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PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Consumers residing in California have some additional rights with respect to their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act or (“CCPA”).  If you are a California resident, this section applies to you and supplements the main privacy policy.

CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the categories of personal information listed below.  For more details about the data points we collect, please see the “What Information do we collect and store?” section in our main privacy policy.

  • Identifiers, such as name, email addresses, and billing and shipping address for online purchases

  • Characteristics of protected classifications under California law, such as gender and age (over 40)

  • Commercial information, including purchasing habits

  • Internet and other similar network activity, such as browsing history

  • Geolocation data

  • Audio and visual information, such as pictures you may upload to our site

  • Inferences are drawn from the above information to create consumer profiles reflecting certain preferences and behaviors

BUSINESS OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE FOR COLLECTING, SHARING AND SELLING INFORMATION

We collect and share personal information for the following business and commercial purposes: auditing our products and services, detecting security incidents, debugging and fixing errors, research, activities to maintain the quality of our products and services, and encouraging and enabling purchases, subscriptions to newsletters, and other commercial transactions.  We sell information as described in the “Sale of Personal Information” section below, for the purposes of auditing our consumer interactions, activities to maintain the quality of our services and encouraging and enabling purchases, subscriptions to newsletters, and other commercial transactions.  For more details, please see sections “How do we use your personal information,” “How do we use cookies, advertising, and online tracking?” and “How do we use usage information?” in our main privacy policy.

CATEGORIES OF SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information (a) directly from you, for example when you make purchases from us, interact with our Customer Service Department, sign up for an account with us or subscribe to our newsletters, (b) automatically when, for example, you browse our site, make purchases from us, sign-in to our site using your social media account and (c) from third-party sources, for example, social media companies when you sign up to our site using your social media account, our corporate affiliates, and advertising partners.  Please see our main privacy policy for more details.

CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES TO WHOM WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with third parties, including advertising networks, data analytics providers, social networks, our corporate affiliates and service providers for a business or commercial purpose. For more details, please see sections “Interest-Based Advertising“ and “How do we share your Personal Information?” in our main privacy policy.

CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSED

In the last 12 months, we have shared with third parties, for a business or commercial purpose, the types of personal information described in the “Categories of Personal Information Collected” section above.

SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

For the purposes of the CCPA, “selling” information broadly means scenarios where we have shared personal information with partners in exchange for valuable consideration.  We do share identifiers such as cookies and the advertising identifier associated with your mobile device with our advertising partners, and those partners use and share those identifiers to show ads that are targeted to your interests. To opt-out of these “sales,” please email techsupport@rfeinternational.com.

YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS

California consumers have the right to request access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about them in the last 12 months. You may make this request up to two times in a 12-month period.  You may also request additional details about our information practices, including the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources of such collection, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we share and sell your personal information, the categories of personal information we have disclosed and sold about you in the preceding 12 months, and the categories of third parties to whom we sold personal information in the preceding 12 months. If you are a California consumer, you also have the right to request the deletion of your personal information (subject to certain exceptions), to opt-out of sales of personal information and to receive equal service and price and not be discriminated against even if you exercise any of your CCPA rights.

 

California consumers may make a rights request by emailing us at techsupport@rfeinternational.com or sending us post to: RFE International, 8 Clarendon Drive, Wymbush, Milton Keynes, MK8 8ED, United Kingdom. Your request must include sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collect personal information, which may include your email address, name, and account id (which is required only if you already have an account with us). To opt-out of these “sales,” please email techsupport@rfeinternational.comWe will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise your rights under the CCPA.

Last updated 19th May 2020

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