Effective Date: January 1, 2025
This Privacy Notice (“Notice”) explains how the EchoStar Corporation (EchoStar) collects, uses and shares information about EchoStar customers and others who visit EchoStar’s websites (such as www.echostar.com or any other site maintained or operated by EchoStar (“Websites”)).
California Notice at Collection:
We may collect the categories of Personal Information (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)) listed in the table below:
| Category of Personal Information Collected | Sold or Shared |
| Identifiers, including names, email addresses, online identifiers, IP addresses, and other similar identifiers. | No |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including information regarding interactions with an internet website, application, or advertisement. | No |
| Imprecise location data, such as general location of devices or IP address. | No |
As further described in this Notice, we generally collect and use the above-listed categories of personal information to provide and manage the Websites and achieve legitimate business or commercial purposes. EchoStar does not sell or share personal information.
We retain each category of personal information that we collect for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Notice, including to satisfy legal or reporting requirements.
More information, including a description of your legal rights, can be found below in the “State Privacy Rights” section.
When you visit, use, or interact with the Websites or Services, we, as well as third-party service providers, may use our interactions with you, our systems, and a variety of other technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or other technologies, to collect personal information regarding your use of the Websites and Services.
The categories of sources from which EchoStar collects Personal Information includes:
We use the personal information we collect primarily for business or commercial activities, which may include using your personal information to:
We may disclose information we collect from and about you with others as follows:
–Service Providers: We disclose personal information to third parties that provide business, marketing, or technical support services to us and/or administer activities on our behalf. Our service providers may also include professional advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors, etc.).
–Law Enforcement or other third parties for legal, compliance, and safety purposes: We may be required by law to comply with a valid legal process, such as a subpoena, court order, or search warrant, or where there is a lawful request, to disclose information about you. We may also disclose information about you to protect our customers, employees, or property; in emergency situations; and to enforce our rights under our terms of service and policies, in court or elsewhere.
–Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets: In the future, we may sell some or all of our assets or reorganize our corporate structure. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. In the event of a sale or reorganization of our assets, including our database, customer information may be transferred.
–To Complete Your Request: EchoStar will disclose your personal information to another company to complete your request (e.g., providing information about a service or comply with a privacy rights request).
–Disclosure of De-identified, Aggregated or Pseudonymous Information: We may disclose information collected or received from or about you in de-identified and/or aggregate formats. We may disclose this information to companies that collect and compile consumer data.
We take information security seriously. We use commercially reasonable efforts to prevent unauthorized third-party access to information about you. However, we cannot guarantee that these practices will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access or use information about you..
Cookies and Do Not Track:
Certain parts of our Websites require cookies. You can adjust your device or Internet browser settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies. However, please note that disabling cookies may prevent you from taking advantage of certain features on the Websites. Please refer to your device’s settings or your Internet browser’s “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your device or browser from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences.
Our system may not recognize Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia give residents the right to know what categories of personal information are collected about them and how it will be used, disclosed, and sold or shared. The purpose of this section of the Notice is to provide residents of these states with a description of our practices regarding the collection, use, disclosure of personal information and how they can exercise their rights in relation to their personal information.
Categories of personal information collected:
In the past 12 months, EchoStar may have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for the following purposes:
| Types of Personal Information We Collect | Examples | Primary Purpose for Collection |
| Identifiers | Identifiers such as name, device identifiers, internet protocol (IP) address, email address, and account name. | Facilitating usage of the EchoStar Websites, to prevent fraud and detect security incidents, to communicate important information; internal operations and compliance. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information | Information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement, browser information, web analytics, including IP address, time of visit, page(s) visited, cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies; information about your use of our network | Facilitating usage of the Services, personalization, internal marketing and operations, and to prevent fraud and detect security incidents |
| Geolocation data | Imprecise geolocation data, such as general location of devices or IP address | Provision, development, and optimization of our services and to comply with applicable laws |
Categories of personal information sold or shared:
We sell or share the following categories of personal information: identifiers, imprecise geolocation such as IP address, inferences, commercial information and internet or other electronic network activity information. We sell or share these categories of personal information to data analytics providers, advertising partners and/or networks, social media networks, and data brokers. We do not knowingly sell or share personal information about persons under the age of eighteen.
Categories of sources of personal information:
We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
Personal information we disclose for a business purpose:
There are a number of circumstances where we disclose personal information to companies who work on our behalf to help us provide the Services. We disclose the categories of personal information described above to our affiliates and our service providers as necessary to measure the performance of our network and your devices; and for administrative purposes.
Your Data Rights:
Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Virginia have the right to request certain actions with respect to their personal information. Residents of these states may:
Residents of Delaware and Oregon may request a list of specific third parties with which we have shared any personal data.
If you choose to exercise these rights, you will not receive discriminatory treatment by us for your exercise of your rights.
How to submit an access, deletion, or correction request:
If you would like to submit a privacy rights request for access, deletion, or correction please visit our Privacy Portal at https://www.hughesnet.com/your-privacy-choices.
Verification of your identity:
To process your request for access, deletion, or correction we must be able to verify your identity to a reasonable degree of certainty. To do so, you must provide the required identifying information when completing the online request form or making a request through one of our customer service agents. We will ask you to provide your contact information and an additional identifier based on your relationship with us. Before we process your request, we will match these data points with data points we currently maintain to verify your identity and your relationship with us.
Responding to your deletion requests:
Please note that we may not be required to delete information under certain circumstances such as when retention of the information is necessary to complete a transaction or for a legal compliance purpose, to detect security incidents, or for certain other internal purposes.
Authorized agent requests:
You can designate an authorized agent to make a request to access, delete, correct, or opt out on your behalf. When you use an authorized agent to submit a request for access, deletion, or correction, you must provide the authorized agent with written permission to do so, and, in certain circumstances, we may ask you to verify your own identity directly with us. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information:
California residents have the right to limit the use of their sensitive personal information. EchoStar does not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your consent for purposes other than those specified in the CCPA.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Notice, or our privacy practices, please contact us at the following address:
EchoStar Corporation
Attn: Privacy
P.O. Box 6655
Englewood, CO 80155-6655
We may modify this Notice at any time. We will notify you of any material changes (or changes required by applicable law) through written, electronic, or other means as permitted by law.
