Privacy notice for road users
VinFast Trading and Production JSC, Dinh-VU Cat Hai Economic Zone, Cat Hai Island, Cat Hai Town, Hai Phong, Vietnam, as well as development partners commissioned by it carry out vehicle tests for vehicle systems in the field of autonomous driving on public roads. The vehicles are equipped with cameras that may capture images of you or your vehicle. This document serves to inform you about the processing of your personal information and about the rights to which you may be entitled.
This notice addresses our collection of information in association with vehicle road tests. For additional information about our privacy practices, please visit: https://vinfastauto.us/privacy-policy
1. Controller:
VinFast Trading and Production JSC, Dinh-VU Cat Hai Economic Zone, Cat Hai Island, Cat Hai Town, Hai Phong, Vietnam
2. Contact:
If you have any questions about privacy at VinFast or our data processing activities, please contact us at the addresses below:
Email: [email protected]
Address: VinFast Auto, LLC, 12777 W. Jefferson Boulevard, Suite A-101, Los Angeles, CA 90066
3. Types and Sources of Information Collected:
Video Recordings: Our vehicle cameras record video of vehicle surroundings. These recordings may include images of you, your vehicle and its license plate, or other information that could be associated with you.
4. Purposes:
We carry out test drives with autonomous vehicles in order to test the systems we have developed under real conditions and to identify potential for improvement. This in turn serves the further development of the techniques used and thus the avoidance of accidents. In order to be able to evaluate the test drives carried out and the measured values determined afterwards for research and development purposes, our test vehicles are equipped with a video system, among other things. In addition to the driver's cab and the instruments located there, the installed cameras are also used to record the vehicle's surroundings. In the course of this, road users, license plates or other personal information may be recorded. The collection of this data during the test drives is essential to training vehicle systems to identify and react to road situations. This helps us address safety and performance considerations.
Promptly after receiving the video recordings, we alter the recordings via an automated process so that faces of individuals and license plates are not recognizable. We then delete the original recordings. The altered recordings are stored for up to 10 years, and we cannot reasonably identify individuals or vehicles from the recordings.
5. Disclosures of Video Information:
- We disclose video recordings to our affiliates for purposes of designing, testing, and improving vehicle systems.
- External recipients: We disclose the video recordings for our business purposes to the following types of parties.
a) External service providers that we use to provide services. We share video recordings with data storage providers and third parties that help us process and analyze the video recordings. These providers are permitted to use the information only for purposes specified by us.
b) Government agencies: We may share video recordings with regulatory bodies, law enforcement, or other government agencies where necessary to comply with law, court order, or legal request, or where we believe in good faith that such sharing is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, or interests of us or others.
We do not sell or disclose video recordings to third parties for their own use.
6. California Privacy Information:
California residents have the following rights with respect to the personal information we collect:
Right to Know: California residents have the right to request information about our collection, use, and sharing of their personal information, as well as the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about them. We cannot reasonably identify information captured via video recordings due to our obfuscation techniques.
Right to Delete: California residents have the right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected from them. We cannot reasonably identify information captured via video recordings due to our obfuscation techniques.
Right to Opt Out of Sales: California residents have the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information. We do not sell video recordings.
Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercise of CCPA Rights: We will not discriminate against California residents as a result of their exercise of any of their rights under the CCPA.
California residents may submit a request to exercise their CCPA rights by:
Sending us an email to the email address: [email protected]. If we receive a Right to Know or Right to Delete request from a California resident, we will attempt to verify the request based on information we have about the requestor. However, depending on the information provided by the requestor and the nature of the request, we may need to request additional information in order to verify the requestor’s identity. California residents have the right to have an authorized agent submit a CCPA request on their behalf.
Authorized agents may submit a request to exercise CCPA rights on behalf of a California resident by contacting us at the contact information above.
• You can also submit a data subject rights request via our online form. You can find it here.
