Last Update: May 20, 2022

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information set forth in the Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. Privacy Policy and applies to all residents of the State of California about whom we collect, use or disclose personal information. We provide this Notice to you in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”). The CCPA requires us to explain to you our online and offline practices regarding our collection, use, disclosure and protection of your personal information as well as certain related rights provided under the CCPA and how you may exercise them. We explain our practices and your rights in more detail below.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES PIONEER COLLECT?

We collect personal information, as defined in the CCPA, from both online and offline sources. The CCPA defines personal information as, subject to certain exceptions, information which identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (the CCPA defines this as “personal information”). This definition of personal information is very broad and can encompass many different types or categories of information. During the 12 months preceding the Last Update of this Notice, Pioneer has collected the following categories of personal information:

• Personal Identifiers – such as your name, address, email addresses, telephone numbers or other similar identifiers. Pioneer does not collect credit card numbers or, outside of the employment or personnel context, social security or driver’s license numbers.
• Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records Act (Calif Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)) – such as your name, signature, address and telephone number. Some personal information in this category may overlap with other categories.
• Commercial Information – Commercial Information – such as Pioneer products or services purchased and, if you use Pioneer’s rDrive service, your vehicle’s Vehicle Identification Number (VIN).
• Internet Activity – such as website usage data and user ID & password
• Geolocation Data – such as your vehicle’s location when connected to Pioneer’s rDrive service using a Pioneer Vehicle Telematics Device.

Note that personal information under the CCPA specifically excludes:

• Publicly available information, defined under the CCPA as information lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records.
• Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act or clinical trial data.
• Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, such as the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act or the California Financial Information Privacy Act and the Drivers Privacy Act of 1994.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information

Any personal information which is specifically excluded from the application of the CCPA will not be subject to this Notice. This means, for example, that Pioneer is not obligated to disclose personal information about California residents (i) which was lawfully made available to Pioneer, directly or indirectly, from federal, state, or local government records, or (ii) if that information is otherwise protected from disclosure under HIPAA or FCRA. In addition, information which Pioneer may have that has been anonymized or aggregated such that it no longer can be classified as personal information is also not subject to this Notice.

HOW DOES PIONEER COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We obtain each of the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you – such as when you set up an online account at pioneerelectronics.com to register Pioneer products you have purchased or receive email news about Pioneer products and services, or contact our call center, or participate in surveys or market research, or if you registered for Pioneer rDrive® powered by LoJack®.
• Indirectly from you through automatic information – if you use rDrive, through your Pioneer Vehicle Telematics Device and the rDrive mobile app.
• Directly from a third-party provider of services to us – such as from our transaction processor when you purchase a Pioneer product online.

HOW DOES PIONEER USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use or disclose the personal information from each of the categories we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided your personal information to us. For example, if you provide your name and telephone number to our call center, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to register your product with us, we will use that information to process your request. If you choose to participate in surveys or market research, we and the provider we work with will use the personal information in connection with that survey or market research and as may be additionally described at the time of collection. We may also save your personal information to facilitate new product purchases or to process product returns.
• To provide you with information, products and services that you may be interested in receiving.
• To provide you with customer support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court orders or governmental regulations.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information.

HOW DOES PIONEER SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

Personal information is either shared by Pioneer with selected fulfillment companies or collected directly by those companies (“service providers”) solely to fulfill your requests – such as for product purchases/shipments or to receive communications from Pioneer. Each of these service providers is bound by a contract with us which describes the purpose of the agreement and requires the third party to (i) keep the personal information confidential, (ii) implement reasonable security measures relating to the personal information and (iii) not use the personal information for any purpose other than to fulfill the purpose of the agreement. No third parties with whom Pioneer shares personal information are entitled to sell that personal information.

The chart below illustrates the categories of personal information we collected during the last 12 months (column A), the category of source from which that personal information was collected (column B), our business purposes for collecting that personal information (column C) and the category of third party with whom Pioneer shares personal information (column D).

 

DOES PIONEER SELL PERSONAL INFORMATION?

No, Pioneer does not sell your personal information.

WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS REGARDING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION OF ME THAT PIONEER MAY HAVE?

You have the right to request that we disclose to you the following information about our collection and use of your personal information over the last 12 months:

1. Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Used, Disclosed or Sold
   You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information about our collection and use of your personal information over the last 12 months. Upon our receipt of a verifiable personal information request, we will disclose to you:
   • The categories of personal information we collected about you
   • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
   • The categories of sources of the personal information we collected about you
   • Our business purpose for collecting your personal information
   • The categories of personal information we disclose for a business purpose
   • The categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information
     
     
2. Deletion Request Rights
   You have the right to request that we delete all or selected personal information that we have collected from you and retained. Upon receipt of a verifiable personal information request and confirmation from you of that request, Pioneer will delete the personal information from our records and notify our service providers of your request except where we rely on one or more exceptions discussed below. Your personal information may reside in our backup systems for a limited time until overwritten as part of the backup process and we may maintain a record of your request and our response for compliance purposes.
   
   Under the CCPA, there are certain exceptions to our obligation to comply with your deletion request. For example, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
   • Complete the transaction for which we collected your personal information, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you or otherwise to perform our contract with you
   • Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of your personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes
   • Debug product to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
   • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law
   • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act
   • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us
   • Comply with a legal obligation
     
     
3. Non-Discrimination Rights
   You have the right not to be discriminated against as a result of exercising any of your rights listed above. This means that Pioneer will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, including by:
   • Denying you goods or services
   • Charging you a different price for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties on you
   • Providing you a different level or quality of product or services.
   • Suggesting that you may receive a different price or rate for products or services or a different level or quality of products or services.
     
     
4. Correction Request Rights
   You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

HOW DO I EXERCISE MY RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA?

Pioneer provides the following methods by which California residents can exercise their rights under the CCPA:

• If you have an existing account with Pioneer, log in using the “My Account” link on the Pioneer homepage. Begin a Personal Information Request (PIR) by following the prompts under “California Consumer Privacy Act Request.” If you do not already have an account, use one of the next methods
• Click HERE to access a downloadable version of our PIR. Print out the PIR, complete and sign it, and follow the directions on the form for submitting the PIR to Pioneer, or
• Call our dedicated CCPA toll-free number: 1 (800) 421-1613

Only California residents, or a person authorized to act on behalf of a California resident, may submit a PIR related to their personal information. Guardians of California residents who are minors are also entitled to submit a PIR on behalf of their minor children. If you use an authorized agent to submit a PIR on your behalf, we will require (i) a valid, California power of attorney evidencing such agency or (ii) evidence of written permission from the California resident, certified under penalty of perjury, for you to act as agent.

You may submit a PIR to us not more than twice during any 12-month period. The PIR must provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that the person submitting the PIR (or an authorized agent) is the person for whom the personal information is requested. The PIR will ask for your name, mailing address, phone number and email address, together with a certification under penalty of perjury that the information submitted is true and is your own identifying information. Our verification process generally involves the matching of three pieces of identifying information provided in the PIR to the personal information of the consumer already maintained by us but may vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information at issue and other circumstances. If you submitted your PIR online and you indicated on your PIR form that you want your personal information deleted, we will ask you separately to confirm your decision to delete before we take any action.

We will be unable to respond to any PIR’s unless we can verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. If we cannot verify your request from your PIR, we may request that you supply us with additional information that will allow us to verify your PIR. PIR’s for which we are ultimately unable to verify will be treated as if they request disclosure only of categories of personal information collected. If your PIR is denied/rejected, we will inform you in writing of the reason. We will use personal information provided in a verified PIR only to verify the requestor’s identity or authority and to process and respond to the PIR and for no other purpose.

BY WHEN WILL PIONEER RESPOND TO A PERSONAL INFORMATION REQUEST?

We will generally respond within 45 days following our receipt of a PIR. If we require more time to respond (up to 90 days in total following receipt), we will inform you in writing of the reason and the extension period. Any responses/disclosures made to you in response to a PIR will cover only the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your PIR. However, any action we take to delete your personal information will cover all records you have with us, regardless of when generated.

We will respond to your PIR in the same format in which you submitted it. For example, PIR’s submitted to us via U.S. Mail will be responded to via U.S. Mail. PIR’s submitted electronically will be responded to electronically and in a format that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance, including via email.

We will not charge you a fee to process or respond to PIR’s.

WHAT ABOUT CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE?

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice to California Residents at any time. When we make changes, we will post the updated Notice on our Websites, including the date of its Last Update.

WHO DO I CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice to California Residents, or any other questions about our personal information data collection practices or our Privacy Policy in general, please contact us:

• Via email to: Californiaprivacylaw@pioneerusa.com
• Via mail to: Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc., 2050 W. 190th Street, Ste. 100, Torrance, CA 90504, Attn: Privacy Officer

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