfer to the U.S. For more information about the Privacy Shield, and to view our certification, please visit the Privacy Shield website. We remain responsible and liable under the Privacy Shield for any personal data that we share with third parties for external processing on our behalf, as described in the “Sharing of Information” section above, unless we prove we are not responsible for the event giving rise to the damage. If you have an inquiry regarding our certification, contact us at privacy@essential.com. Privacy Shield participants are subject to the authority of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. You may also refer your complaint to JAMS, EP’s designated Privacy Shield dispute resolution provider. In certain circumstances, the Privacy Shield provides the right to invoke binding arbitration to resolve complaints (see Annex I to the Privacy Shield Principles for more details).
We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which we originally collected it, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law. If you wish to access, update, or rectify the information we have about you, please contact us. You may also request that we delete account information, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
You can turn Essential usage and diagnostic services on or off at any time by navigating to Settings on your product. If you change your settings after we have initiated a data upload, your new settings will go into effect after that process has been completed. Note that even if you turn this feature off, your device will still send certain device information (such as device serial number, network carrier information, country, and operating system version) needed for critical services such as system or security updates.
You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from EP by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
We process personal data about you with your consent and/or as necessary to operate our business, provide the products and services you use, meet our contractual and legal obligations, or otherwise fulfill the legitimate interests described in the “Use of Information” and “Sharing of Information” sections above. If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent for future processing at any time by contacting us. You also have a right to object to the processing of your personal data and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of the EU country in which you reside.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us or write us at Essential Products, Inc., 380 Portage Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94306, United States.