SEARCHIQ’S PRIVACY STATEMENT CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS supplements the information contained in SearchIQ’s (“we,” “us,” or “our”) Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws.  Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect

We collect 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 or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last 12 months:

Personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) 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.

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

• Indirectly from you. For example, through the use of cookies.
• Directly and indirectly from activity on our partner publisher websites. For example, from searches you conduct on our partner websites or website usage details collected automatically.
• Directly from you.  For example, from form you complete documents that our clients provide to us related to the services for which they engage us.
• From third-parties that interact with us in connection with the services we perform. For example, from a third party service providers such as LiveRamp.

Use of Personal Information

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

• To provide you with advertisements that are relevant and timely.
• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name, contact information and payment information when you create a publisher account and we will use that personal information to create, service, maintain, verify and charge your publisher account.
• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our products, and services.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
• To personalize your experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to you.
• To help maintain the safety, security, quality, and integrity of our products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business, including to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity, and to debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• For testing, research, analysis, and product development and demonstration, including to develop and improve our service.
• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

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.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose such as processing your credit card payments.  Please note that 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 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A:             Identifiers.

Category B:             California Customer Records personal information categories.

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

• Our affiliates.
• 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.

In the preceding 12 months, we have not sold any personal information.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides 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

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, 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 have the right 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.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

(1) 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.

(2) Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

(3) Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

(4) Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

(5) Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).

(6) 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.

(7) Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

(8) Comply with a legal obligation.

(9) Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

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

Calling us at 310-556-4440 extension 17, emailing us at: [email protected], or writing us at SearchIQ, 2355 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 377, Los Angeles, CA 90064, attention CA Privacy

Only you or a person authorized to act on your behalf may make a consumer request related to your personal information.

You may only request a copy of your data twice within a 12-month period. The request must:

• Provide sufficient information to allow us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail to allow us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.  We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

Our goal is to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt.  If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.  Any disclosures we provide will cover only the 12-month period preceding the request.  The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.  We will provide your personal information in a format that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information without hindrance.

We will not charge a fee to process or respond to your request unless it is excessive or repetitive. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will provide you with the basis for that decision and a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you through a notice on our web site.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us by:

Calling us at 310-556-4440 extension 17, emailing us at: [email protected], or writing us at SearchIQ, 2355 Westwood Boulevard, Suite 377, Los Angeles, CA 90064, attention CA Privacy.