California Privacy Rights
California Privacy Rights
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Updated December 1, 2022.
This page is intended for residents of California (“you,” “your,” “consumer”) and provides supplemental information regarding our Privacy Policy. The California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together referred to as “CPPA”) provides consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”). This includes your right to request access to, a copy of and/or the deletion of your Personal Information collected, used or disclosed by the owner (“we,” “our,” “us,” “Company”) of the website (“Website”) in connection with the Company’s business purposes within the last 12 months preceding the request, with certain exceptions.
The CCPA defines “Personal Information” as information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or may be reasonably linked to, directly or indirectly, a particular consumer or household. If Personal Information is collected directly from you, there are some instances where you may have the option to decline providing that information. However, in some circumstances, choosing not to provide Personal Information may hinder our ability to provide you with the same level of service and overall experience as those who choose to provide Personal Information.
Regardless of which of your rights you choose to exercise, we will take reasonable measures to provide equal services and price regardless of the sharing of Personal Information, in accordance with applicable law. The CCPA guarantees you the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights granted by the CCPA.
Your Rights under CCPA
Rights to Know, Access Specific Information and Data Portability
You have the right to know what information we collect about you and why. As such, you have the right to request access to your Personal Information and to require that we disclose certain information to you about how the Company has collected and used your Personal Information over the past 12 months. You may make this request up to two times per year, free of charge. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:
Upon receiving the request, we must review and verify the request and provide the requested information in a portable and easily accessible format, within 45 days of receipt of the request. In the event we need more time in order to verify the consumer’s identity or process the request, we may inform you in writing that we need an extension. The extension shall not exceed 90 days from the date of the receipt of the access request.
The Company may sell Personal Information. Because of this, you have the right to request access to additional information. Once the Company receives and confirms your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:
Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
You have the right to request to opt-out of the Company selling or sharing your Personal Information. However, in some circumstances, opting out of certain types of sharing or sales may hinder our ability to provide you with our services or the services of businesses that rely on such information. Although we may continue to share your Personal Information with our affiliates or service providers for essential purposes described herein and other such circumstances, your Personal Information will not be shared with third parties once we have received and processed a verified request from you not to do so.
Right to Deletion of Personal Information
You have the right to request the deletion of Personal Information that the Company has collected from you. However, this right does not apply where a business needs to retain the Personal Information in order to:
Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information
You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate Personal Information about you, taking into account the nature of the Personal Information and the purposes of the processing of the Personal Information.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
If a company collects sensitive Personal Information about you, you have the right to direct that company to limit the use of the sensitive Personal Information to that which is necessary to provide goods or services reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services.
In the event the Company collects sensitive Personal Information, we may use or disclose this information to a service provider or contractor for additional, specified purposes. You have the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information. If you wish to exercise this right, please click Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information.
Right of No Retaliation
The Company will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights granted by the CCPA. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
However, the Company may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive the Company offers will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
Our Collection Practices
What We Collect and How We Collect It
We collect Personal Information about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide to us when using the Website, including when you submit your Personal Information when requesting additional information about the services the Company provides and the use of cookies. Categories of Personal Information we may collect include:
The categories of information collected as identified by the CCPA include:
The categories of sources of Personal Information we may use include:
Why We Collect, Use and Share Information and How We Use Your Information
We use and disclose the Personal Information collected for business purposes. These business purposes include:
Our business purposes as identified by the CCPA include:
From time to time, we may contact you to request feedback on your experience using the Website, to assist us in improving the Website or to offer special savings or promotions to you, as a Website user. At its sole discretion, the Company may use your feedback regarding its services in marketing materials and may attribute them to you without revealing your full name or contact information.
What We Share
In the past 12 months, the Company has shared the following categories of information:
What We Disclose
In the past 12 months, the Company has disclosed the following categories of information with service providers for a business purpose:
How to Exercise Your Rights
If you wish to exercise any of these consumer rights, you will need to submit a request, which must be verified. If you are unable to do so, you may select an authorized agent to submit a verifiable request on your behalf. We will respond to your verified request within 45 days of receipt. If we need more time to process your verified request, we will notify you of the extension lasting up to 45 additional days. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of the consumer rights described herein.
Verification Process
If you have an account on the Website, you will be required to know your username and password as part of the verification process. Whether or not you have an account on the Website, you may be required to provide additional information in order to confirm your identity and verify the request. This is done to safeguard your Personal Information against fraudulent requests.
Depending on the rights being exercised and the amount of detail requested, we may require a varying amount of information to be disclosed in order to verify the request. Any additional information collected will be for the sole purpose of verification and will not be sold or disclosed.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our processing activities, or you would like to exercise your privacy rights, you may contact our Data Protection Officer by:
If you would like to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information, please click Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
California Do Not Track Disclosures
Through this Disclosure and our Privacy Policy, the Company is compliant with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”). Though you have the right under CalOPPA to control your browsing device’s “Do Not Track” settings, the Company does not acknowledge these settings.
Material Changes to This Notice
The Company reserves the right to modify or amend this Notice and its Privacy Policy without notice at any time and for any reason at its sole discretion. When material changes to this Notice are made, the “Updated” date will be modified to reflect the date those material changes were made.