Privacy Policy

PAGE LAST UPDATED ON 02/14/2024

STIRISTA Data Services and Website Privacy Policy

Stirista, Inc. (“We,” “Our,” “Stirista”) provides a variety of data marketing and consumer analytics products (the “Services”) designed to help for-profit and not-profit organizations, and companies that work with them, to market their goods and services in a relevant and efficient way.   Our solutions, many of which are described on this website, are used through direct mail, email, online, connected-TV and other marketing channels.

We take very seriously the privacy interests of the individuals whose information we handle and maintain in our database.  We provide this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how we use and manage information, and what rights consumers have to control how their information is used in marketing.

To review the “Addendum” we have created specifically to address disclosures required under the California Consumer Privacy Act, please see our “CCPA PRIVACY NOTICE.”

We also operate corporate websites, designed for our own customers and prospective customers, and others who want to learn about our services.  We address the information we collect and use for those business purposes (such as information we use to communicate with our corporate customers, and potential customers) in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy.

  1. Information That We Collect and Use in Our Services

In order to provide our Services, we receive data, including personal information, from a variety of sources, including from websites and apps that collect the information, public sources, and other data compilers.  We refer to the information that we collect and process throughout this Privacy Policy  as “Information” or “the Information.”

The Information often includes various identifying and demographic information about individuals..  It often includes personal attributes such as name, address and other contact information.  It may also include information (on the individual, household, or wider (e.g., zip code) level), such as:

  • Professional information, including occupation and job title,
  • Particular interests, such as (for instance) home improvement, music, online shopping, health and beauty sport, or travel, or political leanings
  • Demographic information, such as age, gender, level of education or likely income range.
  • Through our digital advertising platform “AdStir,” online identifiers such as IP address, cookie identifiers, mobile ad identifiers, hashed email data, and information about your browser or device, your browsing habits (such as what websites you have visited), what apps you have installed, what ads you have received or ads or content you have reviewed, and a time-stamp related to any of the above.
  • Geolocation data, such as latitude and longitude coordinates, which may be linked to a device identifier or other device information.

 

We may infer. Information from any of the above – for instance, if a household is in a particularly wealthy area, we might infer a particular income range.

Stirista also receives information through this website (and any other website we operate).   We describe this information in Section 6.

  1. How We Use the Information

Stirista uses the Information for various purposes, including the following.

As Part of Our Services:

  • Data Marketing Services. Our Services include providing marketing information to our customers, generally regarding which customers or prospective customers are most likely to be interested (or disinterested) in certain offers. Similarly, we help our customers identify and understand their customers better, by providing insights about them.   Our customers include (but are not limited to) brands and agencies and various marketing data platforms that help them to market and advertise to their own customers (and prospective customers); our customers also include other data compilers, who work with their own customers.
  • Online Targeting. We sometimes create defined audience segments (“Audience Segments”) based on common demographics and/or shared (actual or inferred) interests or preferences (e.g., households with tech professionals, or with an interest in winter travel). When we do this, we may sometimes work with a data partner that  “matches” our Information through  data obfuscation techniques (such as through coded data “hashing”) with online cookies and other identifiers, in order to target and measure ad campaigns online across various display, mobile and other media channels.  Through our digital advertising platform “AdStir,” we may deliver ads to consumers, working with other advertising networks and publishers that monetize publishing content through those ads.
  • Identity verification: We may help Clients to verify Consumer Identities and prevent fraud by providing data. Clients integrating the Licensed Data, in combination with their own data may include Identity Resolution, Linkage, and Data Validation. Stirista’s database may also be used to enable matching of Stirista data with platform partners for purposes of verifying accuracy of data including fraud prevention and identity verification.

You may learn more about how to opt out of this and other online ad targeting in Section 4.

  • Additional Marketing Services. Other Services we may sometimes provide to our customers (or that they may provide to their own customers), which may overlap with or supplement the above, may involve (a) help with targeting and optimizing direct mail, email campaigns, display, social and mobile marketing; (b) measuring how effective marketing campaigns have been, by determining which messages are most likely to be seen or opened by which types of consumers, or which types of ads are most likely to lead to purchases; (c) analyzing and optimizing our customers’ (or their service providers’) proprietary databases, or helping customers to detect and prevent fraud; or (d) providing “validation” or data hygiene services, which is how companies update and/or correct their databases by verifying or removing or correcting old, incorrect or outdated information.
  • Cross Channel Advertising. We may help Clients to target and measure ad campaigns online across various display, mobile and other media channels. This includes assisting Clients in creating “identity” graphs, to help locate users across various channels, such as based on common personal, device-based, or network-based identifiers (e.g., IP address, email address).  For instance, we may use combinations of personal information to help websites and brands to identify consumers that visit or log in to their websites, and target them with media or advertising on other websites, through email, direct mail or television.

To Operate Our Services

We also use the Information for our own internal purposes – such as to improve, test, update and verify our own database; develop new products;  operate, analyze, improve and secure our Services and our databases and servers.

  1.     How We Share Information with Third Parties, including Service Providers

Stirista may share the Information with customers, marketing services and platforms, as well as service providers that help us to provide the Services we’ve described above (or other services we may add in the future).  This includes sharing in the following ways:

  • With Our Customers: As described above, we license the Information in various ways to our customers (and something to partners and resellers, who license the Information to their customer), when we provide our Services. We may sometimes share the Information with those Customers’ service providers (for instance, a provider that prints or sends mailings for a Customer).
  • With Our Partners: We also may share the Information, including personally identifiable information and Audience Segments, with business and data partners to help us, our clients or their own clients provide tailored targeted marketing, advertising and communications. Likewise, we may do so for analytical purposes, including to help these other parties measure campaign performance, inform future campaigns, or to handle, analyze, or segregate this Information on our or our customers’ behalf.
  • With Our Service Providers: We share the Information with a variety of service providers in order to operate, protect and advertise our Services and maintain our website(s). For instance, we may share the Information with tech and customer support providers, marketing and advertising providers, other data providers (such as to enhance or verify our Information), security vendors, payment vendors (as to our business to business information), and other companies help us deliver or develop Services.
  • Corporate transfers: If Stirista, its stock or its significant assets are acquired by or merged into another entity, our information will be transferred to that entity, and may be shared during due diligence in anticipation of any such transaction.
  • Affiliates, parent companies and subsidiaries: Stirista may share some or all of the Information in our possession with any affiliated or subsidiary companies (if we ever have any).
  • As required by law or to protect any person or entity: Stirista may disclose Information if we believe that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply in good faith with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect or otherwise defend the rights, property or safety of Stirista, our customers, or any other person or entity.
  1.     Your Marketing and Opt-Out Choices

There are multiple ways that you can opt-out of having the Information used to market to you:

  • First, you may contact us directly at [email protected] have your personal information removed from our database. When you do this, please provide your current address, your email address, and any prior home or email addresses you would like “opted out” of our marketing databases.   Or if you prefer, you can contact us directly by mail, at:

 

Stirista, Inc.

Attn:  Privacy

Email: [email protected]

 

You can also “opt out” of the sale of your personal information by accessing our privacy page, athttps://unsubscribe.stirista.com/.If you “opt out,” we will then in most cases remove your personal information from our active marketing databases within ten (10) business days, from the time we received the opt-out request.  We may in certain cases require that you verify any of the information that you submit, such as through a verified email response or another verified response.

 

  • If you would like to opt-out of direct mail advertising in general, we recommend that you visit the DMA Choice website, at org. The DMA Choice service is run by the Direct Marketing Association and allows you to follow few easy steps to ensure that your marketing preferences are honored.

 

  • If you wish to opt out of online targeted ads (sometimes referred to as “interest-based” or “personalized” advertising) that we deliver, you do so by accessing our privacy page, at https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/. You can also visit the opt-out portals operated the industry groups the National Advertising Initiative (NAI) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), on which a number of companies we partner with are listed, and you can learn more about how their cookie-based and other opt-outs work on those linked web pages.  As noted, these online opt-outs are cookie-based.  Thus, if you browse the web from multiple browsers or devices, you will need to opt out from each browser and/or device, and for the same reason, if you change browsers or clear your browser cookie cache, you will need to perform this opt-out function again.  Opting-out in this way will not prevent you from seeing all types of online ads; it generally will prevent targeted ads customized to what advertisers think may be most likely to be relevant and of interest to you.

 

  • If we market to you by email, in our corporate capacity – such as if you are a customer or prospective customer of ours and we send information about our Services — you may “unsubscribe” from our marketing emails through a link placed in your emails.
  1.     Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies and How We Use Them

Stirista its business partners use certain industry-standard technologies, including cookies and similarly functioning technologies, which we describe below.   (We and/or our service providers use these technologies on our website, for instance, and our partners may use these technologies in their own marketing services.)

We may work with third parties or service providers to provide or enhance our services (e.g. for purposes of tailoring ads, or placing browser cookies), or to offer marketers ways to access or use our Information, often in obfuscated form.   These partners may set and access their own cookies, pixel tags and similar technologies on your device, which may have cookies with varying expiration periods. Those partners may, likewise, collect various types of information about your browser, device, or browsing activities through use of these cookies.

Cookies, in turn, are small data files that contain a string of characters, such as a  unique browser identifier. Cookies are stored on your computer or other device and act as tags that identify your device. Our (or other companies’) servers send your device a cookie when you visit a website. A pixel tag (also commonly known as a web beacon or clear GIF) is an invisible 1 x 1 pixel that is placed on certain web pages.  When you access web pages (such as the website of a marketer), pixel tags may generate a generic notice of the visit and permit our partners (or sometimes, us) to read the cookies that a respective company or server has deployed.  Pixel tags are used in combination with cookies to track the activity on a site by a particular device.  When you turn off cookies, pixel tags simply detect a given  website visit.

We or our service providers, and other online marketing platforms that we or they work with, may use cookies to, among other things, “remember” you, determine visitor patterns and trends, collect information about your activities on our clients’ sites, or interact with the advertising you see.   Cookies are used in this way to provide relevant content to you and replace non-relevant communications with ads that better match your interests.

Disabling Cookies

Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies. You may be able to set your browser to warn you before accepting certain cookies or to refuse certain cookies. However, if you disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features of our website and other services may be difficult to use or become inoperable.

  1.     Data Collected Through Our Corporate Website

Information Collected

Stirista collects information from users of our website(s) (including any page on which this Privacy Policy is posted), including:

  • The domain name and IP address of a user’s web browser, along with a time stamp and other information about a user’s browser or device.
  • Information about what content and pages users access, utilize or visit on our website, or how they interact with our content – for instance, if they spent a certain amount of time reviewing a particular blog post or description of particular services.
  • Information, including personally identifiable and contact information that you provide, which could include (for instance) survey information, sign-up information (e.g., if you sign up for events or newsletters), requests for information, mailing addresses and email addresses.

How Stirista Uses the Information We Collect Through Our Website

We use the Information we collect through our website(s) to do the following:

  • Create and manage your unique user account.
  • Provide Services to you.
  • Respond to and communicate with you (including regarding news and updates about our services).
  • Send you offers and ads for our products and services, when you browse the website(s) or other companies’ websites on the Internet (such as to “retarget” you with information about our services).
  • Send you offers and ads for products and services of partner brands, or other offers we believe may be of interest to you, such as invitations to events and webinars.
  • Perform data analysis (including market research).
  • We may combine the Information with other information we obtain from third parties, publicly available sources, and any other product or service we provide to further improve the relevance and effectiveness of products, and advertisements offered, including (but not limited to), those provided on or through our services.
  • We may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our website(s). We also may use IP addresses to help identify visitors to our website(s) for the duration of a session and to gather demographic information about our visitors. We may use clickstream data to determine how much time visitors spend on each web page of our website(s), how visitors navigate through the website(s), and how we may tailor our website(s) to better meet the needs of our visitors. We also use this Information for compliance with our legal obligations, policies and procedures, including the enforcement of our Terms and Conditions.
  • If we collect Information from “offline” sources – such as if you provide us your business card at a trade show – we will maintain that information and use it for marketing and business purposes, as well.

How Stirista Shares the Information We Collect Through Our Websites

We may sometimes share or otherwise disclose the Information we collect about you, as described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise disclosed to you when you provide us with the information, including as follows:

  • We may share the Information with service providers who help us deliver the services you request or we provide. For instance, we share the Information with tech and customer support providers, marketing and advertising providers, other data providers (such as to enhance or verify our Information), security and data hygiene vendors, payment vendors (as to our business to business information), and other companies that may help us deliver or develop Services.
  • We may share the Information to communicate with you and market to you, including through email, direct mail or display media.
  • We will disclose your PII (or other Information) if we believe in good faith that we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights, safety or property of ourselves or any person or entity. We may also cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose any Information to the requesting agency in doing so.
  • If we or all or substantially all of our assets, are purchased by another company (such as in a merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of stock and/or assets, or other corporate change or financing transaction), the Information in our possession will likely be transferred to the successor entity. We also may share the Information during the course of any due diligence process leading up to any such transaction.

Our website(s) use cookies and similar technologies, both for its internal and operational purposes and to market to you (such as to retarget ads to you when you visit other sites across the Internet).

  1.     Links

This website may provide links to other websites that Stirista thinks users will find interesting or useful. Stirista is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites or companies.

  1.     Security and Data Integrity

Stirista takes steps designed to help ensure that the data we possess is housed and transmitted securely. This may include various types of physical and electronic security, including firewall protections, encryption, hashing or truncation of data, and access controls to personal information.  While neither we nor any platform can guarantee 100 percent safety from hacks or illegal intrusion, we employ efforts that are designed to ensure that this does not occur.

  1.     Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy.  Any changes to it will become effective when it is posted to our website.  Please check back to learn of any changes to this Privacy Policy

  1.     Storage of Information in the United States

If you are accessing our website from outside of the United States, your connection likely will be through and to servers located in the United States and all Information you provide will likely be processed and securely maintained in our web servers and internal systems located within the United States.  (We generally store the Information used in our Services in the United States.)   Thus, you should be aware that in accessing this website or otherwise communicating with us, the information we collect or receive from you may be subject to laws with lesser or different privacy standards than those in your own country (such as if you are in a country located in the European Union).

  1. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights with respect to your information.

We address California-specific rights in the attached Addendum for California Residents (because California requires a specific notice, that is separate from this Privacy Policy).

Residents of a number of other states (in addition to California) (“Applicable States”) have privacy rights under their own state-specific laws (as they become effective during 2023, 2024 and 2025).  If you are a resident of one of those states, this section may apply to you, and you may be able to ask us to:

  • provide access to certain information we hold about you, in some cases in a portable format, if technically feasible
  • update or correct your information
  • delete certain information
  • restrict the use of your information

We will respond within the time period prescribed by applicable law. Please note that many of the above rights are subject to exceptions and limitations.

Do Not Sell:  First, consumers may opt out of the “sale” of their personal information.  (This is required only in Applicable States, but we endeavor to extend this right to all consumers.)   Those laws may broadly defines “sale” in a way that may include allowing third parties, such as advertisers, advertising networks,  to receive certain information such as cookies, IP address, device identifiers or other hashed identifiers, interests, browsing behavior and/or other activity to add to a profile about your device, browser, or you.

Depending on the consumer (and depending on whether the consumer is a client of ours or a member of the public with whom we lack a direct relationship), we may disclose the following categories of information for such purposes which may be considered a sale (as defined by applicable law):

  • identifiers, interests and demographics;
  • inferenced data, such as whether you may be likely to purchase certain goods in the near future, or information about your demographics (e.g., estimated age or income range).

To opt out of this type of sale, please go to https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/ and follow the instructions on that web page.

Do Not Share/Do Not Target:  Consumers also may opt out “targeted” advertising, which is also sometimes referred to as “interest based” or “personalized” advertising.  We refer to it here as “targeted” advertising.  (It is also referred to as “cross-context” advertising under California law.) (This “opt out” right is required in some states, but again, we endeavor to extend this right to all consumers.)

To opt out of this type of targeting, you may request that we not “sell” your Information by following the instructions at https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/.  When you do so we will cease providing your Information for purposes of cross-context advertising.  You may also visit industry websites such as those operated by the NAI, here, and the DAA, here, which provide cookie-based opt-outs in respect to cross-context advertising.  (These opt-out solutions are generally cookie-based and specific to a particular browser, so if you switch browsers, or clear your cookies, you will generally need to refresh your opt-out.).  Finally, to the extent you have enabled a global opt-out preference signal, the providers we work with may recognize that signal to the extent required under applicable state laws.

 

In addition, to the extent you have enabled a global opt-out preference signal, we will recognize that signal to the extent required under applicable state laws.

We sometimes target or help other companies target ads to mobile devices.  You may opt-out of cross-context advertising or targeting performed by these companies through the mobile device settings for Android and Apple iOS devices. To exercise this type of  opt-out, please visit the privacy settings of your Android or iOS device and select “limit ad tracking” (Apple iOS) or “opt-out of interest-based ads” (Android). Also, you may visit  https://youradchoices.com/appchoices to download the AppChoices Tool to control interest-based advertising on apps on your mobile device and https://thenai.org/opt-out/mobile-opt-out/ for more information and instructions on opting out on mobile devices.

Finally, to opt out of this type of targeting through your connected TV, please see the NAI’s opt-out page describing how to do this on various TV models, located at https://thenai.org/opt-out/connected-tv-choices/.

Accessing the Personal Information We Have About You

In certain states you may have a right to “access” or “know” about the specific information we hold about you, such as to deliver our Services.   If you would like to request access of your personal information, you may do so by following the instructions on this page: https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/.

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.

Sensitive Data

 

  • Some states, like Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia, provide their residents (upon the applicable effective dates), the right to opt-in, i.e., to consent, to the processing of their sensitive personal information or personal data, such as an individual’s ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, health condition or diagnosis, or precise location information. To the extent you believe you may have opted in to the collection of such personal information/data, you can opt out at any time so by providing your email here https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/
  • Some states, like California and Utah, provide their residents (upon the applicable effective dates), have the right specifically to opt-out of certain uses of their sensitive personal data. We provide universal opt-outs (i.e., our opt out methods do not distinguish between “sensitive” or “non-sensitive” information. Thus, you can opt out of the collection of this information by going to our “opt out” page at https://unsubscribe.stirista.com/.

In some cases, you may appeal a decision made relating to your rights. Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like to inquire about an appeal.

  1. Nevada Residents

Certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “covered information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information. “Covered information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.  Please contact us at [email protected] if you would like to opt out

  1. Your California Privacy Rights

As noted above, if you are a resident of California, the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) provides certain rights of disclosure, access and deletion of your Information as described below in the “Addendum for California Residents” at the end of this Privacy Policy.

  1. Contact Us

Stirista has a designated privacy contact.  If you have questions related to this Privacy Policy, or regarding our products or services, please contact us:

 

Privacy Officer
Stirista, Inc.

16414 San Pedro Ave.

Suite 150

San Antonio, Texas 78232

 

Email: [email protected]

We appreciate your comments and questions regarding Stirista’s privacy practices.

Last updated: September 29, 2023

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ADDENDUM FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS: CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Last Modified: September 29, 2023


The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the “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 or Sharing of Personal Information– the types of recipients to whom we disclose or sell and/or share 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), to opt out of cross-context advertising (which is a type of “sharing” under California law), 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 Categories of Sources
Identifiers, e.g., name; alias; postal address; mobile ad identifiers;  cookie identifiers and other online IDs, IP address; telephone number; email address; social network handles ·        Data compilers and consumer data resellers, informational and retail websites (“Commercial Source Categories”)

·        Public records and other publicly available sources

·        Government entities

·        Social networks

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or US law (inferenced or actual, including self-reported)

E.g., race; color; religion; sex/gender; pregnancy, marital status; military or veteran status; national origin; ancestry; age (over 40) (may be inferenced, actual or self-reported)

·        Commercial Source Categories

·        Public records and other publicly available sources

·        Government entities

·        Social networks

Commercial or transactions information

E.g., products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

·        Commercial Source Categories

·        Public records and other publicly available sources

Internet or other electronic network activity information

E.g., browsing history; online interests.

·        Commercial Source Categories
Geolocation data ·        Commercial Source Categories
Professional or employment-related information

E.g., current or past job history or job title.

·        Commercial Source Categories

·        Public records and other publicly available sources

Inference Data

E.g., consumer information or preferences.

·        Commercial Source Categories

 

  1. OUR DISCLOSURE AND SALE OR SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will sell and/or share the information collected from and about you as discussed above for various business purposes, with service providers and with third parties including our customers.  The chart below how and with whom we sell, share or disclose personal information, and whether (based on the CCPA’s definition of “sell”) we believe we have “sold” or “shared” a particular category of information in the prior 12 months.

 

Category Categories of Third Parties We Share With  

Whether We “Sold” or “Shared” This Category of Personal Information in the Last 12 Months

 

Identifiers, e.g., name; alias; postal address; mobile ad identifiers;  cookie identifiers and other online IDs, IP address; telephone number; email address; social network handles ·        Data compilers and consumer data resellers, consumer goods retailers, informational and retail websites, content publishers, non-profit organizations, business-to-business services and organizations, consumer surveys and survey companies, affiliate networks (“Commercial Recipient Categories”)

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

·        Social networks

Yes
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or US law (inferenced or actual)

E.g., race; color; religion; sex/gender; pregnancy, marital status; military or veteran status; national origin; ancestry; age (over 40) (may be inferenced, actual or self-reported)

·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

·        Social networks

Yes
Commercial or transactions information

E.g., products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

·        Social networks

Yes
Internet or other electronic network activity information

E.g., browsing history; online interests.

·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers, and social networks

 Yes
Professional or employment-related information

E.g., current or past job history or job title.

·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

·        Social networks

Yes
Inference Data

E.g., consumer information or preferences.

·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

·        Social networks

Yes
Geolocation Data ·        Commercial Recipient Categories

·        Advertising networks and media platforms, political campaigns, internet service providers, data analytics providers

 

No

 

We also may disclose any of the personal information we collect as follows:

Disclosure for Legal Purposes:  In addition, we may disclose 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.

Disclosure With Service Providers:    We disclose 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.

Disclosure of Aggregate 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.

 

  1. OUR BUSINESS PURPOSES FOR COLLECTING AND SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

Generally speaking, we collect and share the Personal Information that we collect for the following purposes, as we also have described in our Privacy Policy and/or our website.

 

Our Purposes for collecting, using and sharing Personal Information
Data marketing services, for example:

·        Generally, creating data marketing tools and products for our marketer clients, as more fully described in our Privacy Policy (and on our websites).   This includes our provision of datasets, data “appends” (connecting data across datasets), data “scoring” (providing inferences about potential consumer behavior), data hygiene services (helping customers to evaluate, validate and correct personal information they hold), and security and anti-fraud services (helping customers to identify potentially fraudulent activity).

·        Helping our Clients identify and understand their consumers better, by providing insights about them and managing loyalty programs, as well as providing financial and other scoring products.

·        Assisting our Clients through our Services to provide their current and prospective customers with better service, improved offerings, and special promotions, for instance, advising on which current or prospective customers are most likely to be interested (or disinterested) in certain offers.

 

Online targeting, for example:

·        Creating or helping to create defined audience segments based on common demographics and/or shared (actual or inferred) interests or preferences (e.g., households with prospective students). When we do this, we work with a data partner that “matches” our or other Information through data obfuscation techniques (such as through coded data “hashing”) with online cookies and other identifiers, in order to target and measure ad campaigns online across various display, mobile and other media channels.

·        Assisting Clients in creating “identity” graphs, to help locate users across various channels, such as based on common personal, device-based, or network-based identifiers (e.g., IP address, email address).  For instance, we may use combinations of personal information to help websites and brands to identify consumers that visit or log in to their websites, and target them with media or advertising on other websites, through email, direct mail or television.

 

Additional marketing services, for example (which may overlap with “data marketing services” above):

·        Assisting in targeting and optimizing of direct mail and email campaigns, display, mobile and social media marketing.

·        Measuring the effectiveness of online or offline ad campaigns by determining which messages are most likely to be seen or opened by which types of consumers, or which types of ads are most likely to lead to purchases.

·        Analyzing and optimizing our Clients’ (or their service providers’) proprietary databases, or helping Clients to identify and mitigate potential fraud.

·        Providing “verification” or data “hygiene” services, which is how companies update and/or “clean” their databases by either verifying or removing or correcting old, incorrect or outdated information.

 

Operating our Services, for example:

·        Improving, testing, updating and verifying our own database.

·        Developing new products.

·        Operating, analyzing, improving, and securing our Services.

 

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 sometimes use the information collected from our own website,  from social networks, from other “business to business” interaction (such as at trade shows) or from data compilers for the above, as well as for our own marketing purposes.

 

  1. 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.)

 

  1. 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 (or share). 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.  Sometimes, we act only as a “service provider” to our clients (for instance, if they provide information to us for analytics, processing or other data management services), in which case any consumer requests for opt-out, deletion or access to data must be made through that client:  we therefore will forward any such requests to a named client, as feasible.

 

  1. Right to request deletion or correction of your personal information

You may also request that we delete any personal information that we collected from , 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.

Alternatively, you may send us a request that we correct any information we hold about you, such as if you believe we have your name or address connected to other, incorrect personal information.

 

  1. Right to “opt-out” of the sale or sharing of your personal information

California residents may opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” 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.”  California law defines “sharing” to include use of personal information for cross-contextual advertising, such as interest-based advertising or retargeting.

 

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 or shared (as defined by California law) certain categories of information about you in the last 12 months, as described in the above table in Section II of this Addendum, titled OUR DISCLOSURE AND SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

If you would like to opt out of selling or sharing of your information, you may do so as outlined on the following page:  Your Privacy Rights.  (This is sometimes referred to as your “opt out” right or rights.)

 

  1. How to exercise your access, opt-out and (if applicable) deletion or correction rights

California residents may exercise their California privacy rights by sending an email to [email protected], submitting their removal request through our form, or by contacting us at (888) 320 6083.

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, to the extent required under the CCPA and provided we do not believe there is an overriding privacy or security concern to doing so.
  • Where you have requested that we delete personal information that we have collected from you, we will seek to confirm whether your request is for an “opt out” or a “deletion”: because “opt out” or “do not sell” rights enable us to maintain your information for “suppression” purposes – i.e., to prevent us from selling information about you in the future (which is what many consumers requesting “deletion” actually desire to occur), we try to explain this in order to ensure we are meeting consumers’ preferences. (In addition, “deletion” rights only apply to information that we have collected “from” consumers – which does not apply to much of the information in our databases.)
  • Upon completion of the above process, we will send you a notice that explains the categories of personal information we were able to locate about you, whether we (1) deleted, (2) deidentified, or (3) retained the information we collected from you. Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law.

If we are unable to complete your requests fully for any of the reasons above, we will provide you additional information about the reasons that we could not comply with your request.

 

  1. 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.   

 

  1. Information about persons under the age of 16

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).

 

  1. 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 legally sufficient power of attorney.  We likewise may require that you verify your own identity, depending on the type of request you make.