Privacy Policy

Last Update: October 18, 2021

This Privacy Policy is administered and maintained by Renesas Electronics Corporation or one of its affiliated entities ("Renesas"). Protecting your privacy is important to Renesas. By ensuring that you are aware of and understand this Privacy Policy, we can provide you with better service. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy to learn how we handle your personally identifiable information.

This Privacy Policy covers personally identifiable information collected by Renesas either online, through Renesas Websites that link to this Policy (individually and collectively, the "Websites"), or offline, such as, for example, through trade shows or events. Other websites that may be affiliated with Renesas may have different privacy policies.

 

Personal Information Generally

We may collect your personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") when you use any of our Websites or interact with us in person. We respect all Personal Information we collect, whether it be from our customers, users, third party service providers, employees, or applicants. Personal Information we collect may include your name, mailing address, phone number, e-mail address, company name, business type, payment details, health-related data, and other information you provide to us (for example in a contact form). When ordering a product or requesting service information, participating in certain promotional activities or research studies to improve our products, completing surveys, and corresponding with us (including via real-time chat), we may ask for certain Personal Information. When we ask you to provide Personal Information, it will be clear what Personal Information we are requesting.

Use of Your Personal Information

We may use Personal Information for promotional activities (including, but not limited to, advertising, contests, surveys, and promotions), to respond to customer inquiries, to process orders, to improve our products or provide technical support, for statistical purposes, to provide important notices, and to contact you or manage our relationship with you.

We may also use your Personal Information when you visit any of our Websites or click on advertisements or promotional areas on any of our Websites. We may use your Personal Information to help run our Websites more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information, to monitor the nature and level of activity on our Websites, to contact you regarding our products and services, and to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising and promotion. When practicable, we use Personal Information obtained from your browsing of our Websites on an aggregate basis, without associating that information to your name, unless you expressly consent otherwise.

Browsing

We may also collect information that is provided to us by your browser or your interaction with any of our Websites. This may include information on the browser you used to come to any of our Websites, the Uniform Resource Locator ("URL") of the website that you visited just before visiting our Website, which pages on any of our Websites you visit, your activities on any of our Websites, any search terms you entered, which URL you go to next, and your Internet Protocol ("IP") address. Please also see the Section of this policy below captioned "Tracking Technologies" for more information.

Technical Support

Personal Information may be collected and used when you request technical support for your Renesas products. Personal Information may be necessary to identify your products or systems, understand the configuration of the products, diagnose your questions, and provide solutions.

Online Surveys and Polling

We may provide you the opportunity to complete surveys or participate in polls on any of our Websites. If you participate, we will request certain Personal Information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose Personal Information. The requested Personal Information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip or postal code).

Promotional Activities

Personal Information may be collected and used when you enter a contest or other promotion. In this case, we may ask you for Personal Information such as your name, address and e-mail address to administer the program or activity, to send you promotional e-mails, notify winners and make the winners list publicly available.

Newsletters and Promotional E-mails

As a service to our customers, we may e-mail you newsletters, promotional information and other information, using your Personal Information collected online. These e-mails will only be sent to you if you have agreed to receive them. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page, or contacting us by clicking here.

Blog / Forums

Some of our Websites offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your Personal Information from our blog or community forum, contact us by clicking here. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

Public Profiles

The profile you create on our site may be publicly accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may change the privacy settings of your profile through your account portal.

Social Media Features

Some of our Websites include “Social Media Features”, such as the Facebook Like button, and “Widgets”, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on any of our Websites. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on any of our Websites, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Websites. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the companies providing them.

Contact Information

If you contact us (including via real-time chat), we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments, including any information therein.

We will share your Personal Information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy. Unless we have your permission, we will share the Personal Information you provide only with other Renesas entities or with third party entities that provide services to Renesas, including in particular, sending of marketing communications, providing customer service, supporting our marketing and product distribution, or operating our systems or applications. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services. Renesas, any part of it or any of its affiliates, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity or agree to have its or their assets acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination or acquisition occur you will be notified via email, and/or a prominent notice on our Websites, of any change in ownership, uses of your Personal Information, and choices you may have regarding your Personal Information. We may also disclose your Personal Information to any other third party with your prior consent.

Occasionally, we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide your Personal Information to the appropriate authorities. We will disclose your Personal Information if required by law, upon receipt of a court order or subpoena, during bankruptcy proceedings, or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request or cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement authorities any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful.

As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically. This information may include IP addresses, browser type, internet service provider ("ISP"), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the site.

Renesas, our affiliates, and our analytics or service providers use cookies or similar technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer the Websites, track users' movements around the Websites, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Websites.

A "cookie" is a small data file that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. We use cookies to better serve you when you return to any of our Websites. Some of our web pages may send cookies when you visit any of our Websites, make purchases, respond to online surveys or promotions, participate in a contest, or request information. Accepting the cookies used on any of our Websites enables our web server to identify your system by reading the cookie that has been stored on your system. Cookies that are placed when visiting any of our Websites cannot be used to obtain your Personal Information at another site. Cookies also enable you to register and login to different portions of any of our Websites that require a username and password.

For your convenience, Renesas' global Websites utilize "single sign-on" functionality. This means that if you login to one of our Websites, you will automatically be logged in to Renesas' other Websites.

The information collected online permits us to analyze traffic patterns on any of our Websites and is used on an aggregate basis. This can enable us over time to provide users with a better experience on any of our Websites by improving the content and making it easier to use. The information collected online also allows us to contact you regarding our products and services that may be responsive to your needs or browsing history.

Depending on the browser used, you can set your browser to notify you before you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it, and you can also set your browser to turn off cookies. However, if you do so, some areas of our Websites may not function properly, or you will be required to re-enter your Personal Information to use an area of our Websites.

We may also use web beacon technologies to better tailor our Websites to provide better customer service. A web beacon is a single pixel GIF that allows a website to count users who have visited that page or accessed certain cookies. These web beacons may be placed on specific pages across any of our Websites. When a visitor accesses these pages, a notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by us or by our third party service providers. These web beacons work in conjunction with cookies. If you do not want to associate your cookie information with your visits to these pages, depending on the browser used, you can set your browser to turn off cookies.

We partner with third parties to either display advertising on our Websites or to manage our advertising on other websites. Our third party service providers may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on any of our Websites and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking here or clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If we are made aware we have collected Personal Information from a child under 16 years old in a manner that is inconsistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") or the EU General Data Protection Regulation, we will delete this Personal Information as soon as possible.

While Renesas does not guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur, Renesas does take care in maintaining the security of your Personal Information and in preventing unauthorized access to it, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your Personal Information, you can contact us by clicking here.

Our Websites are operated and administered globally by Renesas Electronics Corporation or its affiliated entities. This means that your Personal Information may be collected and processed by Renesas entities or (on their behalf) by third party service providers outside the European Union ("EU") or the European Economic Area ("EEA"). The data protection regulation in the relevant countries where your Personal Information is collected or processed might deviate from the level of protection granted by legislation in the EU/EEA. However, Renesas will ensure the adequate protection of your Personal Information in accordance with the applicable laws and the principles set out herein. By using our Websites, you agree with the collection and transfer of your Personal Information outside the EU/EEA as described herein.

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Parts of our Websites may contain links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. The privacy practices of these third party websites may differ from those of Renesas. When you access these other websites, please understand that we do not control the content and are not responsible for the privacy practices of that website. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each website you visit. This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of those websites to which our Websites link. These other websites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit Personal Information.

Renesas reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Any such changes will be posted in this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Renesas will protect your Personal Information in accordance with all applicable laws.

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Additional Information for EU Users

The following sets out additional information for users whose data are subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Controller

The data controller for personal data collected through the EU version of the Renesas website (https://www.renesas.com/en-eu/) is Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH, Arcadiastrasse 10, 40472 Dusseldorf, Germany, Managing Director: Carsten Jauch. For more information regarding Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH please see Legal.

Collection and processing of personal data

In principle you can visit and use our EU websites without telling us who you are. We do not require any registration. Without further information from you we only collect and process certain technical information, including the name of your Internet Service Provider, the webpage from which you came to us and the pages that you visit on our website. This information is used for purposes of provision of our website. This data may also be analyzed for statistical purposes, in which case you remain anonymous as an individual user.

We process your personal data based on your consent, for the performance of a contract or as necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, including for responding to your enquiries and to customize and improve our web offerings, products and services in accordance with your preferences (Art. 6 (1) (a), (b) and (f) GDPR).

Personal data is only collected if you provide us with this information, e.g. in order to register for personalized services, and only processed and used for the provision of these personalized services, or in order to process your enquiries.

Furthermore, in connection with the personalized services we may process and use your data for advertising and market research purposes or for personalized provision of services if you have given your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.

If you use personalized services we will use your personal data required for the provision the services for the duration of your registration and thereafter for as long as required or permitted under applicable laws. We share your data with affiliated companies or branches of Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH if this is necessary to respond to your enquiries or if necessary for the provision of the services. We may also forward enquiries regarding our products and services to a distributor that is responsible for the relevant product or service category and region.

Additional information regarding newsletters, promotional e-mails, telephone calls

In accordance with applicable EU legislation and/or the applicable laws of the Member States, we may contact you for marketing and promotional purposes by e-mail for our products and services if we have obtained your e-mail address in the context of the sale of similar products or services, if we have given you the opportunity to object to the use of your electronic contact details when they were collected and if you have not initially objected to such use. You may at any time choose to stop receiving any such communication by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page, or contacting us by clicking here.

In accordance with applicable EU legislation and/or the applicable laws of the Member States, we may also contact you as a business user for marketing and promotional purposes by phone if we may reasonably conclude from your use of our websites, newsletters, information offerings, products or services that you are specifically interested in our products or services. You may at any time choose to object being contacted by phone, in particular by accessing the contact preferences in your account settings page, or contacting us (for contact details please see below).

Registration for Renesas Synergy

Our Renesas Synergy platform is addressed to interested professionals that are specifically interested in receiving information on Renesas products and services and that may be interested in establishing a business contact with Renesas. When you register for a user account at our Renesas Synergy platform we usually collect your name, language, company name, department and job title as well as your business related contact information.

We may use your personal data to maintain your user account, to verify that you are a business user, to provide you with the requested information on Renesas products and services, including any newsletters you may subscribe to, to respond to support and other enquiries you might have. In connection with your user account, we may analyse your use of our website and our newsletter to better understand your preferences and to improve our web services. For this purpose, newsletter e-mails may contain web beacons, tracking pixels or links that allow us to analyse your use of the newsletter, including information on whether you received and opened our newsletter. We store such information in connection with your user account. If you have given your marketing consent, we might also contact you under your business contact details for marketing purposes in relation to our products and services that may be of interest for you.

If you have created a user account, we store your data for as long as you maintain your user account. You may have your user account deleted at any time; please send us a message to using the contact details provided below. In the event of deletion of your user account, we store the relevant data only to the extent permitted or required by law.

Through your user account, you can administer and update your contact data and your preferences. Please treat your access data as confidential and do not share your password with any third parties. We are not liable for any abuse of your password, unless caused by us. As long as you do not sign out you will stay logged in on our website. This allows you to use our website and the various functions without having to log in again. If you wish to change your personal information, you will be asked to enter your password again. Please close your browser at the end of the session, especially if a third party may have access to your computer. If you become aware of, or if you suspect that a third party has obtained unauthorized access to your access data or uses your account, please change your password without undue delay and inform us by e-mail.

Other personalized services

Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH has implemented a number of specific personized services that are addressed to business customers or companies interested in our products or services. Generally, we collect and use any personal data in the relevant context to respond to your enquiries, to establish and manage our business relationship with you and to provide you with requested information. More specifically we collect and use information in connection with the following services and other offers:

General Contact Form

Information requests regarding European Sales Offices.

University Program Application Form

Requests for free supply of Synergy course materials, books and development boards for use by partner universities.

TES Guiliani - Prepaid by Renesas

Requests for TES Guiliani software prepaid by Renesas

WEEE

Requests under the EU directive regarding Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)

Tool Repair Request

Tool repair requests of customers

Hardware Upgrade Request

Hardware upgrade requests of customers

Registration PC Locked License

Registration request for tool products

Registration Dongle License

Registration requests for licenses (no personal data required)

Registration Network License

Registration requests for licenses

M16C/6S PLC Serial API

Registration requests for licenses

CC Compiler Registration

Registration requests for licenses

Registration Extended Compiler Support License

Registration requests for licenses

REACH

Requests under EU regulation regarding Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)

TPS-1 PROFINET IRT V2.3

Requests for product status and events

ADAS Whitepaper

Requests for ADAS Whitepaper

We store the contact information in connection with the relevant requests for as long as necessary to respond to the relevant requests and as reasonably necessary to maintain the relevant business contact. In cases of licenses, we store all information for the duration of the license granted by Renesas. Regulatory information is stored for as long as necessary to demonstrate our regulatory compliance.

We may transfer contact requests for distributors to the relevant distributors in our network. Support, update and license requests may be transferred to affiliated companies of Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH, including its ultimate parent company Renesas Electronics Corporation in Japan. Requests regarding regulatory requirements, including in particular requests related to WEEE and REACH may be shared with the competent authorities within the EU to the extent required by law.

Use of services, webtools and social media plug-ins using cookies

We have integrated certain services and webtools for analysis purposes and social media services into our website that use “cookies”. You can deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please note, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain or all features of our website.

On our website, plug-ins for the following services and/or social networks have been or are integrated (hereinafter collectively referred to as “networks” or “network”):

• Brightcove Video Services, operated by Brightcove Inc., 290 Congress Street, Boston, MA 02210, Phone: +1 617 500 4947
  https://www.brightcove.com/en/legal/privacy
• facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plug-ins are indicated with a Facebook logo (white “f” on a blue tile background a “Like” (thumbs up) symbol) or are identified with the addendum “Facebook social plug-in”. The list of Facebook social plug-ins and their appearance can be viewed at www.facebook.com/policy.php.
• LinkedIn - LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
  www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
• Twitter, operated by Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Twitter”). The plug-ins can be identified by the Twitter logo (bird outline/relief in various colors against various backgrounds). The various Twitter logos which are used to indicate the plug-in can be viewed on the Twitter website under about.twitter.com/en_us/company/brand-resources.html.
• Youtube - YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 USA
  www.youtube.com/t/terms

All of these service or network plug-ins essentially work according to the following basic principles:

When you access our website, the network plug-ins can potentially create a direct connection between the user’s browser and the server of the respective network. The content of the relevant plug-in will be directly transmitted from the network to your browser, which will integrate it into the website. We have no influence regarding the scope of the data which is collected with the aid of the plug-in. Therefore, we can only inform you about the information which is publicly accessible according to the above-mentioned privacy policies of the relevant providers. The integrated plug-in informs the network that the user has accessed our website and informs the network of the user’s IP address. If the user is logged in to the network of this plug-in at that point in time, the network will be able to link the visit with the user’s account.

If the user interacts with these plug-ins, the corresponding information will be transmitted directly from the user’s browser to the network where it will then be stored. Furthermore, additional personal data can also be transmitted and stored there, for example the user’s IP address, personal browser settings and other parameters.

If you are a member of the respective network and do not want it to collect information about you via our website and to link this information with the data that the network has already stored about you, then please close this website, log out from your user account for the respective network and afterwards visit our website once again.

If you are not a member of the network or you have logged off from the network before visiting our website, the possibility still exists that the network will ascertain (at least) your IP address and store it. Please note that this information is already exchanged when you visit our website, whether you interact with the plug-ins or not.

Web statistics tools, targeting

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies, i.e. text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the way you use our website. The information generated by the cookie is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement and is registered with the US Department of Commerce's ES-US Privacy Shield Program (for details and individual registrations go to www.privacyshield.gov). However, if IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google uses this information on our behalf to evaluate the use of our website by you, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide other services related to the website and internet usage to us.

Please note that we use the code "ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);” to ensure the anonymous collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). As a result, IP addresses are processed in shortened form, which means that direct personal reference can be excluded.

You can deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please note, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain or all features of our website. Furthermore, you can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of such data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

For more information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics, please visit: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

Eloqua

We use Eloqua, a technology provided Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 (“Eloqua” or “Oracle”) to personalise our communication with you on our websites and when you register for our e-mail services. Eloqua uses cookies and JavaScript code for measuring usage of our websites. We may use Eloqua cookies and information from the JavaScript code to allow us to analyse your use of our website and our communications, so we can understand your interests and determine how to improve the communications we send to you.

You can deactivate the use of cookies via your browser settings at any time. Please note, however, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain or all features of our website. If you want to prevent the use of Eloqua cookies on your device in the future, you can do so via https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/#optout.

For more information about privacy in connection with Eloqua and Oracle, please visit https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/privacy-choices.html.

Your Rights under the GDPR

You can contact our data protection officer using the following contact information: Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH, Attn: Data Protection Officer, Arcadiastrasse 10, 40472 Duesseldorf, Germany or datenschutz-eu(at)lm.renesas(dot)com.

You have the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of personal data, to restrict processing of your personal data, to object to such processing and to exercise your right to data portability, in each case in accordance with the GDPR and applicable laws. Please contact the address given above by email or by mail.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority in accordance with the GDPR and applicable laws if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR. For this purpose, you can contact in particular the supervisory authority in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or the place of the alleged infringement. The competent authority for Renesas Electronics Europe GmbH in Germany is the North Rhine-Westphalia Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (LDI NRW), whose current contact details are available under www.ldi.nrw.de.