Wave Engineering Corporation (“WAVE”) is providing this Privacy and Security Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to inform you of our privacy and security practices, including the choices you can make about how we collect and use your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to customers, potential customers, vendors, job applicants and other interested individuals. WAVE has separate policies that apply to current and former employees and workers.

This Privacy Policy applies to any of WAVE’s websites, as well as to information that we collect off-line, such as through product registrations, call centers, tradeshows or seminars, unless otherwise set forth in a separate agreement between you and WAVE.

｜Privacy Compliance Information

WAVE needs to gather and use information or ‘data’ about you as part of our business and to manage our relationship with you, possibly including some personal data.

｜Personal Information That We Collect

On some of our webpages, you can request information, subscribe to marketing or support materials, register for events, sign up for online or in-person trainings and webinars, apply for jobs, provide feedback or obtain technical support. The types of data you provide to us on these pages may include name, address, phone number, email address, user IDs and passwords, and contact preferences.
WAVE collects and analyzes web site usage information; that may include the pages visited on the WAVE websites, unique URLs visited, browser type, device type, network provider and IP address. Most usage information is collected via cookies or other analysis technologies. WAVE’s web pages use technologies for data analysis and personalization services.
Except for job applicants (see below), WAVE does not generally collect “special categories” of personal data (as defined under GDPR). However, we may collect your photo for legitimate purposes, such as security or in some cases we may collect dietary information if we host events.
For job applicants, we may lawfully collect special categories of data such as race, ethnic origin, or gender (in accordance with applicable laws and regulations).

｜Sharing Your Personal Data

Sometimes we might share your personal data with our group companies or our contractors, service providers and agents to carry out our obligations under our contract with you or for our legitimate interests.
We may transfer your information, if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.
Applicable law may require us and our service providers to disclose your information if: (i) reasonably necessary to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government investigation or other legal requirements; or (ii) necessary for the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law).
We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.
We may also use and share usage information that, by itself, does not identify who you are (such as device information, general demographics and behavioral data). We may combine this information with additional information collected from other sources.
When we share information, we require those companies and other entities to keep your personal data confidential and secure and to protect it in accordance with the law and our policies. They are only permitted to process your data for the lawful purpose for which it has been shared and in accordance with our instructions.

｜Your Privacy Rights

Applicable data privacy laws and regulations, may afford you certain rights, including the right: (i) to know what personal data we hold about you and to request copies of such data; (ii) to review, update and request that we stop using or delete personal data that is inaccurate or processed in a non-compliant manner; (iii) to unsubscribe from direct marketing emails and to request that we stop processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes; (iv) to request data portability; (v) to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data; (vi) to the extent our processing of your personal data is based on your consent, to withdraw your consent; (vii) in certain circumstances, to object for legitimate reasons to the processing of your personal data.
To protect your privacy and the security of your data, we may ask you to verify your identity in accordance with our identity verification procedures. In some cases, we might ask you to provide additional information for verification purposes before we let you access or update your information. We may reject requests for certain reasons, including: if we cannot verify your identity; the request is unlawful; or if it may infringe on trade secrets, intellectual property or privacy of another user. Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to rectify or object to the processing of personal data, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you.

｜How We Protect Your Information

We use physical, technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information against unauthorized access, theft and loss.
You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account and the information in your account. We may suspend your use of all or part of the services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security.

｜Retaining Your Information

We keep your personal data for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. For example, we must keep personal data to prove our compliance with applicable laws and regulations or when an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requires us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved.

｜Privacy Policy Changes

From time to time, we will update this Privacy Policy when any material changes take effect. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

｜Retaining Your Information

We keep your personal data for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable laws and regulations. For example, we must keep personal data to prove our compliance with applicable laws and regulations or when an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requires us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved.