California Consumer Privacy Act Notice
Last Updated Nov 30, 2022
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides you with certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold; the right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected from you; the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information; and the right not to be discriminated against. All of these rights are subject to certain exceptions.
Collection of Personal Information
When you visit or interact with our website (“Site”), we may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“personal information”).
We may have collected the following categories of personal information over the past 12 months:
Identifiers, such as your name, username, email address, or IP address.
Categories of personal information described in subdivision (e) of California Civil Code Section 1798.80, such as your name and address, to the extent that you fill out the “Contact Us” section on our website or apply for a job with us.
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as your race, gender, disability status, and veteran status, to the extent that you choose to provide this information as part of your job application.
Commercial information, such as your purchase records.
Geolocation data.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Professional or employment-related information, such as your name and address.
Education information, such as your college records.
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above, such as advertising profiles.
We collect the personal information listed above from the following sources:
From you directly, when you provide information through the “Contact Us” section on our website.
From your operating system and platforms.
Automatically from you when you visit our website.
Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information
In the last 12 months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information for our business or commercial purposes:
Identifiers.
Categories of personal information described in subdivision (e) of California Civil Code Section 1798.80.
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law.
Commercial information.
Internet or other electronic network activity information.
Geolocation information.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Professional or employment information.
Education information.
Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above.
We may have shared any of the information listed above with:
Service providers.
Data analytics providers.
Affiliates.
We disclose your personal information for the following purposes:
Business transfers.
In response to a legal request.
To understand how users interact with our website.
To process your job application.
To protect us and others.
Your Rights
Right to Know
California residents have the right to request that we disclose certain information about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve months (“Right to Know”). Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
The categories of personal information that we have disclosed for a business or commercial purpose.
Our business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (i.e., a data portability request).
Right to Delete
California residents have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we collect from you and retain, subject to certain exceptions (“Right to Delete”). Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale
The CCPA provides California residents with the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. We do not “sell” your personal information. Additionally, we do not knowingly “sell” personal information of minors under the age of 16.
Right to Nondiscrimination
The CCPA provides California residents with the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of their privacy rights conferred by the CCPA. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Exercising Your Rights
If you are a California resident and wish to request for us to provide you with your Right to Know or Right to Delete, you may submit a request to us by email at info@verticalchange.com.
Upon receiving a request from you, we will first verify your identity by asking you to provide your name, phone number, and email address. We will confirm your identity by matching the information you provide with what we have on file. We may ask you for additional information to verify your identity or to comply with your request.
Authorized Agent
You may authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf. To designate an agent, please provide a written and signed document by both you and the agent that authorizes the agent to act on your behalf. You may also use a power of attorney. We will still require you to provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information.
Contact for More Information
If you wish to contact us regarding our California Privacy Notice, you may do so through the methods identified above.
Changes to this California Privacy Notice
This California Privacy Notice is current as of the Date Last Updated set forth above. We may change this California Privacy Notice from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this California Privacy Notice on our Site. If we make any changes to this California Privacy Notice that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Site.