Advantix Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 18 June, 2025
Advantix ScanSource, LLC (“Advantix”, “us” or “we”) respects your privacy concerns. This online Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) describes the types of personal data we may collect on this website and other websites or apps that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”), how we may utilize the data, and with whom we may share it. We also describe the measures we take to protect the security of the data, your rights and how you may contact us about our privacy practices.
If you are a California consumer, please see the section of this Policy called “California Consumer Privacy Statement” for more information about your privacy rights.
Our contact details can be found in the “How to Contact Us” section at the end of this Policy.
Click on one of the links below to jump to the listed section:
- how we obtain information about you
- information we obtain
- how we use information we obtain
- information we share
- data security
- children’s privacy
- use of cookies and other automated technologies
- your rights and choices
- opt out/unsubscribe
- information about our privacy governance policies and practices
- how to contact us
- changes in our privacy policy
- california consumer privacy statement
1. How We Obtain Information About You
We may collect personal data that you choose to share with us—including, but not limited to, your first and last name, company, physical address, email address, telephone number, or login credentials when you:
- Fill out a form
- Sign up to receive direct marketing communications
- Register online through the Services or sign up for an account through the Services
- Sign up to receive emails
- Submit payments for our products or services on behalf of your company
- Attend an event that we, or one of our affiliates, have organized
- Communicate with us (for example, through the Contact Us form on the Services, on a social-media platform, by sending us an email)
Advantix may collect personally identifiable information from our users during the initial signup process, as well as during surveys or preference requests. We may use this information to contact you with offers, newsletters, and special promotions in which you have expressed interest or we believe may be of interest to you. Additional information, such as dietary preferences, preferred location, events, or group bookings, enable the administration of events you sign up for and we may send relevant offers based on your interests.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as zip/postal code) to us. We encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience. If you elect not to provide such demographic information, you may still participate in our program offerings.
2. Information We Obtain
Information You Provide
We may obtain personal data that you provide directly to us. For example:
- If you fill out a form, you may provide your contact information, such as your name, contact details, and any other information you provide on the form, such as the reason for your inquiry or your product preferences.
- If you sign up to receive electronic marketing communications from us, you may provide your contact information, such your name and email address, and your technology preferences.
- If you sign up to a feature on our Services, such as access to certain content, you may provide your name, contact information, and any other information necessary to access the feature.
- Each form may vary in the information required and collected. In most cases, an asterisk (*) indicates the required information on a form. You may choose to provide additional information within fields that are not required (please do not provide any sensitive information with submitting a form or other communication to us).
- If you participate in web-based contests, surveys, or research projects, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys, contests, or research projects is completely voluntary, so you have a choice whether to disclose this information. Advantix may use a third-party service provider to conduct these surveys, contests, or research projects. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest, survey, or research project with any third party except our service providers or supplier partners/sponsors, unless we give you prior notice.
- If you submit payments for our products or services on behalf of your company, you may provide information such as your name, company information, contact information and payment details (for the business making the payment).
- If you apply for a career opportunity, you may provide information, such as employment history and other information included in your resume or through the application process.
- If you contact us through the Contact Us form on the Services with a comment, question, or complaint, we collect the information you provide such as your name, company name, and contact information, along with additional information that you provide to help us respond to your inquiry.
- Other information you choose to provide, such as through emails or other communications, social media pages, registrations, and sign-up forms.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you use our Services, we may obtain certain information by automated means, such as cookies, pixel tags, server or device logs and other technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “pixel tag” (also known as a “web beacon”), which is a type of technology that is often used in combination with cookies, is placed on a website to track certain activity, such as views of a website. We may use these automated technologies on the Services to collect information about your device, browsing actions, and usage patterns. We obtain information about your device and web browser in this manner such as your operating-system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, the language your system uses and the country and time zone where your device is located, the address of the web page that referred you to our Services, the IP address of the device you use to connect to the internet, and information about your interaction with the sites, such as which pages you visit and average time spent on our website.
3. How We Use Information We Obtain
Information You Provide
We may use personal data you provide to respond to your inquiry—for example, to contact you about your request, ask a question, provide announcements about products and future events, conduct surveys, consider your application for employment, and contact you for other reasons related to offering and improving our services.
In addition to the uses discussed above, we also may use the personal data you provide to:
- Manage our relationship with you
- Provide our products and services, manage your accounts and process payments
- Operate, evaluate, and improve our business
- Develop new products and services
- Perform market research
- Advertise and market the products and services we sell
- Personalize your experience with our products and services
- Determine the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing
- Analyze our products, services, and websites
- Compile, anonymize, or aggregate personal data for our business purposes
- Maintain and enhance the safety and security of our products and services, and prevent misuse and troubleshoot technical issues
- Administer the Services
- Provide you with updates and other information, including our newsletter, regarding Advantix or the website
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities, and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise, or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Other Uses of Information
We also may use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
4. Information We Share
We do not sell, rent or otherwise disclose personal data you provide or we collect about you to third parties in exchange for monetary compensation. We may share personal data you provide or we collect with the following parties for the purposes described in this Policy:
- Other companies in the ScanSource group
- Service providers that perform services on our behalf:
- Your personal data may be shared or transferred (or otherwise made available) to third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf, such as payment service providers, analytics providers, hosting and management providers, advisers, and other service providers.
- Business partners whose products or services we provide
In addition, we may disclose personal data about you:
- when you direct us to do so;
- if we are required or permitted to do so by law or legal process—for example, we and our service providers may provide your personal data due to a court order, valid inquiry or a request from a law enforcement agency, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law or legal process.
- when we believe it is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss;
- when we believe it is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, or in connection with an investigation of or to prevent suspected or actual loss or harm to persons or property, or fraudulent or other illegal activity; and
- in connection with an acquisition or in the event we sell, merge, or transfer (or contemplate an acquisition or the sale, merger, or transfer of) all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution, liquidation, insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, stock sale, or other change in control).
5. Data Security and Retention
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal data against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, or use.
We will retain your personal data for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in the Policy, or in accordance with notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account our legal obligations and our records retention requirements pursuant to our Records Management Policy and Schedule.
6. Children’s Privacy
The Services are designed for a general audience and are not directed to children. In connection with the Services, we do not knowingly solicit or collect personal data from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child under the age of 13 may have provided us with personal data, please contact us as specified in the How To Contact Us section of this Policy.
7. Use of Cookies and Other Automated Technologies
We may use third-party analytics services and third-party ad services on our Services. These ad services track information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites and apps by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, web server logs, and other similar technologies. We may use cookies to tell us whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor. We may also use cookies to help us identify Services features in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular site.
Certain pages on our Services contain web beacons (also known as internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). Web beacons allow third parties to obtain information, such as IP address, general location information, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, timestamps, browser type, and the information in cookies set by the third party.
Cookies
Our websites may utilize the following ‘types’ of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our Services to operate properly and facilitate your use of its features. Without these cookies, certain services cannot be provided. These cookies help us understand information, such as your session ID and other server authentication information. This category of cookies should not be disabled. If you use your browser settings to block them, we cannot guarantee your security or predict how our website will perform during your visit.
- Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our website, such as what pages you visit and if any errors have occurred. The information is used to improve how our websites function. These cookies generate statistical data about your use of our website. We may use Google Analytics. The service registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how visitors use our website. To learn more about Google Analytics’ collection and processing of data and data privacy and security, please visit Google’s Privacy and Terms Page, Google’s Data Privacy and Security Page and Google’s Opt-Out Help Page.
- Functional Cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced and more personal features. They capture information such as the pages you have browsed or products you have viewed so that we can improve your browsing experience. They also can be used to remember changes made to parts of our website that you can customize.
- Advertising Cookies
Advertising cookies may be used to deliver ads that we believe are relevant to your interests. We may use advertising cookies to customize the advertising and content you receive on the Services, and conduct market research. They also can be used to limit the number of times users see an advertisement, as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They can be placed on a device by us or by a third party.
Your Choices
You can manage cookies through your web browser. Most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. You can find out how to do this for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu, or by visiting the All About Cookies Page. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of all our website features.
The following external links will explain how to manage cookies for the most common browsers:
To learn more about how to opt out of cookies and interest-based advertising, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance’s YourAdChoices Page, the National Advertising Initiative’s Opt Out Page, and TrustArc’s Your Advertising Choices Page. Our website is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals from browsers.
Snippets and Custom Objects
We use snippets and custom objects in our HTML-based email campaigns to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. If you would like to opt out of these emails, you may change your settings at any time by clicking on the “change your preferences” link at the bottom of the email.
Links to Other Digital Properties
The Services and our communications may contain links to other sites, digital properties, or features (such as apps, tools, widgets, or plug-ins) that are not owned, operated, or controlled by Advantix. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. These links are not an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites. This Policy does not apply to information collected by the linked websites. We have no control over such websites, and therefore is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other properties or features, or the manner in which the organizations that operate such websites, properties and features may collect, use, disclose, secure or otherwise treat personal data, and does not exercise authority over such properties or features. Therefore, we assumes no responsibility for the privacy and data-collection policies and procedures of such third-party properties or features, nor for the content or reliability of such properties or features. If you choose to access a third-party property or feature, you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
8. Your Rights and Choices
If you would like to update your contact information, please contact us as specified in the “How to Contact Us” section below. Also, you can unsubscribe from our marketing list as described in the “Opt-Out/Unsubscribe” section below.
You can manage cookies as described in the “Use of Cookies and Other Automated Technologies” section above or through the Cookie Preference Center .
If you are a California resident, for more information about your privacy rights, please see our California Consumer Privacy Statement.
For additional information about this Policy and our practices regarding personal data, please see the “How to Contact Us” section below.
9. Opt-Out/Unsubscribe
If you no longer wish to receive our marketing communications, you may opt out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each communication, specifically, by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of the email communication.
Alternatively, you may contact us via email at legal@scansource.com or by:
U.S. Mail: ScanSource, Inc., Attn: Legal Dept, 6 Logue Court, Greenville, South Carolina 29615
10. Information About Our Privacy Governance Policies and Practices
We are committed to protecting personal data and have implemented practices that govern our treatment of personal data, including:
- Implementing procedures designed to protect personal data in our custody and control from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.
- Implementing policies and procedures to retain personal data as described in the “Data Security and Retention” section of this Policy.
- Appointing a Privacy Officer who is responsible for overseeing Advantix compliance with privacy legislation.
- Providing our employees with information security training.
11. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or any issue relating to how we collect, use, or disclose personal data—or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences—you may contact us via email at legal@scansource.com or by:
U.S. Mail: ScanSource, Inc., Attn: Legal Dept, 6 Logue Court, Greenville, South Carolina 29615
Or you may contact our Privacy Officer at privacy@scansource.com.
12. Changes in Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will publicize such changes by means of a notice on our home page by displaying a prominent “NOTICE” above the text of the Policy.