California Privacy Policy

Categories of Personal Data that We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, and is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”).
In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

1. Personal Identifiers - Personal unique identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
2. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute - A name, address, telephone number, email address, and website. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
3. Protected classification characteristics under California or Federal law - Gender, in terms of salutation or gender only, Mr., Mrs., Ms, Male or Female, etc
4. Internet or other similar network activity - Browse history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement
5. Professional or Employment-related Information – MachBizz may process, collect or ‘sell’ information relating to a Californian’s resident’s job title, including name, email address, or corporate address, phone number, and information about what you may be responsible for purchasing as part of your job profile. The categories of entities to which we may sell that information are, generally, other businesses MachBizz does not process, collect, or sell information about past employment history or any performance evaluations.

Sources of Personal Data

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

1. Directly from our clients. For example, from documents that our clients provide to us related to the services for which they engage us.
2. Indirectly from our clients. For example, through information, we collect from our clients in the course of providing services to them.
3. Directly and indirectly from activity on our website (www.machbizz.com). For example, from submissions through our website portal or website, usage details are collected automatically. MachBizz may also collect Personal Information from other online resources like professional networking sites.
4. Directly and indirectly from activity on our website (www.machbizz.com). For example, from submissions through our website portal or website, usage details are collected automatically. MachBizz may also collect Personal Information from other online resources like professional networking sites.

Why We Collect Personal Data and How We Use It

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To provide you with email alerts and other notices concerning our products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
• To improve our website and present its contents to you.
• To service contracts with our clients to help them fulfil their marketing programs to develop new business and service existing business
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development.
• To provide our marketing services, which we generally describe below:

Our Purposes for processing Personal Information for providing marketing services, for example:

• Helping our clients identify and understand their consumers better, by providing insights about them.
• Assisting our clients through our Services to provide their current and prospective customers with better service, improved offerings, and special promotions.
• Creating or helping to create defined audience segments based on common demographics and/or shared (actual or inferred) interests or preferences (e.g., technology professionals).
• Assisting in optimizing of direct mail and email campaigns, including by providing customer insights.
• Optimizing our clients’ (or their service providers’) proprietary databases, to assist in our client’s marketing campaigns.

Manage, improve, and develop our business, for example:

• Improving, testing, updating, and verifying our database.
• Developing new products.
• Operating, analyzing, improving, and securing our Services.

Support our everyday operations including meeting risk, legal, and compliance requirements, for example:

For internal research, internal operations, auditing, detecting security incidents, debugging, short-term and transient use, quality control, and legal compliance. We use the information collected from our website, from social networks, or from data compilers for the above, as well as for our marketing purposes.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for business purposes. 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.

In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes:

• Personal Identifiers
• Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute
• Protected classification characteristics under California or Federal law
• Internet or other similar network activity
• Professional or Employment-related Information

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Our affiliates and clients.
• Service providers.
• Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.

As noted above, we also “sell” information related to employment, such as name, job title, email address, etc

Your Rights Under the CCPA

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights /Right To Know

If you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (which will require us to obtain certain information from you for purposes of verification), 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.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
• If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
• sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
• disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

You also have the right as a California resident to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. 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. (Note that most of the information in our files is not obtained directly from consumers, so this deletion right may not apply.) We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech ensures the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546).
• 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 the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement if you previously provided informed consent.
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising your right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information

California residents may opt-out of the “sale” of their personal information. California law broadly defines what constitutes a “sale” – including in the definition making available a wide variety of information in exchange for “valuable consideration.” Depending on what information we have about you, and whether we have included any of it in our marketing products and services, we may have sold (as defined by California law) certain categories of information about you in the last 12 months, as described in this notice.

If you would like to opt-out, out and are a resident of California and wish to contact us; please use our dedicated 1 800 number; Email, or Webform below.

How to Make Requests

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

Response Timing

We will confirm receipt of the request within 10 days and respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, up to 90 days, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12 months preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

• deny you goods or services.
• charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
• provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
• suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We may change or update this Notice periodically. When we do, we will post the revised Notice on this webpage indicating when the Notice was “Last Updated.”

CONTACT US

We take your privacy seriously. To opt out of any of the communication methods covered in this privacy policy, or if have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our data compliance, please email info@machbizz.com or write to us at the below address: