Privacy Statement For California Residents
This Privacy Statement supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of Cell Signaling Technology, Inc. (“the Company”, “we,” “us,” “our”) and applies only to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers,” or “you”). The purpose of this Privacy Statement is to ensure compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws, as applicable.
Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked to a particular consumer or device (“Personal Information”). Covering the last 12-month period, the table below lists the categories of Personal Information collected by us, to the extent such Personal Information is subject to CCPA requirements.
Category | Examples | 3rd party sharing** |
|---|---|---|
Identifiers | Name, address, telephone, email address, job title, user name, password, IP address | 1,2,3,4 |
Personal Information categories listed in Cal. Civ. Code Sec. 1798.80(e) | Social Security Number, passport number, driver’s license/state ID card number, insurance policy number, education, employment history, bank account/credit card/debit card number, medical/health insurance information | 1,2,3,4 |
Protected Class Information, such as characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, |
| 1,2,3,4 |
Commercial information | Products or services purchased, obtained, considered; purchasing histories | 1,2,3,4 |
Internet activity information | Browsing history, search history, information on interaction with a website, application, advertisement or email | 1,2,3,4 |
Professional or employment-related information | Current or past employment (including areas of business interest), job history, performance evaluations | 1,2,3,4 |
Geolocation data | Physical location, movements | 1,2,3,4 |
Biometric data | None | |
Sensitive Personal Data | Race, religion, sexual orientation, age | 1,3 |
Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties
** We may share your Personal Information with the following categories of third parties for a business purpose:
- Affiliates and/or subsidiaries
- Distributors
- Service providers and advisors, including marketing, social media and analytics
- Data aggregators
In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:
- Identifiers
- California Civil Code personal information categories
- Commercial information
- Internet activity information
- Geolocation data
- Sensitive Personal data
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you or your agent.
- Directly and indirectly from activity on our Sites; for example, from submission forms on our website, or website usage details collected automatically.
- From affiliates or third parties that interact with us; for example, a distributor, or a trade show, event or webinar service provider or sponsor.
- From publicly available information.
Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
We collect the categories of Personal Information listed above for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To respond to you or fulfill the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
- To provide, support, market, and develop our Website, products, and services.
- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
- To process your requests, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
- To provide you with support and respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To administer employment benefits for our California employees.
- To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent where required by law).
- For data analytics purposes to better understand our customers, evaluate advertising campaigns, personalize content, and improve business processes;
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
- To respond to law enforcement requests, cooperate with regulators, protect legal rights, or comply with obligations under applicable law, court order, or regulation.
- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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.
Your Rights and Choices
California residents are entitled to certain rights relating to your Personal Information, including the following:
- You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use and/or disclosure of your Personal Information over the past 12 months.
- You have the right to request the deletion of Personal Information that we collected about you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
California residents wishing to submit a verifiable request to exercise these rights can do so (up to twice within a 12-month period) by either:
- Calling us at 877-616-2355 (at prompt, choose Option 1); or
- Email the following information to [email protected]:
- Name of Requestor:
- Email address:
- Mailing address:
- Telephone Number:
- Request Type:
- Access Request: obtain a copy of your information
- Information Request: obtain information about the categories, sources, business purposes and third-party disclosures relating to your personal information
- Deletion Request: delete your information in our existing systems
For your protection, when you seek to exercise the rights described above, it will be necessary for us to verify your identity or authority to make the request (by matching the information provided in your request to information already in our systems) to confirm that the Personal Information relates to you. We will endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of receipt. 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 (or your authorized agent) must provide documentation signed by you demonstrating that the agent is authorized to submit a verifiable consumer request on your behalf.
We do not sell California resident Personal Information (relating to adults and to minors under 18) to a third party and have not sold California resident Personal Information in the past 12 months. In accordance with your rights under the CCPA, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights under California law or applicable law.
Changes to Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Statement at any time. Changes will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Site. If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
Contact Information
Any California resident with a question or complaint relating to the rights and/or disclosures outlined in this Privacy Statement may contact us at:
Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.
3 Trask Lane, Danvers, Massachusetts 01923, U.S.
[email protected]
Last updated: June 6, 2024
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