Privacy

Samsung Semiconductor Newsroom Privacy Notice (Global)

Effective Date: September 15, 2025

At Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Samsung”), we know how important privacy is to our customers. Under applicable law, Samsung is the data controller for Samsung Semiconductor Newsroom website (the “Newsroom”). We created this Privacy Notice to make sure you understand how we collect and use your personal data.

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our personal information practices described in this Privacy Policy or changes in the applicable law. We will indicate at the top of this Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated. If we update the Privacy Policy, we will let you know in advance about changes we consider to be material by posting a notice on our website and/or by emailing you.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Through the Service, we obtain and maintain information about you in various ways.

Information You Provide Directly

• Contact and information, such as name, email, and/or phone number, inquiry details;
• Your affiliated institution and country you are located

Information We Obtain By Automated Means

In addition to the information you provide, we will collect information about you through software on your devices and by other means. We will collect:

• Information about your Service-enabled devices, such as device model, OS version, device configurations and settings, IP address, device identifiers and other unique identifiers;
• Information about your usage of the Service, including about how, when, and for how long you use the Service, the devices that you choose to connect to the Service, and other Samsung and third-party apps and services on your devices (such as list of apps on your devices, the websites you visit, and the searches you run). We also collect any information stored in cookies we have set on your device; 

We also may collect other information about you, your devices and apps, and your use of the Service in ways that we describe to you at the time of collection or otherwise with your consent.

We may collect personal data about your online activities on websites and connected devices over time and across third-party websites, devices, apps and other online features and services. We may use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics. The information we obtain may be disclosed to or collected directly by these providers and other relevant third parties who use the information, for example, to evaluate use of the Service and to help administer the Service. To learn more about Google Analytics, please visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

We use the collected information for the following purposes and in accordance with the legal bases set out below:

We use and combine the information we collect about you from the Service with data from other services or features you use, your devices, and other sources, as well as information about your online activities on websites and connected devices over time and across third-party websites, devices, apps and other online features and services for the purposes above. 

Samsung processes personal information via automated and non-automated means for the purposes described above and in accordance with applicable law. We will process your data in accordance with applicable law pursuant to a proper legal basis such as to comply with the law, regulatory obligations and legal processes, to provide you with the Service, to perform a contract with you, pursuant to a legitimate interest provided, or consent, as applicable. The legal basis may vary from one country to another, but we will rely on the appropriate legal basis provided in data protection and other laws of your country.

WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?

We will disclose your information internally within our business and to the following entities, but only for the purposes described above.

• Affiliates: other Samsung Electronics Group companies which we control or own;
• Business partners: partners who we work together with to provide you with the Service,. These business partners control and manage your personal data;Service providers: carefully selected companies that provide services for or on behalf of us. These providers are also committed to protecting your information;
• Other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect the Service: for example, it may be necessary by law, legal process, or court order from governmental authorities to disclose your information. They may also seek your information from us for the purposes of law enforcement, national security, anti-terrorism, or other issues that are related to public security;
• Other parties in connection with corporate transactions: we may disclose your information to a third party as part of a merger or transfer, acquisition or sale, or in the event of bankruptcy; and
• Other parties with your consent or at your direction: in addition to the disclosures described in this Privacy Notice, we may share information about you with third parties when you separately consent to or request such sharing.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Your use of the Service will involve the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal data, including, as applicable, any sensitive or special categories of personal data, to other countries. The countries to which we transfer internationally include Republic of Korea and U.S., without limitation, . In some cases, your personal data may simply be accessed remotely from a country listed above, while in others it may be physically transferred to one of the listed countries for processing. The purpose of these international transfers depends on the relevant business need, but your data will only be used for the purposes described above. Some transfers may be temporary, while others may continue until the applicable processing purpose is fulfilled. All international transfers are subject to legal requirements to ensure that your personal data is processed safely and as you would expect.

HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION?

How long your data will be retained depends on the legal basis relied upon to process your data and/or the purposes of processing. For example, data we process to perform our contract with you requires us to keep the data throughout the time you use the Service. As long as you are an active user of the Service, we will retain and process this data. Data such as your account information and device information and identifiers fall into this category.

Data we process to promote our business interests, such as your use of the Service, is only kept for as long as needed for the purposes for which it was collected. For example, this data may be collected to perform analytics so we can develop improvements to the Service, or we may process data to keep a record of inquiries you made through or about the Service to improve your customer service experience.

In addition, we may also process your data based on your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we will continue to process data collected prior to your withdrawal until the purposes for which such data was collected have been achieved.

Please note, although we aim to retain your data for the time period described above, your data may be processed longer pursuant to applicable law. For example, if a specific statute mandates that we require a certain piece of data, we comply and retain that data until the required retention period expires.

As long as your data is retained by us, your data will always be subject to appropriate safeguards.

YOUR RIGHTS

We provide you with certain rights and choices in connection with the personal data we obtain about you on or through the Service in compliance with applicable law. To learn more about your rights specific to your country, please refer to our Privacy Policy (available at https://account.samsung.com/membership/terms/privacypolicy). Such rights may include asking us to provide whether or not personal data has been processed and details about what we’ve collected (including with regards to the purpose for processing and sharing), to delete it, to correct it, limit, restrict or object to processing, to withdraw consent, and to claim compensation for damages causes by unlawful processing of your personal data.

CONTACT US

You can contact us to exercise your rights and choices, submit a request, or ask us questions. The easiest way to contact us is through the Contact Us section of: https://www.samsung.com.

You can contact us at:

Data Controller
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
129, Samsung-ro, Yeongtong-gu,
Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do 16677, Republic of Korea

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This Privacy Notice may be updated to let you know about changes in how we collect and process your information in the Service or changes in related laws. The date when the document was last updated is shown at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we update the Privacy Notice, we will let you know in advance about changes we consider to be material by placing a notice on relevant services or by emailing you, where appropriate.