Sig Sauer, Inc. (SIG SAUER) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Websites and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information This policy applies to information we collect:
Unless stated specifically otherwise, this policy does not apply to information collected by:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at dataprivacy@sigsauer.com.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (“posted”) on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
SIG SAUER may make chat rooms, forums, message boards, news groups, and/or product review boards available to its users. Please note that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
Some tracking of activity on the Sig Sauer website is conducted through the use of Google Analytics.
Information on the
Google Analytics’ privacy policies and terms of use may be found here:
https://support.google.com/analytics#topic=1008008.
Although we do not do so currently, we also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit SIG SAUER, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and for other related website statistics.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is currently in the process of developing a “Do Not Track” Standard. Since the definitions and rules for such a standard have not yet been defined, and because Sig Sauer does not track the online activity of individuals, Sig Sauer does not yet respond to “Do Not Track” signals sent from browsers.
sigsauer.com uses YouTube API Services to present links to certain video content. For more information on YouTube Terms of Services (ToS) click here. To view Google's Privacy Policy click here.
Some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly for more information or to learn how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us and let us know at dataprivacy@sigsauer.com or unsubscribe via the opt out option in our emails.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Note that altering settings or opting out tracking technologies on one device (such as a computer, tablet, or smartphone) does not necessarily alter setting or opt out of tracking on other devices. Users should take care to ensure that the proper settings are applied to all devices through which they connect to the Website.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an e-mail at dataprivacy@sigsauer.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website 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 dataprivacy@sigsauer.com, fill out the CCPA request form on www.sigsauer.com/ccpa or write us at the address below.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA; Civil Code §1798.100 et seq.) provides California Consumers with specific rights in relation to their personal information collected, sold, and/or shared by businesses. This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS is provided to explain these rights. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this section of the Privacy Policy.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we may collect, and have collected in the past twelve (12) months, the following categories of personal information (as defined by the CCPA):
CATEGORY |
EXAMPLES |
COLLECTED? |
|
A. Identifiers |
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers |
YES |
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B. Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80(e)) |
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories |
YES |
|
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law |
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) |
YES |
|
D. Commercial Information |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
|
YES |
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E. 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, |
NO |
|
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faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data
|
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F. |
Internet or other similar network activity |
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement |
YES |
G. |
Geolocation Data |
Physical location or movements
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YES |
H. |
Sensory Data |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
|
NO |
I. |
Professional or Employment-related information |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations
|
YES |
J. |
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. §1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) |
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 |
K. |
Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes |
NO |
Personal information under the CCPA does not include:
California Confidentiality of Medical Information ACT (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
We use the categories of personal information outlined above for the following business purposes:
BUSINESS PURPOSE |
CATEGORIES USED |
Auditing related to a current interaction, with the consumer and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Detecting security incidents and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality |
A, B, C, D, F |
Short-term transient use, where the information is not provided to a third party, and not used to build a profile of the consumer or alter the consumers experience outside of a single transaction |
N/A |
Performing services on our behalf, including maintaining and servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytic services, or providing similar services on our behalf |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance such service or device |
N/A |
SIG SAUER does not and will not in the future sell personal information of consumers.
SIG SAUER may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
CATEOGORY OF THIRD PARTY |
CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION SHARED |
Our Affiliates |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Service Providers |
A, B, C, D, F, G |
Third Parties to whom you authorize us to disclose your information in connection with products or services we provide |
A, B, C, D, F, G, I, J |
Government entities or other third parties when required to by law or court order |
A, B, C, D, G |
The CCPA provides California Consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights 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.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. To make a verifiable consumer request, you must provide us with at least the following information to verify your identity: full legal name, phone number, and email address (if available). If we require additional information in order to verify your identity, we will contact you to request this information. Please be aware that dependent on what you are requesting, we may need to take additional steps to verify your identity.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
This section applies only to EU citizens accessing SIG SAUER websites from within the EU.
If you are a European Union citizen, and you are accessing the SIG SAUER websites from within the EU, your personal data is protected by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). SIG SAUER is committed to controlling and processing your personal data in compliance with the GDPR, and the following information is provided for your knowledge and benefit.
location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, psychological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
As a company involved in retail activities, we may sometimes need to process your data to pursue our legitimate business interests, for example to prevent fraud, for our own internal administrative purposes, reporting potential crimes, or maintaining legally required records of sales.
Additionally, we may process your data in order to fulfill our contractual duties to you, including the processing of a sales order, providing repair services, maintaining our warranty registrations and databases, and other tasks related to the provision of goods and services.
Finally, some information you provide we may be required to process and retain in order to comply with applicable law, including records regarding the sale or other transfer of firearms.
If you choose to create an account on our website, or place an order, you must provide the personal data requested. If you refuse to provide such data, we will not be able to create an account for you, or fulfill your order.
Under the GDPR you have a number of rights with regard to your personal data. You have the right to request from us access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data, the right to restrict processing, or object to processing of your personal data as well as the right to make a complaint to a supervisory authority.
In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to data portability and, if processing of your data is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or have any concerns as to how your data is being processed you can contact the webmaster at: Sig Sauer, Inc., 72 Pease Boulevard, Newington, NH 03801 dataprivacy@sigsauer.com
603-610-3000
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you or where you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like product review boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
Sig Sauer, Inc.
72 Pease Boulevard Newington, NH 03801 dataprivacy@sigsauer.com 603-610-3000 Last Updated: 12/30/2019