Your Privacy, Our Priority

The disclosure of personal data we collect or generate through our services is described in service-specific privacy statements and based on contracts with customers. We may disclosure other personal data to: 

• Affiliates and customers.
• Service providers, vendors, and other third parties that help us, for example: our Unity Partners, event providers, payment processors, marketing providers, testing providers, analytics providers, providers of technical services (data storage, data backup, and CRM systems), and other subcontractors.
• Marketing partners.
• Security researchers.
• Employers and others who seek verification of an individual’s certification status.
• Entities involved in dispute resolution (like an arbitrator or an opposing party).
• Entities involved in potential or actual significant corporate transactions or events (to follow the law or in cases where we believe that using or disclosing the data protects the rights, safety, and property of F5 or others).
• Governmental entities.

For complete details, please see our privacy notice.

In our websites, apps, and emails, we and third parties may collect certain information via cookies, web beacons, JavaScript, and mobile-device functionality. This information can include unique browser identifiers, IP address, browser and operating system information, device identifiers (such as the Apple IDFA or Android Advertising ID), geolocation, other device information, and Internet connection information, as well as details about your interactions with our apps, websites, and emails (for example, the URL of the third-party website you came from, the pages on our website that you visit, and the links you click on our websites).

We and third parties may use these automated means to read or write information on your devices, such as in various types of cookies and other browser-based or plugin-based local storage to collect pieces of information that, taken together, can uniquely identify your device.

These technologies help us:

• Keep track of whether you’re signed in or have previously signed in, so we can display all the features available to you.
• Remember your settings on the pages you visit, so we can display your preferred content the next time you visit.
• Display personalized content.
• Review and analyze users’ journeys on our websites and apps, such as how users engage with, linger on, navigate, and scroll through our services during a visit.
• Engage in more effective advertising.
• Perform analytics, measure traffic and usage trends, and better understand the demographics of our users.
• Diagnose and fix technology problems.
• Plan for and enhance our business.

By clicking on the cookie preferences link in the footer of our participating websites, you can launch a consent tool to adjust your preferences about how certain cookies and similar technologies are used in those F5 websites. Repeat this process with each browser you use to visit those websites.  Our full privacy notice has more detail about our use of these technologies, how this opt-out works, and additional opt-out options.

To request to exercise your data protection rights under the GDPR or other laws (beside the CCPA), please visit the General DSR Portal.

For CCPA Requests only for California Residents, please follow the  instructions for California-specific rights.

For security and legal reasons, F5 reserves the right to deny requests that require us to access third-party websites or services.

If you have any other request, question, or complaint regarding your personal data or this Privacy Notice, please complete the form below  or send your inquiry to: