Who We Are:
This web site is operated by or on behalf of
Harman Consumer, Inc. (“referred to as “Harman”, “we”, “our” and “us”).
Harman’s registered address is:
Harman Consumer, Inc.
Suite
1500
Introduction:
Harman provides you this privacy policy to
explain to you how Harman collects, uses and protects your personal
information when you visit Harman’s web sites and when you use Harman’s
products. Harman respects your privacy and is committed to securing your
personal information. This privacy policy was last updated on July 15, 2010.
By using this website, you consent to our privacy policy and to Harman’s Terms
of use. Please do read this privacy policy and the terms of use carefully
before contributing any information to this
website.
Collecting and Using Your
Personal Information:
The only personal information about you
collected from the web site is the personal information you provide to
us.
Harman may use your personal information
you provide to us in the process of establishing an account on our web site in
the following ways:
- Obtain your name for purposes of communicating
with you and identifying you as a user of the web
site.
- Verify your age as older than
13.
- Verify your age as older than 18 or that you
have obtained your parent’s or guardian’s permission to use the web
site.
- Send you a catalog.
- Send you communications upon your
request.
- Allow you to participate in a promotion or
other web site feature.
- Customize and/or personalize your
communications and shopping experience with Harman.
- Better respond to your customer concerns and
complaints.
- Keep you informed of Harman’s upcoming product
releases unless you other wise opt out of such
messages.
Harman may use your personal information
that you provide to us in the process of making a purchase in the following
ways:
- Confirm your use of a valid credit
card.
- Process your payment via a credit
card.
- Send you the products that you
purchased.
Unsubscribing, Removing or
Modifying Your Personal Information:
Harman appreciates that you may change
your mind about our use of your personal information in the future. Harman
offers several ways you can inform us about your privacy
preferences:
- All email messages and newsletters will provide
a description on how you can ask us to stop sending you email messages and
newsletters.
- At any time, you can send us an email at the
address provided below.
- At any time, you can call our customer service
number and request that you would like to change your marketing
preferences.
- To modify or delete entirely the information
you have provided during registration, please login to make any changes to
your profile.
Please note that if you have unsubscribed
from our communications to you, due to our internal processing requirements,
you may receive communications already in production. If you request your
registration information be deleted or if you unsubscribe from communications,
we may maintain information about sales transactions or service inquiries for
future service and record keeping purposes.
Non-Personal
Information
You may access and use various features of
our website without providing any of a personal nature (Personal Information,
described below).
We may automatically record such
information to track visits to our websites so that we may compile statistics
that show the numbers and frequency of visitors to our website and its
individual pages; such statistics may include your web request, internet
protocol address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of
your request. We may enhance or merge your information collected from our
website with data from third parties for purposes of marketing products or
services to you.
We may further, present links in a format
that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been
followed.
Cookies:
Harman may use cookies to improve your
experience with our web site. Harman may use cookies to improve Harman’s
understanding of your likes and dislikes about our web site, what you like and
do not like on our web site, customize the web site to your prior uses and to
generally improve all customer needs and interests.
Harman may additionally use cookies to
place advertisements about Harman’s products, as well as the products and
services of third parties, on our web site as well as other web sites. This effort would be assisted by third
parties.
These third party companies may use
cookies and other technologies such as web beacons or tagging to measure the
effectiveness of our advertisements and to determine the display of content
and advertising based on your interests.
Third parties may collect and use anonymous information about your
visits to our and other web sites.
The information collected by these cookies and used by third parties is
always anonymous and does not enable any third party to identify you
individually or contact your directly.
A cookie is a small removable data file
that is stored by your web browser on your computer. You can choose to have
your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent or you can choose to
turn off all cookies. Generally, cookies cannot be used to run programs or
deliver viruses to your computer and do not pose a threat to a user’s
computer. However, we cannot control and nor shall we be responsible for any
malicious use of these cookies by any third parties. You have the ability to
accept or decline cookies. You do this through your web browser settings. If
you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your
site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function
properly. You may also delete cookies from your
computer.
Interactive
Areas:
Users may be
permitted access to certain interactive areas of the websites such as
providing comments, feedbacks and reviews of products and services. You should
be aware that we do not monitor or have control over any information
voluntarily disclosed within these interactive areas and shall not be
responsible for any malicious or inappropriate use of such information by any
third party.
Disclosure and Sharing
Your Information:
Harman does not rent, sell or disclose
your contact information to any third parties for any third party
purpose. Harman may share your
contact and personal information with Harman’s affiliates under the same
control of Harman as permitted under this privacy policy. Harman may rent, sell or disclose
anonymous information about you derived from your personal information or
contact information to third parties for the third party’s own purposes.
Harman may provide your credit card
information to Harman’s bank or credit card processor solely for purposes of
processing your payment. Harman may also share your information with delivery
services to ship products to you. On rare occasions, we may disclose specific
information upon governmental request, in response to a court order, when
required by law, to enforce our web site policies, or to protect our or
others' rights, property, or safety. We may also share information with
companies assisting in fraud protection or
investigation.
In the event Harman is reorganized or
transferred to a third party, your personal information may be transferred to
the successor of Harman for the purposes and subject to the terms of this
privacy policy.
Protecting Your
Information:
Harman engages the use of numerous
technological security measures to preserve the security of your information,
including without limitation, encryption technologies and authentication
tools. Your personal information is contained behind secure networks and is
only accessible to a limited number of persons who have a need to access your
personal information for purposes of managing our web site and providing you
information as you have requested. All orders are placed through a secure
server. Please be aware that no electronic data transmission over the internet
can be 100% secure. We recommend that you take all reasonable measures to
protect the same, including using alternative login names, passwords and other
non-personal identifying information which differs from the information you
use to access sensitive accounts.
Transferring Your
Information Overseas:
If you are located outside of the
Children's
Privacy:
We respect the privacy of children. Our
web site is not designed to attract an audience younger than 13. We do not
knowingly collect personal information from children under
13.
Special Provision
Applicable to
Under
Obtaining a Copy of or
Updating Your Personal Information:
You can write Harman at any time to obtain
the personal information Harman possesses about you or modify any personal
information Harman retains that is incorrect. Please let us know what
information you would like to receive from us or what information is incorrect
and we will respond to you. Your request should include your name and proof of
your identity.
Questions and
Feedback:
We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please
send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other
issue.
Notice and Contact
Information:
For questions or concerns, please email us or contact us
at:
VIA EMAILS:
webadmin@harman.com
IN WRITING:
Harman International Industries, Incorporated
Attn:
Law Department
Suite 1500
Terms of
Use:
Please also visit our terms of use section that explains other terms
governing the use of our websites.
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