Pure Wafer, Inc. (“Pure Wafer,” “us,” or “we”) values your privacy. This Privacy Statement (or “Statement”) describes our privacy practices as they relate to the information we collect from and about you on https://purewafer.com/ (our “Website”) and from other sources as explained below.

By choosing to interact with our Website in any way, you agree to the privacy practices set forth in this Statement. As such, we encourage you to read our Statement carefully and should you have any questions or concerns, contact us at privacy@purewafer.com or at the address listed below before proceeding to use our Website.

We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time by posting a revised Statement on our Website that reflects a new “Effective Date.” You are encouraged to stay informed of our privacy practices by frequently visiting this area of our Website. Your continued use of our Website after we make any changes means that you consent to those changes.

Please note that our Website may include links to other websites that we do not operate or maintain, and whose privacy practices may differ from ours. This Statement applies only to Pure Wafer’s processing activities and does not apply to any processing activities associated with any other websites or any information processed or collected by us offline.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Information Collection. To ensure that we provide you with the best possible experience, we will store, use, and disclose personal information about you in accordance with this Statement. Personal information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular user, household or device (“personal information”). The types of information that we may collect from users of the Website include:

Category Examples Collected Disclosed?
Identifiers. First and last name, postal address, email address, phone number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, and a company/business name. YES YES – Affiliates and/or Service Providers.
Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). First and last name, postal address, telephone number, employment history. YES YES– Affiliates and/or Service Providers.
Protected classification characteristics. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). NO N/A
Commercial information. Product and service preference, purchase, use, and customer service history. YES YES – Affiliates and/or Service Providers.
Sensitive Personal Information Payment information, including debit card or credit card number. NO N/A
Biometric information. Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. NO N/A
Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. YES YES – Affiliates and/or Service Providers.
Geolocation data. Physical location or movements. NO N/A
Sensory data. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. NO N/A
Professional or employment-related information. If you apply for a job with us, your resume, cover letter, social media profiles (e.g., LinkedIn), and any other information that you submit as part of your application. YES YES – Affiliates and/or Service Providers.
Non-public education information. Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. NO N/A
Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. NO N/A

We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you. For example, when you:
    • place an online order;
    • subscribe to one of our e-newsletters;
    • submit a job application; or
    • communicate with us, such as request information.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, through information we collect from you in the course of providing our services to you.
  • Directly and indirectly from activity on our Website. For example, from Website usage details that are collected automatically. For more information on automatic information collection, please review the “Automated Information Collection” section below.

Buy Online. When you click “Buy Online” on our Website, you are redirected to our online store, which Oracle NetSuite (“Oracle”) hosts on our behalf. Once there, you may be asked to register an account with us and to enter your contact, payment and other information in order to complete the purchase of one of our products or services. Company does not have access to your payment or financial information, such as a credit card number.

Free-Text Boxes. The information that you provide in each case will vary. In some cases, you may be able to provide information via email or free text boxes, such as contacting Pure Wafer to request further information. When providing your information, please provide only relevant information and do not provide unnecessary sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers or other sensitive personal data, unless required for our services.

Recording Use of the Website. We may partner with trusted third-party vendors to analyze performance and traffic of our Website. This may include things like buttons you click, mouse movements and other behavior on the Website, date and time of access, pages visited, web beacons, and cookie or pixel tag information. Please see our Automatic Information Collection section below to learn more about cookies, pixels tags, and analytic technologies.

Automated Information Collection. When you visit our website, open an email that we send you, or interact with us on social media platforms, we may also automatically collect information about you by automated means. In some instances, we may also allow third party advertisers and service providers to collect information about you through automated means. Some of the technologies behind this automated collection include::

  • Cookies: Cookies are small text files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in your browser. Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. Some cookies may exist for only a single session and some are persistent for multiple sessions over time. We may use cookies that are managed by Pure Wafer or by third parties (such as social media website cookies) for the purposes explained in this Privacy Statement, including for session management, authentication, user preference storage, Website performance and personalization, Website analytics, advertising, content management, sales, search, security, and social media integration.
  • Web server logs: In conjunction with obtaining information through cookies, our web servers may log your IP address and related details regarding your device, operating system, or information about your Website usage, such as when you accessed our Website and the pages you visited.
  • Web beacons, pixels, and analytics software: To control which web servers collect the information described above, we may place tags on our Website or in our emails called “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are computer instructions that link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies and help us to better understand our Website traffic. Web beacons and pixels can be used to track the pages you view, links that you click, or other online behavior. These tools may also be used to increase and measure the effectiveness of our online and email marketing campaigns (such as by identifying the individuals who open or act upon an email message), allowing us to target individuals who may be most interested in our advertising. These tools also help us to understand when an email message is opened, how many times it is forwarded, and whether any hyperlink within it is clicked, as well as the type of software, device, operating system and browser used to deliver an email to us. Such tools are also used in connection with online advertisements on our Website and on third party websites to collect the same types of information with respect to individuals who click on advertisements.
  • Other: We may use other technology to collect information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement.

Such technologies may permit collection of data elements such as demographic data, browser type, MAC address and other unique device information, operating system type and settings, domain, the address of the web page that linked you to our Website, IP address, pages visited, whether you have visited us before or are new to our Website, activities conducted on a particular webpage (such as search queries), and the day and time of your visit. If you access our website from a mobile device, we may collect your precise location using GPS, cell tower, Bluetooth, or WiFi signals. This information may be correlated to other data that identifies you specifically.

While most web browsers offer settings that will allow you to disable or delete cookies, if you do so, you may not be able to use our Website fully. If you make this change after you have visited our website, you may also have to manually delete existing cookies from your computer or other device.

Our Website may also contain embedded plugs-ins, widgets, pixels, or other programming associated with various external social media platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, and Twitter). When you encounter those embedded objects, your web browser may establish a direct connection to the social media platform’s services and in doing so, disclose information such as your behavior while browsing our Website, your public profile, and content you may have posted publicly. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the privacy practices of external social media platforms.

2. How We Use Your Information

We collect your information primarily to carry out, market and improve our business, and to respond to and fulfill your product and service orders, inquiries and other needs. We also collect your information so that we can:

  • provide our products or services to you, process your orders or service requests, and communicate with you on related issues such as customer service, product and service fulfillment, and refunds and exchanges,
  • customize your purchasing and service experience with us, including by way of providing you with a more personalized and customized marketing and promotional experience that better informs you about our current and future products and services, as well as our upcoming events, publications and newsletters,
  • send you administrative notices to inform you about important changes in our contractual relationship,
  • diagnose, repair and track product, service and quality issues,
  • statistically analyze your use of our website, improve our product and service offerings, and enhance the content and layout of the product and services we offer through our Website,
  • install and configure changes and updates to our products and services,
  • resolve disputes and enforce our agreements with you, including your purchase orders for our products and services,
  • to investigate and prevent security threats, fraud, or other malicious activity,
  • consider your employment application if you apply for a job with us, and
  • any other purpose identified in an applicable privacy notice, terms and conditions, click-through agreement or other agreement between you and us.

We may also use and disclose your information in an anonymized, de-identified or aggregate format for many purposes, such as market research, data analytics and modeling, improvement of our Website, and marketing purposes.

3. With Whom We Disclose Your Information

We do not sell or lease your personal information to any third party We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose, including the following categories of third parties:

  • Our Affiliates. We may disclose the information collected through the Website with our Affiliates in order to provide our products, services and effective customer support.
  • Third-party Service Providers. We disclose personal information collected through the Website with third-party Service Providers who act for or on behalf of Pure Wafer. These third parties may need information about you to perform their functions. “Service Providers” may include suppliers, dealers, distributors, companies and consultants that provide website hosting, software development, payment processing, shipping, website and data analytics, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure support, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and legal or professional advisory or consulting services.
  • In Aggregate or De-Identified Form. We may aggregate or otherwise anonymize the data we collect for purposes of analytics, research, marketing and other business interests of Pure Wafer. Such use shall not include personal information or information that can identify you as an individual or reasonably be used to identify you.

Except as described in this Statement, we will not disclose your information with third parties without your notice and consent, unless it is under one of the following circumstances:

  • Legal Reasons.
    • We believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, subpoena, or court order;
    • To respond to duly authorized information requests from law enforcement or other governmental authorities;
    • To enforce our agreements or policies;
    • To investigate and prevent security threats, fraud, or other malicious activity; or
    • To respond to an emergency that we believe in good faith requires us to disclose such information to assist in preventing the death or serious bodily injury of any person or Pure Wafer employee.
  • Sale of Business or Merger. There are circumstances where we may decide to buy, sell, or reorganize our business. Under these circumstances, it may be necessary to disclose or receive personal information with prospective or actual purchasers, acquisition targets, partners or affiliates. In such circumstances, we will ensure your information is used in accordance with this Statement.

Our website may also include features (e.g. plugins) that allow you to interact directly with external social media platforms. We may disclose your information to the operator of any social media provider with which you interact.

4. Accuracy and Access to Your Information

We strive to maintain and process your information accurately. We have processes in place to maintain all of our information in accordance with relevant data governance frameworks and legal requirements. We employ technologies designed to help us maintain information accuracy on input and processing.

To view and change the information that you have provided to us, you can log in to your account and follow the instructions on that webpage, or contact us directly for assistance.

5. Third-Party Websites

This Statement does not apply to websites or other domains that are maintained or operated by third parties or our affiliates. Our Website may link to third-party websites and services. For example, if you click on an advertisement on this Website, you may be taken to another website that we do not control. These links are not endorsements of these websites, and this Statement does not extend to them. Because this Statement is not enforced on these third-party websites, we encourage you to read any posted privacy policy of the third-party website before using the service or website and providing any information.

6. Your Rights Under State Law

California.

  • Shine the Light law. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, we will not disclose your personal information with third parties for the purposes of third-party marketing to you without your prior consent.
  • Do Not Track Signals. Other than as disclosed in this Privacy Statement, our Website does not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) beacons sent by browser plugins as there is not yet a common agreement about how to interpret DNT signals from browsers. The Website does not track users over time and across third-party websites to provide targeted advertising. Therefore, the Website does not operate any differently when it receives DNT signals from your internet web browser.
  • WE DO NOT SELL OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. If we ever decide to “sell” or “share” personal information, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, we will update you via this Privacy Statement and include a link entitled “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information,” to provide you with an opportunity to opt out of sales of your personal information.

Your Consumer Rights. Some state laws in the United States provide consumers with additional rights with respect to their personal information (also known as “personal data”), as those terms are defined under those applicable state laws. Such state laws may include, but are not limited to, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). Any personal information we collect is collected for the commercial purpose of effectively providing our services to you, as well as enabling you to learn more about, and benefit from, our services. If you reside in a state that provides additional rights with respect to your personal information, you may exercise each of your rights as identified below, subject to our verification of your identity.

  1. Access. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information over the past twelve (12) months. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
  2. Correction. You can correct what personal data our Website database currently contains by accessing your account directly (if applicable), or by contacting us to request that we correct or rectify any personal data that you have provided to us.
  3. Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. If we collect any sensitive personal information, you have the right to request that we limit the use of the sensitive personal information to that use which is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services.
  4. Opt-Out of Processing. You have the right to request that we do not sell your personal information, use your personal information for Targeted Advertising, or use your personal information for profiling. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
  5. Portability. Upon request and when possible, we can provide you with copies of your Personal Information. When such a request cannot be honored, we will advise you accordingly. You can then choose to exercise any other rights under this Statement.
  6. Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies. Where applicable, we will ensure such changes are shared with trusted third parties.
  7. Non-Discrimination. If a California data subject exercises his or her rights under California law, including the CCPA, CPA, and VCDPA, we shall not discriminate against that California resident by denying our goods or services, charging different prices or rates to similarly situated consumers, providing a different level or quality of our goods or services, or taking any other adverse action.
  8. Exercising your rights. If you are a data subject that has rights under applicable state law, including but not limited to the CCPA, CPA, and VCDPA, who chooses to exercise the rights listed above, you can:
    1. Submit a request via email at privacy@purewafer.com; or
    2. Call us at 1-408-945-8112 to submit your request.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal Information. If an authorized agent makes a request on your behalf, we may require proof that you gave the agent permission to submit the request.

Responding to Your Request. Upon receiving your request, we will confirm receipt of your request by sending you an email confirming receipt. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the Personal Information. In some instances, such as a request to delete personal information, we may first separately confirm that you would like for us to in fact delete your Personal Information before acting on your request.

We will respond to your request within forty-five (45) days. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

In some cases our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process Personal Information for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.

7. Website Users or Visitors Outside the United States

Our Website is designed for use by individuals in the United States only. We do not warrant or represent that this Privacy Statement or the Website’s use of your information complies with the laws of any other jurisdiction. Furthermore, to provide you with our services, we may store, process, and transmit information in the United States and other locations around the world, including countries that may not have the same privacy and security laws as yours. Regardless of the country in which such information is stored, we will process your information in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

8. Security

We take reasonable steps to protect your information from unauthorized use, disclosure, alteration and destruction, although no method of transmission over the Internet is entirely secure and we cannot guarantee that your information will not be accessed by others. You have a responsibility, as well, to safeguard your information through the proper use and security of any online credentials used to access your information, such as a username and password. If you believe your credentials have been compromised, please change your password and notify us of any actual or suspected unauthorized use.

9. Retention of Your Information

We will retain your information as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is collected under this Statement, or for other business purposes.

10. Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect or request information from any person under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under the age of thirteen (13), you are not permitted to use our Website and should not submit any information to us. We encourage parents and guardians to provide adequate protection measures to prevent minors from providing information unwillingly on the internet. If you believe that a person under the age of thirteen (13) has provided us with his or her personal information, please let us know by contacting us at privacy@purewafer.com or at the Contact Information below and we will take all reasonable steps to delete their information immediately or as required by applicable law.

11. Your Choices

We want to provide you with relevant information that you have requested. When possible, we will always provide options as to what information we collect and how you can manage any preferences that pertains to such information.

If we provide subscription-based services, such as email newsletters, we will allow you to make choices about what information you provide at the point of information collection or at any time after you have received a communication from us while you are subscribed. Transactional or service-oriented messages, such as delivery confirmation messages, are usually excluded from such preferences, as such messages are required to respond to your requests or to provide goods and services, and are not intended for the purposes of marketing.

If you do not wish to receive information regarding our products, services, offers and upcoming events, please click on the “Unsubscribe” link that we include in each of the emails and electronic newsletters that we send to you, or contact us at privacy@purewafer.com or the address listed below, and we will remove your name from our mailing lists. Please note that by opting out or unsubscribing you may affect other services you have requested we provide to you, in which email communication is a requirement of the service provided.

12. Contact Us

Questions or concerns about how Pure Wafer collects, uses and discloses your information should be directed to:

By email:

By mail:
Pure Wafer Inc.
2240 Ringwood Avenue
San Jose, CA 95131 U.S.A.