Thank you for your interest in Saramonic and in the various hardware, firmware, software, websites, applications, and services provided by us and on which a link to this Privacy Policy is displayed.
This Policy describes:

• The information that we gather from you,

• How we use and share this information,

• The rights and choices you have regarding this information,

• The steps we take to protect this information,

• The information gathered by third-party services,

• How we transfer your information,

• How we may change this Policy,

• How do you contact us.

By using Saramonic Products and Services, you consent to the privacy practices described in this Policy. This Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Terms of Use for the Saramonic Products and Services you use.

If you are a California resident, please also review our California Privacy Notice for more information about the types of personal information we collect and disclose, as well as how to exercise your rights under California law.

We may collect information about you directly from you, from third parties, and automatically through your use of the Saramonic Products and Services. Some information we collect from you is referred to as “personal information” or “personal data” in this Policy. Personal information or personal data is data that can identify you, or data that we can relate to you, such as your name, email address, credit card number, and shipping address.

If you do not provide your information when requested, you may not be able to use Saramonic Products and Services if that information is necessary to provide you with Saramonic Products and Services or if we are legally required to collect it.

• Account Information. When you create a Saramonic account, you may provide us with information that includes your user ID, email address (or phone number, based on the country location), password or other information for account verification. You might choose to provide us with additional information — like gender, birthday, professional information and other information on your profile page.

• Contact Information. When you place an order with Saramonic, sign up for notifications or updates, or contact us for customer service, you may provide us with your contact information including your name, alias, email address, shipping address, billing address and phone number(s).

• Payment Information. When you place an order with Saramonic or engage in financial transactions by using Saramonic Products and Services, you may provide us with your payment information such as your bank account, credit card number, or debit card number.

• Communications. When you contact us, we may collect information about your communications with us, including your contact information, and the time, topic, and content of your communications.

• Technical Information. When you visit our webpage or use our mobile applications, you may provide us with technical information about the device running the browser or the application. Such information includes your IP address or device address, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use a Product or Service, hardware version, and operating system. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with Saramonic email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message.

• Cookies. We use cookies and other similar technologies Saramonic websites and online services. Cookies are used to collect information, including personal data, from you. Cookies are small files that, when placed on your device, enable us to provide certain features and functionality. To learn more about cookies please see our Cookie Policy.

We use information we collect through Saramonic Products and Services in a variety of ways in providing the Saramonic Products and Services and operating our business. The use of information that we collect includes the following:

• To operate and provide features of the Saramonic Products and Services, to verify and manage Saramonic user accounts, to provide services and information that you request, and to process and deliver entries and rewards in connection with promotions that may be offered from time to time by Saramonic. We will process your personal data in accordance with this Policy and any of your preferences, which are expressed via Saramonic.

• To understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences, to improve the Saramonic Products and Services, and to develop new products, services, features, and functionality. We may use your Technical Information for this purpose.

• To contact you for administrative and informational purposes, including for customer service. We may send direct marketing such as communications, including updates on promotions and events, relating to products and services offered by us and by third parties we work with. If you are an individual or consumer we will only send you direct marketing with your consent or as permitted by applicable law. You may send unsubscribe requests or withdraw your consent at any time. Please visit the section Your Rights and Choices Regarding Collected Information to find out more. We may use your Account Information and Contact Information for this purpose.

• For any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent. We may use any of the categories of personal information described above for this purpose.

• We will aggregate personal data we collect, such as the number and frequency of your visits to our sites and apps, to produce metrics and statistical information. We use aggregate data to help us understand how the site is being used and to improve its usability. We also use it to enhance the quality and availability of products and services we offer. We may use your Technical Information for this purpose.

We will not disclose your information that we collect through Saramonic Products and Services to third parties except as described in this Policy or as we disclose to you at the time the information is collected. We may disclose the categories of information described above in “Information We Collect” to third parties and for the purposes described below:

• We may disclose your information to our parent company, affiliates and subsidiaries globally when permitted by law, and necessary to provide you with Saramonic Products and Services. This information may include all of the categories described above in “Information We Collect.”

• Any information that you voluntarily choose to make publicly available by uploading it to a publicly accessible site or venue using Saramonic Products and Services, or that you otherwise elect to make public, will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users.

• We work with third-party service providers to provide payment facilitation, parcel transportation, application development, traffic monitoring or analysis, and other services for us. We require these service providers to use or disclose the information they process on our behalf, only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. This information may include all of the categories described above in “Information We Collect.”

• We may preserve and disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, warrant or enforceable request. This information may include all of the categories described above in “Information We Collect.”

• We also reserve the right to preserve and disclose your information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to (i) take precautions against liability, (ii) protect ourselves or others from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses or activities, (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (iv) protect the security or integrity of the Saramonic Products and Services and any facilities or equipment used to make the Saramonic Products and Services available, or (v) protect our property or other legal rights (including, but not limited to, enforcement of our agreements), or the rights, property, or safety of others. This information may include all of the categories described above in “Information We Collect.”

• Information about our users, including information you provided and any information collected through Saramonic Products and Services, may be disclosed and otherwise communicated to an acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets. This information may include all of the categories described above in “Information We Collect.”

• We may make certain aggregated, de-identified, or non-identifying information about users of Saramonic Products and Services available to third parties for various purposes, including (i) compliance with various reporting obligations; (ii) for business or marketing purposes; (iii) product safety analysis; or (iv) to assist such parties in understanding our users’ interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality of Saramonic Products and Services.
  
  We do not sell your personal data as “sale” is defined in applicable state laws. We also do not “share” your personal data as that term is defined in California Law.

You may update, correct, or delete certain Saramonic account information and preferences by accessing your account preferences page, available through certain Saramonic Products and Services, including saramonic.com and various mobile applications. If you receive commercial email or text messages from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions contained within the email or text message. You may also opt out from receiving commercial email or text messages from us or object to be profiled by sending your request to us by email at support@saramonic.com.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may also have the right to request access to additional information, including the right to request access to and receive certain information we maintain about you; to update or correct inaccuracies in the information we maintain about you; to receive a copy of the information which you provided for its transmission to another company; to object to the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation; and to have the information blocked, deleted, or erased, as appropriate. When we process personal data on the basis of your consent, you can also withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we will apply your preferences going forward, and this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdraw your consent.

If you wish to exercise any rights you have under applicable data protection law, including the right to access, amend or delete any information we hold about you, you may contact us at support@saramonic.com.

We will review any information you provide with your request and may request additional information to ensure we are interacting with the correct individual. If you have an online account with us, you may be required to log in to your account for identity verification. If you do not have an account with us, additional information to verify your identity may be required by law before we may take action upon such a request. This additional information may vary depending on the nature of your request and/or the nature of the information about which your request relates. In some cases, we may also be required by law to obtain a signed declaration under penalty of perjury from you that you are the subject of the request being made. If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity on or from your account, we will delay taking action on your request until we can appropriately verify your identity and the request as authentic.

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf pursuant to applicable law. We accept documentation of your designation in the form of a valid power of attorney and/or a notarized statement. You must submit evidence of your designation of an authorized agent in writing to marketing@saramonic.com. We may require verification of your authorized agent in addition to the information for verification above.

Saramonic Products and Services may contain features or links to websites and services provided by third parties. Any information you choose to provide on third-party sites or services, or any information otherwise collected by such third-party sites or services is collected directly by the operators of such services and is subject to those operators’ policies, if any, governing privacy and security, even if accessed through Saramonic Products and Services.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third-party sites or services to which links or access are provided through Saramonic Products and Services. If you opt in to use such third-party services, please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites as well as their “Terms of Use” before engaging in any business or uploading any information.

Except for certain products that are marked as “14+” or “for customers over the age of 14”, Saramonic Products and Services are not directed to children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect or process information from children under the age of 16 without obtaining parental consent.

We use certain physical, organizational, and technical safeguards that are designed to improve the integrity and security of information that we collect and maintain. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and thus we cannot and do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, viewed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or organizational safeguards.

We retain your information to provide service to you, or as required by applicable laws or regulations. We aim to retain your information only for the period necessary to fulfil our obligations under this Policy, unless otherwise required or permitted by law. We will carefully assess the need to collect data, the type of data collected, relevant legal framework, and the statute of limitations when determining the retention period.

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we modify this Policy, we will make it available on or through the Saramonic Products and Services and indicate the date of the latest revision. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the change.

Please contact us with any questions or comments about this Policy or our data practices by email at support@saramonic.com or in writing to Shenzhen Jiayz Photo Industrial Ltd., Floor 22, Building 11, Tian'an Yungu, Bantian Street, Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China. You may contact us to have your information blocked, deleted or erased, or to opt out from profiling where your prior usage of Saramonic Products and Services is processed to provide you with customized or personalized products, services or advertisements, or to obtain copies of certain of your information in a portable format. If you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us, you may also lodge a complaint with us or with a data protection regulator, including in your country of residence, place of work or where an incident took place. You can find out more information about your rights by contacting your local data protection regulator.

What are Cookies?

When you use Saramonic websites or online services, we may send one or more cookies — small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Please review your web browser Help file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept certain types of cookies, you may not be able to utilize the features of Saramonic Products and Services to their fullest potential. We may use third party cookies as well. For instance, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data (Please refer to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners for additional privacy options, if any). Saramonic does not process or respond to web browsers’ “do not track” signals or other similar transmissions that indicate a request to disable online tracking of users who use Saramonic Products and Services.

We may also automatically record certain information from your device by using various types of technology, including “clear gifs” or “web beacons” (together with cookies, “cookies and similar technologies”). This automatically collected information may include your IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use a Product or Service, the pages or other content you view or otherwise interact with on a Product or Service, and the dates and times that you visit, access, or use Saramonic Products and Services. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message.

Cookies Used by Saramonic

We use different types of cookies as listed below. They help us to provide and improve the Saramonic Products and Services, such as showing you the most relevant information and your customized webpage. Some or all of the cookies listed may be stored in your browser or devices.

Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for you to use the Saramonic Products and Services, such as the cookies used for carrying out the transmission of a communication, the cookies that record requests for information from the Internet and block web attacks so as to ensure web security, the cookies that are strictly necessary for us to provide information society services that you request. You must accept strictly necessary cookies to be able to use Saramonic Products and Services.

Preference cookies. These cookies are also known as “functionality cookies”, these cookies allow us to remember choices you have made through your use of the Saramonic Products and Services, like what language you prefer, what region you are in, or what your username and password are so you can automatically log in. These cookies can help us reallocate work load among our servers and enable our webpages to respond faster.

Statistics cookies. These cookies are also known as “performance cookies”, these cookies collect information about how you use the Saramonic Products and Services, like which webpages you visited and which links you clicked on. These cookies can help us to improve user experience of using Saramonic Products and Services.

Marketing cookies. These cookies can track your online activities to help us deliver more relevant advertisements or limit the number of times that the same advertisement is shown to you.

Manage Your Cookie Settings

Saramonic offers you the possibility to set your preferences regarding cookies. By clicking “Cookie Preferences” on the bottom of each webpage, you can select the types of Cookies our websites or online services use. You can change your preferences at any time; you can also withdraw the consent you have previously given to us.

Cookies Use when You Use Mobile Devices

Some mobile devices share the same features with computers, such as the support of full-featured browsers. When you are using this type of devices such as smartphones, we use cookies in a similar way to when you are using computers. Other devices may use different technologies, such as local storage, Software Development Kits (SDKs), or Advanced Programming Interfaces (APIs) to facilitate aforementioned processes effectuated by cookies.

We may obtain or receive information about your device, our apps, or other apps. We may also use these technologies to store information on your device. For example, we may receive information about the make and model of your mobile device when you are asking others for help through our app.

Read of Particular Cookies

Browsers will send cookies for a particular domain to the website each time a device with those cookies accesses content from that domain. This means that if your device stores cookies for saramonic.com, it will send those cookies to Saramonic when it accesses a webpage at saramonic.com.

Cookie Used Without a Saramonic Account or After Your Logout

We still use cookies if you do not have a Saramonic account or have logged out of your account. After your logout, we will use cookies to:

- Identify and terminate accounts in violation of the Terms of Use or Saramonic policies;

- Recover your lost account;

- Recognize use of public computers and notify you to reduce your risk of data theft;

- Understand your interaction with our Products and Services, and those of our partners.

If you do not have Saramonic account and have visited saramonic.com, we will use cookies to protect BOYA Products and Services, and Saramonic customers from malicious activity such as denial-of-service attacks and mass creation of fake accounts.

For questions regarding this California Privacy Notice, contact us by email at support@saramonic.com, or in writing at Shenzhen Jiayz Photo Industrial Ltd Floor 22, Building 11, Tian'an Yungu, Bantian Street, Longgang

District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China, 518129.

Settlement of Disputes

-If any dispute or difference of whatsoever kind shall arise in connection with or arising out of this Contract, the Parties shall solve attempt to resolve such dispute through friendly consultations. If such attempt fails, either party shall be entitled to submit the dispute to Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration(SCIA).

-Substantive and procedural legislation of the This Contract will be governed by the law(s) of the People’s Republic of China.