CCPA Privacy Notice

CCPA PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

‍Consumer privacy laws in various states of the United States may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Data. Thus, U.S. Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia may have Personal Data rights and choices that are addressed below:

‍California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. These states provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

- Confirm whether we process their Personal Data.
- Access and delete certain Personal Data.
- Correct inaccuracies in their Personal Data, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
- Data portability.
- Opt-out of Personal Data processing for: targeted advertising (excluding Iowa); sales; or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
- Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

‍Nevada. Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain Personal Data sales. Nevada residents who wish to exercise the sale opt-out rights may submit a request by sending an email to privacy@monks.com. However, please know that we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights or to appeal an adverse decision, please contact us at gdpr@representclo.com.

‍Additional Information for California Residents.

(i) “Shine the Light Law.” In addition to the rights set out above in this Privacy Notice, California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@monks.com.

(ii) CalOPPA. Also, pursuant to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), at Cal. Business & Professions Code §§22575-79, to the extent we collect any personal data from any California residents, we are required to disclose to those California residents whether we respond to their “do not track” requests. More specifically, certain web browsers may allow a user to enable a “do not track” option that sends signals to the websites the user visits indicating that the user does not want the user’s online activities tracked. This is different than blocking cookies, and browsers with the “do not track” option selected may still accept cookies. There is currently no universally-accepted technology standard for recognizing and implementing “do not track” signals. Furthermore, our website and apps currently do not have the functionality to recognize or honor “do not track” browser signaling. Thus, we do not respond to “do not track” signals. If a standard for online tracking is adopted in the future that we must follow, or if we otherwise are able to respond to such signals, we will modify this Privacy Notice accordingly.

(iii) CCPA. Additionally, if you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding a business’ use of your Personal Data under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). To learn more about your California privacy rights under the CCPA, see below and also see the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, California Civil Code § 1798.100, et seq. or visit the California Attorney General FAQs about the CCPA at https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa.(opens in a new tab)

‍In this sub-section, we provide information for California residents, as required under the CCPA.

Categories of Personal Data We Collect. The CCPA requires that we disclose certain information about the categories of Personal Data that we collect about California residents. In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of Personal Data relating to California residents. These categories are defined by California law. We may not gather all the information listed within a specific category, and we may not collect all categories of information for every individual. All categories of personal information under CCPA may be shared among Monks group entities. However, we do not sell your personal data to any third parties, and we have not done so in the last 12 months. For details about the precise data points we collect, the categories of sources of such collection, and the Retention Period, please see the “Information We Collect” and the “Retention” sections above. We collect Personal Data for the business and commercial purposes described in the “Purposes for Using Personal Data” section above. While the information we collect varies depending upon the circumstances, such as our interactions with you, we may collect the following categories of Personal Data (subject to applicable legal requirements and restrictions):

- Identifiers: Name, contact information and other identifiers, such as a name, username, account name, address, phone number, email address, online identifier, IP address, government-issued identification numbers or other similar identifiers.
- Customer records: paper and electronic customer records containing Personal Data, such as name, signature, contact information, employment history, government identifiers (e.g., Social Security number), physical characteristics or descriptions, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license number, insurance policy number, education, medical information or health insurance information, and financial or payment information.
- Protected classifications: characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law such as race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy status, sexual orientation), military or veteran status, genetic information, and citizenship.
- Commercial information: such as records of real or personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or use histories or tendencies.
- Internet or other electronic network activity information: such as information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet website, application, or advertisement.
- Geolocation data: precise location information about a particular individual or device.
- Sensory data: audio, video and other electronic data: such as photographs, video, audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
- Professional or employment-related information: such as current or past job history or performance evaluations.
- Non-public education information: this may include education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, student disciplinary records.
- Profiles and inferences: Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile reflecting a resident’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes.

Sensitive personal information is a subtype of Personal Data consisting of specific information categories. We do not collect sensitive personal information.

Categories of Personal Data Disclosed. In the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed the following categories of Personal Data in support of our business purposes identified in the “Purposes for Using Personal Data” above:
Identifiers

- Customer records
- Protected classifications
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Geolocation data
- Audio, video and other electronic data
- Profiles and inferences

Categories of Personal Data Sold. The CCPA defines a “sale” as disclosing or making available to a third-party Personal Data in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration. We do not disclose Personal Data to third parties in exchange for monetary compensation from such third parties.

However, we may disclose or make available certain categories of Personal Data to third parties, in order to receive certain services or benefits from them (such as when we allow third party tags to collect browsing history and other information on our Site to improve and measure our ad campaigns), including:

- Name, contact information and other identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Profiles and inferences

California Residents’ Rights. California law grants California residents certain rights and imposes restrictions on particular business practices as set forth below.

- Do-Not-Sell: California residents have the right to opt-out of our sale of their Personal Data. Opt-out rights can be exercised by submitting a request to us online at privacy@monks.com. We do not currently sell any personal data about you to any third party.
- Notice before collection: We are required to notify California residents, at or before the point of collection of their Personal Data, the categories of Personal Data collected and the purposes for which such information is used.
- Request to delete: California residents have the right to request, at no charge, deletion of their Personal Data that we have collected about them and to have such Personal Data deleted, except where an exemption applies. We will respond to verifiable requests received from California residents as required by law.
- Request to know: California residents have the right to request and, subject to certain exemptions, receive a copy of the specific pieces of Personal Data that we have collected about them in the prior 12 months and to have this delivered, free of charge, either (a) by mail or (b) electronically in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily useable format that allows the individual to transmit this information to another entity without hindrance. California residents also have the right to request that we provide them certain information about how we have handled their Personal Data in the prior 12 months, including: categories of Personal Data collected; categories of sources of Personal Data; business and/or commercial purposes for collecting and selling their Personal Data; categories of third parties/with whom we have disclosed or shared their Personal Data; categories of Personal Data that we have disclosed or shared with a third party for a business purpose; and categories of third parties to whom the residents’ Personal Data has been sold and the specific categories of Personal Data sold to each category of third party.
- California residents may make a Request to Know up to twice every 12 months, at no charge. We will respond to verifiable requests received from California residents as required by law.
- Request to Correct: California residents have the right to request the correction or update of any incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we may have about them. Discrimination and financial incentives: The CCPA prohibits discrimination against California residents for exercising their rights under the CCPA. A business may offer financial incentives for the collection, sale or deletion of California residents’ Personal Data, where the incentive is not unjust, unreasonable, coercive or usurious, and is made available in compliance with applicable transparency, informed consent, and opt-out requirements. California residents have the right to be notified of any financial incentives offered and their material terms, the right to opt-out of such incentives at any time, and may not be included in such incentives without their prior informed opt-in consent.

Submitting Verifiable Requests. Requests to know and requests to delete may be submitted:

- By email at  privacy@monks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Online via Google Forms(opens in a new tab)

‍We will respond to verifiable requests received from California residents as required by law. For more information about our privacy practices, you may contact us as set forth in the Contact Us section above.

CCPA Privacy Policy last updated on December 12, 2024.