Sources Of Information
In addition to collecting information directly from you, we may receive Personal Information about you from other sources including the devices you use, through data collection technologies (See Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies), our service providers who work with us to provide our products and services, and from other lawful sources. Information we collect about you may be combined with other information we collect about you from other sources
We collect information about you from the following sources:
Directly from you. We collect information that you provide to us, such as when you create an account, make a purchase, request a quote, contact us, or interact with us on our websites or via phone calls, text messages, chats, emails, webforms, or social media.
Our products. We collect information from our products, such as when you activate a product, use a product, when a product detects an event, or when you contact us through a product.
Data collected automatically through tracking technologies. We may automatically collect information or inferences about you through tracking technologies such as cookies and tools that track your usage of Vivint websites or the Vivint mobile app.
Third parties. We may collect information from third parties and other sources. For example, in some cases, devices and products from third parties may connect to our services and the third parties may send us information about the use of those devices, including sensor and activity data. We may collect or receive Personal Information through referral programs and lead generation. We may also obtain information about you from business partners, public sources and databases, data brokers, social media companies, and other parties.
How We Use Your Information
We process the Personal Information described above for a variety of business and commercial purposes, including to power our services, to communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with the law. We may also use your Personal Information for other purposes with your consent.
We may use your Personal Information to provide you products and services and to manage and support our business functions, as follows:
To provide and personalize our services, such as processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, providing our products and services, processing payments, providing customer service, maintaining or servicing accounts, providing financing, verifying customer information, creating and maintaining business records, verifying eligibility for products or services, and undertaking or providing similar services.
For internal research and development, such as testing and verifying the quality of our products and services, improving the quality of our products and services, and creating new products and services.
Communicating with you, including through our service providers, such as responding to your questions and comments, confirming alerts and alarms received from your connected products, and notifying you of updates to our products and services.
To monitor and record any communications we have with you, including phone conversations and SMS text messaging (in compliance with applicable laws), chat sessions, and emails to ensure we're providing you with quality service and meeting our legal responsibilities.
For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights, complying with legal requirements, enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies, detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents, and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
For marketing, such as sending information on our products and services or those of our affiliates, business partners, or other third parties. This may include using your information to send you in-app messages and notices, email, newsletters, surveys, promotions, or news about events.
We may also use anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated information for the purposes permitted by law. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Information, use, or share your information for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing a form of notice and obtaining your express consent where required by law or regulation.
How We Disclose Your Information
We may disclose Personal Information described above with our affiliates and subsidiaries, service providers who act on our behalf, our business partners, third parties pursuant to legal purposes, or to others with your consent.
We engage in many standard business interactions with third parties that might be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of Personal Information as those concepts may be defined under applicable law. We do not knowingly sell or share Personal Information of minors under the age of 16. We may disclose your information with the following categories of third parties or in the following ways:
Corporate Parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries. We may disclose your information to the Vivint family of companies and any of our parent companies and their affiliates for their and our business purposes and for marketing purposes, including providing you with information about products and services we think may interest you.
Service providers. We may disclose your information to our service providers who use that information to provide or improve our products and services including, for example, analytics purposes, hosting, product development, customer service and web chat services. These service providers are prohibited from using your information for any purpose other than as necessary to perform those services or to support our business operations, and we contractually require them to protect the confidentiality and security of any data they receive from us consistent with this Notice.
Business partners. We may disclose your information to our business partners with whom we jointly offer products and services or, to provide you with a product or service you requested including for example, financial institutions and solar partners. We may also disclose your information to third parties that may use it for their own purposes, including companies that operate cookies and other advertising and marketing partners, partners offering other products and discounts, social media companies, and other third parties.
For legal, security, or safety reasons. We may disclose your information to law enforcement or other government authorities (including emergency responders) to comply with legal requirements or orders, to enforce our terms, conditions, and policies, and to protect our and our users’ safety, property, or rights.
As part of a corporate transaction. We may disclose your information in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
Entities to which you have consented to the disclosure. We may disclose your information to third parties with your consent or at your direction.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Like many websites and applications, we and our service providers and business partners automatically collect certain information about you when you use and interact with our websites, social media accounts, mobile applications, and emails (collectively, “Online Services”). We collect this information using tools such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, embedded scripts, session replay tools, SDKs, and other tracking technologies (collectively, “Tracking Technologies”).
The below descriptions will help you understand these Tracking Technologies so that you can make informed choices about them.
- Cookies are a type of technology that install a small amount of information on a user's computer or other device when they visit a website. Cookies permit a website to, for example, recognize you each time you visit the website visits using that computer or device.
- Pixels, web beacons, and tags are types of code or transparent graphics that contain a unique identifier. These technologies provide analytical information about the user experience and help us customize our marketing activities. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard drive, these technologies are embedded invisibly on web pages.
- Session replay tools record your interactions with the Services, such as how you move throughout our Services and engage with our webforms. This information helps us identify and fix technical issues visitors may be having with the Services.
- Embedded scripts and SDKs are other types of code that we may use. They allow us to build and integrate custom experiences on our mobile applications and other online properties, some of which may be developed by a third party.
We use Tracking Technologies to customize your visit, save your preferences, manage content, gather usage information, personalize marketing, and serve advertising (including targeted, interest-based advertising). For example: