Your privacy and trust are important to us. This Privacy Policy explains
the types of personal information and data (hereinafter “personal
data”) that
we may collect and hold, how that personal data is
used and with whom the personal data is shared. You will find contact
information at the end of
this Policy if you have any queries or
concerns. Brian Electronics INC (hereinafter “Brian Electronics INC”,
“we”, “us” or “our”) is the Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC .
company acting as the data controller in connection with any personal
data collected or received by Exclusive Brian
Electronics INC .
arising from your use of any Exclusive Brian Electronics INC . products,
services, applications, websites (including any e-
commerce
stores) and contact centres made available to you. Exclusive Brian
Electronics INC. is responsible for ensuring that the processing of
personal
data complies with this Policy. Our products and services evolve
constantly and we will adjust this privacy policy to accurately describe
what personal data we process, how we process it and with whom
we are sharing the personal data, as well as if required to comply with
changes
in applicable laws or for legitimate business purposes.
If we make changes to this policy, we will change the last-updated date
(see top) and
update this page. If we make material changes, we
will let you know either by putting a notice on our website or by
directly informing you about
the changes. Please check from time
to time what changes we have made. Please note that other companies in
the Brian Electronics INC are
responsible for their respective
personal data processing activities in connection with other Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC. products and
services. These Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC. companies may have their own privacy policies,
which are generally available from the relevant
websites for those products and services. Click on the relevant section heading to expand that section:
Personal data that we collect
How Exclusive Brian Electronics INC . uses your personal data about you
Sharing personal data about you
Marketing communications
Security of your personal data
Cookies & Tracking
Access to your personal data and your rights
Contact us
1. Personal data that we collect
What personal data does Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. collect and where does this personal data come from?
Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC. may collect personal data about you in several
different ways which are explained below. Please take care when
submitting
personal data to us, particularly when completing free text fields or
uploading content, documents and other materials. Some of our
services
are automated and we may not recognise that you have accidentally
provided us with incorrect or sensitive personal data.You can always
contact us to correct incorrect data (see section 8 below).
A. Personal data that you provide us
Whenever
you interact with Exclusive Brian Electronics INC., you may be asked to
provide us with personal data relating to you. For example:
Some
of our applications or services require you to create an account. When
creating your account(s), we may ask you to provide a range of
personal
data, such as your name, date of birth, location, contact details,
applicable device ID(s) relating to the devices you are using to access
and
receive particular applications and services, interests and account and
marketing preferences and your current mobile network operator
When
you purchase, register, send for repair or return one of our products
via any one of our authorised channels, we may ask you to provide
personal
data such as your contact details, applicable device ID s) relating to
your particular product(s), delivery date and place of purchase and
payment information
When
you contact our customer service centres for assistance (by any means
of communication including written communications or via our
website(s),
support forums, telephone, email, SMS or our social media channels), we
may record customer service calls and keep personal data
about
the particular communication, where this is permitted by applicable law.
The personal data collected may include your name, the product(s)
you
bought, the reason why you contacted us, applicable device ID(s)
relating to your particular product(s) and the advice we gave you so we
can
track the resolution of any customer service issues and for customer service training purposes
When
you join and/or participate in one of our loyalty programmes, we may
collect personal data relating to your use of the loyalty programme
and the rewards you claim
When you enter our retail or repair facilities, your image may be recorded by our security cameras
When
you visit us at a public event, such as a trade show or exhibition or
participate in one of our surveys, competitions or prize draws, we may
ask for personal data, such as your business card, name, contact details, interests and marketing preferences
When
you use our applications and services or other platforms, we may
receive content that you choose to upload, such as product reviews,
comments,
photos and forum posts, or details of your interests and preferences
that you choose to tell us about when, for example, selecting the
services
that you wish to receive. Further, use of applications with voice
recognition may require us to access certain personal data on your
device
and also record your voice When you specify interests and preferences during setup of an internet-enabled product or service
B. Personal data we collect when you use our websites, products, services and applications
In
order to improve and provide a better user experience, some of our
websites, internet-enabled products and applications and services
provide
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. with personal data about your use of them, including:
Details
of your usage patterns, content(including any advertisements) that you
view and interact with including personal data on the services and
applications
you are using on-device to personalise services to your specific needs.
For example, when you use our websites, we may collect
personal
data about your visit, such as your browser software, which pages you
view and which items you ‘clicked’ on or added to your shopping
basket
Service,
product or server logs which hold technical personal data about your
use of our service, product or websites, such as your IP address,
device
ID(s), domain, device and application settings, errors and hardware
activity. We may use your IP address to determine your
location/country of origin
Device
Information such as your device ID(s), including personal data about
where your device is physically located. For example, when you are
using
a geo-location service or application and you have given consent to
your location being shared. Your device ID is also collected, when you
download a software update
With
your explicit consent, personal data related to your physical
behaviour, health and biometric data such as voice authentication data,
fingerprint or facial characteristics or features
Voice recognition and utterance data when using a voice command application. Such data may be sent to our technology partners
C. Personal data we collect in relation to social networks
If
you use any of our social network features, pages or plug-ins, or you
use our products or services that allow interaction with social
networks, we
may receive personal data relating to such use. For instance:
If
you log in to one of our websites, applications or services using your
social network account, we may receive basic details from your social
network
profile. The basic details we receive may depend on your social network
account privacy settings. Typically; however, they might include
your
social network ID, name, profile picture, gender and locale. We may
also receive additional personal data from your profile if you give us
permission to access it
If
you click on a ‘like’, ‘+1’, ‘tweet’ or similar button on one of our
websites or services, we may record the fact that you have done so. In
addition,
the content that you are viewing may be posted to your
social network profile or feed. We may receive personal data about
further interactions with
this posted content (for example, if
your contacts click on a link in the posted content), which we may
associate with the details that we store
about you
If you
‘like’, ‘+1’ or similar one of our pages on a social network site, we
may receive personal data about your social network profile, depending
on
your social network account privacy settings
D. Personal data we collect from other sources
We may also collect personal data from publicly available sources and third parties, including:
When
you seek to make a purchase from us, we may carry out credit and
financial checks to ensure payment is not made fraudulently and that
you have a suitable credit rating
If
you purchase products or services from a Brian Electronics INC, mobile
network operator or other retailer, we may receive certain information
about your
purchase from that retailer, such as your IMEI code, contact information and time of purchase
2. How Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. uses your personal data
How does Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. use your personal data and what is the legal basis for processing this personal data?
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. uses the personal data you provide or which we collect mainly for these purposes:
A. Service provision
When
we are using personal data to offer our products and services to you,
the processing is based on a contract between you and Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC.. We may use personal data to:
provide you with a product or service you have requested, including any back-up and restore service
provide
you with software updates which may contain critical security and
functionality patches that make your device more secure and protect
the personal data on the device
facilitate
and process your searches and requests for information when you contact
us about Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. and its products
and services
provide
our checkout assistance service. When you use our applications and
services including any online e-commerce stores, such as the
Xperia™
store, details of any products that you seek to purchase and your email
address may be collected as you fill in the checkout form. If you
do
not complete your purchase, we and/or our authorised fulfilment
partner(s) may contact you using these details to offer our assistance
(in
case, for instance, you were experiencing technical
difficulties that prevented you from completing a transaction). This is
an optional service. You
can choose not to receive our checkout
assistance emails at any time by following the link at the bottom of
each assistance email
B. Product and service development
We
work constantly to make our products and services better. We base this
processing on our legitimate interests to develop our products and
services,
to better meet customer requirements, to ensure quality, to develop
identity management, and to strengthen network and information
security. We may use personal data to:
create
and manage customer database(s) of our users, including basic account
information (such as your name, date of birth, address, contact
details),
applicable device ID(s) (relating to the devices you are using to
access and receive particular applications and services), related
product
or service usage information and customer preference
information as provided by you from time to time. As part of our
on-going customer
relationship management activities, we may
consolidate several databases into one or otherwise link separate
databases to more effectively
manage your accounts
ask for your opinions on Exclusive Brian Electronics INC products and services and conduct product surveys
improve
and enhance existing Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. products,
services and applications and develop new offerings, recommendations,
advertisements and other communications and learn more about customers’ shopping preferences in general
C. Marketing and advertising
When
we use personal data for marketing purposes, we base the processing on
our legitimate interests to know our customers, keep you up-to-
date
about Exclusive Brian Electronics INC.’s latest products and services
and to personalise your customer experience. In some cases, we base
marketing
on your prior consent, e.g. for sending marketing messages. We may use
the personal data we collect and/or any personal data about
you
which is shared with us for marketing purposes, e.g. from other
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. companies whose products, applications
and services you also use. In particular, we may:
provide
you with product and service updates, newsletters and other
communications about existing and/or new products and services by post,
email,
telephone, in-device messaging, text message (SMS) or other means, if
you have consented or if we are otherwise permitted to do so
under
applicable law ensure that you benefit from any relevant special offer
or promotion hold prize draws, contests and other promotional
offerscreate
user group profiles or segment data and to otherwise create anonymous,
aggregated statistics about the use of our websites,
products, services and loyalty programmes, which we may share with third parties and/or make available to the public
show
you personalised content, recommendations and advertisements. You may
notice this personalisation when you use Exclusive Brian
Electronics
INC. products and services, when we send you marketing communications
and when you visit our own and third party websites that
show
advertisements from us or our advertising partners. For example, you
might see an advertisement for a product that you have recently viewed
on
one of our websites. Some of the personalisation that you see on our
websites or in our online advertisements makes use of cookies set by us
or our third party advertising partners.
use
product reviews, comments or content you have uploaded and made
publicly visible in our websites or services to link to, publish or
publicise
elsewhere, including in our own marketing. Each time
you create or reply to a post or thread on a website forum from
Exclusive Brian Electronics
INC., in addition to providing this
forum service, we may also record the forum name and the time and date
of your post or thread with your
account details. We do this to
better understand the ‘typical users’ of our forums and to select or
tailor our marketing communications to reflect
your forum
activity. We do not use the actual content of your forum posts or
threads for purposes of sending marketing communications
D. Fraud prevention and investigation
Exclusive
Brian Electronics INC. may use personal data to prevent fraud and to
investigate violations or our policies. For example, we may use
your
device information such as your device ID(s) to ensure that any
vouchers or discounts relating to any promotions or campaigns are not
being
redeemed fraudulently, and to check that a payment is not
made fraudulently. In this case, we base the processing of personal data
on our
legitimate interest to prevent fraud and to provide
benefits only to our customers. We may also use personal data to comply
with applicable laws,
regulations and court orders and to comply
with valid legal information requests from such bodies. We may use your
personal data to enforce or
defend the legal rights of any
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. company or the terms and conditions of
any Exclusive Brian Electronics INC .
product or service. In
this case, we base the processing on a legal obligation to which
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC . is subject or on our
legitimate interest to defend our legal rights.
E. Other purposes
We may use your personal data for other purposes:
for
staff training and quality assurance purposes, particularly in relation
to our customer relations staff at our call, email and other customer
support centres. We base this processing on our legitimate interest to ensure the quality and efficiency of our customer service
if
we consider employing you if you contact us via one of Exclusive Brian
Electronics INC.’s job application websites. This processing is based on
your consent and we provide additional information about data processing in recruitment on our recruitment websites
3. Sharing personal data about you
How is personal data about you shared within Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. and with 3rd parties?
A. Sharing of personal data by Exclusive Brian Electronics INC.
In
general, Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. does not disclose personal
data about you to third parties without your consent. However, there are
exceptions:
Our service providers
We may use other
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. companies and/or third party service
providers to provide certain data processing services for
us
(acting as our authorised data processors). Examples of authorised data
processors could include billing and fulfilment partners, data analytics
providers who process personal data on our behalf for the
purposes outlined above. For example, we may use the services of third
parties to
personalise content, fulfil orders, deliver packages,
send postal mail and emails, send text messages (SMS), provide
marketing assistance,
process credit card payments, provide fraud checking services, provide back-up services and provide customer services.
B. Sharing of personal data provided by you
A
number of our applications and services allow you to upload and share
messages, photos, video and other content and links with others and/or
create a publicly accessible profile for your account. For example:
The
communities and forums area (where applicable) of our websites allows
you to post comments (with your account name), which are visible to
other users of that service
Other services allow you to share a link which if clicked on may allow the recipient to access your uploaded content
4. Marketing communications and how to change your preferences
How
does Exclusive Brian Electronics INC . use your personal data to send
you communications and how can you change your marketing
preferences?
Marketing
communicationsWhen you provide us with contact details, such as when
you purchase a product, contact our customer support call
centres
or create an account for one of our services, you may be given the
opportunity to opt-in to (or in certain cases where applicable law
allows,
opt-out of) receiving various newsletters and other communications from
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. and/or other Exclusive Brian
Electronics
INC . companies. These communications may include, for instance,
details about the latest Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. products
and
services, including upgrades and special offers in which you may be
interested. You can change your marketing communication preferences
at any time:
a.
If you would like to unsubscribe from an email sent to you, follow the
‘unsubscribe’ link and/or instructions placed (typically) at the bottom
of
the email. But note that:
b. If you use more than one
email address to shop or contact Exclusive Brian Electronics INC., you
will need to unsubscribe separately for each
email address
c.
This method will only unsubscribe you for emails. You will need to
separately unsubscribe for other types of marketing communications you
receive
d.
If you have registered with any applications and services provided by
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. and have your own account, you may log
in and amend your marketing communication preferences in the account settings page or area
e.
For managing other types of communication, such as push-notifications
in apps, please go the app specific settings to make the changes
Customer
profilesAs described above, we may create user group profiles or
segment data to better understand our customers and to otherwise
create
anonymous, aggregated statistics about the use of our websites,
products, services and loyalty programmes. This processing is based on
our
legitimate interest to understand our customers better and to provide
you with products and services that are better suited to your needs. We
may
also link or combine personal data to provide you with better
personalised services, content, marketing and adverts. When we use
customer
profiles for direct marketing purposes, you have the
right to object to this kind of personal data processing at any time you
wish to do so.
Important information and service
messagesOccasionally, we may send you important information (including
via text message, push notifications,
email) regarding essential
software updates, changes to applicable terms and conditions and/or
other communications or notifications as may be
required to
fulfil our legal and contractual obligations to provide warranty or
after sales repair services. These important product and/or service
communications are not affected by your marketing communication preferences.
5. Security of your personal data
How does Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. protect your personal data and what can you do to protect yourself?
What we do to protect your personal data
While
Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. can’t guarantee that unauthorised
access will never occur, rest assured that Exclusive Brian Electronics
INC.
takes great care in maintaining the security of your personal data to
prevent unauthorised access to it, through the use of appropriate
technology
and internal procedures. We take a number of steps to protect your
personal data from unauthorised access, use or alteration and
unlawful destruction and disclosure, including where appropriate:
Using
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting or transferring
sensitive personal data, such as credit card details (SSL encryption
is
designed to make the data unreadable by anyone but us) Limiting access
to the personal data we collect about you (for instance, only those of
our
personnel who need your personal data to carry out our business
activities are allowed access) Putting in place physical, electronic and
procedural safeguards in line with industry standards What you should do to protect your personal data
As
general best practice on the internet, it is recommended that
individuals take great care with user accounts, and follow some basic
rules:
Do not use trivial passwords (such as single dictionary words)
Do not use the same password for multiple accounts
Do use very long passwords (at least 10 characters, but preferably much longer)
Do use passwords which contain a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and special characters e.g. $%^& etc.
Do keep passwords securely (never written down, or shared with anyone) and changed periodically
6. Cookies & Tracking
What are cookies and how are they used?
Our
websites use industry-wide technologies, such as “cookies”, to collect
information about the use of our websites and email communications.
For
instance, these technologies may tell us which visitors clicked on key
elements (such as links or graphics) on a website or email and
recognise
your browser the next time you visit our websites. Cookies allow us to
customise your experience to better match your interests and
preferences,
or to simply facilitate your signing in to use the services. Most
browsers will allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard
drive,
block acceptance of cookies or receive a warning before a cookie is
stored. However, if you block or erase cookies, we may not be able to
restore
any preferences or customisation settings you have previously
specified, and our ability to personalise your online experience would
be
limited. Please refer to your browser instructions to learn more about these functions.
7. Access to your personal data and your rights
How can you access your personal data and what are your rights?
You
have a right to access personal data we hold about you. If you think
your personal data is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to
request
us to correct or delete it. You may also request us to update or change
personal data at any time. You have a right to object to certain
types
of processing, such as marketing. You also have a right to data
portability, i.e. the right to receive your personal data in a
structured,
commonly used machine-readable format and transmit
your personal data to another data controller. Please understand that if
you request us to
remove your personal data, you may not be
able to use all of our products and services. Certain personal data is
strictly necessary in order for us
to fulfil the purposes
described in this Privacy Policy. Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. may
also be required to retain some personal data by
applicable
laws, in which case you may not be entitled to remove it. You can
exercise these rights by contacting us using the details given in
section
8 Contact Us below. You may be asked to provide some proof of
identification so that we can verify that it is you making the request.
Subject
to applicable law, we reserve the right to charge a fee (subject to any
cap on fees as required by applicable law) for inspection of your
personal
data held by us. If you think Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. is not
handling your personal data appropriately, you have the right to file a
complaint to your national or any other data protection authority.
8. Contact us
How can you contact Exclusive Brian Electronics INC. about your personal data?
If you need further assistance or would like to make a comment, please Contact Us online