Privacy Policy (original) (raw)

Effective: November 4, 2024

About this Privacy Policy

Your privacy and trust are important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and share your information (“Information”) through our website (https://www.semianalysis.com/) and services. Please read it carefully. While some of the information here is technical, our goal is to make this policy straightforward, so please contact us if you have any questions.

Remember that your use of SemiAnalysis is at all times subject to the Terms and Conditions (including its dispute resolution terms) which incorporates this Privacy Policy. You are also bound by our Cookie Policy, which contains additional information about our use of cookies on the website, and which is also incorporated into the Terms of Use.

What does this Privacy Policy cover?

This Privacy Policy details how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer, and process your Information in connection with your use of our website. It also describes the choices you have regarding the use of your Information. Information may be used differently in other contracts you may have with us.

Will SemiAnalysis ever change this Privacy Policy?

This privacy Policy may be subject to change. SemiAnalysis keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this website. By continuing to use this website, you affirm your consent to this Privacy Policy.

What Information does SemiAnalysis collect?

We collect and process Information about you when you interact with us and our services. This may include:

• Your first and last name;
• Your email address;
• Your phone number;
• Your payment details (including billing address, credit card details, and other information disclosed when you make a purchase from us);
• Your actual or assumed location and/or mailing address;
• Your marketing preferences, including any consents you have given us;
• Information related to the browser or device you use to access our website or leave comments on our website (including your IP address);
• Your usage of the website and other SemiAnalysis products.
• Comment and message contents;
• Any information we collect online from you and maintain in association with your account, such as your username and password;
• Your subscription status with SemiAnalysis
• Messaging and commenting contents;
• Any other information you provide us when communicating with us.
• We also use pixels for email-tracking purposes. Specifically, our emails may include pixels, which are used to determine when and if you opened a SemiAnalysis email. When you open the email, we may obtain your email address, IP address, or other identifying information for the purposes stated below by in this privacy policy. This information may be shared with third parties in a manner as stated below in this privacy policy.

We also collect information on the use of our website via Cookies. Please review our Cookie Policy for more information.

How does SemiAnalysis use your Information?

We use your Information for the following purposes:

• To establish and fulfill a contract with you, for example when you subscribe to a subscription service. This may include verifying your identity, taking payments, communicating with you, servicing your account, and providing customer service;
• As required by SemiAnalysis to enable our business and pursue our legitimate interests. In particular, we use your Information for the following purposes:
• To provide services you have requested, and respond to any communications, comments, or complaints you send us;
• To monitor the use of our services and to help us monitor, improve, and protect our services, content and website;
• To allow you to create, maintain, customize and secure your account with us;
• To maintain the integrity and propriety of our website, including any comments thereon or messages exchanged therein;
• To tailor our website to your needs and preferences;
• To remember your choices regarding cookie use;
• To fulfill legal, regulatory, and reporting requirements, and to monitor or investigate related needs;
• To protect our intellectual property.

SemiAnalysis personnel and website administrators may also access Information to fulfill these purposes.

Note that you may update certain of your Information via your account.

In certain cases, we may also share some Information with third parties, but only as described in this Privacy Policy.

How will SemiAnalysis share the Personal Information it receives?

We may share your Personal Information with third parties, in our outside the U.S., as described below:

• Affiliates: We may disclose your Information to our subsidiaries and/or affiliates for the purposes as described above.
• Our Service Providers: We share your Personal Information with third-party service providers that provide services on our behalf. Such third parties further include, but are not limited to, providers of: billing and payment services; website hosting; maintenance services; email services; security services; content delivery networks; customer support operations and software services, including for password reset purposes; traffic and usage analytics services; spam detection services and comment managers; verification services such as to confirm your mobile number or email address or identity; and cloud storage and computing services.
• Prospective sellers or buyers: We may share and/or transfer Information in connection with the sale or merger of our business or assets when allowed by law, or if we otherwise undergo a change in control or restructuring.
• Government authorities, law enforcement officials, and court-ordered disclosures: We may share Information with regulatory, prosecuting, tax, or governmental authorities, courts or other tribunals, or with litigants entitled by law to receive such information, including pursuant to subpoena.

In certain cases, we may anonymize your Information in such a way that you can no longer be identified as an individual, and we reserve the right to use and share such anonymized information with third parties for any purpose. However, except as described above, we will disclose aggregated or de-identified information in a manner that could identify you as an individual.

For commenting purposes, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here. After approval of your comment on our website, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Note that if you upload images to our website, the public may see them. If embedded location data is included, website visitors can also download and extract that data.

Embedded content.

Our website may used embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, and more, from third parties. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content. You should review your browser and device settings with regard to such content, and may review the privacy policies of the organizations whose embedded content is offered on our website to determine how they may use such information.

Is Information about you secure?

Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account. This supplements obligations described in our Terms.

We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other Information we hold in our records, but unfortunately, we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, failure of the services, or other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. See our Terms for additional detail.

What are your rights?

According to applicable laws and regulations, you may have certain rights with respect to your personal information, including but not limited to:

• Access and/or modify your data;
• Request to delete your Information;
• In some situations, the restriction of or objection to the processing activity of your Information;
• Transfer or share your Information with another organization;
• Withdraw consent to process your Information or otherwise modify it;
• In some situations, request a copy of your Information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format
• Pose questions related to your Information and its protection.

These rights may be limited in some situations or in accordance with applicable law and may depend on where you live. To exercise such rights in your appropriate jurisdiction, please contact us. You may need to provide personal information for us to verify your identity and location in connection with any such request.

We also reserve the right to preserve or delete Information as required by law, including, for example, pursuant to a legal hold notice or destruction order.

How long will SemiAnalysis retain your data?

We retain your Information for as long as needed to use it for its intended purposes, comply with our legal obligations, and other permitted business purposes described above, subject to deletion rights, including of inactive accounts. That includes that we retain comments and metadata indefinitely by default. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

How to contact us

If f you have any questions about our Privacy Policy please contact us.