This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumer” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the “CCPA”), and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Information We Collect
BWS may 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 twelve (12) months:
Personal information does not include:
Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified 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.
BWS obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete, communications you send to us, or documents you provide to us, or when you interact with our website or Services.
Third parties. For example, from parties you direct to share your personal information with us.
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, to perform the Services for you.
To provide information to respond to your specific request.
To provide you with support, including technical support and address your concerns, and monitor and improve our Services.
To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
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.
Disclosing Personal Information
BWS may disclose your personal information to service providers and contractors 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 retain that personal information as confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose
We have disclosed the following categories of personal information with our affiliated companies, service providers, and public or government (including enforcement) authorities for our business purposes:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category E: Biometric information.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Category I: Professional or employment related information.
Category J: Non-public education information.
In the preceding 12 months, BWS has disclosed the categories of personal information identified above for a business purpose to the following categories of persons:
Service providers.
Contractors.
To other parties, counsel for other parties, and to judicial bodies in connection with the provision of Services.
Selling or Sharing of Personal Information – Sensitive Personal Information
In the preceding 12 months, BWS has not sold or shared personal information. We do not sell or share personal information as defined under California law, as such, we do not have actual knowledge of our selling or sharing personal information belonging to consumers under 16 years of age.
Under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.121(d), we do not infer characteristics about a consumer based on any sensitive personal information collected or processed as defined under Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.140(ae).
Your Rights and Choices
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
You have the right to request that BWS 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 (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion and Correction Rights), 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 disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, a list identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that BWS 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 (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion, and Correction Rights below), we will delete (and direct our service providers/contractors 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 provider(s) to:
Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide Services that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform the Services for 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, ensure 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 et. seq.).
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.
Correction Requests
If you think some of the personal information we have about you is incorrect, you have the right to request that we correct the personal information in compliance with applicable data protection law. To exercise such right, please see Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion, and Correction Rights below.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, Deletion, and Correction Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, deletion, and correction rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:
Emailing us at info@beckman-weil.com
Calling us at 513-621-2100
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows 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.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create a business relationship with us.
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
We endeavor 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 to the email address from which you submit it.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
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 Services.
Charge you different prices or rates for Services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
Provide you with a different level or quality of Services.
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for Services or a different level or quality of Services.
Other California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information for marketing purposes so there is no need to make such a request.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
BWS reserves the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which BWS collects and uses your information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Email: info@beckman-weil.com
Phone: 513-621-2100