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The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how Wavetek Microelectronics Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "WTK") collects and processes (hereinafter referred to as” Process” or “Processing”) your Personal Data. In order to respond to the legal changes and the needs of WTK's business execution, WTK will modify this policy from time to time. It is recommended that you read this policy carefully and check this website regularly to keep you informed of the updates.

Applicable Data Subject

This policy applies to:

Employees of WTK;
Employees of WTK’S customers, suppliers, and contractors;
Users of WTK's products or services;
Visitors to WTK's website or WTK offices or sites;
Jobs applicants of WTK.

hereinafter referred to as "you".

Collection of Personal Data

WTK may collect your Personal Data from the following sources:

(1) Data provided by your initiatives: you contact WTK via e-mail or telephone, or provide your personal data to apply for job vacancies in WTK.

(2) WTK obtains in labor relations, business or from business cooperation: WTK obtains your personal data directly from you in labor relations, business contacts or activities. WTK may obtain your personal data because of cooperation in research and development, business interactions, retaining you as a consultant, lecturer of WTK, or you’re the contact windows for the aforementioned business cooperation.

(3) Your self-disclosure: WTK may obtain your personal data related to WTK contents in social medias.

(4) Personal Data obtained in WTK website: WTK may obtain your personal data from your registrations or browsing of WTK’ website and/or systems wherein.

(5) Personal Data provided by Third party: WTK may obtain your personal data from credit reference agencies, law enforcement agencies, or plugins and cookies by a third party.

Categories of Personal Data WTK Processes (the following types are collectively referred to as "Personal Data")

(1) General Personal Data

Personal information: name, alias, photo, ID number, passport number, gender, date of birth, age, nationality, ethnic, and financial information.
Contact information: contact address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail information, social media accounts etc. If you interact with WTK as an employee of WTK or another company, it may contain your name, job title, photo, company phone number, and company email address.
Expertise and social information: educational background, research field, languages, professional skills or expertise, employment records, current occupation, qualifications, certifications, work experience, membership of various trade unions or associations, and relationship with other individuals or institutions.
Your consents record: your written consents, the date and time of consents, the consents formats etc.
Information related to WTK’s website: device types, operating systems, browser types, browser settings, IP addresses, language settings, dates and times of connecting to a site, user name, password, encryption login, usage data etc.
Perspectives and opinions: any views or opinions that you give your feedback to WTK, or your views or opinions regarding WTK posted on social media platforms.
Others: For example: whether your family or close relatives have provided work or service for WTK and their personal information etc.

(2) Sensitive Personal Data

WTK will not collect and process your sensitive personal data except in very limited circumstances, and when processing your sensitive personal data is necessary for legitimate purposes. WTK will process your sensitive personal data in accordance with applicable laws. WTK may process physical examination records, criminal records and so on in the following situations:

To comply with applicable laws and regulations;
To detect or prevent crimes;
To claim, exercise or protect the legal rights of WTK or relevant parties;

Based on your consent.

If you provide Sensitive Personal Data to WTK, you must ensure that you are legally entitled to those data.

Purposes and legal bases for Processing your Personal Data

WTK may process personal data for the following purposes:

For personnel and administrative operations.
For provision of products and services.
For business and operations.
For communication and marketing.
For system management.
For supplier management.
For obtaining your feedback on WTK's products or services.
For maintaining the safety and security of WTK’s plants.
For investigations and compliance purposes in order to fulfill legal statutory obligations.
For asserting, exercising or defending legal rights.
For improving or developing WTK's products and services.
For manpower recruitment.

WTK may also process your personal data for other purposes under the following circumstances:

(1) Based on the express provisions of the laws.

(2) Necessary to advance the public interest.

(3) To avoid danger to your life, body, liberty or property.

(4) To prevent major harm to the rights and interests of others.

(5) Based on your consent.

(6) In favor of your rights.

WTK may process personal data for the following legal bases:

Base on your prior consent.
Necessary for the contract between WTK and you, or for the purpose to negotiate the contract with you.
WTK has legitimate interests, but the legitimate interests do not exceed your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms.
WTK fulfills its legal obligations.
The processing of personal data is necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
WTK cooperates with the investigation, to investigate fraud and other crimes in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and prevents behaviors that violate the company's regulations and criminal crimes.

WTK may process your personal data

(1) Internal processing:

To operate and manage the company's website, systems, products or services.
For troubleshooting the company's website, systems, products or services; and for further plans for improvements and developments.
To manage, operate, check and monitor various systems of the company.
Maintenance of physical and electronic security measures in the company's factory areas.
To abide by the company’ legal obligations.
For recruitment and interview activities.

(2) External processing:

Providing your personal data to third parties operating WTK’s website, systems, and the obtaining of communications, opinions regarding our products or services.
Providing your personal data to a third party for maintaining and updating your contact information.
WTK cooperates with law enforcement in the investigation and prevention of criminal activities.
Submitting, collecting, reviewing documents, or gathering facts , evidence, and witness statements that may include your personal data in legal proceedings.
Sharing your personal data with a third party after obtaining prior consents as outlined in “Article 8. The parties WTK may share your personal data” in the policy.

6.Cross-border transfer of Personal Data

Due to the transnational nature of the company's business and services, WTK may transmit your personal data amongst WTK group companies including Taiwan, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Netherlands, Singapore or other places where the company has business operation, in light of the content of Article 4 of this policy. These countries may have different legal regulations and requirements for personal data protection.

Please note that when you directly transfer your personal data to our affiliated companies outside the EEA, we cannot be held responsible for the transfer thereof.

Protection of minors

WTK’s services and products are aimed at adults who meet the legal requirements, not minors. If you are a minor under the laws of your country, you can only use the company's services or products under the supervision of a parent or guardian. The company does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If the Company discovers that the Company has inadvertently collected personal data from children under the age of 13, the Company will delete such information as required by law.

The parties WTK may share your personal data

(1) WTK may share your personal data with:

You and the agent appointed by you.
The judiciary authorities, WTK shares your personal data in accordance with legal requirements, or to report any illegal or suspected illegal behavior.
Accountants, auditors, consultants, lawyers and other professionals who have confidentiality agreements with WTK and provide consulting service to WTK.
In accordance with the provisions of this policy, WTK may provide your personal data to payment service agencies, freight companies and other global service providers.
When necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal rights, or to prevent, investigate, prosecute, or enforce criminal penalties, WTK may provide your personal data to relevant parties, competent authorities, government units, and law enforcement agencies or court.
If WTK sells or transfers all or part of its business or assets, or undergoes reorganization, dissolution or liquidation, it may provide your personal data to the buyer or transferee of the transaction.

(2) If WTK entrusts an information service provider to process your personal data, WTK will require a contract to meet the following:

The information service provider shall process within the purpose’s scope.
The information service provider shall comply with legal requirements and have sufficient mechanisms to protect the security of personal data.

Data Analysis and Automated Decision Making

WTK may process your personal data to analyze and to be used in automated decision making:
In order to avoid information leakage and protect intellectual property rights, for example to process your data and to analyze potential risks in Information Technology systems. Therefore, it is recommended that you avoid disclosing your sensitive personal data, or other confidential information.

Information Security

WTK has employed properly technical and organizational security measures (e.g. setting access permission) in accordance with the applicable laws to prevent your personal data from being accidentally or intentionally damaged, lost, tampered with, unauthorized disclosure, unauthorized access, and other illegal or unauthorized processing.

Because of the public nature of the internet, information transmitted over the internet is not completely secure. Although WTK has taken all reasonable steps to protect your personal data, it cannot guarantee that the transmission of your personal data over the internet will be completely secure. You will bear the possible risks of this transmission process, and please confirm that there are no security issues in the process of transmitting your personal data to WTK.

The accuracy of your Personal Data

WTK endeavors to take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal data processed by the company is accurate and correct. If there is any inaccurate in your personal data, the company will correct or erase it immediately. In order to ensure the accuracy of your personal data, the company may confirm the accuracy with you if necessary.

The principle of minimizing the Processing of Personal Data

WTK endeavors to take reasonable steps to ensure that the scope of the company's processing of your personal data is reasonably related to the purposes set out in this policy, and only within that scope.

Personal Data retention period

WTK endeavors to take reasonable measures to ensure that the processing of your Personal Data is for necessary time period and to fulfill agreed purposes. WTK will keep your Personal Data in accordance with the following principles:

(1) During the period of business relationship from the time you approached WTK for business, until you notify WTK of your succession of business communication.

(2) During the period of statute of limitation prescribed by the applicable laws or regulations. For example, when a third party exercises the legal right to request for your Personal Data from WTK, WTK may continue to facilitate your Personal Data for the period necessary for fulfilling such request. The processing of your Personal Data will be limited to the storage and maintenance.

(3) After the expiration of the retention period, WTK will permanently delete or destroy your Personal Data, or make your Personal Data to be anonymous.

(4) The mandatory time period for fulfilling legal purposes under the policy.

Data Subject Rights

According to applicable Personal Data protection laws, you may request the following rights to WTK:

Review your Personal Data.
Request WTK to provide duplicates of your Personal Data.
Request to supplement or correct your Personal Data.
Transfer your Personal Data to other Personal Data controllers under reasonable and feasible measures.
In light of the compliance of applicable laws, you have the right to object to third party who processing of your Personal Data on behalf of WTK.
Request to opt-out, including the following rights:
Withdrawing your consent for WTK to process your Personal Data. However, please note that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect the legality of WTK's processing of your Personal Data based on your prior consent. If the processing of your Personal Data has other legal standings, WTK may continue to process your Personal Data.
Refusing to provide your Personal Data. However, please note that if you refuse to provide your Personal Data, WTK may not be able to provide you our products or services in complete.
Stopping the collection of your Personal Data.
Restricting the processing of your Personal Data.
Requesting the deletion of your Personal Data.

If you intend to exercise the above rights or have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact WTK using the contact information provided in Article 17.

For security purposes, when exercising your privacy rights, WTK may request additional information to verify your identity to reasonably confirm that you are the owner or a legally authorized agent of your Personal Data.

Cookies and other similar technologies

When you visit our website or log in systems, we may set cookies on your device or read the cookies which are on your device based on legal requirements or your clear consent. We may use cookies to record certain information or record your preferences and browsing intents. We will use cookies and other similar technologies to process your Personal Data in accordance with Cookie Policy.

Direct marketing

WTK may use your e-mail and other Personal Data to provide you information that may be of interest to you, including but not limited to business sustainability and corporate social responsibility. When WTK provides you with the foregoing information, WTK may use the contact information provided by you.

Contact information

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact WTK at:

Wavetek Microelectronics Corporation

Company address: No. 10, Innovation 1st Road,Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu County,Taiwan, R.O.C.

Telephone: 03-5781259

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