California Consumer Privacy Act Notice

Please submit requests to exercise your privacy rights here.

This Notice is provided on behalf of Seagate Technology LLC and any of it's affiliates, (collectively, “Seagate” or “we” or “us”). As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), this California Consumer Privacy Act Notice (“Notice”) provides additional information to California residents on Seagate’s collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information and the rights available to California residents. Please refer to Seagate’s Privacy Statement at https://www.seagate.com/legal-privacy/ for more information about our privacy practices.

Please note that this Notice does not apply in situations where we collect Personal Information about our job applicants, employees, contractors, owners, directors, or officers as it relates to their current, former, or potential role at Seagate.

Personal Information

Under the CCPA, “Personal Information” is defined as the information that can identify, relates to, or could reasonably be linked with a particular California resident or household.

Collection of Personal Information

We collect Personal Information from our interactions with you. For example, when you contact us via our websites or on the phone, respond to a survey, or buy a product or service, or register or return a product, we may collect your Personal Information. We also collect Personal Information from other sources. For example, we may collect Personal Information when public databases and joint marketing partners share the information with us.

In the past 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Information:

• Identifiers, such as your name, telephone number, postal address, email address, user account name, social media account ID, and IP address;
• Personal information, as defined in the California safeguards law, such as your contact information and profile picture;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as your gender;
• Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history;
• Internet or network activity information, such as your browsing history and interactions with websites and advertisements;
• Geolocation data, such as your IP address;
• Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as your call and video recordings;
• Professional or employment-related information, such as your work history and prior employer; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the above Personal Information to create a summary about you, for example of your preferences and characteristics.

Use of Personal Information

We may use your Personal Information described in this statement to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, for our employment and vendor management purposes, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives. For example, we may use your Personal Information to:

• develop, improve, repair, and maintain our products and services;
• personalize, advertise, and market our products and services;
• conduct research, analytics, and data analysis;
• maintain our facilities and infrastructure;
• undertake quality and safety assurance measures;
• conduct risk and security control and monitoring;
• detect and prevent fraud;
• perform identity verification;
• perform accounting, audit, and other internal functions, such as internal investigations;
• comply with law, legal process, and internal policies;
• maintain records; and
• exercise and defend legal claims.

Disclosures of Personal Information to Third Parties

In the past 12 months, we may have disclosed the following Personal Information to third parties, such as our service providers and affiliates, for our operational business purposes:

• Identifiers, such as your name, telephone number, postal address, email address, user account name, social media account ID, and IP address;
• Personal information, as defined in the California safeguards law, such as your contact information and profile picture;
• Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as your gender;
• Commercial information, such as your transaction information and purchase history;
• Internet or network activity information, such as your browsing history and interactions with websites and advertisements;
• Geolocation data, such as your IP address;
• Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information, such as your call and video recordings;
• Professional or employment-related information, such as your work history and prior employer; and
• Inferences drawn from any of the above Personal Information to create a summary about you, for example of your preferences and characteristics.

Sales of Personal Information

We have not “sold” Personal Information for purposes of the CCPA. For purposes of this Notice, “sold” or “sale” means the disclosure of Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration, but does not include, for example, the transfer of Personal Information as an asset that is part of a merger, bankruptcy, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business.

Making Rights Requests Under the CCPA

If you are a California resident, you may request that a business:

(1) Disclose to you the following information covering the 12 months preceding your request:

• The categories of Personal Information collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which the business collected Personal Information about you;
• The specific pieces of Personal Information the business collected about you;
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information about you;
• The categories of third parties with whom the business shared Personal Information about you; and
• The categories of Personal Information about you that the business otherwise shared or disclosed, and the categories of third parties with whom the business shared or to whom it disclosed such Personal Information (if applicable);

(2) Delete Personal Information the business collected from you; and

(3) Not sell your Personal Information to a third party.

To make a request for the disclosures or deletion described above please submit your rights request here. You may also contact us at 1-800-SEAGATE (1-800-732-4283) or data.protection.officer@seagate.com.

To protect the personal information that we maintain, we will verify your identity when you make a request. To verify your identity, we will request your first and last name, email address related to your account, and country of residence. In some instances, we may decline to honor your request where an exception applies. For example, we may decline your request when we are unable to verify your identity. We may also decline your request if the rights and freedoms of another California resident would be negatively affected.

If you are an authorized agent making a rights request on behalf of another consumer please contact us at data.protection.officer@seagate.com.

You have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

LAST UPDATED: August 4, 2020

Prior versions of this California Consumer Privacy Act Notice available for your review here:

Seagate CCPA Notice – 12/28/2019 (PDF)