Privacy Policy

LIGENT INC. PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: April 29, 2025

LIGENT, Inc, is a San Jose, California-based leading innovator in high-speed optical transceivers and active optical cables.

Welcome to visit [www.ligent.com] (Hereinafter also referred to as the "Website"). LIGENT, Inc, (Hereinafter referred to as "We" or "LIGENT") adopts this Privacy Policy (Hereinafter referred to as the "Policy") regarding the use of the Website.

I. Scope of the Policy

(i) Scope of the Policy

The Policy is applicable to: The official website of LIGENT INC. [www.ligent.com]

II. How do we collect and process your personal information

(i) How do we collect the information

We collect personal information about you when you use this website mainly in the following ways:

1. Information provided by you to us

When you submit an inquiry through the "Online Comments" page on our website, or contact us by using the contact details specified in the Privacy Policy, you are providing us with certain information in connection with your inquiry.

2. Cookie

In order to ensure and facilitate that the users utilize the Website more conveniently, we may send one or more Cookies to your device to collect, identify and store information relating to your use of the Website. We do not use Cookies for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy. By changing the Settings of the web browser, the user can refuse to accept Cookies or have the browser issue a warning when accepting Cookies. For details, please refer to your web browser instructions. However, if you refuse to accept Cookies, you may not be able to use all or part of the services provided by the Website.

3. Children

Children may not use the Website for any purpose unless their parents or guardians has provided consent.

We refer to children as users under the age of 18.

We do not deliberately collect personal information from children for any purpose. If you believe that we have personal information about a child without the consent of his/her parent/guardian, or if you are a parent or guardian of the user and wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us through the contact information specified on the Website, and we will delete such information.

(ii) How do we share your personal information

In general, we do not share your personal information with third parties, except in the following cases:

1. To process your personal information with our affiliates in response to your inquiry. We will only share personal information within the minimum necessary range, which is subject to the Privacy Policy.

2. To fulfill the obligations stipulated by laws and regulations.

3. To make sure the national security and national defense security.

4. To make sure the public health and public interests.

5. To respond to your own request, or acquire your express consent in advance.

6. To protect your or other individuals' life, property and other major legitimate rights and interests, which is difficult to get the consent of the person involved.

7. Personal information disclosed by the user himself/herself.

8. To share with third-party service providers. In order to provide you with more complete and quality services, we may share the necessary personal information of you with third-party service providers.

9. Other circumstances stipulated by laws and regulations.

(iii) How do we transfer your personal information

We may need to transfer your personal information due to the sale, merger, division, dissolution, declaration of bankruptcy, etc. in whole or in part. In such cases, we will inform you of the recipient's name and contact information, and require the recipient to continue to fulfill its obligations on personal information protection and continue to be bound by the Policy. If the recipient changes the original purpose or method of processing, we will require it to obtain your consent again.

(iv) How do we disclose your personal information

We will not disclose your personal information unless we have obtained your sole consent or based on the requirements of laws and regulations or governmental authorities.

III. Your rights

For the personal information relating to you that we collect and process through the Website, you enjoy the relevant legal rights within the scope stipulated by the applicable laws and regulations, and you can realize your rights concerning your personal information in the manners including but not limited to inquiry, correction, copying, deletion, withdrawal of consent, etc.

Depending on applicable law in effect at the time and in a country/state where you are a resident, you may be able to assert certain rights related to your Personal Data. The rights you may have include:

Right to Know/Access. You may have the right to obtain a copy, or a list of categories of the personal information that we hold about you, as well as other supplementary information, such as the purposes of processing, and the entities to whom we disclose your personal information.
Right to Correction/Rectification. You may have the right to correct any of your personal information in our files. You may request us to rectify, correct or update any of your personal information held by us that is inaccurate. You may also do this at any time by logging in to your account.
Right to Delete/Erasure. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we hold about you, or request us to deactivate/delete your account. This right is not absolute, and we may refuse your right to delete if there are compelling legitimate grounds for keeping your personal information, for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.
Right to Opt Out of Sale. You may have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. To exercise your right to opt-out, please submit a request by clicking on the “Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information” within the settings menu of your Device or Service.
Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising. You may have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information to third parties for behavioral advertising purposes. Like many websites, we use cookies, pixels, and similar technology, and we share certain information, such as your IP address or device identifiers, to certain third-party advertisers in order to improve your user experience and to optimize our marketing activities. You have the right to direct us not to share or use your personal information for targeted advertising purposes. To exercise your right to opt-out, please submit a request by clicking on the “Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information” within the settings menu of your Device or Service. Please note that you may still receive generalized ads after opting out of targeted advertising.
Right to Object to Use of Sensitive Information. In some jurisdictions, you may have the right to object to our processing of your sensitive personal information as defined and permitted under applicable law. However, we may continue to process your personal information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted under applicable laws.
Right to Object to Automated Decision-Making. In some jurisdictions, you may have the right not to be subject to a decision which significantly impact your rights that is based solely on automated processing (where a decision is taken about you using an electronic system without human involvement). No decision will be made by us about you solely on the basis of automated decision making which has a significant impact on you.
Right to Portability. Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive personal information we hold about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format so that you can provide that personal information to another entity.
Right Against Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

If you need to exercise any of your rights, please contact us by using the contact information in the part of "How do you contact us" of the Policy.

IV. Notice to California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the Consumer Privacy Rights Act of (“CCPA”), requires us to explain the “Personal Information” categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140(o)), that we collect, the reason we collect the Personal Information, where we obtain the Personal Information, and the other entities with whom we may share the Personal Information. Under the CCPA, Personal Information is defined as any information that 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 (“Personal Information”).

We generally collect the following categories of Personal Information in providing our services through our website:

identifiers such as a name, address, unique personal identifier, email, phone number, your device’s IP address, software, and identification numbers associated with your devices;
characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as gender;
commercial information such as records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered by you;
Internet or other electronic information regarding you browsing history, search history, the webpage visited before you came to our website, length of visit and number of page views, click-stream data, locale preferences, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, and system configuration information;
professional or employment-related information;
your geolocation, to the extent you have configured your device to permit us to collect such information; and
inferences about your preferences, characteristics, behavior and attitudes.

Do Not Track. Please note that we do not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that may allow you to opt out of the collection of information across networks of websites and online services as there is no standard for how online services should respond to such signals.

V. Notice to Individuals in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom

This section only applies to individuals using or accessing our Services while located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the United Kingdom and/or Switzerland (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) at the time of data collection.

We may ask you to identify which country you are located in when you use or access some of the Services, or we may rely on your IP address to identify which country you are located in. When we rely on your IP address, we cannot apply the terms of this section to any individual that masks or otherwise hides their location information from us so as not to appear located in the Designated Countries. If any terms in this section conflict with other terms contained in this Policy, the terms in this section shall apply to individuals in the Designated Countries.

Legal Basis. Article 6(1) of the GDPR describes when processing can be done lawfully. When we process your personal information for a specified purpose, we shall apply one of the Article 6 legal bases described below, including any Article 9 conditions for processing special categories of personal information.

Whenever we require your consent for the processing of your personal information such processing will be based on Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
If the processing of your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and LIGENT or for taking any pre-contractual steps upon your request, such processing will be based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. If this data is not processed, LIGENT will not be able to execute the contract with you.
Where the processing is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation, we will process your information on basis of Article 6(1)(c) GDPR, for example for complying with obligations under anti-money laundering laws.
Where the processing is necessary for the purposes of LIGENT’s or another party’s legitimate interests, such processing will be made in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, for example to enforce legal claims.

Below is a chart indicating the legal bases we rely in processing personal information.

Purposes of Processing	Legal Basis for Processing
To Provide the Services To Respond to Your Inquiries To Enforce our Terms and Agreements Provide Customer Support To Ensure the Security of the Service. Share with Affiliated Entities Share with Our Service Providers, Business Partners and Others	Processing is based on our contract obligations or to take steps at the request of the individual prior to entering into a contract.
To Personalize Your Experience on the Services For Research and Development Purposes Sharing Due to Corporate Reorganization	Processing is based on our legitimate interest to better understand you, to maintain and improve the accuracy of the information we store about you, and to better promote or optimize our Services.
To Ensure the Security of the Service. To Share Due to Law Enforcement Requests To Enforce our Terms and Agreements	Processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, the public interest, or in your vital interests.

If, in the future, we use your personal information in any way that is not described in this Privacy Notice, we will disclose this to you. At that time, you can choose not to allow us to use your personal information for any purpose that is incompatible with the purposes for which we originally collected it or subsequently obtained your consent. If you choose to limit the ways we can use your personal information, some or all of the Services may not be available to you.

VI. Storage and protection of personal information

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes described in the Policy, unless otherwise required by law or regulation. Your personal information is stored on our servers that are located in the territory of the People's Republic of China.

We take reasonable and feasible security measures in compliance with industrial code of conduct to protect your personal information and prevent unauthorized access, modification, damage or loss of personal information. To this end, we have taken the following measures:

(i) We take all reasonable and practicable measures to ensure that the collection of personal information is minimized and that we do not collect personal information that is not relevant to the achievement of purpose. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this statement, unless it is necessary to extend the retention period and is permitted by law;

(ii) We will use encryption technology to ensure the confidentiality of data transmission and storage. We use trusted protection mechanisms to protect data and the servers storing the data from malicious attacks;

(iii) We will deploy access control mechanisms to ensure that only authorized personnel can access to personal information; And control the quantity of authorized personnel and achieve hierarchical authority management for authorized personnel according to the business needs and personnel hierarchy; Access to personal information is logged and regularly audited by an administrator;

(iv) We will strictly select business partners and service providers, and implement the requirements on personal information protection in the business contract or audit, assessment and other activities of the two parties;

(v) We will organize security and privacy protection training courses, tests and publicity activities to enhance employees' awareness of the importance of protecting personal information.

In conclusion, we do our best to protect your personal information. However, no measure can be impeccable, and no product or service, website, data transmission, computer system or network connection is completely secure.

VI. Third-party links and related policies

The Website may contain links to other websites that are owned or operated by third-party that may collect and process your personal information. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy policies of any of such third parties. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of the related third-party and learn more about how it handles your personal information.

VII. update of the Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is subject to change. We will not reduce your rights under the Privacy Policy without your express consent. If we materially change the ways in which we use or disclose personal information previously collected from you through our websites, we will attempt to notify you through our websites, by email or by other reasonable means.

VIII. How do you contact us

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any rights, or if you have any requests to discuss with us, please contact our department responsible for dealing with the protection of personal information by:

LIGENT Inc.

Address:2580 N.First St,Suite #400, San Jose, CA 95131, U.S.A.

Website:www.ligent.com

Tel:1-408-353-0623

Email : mediarelations@ligent.com