California Data Privacy
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NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS [CONSUMERS] – CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides certain rights to residents of California. This section of the Privacy Policy applies if you are a natural person who is a resident of California (“California Consumer”) and uses our Services. This Addendum supplements the information in the Privacy Policy. However, this Addendum is intended solely for, and is applicable only as to, California Consumers: if you are not a California Consumer (or a resident of California), this does not apply to you and you should not rely on it.
In the below tables and sections, we describe (as required by the CCPA):
1. Our collection of personal information
The types of Personal Information (which the CCPA defines broadly) that we collect, the types of sources we collect it from.
2. Our disclosure and sale of personal information
The types of recipients to whom we disclose or sell Personal Information.
3. Our business purposes
Our business purposes for (a) collecting and (b) sharing Personal Information, which are generally the same.
4.Your california privacy rights and choices
What rights you have under the CCPA, for instance, to request that we “opt out” your information from our marketing database (also called “do not sell” rights), or to request categories and personal information that we may have collected about you.
The following sets forth the categories of information we collect and purposes for which we may use California Consumers’ personal information:
1. Our collection of personal information
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect about you the categories of information summarized in the table below. The following table also describes how we collect and use such categories of information.
Category
Collection Method
Identifiers, e.g., name; alias; postal address; IP address; telephone number; email address.
From consumer data public record resellers and other publicly available business data sources (“Commercial Data Sources”).
Operating systems.
Internet or other electronic network activity information E.g., browsing history; information on a consumer’s interaction with a website.
Operating Systems (e.g., visits to our own website).
2. Our Disclosure and Sale of Personal Information
We will share the information collected about you as discussed above for various business purposes, with service providers and our customers. The chart below details how and with whom we share or disclose personal information, and whether (based on the CCPA’s definition of “sell”) we believe we have “sold” a particular category of information in the prior 12 months.
Category
Categories of Third Parties We Share With
Whether We “Sold” This Category of Personal Information in the Last 12 Months
Identifiers, e.g., name; postal address; telephone number; email address.
Users of the Contacts411 App (Referred to together as “Customer Categories”).
Yes
We also may share any of the personal information we collect as follows:
Sharing for Legal Purposes: In addition, we may share personal information with third parties in order to: (a) comply with legal process or a regulatory investigation (e.g. a subpoena or court order); (b) enforce our Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, or other contracts with you, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; and/or (d) protect the rights, property or personal safety of us, our platform, our customers, our agents and affiliates, its users and/or the public. We likewise may provide information to other companies and organizations (including law enforcement) for fraud protection, and spam/malware prevention, and similar purposes.
Sharing In Event of a Corporate Transaction: We may also share personal information in the event of a major corporate transaction, including for example a merger, investment, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, or sale of some or all of our assets, or for purposes of due diligence connected with any such transaction.
Sharing With Service Providers: We share any personal information we collect with our service providers, which may include (for instance) providers involved in tech or customer support, operations, web or data hosting, billing, accounting, security, marketing, data management, validation, enhancement or hygiene, or otherwise assisting us to provide, develop, maintain and improve our services.
Aggregate and Deidentified Information: We may aggregate and/or de-identify any information collected so that such information can no longer be linked to you or your device (“Aggregate/De-Identified Information”). We may use Aggregate/De-Identified Information for any purpose, including without limitation for research and marketing purposes, and may also share such data with any third parties, including advertisers, promotional partners, and sponsors, in our discretion.
3. OUR BUSINESS PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING AND SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect about you the categories of information summarized in the table below. The following table also describes how we collect and use such categories of information.
Contact data updating for personal and business app users interested in reaching someone via phone, email or postal mail.
Other internal purposes, for example:
For internal research, internal operations, auditing, detecting security incidents, debugging short-term and transient use, quality control, and legal compliance. We use the information collected from an app users’ registration process, and their activity with the app. We also may receive information from prospective business customers (such as through trade shows and events), which we use for our corporate and business outreach purposes.
4. YOUR CALIFORNIA RIGHTS AND CHOICES
Without being discriminated against for exercising these rights, California residents have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect from you, to delete that information, and to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, subject to certain restrictions. You also have the right to designate an agent to exercise these rights on your behalf. This section describes how to exercise those rights and our process for handling those requests. (To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.)
A. Right to request access to your personal information
California residents have the right to request that we disclose what categories of your personal information that we collect, use, or sell. You may also request the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected from you. However, we may withhold some personal information where the risk to you or our business is too great to disclose the information.If you would like to see the personal information on you provided by Contacts411, you may do so as outlined here Consumer Access and Right to Know Request
B. Right to request deletion of your personal information
You may also request that we delete any personal information that we collected from you, such as if you have been a customer of ours. (Note that this is different from your right to “opt out” of us selling your personal information, which is described below; also note that we do not generally collect personal information directly from consumers.) However, we may retain personal information for certain important purposes, such as (a) to protect our business, systems, and users from fraudulent activity, (b) to address technical issues that impair existing functionality (such as de-bugging purposes), (c) as necessary for us, or others, to exercise their free speech or other rights, (d) to comply with law enforcement requests pursuant to lawful process, (e) for scientific or historical research, (f) for our own internal purposes reasonably related to your relationship with us, or to comply with legal obligations. Additionally, we need certain types of information so that we can provide our Services to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use our Services.
C. How to exercise your access, opt-out and (if applicable) deletion rights
California residents may exercise their California privacy rights by sending an email to optoutrequest@contacts411.com submitting your request on our Opt Out Page, or your access or deletion request to our Consumer Access portal here, or by contacting us at (844) 763-3411. For security purposes (and as required under California law), we will verify your identity – in part by requesting certain information from you — when you request to exercise your California privacy rights. For instance, if you request categories or specific pieces of personal information we have received about you, you may need to confirm your possession of an identifier (such as an email address) or to provide a piece of identification that confirms you are the person you claim to be. Once we have verified your identity, we will respond to your request as appropriate:
- Where you have requested the categories of personal information that we have collected about you, we will provide a list of those categories.
- Where you have requested specific pieces of personal information, we will provide the information you have requested, except to the extent that we could not comply with your request.
D. Right to nondiscrimination.
We will not deny, charge different prices for, or provide a different level of quality of goods or services if you choose to exercise these rights.
E. Right to Opt-out of the sale of your personal information.
California residents may opt out of the “sale” of their personal information. California law broadly defines what constitutes a “sale” – including in the definition making available a wide variety of information in exchange for “valuable consideration.” Depending what information we have about you, and whether we have included any of it in our marketing products and services, we may have sold (as defined by California law) certain categories of information about you in the last 12 months, as described in the above table in Section 2 of this Addendum, titled “OUR DISCLOSURE AND SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION”.
If you would like to opt out, you may do so as outlined on the Opt Out Page.
F. Information About Persons Under 16 Years of Age
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under 16 years of age in California unless we have received legal consent to do so. If we learn that personal information from such California residents has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to remove their information from our database (or to obtain legally required consent).
G. Authorized Agents
You may also designate an agent to make requests to exercise your rights under CCPA as described above. We will take steps both to verify the identity of the person seeking to exercise their rights as listed above, and to verify that your agent has been authorized to make a request on your behalf through providing us with a signed written authorization or a copy of a power of attorney.