NIKE U.S. PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: November 7, 2024
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This Privacy Policy describes how Nike, Inc. and its affiliates (referred to as “Nike”, “our”, “we” or “us” in this Policy) collect, use, share, and protect your personal information, what choices you have relating to your personal information, and how you can contact us.

 

CONTENTS

  1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
  2. Personal Information We Collect
  3. How and Why We Use Your Information
  4. How We Disclose and Share Personal Information
  5. Your Sharing
  6. Children’s Privacy
  7. Protection of Personal Information
  8. Retention of Personal Information
  9. Managing Your Privacy Rights and Choices
  10. About Cookies and Similar Technologies
  11. Using the Nike Platform with Third-Party Products and Services
  12. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
  13. Questions, Feedback and Metrics
  14. Additional State-Specific Information

 

1.         Scope of this Privacy Policy

 

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to the personal information that Nike, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Nike”) collect and process when you interact with us as a customer, including when you interact with our websites, digital experiences, mobile apps, stores, online or offline events, promotions, or one of our other products or services, all of which are part of Nike’s “Platform” and direct to this Privacy Policy. This Policy also applies to the personal information that Nike processes when you subscribe to receive marketing communications from us, communicate with us or engage with us via our Platform, or participate in contests, sweepstakes, and surveys.

Nike may provide you with additional privacy notices that will apply to certain personal information collected and processed by us. For example, we may provide additional notice to provide more specific information if you choose to take advantage of a particular partner promotion.  This Policy does not apply to your personal information if you work for us as an employee or independent contractor, apply for a job at Nike, or interact with third party partners or websites that are linked to or accessible from Nike’s Platform.

 

2.         Personal Information We Collect

 

Nike collects personal information directly from you, automatically when you use our Platform or interact with us, and from third parties.   The definition of “personal information” depends on the applicable law of where you reside. For purposes of this policy, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual or household.  This does not include aggregated or de-identified information that is maintained in a form that cannot reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual or household.

 

Personal Information Collected Directly from You.We ask you for certain personal information to provide you with the products or services you request. The personal information we collect from you depends on how you interact with us or use our Platform. This personal information includes your:

 

Personal Information We Derive or Collect Automatically. We and our third-party service providers automatically collect personal information related to your use of our Platform and interactions with us and others, including when you enable certain features within our Platform. This information includes:

 

Personal Information from Third Parties. We may collect personal information about you from third party sources, including when you use our Platform with third party products and sources. This includes:

Third-party products and services may control the information they collect and share about you. For information about how these third parties may use and disclose your information, please consult their respective privacy policies.

 

3.         How and Why We Use Your Information

 

Nike collects, uses, discloses, and otherwise processes the personal information we collect for the following business and commercial purposes:

If you use our Platform to track your fitness activity or physical characteristics, we will collect this personal information and store it so that you can review it in the Platform. Your fitness activity information may include information you enter about your activity or data collected by your device during your activity such as location and movement information. We may use this activity information to calculate further information about your activity, such as distance run, or calories burned, so that the calculated information can be provided to you as part of the functionality of the Platform.

In many cases, to use particular features within our Platform you may need to provide Nike with additional information or additional consent to use particular information in a certain way. For example, to use the heart rate tracking features of our Platform, you may need to connect to a heart rate monitoring device. Similarly, to share content on social media, you may be required to provide your social media account credentials to sign in.

Except for fitness and activity information (including Workout Info, defined below), we may use the information that you provide to us as well as information from other Nike products or services, such as your use of Nike’s Platform, to personalize communications and advertisements regarding our products and services that may be of interest to you. This may include information collected from your interactions with our Platform that are associated with your account across devices. For more information about how we use your fitness and activity information, see “Use of Fitness and Activity Information” below.

We may also use information for event planning and management, including registration, attendance, connecting you with other event attendees, and contacting you about relevant events and services.

 

4.  How We Disclose and Share Personal Information

Nike may disclose and share personal information we collect with the following types of entities and recipients:

Providing tailored advertising services may be considered a “sale,” “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising, or “targeted advertising,” as defined by applicable law. We do not disclose, sell, or share personal information to third parties for money­ or compensation. You may opt-out of cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising by using the relevant settings available in our Platform. Please see “Managing Your Privacy Rights and Choices” below for additional information.

Nike does not share your fitness and activity information obtained from fitness health repositories you connect with (such as Apple HealthKit) with third parties for advertising, marketing, or other use-based data mining purposes. For more information about fitness and activity information (including Workout Info), click here.

 

5.    Your Sharing

 

When you use certain social features on our Platform, you can make your profile public that may include information such as your screen name, profile picture and hometown. You can also share content with your friends or the public, including product reviews and information about your Nike activity. This content, including any information that you post to our Platform, will be available to other users of the Platform. We encourage you to use the tools we provide for managing Nike’s social sharing to control what information you make available through Nike’s social features.

 

   6.  Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under the age of 13.

If you’re a parent or guardian and you believe we have collected your child’s information, please contact us at privacy@nike.com.

 

7.   Protection of Personal Information

 

We use a variety of technical, administrative, and organizational security measures, including encryption and authentication tools in certain circumstances, that are intended to protect your personal information. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee security. You can help keep your data safe by taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse.

  8.   Retention of Personal Information

 

We retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you at the time of collection, unless otherwise required or permitted by law. For example, we keep your account profile information for as long as you keep your Nike account, but we may keep your purchase history longer to comply with our legal, tax, accounting and recordkeeping obligations, administer applicable returns and warranty programs, and for research, development and safety purposes, as well as an additional period of time as necessary to protect, defend or establish our rights, defend against potential claims or comply with legal obligations. Click here to learn more. 

9.    Managing Your Privacy Rights and Choices

 

Privacy Rights. You may have certain rights identified below under applicable laws of where you reside with respect to your personal information. We have full discretion in choosing to voluntarily provide you with some or all of those rights regardless of the state in which you reside. Please refer to “Additional State-Specific Information” to determine the rights you have in the state you reside.

 

 Depending upon the applicable law, access to your rights may be denied, such as: (a) when denial is required or permitted by law; (b) when granting access would have a negative impact on another's privacy; or (c) to protect our rights and properties.

 

The privacy rights you may have include the following:

Right to delete your personal information. You may request the deletion of their personal information that we have collected about you, subject to certain exceptions. Right to opt out of “sales” or “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. You may request to opt-out of our sale of your personal information and sharing of their personal information for cross context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising. We share your personal information with third parties (such as marketing and advertising networks and social platforms) for behavioral advertising or disclose your personal information to other third-party partners in accordance with your privacy settings and/or consent. These types of disclosures of your personal information may be deemed a “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information under applicable privacy laws.Right to non-discrimination. You have the right not to be subject to discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under certain laws.

 

Exercising your Rights and Choices. You may submit privacy rights requests and manage your privacy choices in several ways.

 

You may opt out of targeted advertising by clicking “Your Privacy Choices” in the footer of our website or by accessing the Privacy & Cookies page. Your choice is linked to your privacy preferences in your Member account’s Privacy & Cookies page.  Opting-out of sharing for targeted advertising will also opt you out of all advertising settings in your Privacy & Cookies page. Note, you can opt-in to targeted advertising again by either: (a) enabling targeted advertising through the “Your Privacy Choices” page; or (b) enabling “Behavioral Advertising” or “Profile-Based Advertising” through the Privacy & Cookies page. If you opt-in again, your personal information will be shared with third-party partners for targeted advertising purposes.  If you opt-out as a guest, your preferences will only apply to the device or browser where you made the selection.  To have your preferences apply across all Nike apps and devices, sign-in to make your selection.

 

You can also opt-out by emailing us at privacy@nike.com.

For more information about our privacy practices and your privacy choices, you may contact us as set forth in the “Questions, Feedback and Metrics” section below.

 

10.     About Cookies and Similar Technologies

 

Nike, our service providers and third parties collect information, which may include personal information, from your browser, devices, or apps when you use our Platform using a variety of methods, such as cookies, pixel tags, identifiers for mobile devices, and other similar technologies. The information collected by these cookies and similar technologies may include your: IP address; unique cookie identifier and information obtained through cookies; unique device identifier and device type; domain, browser type and language, operating system, and system settings; country and time zone; previously visited websites; information about your interaction with our Platform such as click behavior, purchases and indicated preferences; and access times and referring URLs.

 

We use cookies and similar technologies to analyze and understand how you access, use, and interact with our Platform and our consumer’s preferences (such as country and language choices), as well as to assess, secure, protect, optimize, and improve the performance of our Platform. This enables us to provide services to our consumers and improve their online experience. We also use cookies and pixel tags to obtain aggregate data about Platform traffic and interaction, to conduct analytics, identify trends and obtain statistics so that we can improve our Platform. We also use cookies and similar technologies to target advertising and content across our Platform and third-party sites and services.

 

Third-Party Technologies and Services. Some of the cookies and similar technologies we use are operated by third party companies. We use third-party services, such as Google Analytics and its advertising products, such as Google Signals and Google Ads, that may collect usage data (using cookies, pixel tags and similar tools) about our Platform to provide us with reports and metrics that help us to evaluate usage of our Platform, improve performance and user experiences, and serve relevant advertising to you. We also use third-party technologies and services, such as reCAPTCHA, to support the security of our Platform and protect against fraud and abuse.  In some cases, the processing of this data is subject to these third parties’ privacy policies (for example, for Google Analytics, see Google’s Privacy & Terms and for reCAPTCHA see Google’s Privacy Policy).

You may see our ads on other websites, such as our partner’s websites, because we use third-party ad services. Through these ad services, we can show you ads that may be tailored to your individual interests. These ad services may also track your online activities over time and across multiple websites and apps by collecting information through automated means. This data collection takes place both on our Platform and on third-party websites and apps that participate in these ad services.

 

Please note that opting out of participating ad networks does not opt you out of being served advertising. You may continue to receive generic or ‘contextual’ ads on our Platform. You may also continue to receive targeted ads on other websites, from companies that do not participate in the above programs.

Do Not Track. Please note that we do not recognize or respond to any signal which your browser might transmit through the “Do Not Track” feature your browser might have. If you wish to disable cookies on our Platform, you should not rely on any “Do Not Track” feature your browser might have.

 

11.     Using the Nike Platform with Third-Party Products and Services

 

Our Platform allows you to interact with a wide variety of other digital products and services. For example, our Platform can integrate with third-party devices for activity tracking, social networks, music streaming services and other digital services. 

 

If you choose to connect your Nike account with a third-party device or account, your privacy rights on third-party platforms will be governed by their respective policies. For example, if you choose to share your Nike activity on third-party social media platforms, the policies of those platforms govern the data that resides there. 

 

Our Platform may provide links to other third-party websites and apps for your convenience or information. Linked sites and apps have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly encourage you to review. To the extent any linked websites or apps are not owned or controlled by us, we are not responsible for their content, any use of the websites or apps, or the privacy practices of the websites or apps.

 

12.     Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Applicable law and our practices change over time. If we decide to update our Privacy Policy, we will post the changes on our Platform. If we materially change the way in which we process your personal information, we will provide you with prior notice, including via email to the address we have on file, or where legally required, request your consent prior to implementing such changes. We strongly encourage you to read our Privacy Policy and keep yourself informed of our practices.

 

13.     Questions, Feedback and Metrics

We welcome questions, comments and concerns about our privacy policy and privacy practices.

 

If you wish to provide feedback or if you have questions or concerns or wish to exercise your rights related to your personal information, please use our Nike Privacy Webform

 

You may also contact Consumer Services (1.800.806.6453) or our Privacy Office at: Privacy Office, One Bowerman Dr., Beaverton, OR 97005, USA or send us an email at privacy@nike.com.

 

Metrics of consumer requests received in the United States are available here.

 

14.     Additional State-Specific Information

 

Information for California Residents

This section provides California residents with additional information regarding our collection, use and disclosure of their personal information that supplements the disclosures in our Privacy Policy above. This section uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations.

 

California privacy laws define a “sale” as disclosing or making available personal information to a third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration, and “sharing” broadly includes disclosing or making available personal information to a third party for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising or with affiliates and business partners. Nike does not disclose, sell, share, or rent your personal information to third parties in exchange for money or compensation. Further, we do not “sell” or “share” sensitive personal information, nor do we “sell” or “share” any personal information about individuals who we know are under the age of 16.

Below is an overview of categories of third parties with whom we share your information and the categories of personal information they receive: 

 

Categories of Third Parties

Categories of Personal Information

Advertising and Social Platforms and Networks

·       Identifiers

·       Device information

·       Online Activity and Browsing Information

·       Inferences

Third Party Partners Connected to Your Membership (in accordance with your privacy settings and/or your consent)

·       Identifiers

·       Commercial Information

·       Inferences

 

 

These rights are further detailed in “Managing Your Privacy Rights and Choices” above.  California residents may exercise their privacy rights by following the instructions included in “Exercising your Rights and Choices.”

 

You can find information about the number of requests received in the United States and how we have responded to these requests by clicking here.

 

Please follow the instructions provided here to opt-in to the financial incentive by becoming a Nike Member. For our other programs, follow the directions provided with the program announcement to learn the terms of such programs and opt-in.

When you sign up for one of these programs, we may ask you to provide your contact details (such as email address and/or phone number), collect information about your activities on our Platform and your purchases, and draw inferences about your preferences, and collect other categories of personal information about you. The value of your personal information to us is reasonably related to the value of the perks, rewards, exclusive offers and discounts, or other benefits that are provided as part of the applicable program. We estimate the value of personal information by considering factors, including but not limited to, expenses related to the collection, storage, and retention of personal information in the context of the program and the expenses related to the administration of the program. The overall value of personal information to us is depends on what offerings you take advantage of and whether you opt-out of any offerings.

Your participation in any financial incentive program is optional, and you may withdraw from the program at any time:

 

Information for Oregon Residents

This section provides Oregon residents with additional information regarding our collection, use and disclosure of their personal information that supplements the disclosures in our Privacy Policy above. This section uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act.

As described above, we may collect precise geolocation information from your device or browser for the purposes described in How and Why We Use Your Information above. Precise geolocation data is considered “sensitive data” under Oregon law. 

We may also collect fitness and activity information when you interact with our Platform. Fitness and activity information may be considered “sensitive data” under Oregon law. For more information about how we use your fitness and activity information, see “Use of Fitness and Activity Information above.

We also share your personal information (including identifiers, device information, online activity and browsing information, and inferences) with marketing and advertising networks and social platforms for targeted advertising. These types of disclosures of your personal information may be deemed a “sale” under applicable law, but we do not otherwise sell personal information to third parties for money or other compensation.

We may also share your fitness and activity information and your precise geolocation, collected for the purposes described in How and Why We Use Your Information with third-party partners connected to your Nike membership when you link your Nike Membership to third-party services. This information may be considered “sensitive data” under Oregon law.

These categories of third parties and their typical purposes for processing your personal information are further described under “How We Disclose and Share Personal Information.

 

If you wish to exercise your rights related to your personal information: 

You do not need to create an account to exercise your rights. To have your preferences apply across all Nike apps and devices, you may sign-in to your Nike account to make your selection.

Additionally, if you have submitted a request that we have not fulfilled to your satisfaction, you may contact us to appeal our decision by sending an email with the subject line “Appeal” to privacy@nike.com.

If you have questions about this policy or our practices, you can send us an email at privacy@nike.com or as otherwise described in the “Questions, Feedback and Metrics” section.

 

Information for Virginia Residents

This section provides Virginia residents with additional information regarding our collection, use and disclosure of their personal information that supplements the disclosures in our Privacy Policy above. This section uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act.

 

These rights are further detailed in “Managing Your Privacy Rights and Choices” above. Virginia residents may exercise their privacy rights by following the instructions included in “Exercising your Rights and Choices