Bizly Privacy Policy for California Residents
Effective Date: March 2023
Last Updated on: March 2023
This Privacy Policy for California Residents (the “Policy”) supplements the information contained in the www.bizly.net/privacy-policy (the “Privacy Policy”) of Biz Technologies, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (the “Company”, or “Bizly”) and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”) and download, install, register with, access, or use the Bizly mobile application (the “App”). The Company adopts this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Policy.
This Policy applies only to information the Company collects in, by, and/or through the App and in email, text, and other electronic communications sent through or in connection with the App, and through our website and/or social media networks including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Information Bizly Collects
The Company collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information”). Personal information does not include:
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Publicly available information from government records.
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Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
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Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like:
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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), clinical trial data, or other qualifying research data;
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personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
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In particular, the Company has collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
The Company obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
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Directly from you when you provide it to the Company.
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Information you provide when you download, register with, or use this App, including information that is automatically collected.
Use of Personal Information
The Company may use, sell, or disclose the personal information it collects for one or more of the following purposes:
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To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our products or services, the Company will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, the Company will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. The Company may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
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To provide, support, personalize, and develop our App, products, and services.
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To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
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To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
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Give you notices about your account, including, without limitation, expiration and renewal notices.
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Notify you when App updates are available, and of changes to any products or services the Company offers or provide though it.
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To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
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Verify your identity.
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To personalize your App experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our App, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
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To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our App, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
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For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our App, products, and services.
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To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
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As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
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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 App users is among the assets transferred.
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Notify you when App updates are available, and of changes to any products or services the Company offers or provide though it.
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Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
The Company will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information the Company collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Sharing Personal Information
The Company may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for a business purpose. The Company only makes these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract. In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has not disclosed personal information for a business purpose.
The Company may also share your personal information by selling it to third parties, subject to your right to opt-out of those sales. The Company’s personal information sales do not include information about individuals the Company knows are under age 16. In the preceding twelve (12) months, the Company has not sold personal information. For more on your personal information sale rights, see Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights.
Reselling Personal Information
The CCPA prohibits a third party from reselling personal information unless you have received explicit notice and an opportunity to opt-out of further sales. To opt-out of those sales you may go on www.bizly.net/privacy-opt-out, or go on the App to opt out through the settings page.
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.
Right to Know and Data Portability
You have the right to request that the Company disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months (the “right to know”). Once the Company receives your request and confirm your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), the Company will disclose to you:
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The categories of personal information the Company collected about you.
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The categories of sources for the personal information the Company collected about you.
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The Company’s business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
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The categories of third parties with whom the Company shares that personal information.
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If the Company sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
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sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
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disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
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The specific pieces of personal information the Company collected about you (also called a data portability request).
Right to Delete
You have the right to request that the Company delete any of your personal information that the Company collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the “right to delete”). Once the Company receives your request and confirms your identity (see Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete), the Company will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. The Company may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
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Complete the transaction for which the Company 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, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
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Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
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Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
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Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
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Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
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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.
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Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
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Comply with a legal obligation.
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Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
The Company will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
Exercising Your Rights to Know or Delete
To exercise your rights to know or delete described above, please submit a request by either:
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Emailing us at info@bizly.net
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Visiting bizly.net
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Through the App
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent, please email your request to info@bizly.net with your name and the authorized agent’s name and contact information.
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ou may also make a request to know or delete on behalf of your child by contacting us directly at info@bizly.net with the specific request. Account name/information must be provided in the request for us to delete any information on the child’s behalf.
You may only submit a request to know twice within a 12-month period. Your request to know or delete must:
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Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom the Company collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:
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A valid form of identification such as a driver’s license or passport.
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Legal proof that the child in question is their child or that they are the legal guardian? not sure how this would be done.
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Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
The Company cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if the Company cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.
You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete. However, the Company does consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.
The Company will only use personal information provided in the request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make it.
For instructions on exercising your sale opt-out or opt-in rights, see Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights.
Response Timing and Format
The Company will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 10-day timeframe, please send a reminder email to info@bizly.net or contact us through the App.
The Company endeavors to substantively respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If the Company requires more time (up to another 45 days), the Company will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account with us, the Company will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, the Company will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures the Company provides will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. The response the Company provides will also explain the reasons the Company cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, the Company will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance, specifically email.
The Company does not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If the Company determines that the request warrants a fee, the Company will tell you why the Company made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights
If you are age 16 or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). The Company does not sell the personal information of consumers the Company actually knows are less than 16 years old, unless the Company receives affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the consumer who is between 13 and 15 years old, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years old. Consumers who opt-in to personal information sales may opt-out of future sales at any time.
To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by visiting the following Page:
Once you make an opt-out request, the Company will wait at least twelve (12) months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. However, you may change your mind and opt back into personal information sales at any time by going on the App and adjusting the settings.
You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. The Company will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
Non-Discrimination
The Company will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, the Company will not:
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Deny you goods or services.
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Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
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Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
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Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, the Company may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive the Company offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time. The Company does not currently provide financial incentives.
Other California Privacy Rights
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@bizly.net.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
The Company reserves the right to amend this Policy at our discretion and at any time. When the Company makes changes to this Policy, the Company will post the updated notice on the App and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our App 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 the Company collects and uses your information described here and in the Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Website: bizly.net
Email: info@bizly.net
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