Privacy Policy
Date of last Revision: December 3, 2025
Overview
Rivos, Inc. (together with Rivos Systems UK Limited and Rivos France SAS, “Rivos”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), 3355 Scott Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA, is providing this privacy policy (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy”) to explain our personal information practices with respect to our website, communications, notifications and related services (“Services”). This Privacy Policy applies only to the use and collection of data by us in the course of our Services.
For the purposes of applicable data protection law: (i) if you are in the UK, the data controller is Rivos Systems UK Limited; (ii) if you are in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or Switzerland, the data controller is Rivos France SAS; and (iii) if you are located anywhere else, the data controller is Rivos, Inc. You can contact us at privacy@rivosinc.com if you have any privacy-related questions.
Where and as permitted by applicable law, by using our Services, you acknowledge the terms of this Privacy Policy and, if you provide us with information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a natural person or household, such as a name, postal address, email address, telephone number (hereinafter “Personal Information”), you acknowledge the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy before sharing Personal Information as it provides important information regarding your access to and use of our Services, our data and privacy practices, and explains your rights. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any Personal Information and do not use our Services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Rivos reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a new or updated Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to how we process the Personal Information we collect, we will use the reasonable means available to us in order to make you aware of any update to this Privacy Policy (such as by emailing you at the most recent email address you provided us, by posting notice of such changes on the Services or by other means consistent with applicable law) and will take additional steps as required by applicable law. However, we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes.
Personal Information We Collect
Information Provided By You Directly
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following Personal
Information about you that you affirmatively provide to us, including your:
● Name;
● Address;
● Country;
● Telephone number; and
● Email address.
We may collect this information from you when you email us, call us, or otherwise contact us.
Job Applicants
If you apply for a job with us, we will collect and have collected additional
information in connection with your application, namely your:
● Name and contact information;
● Work authorization status;
● Resume, CV, cover letter, work experience, and education information;
● Skills;
● Professional and work-related licenses, permits, and certifications held;
● Reference-related information; and
● Any other information related to your professional experience that is publicly available on LinkedIn or that you elect to provide to us (e.g., current salary, expected salary).
Such information may be collected from you directly, from your references, from a recruiter, from your prior employers, from background checking firms, and from your places of education. We will use this information to evaluate your candidacy, including by processing your application, assessing your qualifications, corresponding with you, and complying with legal obligations. In some countries, we will provide you with additional information about how we process your data in line with local law requirements where you are applying to work (for example, if you apply for a job in the UK, we will provide additional UK- specific information). In case of any conflict, the country-specific information takes precedence.
Information Collected Automatically
We also may collect information about how you use the Services online for the operation and improvement of the Services, namely your: browser information, operating system information, unique device identifiers or your IP address, referring site, visit metrics, action metrics, page view metrics, search metrics.
This automatically collected information may be collected through technologies provided by third parties. Information that might be collected using these technologies includes the pages you visit on our online Services, the paths you take within our online Services, and the length of time that you spend on the Services. We use this information in the aggregate in order to better understand how to improve the quality of the Services.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We will process your Personal Information in order to operate our Services. This includes the following uses:
First, we process Personal Information for the performance of a contract to which you are a party:
● To provide services to you.
Second, we process Personal Information based on our legitimate interests to provide effective services and run a successful business:
● To verify your identity.
● To process job applications.
● To contact you directly, when you provide us your contact information so we can respond to your request.
● As incident to a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or similar event.
● Under circumstances we believe reasonably necessary to protect the personal safety of users of Rivos products, our Services, or the public.
● To better understand your needs and how we can improve our products and Services accordingly.
● To provide you with customized advertising or marketing (where required, we will obtain your consent to such advertising or marketing). If we contact you by email, you can opt-out of receiving future emails from us at any time by following the instructions in the email or notifying us at opt-out@rivosinc.com.
Finally, we process Personal Information to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject, e.g., to detect and prevent fraudulent activities.
How We Disclose Your Personal Information
We do not sell and have not sold in the past 12 months your Personal Information. Personal Information may be disclosed, at times, with the following recipients (unless otherwise stated, we disclose Personal Information to these parties on the basis of our legitimate interest to provide effective services and run a successful business):
● our affiliates for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and (acting as processors on our behalf) for the purposes of assisting us in delivering the Services; and third party service providers we hire as processors to assist in the administration of the Services and/or the processing or handling of customer information on our behalf (such service providers are required to maintain the confidentiality of user information, are prohibited from using it for any purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy, and reasonable steps have been taken to ensure such third party service providers comply with applicable privacy laws);
● third parties to whom you request or direct us to disclose information, such as through your use of social media widgets; and
● competent authorities and other third parties, as required by law, such as when compelled by subpoena or court order;
If Rivos sells all or part of its business or the equity ownership thereof, makes a sale or transfer of all or a material part of its assets, or is otherwise involved in a merger, reverse merger, or transfer of all or a material part of its business, Rivos may disclose and transfer your Personal Information to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that transaction. We make such transfers on the basis of our legitimate interests to run a successful business and to facilitate coordination between members of our corporate family.
Links
Our online Services may contain links to third party websites. Please recognize that we do not control these third party websites, or how they may collect or use information that you may provide to them. Your use of third party websites, along with the use of any information that such websites may collect from you, are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should consult each applicable privacy policy before using another linked website.
Do Not Track
Because we may use the information that we collect through our online Services in the ways described in this Privacy Policy, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” requests or other similar mechanisms.
Security of Data Stored by Rivos
Rivos has implemented reasonable security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control. While we make reasonable efforts to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent third parties from illegally obtaining this information. If you have reason to believe that the security of your communications or Personal Information has been compromised, please immediately notify us at privacy@rivosinc.com.
Collection of Personal Information from or About Children
We do not knowingly collect or process Personal Information from persons under age 16. If we learn that we have collected the personally identifying information of a user under the age of 16 without obtaining the prior consent of the holder of parental responsibility over him/her, we will take steps to delete the concerned information.
If you are a parent and you think we have inadvertently collected and processed Personal Information from your child who is under 16 (or under the age of majority where you live), you may contact us by sending an email to privacy@rivosinc.com to request that we delete his or her information from our records.
Transfer of your Personal Information
As Rivos is located in the United States, your Personal Information needs to be transferred to the United States for the purposes referred to under this Privacy Policy, in particular for the performance of the Services. Please contact privacy@rivosinc.com should you need more information in that respect.
Your Personal Information may also be shared with the recipients referred to above, which are located in the United States or in a different country, in particular the United Kingdom, countries within the EEA, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, such transfer being also required in order to provide you with the Services.
Please note that, in some of these countries, the privacy and data protection laws and rules may vary from those in the country where you live. If the transfer is to a country or territory that has been determined by the European Commission or the relevant UK authorities, as applicable, to provide an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information, we will rely on the relevant adequacy decision for the transfer. Where your Personal Information is transferred to a recipient located in a country outside of the EEA whose legislation has not been recognized by the European Commission as having an adequate level of protection, we ensure that the transfer is governed by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (generally modules 1 and 2 for controller-to-controller and controller-to-
processor transfers) accessible here, or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office’s equivalent transfer mechanism, accessible here, as relevant. Please contact us via the contact details set out at the end of this Privacy Policy if you would like to obtain a copy of the relevant transfer mechanism.
Where and as permitted by applicable law, by using our Services, you consent to the transfer of this personally identifying information and non-personally identifying information and to our use of such information as outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are located in a country embargoed by the United States, you will not engage in commercial activities using the Services. You will not use the Services if you are prohibited from receiving products, services, or software originating from the United States.
Retention of Your Personal Information
We retain your Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. 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. We are under no obligation to store such Personal Information indefinitely and disclaim any liability arising out of, or related to, the destruction of such Personal Information.
We will keep your Personal Information during the period of our contractual relationship, extended by the applicable limitation period. With respect to the processing carried out in order to protect the personal safety of users of Rivos products, our Services, or the public, we will keep your Personal Information for the duration of your use of Rivos products or Services. As to the processing carried out in order to comply with a legal obligation, we will keep your Personal Information for the duration of such obligation.
On the expiry of the applicable data retention period, we will erase or irrevocably anonymize the relevant Personal Information.
Your Rights
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or any disclosure of Personal Information to third parties, please send an email containing your request to privacy@rivosinc.com. You must provide your full name and email address.
Depending on your location, you may have rights in relation to and that depend on our reason for processing your Personal Information as a data controller. In particular, you may have the right to:
● be informed of your rights prior to our collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information and know why such information is being collected, how it will be used, how long it will be retained for, the security measures adopted to protect such information, when it was last accessed or modified, who it will be disclosed to and names and addresses of recipients;
● not identify yourself, or use a pseudonym in certain circumstances;
● access to Personal Information processed concerning you, including a historic view of such information and information about automated processing of Personal Information where the data will likely be the sole basis for a decision concerning you;
● rectification of inaccurate Personal Information concerning you, in some cases within certain prescribed time limits, and a right to erasure;
● restrict processing or reject it based on reasonable grounds;
● erasure;
● data portability;
● object to the processing on grounds relating to your particular situation;
● withdraw consent previously provided (however, a withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing of your Personal Information that occurred prior to the date of withdrawal); and
● lodge a complaint directly with us, or with a supervisory authority in the EEA country in which you live or work or where you consider an infringement occurred, or with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, as applicable to you, if you believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. To exercise any of your rights, please contact us by email at privacy@rivosinc.com. Rivos will respond to your request in a reasonable timeframe.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, or need to access the policy in an alternative format due to a disability, please contact us at privacy@rivosinc.com.