Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Notice

Date last modified: May 11, 2020

LightPath Technologies and its subsidiaries are committed with the greatest care and confidentiality to protect the personal data entrusted to them. This notice sets forth, how we provide collection, summary, storage, destruction or sharing of any kind of personal data, in accordance with the normative regulation of the relevant country, state or any other administrative unit and in compliance with rights and freedoms of persons. All personal data are collected only when consent to their collection is provided and/or with a purpose to facilitate fulfillment of the agreement between the company and other legal subjects.

Consent

LightPath Technologies and its subsidiaries collect personal data only and solely if consent of the person, who transfers the relevant personal data, is received and such personal data are acquired from the following sources:

  • Websites including lightpath.com ispoptics.com;
  • Sellers, with whom agreements are concluded, who provide such registration information as recommendations in the paper form, conference registration information, professional carrier search results, applications for grants;
  • Your correspondence with us by using mail, e-mail, fax or phone

If you have voluntarily provided information, you consented to the collection and use of your personally identifiable information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by visiting our website or using our services, you consent to LightPath’s collection, use, disclosure, transfer and storage of information relating to you as set forth in this privacy policy. You can revoke consent and we will cease using and processing your personal information.

Information Collected Automatically

Customer and seller information, such as name, e-mail, company address and phone number;

Technical data, including IP address, approximate location, cookies, browser information as well as other information of technical nature.

Cookies are placed everywhere on our website, including on websites specified below and/or are used in the following applications, being related to our website:

  • On the application form page – WPForms
  • Contact page – Salesforce
  • Investors page – Issuer Direct
  • Request estimate page – Salesforce
  • Subscribe page – iContact
  • Google Analytics
  • Survey Monkey

LightPath may also collect Technical Information about you when you visit our websites, which your web browser automatically sends whenever you visit a website on the Internet. “Technical Information” is information that does not, by itself, identify a specific individual but which could be used to indirectly identify you. Our servers automatically record this information, which may include your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your request. Gathering your information helps us ensure our websites and other services work correctly and support our customer analytic efforts. 

We may use these technologies to collect information about the ways visitors use our websites, to support the features and functionality of our websites, and to personalize your experience when you use our websites. 

We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of our site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site and what pages they visit when they do. Information about how Google collects and uses data can be found here: www.google.com\policies\privacy\partners. If you would prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. 

Our websites may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and other widgets that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are
visiting on our site and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the organization providing it.

Information Collected from Other Sources

LightPath may also collect information about you from other sources to help us correct or supplement our records, improve the quality or personalization of our services to you, and prevent or detect fraud. We may also use website and application analytics services provided by third parties to collect information about website or application use and to report trends, without identifying individual visitors. The third parties that provide us with these services may also collect information about your use of third-party websites. We also may receive information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners and social media platforms. Some company websites or services may be co-branded and offered in conjunction with another company. If you use such websites or services, both LightPath and the other company may receive the Personal Information that’s collected via that co-branded website or service. 

Use of Personal Information

LightPath uses your personal information to provide you products and services. We also use your personal information to support our business functions, such as fraud prevention, marketing, and legal functions, data analysis; audits; identifying usage trends; determining the effectiveness of our operating procedures and expanding our business activities. 

We may also use your personal information to protect the security and integrity of our websites, mobile services, and our business; to fulfill your requests for products and services and communicate with you about those requests; to respond to reviews, comments, or other feedback you provide us; to better understand customer behavior so that we may improve our marketing and advertising efforts and to improve the distribution of our products and services; to comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements; for industry benchmarking and analysis consistent with our legitimate business purpose; in connection with a job application or inquiry, you may provide us with data about yourself, including your educational background or resume and other information, including your ethnicity where required or permitted by law. We may use this information throughout LightPath, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its joint ventures for the purpose of employment consideration. To do this, we combine personal and non-personal information, collected online and offline, including information from third party sources. 

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

LightPath will not rent or sell your personal information to others but may disclose personal information with third-party vendors and service providers that work with LightPath. We will only share personal information to these vendors and service providers to help us provide a product or service to you.

LightPath may disclose personal information for our business purposes, such as: except as described above and below, LightPath may use or share information that does not personally identify you for any purpose, such as for operational or research purposes, for industry analysis, to improve or modify our products and services, to better tailor our products and services to your needs, and where legally required. 

LightPath may transfer and disclose information, including information that may or may not personally identify you, to third parties, such as authorities, law enforcement agencies, government agencies, or legal entities, to comply with a legal obligation (including, but not limited to, subpoenas); when we believe in good faith that the law requires it; in response to a lawful request by governmental authorities conducting an investigation, including subpoenas, court orders or search warrants, and as otherwise authorized by law to comply with law enforcement requirements; to verify or enforce our policies and procedures; to respond to an emergency; to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable; or to protect the rights, property, safety, or security of the services, LightPath, third parties, visitors to our services, or the public, as determined by us in our sole discretion. 

Using our website or services may link to third party web websites, services, and applications. LightPath is not responsible for any personal information collected through these means. Information collected is governed through the third party’s website’s Privacy Policy. Any interactions you have with these web websites, services, or applications are beyond the control of LightPath. 

Information from or about you or your use of our website may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided that information. When we transfer information from or about you or your use of our products or services to other countries, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy. By use of our website or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the transfer of information from or about you or your use of our products or services to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States.

Data Retention and Storage

LightPath retains your information for business purposes, for as long as your account is active, and/or as long as is reasonably necessary to provide you with our products and services. LightPath will also retain your information as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. We may also retain cached or archived copies of your information for a reasonable time. 

Security Measures Taken to Protect Personal Information by Company

Security of information is of the utmost importance for LightPath. LightPath uses technical and physical safeguards to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorized disclosure. We use industry standard security measures to encrypt traffic, manage access to systems and services, and to keep information secure. We also make all attempts to ensure that only necessary people and third parties have access to Personal Information. Nevertheless, such security measures cannot prevent all loss, misuse or alteration of personal information and we are not responsible for any damages or liabilities relating to any such incidents to the fullest extent permitted by law. LightPath will notify users of a data breach when LightPath determines that is reasonably necessary, and will notify relevant regulatory bodies, in accordance with applicable law. Any transmission is at your own risk and LightPath expects that you will use appropriate security measures to protect your information.

Collection, Access, Correction, Deletion and Portability of Personal Information

You can choose what contact and personal information is collected and stored in your account and preferences. If at any point in time you wish to know what data we process about you, wish to opt-out, or correct, delete or forget such information, you can make that request by contacting YourDataRights@lightpath.com or call 833-455-0251. If you desire to obtain or transfer your information, we may provide you with your personal data in a structured and commonly used electronic format. We will respond to your request for access, correction, deletion or portability within 45 days. In some cases, however, we may limit or deny your request if the law permits or requires us to do so, your request infringes on the privacy of other individuals or internal procedures, we have no personally-identifiable data related to you, or if we are unable to verify your identity. 

Inquiry, Compliant, and Dispute Process

Customers may contact LightPath with any questions, concern, or inquiries about this Privacy Policy or company data. If you would like to make a formal complaint, please contact YourDataRights@lightpath.com. All complaints will be evaluated, and a reply will be sent as soon as appropriate. In some instances, LightPath may have to cease services to you if necessary, to satisfy your request. 

Questions/Updates to Policy

LightPath may review and update this Privacy Policy periodically without any prior notice. LightPath will post a notice to its website to inform you of any changes to our Privacy Policy and indicate when it was most recently updated. In the case of material changes that may adversely affect you, LightPath may provide a more direct way of notifying you of changes to this Privacy Policy. 

Applicable Regulations – California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of our websites that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to YourDataRights@lightpath.com or write us at LightPath Technologies, Inc., 2603 Challenger Tech Ct., Suite 100, Orlando, FL 32826.

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