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●       Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport); and

●       A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

There may be exceptions that apply to your request. We may not be able to delete your personal information except by deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

HOW TO FILE A GDPR COMPLAINT

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a California resident, you may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, to exercise free of charge the rights described below.  A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose.

1. Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know:

●       The categories of personal information we have collected about you;

●       The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;

●       Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;

●       The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and

●       The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

 ●       Please note that we are not required to:

●       Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;

●       Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or

●       Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

1. Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, Disclosed, or Used for a Business Purpose

In connection with any personal information we may sell or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

●       The categories of personal information about you that we sold and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold; and

●       The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.

You have the right under the CCPA and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from selling your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale of your personal information.

1. Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to opt-out of the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information for anything other than supplying requested goods or services.

1. Right to Correction

You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us about you. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

1. Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

●       Delete your personal information from our records; and

●       Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

●       Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

●       Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

●       Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

●       Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

●       Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

●       Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

●       Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on the your relationship with us;

●       Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

●       Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

1. Protection Against Discrimination

You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:

●       Deny goods or services to you;

●       Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;

●       Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or

●       Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Please note that we may charge a different price or rate, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to us by your personal information.

To exercise your rights under the CCPA please contact us at the using the Contact Information below. Please note that you may only make a CCPA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.

If you choose to contact us directly by email/phone/in writing, you will need to provide us with:

●       Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number);

●       Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport); and

●       A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.

You may use a representative, called an "authorized agent," to submit a request to us. An authorized agent means a natural person, or a business entity registered with the California Secretary of State, that you have authorized to act on your behalf. In order to protect your privacy, Company requires you to confirm that you have provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request and you must provide the authorized agent with signed permission. "Signed" means that the written attestation, declaration, or permission has either been physically signed or provided electronically pursuant to the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. An authorized agent that has power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code section 4121 to 4130 must submit proof of statutory power of attorney, but consumer verification is not required. Company may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized to act on your behalf. Requests submitted by an authorized agent will still require verification of the person who is the subject of the request in accordance with the process described above.

There may be exceptions that apply to your request.

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE SOLD OR DISCLOSED FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold to any third parties any category of personal information that may identify, relate to, describe, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose to one or more third parties the following categories of personal information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:

●       Identifiers (e.g., 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);

●       Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, his or her 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;

●       Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement);

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also require that third party service providers acting on our behalf or with whom we share your information also provide appropriate security measures in accordance with industry standards. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.