Effective:October 1, 2026

Introduction

Protecting your privacy is important to NEC Corporation of America ("NEC", "we", "our," or "us"). We are committed to handling your personal information with the utmost responsibility and transparency. As used in the Notice, personal information means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated, linked, or linkable with a particular individual. The purpose of this Privacy Notice (“this Notice”) is to inform you about the types of information we collect about you when you visit https://group.nec/us/en/ and other webpages that we operate which link to this Notice ("Website") (such as when you submit an online job application with NEC or provide us with the information through NEC’s marketing efforts or other business interactions) how we may use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and your rights and choices as it pertains to that information.

Please take a moment to read this Notice to learn how we handle your personal information. If you have any questions regarding this Notice, please contact us using the Contact Us form or the contact information at the end of this Notice.

Scope

This Notice applies to personal information collected in connection with your interactions with NEC, including through our websites, recruitment activities, marketing activities, customer onboarding processes, facility access procedures, events, trade shows, product demonstrations, and other business interactions, unless a separate privacy notice applies.

This Notice is intended to describe NEC's general privacy practices. Different or supplemental privacy notices may apply to specific products, services, solutions, events, or activities. Where NEC processes personal information on behalf of enterprise customers, such processing is governed by the applicable contractual arrangements and data protection terms.

Legal Basis for Collecting/Processing your Personal Information

We only process personal information in a lawful and fair manner and when permitted to do so. We receive your personal information directly from you, from your employer (e.g., our customer or business partners) or through automated means. We may aggregate your personal information to a non-identifiable format and use such data to improve and develop our services and solutions. Where applicable law requires us to identify a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely on one or more of the following:

• You have clearly given your voluntary consent to the processing;
• The processing is necessary for entering into, or performance of a contract to which you are party;
• The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation;
• The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of an individual;
• The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest; or
• We, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in using your personal information to achieve the purposes of processing, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights.

How We Collect Information

We collect information from a variety of sources. The following are categories of sources from which information may be collected:

• From you when you contact us via the "Contact Us" section on the Website, or otherwise actively provide us with information;
• From business partners, third parties, service providers, contractors, and processors, including data analytics providers and, where applicable, providers of marketing-related information;
• Automatically from your computer or mobile device through cookies and other online tracking technologies (see the Cookies section of this Notice for more information);
• From public sources of data such as government databases or entities; and
• From our commercial partners, enterprise clients, and customers who request certain services to be provided.

Information We Collect

The specific pieces of personal information that NEC collects, uses, and discloses depend on how you use our Website and/or on our marketing efforts and business interactions with you.
The categories of personal information we may collect on our Website include:

• Contact and identity information (such as your first name, last name, username or similar identifier, institution, specialty, email address(es), mailing or billing address(es), telephone numbers, country).
• Internet or other Electronic/Online Network Activity Information (such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, domain name from which you accessed the Website, type of mobile device, date and time you visit the Website, areas or pages of the Website that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing the Website, the number of times you return to the Website, and other click-stream data).

Through our recruitment activities, customer onboarding processes, facility access procedures, trade shows, product demonstrations, and other business interactions, we may also collect additional categories of Personal Information, including:

• Personal identifiers (such as your Social Security number, Driver's License/State ID number, and/or Passport number).
• Financial information (such as credit/debit card number, billing information, and/or bank account number).
• Marketing and communications data (such as information on when you receive and read marketing communications, the events you attend, and/or marketing and communications preferences).
• Employment/Professional information (such as occupation, title, and/or work experience).
• Profile data (such as information you provide on our electronic portals and platforms, including usernames and passwords, purchases or orders, interests, biography, profile settings, marketing and communication preferences, alert and display preferences, date and stage of registration, account status and level of access, comments, feedback, and/or survey responses).
• Usage data (such information related to your use of our website, electronic portals, platforms, mobile applications, local area networking facilities and similar electronic services, interactions with mobile applications).
• Demographic information (such as age, date of birth, gender, and/or ethnicity).
• Personal characteristics (such as veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, and/or familial information).
• Health-related information (such as medical history).
• Biometric information (such as fingerprints, face scans, voice recordings, and/or photographs/images).
• Sensory data (such as audio recordings of customer support calls, electronic, thermal, visual, and/or similar information).
• Geo-location information (such as city, state, zip code, physical location and/or movements).
• Internet or other Electronic/Online Network Activity information (such as IP address, browsing history, search history, device type, operating system, and/or duration of session).
• Inferences drawn from the above categories of personal information reflecting your preferences, characteristics, behaviors, attitudes and/or abilities.

In addition to the above categories, you may provide us with additional pieces of information when you fill in a form or communicate with us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may combine various types of data that we collect, including data from our commercial partners, enterprise clients, customers, or other sources for use in an aggregated and anonymized manner.

Cookies

We may use cookies, web beacons or similar online tracking technologies to collect the information described above. A cookie is a small text file that may be stored on the hard drive of your computer or device when you access the Website. We may also use cookies to: (1) provide you with customized content or offers on the Website; (2) monitor Website usage; (3) remember you when you return to the Website; and (4) conduct internal research to improve our content and services. You are free to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Websites or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Targeting cookies and similar technologies are disabled by default and are activated only if you affirmatively choose to enable them through our cookie preference center. If you enable Targeting cookies, third-party providers may place or access cookies and similar technologies on your device as described in our Cookie Policy and cookie preference center.

Those third parties’ handling of information collected through their technologies is subject to their own privacy and cookie notices. Information about the applicable providers is available through our cookie preference center.

For further details regarding our use of cookies, including the types of cookies we use and how you can manage your cookie preferences, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

The Company’s consent management platform recognizes both browser-based Do Not Track (DNT) signals and Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. When either a DNT or GPC signal is received, Targeting Cookies are disabled by default. If a user subsequently makes an explicit choice regarding Targeting Cookies through the cookie preference center, the user's explicit choice takes precedence over the DNT/GPC signal, to the extent permitted by applicable law. You may review or change your preferences at any time through using the cookie preference center on our website.

How We Use Information

We use the data we collect for the following purposes:

• To provide a product or service to our commercial partners, enterprise clients, and customers;
• To provide trouble shooting services and to protect our services, products, and solutions against security and cyber threats, and to prevent such threats;
• To conduct customer experience surveys to validate customer needs and improve and develop our services;
• To respond to requests that you send us, such as orders, questions or product registrations;
• To administer, protect and improve our Website and our systems;
• To better understand the preferences of our Website visitors;
• To compile aggregated statistics about Website usage;
• To help personalize your customer support experience or use of our Website;
• To improve our products and services and for other internal business purposes;
• To administer our business pages on social media sites;
• To provide you with information about our technologies, product or service releases, news, and other communications;
• To assess your interest in job opportunities and communicate with you about potential employment at NEC;
• Any other business purpose permitted by applicable law or as we describe at the point where we collect the data.

Retaining Your Personal Data

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, to satisfy any legal or regulatory obligations, or to resolve disputes, we will retain your personal information (including the categories of personal information discussed in the sections above) for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it. In determining what constitutes an appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether those purposes can be achieved through other means.

Disclosures of Personal Information

NEC does not sell your personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration. NEC also does not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. As described in the Cookies section, Targeting cookies are disabled by default and are activated only if you affirmatively choose to enable them through the cookie preference center. However, we disclose the categories of personal information listed above with the following categories of recipients for the purposes outlined in this Notice:

• Affiliated Entities. We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries and corporate affiliates, including future subsidiaries and affiliates of NEC, to use your information consistent with this Notice.
• Service Providers, Contractors, and Processors. We may disclose personal information to service providers, contractors, and processors that perform services on our behalf, such as data analysis, online advertising and marketing support services, payment processing, order fulfillment, IT services, credit information services, customer service, and other similar services. We provide personal information to these recipients only as reasonably necessary for them to perform services on our behalf and require them by contract to process the information in accordance with applicable law and the terms of our agreements.
• Third-Party Marketing Technologies. Targeting cookies and similar technologies are disabled by default and are activated only if you affirmatively enable them through the cookie preference center. If you enable these technologies, third-party providers may place or access cookies and collect information directly from your browser or device. These providers are not NEC service providers or processors and are not parties to contracts with NEC governing their collection or use of information through their technologies.
• Government Authorities. We may disclose personal information to government authorities. For example, we may do so as required by law or in the interest of protecting or exercising our or others' legal rights, such as, without limitation, in connection with requests from law enforcement officials and in connection with court proceedings.
• Business Transfers or Assignments. In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may transfer any information that we collect from Website users or offline to a third party.
• Permission. We may disclose personal information to recipients where you have granted us permission, and we reserve the right to fully use and disclose any information collected via the Website that has been aggregated or deidentified so that it cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable individual, subject to applicable law. Where required, we will maintain and use deidentified information without attempting to reidentify it.

International Data Transfers

NEC may transfer your personal information outside of the country where you are located. This includes transfers to other NEC Group companies, third-party service providers, business partners, or, in limited circumstances, to cooperate with law enforcement or other government agencies worldwide. The countries to which your personal information may be transferred may not have data protection laws similar to those of your country. However, we will protect and transfer your personal information in accordance with applicable data privacy laws and as described in this Notice.

Your Rights

Depending on where you reside and subject to applicable law, you may have some or all of the rights described below regarding your personal information. The availability and scope of these rights may vary, and certain exceptions may apply.

• Right to know and access. You may have the right to confirm whether we process your personal information and to request access to the personal information we maintain about you. You may also have the right to receive information about the categories of personal information we collect, the purposes for which we use it, the categories of sources from which it is collected, and the categories of third parties to which it is disclosed.
• Right to data portability. You may have the right to receive certain personal information in a portable and, where technically feasible, readily usable format.
• Right to correction. You may have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
• Right to deletion. You may have the right to request deletion of personal information that we maintain about you, subject to applicable exceptions.
• Rights relating to sensitive personal information. You may have the right to limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information or to withdraw consent to its processing. Where applicable law requires consent before we process sensitive personal information, we will request that consent.
• Right to opt out. You may have the right to opt out of the sale of personal information, the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, the processing of personal information for targeted advertising, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
• Right to information about third parties. Where required by applicable law, you may have the right to request a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal information or other information concerning those disclosures.
• Right to appeal. If we decline to act on your request, you may have the right to appeal our decision.
• Right to nondiscrimination. You have the right not to receive unlawful discriminatory treatment for exercising a privacy right.

These rights are not absolute, and certain jurisdictions may provide additional rights or impose different requirements. Where applicable law provides a right or protection that is not expressly described in this Notice, NEC will honor that right or protection as required by law. Additionally, a right may not apply to you or to particular information, and we may decline or limit a request where permitted by applicable law. If we deny a request, we will provide the information required by applicable law, which may include the basis for the denial and instructions for submitting an appeal.

NEC does not currently sell personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. However, the definitions of “sale,” “sharing,” and “targeted advertising” vary under applicable U.S. state privacy laws. To the extent that an activity described in this Notice is treated as a sale, sharing, or targeted advertising under applicable law, you may exercise available privacy choices through our “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” page. That page explains the cookie controls, browser-based privacy signals, and preference-management options available on our websites.

We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. We process sensitive personal information only as reasonably necessary and proportionate to provide requested products or services, maintain security and integrity, prevent fraud or unlawful activity, protect physical safety, perform services on behalf of the business, and verify, maintain, or improve the quality or safety of our products, services, and systems, or as otherwise permitted by law.

Exercising Your Rights

In connection with our Website or marketing efforts, we may ask you specifically whether you have objections to a certain kind of data use or disclosure. If you opt out under such circumstances, we will respect your decision.

To exercise any other rights as described in this Notice, please submit a verifiable request by contacting us using the Contact Us form or contact information at the end of this Privacy Notice. Please describe your request and provide the information reasonably necessary for us to identify the personal information to which the request relates.

We will respond to within the period required by applicable law. If permitted, we may extend the response period and will notify you of the extension and the reason for it.

We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before processing a request to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal information. The verification information we request will depend on the nature of the request and the sensitivity of the information involved. We will use personal information provided for verification only to verify and process the request, prevent fraud, or as otherwise permitted by law.

We will not require you to verify your identity to a degree that is disproportionate to the nature of an opt-out request. We may request information reasonably necessary to identify the browser, device, account, transaction, or processing activity to which the opt-out applies.

Where permitted by applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. We may request evidence that you authorized the agent to act for you and may take reasonable steps to verify your identity or confirm the authorization directly with you. We will not require direct confirmation where applicable law provides otherwise.
If we cannot verify your identity or authority to the degree required for the applicable request, we may be unable to fulfill all or part of the request. We will notify you of our inability to fulfill any such request as required by applicable law. You may have the right to appeal requests that have been denied by contacting us through our Contact Us form. Please identify the original request and explain the basis for your appeal. We will review and respond to the appeal within the period required by applicable law and will provide any additional information required by law.

We will not restrict or deny you access to our services because of choices and requests you make in connection with your personal information.

Security

Transmissions over the Internet are never 100% secure or error-free. While we take reasonable steps to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction, we cannot warrant the security of any information users transmit to us.

Children and Minors

The Website is intended for a general business audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the Website without any consent or authorization required by applicable law. Certain jurisdictions provide additional protection for minors, including teenagers, or require consent for particular processing activities involving minors. Where applicable, NEC will obtain any required consent and honor rights available to minors or their parents or legal guardians. NEC does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age. If you are a parent and become aware that your child has provided us with information, please contact us using the Contact Us form or the contact information at the end of this Notice, and we will work with you to address the issue.

California's "Shine the Light" Law

If you are a California resident, you are entitled, once a year and free of charge, to request information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. Note: NEC does not sell or share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, as those terms are defined by the statute, without your consent or providing the option to opt out.

Amendments

This Privacy Notice is effective October 1, 2026. We may update and amend this Privacy Notice from time to time, so please check the most recently posted version whenever you visit this Website.

Contact Us

If you have questions about your personal information or your rights under this Notice, please feel free to contact us through our Contact Us form or at the following address:

Customer Information Privacy Practices
c/o Legal Department
NEC Corporation of America
5205 N. O'Connor Blvd., Suite 400
Irving, TX 75039