COLLECTED INFORMATION AND USAGE

By using the Website or ABC Advertising Products, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Information by ABC Advertising consistent with applicable data protection law and this Privacy Policy which is expressly incorporated into any applicable Website or ABC Advertising Product Terms of Use or End-User License Agreement. You also represent to us that you have any and all authorizations necessary to use these ABC Advertising Products including using them to process Personal Information. ABC Advertising collects and uses the information you provide to us, including information obtained from your use of this Website or a ABC Advertising Product. We may use or share Personal Information (e.g., name, address, telephone number, email address, and location) where it is necessary for us to complete a transaction or do something that you have asked us to do. Also, we may use the information that we collect for our internal purposes to develop, tune, enhance, and improve our products and services, and for advertising and marketing consistent with this Privacy Policy. By using ABC Advertising products and services, you acknowledge, consent and agree that ABC Advertising may collect, process, and use the information that you provide to us and that such information shall only be used by ABC Advertising or third parties acting under the direction of ABC Advertising, pursuant to confidentiality agreements, to develop, tune, enhance, and improve ABC Advertising services and products. ABC Advertising will not use the contents of any communications provided to us through your use of ABC Advertising Products for any purpose except as set forth above. ABC Advertising collects and uses information from you in several ways:

Website or ABC Advertising Product Usage. ABC Advertising (or ABC Advertising vendors and suppliers) may observe your activities, preferences, and transactional data (such as your IP address and browser type) as well as related usage behavior depending on whether you are using our Website or a particular ABC Advertising Product. We may use this data for any purpose unless we tell you otherwise in connection with a particular Website or product. While we may collect or log this information, we do not identify you or match this non-Personal Information with your other Personal Information unless or except if we believe doing so will help us better respond to a request you have made. Where such non-Personal Information is linked to your Personal Information we will treat such information as Personal Information. For clarity, when we refer to usage of Website or ABC Advertising Product Usage Data in this section, we do not mean the contents of your voice data or text and related data derived from the contents of your communications using ABC Advertising Products. For information about specific ABC Advertising Products, please see specific privacy notices directed to such products.

ABC Advertising Product Usage. Certain ABC Advertising Products require you to enter Speech Data in order to use and derive the benefits of the particular product. These ABC Advertising Products collect and process the Speech Data you input into the ABC Advertising Products. ABC Advertising or third parties acting under the direction of ABC Advertising, pursuant to confidentiality agreements, use the Speech Data to develop, tune, enhance, and improve ABC Advertising services and products. ABC Advertising will not use the contents of any Speech Data provided to us through your use of ABC Advertising Products for any purpose except as set forth above. “Speech Data” means the audio files, associated text and transcriptions and log files provided by you hereunder or generated in connection with ABC Advertising Products. Speech Data may include Personal Information.

E-Commerce. You may be asked to share Personal Information such as your name, address, telephone number, and email address when you make purchases, seek customer or technical support or otherwise interact with ABC Advertising. When you shop online or buy direct from ABC Advertising, these purchase transactions may be conducted through ABC Advertising vendors and suppliers. Vendors and suppliers engaged by ABC Advertising on behalf of ABC Advertising may have their use of your Personal Information limited by this Privacy Policy, contractual restrictions, and applicable law. ABC Advertising (through its vendors or suppliers) may limit the acceptance of orders to particular jurisdictions and as permitted by applicable law. You may also make purchases of ABC Advertising Products; seek customer or technical support through ABC Advertising’s distributors or service providers. In these circumstances, the collection of your Personal Information may occur directly by the distributor or service provider or a third-party partner on their website, which will state the privacy policy or policies governing the collection of such information.

Product Registration & Technical Support. ABC Advertising may allow customers to register products online or through similar ways. Personal Information or data provided for such purposes may be used to carry out the request, service, or agreement for which the information is submitted. With your consent, we may also use the information you provide in online registration forms to notify you periodically about important changes to the Website or Application (such as a change to this Privacy Policy or notice of a security breach), new ABC Advertising products and services, and special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. If you register, we may ask for, among other things, your name, address, email, telephone number, type of product purchased, or other product-identifying information.

Failure to register any ABC Advertising product will not diminish the rights you have under the applicable product warranty.

Online Promotions, Contests and Sweepstakes. You may be asked to provide an email address or screen name, or other Personal Information, for entry into a particular promotion, including sweepstakes and contests, so that we can let you know if you won a prize. The specific rules and regulations governing the particular promotion, contest or sweepstakes will vary and your participation constitutes your agreement to abide by those rules and regulations. Certain promotions, contests or sweepstakes may be run by a ABC Advertising service provider or vendor or co-branded with one of our partners. In these instances the collection of your Personal Information may occur directly by the service provider or vendor or a third-party partner on their website. The promotion will state the privacy policy or policies governing the collection of such information if they should differ from this Privacy Policy.

Children. The ABC Advertising Website and ABC Advertising Consumer Products are not directed at children. If you are under 18 or otherwise would be required to have parent or guardian consent to share information with ABC Advertising, you should not send any information about yourself to us. As required by law, if a person under 13 submits information through any part of a ABC Advertising Website or a ABC Advertising Product, and we learn the person submitting the information is such a child, we will attempt to delete this information as soon as possible.

WHEN ABC Advertising MAY SHARE COLLECTED INFORMATION

As mentioned in the beginning of this Privacy Policy, ABC Advertising may share Personal Information within ABC Advertising to fulfill its obligations to you and operate its business consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection law. In addition to what is expressly stated in this Privacy Policy, we may also share your Personal Information with third parties in the following situations:

ABC Advertising Affiliates, Vendors and Suppliers. ABC Advertising works with many affiliated third parties, vendors, distributors, and suppliers. To the extent it is necessary for these groups to provide their products and services to us and provide products and services you have requested, these third parties may have access to or process your Personal Information. ABC Advertising may also sometimes permit our authorized service providers to have access to aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns, and related Website or Application information. These transfers of aggregate statistics do not involve Personal Information or data.

Recruitment and Job Applications. Residents of the United States may provide us with Personal Information through our Website. Personal information such as that contained on a resume or curriculum vitae may be submitted in connection with a job application or inquiry. We may use this information throughout ABC Advertising (worldwide) for the purpose of employment consideration or your inquiry. We may keep your information on file for future consideration.

Enabling Services. ABC Advertising offers a variety of services and functions through its Websites (“ABC Advertising Services”). Personal Information that is collected through a Website may be used and/or disclosed to third parties in order to enable us to provide ABC Advertising Services. For example, the ABC Advertising Website may allow you to interface with a third party website or application. To facilitate that connection, we may use your Personal Information and/or disclose your Personal Information to third parties.

Public Areas. Any information disclosed in public areas of a ABC Advertising Website or to the extent possible in a ABC Advertising Product or other website (Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) will become public information. We cannot control the use of information disclosed in public forums, such as forums, bulletin boards, blogs, chat rooms, and networking functions of mobile-device applications. You should exercise caution when disclosing information in these public areas, and be careful how you disclose your Personal Information. Content posted in public areas of the ABC Advertising Website or ABC Advertising Products, including advice and opinions, represent the views and is the responsibility of those who post the content. ABC Advertising does not necessarily endorse, support, verify, or agree with the content posted.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Insolvency. If ABC Advertising should ever file for bankruptcy or merge with another company, or if ABC Advertising should decide to buy, sell, or reorganize some part or all of its business, ABC Advertising may be required to disclose your Personal Information and Speech Data to prospective or actual purchasers in connection with one of these transactions

As Required by Law and Other Extraordinary Disclosures. ABC Advertising may be required to disclose your Personal Information and Speech Data if it: (i) believes it is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process (such as a court order, subpoena, search warrant, etc.) or other legal requirements of any governmental authority, (ii) would potentially mitigate our liability in an actual or potential lawsuit, (iii) is otherwise necessary to protect our rights or property, or (iv) is necessary to protect the legal rights or property of others.

SECURITY

If ABC Advertising learns of a security system’s breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using this Website or a ABC Advertising Product or providing Personal Information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of this Website or ABC Advertising Product. ABC Advertising may post a notice on this Website if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser or mobile device enabling you to view the ABC Advertising Website or Application. ABC Advertising may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances or communicate with you by other means if we can. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND CO-BRANDED WEBSITES

This Website or ABC Advertising Product may contain links to third-party websites, however, please be aware that ABC Advertising is not responsible for and cannot control the privacy practices of these other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies for these other websites, as they may differ from ours. This Website or ABC Advertising Product also contains links to co-branded websites that may display ABC Advertising’s logo and trademarks but which are maintained by third parties. Such websites may be identified by the fact that they do not display a “ABC Advertising.com” URL. Please read the privacy policy on the co-branded website for the applicable privacy practices relating to personal information collected via that website, as it may differ from this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by ABC Advertising on its Website or through ABC Advertising Products.

SPECIAL NOTICE TO INTERNATIONAL VISITORS AND CUSTOMERS

Because ABC Advertising operates globally, we may transfer your Personal Information and Speech Data within our global operations to fulfill our obligations to you, but always subject to the limitations of applicable data protection law and this Privacy Policy. Privacy laws differ across the globe. To help visitors whose native language may not be English understand our privacy practices, we may provide special information on our Privacy Policies that may be applicable to these visitors in different languages.

If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, including those whose privacy laws may be more strict than U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States to ABC Advertising. By providing your personal data you consent to that transfer and processing.

MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

When you provide ABC Advertising with Personal Information, we may communicate with you using the information you have given us to provide you with information we think may be of interest to you.

ENFORCEMENT AND MORE INFORMATION

When ABC Advertising receives formal written complaints, it is ABC Advertising’s policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between ABC Advertising and an individual.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY BY ABC Advertising

If in the future we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the new Privacy Policy on this Website or Application. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy in the future. Your continued use of this Website or ABC Advertising Product following a change in the Privacy Policy represents consent to the new Privacy Policy to the fullest extent permitted by law. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.