CCPA Privacy Notice

Gifted

Privacy Notice

Recently Updated: February 2, 2023

APPLICABILITY: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 effective January 1, 2023 (“CPRA”), any other California privacy laws, and this CCPA Notice apply to visitors, employees, users, applicants for employment, and independent contractors, and others who are California residents (“consumers” or “you”). Any terms defined in the CCPA and CPRA have the same meaning when used in this CCPA Notice. This CCPA Notice applies to California residents’ Personal Information, which we collect directly or indirectly while using our Services or in order to provide our Services, or employee and business-to-business Personal Information.

This CCPA Notice is an integral part of our Privacy Policy, and thus, definitions used herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the Privacy Policy.

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PART I: A COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTION OF THE INFORMATION PRACTICES:

(A) CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect Personal Information which is defined under the CCPA as any 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, household or device, all as detailed in the table below.

Personal Information further includes Sensitive Personal Information (“SPI”) as detailed in the table below.

Personal Information does not include: Publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records, that a consumer has otherwise made available to the public; De-identified or aggregated consumer information; Information excluded from the CCPA’s or CPRA’s scope, such as: Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) 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 have collected the following categories of personal information within the last twelve (12) months:

A. Identifiers.

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.

Yes: Online identifier, unique online identifier, IP address, real name, account name, email address.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.

Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

Yes: Name.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

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).

No

D. Commercial information.

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

No

E. Biometric information.

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.

No

F. Internet or other similar network activity.

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

Yes: Search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

G. Geolocation data.

Physical location, approximate location derived from IP address or movements.

Yes: Approximate location

H. Sensory data.

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.

No

I. Professional or employment-related information.

Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

No

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)).

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.

No

K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

No

L. Sensitive personal information.

Government-issued identifying numbers, financial account details, genetic data, precise geolocation, race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, mail, email, text messages, biometric data, health data, and sexual orientation or sex life.

No

(B)   categories of Sources of Personal Information

• Directly and indirectly from activity onour website: For example, directly from you when youinquire about our Services via our website, or indirectly, we collect your usagedata automatically from measurement tools.
• Directly from you: For example, from forms you complete, contact us,requesting a demo, creating an account, etc.
• Indirectly from you:  we track your activities across the internet, for example, when you view or interact with certain content, web page or ad.
• From third-parties: For example, from vendors who assist us in performing services for consumers, advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, social networks, and data brokers.

(C)   USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use the Personal Information collected as identified above, for the following purposes: To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the Personal Information (support, respond to aquery, review the CV considered for a job posting, evaluating your qualifications for that position, etc.); monitor and improve our Services;  analyze which types of ads should be provided as part of the Services; provide the Services; marketing our Services;analyzing our Services and your use of the Services and website; respond to law enforcement; or otherwise as detailed in our Privacy Policy.

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.

(D)   DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR A BUSINESSPURPOSE

We may disclose your Personal Information to a contractor or service provider 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. We further restrict the contractor and service provider from selling or sharing your personal Information. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:

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(E)  SALE OR SHARE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we do not“sell” information as most people would commonly understand that term, we do not, and will not, disclose your Personal Information in direct exchange for money or some other form of payment.  We may “share” Personal Information for “interest-based advertising” or“cross-context behavioral advertising.” The CCPA defines “sharing” as “communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information” to “a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for money or other valuable consideration.”  In other words,we may share your Personal Information with a third party to help serve personalized content or ads that may be more relevant to your interests, and to perform other advertising-related services such as enabling our partners to serve such personalized content.  

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we “sell” or “share” the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:

(F)  CHILDREN UNDER AGE 16

We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 16.

(G)  DATARETENTION

The retentionperiods are determined according to the following criteria:

1. For as long as it remains necessary in order to achieve the purpose for which the Personal Data was initially processed. For example: if you contacted us, we will retain your contact information at least until we will address your inquiry.
2. To comply with our regulatory obligations. For example:transactional data will be retained for up to seven years (or even more under certain circumstances) for compliance with our bookkeeping obligations purposes.
3. To resolve a claim, we might have or a dispute with you, including any legal proceeding between us, until such dispute will be resolved, and following, if we find it necessary, in accordance with applicable statutory limitation periods.

Please note that except as required by applicable law, we will not be obligated to retain your data for any particular period, and we may delete it for any reason and at anytime, without providing you with prior notice if our intention to do so.

Online identifiers are usually kept for a fewdays. Other information usually will not be retained for more than 24-months.

When we destroy your Personal Information, we doso in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.

PART II: EXPLANATION OF YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA and how to exercise them

(H)  YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA

If you are a California resident, you may exercise certain privacy rights related to your Personal Information. You may exercise these rights free of charge except as otherwise permitted under applicable law. We may limit our response to your exercise of these privacy rights as permitted under applicable law, all as detailed herein and in the Data Subject Request Form available HERE.

To learn more about your California privacy rights, please visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/privacy-laws.

(I)  HOW CAN YOU EXERCISE THE RIGHTS?

As a business, you may opt out of Sharing of Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising or Selling Personal Information by clicking the link in the footer of the “Your Choice” or "Do Not Sell and Share" below: Further you may opt-out with the following opt-out options:

• Use the “Do Not Sell or Share My Information”through the cookie consent manager presented on the our Website.
• To opt out from cross contextual ads you can further use these links: the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) HERE, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) HERE Or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (“EDAA”) HERE.
• California resident and wish to opt-out from having your data used for interest-based advertising, you may exercise your right here: https://optout.privacyrights.info/.
• We also are able to affirmatively the Global Privacy Control preference.

Other rights may be exercised by using the Data Subject Request Form available in the Data Subject Request Form available HERE, the Instructions for submitting, the general description of the process,verification requirements, when applicable, including any information the consumer or employee must provide are all detailed in the Data Subject Request Form available in the Data Subject Request Form available HERE.

(J)  AUTHORIZED AGENTS

“Authorized agents” may submit opt out requests on a consumer’s behalf. If you have elected to use an authorized agent, or if you are an authorized agent who would like to submit requests on behalf of a consumer, the following procedures will be required prior to acceptance of any requests by an authorized agent on behalf of a California consumer. Usually, we will accept requests from qualified third parties on behalf of other consumers,regardless of either the consumer or the authorized agent’s state of residence,provided that the third party successfully completes the following qualification procedures:

1. When a consumer uses an authorized agent to submit a request to know or a request to delete, a business may require that the consumer do the following:
   a. Provide the authorized agent signed permission to do so or power of attorney.
   b. Verify their own identity directly with the business.
   c. Directly confirm with the business that they provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
   
2. A business may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by the consumer to act on their behalf.

(K)  NOTICE OFFINANCIAL INCENTIVE

We do not offer financial incentives to consumers for providing Personal Information.

CONTACT US:

Giftedd Solutions Inc.

By Email: support@gifted.co

By Mail: 550 S.California Ave, Suite 1, Palo Alto, CA 94306, US

UPDATES:

This notice was last updated on January 31, 2023, as required under the CCPA, we will update the CCPA Notice every 12 months. The last revision date will be reflected in the “Last Modified” heading at the top of this CCPANotice.

PART III: OTHER CALIFORNIA OBLIGATIONS

Direct Marketing Requests: California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you, if you are a California resident, to request certain information regarding disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request,please use the Data Subject Request Form available HERE .

Do Not Track Settings: Cal. Bus.And Prof. Code Section 22575 also requires us to notify you how we deal with the “Do Not Track” settings in your browser. As of the effective date listed above, there is no commonly accepted response for Do Not Track signals initiated by browsers. Therefore, we so not respond to the Do Not Track settings. Do Not Track is a privacy preference you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your web page visits tracked and collected across websites. For more details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit: www.donottrack.us.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83): permits employees 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 send us the Data Subject Request Form available HERE.