California Privacy
PRIVACY STATEMENT - CALIFORNIA
This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS ("Privacy Statement") supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference as if set forth herein. This Privacy Statement applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA'') and other California privacy laws. 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 capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("personal information"). The categories of information set forth in the chart below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were in fact collected, but reflects a good faith belief that to the best of our knowledge that some of that information may have been collected. Additional information regarding the categories of information we collect is available in our Privacy Policy. In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last 12 months:
A. Identifiers.
Examples: 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.
Collected By Tecovas: Yes.
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Examples: 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.
Collected By Tecovas: YES.
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Examples: 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).
Collected By Tecovas: NO.
D. Commercial information.
Examples: Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Collected By Tecovas: YES.
E. Biometric information.
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Collected By Tecovas: NO.
F. Internet or other similar network activity.
Examples: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
Collected By Tecovas: YES.
G. Geolocation data.
Examples: Physical location or movements.
Collected By Tecovas: YES.
H. Sensory data.
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Collected By Tecovas: NO.
I. Professional or employment-related information.
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Collected By Tecovas: YES.
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)).
Examples: 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.
Collected By Tecovas: NO.
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Examples: Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Collected By Tecovas: NO.
Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records
- De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
- Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
- health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
- personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from our customers.
- Indirectly from our customers. For example, through information we collect from our clients in the course of providing products and/or services to them.
- Directly and indirectly from activity on the Site. For example, from submissions through our website portal or website usage details collected automatically.
- From third-parties that interact with us for commercial purposes.
How and Why We Use Your Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. For example, fulfilling one of your orders.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
- To provide you with email alerts, event registrations and other notices concerning our products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
- To provide you with email alerts, event registrations and other notices concerning other products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
- To provide personal information to third-party marketing partners.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
- To improve the Site and present its contents to you.
- For testing, research, analysis (including product analysis as well as marketing/website analysis) and product development.
- As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our clients or others.
- To provide you with a decision regarding an employment application.
- To provide you with employment benefits and/or payment.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Please also refer to our Privacy Policy for more information regarding how personal information is collected and used.
Sharing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
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:
- Our affiliates.
- Service providers and/or vendors. Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you and/or which help to fulfill your transactions. We also use a third-party vendor for payroll processing.
- Third parties that offer products or services which may be of interest to you.
- Third party marketing partners for commercial purposes.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have “sold” personal information within the meaning of the CCPA to third parties for commercial purposes.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have “sold” personal information within the meaning of the CCPA to third parties for commercial purposes and have also “shared” personal information within the meaning of the CCPA to third parties for commercial purposes, e.g., targeted advertising.
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. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, 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.
- 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, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- 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, we will delete (and direct our service providers to 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 or our service providers 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, 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 solely 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 in which you provided it.
Additional Rights Under California Law
Subject to the above limitations and/or other legal reasons that require us to retain your personal information, you may also opt out of any future sale or sharing of personal information about you.
You may also request that we correct and/or change certain information about you.
Please note that you can also ask us for a copy of information about you provided in machine readable form.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion Rights, Opt-Out Rights and Right to Correct
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
By Phone: 833-832-6827
By Email: privacy@tecovas.com
By Mail at Postal Address: Tecovas, 1500 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704
By Form: Use the following webform
We will respond to your request(s) consistent with applicable law. Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize 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. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your 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 goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
How Long Do We Retain Your Information
We will retain your information only for so long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in our Privacy Policy and this Supplemental California Privacy Policy, for so long as we have a business relationship with you or as needed to provide products and services to you. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., applicable tax/revenue laws), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and as otherwise described in our Privacy Policy and/or this Supplemental California Privacy Policy. We may also be required to retain and use your information to comply with our own legal obligations.
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 version on our website homepage.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Phone: 833-832-6827
Email: privacy@tecovas.com
Postal Address: Tecovas, 1500 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704