General Data Privacy Statement

This privacy policy covers Novanta Inc. and its group companies, business units and brands including Cambridge Technology (including ATI Industrial Automation Inc, ARGES, Exotec Precision and Lincoln), Celera Motion (including Applimotion, Ingenia, MicroE, Westwind and Zettlex), JADAK (including General Scanning Printer Technologies, PhotoResearch, SkyeTek, ThingMagic), Laser Quantum, NDS (including Med X Change), Reach Technology, Synrad, WOM.

By using the websites of Novanta, its business units and brands, and its subsidiaries, you agree to our collection, processing, and usage of your data in accordance with the following terms.

Types of Data We Collect

You can visit our website without registration. When visiting our website, we store information such as accessed page or files viewed, date and time of visit (for statistical purposes) without relating these types of information to your identity or other personally identifiable information.

In order to access or use certain services or areas of this website we may ask you to register if you are not yet registered. Registration may include information on you and/or your company, such as your name, job title, email address and other information for enabling us to provide you with services and to send you information.

If you order products or services, we may ask for further information.

When visiting our website, we collect certain information about routing as well as technical information of your computer to facilitate your use of the website. For example, we register data like the browser type you are using, the operating system and the IP-address of your internet service provider. We store queries and their results, to improve the accuracy and efficiency of our search engine. We use your IP-address for statistical purposes and to track your usage of this website.

Transfer of Your Data

We do not sell your email address or other identifiable data to third parties. But we do pass on your data to Novanta’s business units, subsidiaries, and its sales channel partners.

We only pass on your personal data if we believe in good faith that we are entitled to do so either by law or on the basis of a legal process to respond to claims or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Novanta or others.

Data Security

Any feedback, information or materials submitted to Novanta through or in association with its websites (“Submissions”) shall be considered confidential by Novanta. Novanta is committed to ensuring the protection of individual user information. We, along with any third-party processors we may engage, have implemented security measures to protect individual user information collected on our website. However, the Internet is an open system, and we cannot and do not guarantee that the individual user information you have transmitted will not be intercepted by others and/or decrypted.

Links to Third-Party Sites

This web site contains links to web sites owned and/or controlled by parties other than Novanta. Novanta does not endorse or accept any responsibility for the use or content of any other web site, which you may access through this one. Novanta is providing these links to you only as a convenience. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of viruses and other items of a destructive nature.

Use of Cookies

Although acceptance of cookies is not required to visit Novanta websites, we do use cookies. Cookies are small text files stored on computer hard drives and are regularly used to analyze individual website activity. By collecting and remembering information about your visit to a website, cookies allow web applications to recognize and respond to your individual preferences. A cookie file may contain information that the website uses to respond to you as an individual and to tailor a website experience to your preferences.

Some parts of the Novanta websites use cookies. This enables Novanta to determine the usefulness of information provided to our users and to analyze the effectiveness of our navigational structure in providing you with that information. In the end, cookies help us provide you with a better website experience.

If you prefer not to receive cookies on our websites, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse a cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to not allow cookies, you will still be able to access the Novanta websites; however, this may affect your perceived usability of our website.

To adjust your browser’s cookie settings, here are links to the top browsers’ support sites:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge:  https://support.microsoft.com
• Google Chrome:  https://support.google.com/chrome
• Mozilla Firefox:  https://support.mozilla.org

Your Rights – Access on Information, Amendments, Right to Withdraw

We store client information, for example, chronology of orders and information on calling up the website for a period that is related to our business needs. Please contact us if you want to amend, adjust, or update any of your personal information you have sent us or if you have questions about your personal data that we maintain.

If you act within the EU or other legal systems that entitle you with the legal right to access your personal data, you have access to your personal data or the right to rectification or deletion in accordance with the applicable law, if you contact us.

You can decide to no longer receive information on the products, services, and activities of Novanta, its business units and brands, and its subsidiaries, and/or you can decide to deny the transfer of your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes, by contacting us directly.

If you wish to withdraw your consent regarding our processing of your data, you may do so at any time by providing notice to us in writing (e.g., be email or fax) or via this link: https://www.novanta.com/optout/

If you have complaints on the processing of your personal data, you can contact the data protection authority in the region of the Novanta facility nearest you.

Duration of Storage

We store your personal data for the time of your visit on our website or in the case of providing services or information to you until the legally prescribed term in accordance with the applicable principles of data protection.

Supplemental Privacy Notice for California Residents

This Supplemental Privacy Notice for California Residents (“California Notice”) supplements the information contained above and applies solely to consumers who reside in California. As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the “CCPA”), this California Notice is intended to provide certain disclosures about our handling of California consumers’ personal information and provide additional information regarding the rights that California consumers have with respect to their personal information.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

The categories of sources from which we collect personal information include:

• Collection from the individual
• Collection in the course of contractual or business interaction
• collection from official or public sources
• collection via automated means along with tele media utilization

We may use the categories of personal information listed above to operate, manage, and maintain our business, to provide our products and services, and to accomplish our business purposes and objectives, including, for example, using personal information to develop, improve and maintain our products and services; personalize, advertise, and market our products and services; comply with law, legal process, and internal policies; maintain records; exercise and defend legal claims.

In the preceding 12 months, we have not “sold” or “shared” any personal information of consumers, as the terms are defined under the CCPA. Furthermore, we do not knowingly sell or share personal information (including sensitive personal information) of individuals under 16 years of age.

We will retain Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined above unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

If you are a California resident, California law provides you with the following rights with respect to your personal information:

• The right to know what personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you. You also may designate an authorized agent to make a request for access on your behalf.
• The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information maintained about you.
• The right to request that we delete personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
• The right to direct a business that sells or shares personal information about you to third parties to stop doing so.
• The right to request that we limit our processing of sensitive personal information under certain circumstances.
• We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.

Exercise of CCPA rights:

You may exercise your rights by postal mail or fax.

Further Questions or Concerns

If you have further questions or concerns on any of the listed Novanta entities, you can contact our Global/European data protection officer by Mail:

Novanta
Attn: Data Privacy Officer, Legal Department
125 Middlesex Turnpike
Bedford, MA 01730 USA
Fax: +1-781-658-2012

Requests that do not have sensitive or confidential content can be sent by email to dataprotection@novanta.com

European Legal Entities

Policy date of revision: September 11^th, 2023

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