State Specific Privacy Notices
Last
Revised:
01/06/2025
This
Notice of Privacy is for Residents who live in states that have enacted a state-specific consumer data protection laws. It applies to all consumers who interact with Resource Connect who reside in those states. It supplements the information in our Privacy Policy to comply with those laws. No provision of this Notice may be construed to provide consumers any rights (or our company any obligations) beyond those required by the applicable state laws. States that have Consumer Data Protection laws include: California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, Iowa, Florida, et al.
Personal
Information That We Collect
By providing your personal information to us, asking to be contacted or using us to interact with a third party, you are also specifically directing us to disclose your information to any third-parties listed, along with others who we feel may have information or offers you may be interested in.
We collect personal information directly from you and by observing your interactions on our website which identifies, relates to, describes and/or is capable of being associated with or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household or device. In the last twelve months we have collected the categories of information listed below. 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. The following is an overview of information defined as personal information.
A.
Unique personal identifiers |
A real name,
account name, address, alias, bank account number, credit card number, email
address, debit card number, driver's license number, insurance policy number,
internet Protocol address, passport number, physical characteristics or
description, postal address, online identifier, signature, Social Security
number, state identification card number, telephone number, unique personal
identifier, or other similar identifiers. |
B.
Characteristics of protected classifications under some state or federal law |
Age (40 years or
older), ancestry, citizenship, color, disability (physical or mental),
marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, religion or creed,
sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or
childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or
military status, genetic information (including familial genetic
information). |
C.
Commercial information |
Products or
services considered, obtained or purchased, purchasing or consuming histories
or tendencies, records of personal property. |
D.
Biometric information |
Activity patterns
used to extract a template, behavioral, biological, genetic or physiological characteristics,
other identifiers or identifying information e.g.:, face, finger or
voiceprints, gait tendencies, health information like exercise or sleep
information, iris or retina scans, keystrokes or other physical patterns. |
E.
Internet or other electronic network activity information |
Browsing history, search
history, information regarding interaction with advertisements, applications
or websites. |
F.
Geolocation information |
Physical location
or movements including trends. |
G.
Sensory information |
Audio, electronic,
visual, thermal, olfactory or similar data. |
H.
Professional or employment related information |
Past or present
job history, performance evaluations. |
I.
Non-public / Private (non-public) educational information
protected by the Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g,
34 C.F.R. Part 99)). |
Class lists, disciplinary
records, financial information, grades, identification codes, schedules, transcripts
or other information directly related to a student which is collected by
educational institutions or agencies acting on their behalf. |
J.
Inferences or conclusions drawn from personal information |
Profiles
reflecting an individual’s abilities, attitudes, aptitudes, behavior,
characteristics, intelligence, predispositions, preferences, psychological
trends etc. |
K.
Personal Information not governed by the CCPA |
De-identified or
aggregated consumer information, information excluded from the CCPA's scope (e.g.:
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, publicly available information from government records. |
We
obtain personal information from the following categories of sources
A.
We may collect names, address, email address, phone number and IP address.
This information may be collected on our websites, via phone calls, or from our Clients or their agents, directly or indirectly.
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C.
We may collect information about products or services purchased by you as a direct results of your interactions with our ads, webpages or calls, or via third parties, advertising networks, consumer data resellers, data analytics providers, government entities, internet service providers, social networks, operating systems and platforms. |
B.
We may collect marital status, citizenship status and gender. This information may be collected on our websites, via phone calls, or from our Clients or their agents, directly or indirectly. Or from Government entities from which public records are obtained |
E.
Website interactions from our ads and contact us and other web forms. |
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F.
Location based on IP |
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We do not collect information in sections D, G, H, I, J and K |
How we may use personal information regulated by a state’s consumer privacy law:
A.
As described upon collection of information |
As set forth in state specific privacy laws. |
B.
Complying with the law |
Obeying
the court, law and government regulations, responding to requests from law
enforcement and other governing bodies. |
C.
Fulfill requests, the reason you provided the information |
Answering
questions, facilitating delivery, fulfilling purchases, providing information
on products or services, price quotes, processing payments and transactions,
processing product orders, processing returns. This includes, for example,
when you make a request online to receive offers via email or telephone, or
when you request or agree during one of our phone calls, to be transferred to
a third-party product or service seller to receive such offers. |
D.
Maintaining safety and security |
Preventing
theft of information, products and services as well as technological
resources and preventing transactional fraud. |
E.
Personalizing the customer experience |
Personalizing
your experience to deliver content, product and service offerings relevant to
your interests (e.g.; targeting offers and ads through our website,
third-party sites and via email or text messaging –with your consent, where
required by law). |
F.
Product development |
Product,
service and website improvement, research and analysis |
G.
Providing support |
Developing and
personalizing our products, services and website, investigating and
addressing concerns, monitoring and improving responses |
H.
Restructuring |
Evaluating or
conducing mergers, divestures, reorganization, sale or transfer or assets in
the event of bankruptcy, liquidation, etc. |
Sharing
Personal Information
We
may disclose your personal information to a third party (e.g.: Service
providers and data aggregators) for a business purpose. When we disclose your
information for business purposes our contracts state the purpose and requires all
parties use personal information for the sole purpose of executing the contract
and also that all personal information be kept confidential.
Personal
Information Disclosed in the Last 12 Months
In
the last twelve months, we have disclosed the categories of personal
information below for a business purpose.
A.
Biometric information?
No |
F. Internet or other electronic network
activity information? Yes |
B.
Characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law? No |
G. Non-public / Private (non-public)
educational information protected by the Educational Rights and Privacy Act
(20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99))? No |
C.
Commercial information? Yes |
H.
Professional or employment related information? No |
D.
Geolocation information? Yes |
I.
Sensory information? No |
E.
Inferences or conclusions drawn from personal information? No |
J.
Unique personal
identifiers? Yes |
Personal
Information Sold in the Last 12 Months.
In the last twelve months we have sold the categories below of personal information for a business purpose. Note that under most state privacy laws, a business does not “sell” personal information when a consumer uses or directs the business to intentionally disclose personal information or uses the business to intentionally interact with a third party, provided the third party does not also sell the personal information, unless that disclosure would be consistent with the provisions of this title. An intentional interaction occurs when the consumer intends to interact with the third party, via one or more deliberate interactions.
A.
Unique personal identifiers? No. |
F.
Geolocation information? No. |
B.
Characteristics of protected classifications under California
or federal law? No |
G.
Sensory information? No |
C.
Commercial information? No |
H.
Professional or employment related information? No |
D.
Biometric information? No |
I.
Non-public / Private (non-public) educational information
protected by the Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g,
34 C.F.R. Part 99))? No |
E.
Internet or other electronic network activity information? No |
J.
Inferences or conclusions drawn from personal information? No |
Your
Rights and Choices
State privacy laws provides consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. The following is an overview of these rights and an explanation of how to exercise them.
1.
Specific Information Access and Data Portability Rights you have the right to request the disclosure of what personal information we have collected about you in the last twelve months and what we have used it for during this time period. To the extent required by law, when we receive a verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following information, after
verifying your identity, if we can:
A.
Business or commercial purposes for collecting or selling
personal information. |
F.
Personal information categories that each information
recipient category disclosed to each recipient. |
B.
Categories of personal information collected about you. |
G.
Personal information categories that each information
recipient category sold to each recipient. |
C.
Categories of sources we use to collect personal information about you. |
H.
Specific pieces of personal information we collected about you, so
that you can make a data request. We will provide you with this information
in a portable format. |
D.
Categories of third parties we share your personal information with. |
I.
Whether we disclosed or sold your personal information for a
business purpose, two separate lists. |
E.
Internet or other electronic network activity information
collected or maintained. |
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2.
Deletion Request Rights you have the right to request that we delete any of the personal information which we collected about you. After we have received and confirmed your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete your personal information and instruct our service providers to delete your information as well. We may not delete your information if it is required to us or our service providers to do the following:
A.
Completing the contract or transaction for which we
collected the personal information, providing goods or services requested,
taking reasonable actions within the scope of our ongoing business
relationship with you. |
F.
Finding and resolving defects or errors impacting intended
product, service or website functionality. |
B.
Complying with the California Electronic Communications
Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.), and other le.g.al
obligations. |
G.
Internal processes in alignment with your relationship with us. |
C.
Complying with free speech rights, engaging in free speech,
ensuring consumers right to exercise their free speech. |
H.
Identifying security risks, protecting against deceptive,
fraudulent, malicious, or ille.g.al activity, or prosecuting individuals
involved in such activities. |
D.
Complying with other state and federal laws as it may pertain to record keeping. |
I.
Participating in public or peer-reviewed historical,
scientific, or statistical research which is in the public interest and
abides by ethics standards, if the information is required to complete the
research and you have provided informed consent. |
3.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights Only you or someone who is authorized to act in your interests may make a request for information or deletion. Once you have made a verifiable consumer request, we will provide your personal information is a portable manner so that you can access it easily. Any information you provide will only be used to verify your identity. You can make a request following the instructions below:
A.
Use our online Request to
Know form,
or write us (both items found in our contact section) found at the end of this
notice. We
will confirm receipt within 10 days and then provide a written response
within 45 days.
If we require more time (up to 90
days), we will inform you in writing of the reason. |
E.
Select the format in which you would like to receive your
personal information. This format should be readily accessible and allow you
to transport the data to others without issue. |
B.
Provide us with information necessary to verify your identity
so that we may release the information to the individual to whom it belongs,
or an authorized representative. |
F.
We will provide access to your personal information for the
last twelve-month period or provide an explanation as to who we cannot comply
with the request. |
C.
You need not create an account to make requests, but if you
have an account and login with us, signing
in through our portal with a password serves to verify your identity. |
G.
There is no fee to process your verifiable consumer request
unless it is excessive. In with case we will inform you of the fee before
proceeding. |
D.
Provide enough detail in your request that we understand you,
can evaluate the request and provide an answer. |
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You will need to prove your identity to us. If you have no password-protected account
with us, you will need to provide us with at least 2 data points which we
already maintain about you, and possibly other information and a signed declaration
under penalty of perjury if the information maintained about you is of a
sensitive nature. In some cases, we
might not be able to successfully verify your information and in such a case,
we will notify you as to why we cannot provide it.
4.
Personal Information Sales Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights you have the right to dictate that we do not sell your personal information. If you opt-in to information sales, either verbally or in writing, you may opt-out at any time. Minors are not allowed to use our websites or services and we do not intentionally collect any personal information for or regarding those under the age of eighteen. To opt out please contact us using the contact information found at the end of this notice.
5.
Financial
Incentives & Non-Discrimination
Rights
To the extent required by law, we will not discriminate against individuals who choose to exercise any of their rights under their state privacy law. Unless allowed by such laws, we will not:
A.
Deny you good or services because you exercised your rights. |
H.
We may, however, offer financial incentives to those who
provide personal information which may result in variations in price, rates
or quality depending on the value of the information provided. |
B.
Charge different rates or prices, impost penalties or grant
differential discounts for punitive purposes. |
I.
You must opt-in or provide prior written consent to
participate in financial incentive programs and you may revoke this consent
at any time. |
C.
Provide (or suggest) those who exercise their rights a
different quality goods or a different level of service. |
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We do not offer financial incentives to consumers to induce their agreement for us to sell their personal information. Rather, if you do not agree, we might not be allowed to provide your information to third parties who have the quotes, services or other information you have requested. Note that under most state consumer privacy laws, the “sale” of information does not include the disclosure of information at the consumer’s request.
6.
Other Privacy Rights
In California specifically, there is the "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) which provides California residents with the right to request information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make a request, please contact us using the contact information found at the end of this notice.
Changes
to Our Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to amend this notice of privacy at any time and at our sole discretion. When changes are made, we will post a notice on the privacy policy and the date the changes take effect. Continued use of this website indicates your acceptance of these changes.
Contact
Information
To exercise your rights listed on this privacy notice, you may use our online form to make your request, or writing to us at the address below. If you wish to simply opt-out, you may do so here.
Resource Connect
295 E Swedesford Road, #168
Wayne, PA 19087