[Last Modified: December 27, 2022]
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, users, 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 you are using our service or in order to provide our services, or employee and business-to-business Personal Information.
This CCPA Notice is an integral part of Ryze Privacy Policy, and thus, definitions used herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the Privacy Policy.
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. The definition of 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.
Ryze have collected the following categories of Personal Information within the period of the last twelve (12) months:
(B) CATEGORIES OF SOURCES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect Personal Information from the following sources:
- From activity on our website: For example, when we collect your Usage Data automatically from analytic tools.
- Directly from you: For example, from forms you complete (such as the Data Subject Request), or when you contact us.
- From third-parties: For example, when you interact with our advertising campaigns.
(C) USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the Personal Information collected (as detailed in the table above and our Privacy Policy), for the following purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the Personal Information (support, respond to an inquiry, receive a quote from a Partner, etc.);
- Monitor and improve our Services;
- Provide our Services;
- Track traffic in order to calculate conversion and business transactions with our Partners;
- Analyzing our Services and your use of the Services and website for internal statistics and to improve our Services;
- Advertising and marketing campaigns;
- Respond to law enforcement, comply with our legal obligations and enforce our rights; or
- As 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 BUSINESS PURPOSE
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:
(E) SALE OR SHARE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not “sell” information as most people would commonly understand that term, we have not (in the previous 12 months), do not, and will not, disclose your Personal Information in direct exchange for money or some other form of payment.
For retargeting and analytic purposes, when we promote our Services, we use third-party tools that are able to market and advertise our Services online (“Advertising Campaigns”), measure those Campaigns, identify individuals that are interested in our Services, etc. this is done by placing cookies, pixel or other tracking technology on our website and sharing with these vendors the online identifiers and online behavior information.
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 promote our Services, conduct our Advertising Campaigns, and understand your use of our website.
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) DATA RETENTION
In general, we retain the Personal Information we collect for as long as it remains necessary for the purposes set forth above, all under the applicable regulation, or until you express your preference to opt-out, where applicable.
We determine the retention period of each category of Personal Information we collect, according to the criteria explained below:
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For as long as it remains necessary in order to achieve the purpose for which the Personal Information was initially collected. For example, if you contacted us, we will retain your contact information at least until we will address your inquiry.
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To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. For example, if you request to exercise your rights, we need to retain certain information indicating we have fulfilled our legal obligations.
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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 Personal Information for any particular period, and we may delete it for any reason and at any time, without providing you with prior notice if our intention to do so.
PART II: YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA AND HOW YOU CAN EXERCISE THEM
(H) YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CCPA
If you are a California resident, you may exercise certain rights related to your Personal Information. You may exercise your rights free of charge except as otherwise permitted under applicable law. We may limit our response to your request to exercise of these privacy rights as permitted under applicable law, all as detailed herein and 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?
We provide a cookie banner and consent management that incorporates a browser setting that notifies our website of your privacy preferences regarding automated collection of Personal Information through use of cookies. You may opt out of “sharing” or “selling” of your Personal Information associated to our use of third party analytic and marketing cookies, through our Cookie Setting tool.
You may further exercise your rights by using the Data Subject Request Form (“DSR Form”) available HERE. The DSR Form further provides instructions for submitting, general description of the process, verification requirements, and the information we will request you to provide.
(J) AUTHORIZED AGENTS
“Authorized Agents” may submit opt out requests on a consumer’s behalf. If you have chosen to use an authorized agent to submit requests, or if you are an authorized agent and you wish to submit a request on behalf of a consumer, please follow the procedure detailed below which 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:
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When a consumer uses an authorized agent to submit a request to know or delete Personal Information, a business may require that the consumer will:
Provide the authorized agent signed permission to do so or power of attorney.
Verify their own identity directly with the business.
Directly confirm with the business that they provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request.
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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 OF FINANCIAL INCENTIVE
We do not offer financial incentives to consumers for providing Personal Information.
(L) CONTACT US
Ryze Beyond Ltd.
(M) PRIVACY NOTICE UPDATES
This privacy notice was last updated on the date indicated on the header above. 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 CCPA Notice.
PART III: OTHER CALIFORNIA RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS
Direct Marketing Requests:
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits 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:
“Do Not Track” signal 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. Cal. Bus. and Prof. Code Section 22575 requires us to notify you how we deal with the “Do Not Track” settings in your browser. As of the effective date above, there is no commonly accepted response for Do Not Track signals initiated by browsers. Therefore, we do not respond to the Do Not Track settings.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83):
Permits 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.