Effective December 26, 2019.
This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in our privacy policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who are California residents that meet the definition of Consumer under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) (”consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the CCPA, and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
If you are a California employee, contract employee ("contractor"), or employee applicant, please refer to Hydrite’s Privacy Notice for California Consumers - Employees for a description of Hydrite’s privacy practices in that context.
Until January 1, 2021, business-to-business information is outside of the scope of the CCPA requirements, except for the consumer’s right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information (Section 798.120). We do not and will not sell your personal information. So, we do not offer an opt-out to the sale of personal information.
Information We Collect
We 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 household (“personal information”). We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
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Category
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Examples of Data
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Collected
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A. Identifiers.
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A real name, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
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YES
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B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
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A name, address, telephone number, email address, company name, job function and position title.
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YES
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C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
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Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, 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).
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NO
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D. Commercial information.
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Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
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YES
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E. Biometric information.
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Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
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NO
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F. Internet or other similar network activity.
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Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
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YES
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G. Geolocation data.
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Physical location or movements.
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YES
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H. Sensory data.
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Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
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YES
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I. Professional or employment-related information.
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Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
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NO
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J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
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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, or student disciplinary records.
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NO
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K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.
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Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
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YES
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Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you. For example, from documents or forms that you may provide to us related to the information, products and/or services for which you engage us.
- Indirectly from you or your agent. For example, through information we collect from you in the course of providing information, products and/or services to you.
- Directly and indirectly from your activity on our Site (www.Hydrite.com). For example, from submissions through our published contact forms or website usage details collected automatically.
- From third party Service Providers that provide services to us in connection with our business operations.
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 for which the information is provided.
- to provide you with information about the products and/or services we offer and about which you have expressed an interest, requested information or that we believe will be of benefit to you;
- to provide you with email alerts, event registrations and other notices concerning our products or services, or events or news, that may be of interest to you.
- to respond to your comments or requests for information and documentation;
- to manage the security of our Site, networks and systems;
- to improve our Site and present its contents to you;
- to comply with applicable law and regulations;
- for any other purposes about which we notify you; and
- for any other reasonable business purpose to which you consent.
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.
We do not and will not sell your personal information. So, we do not offer an opt-out to the sale of personal information.
Sharing Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to Service Providers for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold or leased any personal information.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Site 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 sell, lease or otherwise share personal information that we have collected with third parties for direct marketing purposes.
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 we 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, 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 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 disclosing:
- the disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we 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, we will delete (and direct our Service Providers 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 Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we 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, or otherwise perform our contract with 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 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.
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
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 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 an account 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 (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have placed your request through the electronic inquiry form, we will deliver our written response through that portal. If you have placed your request with us through use of the telephone number, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. 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. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
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.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you through a notice on our Site homepage.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, our Privacy Statement, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Written inquiries may be addressed to:
Hydrite Chemical Co.
Attn: Information Security Council
17385 Golf Parkway
Brookfield, WI 53045
We can also be reached by: