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HONEYWELL CONNECTED HOME PRIVACY STATEMENT This Privacy Statement covers the use of certain Honeywell products and services delivered to you via apps or web pages, including Honeywell software for use on Honeywell products and communications networks, Honeywell software allowing web-based interface and underlying functionality and access to Honeywell services, Honeywell web and mobile device applications software, Honeywell websites, and any Honeywell networks related to any of the foregoing (collectively, the ?Honeywell Services? or ?Services?) and the licensure of software products identified above, which includes computer and application software and may include associated media, printed materials, and "online" or electronic documentation, and any future versions, releases, updates, patches, error fixes and bug fixes of the above software ("Honeywell Software"). For convenience, we refer to the combination of products, software, websites, apps, and services we provide to you as the ?System.?
You understand that through your use of the System you consent to the collection and use of certain information as described in this Privacy Statement, including the transfer of this information to the United States and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by Honeywell. Although the laws that protect personal information in those countries may differ from the laws where you live, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected. By using our websites and giving your information to us, you consent to the transfer of the data outside of your country of residence. This Privacy Statement is subject to change and we will notify you in the event of a material change by posting such change prominently on the System; your continued use of the System after such changes will indicate your consent to the revised Statement.
Honeywell collects information relating to you and your use of the System in order to provide services and features that are easy to use and responsive to your needs. We use the term ?Consumer Information? to refer to any personally identifiable or anonymous information relating to you or your use of the System. We use Consumer Information for a wide variety of purposes, as described below:
[ul][li]Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Statement, we do not share your Contact Information with anyone without your express consent.[/li]
[li]?Contact Information? means information that allows someone to identify or contact you or any user authorized by you to contact or interface with the System (e.g., your name, address, telephone number, email address). We may use your Contact Information to market Honeywell and third-party products and services to you via various methods. [/li]
[li]You can stop the delivery of future promotional emails from us by following the specific instructions in advertising emails you may receive. These choices do not apply to the receipt of mandatory service communications that are considered part of the Services. [/li]
[li]?Service Information? means information necessary or useful to us in providing the System to you. Examples of Service Information includes, but is not limited to, your home profile (e.g., zip or postal code, home size), home system configuration (e.g., appliances monitored by the System, schedule, mode, automation, thermostat, security, and lifestyle system settings), devices you use and how/when you use them (e.g., types, model numbers, software version numbers, OS types) which will enable us to provide you with information regarding upgrades, error fixes, and software updates, and the level of Service. This information is used by us for the operation of the System, to provide the Services, to maintain quality of the System and Services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the System, among other things. We may also use Service Information for customer support, System restoration, and research and development activities for new products and services, and other similar purposes. Finally, we may provide certain Service Information to selected third parties, such as our business partners, for marketing purposes, where we have obtained your specific consent. [/li]
[li]?Usage Information? related to thermostats is information including, but not limited to, actual indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity information, GPS/geolocation information, thermostat usage data such as heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (?HVAC?) relay status, runtimes, settings, time of events in home, audio clips, HVAC diagnostic and usage logs from the HVAC system and alerts from the HVAC system, as well as information about your electrical usage relating to electrical loads monitored by the System, your overall household electrical usage, the interaction of your thermostat and third party devices and your use of the System, among other things. ?Usage Information? related to security, video, fire or lifestyle systems is information including, but not limited to, the time of events in the home, scheduling, arm/disarm or other usage schedules, usage and alert logs, including your use of the functions and features available in the System, video or audio clips of activities in the home or business, GPS/geolocation information, and photos stored in the System. We receive this type of information from your System and we may collect this information and other similar Usage Information for other products we may offer now or in the future. Usage Information may also include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses and Wi-Fi service set identifier. This information is used by us for the operation of the System, to provide the Services, to maintain quality of the System and Services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the System. We may use personally identifiable Usage Information to provide you with feedback about your energy use, your security and home automation system and controls, to help you set energy goals/budgets and track your progress, and to provide you customized content (such as tips and recommendations for reducing energy usage, home security tips, home automation advice, trend monitoring, energy analytics, etc.) and other purposes similar to the foregoing. We may also use Usage Information for customer support, System restoration, and research and development activities for new products and services, and other purposes similar to the foregoing. Finally, we may provide certain Usage Information to selected third parties, such as our business partners, for marketing purposes, where we have obtained your specific consent. [/li]
[li]Sometimes we may ?anonymize? Consumer Information by removing any identifier that can be associated with your personal Contact Information. Anonymous Consumer Information helps us develop reports and analyses about how our customers use our System and for other research such as behavioral inferences. We may publically share or sell anonymous Consumer Information and reports and analyses based on anonymous Consumer Information. We may disclose aggregated, anonymous Consumer Information, and analyses and reports derived from such information to third parties including utilities, our service providers, suppliers, advertisers, merchants, consumer and market research companies and other organizations. [/li]
[li]We use tools to collect information from users of the System, including cookies and web beacons; we may use these tools to remember personal information when you use the Services in order to understand and analyze trends, to administer the System, to learn about user behavior on the System, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may use this information in our marketing and advertising both on and off the System. You can change the settings to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting cookies from a website you visit. If you decline cookies your service with the System may be slower and not optimal. We use 4 types of cookies at Honeywell: (1) Strictly Necessary, (2) Performance, (3) Functionality & Profile and (4) Advertising.[/li][/ul]
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