Last Updated January 25, 2022
THE FOLLOWING ONLY APPLIES TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act (hereinafter the "CCPA") that was later amended/altered by The California Privacy Rights Act (hereinafter the "CPRA") provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
This Section does not apply to employment-related personal information collected from California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals.
This language is added to our existing Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use in compliance with CCPA that became effective January 1, 2020. This Section is subject to amendments we may implement as a result of recommendations and directions issued by the Attorney General's Office in the State of California. We encourage you to visit the website of the State of California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General .
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:
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 provider(s) to:
To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or deletion once within a 12-month period.
Please read the section "Verifiable Consumer Requests" carefully and submit your request in accordance with the rules of the section.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
We will deliver our written response by the same means of communication you provided in writing for the purposes of verifiable consumer request.
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 usable 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.
You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
However, we or our counter-agents 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 we offer 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.
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write us at: privacy@smartyads.com
The list of the categories of personal information we collected about consumers during the previous 12 months (please, note, that pursuant to CCPA, "collects," "collected," or "collection" means buying, renting, gathering, obtaining, receiving, or accessing any personal information pertaining to a consumer by any means. This includes receiving information from the consumer, either actively or passively, or by observing the consumer's behavior) consists of the following categories of information, defined by CCPA:
We do sell and disclose (and during the last 12 months have sold and disclosed) each of the categories of personal information set forth in the list above (i.e., identifiers, Section 1798.80 categories, protected classifications, commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, and geolocation data).
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.
The verifiable consumer request must:
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.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
In any request in connection with your rights stated heretofore, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. At a minimum, we will request the following information to constitute your request as a verifiable consumer request:
Please be advised that in some instances, based on the categories of identifiable information we collect or will collect, your identifiers, as defined by CCPA, will not be available to us or our contractors. Simply put, your name or social security number may be irrelevant to the information about you that we or our contractors could have collected or sold. On the other hand, the subject information may collect relevant data about your device and about your browsing habits, such as cookies. Therefore, we may additionally request supporting evidence that unambiguously demonstrates that the device and the information in connection therewith are yours, such as screenshots of cookies or screenshots of the relevant settings of the certain mobile device. We may provide you with additional instructions as to what we need or ask you to respond to a few questions to appropriately verify your identity and the ownership of the subject device. Although the process may take time, it is necessary for the protection of your personal information and making sure that an unrelated third party cannot "guess" your device's credentials in order to get access to the relevant information.
Please note that at all times we may require information from you to help us to verify your identity and to process your requests. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your requests.
If you have any questions or comments about the ways in which we collect and use your information described in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Dear user, please fill in the form below so that we can process your request: