Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia Privacy Rights

Your Data Subject Rights

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act and similar laws in other U.S. states (“Data Privacy Laws”) provide their consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. To the extent that you are a resident of one of these states, this section describes your rights under the Data Privacy Laws and explains how you may exercise these rights.

The categories of personal information we process, our purposes for processing, the categories of personal information that we share with third parties, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it are detailed in Section V.To the extent that our personal information processing activities are addressed by a separate privacy notice, please consult the terms of that privacy notice for detailed information about our data practices, including the categories of personal information that we collect and disclose.

A. Right to Know

You have the right to know whether we process your personal information.

B. Right to Access

You can make a request to access the categories or specific pieces of personal and sensitive personal information we collected, used, or shared about you.  Along with your verified request, we will give you any categories of sources from which the personal or sensitive personal information is collected; the purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing; and any categories of third parties with whom we share such personal information.

C. Right to Data Portability

You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal information that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another business without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means. You may request such personal information up to twice annually, subject to certain exceptions.

D. Right to Delete

You have the right to delete personal information that you have provided by or that we have obtained about you. Please note that we may deny such a request if the requested deletion falls under an exception to this right set forth in Data Privacy Laws. If the personal data is no longer needed for any purposes that justify its retention and we are no required by law to retain it, we will do what we can to delete. We may need certain types of data 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.

E. Right to Opt Out of Selling or Sharing

You have the right to opt out of the processing of the personal information for purposes of: (i) targeted advertising; (ii) the sale of personal information; or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you (provision or denial of housing, insurance, employment opportunities, or access to essential goods or services; decisions that have a foreseeable risk of unfair or unlawful treatment, financial or physical injury or other substantial injury).

As of the latest date of the Privacy Notice:

  • We DO process personal information for the purposes of targeted advertising.
  • We generally DO NOT directly sell your personal information in the conventional sense (for money). Like many companies, however, we do disclose personal information for internal business purposes or operational purposes of our business (servicing, quality improvement, fraud detection, security, legal, auditing, and service improvement), and we use services that help deliver interest-based ads to you or analyze our website traffic. Making personal information (such as online identifiers or browsing activity) available to these companies may be considered a “sale” under certain Data Privacy Laws.
  • We DO NOT engage in profiling decision based on your personal information that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

 

To opt-out of selling or sharing, you can submit a request to us either:

Note in the body of the email that you would like to opt-out of sale or sharing of your personal information. In the subject line, include “<Your State> Consumer Request”.

F. Right to Correct

You have the right to correct inaccuracies in the personal information we collect from you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes for which we process it.

G. Right to Nondiscrimination

We value giving consumers control over their privacy and personal information.  If you choose to exercise any of your data privacy rights, we will not differentiate our services as a result of your decision.  We also do not offer any financial incentives to opt-in to sell your personal information.

H. Your Right to Appeal

For Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Montana, Oregon, Texas and Virginia residents, if we decline to take action or do not respond regarding a request that you have submitted pursuant to one of the privacy rights set forth in this section, you have the right to appeal our refusal to take action within a thirty (30) calendar days after you receive our decision. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, we will also provide you with an online mechanism, if available, or other method through which you may contact your state attorney general’s office to submit a complaint.