We may disclose your Personal Information for any purpose with your consent. Except as described below, we will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.
We also may share your Personal Information with these categories of third parties for the following purposes:
Service providers and business partners
We engage service providers, online advisors and business partners to assist us with operating and providing your access to our website and other NI services. These service providers or business partners may perform advertising services, process secure payments, fulfill orders, optimize services, provide integration services for our customers, provide technical services, serve online behavioral advertising, send newsletters and surveys, support email and online community services, administer polls and surveys, and analyze information to help us improve our business. Some of our service providers or business partners may engage their own service providers or business partners to further assist us. In these instances, the receiving party is not permitted to retain, use or disclose Personal Information for any purpose other than for performing the specific business purpose on our behalf.
NI Partner Network
NI Partners are specialized experts that we may ask to contact you regarding a service or product you request. In such a case, we will share only relevant contact information and information about the relevant service or product you have requested with the NI Partners. The NI Partners then contacts you regarding your request. More information on NI Partners is available at https://www.ni.com/partners/.
Joint seminars
NI occasionally partners with other companies in an effort to provide the most relevant and detailed information for your measurement and automation applications. In some cases, NI and such third parties conduct joint seminars where we may conduct joint marketing activities in which both NI and the third party receive your Personal Information after providing appropriate notice to you and an opportunity for you to opt out of sharing your Personal information for marketing activities.
Where required by law or for other protective reasons
We may share your Personal Information with law enforcement agencies, courts, other government authorities or other third parties where we believe it necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.
We also may share your Personal Information in connection with fraud protection or other legal action, or if NI reasonably believes it is necessary to protect NI, its customers or the public.
In the context of a merger, acquisition or sale
We may share your Personal Information with potential transaction partners, service providers, advisors and other third parties in connection with negotiation or completion of a corporate transaction in which NI is acquired by or merged with another company or in which NI sells or transfers all or a portion of its assets or business.
The Personal Information we may share with third parties as described in this section may include these categories:
Identifiers;
Protected characteristics;
Commercial information;
Geolocation data;
Internet or other electronic network activity information;
Financial information;
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information;
Professional information;
Education information; and
Communications.
Social media features
Our site includes social media features, such as the Facebook and LinkedIn buttons. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the company providing it.