This Privacy Policy applies to all website visitors, users, clients, employees and other consumers. We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device ("personal information"). Personal information does not include:
– Publicly available information from government records.
– De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
In particular, we have collected through our website, or other business activities the following personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
– Identifiers: Internet Protocol address, email address
– Geolocation data: Physical location
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
– Directly from you: For example, from forms you complete or products and services you utilize.
– Indirectly from you: For example, from your actions on our website.
Use of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may use, or disclose the personal information we collect for business purposes, including:
– Auditing consumer interactions and concurrent transactions
– Detecting security incidents and preventing fraud
– Debugging
– Short-term transient use, for example, contextual customization of ads
– Performing our services
– Advertising and marketing our services
– Performing analytics and quality control
– Researching and testing to improve our services
We will not collect additional personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
We do not disclose your personal information to third party service providers.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:
– 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.
– Upon request, the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
– If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list disclosing:
– Disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of
recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us to:
– Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you
requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you,
fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise
perform our contract with you.
– Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those
responsible for such activities.
– Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
– Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another
right provided for by law.
– Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).
– Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all
other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously
impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
– Enable internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
– Comply with a legal obligation.
– Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context when you provided it.
Exercising Access, Data Portability & Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request here.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
– Deny you services.
– Provide you a different level or quality of services.
Other California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits website users that are California residents to request certain information regarding the disclosure of personal data to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Please make your request here.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
For any changes we make to this notice, including making material changes to how we treat our users’ personal data, we will post a notice of such changes on our webste. Please be aware, you are responsible for inspecting our website to make yourself up-to-date with our privacy policy and this notice.
