Privacy Notice

​​​​​​​​​​​​HARMAN International Privacy Notice

Last Updated: January 3, 2024

The Personal Information that HARMAN collects through this Site is downloaded to a server maintained by HARMAN in the United States. HARMA​N is headquartered at 400 Atlantic Street, 15th Floor, Stamford, CT 06901 in the United States.

Because HARMAN is a global company with locations all over the world, the location in which HARMAN stores the Personal Information that the Company collects from you outside of this Site—for example, when you contact us or directly interact with HARMAN at a trade show or conference—will depend on your country of residence. For more information, please contact privacy@harman.com.

Cross-Border Data Transfers: In order to provide our Services, your Personal Information may need to be accessed by our entities across the world, including in the United States. Before transferring your Personal Information to any of our entities across the world, HARMAN will ensure all required transfer mechanisms are in place to ensure an adequate level of protection for the transfer of your Personal Information.

Legal Bases For Processing: HARMAN processes your Personal Information with your consent and as required by law. Where applicable, HARMAN processes your Personal Information as necessary for the performance of any contracts with you—for example, when processing your orders and payments, or providing you with our Services; and to take steps, at your request, before entering into a contract with you. HARMAN also processes Personal Information as necessary for its legitimate interests as follows:

• Marketing and advertising: Unless you opt out as described below, we use your Personal Information, in accordance with applicable law, regarding products and services you have ordered, or in which you have otherwise demonstrated an interest, as necessary to provide you information about the products and services that we think might interest you.

• Network and information security, fraud prevention, and reporting suspected criminal acts: In the event of fraud, a security incident, or a suspected criminal act, we would examine Personal Information that appeared to be linked to the incident as necessary to determine what happened, remediate, report to the authorities, and prevent a recurrence.

Automated Decision-Making: HARMAN sometimes uses Personal Information submitted through the Site for automated decision-making. For example, HARMAN may display advertisements and send emails to you containing content automatically chosen based on the products you have ordered from us in the past. However, HARMAN will not use Personal Information submitted through the Site or obtained through our other Services for automated decision-making such as profiling, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects the data subject. 

Retention: HARMAN will retain your Personal Information for the time period needed to accomplish the purpose for which HARMAN collected your Personal Information, and for as long thereafter as is permitted or required by applicable law. For additional information about the retention of your Personal Information, please contact privacy@harman.com.

Unsubscribing From Emails: You may cancel or modify the email communications you have chosen to receive from HARMAN by following the instructions contained in emails from us. Alternatively, you may email HARMAN at unsubscribe@harman.com with your request, stating 'Unsubscribe' in the header and what email addresses you wish not to receive HARMAN emails. Within a reasonable period, we shall ensure that such email addresses are unsubscribed.

European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland

The information in this section, as well as the information in the section above titled “All locations outside of the United States," applies to users in the European Economic Area, the UK, and Switzerland (referred to collectively as the “EEA").

Cross-Border Data Transfers: HARMAN relies on appropriate mechanisms for cross-border data transfers to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place whenever we transfer your Personal Information. To govern the cross-border transfer of Personal Information from the European Economic Area and Switzerland, HARMAN has implemented the Standard Contractual Clauses issued by the European Commission. For transfers of Personal Information from the UK, Harman uses the UK's International Data Transfer Agreement. 

Individual Rights: EEA Individuals have the right to access their Personal Information collected by HARMAN and to request that HARMAN update, correct, or delete their Personal Information as provided by applicable law. EEA Individuals also have the right to object to, or restrict, HARMAN's processing of their Personal Information. In addition, EEA Individuals have the right to data portability concerning their Personal Information.

EEA Individuals can exercise these rights through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website. HARMAN will respond to such requests in accordance with applicable data protection law. If EEA Individuals believe that their Personal Information has been processed in violation of applicable data protection law, they have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority in the country where they reside, where they work, or where the alleged violation occurred. EEA Individuals also have the right to object to the processing of their Personal Information for purposes of HARMAN's direct marketing or legitimate interests through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website.  

EEA Individuals may withdraw their consent for the processing of their Personal Information, where HARMAN requires their consent as a legal basis for processing their Personal Information, at any time through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website. Any withdrawal will apply only prospectively, and HARMAN will continue to retain the Personal Information that EEA Individuals provided before they withdrew their consent for as long as allowed or required by applicable law.

Data Protection Officer: HARMAN's data protection officer in Germany is the Senior Manager, Health and Safety, and can be reached at privacy@harman.com.

Brazil 

The information in this section, as well as the information in the section above titled “All locations outside of the United States," applies to residents of Brazil. Personal Information collected from residents of Brazil outside of this Site is stored by HARMAN in Brazil, at Rodovia Governador Leonel de Moura Brizola, nº 3401, Nova Santa Rita- RS/Brasil 92480-000.

Individual Rights: Residents of Brazil have the following rights with respect to the processing of Personal Information:

• the right to request confirmation of the processing of your Personal Information;
• the right to request access to your Personal Information;
• the right to request the correction and/or update of your Personal Information;
• the right to request the anonymization, blocking, or elimination of your Personal Information that is unnecessary, excessive, or processed in violation of the law;
• the right to request the transfer of your Personal Information from one service provider to another;
• the right to request the deletion of your Personal Information previously processed with your consent;
• the right to request an identification of the public and private entities to which the Company disclosed your Personal Information or with which the Company used a shared database containing your Personal Information; and
• the right to object to the processing of your Personal Information.

Residents of Brazil can exercise their privacy rights through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website. HARMAN will respond to such requests in accordance with applicable data protection law.

Residents of Brazil may use the contact information above, at any time, to withdraw their consent for the processing of their Personal Information where HARMAN requires their consent as a legal basis for processing their Personal Information. Any withdrawal will apply only prospectively, and HARMAN will continue to retain the Personal Information that residents of Brazil provided before they withdrew their consent for as long as allowed or required by applicable law.

Data Protection Officer / "Person in Charge": HARMAN's data protection officer in Brazil, or “person in charge" of overseeing the processing of Personal Information, is the Company's IT Coordinator, who can be reached at BrazilPrivacy@harman.com.  

People's Republic of China (PRC)

The information in this section, as well as the information in the section above titled “All locations outside of the United States," applies to residents of the PRC.

Cross-Border Data Transfers: By using the Site, you consent to the transfer across borders of your personal information, unless you withdraw your consent by contacting us as described below. Before transferring your Personal Information from the PRC to elsewhere outside of the PRC, HARMAN will ensure all required transfer mechanisms are in place to ensure an adequate level of protection for the transfer of your Personal Information to those entities outside the PRC.

Individual Rights: Residents of the PRC have the right to: (a) know how your Personal Information is being processed; (b) request access to your Personal Information; (c) request the correction of your Personal Information; (d) complete incomplete Personal Information; (e) request deletion of your Personal Information; (f) restrict or refuse the processing of your Personal Information unless such processing is required by applicable law; (g) request the transfer of your Personal Information to a third party; and (h) withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information; (i) request an explanation of the Personal Information handling rules in the PRC.

Residents of the PRC can exercise these rights through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website. HARMAN will respond to such requests in accordance with applicable data protection law. If Residents of the PRC believe that their Personal Information has been processed in violation of applicable data protection law, they have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority.

Residents of the PRC may withdraw their consent for the processing of their Personal Information, where HARMAN requires their consent as a legal basis for processing their Personal Information, at any time through Harman's Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website. Any withdrawal will apply only prospectively, and HARMAN will continue to retain the Personal Information that residents of the PRC provided before they withdrew their consent for as long as allowed or required by applicable law.

California 

This section of the Privacy Notice only applies to consumers who are residents of the state of California in the United States (“California Consumers") and it applies to all Personal Information of California consumers collected or disclosed for a business purpose by HARMAN.

Notice at Collection for California Residents: HARMAN collects the personal information listed here, for the purposes listed here, and retains it for the period described here. We may “sell" or “share" your information as California law defines those terms.  We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. To the extent you provide Company with personal information about other California residents, you are responsible for providing this notice to them.

Information We Collect & Our Business Purpose For Collection: In the last 12 months, HARMAN used the categories of Personal Information listed here that we collected from the following sources:

• Directly from California Consumers
• From the technology providers detailed above
• From the third-party service providers detailed above 

HARMAN collected the Personal Information of California Consumers for the business purposes listed here .

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect: In the last 12 months, HARMAN disclosed the following categories of Personal Information about California Consumers to the following categories of third parties for a business purpose:

Sales and Sharing of Personal In formation: We do not “sell" your Personal Information as most people would understand that term, meaning that we do not disclose your personal information to any third party in exchange for a monetary payment. However, as is common practice among businesses operating online, we may allow third parties to receive information about you via cookies for purposes of analyzing and optimizing our services, to personalize your online experience and provide advertisements that are more relevant to you, and for statistical research and analytics. These activities may be defined as a "sale" or "sharing" of Personal Information under California law. 

In the last 12 months, we have disclosed Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information, as described in the chart above under “Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect," to analytics providers and network advertisers, and such disclosure may be considered a “sale" or “sharing" of Personal Information under California law. We disclose this information in order to enable marketing to you and to deliver targeted advertising on the Site and in other interactions with the Company online.  

We have not, and have no actual knowledge that we have, sold or “shared" the Personal Information of children under 16, in the last 12 months.

Retention: HARMAN will retain your Personal Information for the time period needed to accomplish the purpose for which HARMAN collected your Personal Information, and for as long thereafter as is permitted or required by applicable law. For additional information about the retention of your Personal Information, please contact privacy@harman.com.

Your California Privacy Rights:

Right to Know
California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request to know:

• The categories and specific pieces of Personal Information that HARMAN has collected about them;
• The categories of sources from which HARMAN collected the Personal Information;
• The categories of Personal Information that HARMAN sold or disclosed to a third party (other than a service provider) for a business purpose and the categories of recipients of that information; and
• The business purposes for HARMAN's collection, use, disclosure, or sale of the Personal Information. 

Right To Delete
California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request for deletion of their Personal Information that HARMAN has collected from the Consumer.

Right To Correct
California Consumers have the right to submit a verifiable request for correction of inaccurate Personal Information that HARMAN maintains about the Consumer.

Right To Opt-out of Sale and Sharing
California Consumers have the right to opt-out of (a) the sale of their personal information, and (b) the disclosure of their personal information to third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising. This right may also be exercised through a browser setting or extension to communicate your preference to automatically opt-out of selling and sharing of your personal information. We honor your right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information as signaled by a universal opt-out signal or Global Privacy Control (“GPC").  To enable GPC, you can visit the Global Privacy Control page at https://globalprivacycontrol.org. If you download a supported browser or extension and exercise your privacy rights with GPC, we will turn off certain third-party cookies on our website after our website detects a GPC signal.  However, if you visit our website from a different device or from a different browser on the same device, you will need to opt-out or use an opt-out preference signal for that browser and/or device. 

Exercising Your California Privacy Rights
HARMAN will respond to requests to know, delete, and correct in accordance with applicable law if we can verify the identity of the individual submitting the request. California Consumers or their authorized agents can exercise these rights in the following ways:

• Complete an online privacy request through our Data Inquiry and Privacy Request website
• Send email to privacy@harman.com
• Contact us at +1 (877) 871-6755

HARMAN's Non-Discrimination Policy
California Consumers have the right not to be subject to discriminatory treatment by HARMAN for exercising their privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and HARMAN will not discriminate on that basis. However, HARMAN may charge a California Consumer a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods or services if the difference is reasonably related to the value provided to the California Consumer by the Consumer's Personal Information. If HARMAN does so, it will provide Consumers with any legally required notice.

California residents who use the Site may request that we provide certain information regarding our disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You can make such a request by e-mail to privacy@harman.com.

Questions
California Consumers who have questions about anything in this Privacy Notice can contact HARMAN at privacy@harman.com or 1 (877) 871-6755.

How We Will Verify Your Request

When you submit a request to know, a request to delete, or a request to correct, we apply the following process to verify your identity:

• Step 1: Verification Email: HARMAN will send an email to the email address that you provided to register for our Services. Please read through this email, complete the verification criteria, and, once complete, send a reply email back to HARMAN. The required criteria is described below:

• Read through the email that you receive from HARMAN. In the email we will ask you to reply with at least two pieces of information to verify your identity, dependent on the nature of your request and the sensitivity of the information that is the subject of your request.

• Reply to the email and provide us with at least two (and in some cases three) pieces of information, HARMAN will match the information you provide to the information that the Company already maintains about you. HARMAN will only use the information you provide for the purpose of verifying your identity.

• Confirm our summary of the actions you want us to take (e.g., “delete my Personal Information").

• Send your reply email back to the original sender with the above answers to verify that you own the email address.
  


• Step 2: After receiving the information above and confirming your identity, we will take action to fulfill the request. In the unlikely situation that you submit a request to know, a request to delete, or a request to correct, and HARMAN does not have your email address, we will perform the steps listed above via phone. If we cannot verify your identity to a sufficient level of certainty to respond to your request, we will let you know promptly and explain why we cannot verify your identity.

Changes To This Privacy Notice

If we change this Privacy Notice, we will post those changes on this page and update the Privacy Notice “last updated" date above. If we materially change this Privacy Notice in a way that affects how we use or disclose your Personal Information, we will provide a prominent notice of such changes and the effective date of the changes before making them.​