California Private Policy
Effective Date: 1st January 2023
Last Reviewed on: 1st January 2023
This Privacy Notice Addendum for California Residents (the “California Privacy Addendum”) supplements the information contained in Gadgets and Gizmos privacy notice and describes our collection and use of Personal Information (as defined below). This California Privacy Addendum applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“Consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (collectively, the “CPRA”) and any terms defined in the CPRA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Scope of this California Privacy Addendum
This California Privacy Addendum applies to information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with you or your device (“Personal Information”) that we collect when you use our websites, iOS and android applications, when you interact with us through social media, email, or phone, or when you participate in our competitions or events. It also applies to your Personal Information to the extent that someone has nominated you through our "refer a friend" function or purchased an e-gift card on your behalf. However, publicly available information that we collect from government records and deidentified or aggregated information (when deidentified or aggregated as described in the CPRA) are not considered Personal Information and this California Privacy Addendum does not apply.
This California Privacy Addendum does not apply to employment-related Personal Information collected from our California-based employees, job applicants, contractors, or similar individuals (“Personnel”). Please contact your local human resources department if you are part of our California Personnel and would like additional information about how we process your Personal Information.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Gadgets and Gizmos collects, and over the prior twelve (12) months have collected, the following categories of Personal Information about Consumers:
| Category | Applicable Pieces of Personal Information Collected |
| A. Identifiers. | A real name; alias; postal address; unique personal identifier (loyalty program information); online identifier; Internet Protocol address; email address; account name; and other similar identifiers. |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name; signature; physical characteristics or description; address; telephone number; occupation; bank account number; credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information. Credit card and debit card numbers are only collected by our payment processor, and we only receive tokenized versions of this information for future online payments and for returns. The tokenized credit card and debit card information cannot be used to make purchases outside of our websites. |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Race; color; sex (including gender). Providing this information is completely optional. |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history; search history; information on a Consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
| G. Geolocation data. | IP-based physical location or movements, which may determine your location to town, city, and state. We do not collect information that may locate you within 1,850 feet. |
| H. Sensory data. | Visual or similar information, such as photographs if you choose to provide them. |
| K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences; characteristics; psychological trends; predispositions; behavior; attitudes; intelligence; abilities; and aptitudes. |
| L. Sensitive Personal Information (“Sensitive Personal Information”) |
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Gadgets and Gizmos will not collect additional categories of Personal Information without providing you notice.
Sources of Personal Information
We collect Personal Information about you from the sources described in our privacy notice.
Purposes for Our Collection of Your Personal Information
Through the use of cookies on our websites and applications, we may use, “sell” for monetary or other valuable consideration, “share” for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, or disclose the Personal Information we collect and, over the prior twelve (12) months, have used, “sold” for monetary or other valuable consideration, “shared” for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, or disclosed the Personal Information we have collected, for the purposes described in our privacy notice.
Gadgets and Gizmos will not use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Third Parties to Whom Do We Disclose Your Personal Information for Business Purposes
When we disclose Personal Information to non-affiliated third parties for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose, requires the recipient to both keep that Personal Information confidential and not use it for any purpose except for the purposes for which the Personal Information was disclosed and requires the recipient to otherwise comply with the requirements of the CPRA.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, Gadgets and Gizmos, disclosed the following categories of Personal Information for one or more of the business purposes described below to the following categories of third parties:
| Category | Applicable Pieces of Personal Information Collected |
| A. Identifiers. | A real name; alias; postal address; unique personal identifier (loyalty program information); online identifier; Internet Protocol address; email address; account name; and other similar identifiers. |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name; signature; physical characteristics or description; address; telephone number; occupation; bank account number; credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information. Credit card and debit card numbers are only collected by our payment processor, and we only receive tokenized versions of this information for future online payments and for returns. The tokenized credit card and debit card information cannot be used to make purchases outside of our websites. |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Race; color; sex (including gender). Providing this information is completely optional. |
| D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products, or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history; search history; information on a Consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. |
| G. Geolocation data. | IP-based physical location or movements, which may determine your location to town, city, and state. We do not collect information that may locate you within 1,850 feet. |
| H. Sensory data. | Visual or similar information, such as photographs if you choose to provide them. |
| K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences; characteristics; psychological trends; predispositions; behavior; attitudes; intelligence; abilities; and aptitudes. |
| L. Sensitive Personal Information (“Sensitive Personal Information”) |
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| Personal Information Category | Categories of Non-Service Provider and Non-Contractor Third Party Recipients |
| A. Identifiers. | Advertisers and advertising networks, Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of, Gadgets and Gizmos Social media companies, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | Advertisers and advertising networks, Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos, Social media companies, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Advertisers and advertising networks, Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos, Social media companies, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| D. Commercial information. | Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos. |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Service providers, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| G. Geolocation data. | Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos |
| H. Sensory data. | Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos |
| K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. | Advertisers and advertising networks, Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos |
| Sensitive Personal Information Category | Categories of Third-Party Recipients |
| Complete account access credentials (usernames, account numbers, or card numbers combined with required access/security code or password) | Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos |
| Racial or ethnic origin | Service providers, Affiliates, parents, and subsidiary organizations of Gadgets and Gizmos. |
We disclose your Personal Information to the categories of third parties listed above for the following business purposes:
- Helping to ensure security and integrity of our products, services, and IT infrastructure to the extent the use of the Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.
- Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Short–term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us. Our agreements with third parties prohibit your Personal Information from disclosure to another third-party and from using your Personal Information to build a profile about the you or otherwise alter your experience outside your current interaction with us.
- Performing services on behalf of us, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of us.
- Providing advertising and marketing services, except for cross-context behavioral advertising, to Consumers.
- Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
- 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.
In addition to the above, we may disclose any or all categories of Personal Information to any third-party (including government entities and/or law enforcement entities) as necessary to:
- comply with federal, state, or local laws, or to comply with a court order or subpoena to provide information.
- comply with a civil, criminal, or regulatory inquiry, investigation, subpoena, or summons by federal, state, or local authorities.
- cooperate with law enforcement agencies concerning conduct or activities that we (or one of our service providers) believe may violate federal, state, or local law.
- comply with certain government agency requests for emergency access to your Personal Information if you are at risk or danger of death or serious physical injury; or
- exercise or defend legal claims.
To Whom Do We Sell or Share Your Personal Information
We do not sell Personal Information as the term “sell” is commonly understood to require an exchange for money. However, the use of advertising and analytics cookies on our website is considered a “sale” of Personal Information as the term “sale” is broadly defined in the CPRA to include both monetary and other valuable consideration. Our “sale” is limited to our use of third-party advertising and analytics cookies and their use in providing behavioral advertising and their use in understanding how people use and interact with our website(s) and applications. Our “sales” of your Personal Information in this matter is subject to your right to opt-out of those sales (see Your Choices Regarding our “Sale” or “Sharing” of your Personal Information).
“Sharing” of Your Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising
Gadgets and Gizmos may “share” your Personal Information for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, subject to your right to opt-out of that sharing (see Your Choices Regarding our “Sale” or “Sharing” of your Personal Information). Our “sharing” for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising would be limited to our use of third-party advertising cookies and their use in providing you cross-context behavioral advertising (i.e., advertising on other websites or in other mediums). When the recipients of your Personal Information disclosed for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising are also permitted to use your Personal Information to provide advertising to others, we also consider this disclosure as a “sale” for monetary or other valuable consideration under the CPRA.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, Gadgets and Gizmos has “sold” for monetary or other valuable consideration, or “shared” for the purpose of cross-context behavioral advertising, the following categories of Personal Information to the following categories of third parties:
| Personal Information Category | Sold or Shared | Categories of Third Parties To Whom Your Personal Information is Sold or Shared |
| A. Identifiers. | Sold and Shared | Business partners, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | Shared | Business partners |
| C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Shared | Business partners |
| D. Commercial information. | Shared | Business partners |
| F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Sold and Shared | Advertisers and advertising networks, Internet cookie information recipients, such as analytics and behavioral advertising services. |
| G. Geolocation data. | No | N/A |
| H. Sensory data. | No | N/A |
| K. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information. | Shared | Business partners |
| Sensitive Personal Information Category | Sold or Shared | Business Purpose for Sale or Sharing (as appropriate) | Categories of Third Parties To Whom Your Personal Information is Sold or Shared |
| Complete account access credentials (user names, account numbers, or card numbers combined with required access/security code or password) | No | N/A | N/A |
| Racial or ethnic origin | No | N/A | N/A |
Your Personal Information may be “sold” or “shared” as described above for the following business or commercial purposes:
- To market their goods and services to you
- To provide us with cross-context behavioral advertising on other websites and platforms
- To provide us with analytics services for our websites and applications
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under the Age of 16
We do not “sell” the Personal Information of minors under the age of 16 for monetary or other valuable consideration and we do not “share” such Personal Information for cross-context behavioral advertising without affirmative consent as required by the CPRA. More information on how minors under the age of 16 may change their choice regarding the “sale” or “sharing” of their Personal Information can be found in Your Choices Regarding our “Sale” or “Sharing” of Your Personal Information.
Consumer Data Requests
The CPRA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes your CPRA rights and explains how to exercise those rights. You may exercise these rights yourself or through your Authorized Agent. For more information on how you or your Authorized Agent can exercise your rights, please see Exercising Your CPRA Privacy Rights. These rights include the right to:
- Request to know the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you and how we have used it.
- Request access to your Personal Information.
- Request correction of your Personal Information.
- Request deletion of your Personal Information.
Brief details of each of these rights are set out below. You also have the right to opt-out of our sale or sharing of your personal data, as described further below.
Right to Know
You have the right to request that Gadgets and Gizmos discloses certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months (a “Right to Know” Consumer Request).
Access to Specific Pieces of Information (Data Portability).
You also have the right to request that Gadgets and Gizmos provides you with a copy of the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected about you, including any Personal Information that we have created or otherwise received from a third-party about you (a “Data Portability” Consumer Request).
Correction
You have the right to request that we correct any incorrect Personal Information about you to ensure that it is complete, accurate, and as current as possible. In addition to other methods you may have to exercise this right as described below, you may review and correct some Personal Information about yourself by logging into your account page and updating your details directly.
Deletion
You have the right to request that Gadgets and Gizmos deletes any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
Exercising Your CPRA Privacy Rights
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a request (a “Consumer Request”) to us by either:
- Emailing us at gadgetsandgizmos2024@gmail.com
If you fail to make your Consumer Request in accordance with the ways described above, we may either treat your request as if it had been submitted with our methods described above or provide you with information on how to submit the request or remedy any deficiencies with your request.
Only you, or your Authorized Agent that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a Consumer Request related to your Personal Information. To designate an Authorized Agent, see Authorized Agents below.
All Consumer Requests must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an Authorized Agent of such a person. This may include:
- Verifying Personal Information that we may already have about you, such as prior order numbers, address / ZIP code, and other similar information.
- 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 which Personal Information relates to you or the individual for whom you are making the request as their Authorized Agent.
Making a Consumer Request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to Personal Information associated with that specific account.
We will only use Personal Information provided in a Consumer Request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
For instructions on exercising sale opt-out rights, see Your Choices Regarding our “Sale” or “Sharing” of Your Personal Information.
In response to a Right to Know or Data Portability Consumer Request, we will provide you with all relevant information we have collected or maintained about you on or after January 1, 2022, unless an exception applies. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For Data Portability Consumer Request, 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, such as CSV file(s) and/or PDF file(s).
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your Consumer Request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. We reserve the right to consider more than two (2) total Right to Know or Data Portability Consumer Requests (or combination of the two) in a twelve (12) month period to be repetitive and/or excessive and require a fee. If we determine that your Consumer Request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Your Choices Regarding our “Sale” or “Sharing” of Your Personal Information
“Sale” of Your Personal Information
As described above, our use of cookies is considered a “sale” under the CPRA. We do not otherwise sell your Personal Information for monetary consideration. If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not “sell” your Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration at any time (the “right to opt-out”). We do not “sell” the Personal Information of Consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to Personal Information “sales” may opt-out of future “sales” at any time.
“Sharing” of Your Personal Information
If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not share your Personal Information for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, which is showing advertising on other websites or other media based on your browsing history with our websites and applications (the “right to opt-out”). We do not share the Personal Information of Consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age for this purpose, unless we receive affirmative authorization from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to our sharing of Personal Information for these purposes may opt-out of future such sharing at any time.
How You May Opt-Out of Our Sale or Sharing of Your Personal Information
To exercise the right to opt-out of the “sale” and the “sharing” your Personal Information for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, you may do so by any of the following: clicking the link below, adjusting your cookie preferences, or by configuring your browser to send us a privacy signal as described in more detail below. You may also opt-out of such “sales” and “sharing” by setting your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our websites or applications or other websites.
Once you make an opt-out request, Gadgets and Gizmos will wait at least twelve (12) months before asking you to reauthorize Personal Information sales. However, you may change your mind and opt back into the sale of Personal Information at any time by:
- If you have opted out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information through cookies by adjusting your cookie preferences or by following the above link, you may simply re-adjust your cookie preferences.
- If you have opted out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information through the use of a browser privacy control signal, you may turn off the signal and re-adjust your cookie preferences.
If you (or your Authorized Agent) submit a request to opt-in to our “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information, we will use a two-step process in order to confirm that you want to opt-in for such “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information. This may include confirming your choice by a popup box or other requirement to confirm your new choice.
Browser Privacy Control Signals
You may also exercise your right to opt-out of the “sale” of your Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration and the “sharing” of your Personal Information for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising by setting the privacy control signal on your browser, if your browser supports it. We currently recognize and support the following privacy signals sent by browsers:
- Global privacy control (for more information on how to configure your browser to send this signal, please see https://globalprivacycontrol.org/).
When we receive one of these privacy control signals, we will opt you out of any further “sales” or “sharing” of your Personal Information when you interact with our websites or applications through that browser and on that device. We will only be able to propagate your choice to opt-out to your account if you are currently logged in when we receive the privacy control signal from your browser. When we are able to propagate your choice to your account, you will be opted out of “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information on all browsers and devices on which you are logged in, and for both online and offline “sales” and “sharing.”
Your Choices Regarding our Use and Disclosure of Your Sensitive Personal Information
As further described below, we do not use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information for any purpose other than the following:
- To perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average Consumer who requests such goods or services.
- To detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted Personal Information, provided that our use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for such purposes.
- To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at and Gadgets and Gizmos and to prosecute those responsible for those actions, provided that our use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
- To ensure the safety of natural persons, provided that our use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.
- For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us, provided that the Personal Information is not disclosed to another third-party and is not used to build a profile about you or otherwise alter your experience outside the current interaction with us.
- To perform services on behalf of us, such as maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of us; and
- 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 by, manufactured for, or controlled by us.
Financial Incentives
We may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CPRA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CPRA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time. We may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CPRA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CPRA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your Personal Information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
In determining the value of your Personal Information, we collect as part of your participation in our financial incentives, we consider:
- the revenue generated by Gadgets and Gizmos of the sale, collection, or deletion of your Personal Information, which we have calculated to be $.163.
Personal Information Retention Periods
We will keep your Personal Information for no longer than is necessary for the purpose(s) it was provided for and to meet our legal obligations. Further details of the periods for which we retain Personal Information are available on request.
Other California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (California’s “Shine the Light” law) permits users of our websites that are California residents and who provide Personal Information in obtaining products and services for personal, family, or household use to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. If applicable, this information would include the categories of Personal Information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared your Personal Information with for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2023 will receive information regarding such activities in 2022). You may request this information once per calendar year. To make such a request, please send an email to gadgetsandgizmos2024@gmail.com.
Changes to This CPRA Privacy Addendum
Gadgets and Gizmos reserves the right to amend this California Privacy Addendum at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this California Privacy Addendum, we will post the updated addendum on the website and update the addendum’s effective date. If there are any significant changes we will post updates on our website, applications or let you know by email. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this California Privacy Addendum, the ways in which Gadgets and Gizmos collects and uses your information described in this California Privacy Addendum, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at gadgetsandgizmos2024@gmail.com.