PRIVACY NOTICE FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA

Information We Collect: We gather data that might reasonably be used to link, directly or indirectly, a specific customer, home, or device to an identification, a relationship, a description, or a reference ("personal information"). Personal information excludes the following:

• Publicly available information from government records.

• DE identified or aggregated consumer information.

• In particular, our Website collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months

 

Category Examples Collected
A. Identifiers. A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. YES
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. YES
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). YES
D. Commercial information. Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. YES
E. Biometric information. Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. NO
F. Internet or other similar network activity. Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. YES
G. Geolocation data. Physical location or movements. YES
H. Sensory data. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. NO
I. Professional or employment-related information. Current or past job history or performance evaluations. NO
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. NO
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. NO

 

 

 


The sources described below are where our website receives the kind of personal information above:

Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase from one of our network providers, and information you provide us when you register on our Website to receive communications from us.

Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your interactions on our Website.

Information from our marketing partners. For example, through information we collect in the course of providing services to our marketing affiliates.

Verification service providers. For example, we may use third party services to verify information we already have about you, which allows us to keep our information updated. Using verification service providers also allows us to provide you with information about products and services you may be interested in receiving.

Use of Personal Information

For one or more of the following reasons, we could use, sell, or divulge the personal data we gather:

To satisfy or accomplish the purpose for which you supplied the information. We will use your name and contact information, for instance, if you give it to us when you ask for a price estimate or have a query about one of our goods or services. To process your payment and facilitate delivery, we shall utilize the personal information you voluntarily submit when making a purchase of a good or service. Your information could also be saved so that we can handle returns or help customers buy new products.

• To design our website, goods, and services, as well as to provide them and maintain them.

• To send you email promotions for goods and services from our marketing partners.

• To set up, modify, maintain, and protect your account with us.

• To handle your orders, purchases, payments, and transactions while avoiding transactional fraud.

• To display you offers that could be of interest to you, we may gather and use demographic data, such as your zip code and gender

• To assist you, to react to your questions, to look into and resolve any issues you may have, to keep an eye on how we're doing, and to generally support you.

• To customize the way you interact with the Website and to present content, offers, and services that are relevant to your interests via our Website, other websites, email, or text message (with your consent, where required by law).

• To support the preservation of the integrity, security, and safety of our business, website, goods, and databases, among other technological resources.

• To develop and enhance our website, our goods, and our services, as well as for testing, research, analysis, and product development.

• In accordance with any relevant law, court order, or governmental regulations, and to answer to inquiries from law authorities.

As explained to you at the time we collected your personal information or in any other manner specified under the CCPA.

To assess or carry out a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, sale or other transfer of a portion or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data we have about visitors to our website is among the transferred assets.

Without giving you advance warning, we will not gather additional categories of personal data or utilize the data we have already acquired for significantly different, unconnected, or incompatible purposes.

Sharing Personal Information

In accordance with your right to object to such transactions, we may sell or disclose your personal information to a third party for commercial purposes. When we give out personal information for business purposes, we enter into a contract with the receiver that specifies the purpose and obligates them to keep the information private and to use it only to carry out their obligations under the contract. The CCPA forbids us from selling your personal information to other parties unless you have been explicitly informed and given the chance to opt-out of subsequent sales.

The following types of third parties with which we may disclose your personal information:

• Service companies.

• Our connected organisations.

• Data gatherers.

A third party: If you, or a representative acting on your behalf, give us permission to share your personal information with third parties for information about goods and services we offer, or those of our third-party marketing associates, we will do so.

Personal data disclosures for business purposes:

The following types of personal data were provided by the company for commercial purposes during the course of the last twelve (12) months:

• Category A: Identifiers.

• Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.

• Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

• Category D: Commercial information.

• Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.

• Category G: Geolocation data.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Service providers.

• Our affiliated entities.

Third parties. We share personal information with third parties if you, or an agent acting on your behalf, provide us with authorization to disclose your personal information to the third parties for information about products and services offered by us or our third party marketing affiliates.

Your Rights and Choices

Consumers (Californians) have special rights regarding their personal information under the CCPA. This section outlines your CCPA rights and provides instructions on how to use them.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to ask us to provide you with specific information about how we have collected and used your personal data over the last 12 months. We will inform you of the following once we have received and verified your verifiable consumer request:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.

• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.

• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we would disclose it on two separate lists: one listing the categories of personal information that were purchased by each category of recipient in the case of sales, and the other listing the categories of personal information that were acquired in the case of disclosures for a business purpose.

Deletion Request Rights:

Subject to certain limitations, you have the right to request that we remove any of your personal information that we have obtained from you and kept. Unless an exception applies, we will remove (and instruct our service providers to erase) your personal information from our records once we receive and verify your valid consumer request.

If maintaining the information is required for us or one or more of our service providers to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal data, deliver the product or service you requested, take the steps that were reasonably anticipated in the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, carry out a product recall in accordance with federal law, or otherwise carry out our agreement with you.

• Identify security incidents, prevent harmful, dishonest, fraudulent, or illegal behavior, or bring legal action against individuals involved.

• Debug products to find and fix issues that prevent them from functioning as intended.

• Exercise your right to free expression, protect another consumer's right to free speech, or utilize another legal right.

• Observe California's Electronic Communications Privacy Act (California Penal Code 1546 et seq.).

• When conducting public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research that complies with all other relevant ethical and privacy rules, and if you previously gave informed consent, when deleting information may likely make the research impossible or substantially hinder its success.

• Allow only internal usage that are substantially consistent with what customers would anticipate given your connection with us.

• fulfill a legal need.

Use the information in other internal and authorized ways that are consistent with the context in which you submitted it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

Only you, or a representative who is legally allowed to act on your behalf, may submit a verified consumer request pertaining to your personal data. A valid consumer request may also be made on behalf of your underage kid.

A genuine consumer request for access or data portability may only be made twice in a calendar year. The verified customer request has to:

Give us enough details to fairly confirm you are the individual about whom we obtained personal information or a designated representative, such as:

Give us enough information about your request so that we can fully comprehend, consider, and address it.

If we are unable to validate your identity, confirm you have the right to make the request, and confirm the personal information is about you, we will not be able to reply to your request or supply you with personal information.

You don't need to register with us in order to submit a genuine consumer request.

We will only utilize the personal data supplied in a valid consumer request to confirm the identity or legitimacy of the requestor.

Response Timing and Format

Within forty-five (45) days after receiving a valid customer request, we make an effort to reply. If we need longer time (up to 90 days), we will write to let you know why and for how long.

We will provide our written answer to that account if you have one with us. If you don't already have an account with us, you may choose whether to get our written response through mail or electronic delivery.

Any disclosures we make will only be for the twelve months prior to the consumer's verified request being received. If appropriate, we will additionally explain in our response why we are unable to fulfill a request. For requests for data portability, we shall choose a format to deliver your personal information that is simple to use and should enable unhindered transmission of the data from one organisation to another.

Unless your request is excessive, repeated, or obviously baseless, we won't charge you a price to process it or reply to it. Before executing your request, we will let you know why we think the request is justified in charging a charge and provide you an estimate of the cost.

Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights

If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out"). We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time.

We shall wait at least twelve (12) months after you submit an opt-out request before requesting your reauthorization for personal information sales. However, you may always change your mind and choose to once again participate in the selling of your personal information by contacting us through email.

You may exercise your right to opt-out without setting up an account with us. When you wish to opt out, we will only use the personal data you submit to assess and fulfill your request.

Non-Discrimination

We won't treat you differently if you exercise any of your CCPA rights. We won't: Unless expressly approved by the CCPA

you withhold goods or services.

charge you a different price or rate for the same products or services, whether by offering discounts or other perks or by enforcing penalties.

provide you products or services of a higher standard.

A different level or price for the products or services you obtain, as well as a different level or quality of those goods or services, are suggested.

Other California Privacy Rights

Users of our Website who reside in California may seek specific information on our sharing of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under California's "Shine the Light" statute (Civil Code Section 1798.83). Please submit an email to make such a request.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.