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Privacy Policy
ALTERA PRIVACY NOTICE
Last Updated: October 27, 2026
This Privacy Notice describes how Altera Corporation (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses and discloses information about you when you use our website (altera.com), applications, services, tools and features, or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the “Services”). For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. By using any of the Services, you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Notice. If you do not understand or agree to this Privacy Notice, please do not use or access the Services. To the extent the laws in your jurisdiction do not recognize the legal basis of legitimate interest or another legal basis specified in this Privacy Notice for a particular purpose, you consent to the processing of your personal information for that purpose by consenting to the processing described in this Privacy Notice.
For additional disclosures that are required by the laws of certain jurisdictions in which Altera operates, please see our Supplemental Privacy Notice at the end of this Privacy Notice.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We may modify this Privacy Notice from time to time, in which case we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to how we use or disclose information we collect, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you (such as by emailing you at the last email address you provided us or by posting notice of such changes on the Services) and will take additional steps as required by applicable law.If you do not agree to any updates to this Privacy Notice, please do not continue using or accessing the Services.
COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
When you use or access the Services, we collect certain categories of information about you from a variety of sources. In addition to the specific uses discussed below, we may use this information to provide and improve the Services and to maintain our business relationship, as a matter of our legitimate interests, including by enhancing the safety and security of our Services, providing customer support, complying with applicable legal obligations, enforcing any applicable terms of service and protecting our rights and the rights of our employees, users or other individuals.
Information You Provide to Us
Some features of the Services may require you to directly provide certain information, including information about yourself. You may elect not to provide this information, but doing so may prevent you from using or accessing these features. Information that you directly submit through our Services includes:
- Contact and account information, such as your name, username, email address, job title, company, industry, address, and phone number. We use this information to create and maintain your account and provide the Services, because it is in our legitimate interests to communicate with you (including to tell you about products or services that may be of interest to you, to the extent you have consented to receiving marketing communications from us).
- Payment information, such as credit or debit card information and billing address, which is collected on our behalf by our payment processor. We use this information to process your payment and provide the Services, as required to perform our contract with you.
- Applicant details, such as information included in your resume or CV, references, and job history. We use applicant details in our legitimate interests to process your application for employment and to evaluate your candidacy.
- User content, such as messages, photos, and recordings, submitted by you through certain components of the Services such as our online discussion forum, as required to perform our contract with you. We or others may store, display, reproduce, publish or otherwise use such content, and may or may not attribute it to you. Others may also have access to such content and may have the ability to share it with third parties. If you choose to submit content to any public area of the Services, your content will be considered “public” and will be accessible by anyone, including us.
- Any other information you choose to provide us or otherwise include in communications with us, for example, when sending a message through the Services, in our legitimate interests to be responsive to you, or participating in voluntary surveys, contests, or studies in connection with developer events and product rollouts.
Information Collected Automatically
We and third parties also automatically collect certain information about your interactions with the Services, including through cookies, pixels or other tracking technologies (“Tracking Technologies”). Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent to collect and process this information, and otherwise, we process this information in our legitimate interests to provide and improve the Services. In particular, this information is collected and used to personalize the Services for you, to target, deliver and measure interest-based advertising, to tailor your experience with the Services, provide you with offers or promotions, run analytics, and better understand user interactions with the Services. Such information includes:
- Device information, such as device type, operating system, unique device identifier and internet protocol (IP) address.
- Location information, such as approximate location based on IP address.
- Other information regarding your interaction with the Services, such as browser type, log data, date and time stamps, session-level behavioral data, interactions with marketing emails and ad impressions.
Most browsers accept Tracking Technologies automatically, but you may be able to control the way in which your devices permit the use of certain Tracking Technologies. If you so choose, you may block or delete certain Tracking Technologies from your browser; however, blocking or deleting cookies may cause some of the Services, including login features and general functionality, to work incorrectly. Your browser settings may allow you to transmit a signal or other mechanism for exercising your choice regarding the collection or processing of your information when you visit various websites. Given we do not deploy nonessential Tracking Technologies without first obtaining your consent, our website is not currently designed to respond to such signals.
For more information on how we use Tracking Technologies, please see our Cookies Policy.
Deidentified Information
Finally, we may deidentify or anonymize your information such that it cannot reasonably be used to infer information about you or otherwise be linked to you (“deidentified information”) (or we may collect information that has already been deidentified/anonymized), and we may use deidentified information for any purpose. To the extent we possess or process any deidentified information, we will maintain and use such information in deidentified form and not attempt to re-identify the information, except for the purpose of determining whether our deidentification process satisfies legal requirements.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Notice, including:
Vendors or other service providers who help us provide the Services, in order to perform our contract with you and in our legitimate interests, including for system administration, cloud storage, security, customer relationship management, marketing communications, analytics, generative AI and content creation, payment networks, payment processing and the deployment of Tracking Technologies.
Our affiliates or others within our corporate group, as a matter of our legitimate interests to efficiently provide the Services.
With another user, when you interact with another user on the Services or otherwise choose to share or make information visible to others, including other users, to perform our contract with you and in our legitimate interests to provide you with access to the Services.
- Professional advisors, such as auditors, law firms or accounting firms, as a matter of our legitimate interests to assess, protect, enforce and defend our rights and to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Third parties in connection with your application for employment, including companies who help us with background checks and other verifications, referees or other individuals whose details you provide for us to contact and obtain an employment reference about you, and recruitment agencies where relevant, as a matter of our legitimate interests to consider and process your application for employment.
Third parties in connection with or anticipation of an asset sale, merger, acquisition, or other business transaction, including in the context of a bankruptcy proceeding or other restructuring matter, as a matter of our legitimate interests to run a successful and efficient business.
For legal and security reasons and to protect our services and business, in our legitimate interests or as required by law, including to cooperate with law enforcement, judicial orders and regulatory inquiries, to detect and prevent against fraudulent or illegal activity, to exercise or defend legal claims and to ensure the safety and security of our business, employees and users, and to enforce our terms or other agreements.
While we do not sell personal information in the traditional sense, we disclose (and have disclosed in the preceding 12 months) the following categories of personal information for marketing and advertising purposes with providers of Tracking Technologies in a manner that may be considered “selling” or “sharing” as those terms are defined under applicable law: identifiers, Internet or similar network activity, and geolocation information (such as IP address). However, we have no actual knowledge that we have “sold” or “shared” the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.
THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND MATERIALS
We may provide links to third-party websites or platforms and display or make available content, data, applications or materials from third parties. If you follow links to sites or platforms that we do not control and are not affiliated with us, you should review the applicable privacy notice, policies and other terms. We are not responsible for the privacy or security of, or information found on, these sites or platforms, or the accuracy, completeness or reliability of third-party materials. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, such as third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.
DATA SECURITY AND RETENTION
We have implemented commercially reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. However despite our efforts to protect your information, no security measures are impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to send us sensitive or confidential information.
We retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this Privacy Notice. When determining the length of time to retain your information, we consider various criteria, including whether we need the information to continue to provide you the Services, resolve a dispute, enforce our contractual agreements, prevent harm, promote safety, security and integrity or protect ourselves, including our rights, property or products.
DATA TRANSFERS
The information we collect from you may be stored and processed in countries outside the jurisdiction in which you reside, including in the United States. By using the Services, you consent to the transfer of your information to countries outside your jurisdiction, including to countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as the jurisdiction you reside in. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable law.
For any transfers of data from the EEA or the UK to outside the EEA or the UK, the data transfer will be under the European Commission’s model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries (i.e., the standard contractual clauses; specifically, module one (controller to controller transfer) or module two (controller to processor transfer), as relevant), or the UK Information Commissioner’s international data transfer addendum to the EU standard contractual clauses, as relevant, unless the data transfer is to a country that has been determined by the European Commission or the relevant UK authorities, as applicable, to provide an adequate level of protection for individuals’ rights and freedoms for their personal data. Please contact us should you wish to see a copy of these clauses.
PRIVACY RIGHTS
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights in relation to your personal information. However, please note that a number of these rights only apply in certain circumstances, and all of these rights may be limited by law.
Access / Know: You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to obtain details about what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the information was collected, the business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Deletion / Erasure: You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
Correction: You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
Portability: You may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format, and to request that we transfer it to a third party.
Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to require us to stop, suspend or restrict our processing of personal information we hold about you.
Objection: You may have the right to object to our processing of your personal information.
Opt-Out of Marketing: You may opt out of marketing at any time by using the unsubscribe / opt-out instructions provided in our communications to you. If you opt out, we may still send you transactional or administrative messages, such as emails about your account.
Opt out of Sale or Sharing for Targeted Advertising. You may have a right to direct us not to sell your personal information or share your personal information for targeted advertising. To exercise this right, please click here: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you may have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
To make a request described in this section, or if you have any complaints about our data protection practices, please email us at privacy@altera.com. We will endeavor to respond to you within the time period as required under applicable data protection laws. We will not retaliate or discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. Further information may be needed to verify your identity before exercising these rights, such as your email address or government issued ID. Depending on your location, you may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney document, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us. You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority about how we process your personal data.
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
This section applies to you if you are a resident of California and we process personal information about you that is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).
In the preceding 12 months, we collected and disclosed to service providers (as described in the Disclosure of your Information section above) the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers, such as name, e-mail address, IP address
- Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute such as name, address, telephone number
- Commercial information such as records of products or services purchased
- Internet or other similar network activity such as information regarding your interaction with the Platform
- Geolocation data such as general location derived from your IP address
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information such as security video recordings
- Professional or employment-related information such as job title, company, industry
While we do not collect “sensitive personal information” (as defined under the CCPA) in the ordinary course of business, to the extent we do collect any such information, we only use and disclose it for purposes specified in the CCPA or otherwise in line with your consent, and we do not use or disclose it for purposes of inferring characteristics about you.
The categories of sources from which we collect your personal information and the specific purposes for which we collect and disclose (including “selling” and/or “sharing”) your personal information are described in the sections above, Collection andUse of Your Information and Disclosure of Your Information. The criteria we use to determine how long to retain your personal information is described in the section above, Retention of Your Information.
HOW TO CONTACT US
Should you have any questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, please email us at privacy@altera.com or contact us at:
Altera Corporation
ATTN: Privacy
101 Innovation Dr, San Jose, CA 95134 USA
Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:
IITR Datenschutz GmbH
Dr. Sebastian Kraska
Marienplatz 2
80331 Munich, Germany
Email: email@iitr.de
Telephone: +49 89 18917360
Our Korean Chief Privacy Officer can be contacted at privacy@altera.com.
SUPPLEMENTAL PRIVACY NOTICE
This Supplemental Privacy Notice supplements the Altera Privacy Notice and includes additional disclosures that are required by the laws of certain jurisdictions in which Altera operates. If you are located in one of the jurisdictions below, the disclosures set out below under the name of your jurisdiction apply to you in addition to the disclosures set out in the Altera Privacy Notice.
India
Introduction
In addition to the rights provided to you the Privacy Notice, you have additional rights in India, which are set out below:
Nominate [Section 14, DPDPA read with Rule 14(4), DPDP Rules]
The right to nominate an individual to exercise data protection rights on your behalf in the event of your death or incapacity. You can choose to appoint a nominee in accordance with our terms of service, as amended from time to time.
Notification of Data Breach [Section 8, DPDPA read with Rule 7, DPDP Rules]
If there is ever a data breach involving loss of, or unauthorised access to, your personal data from our servers, whether it happens in India or affects you as a resident of India, we will inform you immediately. Our notification to you will include: (a) a description of what happened, including the nature, extent, and timing of the breach; (b) the possible consequences that could affect you as a result of the breach; (c) the steps we have already taken and are continuing to take to reduce any risks; (d) the safety measures you can follow to help protect your information and interests; and (e) the contact details of our designated representative, who can answer any questions you may have about the incident.
At the same time, we will issue a preliminary notification to the Data Protection Board of India (DPB). This will share the nature, extent, timing, and location of the breach, as well as its potential impact. Within 72 (Seventy-two) hours, we will also file a detailed report with the DPB. Our report to the DPB will include all particulars as required by applicable data protection laws.
Complaints [Section 13, DPDPA read with Rule 14(3), DPDP Rules]
If you have any queries or concerns about our usage or processing of your personal data, you can contact us at privacy@altera.com, and we will attempt to resolve your grievances and effectively respond to your queries within a period of 30 days. However, under no circumstances will the resolution of your complaint take longer than 90 (ninety) days.
In case you are not satisfied with our resolution of your grievances, you have the right to approach the Data Protection Board of India with an appeal. As per applicable Indian data protection laws, you need to have exhausted your remedies available under our grievance redressal mechanism before making an appeal to the Data Protection Board of India.]
Japan
By agreeing to the Privacy Notice you consent to your personal information being transferred to and stored in the United States. We implement appropriate safeguards for this transfer and information handling by the transferee, including contractual protections with our service providers. Information about the personal information protection systems in the countries where your data is processed is available on the Personal Information Protection Commission website (English version / Japanese version).
Republic of Korea
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect your personal information for the purposes described in the Privacy Notice. Personal information that we collect from Republic of Korea is stored in and processed on our server located in the United States.
With regards to the legal basis of processing personal information, the following legal provisions under the PIPA applies:
(consent): we use this information pursuant with your consent, pursuant to Article 15(1)(1) of the PIPA.
(complying with legal obligations): we use this information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation pursuant to Article 15(1)(2) of the PIPA.
(contractual necessity): we use this information where necessary to perform our contract with you to provide our Services, pursuant to Article 15(1)(4) of PIPA.
Third-Party Provision of Personal Information
We do not currently provide your personal information to third parties for their own independent purposes. Where your personal information is processed by service providers on our behalf, please refer to the Delegation of Personal Information section below.
Delegation of Personal Information
For the performance of the services detailed in the Privacy Notice, we delegate the processing of your personal information to the following professional service providers:
Delegatee | Description of Delegated Services |
Amazon Web Services, Inc. | Cloud infrastructure hosting, data storage, and disaster recovery services |
Microsoft Corporation | Cloud services (Azure), identity and access management (Entra ID), endpoint management, and security services |
Salesforce, Inc. | Customer relationship management and sales operations platform |
Oracle Corporation | Cloud enterprise resource planning and enterprise performance management |
PTC, Inc. (Windchill / ThingWorx) | Product lifecycle management and CAD tools |
ServiceNow, Inc. | IT service management platform |
Blue Yonder, Inc. | Supply chain planning and management |
Content Square Inc. | Digital experience analytics and website optimization |
Overseas Transfer of Personal Information
We transfer personal information to third parties overseas as follows:
Legal Grounds | Recipient (Contact Information of Information Manager) | Country or Region to which Your Personal Information is to be Transferred | Date and Method of Transfer | Types of Your Personal Information to be Transferred | Purposes of Use by Recipients | Period of Retention of Use by Recipient |
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Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Amazon Web Services, Inc.(aws-korea-privacy@amazon.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | All personal information collected as necessary for cloud hosting, including identifiers, contact information, device information, IP addresses, and browsing/interaction data | Cloud infrastructure hosting, data storage, and disaster recovery | Duration of service agreement or per AWS Privacy Notice |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Microsoft Corporation (dpoffice@microsoft.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network at log-in and from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, contact information, device information, IP addresses, authentication credentials, and browsing/interaction data | Cloud services (Azure), identity and access management (Entra ID), endpoint management (Intune), and security (Defender) | Duration of service agreement or per Microsoft Privacy Statement |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Salesforce, Inc. (privacy@salesforce.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, contact information, commercial information, and interaction/communications data | Customer relationship management and sales operations | Duration of service agreement or per Salesforce Privacy Statement |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Oracle Corporation (privacy_kr_grp@oracle.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, contact information, commercial information, and financial/transaction data | Cloud enterprise resource planning and performance management | Duration of service agreement or per Oracle Privacy Policy |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | PTC, Inc. (privacy@ptc.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | User identifiers and access credentials | Product lifecycle management and CAD tools (Windchill / ThingWorx) | Duration of service agreement or per PTC Privacy Policy |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | ServiceNow, Inc. (privacy@servicenow.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, contact information, IT service request data, and system interaction data | IT service management | Duration of service agreement or per ServiceNow Privacy Statement |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Blue Yonder, Inc. (dataprivacy@blueyonder.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, supply chain transaction data, and order/logistics data | Supply chain planning and management | Duration of service agreement or per Blue Yonder Privacy Policy |
Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Content Square Inc. (privacy@contentsquare.com) | United States | Transmitted via information and communication network from time to time when necessary for service use | Identifiers, device information, IP addresses, browsing behavior and interaction data | Art. 28-8(1) PIPA | Content Square Inc. (privacy@contentsquare.com) |
You may refuse the overseas transfer of your personal information by contacting us at privacy@altera.com. If you refuse the overseas transfer of your personal information, your personal information will not be transferred overseas. However, you may not be able to use our services for which overseas transfer of personal information is necessary.
Data Destruction
With the exception of the personal information set out below, personal information, which has fulfilled the purpose for which it was collected or used, and has reached the period of time during which personal information was to be possessed, will be destroyed in an irreversible way. Personal information stored in electronic files will be deleted safely in an irreversible way by using technical methods, and printed information will be destroyed by shredding or incinerating such information.
The personal information detailed in section “Data Security and Retention” are required to be retained pursuant to the following laws:
| Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce, Etc. | Article 6 of the Act on the Consumer Protection in Electronic Commerce | In an electronic commerce or a mail-order sale:
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| Protection of Communications Secrets Act | Article 41 of the Decree of the Act, Article 15-2 of the Protection of Communications Secrets Act |
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Your Rights
You may exercise rights related to the protection of personal information by requesting access to your personal information or the correction, deletion, or suspension of processing of your personal information, or objecting to or requesting an explanation on an automated decision concerning your personal information, etc. pursuant to applicable laws such as the Personal Information Protection Act (“PIPA”). You may also exercise these rights through your legal guardian or someone who has been authorized by you to exercise the right. However, in this case, you must submit a power of attorney to us in accordance with the Enforcement Regulations of the PIPA. You can also withdraw your consent or demand a suspension of the personal information processing at any time.
Previous Versions of the Privacy Notice
You can find the previous version of the Privacy Notice below.