California Consumer Privacy Notice

Effective: January 1, 2020

Last Updated: September 2023

 

This California Consumer Privacy Notice for California residents (“Notice”) supplements the Koch Industries Privacy Policy and applies solely to the personal information collected online and offline of California consumers (excluding Koch Industries employees, contractors and other personnel). This Notice uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “CCPA”). Nothing in this Notice is intended to contradict or limit the applicability of the information provided in the Koch Industries Privacy Policy.

From time to time, we may update this notice. When the notice is updated, we will provide information about the changes we have made, as well as the date of the update.

1.  Notice of Collection and Use of Personal Information

We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Notice) the following categories of personal information about you:

  • Identifiers: Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier (such as a device identifier, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers and similar technology, telephone number, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, and other similar identifiers)
  • Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80: First and last name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories 
  • Protected Classifications: Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, religion, ancestry, and veteran status
  • Commercial Information: Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, and other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
  • Online Activity: Internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with websites, applications or advertisements
  • Geolocation Data: Location data based on IP address
  • Sensory Information: Audio, electronic, visual, and similar information
  • Employment Information: Professional or employment-related information such as résumé or contact information, occupation details, education details, certifications and professional associations, historical compensation details, previous employment details, emergency contact information, and pre-employment screening and background check information, including criminal records information
  • Inferences: Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about you reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes

We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Notice) your personal information for the purposes described in our Privacy Policy and for the following business purposes:

  • Performing services: Performing services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing analytics services, providing storage, or providing similar services
  • Marketing: Providing advertising and marketing services
  • Auditing: Auditing related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance 
  • Short Term Use: Short-term, transient use such as nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us
  • Security Purposes: Helping to ensure security and integrity
  • Debugging: Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
  • Internal R&D: Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration
  • Safety: Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us
  • Career Opportunities: Managing career opportunities with us
  • Business Partners: Managing our relationships with current or prospective partners, corporate customers and vendors and other business partner personnel

We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics about individuals. 

To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.

2.    Retention of Personal Information 

We retain personal information as described in the “How Long is Personal Information Retained” section of our Privacy Policy.

3.    Sources of Personal Information

During the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Notice, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you, such as when you make a purchase, register on our websites, connect to us via social media, send us questions, requests or comments, participate in market research activities or contests, sweepstakes and similar activities, elect to receive business alerts, newsletter and other communications, when you provide information about an incident or allegation, when you apply for a scholarship, grant or award or take part in our Influencer Program
  • From your devices, such as when you visit our websites
  • Our parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities
  • Social networking services
  • Online advertising companies
  • Consumer data vendors
  • Public databases
  • System Generated Data

 

4.    Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary compensation. We may share your personal information by allowing certain third parties (such as online advertising services) to collect personal information via automated technologies on our websites and apps for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. This kind of sharing may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under California law. You have the right to opt out of these types of disclosures of your information.

We may sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes (and may have sold or shared during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Notice) the following categories of personal information about you to online advertising services:

  • Identifiers
  • Commercial Information
  • Online Activity
  • Inferences

You have the right to opt-out of this disclosure of your information, as detailed below. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

5.    Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose, (and may have disclosed during the 12-month period prior to the Last Updated date of this Notice) your personal information with certain categories of third parties, including as described in our Privacy Policy and below, including for the business purposes described above.

 

CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES

CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Our parent, subsidiary and affiliated entities

Identifiers; Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80; Protected Classifications; Commercial Information; Online Activity; Geolocation Data; Employment Information; Inferences

Corporate business partners (such as parties involved in a transfer of our assets, attorneys and consultants)

Identifiers; Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80; Protected Classifications; Commercial Information; Inferences

Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators and government authorities

Identifiers; Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80; Protected Classifications; Commercial Information; Online Activity; Inferences

Marketing partners (including network advertising companies, social network advertising, publishers, business partners and affiliated marketers)

Identifiers; Commercial Information; Online Activity; Inferences

Data analytics providers

Identifiers; Commercial Information; Online Activity; Inferences

Consumer data vendors

Identifiers; Online Activity; Inferences

 

6.    California Consumer Privacy Rights

You have certain choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information, subject to relevant exceptions under applicable law, as described below.

Access: You may have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold or shared about you.

Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.

Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.

Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

Shine the Light Request: If you are a California resident and have provided us with your personal information, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with third parties, including our affiliates if they are separate legal entities, for direct marketing purposes.

How to Submit a Request: To submit an access or deletion request, click here or call us at 1-800-283-5547. To submit a Shine the Light request, contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section of our Privacy Policy. You can opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by clicking here or broadcasting the Global Privacy Control signal. To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer, please click here.

Verifying Requests: To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you request access to, correction of or deletion of your personal information, we may require you to provide certain information to help us identify you. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request.

Additional Information: If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request. This Notice is available in alternative formats upon request by contacting privacy@kochind.com.

Financial Incentives: We may collect and use personal information such as your email address and zip code in connection with promotional offers and coupons. These financial incentives are not determined or adjusted on the basis of whether you exercised your rights under the CCPA and are permitted by the CCPA because the incentives we offer to you are reasonably related to the value provided to us by your personal information. You may opt-in to these incentives by providing your information at the relevant collection point. You have the right to withdraw from the incentives at any time and may do so by clicking the unsubscribe link provided (if electronic mail), or you can click here to submit a request to opt-out.