</p> <br>CALIFORNIA AND CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (“CCPA”) PRIVACY RIGHTS AND DISCLOSURES<br> <p>This section addresses legal obligations and rights laid out in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). These obligations and rights apply to businesses doing business in California and to California residents and information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with California consumers or households ("California Information").</p> <br>CALIFORNIA INFORMATION WE COLLECTED AND SHARED<br> <p>This section provides the information California residents need to exercise their rights over their California Information. Here is information about the California Information we have collected from and shared about consumers over the twelve months prior to the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy.</p> <br>California Information We Collected<br> <p>In the year before the date this policy was issued, on the Services we may have collected the following categories of California Information:</p> <ul> <li>Address and other identifiers -- such as name, postal address, zip code, email address, account name, payment card numbers, or other similar identifiers</li> <li>Unique and online identifiers -- such as IP address, device IDs, or other similar identifiers</li> <li>Characteristics of protected classifications -- such as race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation</li> <li>Commercial information -- such as products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies</li> <li>Internet, gaming or other electronic network activity information -- such as browsing history, search history and information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement</li> <li>Professional or educational Information</li> <li>Biometric information</li> <li>Location information -- (e.g. if you access our Sites on your mobile device we may collect Information about your device's precise location.)</li> <li>Online viewing activities (e.g. pages viewed)</li> <li>Inferences drawn from California Information, such as individual profiles, preferences, characteristics, behaviors.</li> </ul> <br> <p>We may have collected these categories of California Information for the following purposes:</p> <ul> <li>Performing services on behalf of the Services, such as customer service, providing content recommendations, and processing payments</li> <li>Fraud and crime prevention</li> <li>Debugging errors in systems</li> <li>Marketing and advertising</li> <li>Internal research, analytics and development -- e.g., user-preference analytics</li> <li>Developing, maintaining, provisioning or upgrading networks, products, services, or devices.</li> </ul> <br> <p>We may have obtained California Information from a variety of sources, including:</p> <ul> <li>Directly from you, including technical and usage information when you use our Services</li> <li>Linked sites, such as Social Media Sites, and third-party platforms</li> <li>Our joint-ventures and promotional and strategic partners</li> <li>Information suppliers</li> <li>Distributors and other vendors</li> <li>Marketing mailing lists</li> <li>Other users submitting California Information about you, such as to invite you to participate in an offering, make recommendations, or share content</li> <li>Publicly available sources.</li> </ul> <br> <p>California Information We Shared</p> <br> <p>In the year before the date this policy was issued, for some Sites we may have shared these categories of California Information for operational purposes with providers who provide services for us such as our hosting providers:</p> <ul> <li>Address and other identifiers - such as name, postal address, zip code, email address, account name, payment card numbers, or other similar identifiers</li> <li>Unique and online identifiers -- such as IP address, device IDs, or other similar identifiers</li> <li>Characteristics of protected classifications -- such as race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation</li> <li>Commercial information -- such as products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies</li> <li>Internet, gaming or other electronic network activity information -- such as browsing history, search history and information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement</li> <li>Professional or educational Information</li> <li>Biometric information</li> <li>Location information -- (e.g. if you access our Sites on your mobile device we may collect Information about your device's precise location.)</li> <li>Online viewing activities (e.g. pages viewed)</li> <li>Inferences drawn from California Information, such as individual profiles, preferences, characteristics, behaviors.</li> </ul> <br> <p> <strong>The California Consumer Privacy Act defines 'sale' very broadly. It includes the sharing of California Information in exchange for anything of value. According to this broad definition, in the year before the date this policy was issued, on some Sites we may have sold the following categories of California Information:</strong> </p> <ul> <li>Commercial information -- such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies</li> <li>Internet or other electronic network activity information -- such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement</li> <li>Location information - (e.g. if you access our Sites on your mobile device we may collect Information about your device's precise location.)</li> <li>Inferences drawn from California Information, such as individual profiles, preferences, characteristics, behaviors.</li> </ul> <br>YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS TO REQUEST DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND SHARE ABOUT YOU<br> <p>If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information about our practices related to the disclosure of your personal information by Fakespot Inc. to certain third parties for their direct marketing purposes. You may be able to opt-out of our sharing of your personal information with unaffiliated third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes in certain circumstances. Please send your request (along with your full name, email address, postal address, and the subject line labeled "Your California Privacy Rights") by email at&nbsp;contact@fakespot.com&nbsp;</p> <br> <p>In addition, if you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the right to request certain information about our practices with respect to California Information. In particular, you can request the following:</p> <ul> <li>The categories and specific pieces of your California Information that we've collected</li> <li>The categories of sources from which we collected California Information</li> <li>The business or commercial purposes for which we collected or sold California Information</li> <li>The categories of third parties with which we shared California Information.</li> </ul> <p>You can submit a request to us for the following additional information:</p> <ul> <li>The categories of third parties to which we've sold California Information, and the category or categories of California Information sold to each.</li> <li>The categories of California Information that we've shared with service providers who provide services for us, like processing your bill.</li> </ul> <br> <p>To exercise your CCPA rights with respect to this information, please email us at&nbsp;contact@fakespot.com&nbsp;. These requests for disclosure are generally free.</p> <br>YOUR RIGHT TO REQUEST THE DELETION OF CALIFORNIA INFORMATION<br> <p>Upon your request, we will delete the California Information we have collected about you, except for situations when that information is necessary for us to: provide you with a product or service that you requested. perform a contract we entered into with you. maintain the functionality or security of our systems. comply with or exercise rights provided by the law. or use the information internally in ways that are compatible with the context in which you provided the information to us, or that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us.</p> <p>To exercise your right to request the deletion of your California Information, please email us at. These requests are generally free.</p> <br>YOUR RIGHT TO ASK US NOT TO SELL YOUR CALIFORNIA INFORMATION<br> <p>You can always tell us not to sell your California Information by emailing us at&nbsp;contact@fakespot.com&nbsp;.</p> <p>Once we receive and process your request, we will not sell your California Information unless you later allow us to do so.</p> <br>DO NOT TRACK NOTICE<br> <p>We do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals and similar signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed. We continue to review new technologies and may adopt a standard once one is created.</p> <p>See the Your Choices section to learn how to control data collection for certain purposes.</p> <br>OUR SUPPORT FOR THE EXERCISE YOUR DATA RIGHTS<br> <p>We are committed to providing you control over your California Information. If you exercise any of these rights explained in this section of the Privacy Policy, we will not disadvantage you. You will not be denied or charged different prices or rates for goods or services or provided a different level or quality of goods or services.</p> <br>CONSUMERS UNDER 16 YEARS OLD<br> <p>CCPA has specific rules regarding the use of California Information from consumers under 16 years of age. In particular, consistent with the CCPA, if we knowingly collect the California Information of a consumer under the age of 16, we will not sell the information unless we receive affirmative permission to do so.</p> <p>If the consumer is between the ages of 13 and 16 years of age, the consumer may provide that permission. if the consumer is under the age of 13, the consumer's parent or guardian must provide the permission.</p> <p>If you would like further information on how we handle California Information from consumers under the age of 16 years of age, or if you have questions about these information practices, you may contact us at:&nbsp;contact@fakespot.com&nbsp;.</p>