In order to provide you with the best products and services, we share your personal information among our affiliates, service providers, and other third parties as described in this section.
Related Organizations. We may share some or all of your personal information with parent and subsidiary companies and companies under shared corporate control for the purposes described in Section 4 above.
Service Providers. We may from time to time use business partners, suppliers, and sub-contractors (“Service Providers”) to assist us with the provision of services to you (for example, without limitation, website hosting, app design, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, app analytics, billing, payment processing, fraud protection, credit risk reduction, marketing, or improvement of services). These Service Providers have access to your personal information only to perform the respective tasks assigned to them on our behalf, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Compliance with Laws. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose your personal information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties in response to lawful requests when we believe disclosure or sharing is necessary to comply with any legal obligation, enforce or apply our terms and conditions, respond to claims and legal process, protect our services, members, dealers, our rights and/or the safety of the public or any person, or prevent or stop any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity (including for the purposes of fraud protection).
Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets. We may share or transfer some or all of your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction, or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, termination or transfer of all or part of one or more license or other agreement(s) regarding the Volcom brand, disclosure or another transaction under which a third party assumes control of all or a portion of our business or assets. In the event of any of the foregoing or in any insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, personal information may be transferred as a business asset. If another company or individual acquires our business, or assets, that company or individual will possess the personal information collected by us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Policy.
Other Legitimate Business Purposes. We may also disclose your personal information when it may be necessary for other legitimate purposes as reasonably determined by us, in which case we will notify you of such use via telephone, email, and/or a prominent notice on our website.