Privacy

Last revised March 2012

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Privacy Policy

This website (the “Site”) is operated in the United States of America by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”, “We”, “Our” or “Us”), a company incorporated in the state of Delaware, United States, in 1969. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s headquarters is located at 1 AMD Place, PO Box 3453 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3453. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information which is collected and used by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., which includes all companies in the AMD group of companies (together “AMD”, “We”, “Our” or “Us”).

This Privacy Policy forms part of the Site’s Terms and Conditions of Use and describes how We collect, protect and use the personal information We receive from visitors to the Site.

Personal Information We collect

We collect several kinds of information from you, depending on the part of the Site being visited. For example, We collect personal information from you when you register for a forum or newsletter, download products such as drivers, register products with Us, create a user name and password, provide feedback, send email enquiries or participate in another part of the Site.

The information that We collect is set out on the relevant pages of the Site and may include your name, email address, postal address, postcode, country of residence, job title, daytime and/or mobile phone number and information about your workplace and the nature of your business. If you use the Site to apply for jobs at AMD We will also collect information about your educational background and employment history and We will request your professional resume/CV.

In general, you can visit the Site without revealing any information about yourself. However, if you choose not to register on the Site you may not be able to use its features to their fullest extent. For example, you will not be able to participate in forum discussions on the Site.

Our use of your information

We may use the personal information We collect via the Site for any of the following purposes:

providing, developing, improving and personalising Our services and the Site;
registering you on the Site;
providing you (subject to the Direct Marketing section below with marketing communications;
dealing with your inquiries and requests;
generating anonymous reports about use of the Site and its features;
allowing you to take part in promotions or surveys;
keeping you up to date by sending you Our newsletters; and
considering you for employment if you have provided personal information pursuant to an application for a job with AMD.

Direct Marketing

If you register on the Site We may use the personal information We collect to provide you with information about Our products, promotions, special offers and other information which relates to Our products and services.

We may send you such information by:

Email;
SMS text message and/or any other form of electronic message; and
any other medium which becomes relevant from time to time.

You may opt to receive such information by selecting the relevant option when you register on the Site. If We send you an AMD electronic newsletter, information about Our products and services or you sign up to an AMD group or email list, each message We send will include instructions on how to "unsubscribe" from that communication.

Disclosure of Information

We will not disclose your personal information that We collect from the Site to any third parties without your consent except:

to employees and independent contractors of AMD, analytic vendors, and other service providers and suppliers if the disclosure will enable that party to perform a business, professional, or technical support function for AMD or to perform a service that you have requested;
to and between companies within the AMD group;
where you give Us permission to disclose your personal data to third parties selected by Us for marketing purposes;
if We are required to do so to comply with a legal requirement or request from a competent court, regulator or other authority;
where We deem it necessary, in Our sole discretion, to protect Our legal rights or property or the legal rights or property of an individual who registers with the Site or any third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or
in connection with a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of Our assets or stock or Our affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that any personal information about you that We pass to a third party will be held securely by that party and only be used for the purposes for which it was provided to them. Except as noted above, information We collect from Site visitors will not be shared with individuals or other companies unrelated to, or that do not perform a business, professional or technical function for AMD.

Security and Quality

AMD is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the personal information that you provide. We use a variety of advanced security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, We store the personal information you provide on secured computer servers that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when We transmit sensitive personal information over the Internet, We protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Please help Us to keep your personal information secure by not using an obvious login name or password and ensuring you do not divulge your password to any other person.

AMD complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries. AMD has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view AMD's certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/.

We do our best to maintain the accuracy of any personal information you do supply to Us. You can help AMD update and maintain the accuracy of any personal information you supply by notifying AMD of any changes to your address, title, phone number or e-mail address. In some parts of the Site, you may do this online by following the instructions on membership profile pages. You may also do this by contacting the address set out in the Access to your information section of this Privacy Policy.

Cookies, Web Beacons & Other Tracking Technologies

A cookie is small file that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system.

We use cookies to allow Us to understand what areas of the Site are of interest to you so We can better serve and provide you with tailored information from the Ste. We use cookies that We place on the Site to collect data such as information about your web browser and operating system, the frequency of your visits, what you do on the Site and, if you arrived at the Site from another website, the URL of that website. Our third party web analytics provider then collects and analyses the data We obtain from Our cookies to tell Us how you use the Site.

AMD may also use cookies when you register for some parts of the Site such as Our web programs or extranets. In this case, a cookie will store useful information, including your personal information, which enables the Site to remember you when you return to visit. Only We can read the information We gather from the cookies We place on your system.

We also, through third party vendors, use remarketing techniques on the Site. When you visit the Site remarketing allows Our third party vendors to show you adverts for Our products that you browsed for on the Site when you visit other websites on the Internet. To do this Our third party vendors use cookies that they place on the Site to identify the products and topics on the Site that you have browsed for. They then use the information obtained from these cookies to serve you with adverts relevant to these products and topics when you visit other websites on the Internet. Information about your use of the Site which is used for remarketing is deleted after 30 days.

You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen for information about how to do this. You may also delete cookies whenever you wish. However, this will mean that any information you have entered onto the Site will be lost. For example, the Site will not recognise you on your next visit and you will have to re-enter any personal details you had previously inputted. Please note that if you choose not to accept cookies you may not have may not have access to certain features that make your experience of the Site more efficient and some of the features on the Site may not function properly. You can find out more about cookies, including how to delete them, at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

The Site may also use “Web beacon” technologies. When you access pages on with a Web beacon, an anonymous notice of that visit is generated which may be processed by Us or by Our analytics vendors. These Web beacons work in conjunction with cookies to let Us know what portions of the Site are of interest to Our visitors, how many of Our newsletters have been read and to help Us provide you with tailored information from the Site.

If you choose not to accept cookies, Web beacon technologies will still detect anonymous visits, but the notices they generate cannot be associated with other information and are disregarded.

We use third party advertising companies for banner placements who in turn use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These GIF files are provided by our ad management partner. These files enable our ad management partner to recognize a unique cookie on your web browser, which in turn enables Us to learn which advertisements bring users to the Site. The cookie is placed by Us and Our ad management partner who works with advertising solutions companies (including DoubleClick). With both cookies and Spotlight technology (the tool used to determine the effectiveness of online advertising), the information that We collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address, for example. For more information about DoubleClick, including information about how to opt out of these technologies, go to http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/index.aspx. You may also opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from some advertising networks. For further information about your right to opt-out of receiving targeted advertising please visit the following websites:

Links to external websites

The Site contains links to other websites belonging to third parties. These websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy and We are not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other websites. You should be aware of this when you leave the Site and We encourage you to read the privacy statements of other websites.

Access to your information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information We hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests (with a return email where possible) to:

AMD Communication Preference Centre
memberservices@amd-member.com

Or by Post to:
AMD Web Services Team
10 Commerce Valley Drive East
Markham, Ontario L3T 7N7
Canada

Changes, Oversight and Questions

AMD welcomes comments and questions on this Privacy Policy. We are dedicated to protecting your privacy and will make every reasonable effort to keep your information secure. Due to the rapidly evolving changes on the Internet, We may update this policy. All revisions will be posted to the Site. Regularly viewing this Privacy Policy ensures that you are always aware of what information We collect, how We use it and under what circumstances We will share it with third parties. If you do not agree to the changes We make please do not continue to use the Site.

Comments and questions regarding our policy should be directed to the Communication Preference Centre.