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This Privacy Policy describes how NSK Americas, Inc. and its subsidiaries ("NSK," "Company," "we," or "us") collects, uses and shares information in connection with NSK’s services, programs, systems, and websites, that refer or link to the Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services"). For those outside the United States who use our Services, please visit the appropriate NSK regional website based on your location. This Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights or obligations.

1. Transfer of Information

The information we collect from you may be transferred to, stored at, and processed in destinations outside of the country in which you are located, and may be accessible to the governments of such destinations. This includes processing by us, our affiliates, our third party payment processing companies and other third parties described in the Sharing of Information section below. It is our objective to take steps reasonably necessary to help secure your information and to treat your information that we have collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. Information Collection

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you use our Services, register for an account, subscribe to our e-mails, request customer support, apply for a job or otherwise communicate with us through the Services. We and our service providers may record, monitor, process, and retain communications and associated information, including emails, chats, calls, and texts. We may use chatbot technology and other automated methods of communication.

The types of information we may collect include Personal Information. "Personal Information" is information that could reasonably be linked with a particular individual or household, including identifiers such as your first and last name, e-mail address, physical address, and phone number.

You may choose to voluntarily submit certain other information to us through the Services, including Personal Information, but you are solely responsible for the information that you submit to us.

Using the other pieces of Personal Information collected about you, we may draw certain inferences about you.

If you apply for or inquire about employment with us, “Personal Information” may also include your education, occupation, employment history, and any other information submitted as part of your application or inquiry. This Privacy Policy is not intended to be a substitute for disclosure or authorization obligations regarding background checks, which may be required under the Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar laws. If we conduct a background check on you, at that time we will provide you with separate disclosure and authorization forms informing you of our intent to check your background, and requesting your consent to do so.

Information We Collect Automatically

We and our service providers automatically collect certain information from and about you when you access or use our Services. This information may include, without limitation, demographic information; IP address; browser/device/hardware type; operating system characteristics; information about your use of our Services; and data regarding network connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device), such as unique device identifiers, type, model, version, MAC address, device or session ID, error related data status, capability, confirmation, functionality, performance data, and connection type. This information may also include clickstream data, which is information about the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through the Services. We and our agents, vendors, and service providers may use session replay and other technologies to collect page interaction information and other electronic communications and content from your use of the Services (such as content entry, mouse movements, screen captures, the date, time, and location of your visit, what areas of the Services you visit and for how long, what search terms or other data you enter, and what content you view and click on), and methods used to browse away from the Services.

This information is gathered by certain tools and methods such as:

• Log Information: We and our service providers collect information about your use of our Services, such as the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address and the referring link through which you accessed our Services.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies: We and our service providers may use cookies, web beacons (also known as "tracking pixels"), embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, and other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you interact with our Services or e-mails, including information about your browsing and purchasing behavior. We and our agents, vendors, and service providers may combine this information with other information about you and use it for various purposes, such as analyzing and improving our Services and your online experience, understanding which areas and features of our Services are popular, counting visits, understanding campaign effectiveness, tailoring communications with you, determining whether an e-mail has been opened and/or links within the e-mail have been clicked, and for other internal business purposes. Please note that, in accordance with local legal requirements, in some territories you will be presented with a notice which will contain more information about the technologies we use and provide you with a means to select and manage your preferences in addition to the options set out below.
  • Cookies: Cookies are data files that are placed on a computer when it is used to visit a website. These cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, tracking user preferences or web pages visited while using our Services. Some web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to remove or reject certain cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. For example, cookies allow us and our agents, vendors, and service providers to store items in your cart between visits. In addition, please be aware that if you choose to block cookies, some preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.
  • Web Beacons: We and our agents, vendors, and service providers may include small graphic images called web beacons, also known as "Internet tags" or "clear gifs," in our web pages and e-mail messages. We and our agents, vendors, and service providers may use web beacons or similar technologies for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count the number of visitors to our Service, to monitor how users navigate the Services, and to count how many e-mails that we sent were actually opened or how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.
  • Embedded Scripts: An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services. It is temporarily downloaded onto your computer from our web server or a third party with whom we work, is designed to be active only while you are connected to the Service, and deleted or deactivated thereafter.
  • Location-identifying Technologies: We and our agents, vendors, and service providers may use GPS (global positioning systems) software and other location-based technologies to locate you so we may verify your location, and deliver relevant content to you based on your location. We may collect precise location information from your device.

Information we and our agents, vendors, and service providers automatically collect about you, such as how you interact with our Services, may be combined with your Personal Information. If we associate any such automatically-collected information with Personal Information about you, our objective will be to treat the combined information as Personal Information.

3. Use of Information

We may use information about you for various purposes. The primary purposes for use of information include to:

• Facilitate, personalize, and improve your experience with our Services, including your online or app experience;
• Process your registration with our Services, including verifying that your e-mail address(es) are active and valid;
• Manage your profile(s) and online account(s), including purchases, orders, payments, and returns;
• Respond to your comments, questions and requests and provide customer service, including through the use of automated and machine learning technologies to assist us in our responses and customer service, including through the use of automated and machine learning technologies to assist us in our responses and customer service;
• Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
• Contact you regarding your use of our Service and, in our discretion, changes to our policies;
• Evaluate and process your application for employment, including using automated and machine learning technologies to assist us in analyzing, evaluating, and assessing applicants and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of manual human review and analysis; and
• Prevent fraudulent transactions and monitor against threats.

In addition, there may be secondary purposes for use of information, such as to:

• Create a usage profile of your preferences and provide advertisements, job descriptions, content or features that match your profile and interests, including through the use of automated and machine learning technologies;
• Communicate with you about products, and services (including those offered by third parties) and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to manage these communications, please see the Your Choices section below);
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities, including through the use of automated and machine learning technologies;
• Link or combine with information we get from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service;
• Improve our Services and other NSK websites, applications, marketing efforts, products and services, including customer experience and our technologies
• Conduct research and analysis, including focus groups and surveys, on our Service and other NSK websites, applications, products and services;
• Retarget across other sites (as described in the Advertising & Analytics Services and Online Tracking section below);
• Carry out any other purpose disclosed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy or at the time you provide your Personal Information; and
• Any other purpose, with your consent or as permitted or required by applicable law.

Whether a use is primary or secondary may change over time. Some of the information we collect for primary purposes may be used for secondary purposes.

4. Sharing of Information

Our service providers may have access to Personal Information to carry out work on our behalf.

We may also share information about you for other various purposes. In addition to carrying out work on our behalf, the primary purposes for sharing of information include:

• To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in response to (i) subpoenas or other legal process or if in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required or permitted by law; and/or (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation;
• To defend the Terms & Conditions or other policies applicable to our Services;
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of us or any third party;
• To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we may also use IP addresses, mobile device identifiers or any other information we collect to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you;
• With our service providers for purposes of managing and fulfilling your product purchases;
• With our service providers to verify your address in order to ensure we maintain the accuracy of our database;
• With our affiliates for internal business purposes (including but not limited to managing your accounts); and
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession), lease, amalgamation or any other type of acquisition of all or any portion of NSK assets, financing, disposal, conveyance or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company.

In addition, there may be secondary purposes for sharing of information, such as:

• With our business partners, affiliates and other third parties for purposes of sending their own marketing;
• With third parties who conduct analytics or data appending (such as the process described above) in order for us to offer you more relevant products, services, job opportunities and information;
• For a purpose disclosed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, or at the time you provide your Personal Information; and
• With your consent or at your direction or as required or permitted by applicable law.

Whether sharing is primary or secondary may change over time. Some of the information we share under primary purposes may be shared for secondary purposes.

In our sole discretion, we may also share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you with third parties or affiliates.

5. User Content

The Services may permit you to submit ideas, writings, data, questions, comments, suggestions or other content (collectively, “User Content”), such as via customer support chats, and in association with your account and user profile. We or others may store, display, reproduce, publish, distribute or otherwise use User Content online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed) and may or may not attribute it to you.

6. Advertising & Analytics Services and Online Tracking

We engage third parties to provide analytics about the use of our Services. In addition, we may participate in online advertising networks and exchanges that display relevant advertisements to our Services visitors based on their interests as reflected in their browsing of the Service and certain third party sites participating in the same networks and exchanges. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, embedded scripts, and other technologies to collect information about your use of the Service, such as your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by us and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on the Services and other websites and better understand your online activity. Data collected from a particular browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected, or transferred to a non-affiliate for such purposes.

This means that some information about your browsing of the Service and certain third party sites may be shared with these companies for the purpose of delivering ads to you on the Services and certain third party sites, and NSK may receive from some of these companies information about third party sites that you have visited. This information is used for marketing purposes and the practice is sometimes termed "retargeting" to indicate that information from one retailer is used to suggest to you relevant products offered by another retailer.

These and other third parties may also collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Service.

We may also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on other websites or platforms.

This Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that such third parties themselves may have collected from you (e.g., type of browser, operating system, domain name, day and time of visit, page(s) visited) or the methods used by the third-parties to collect that information (e.g., cookies, web beacons and clear gifs).

Please note that, in accordance with local legal requirements, in some territories you may be presented with a notice which will contain more information about the technologies we use and provide you with a means to select and manage your preferences in addition to the options below; in those territories, you may also click the icon on the bottom of the NSK website or app to access the preference center. Note that your browser settings may also allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. Like many websites and online services, NSK does not necessarily alter its practices when it receives a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you may wish to visit https://www.allaboutdnt.com.

7. Social Features

Certain functionality on the Services may be specifically designed to permit interactions that you initiate between the Service and third party websites or services, including third party social networks (“Social Features”). Examples of Social Features include enabling you to transmit content to the Service from your account on a third party website or service; to “like” or “share” our Services content to other websites or services; to log-in to the Services using your username and password for a third party site or service; and to otherwise connect our Services to a third party website or service.

If you choose to use Social Features, information you post or provide access to, including User Content, may be publicly displayed on our Services or by the provider of the Social Feature that you use. Similarly, if you post information on a third party platform that references our Services (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with NSK in a tweet or status update), your post may be published on our Service in accordance with the terms of the third party website or service. Also, both NSK and the third party may have access to certain information about you and your use of our Services and the third party site or service. In addition, we may receive information about you if other users of a third party website give us access to their profiles and you are one of their “connections,” or information about you is otherwise accessible through your “connections” web pages, profile pages, or similar pages on a social networking or other third party website or interactive service.

The information we collect in connection with Social Features is subject to this Privacy Policy. The information collected and stored by the third parties remains subject to those third parties’ privacy practices, including whether the third parties continue to share information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on those third party websites or services.

8. Third Party Websites

The Services may contain hyperlinks to other websites or locations that we do not control and are operated and controlled by third parties ("Third Party Websites"). We make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of such Third Party Websites and encourage you to familiarize yourself with their privacy policies before providing them with your Personal Information. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these Third Party Websites. You should read the privacy policy of each Third Party Website as these Third Party Websites may use their own cookies, web beacons and other technology to independently collect information about you. In addition, these Third Party Websites may solicit Personal Information from you.

9. Your Choices

Profile

You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of registration. The Services may allow you to access, review, correct, update, and remove or make inaccessible Personal Information you have provided through the Services' registration or otherwise, and you may provide registration updates and changes by logging into your account, or contacting us as set forth in Section 14.

It is our objective to make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then-active databases as soon as reasonably practicable (but we may retain prior information as business records). Please note that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information from our databases and that residual data may remain on backup media or for other reasons.

Promotional Communications

You can opt out of receiving promotional e-mail communications from us at any time by following the instructions provided in those communications or contacting us as set forth in Section 14.

As an NSK customer, NSK account holder, or user of the Services, you may also receive periodic promotional postal mailings from NSK and/or our select marketing partners. If you do not wish to receive such promotional mailings, you may opt out at any time by following the instructions provided in those mailings or by contacting us as set forth in Section 14.

Please note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional emails, text messages or other communications, we and our service providers may continue to send you non-promotional e-mails, non-promotional text messages and other types of communications, as permitted by law, such as those about our ongoing business relations. For example, we and our service providers may send e-mails and other communications that contain service-related announcements that affect your account, confirmations and updates regarding purchases you have made, requests for feedback on our services, information about your job application or responses to your comments and feedback submitted to us and our service providers.

10. Personal Information Requests

You may make the following requests with respect to your Personal Information: request a copy of the Personal Information we have collected about you; request that we delete Personal Information that we have about you, subject to several exceptions; request that we correct inaccurate Personal Information we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions; request that we not share your Personal Information with third parties for certain behavioral or targeted advertising purposes; and request that we not sell your Personal Information to third parties for valuable consideration.

Note that if you would like to opt-out of cookie-based tracking for targeted advertising purposes, you will need to separately adjust your browser settings. Keep in mind that your cookie and tracking tools choices are typically website, device, and browser specific, and may be deleted if you clear your browser's cache.

Our policy does not permit discrimination against you for making a request under our Privacy Policy. To make a Personal Information request, or for requests to opt out of targeted advertising and the “sale” or “sharing” of Personal Information, please contact us as set forth in Section 14. 

Please note that we may deny your request, or fulfill a request only in part, based on our legal rights and obligations. For example, we may retain Personal Information as permitted by law, such as for tax or other record keeping purposes, to maintain an active account, and to process transactions and facilitate customer requests. Depending on the type and nature of your request, we intend to take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the Personal Information and whether you have an account with us. If you designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please ensure the authorized agent is identified as an authorized agent.

The Personal Information requests under this Section do not apply to information about job applicants, employees and other employment affiliates. NSK employees, directors, officers, contractors, interns, job applicants and designated beneficiaries that are California residents can submit certain requests regarding their Personal Information processed in the employment context by contacting us as set forth in Section 14.

11. Children

Our Services are not intended for and are not targeted to children under the age of sixteen (16). If you are a child under the age of sixteen (16), you are not permitted to use the Services and should not send any information about yourself to us through the Services.

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of sixteen (16) and, if we learn that we have received information from a user under the age of 13, we will delete this information in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child under the age of 13, has provided us with personal information without COPPA-required consent, please contact us as described in Section 14.

If you have registered to use the Services, and have posted content or information on the Services, you can request that such information be removed from the Services by contacting us as described in Section 14, stating that you personally posted such content or information and detailing where the content or information is posted. We will make reasonable good faith efforts to endeavor to remove the post from prospective public view or anonymize it so the minor cannot be individually identified. This removal process cannot ensure complete or comprehensive removal. For instance, third parties may have republished the post and archived copies of it may be stored by search engines and others that we do not control.

12. Data Security

It is our goal to take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Although NSK’s objective is to use reasonable efforts to help protect your information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and NSK cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services. Further, you are responsible for protecting your password.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

NSK reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy and its practices from time to time consistent with applicable privacy laws and principles. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Privacy Policy, and in some cases, we may choose to provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to the homepages of our Services or sending you an e-mail notification). If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice.

14. Contact Us

If you have any questions, complaints, or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or your rights, or to contact us for any of the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy, please contact us.

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NSK Americas

4200 Goss Road

Ann Arbor, MI 48105    

Phone:  1.888.446.5675

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Representative contact for NSK Americas: Marketing

Liability notice: Despite carefully verifying the contents, we do not assume any liability for the contents of links to external websites. The owners of these external sites are solely responsible for the contents of these sites.