United States Regional Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 02, 2024

This United States Regional Privacy Policy supplements and enhances IvyPanda Privacy Policy and applies to individuals residing in certain states of the US. This policy is designed to help you understand what information we collect and process, how we collect, use, and disclose your personal data, and, depending on your residency state, how to exercise your rights.

This United States Regional Privacy Policy applies to residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, and Montana and provides additional information by the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act, and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (collectively, the “State Privacy Laws”).

For California and Colorado residents, please check the additional disclosures:

California Consumer Privacy Notice
Colorado Privacy Notice

Please note that the rights listed below may be limited to users and customers who are residents of the state listed and may not be available to all users. Additionally, we may not be able to process your requests regarding exercising your rights if you are unable to provide us with sufficient details and/or proof of residence in certain states.

Why We Collect Your Personal Information

This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect and the purposes for which we collect and process personal information. Particularly, we use your personal data for business and commercial purposes, including:

Providing the Services
Processing orders and transactions
Customizing the Services to you
Advertising and marketing purposes
Internal business analytics
Maintaining the quality, integrity, and safety of our Services
Improvement of our Services
Maintaining user accounts
Providing customer services
Verifying customer information

Your Privacy Rights

The United States privacy laws provide residents with all, or partial rights listed below. Please note that these rights can be subject to some exceptions. We reserve the right to ask for additional information or decline your request in some cases as described in the laws.

Right to Know. You can request information about how we have collected and processed your personal information during the last 12 months, including:
- The categories of your personal information we collected;
- The categories of sources from which we collected your personal information;
- Business or commercial purposes for collecting personal data and/or "selling" (as defined in the State Privacy Laws, as applicable);
- The categories of third parties with which we shared your personal data;
- The categories of personal data we "sold" or disclosed for business purposes;
- The categories of third parties to whom we "sold" or disclosed personal information for business purposes.
Right to Access. You can request a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you.
Right to Correct. You can request a correction of any inaccurate personal information we have collected about you.
Right to Delete. You can request the deletion of your personal information we have collected.
Right to opt-out of processing for targeted advertising purposes. You have the right to opt-out of processing your personal information for targeted or interest-based advertising purposes, including sharing personal information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising.
Right to opt-out of "sales" of personal information. "Sale" is defined broadly under Connecticut, Virginia, and California privacy laws and includes the transfer of personal information to third parties in exchange for anything of value, including but not limited to analytics and security providers.

Some states grant the right to opt-out of automated processing or profiling personal data used to make significant decisions directly affecting your interests, for example, legal, employment, or credit decisions. In cases where we engage in profiling or automated processing to prevent, protect against, detect, or respond to illegal or fraudulent activity, we are not obliged to offer the right to opt out. Otherwise, we do not engage in automated decision-making or profiling as defined under the State Privacy laws.

How to Exercise Your Rights

If you would like to access, correct, or delete your personal information, you can do so through your account settings or by contacting us through the contact form available on our website.

Limiting use or deleting your personal information may impact your interaction with our Services and access to your orders.

While we do not sell personal information for money, we may use certain services that help us deliver interest-based advertising to you. The State Privacy Laws may classify our use of these services as "sharing" or "selling" you personal information to providers of these services. You can opt out of selling or sharing personal information for interest-based advertising and related tracking through your account privacy settings.

California residents can also opt out of by broadcasting the Global Privacy Control signal from a supported browser. Requests sent via Global Privacy Control will apply to the browser from which they are submitted. To find out more about the Global Privacy Control, please see https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

Our Services are prohibited for use by consumers under 18 years of age. We do not know that we collect, process, "sell," or "share" the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age for interest-based advertising.

Please note that you may still see generalized ads after opting out of targeted advertising.

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers allow you to submit a "Do-Not-Track" signal to websites and online services you visit. If you choose to turn on a DNT (Do-Not-Track) browser mechanism, we will not track that User's activities, use advertising, or plant cookies.

Verification and Authorized agents

In some cases, we may need to verify your identity to fulfill your request and exercise your right to access, know, correct, appeal, or delete personal information. We reserve the right to confirm your residence and identity and deny your request if we are unable to verify this information. As a part of this process, we may ask you to submit a copy of your government-issued identification.

You have the right to designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf. In this case, we will ask you and the authorized agent to provide valid government-issued identification to verify the authenticity of the request directly with you.

Accessibility, Appeals, and Non-Discrimination

In some cases, you have the right to appeal our decision regarding your request to exercise your rights. If you decide to appeal a decision, please use the form on the Contact Us page.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights. We won't deny you any services, charge you different rates, or provide you with a different quality of services.

If you need further assistance, have a visual impairment, or need any other accommodation and would like to access this policy in an alternative format, please use the form on the Contact Us page.

California Consumer Privacy Notice

This California Consumer Privacy Notice supplements IvyPanda's Privacy Policy and United States Regional Privacy Policy. This Notice applies to the personal information we collect online about California consumers. In this Notice, we use 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").

What Personal Information We Collect

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 your personal information:

Identifiers: information that identifies you, including your name, email address, unique personal identifiers such as a device identifier and/or IP address, and, in some cases, government-issued ID documents which we may ask you to provide to prevent illegal or fraudulent activities and money laundering.
Other records: phone number, billing address, credit/debit card information.
Commercial information: your orders, files and order instructions you submit when placing an order, and/or how you interact with our website and Services.
Internet or Other Network Activity: information about your interactions with our Services, including web/mobile traffic-related information, device type, operating system and version, browser type and settings, and cookie-related data (e.g., cookie ID).
Geolocation data: your general location is provided through location-enabled services (GPS, Wi-Fi).

How We Collect and Process Personal Information

We collect the categories of personal information described in this Notice from the sources described in the section "Information We Collect" of IvyPanda Privacy Policy, which includes various sources of information: you, your devices, service providers, marketing and business partners, social networks, government entities or other public sources, vendors and suppliers.

We use these categories of your personal information for commercial and business purposes, as described in the sections "How We Process Your Information" and "What and How We Process Your Information" of the IvyPanda Privacy Policy and "Why We Collect Your Personal Information" in our United States Regional Privacy Policy.

We do not sell your personal information for money. Still, we may share your personal information with third parties, such as advertising services, to collect personal information of our users and customers through automated technologies on our website for targeted advertising purposes. Such sharing may be considered as a "sale" under California law, and you have the right to opt out of it.

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

Commercial information
Identifiers
Inferences
Internet or network activity

You can opt out of sharing your data for targeted and/or cross-context behavioral advertising by clicking the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link through your account privacy settings. California residents can also opt-out by broadcasting the Global Privacy Control signal from a supported browser. Requests sent via Global Privacy Control will apply to the browser from which they are submitted. To find out more about the Global Privacy Contol, please see https://globalprivacycontrol.org/

We do not knowingly or intentionally share or sell the personal information of minors younger than 18.

Disclosing Personal Information for Business Purposes

We share personal information (and may have shared it during the last 12 months) with service providers, contractors, and other third parties. We have disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes:

Identifiers
Other records
Commercial information
Geolocation information
Internet or other electronic network activity information

We have disclosed (and may have been disclosed it during the last 12 months) to the following categories of recipients:

Visitors to our website (when you post a comment on our website page)
Our service providers
Online advertising services
Analytics providers
Social networks
Internet service providers.

Please note that not all the following categories may apply to your information. Additionally, during the past 12 months, we may have disclosed your personal information to the government and tax authorities for the purposes listed in our Privacy Policy.

Exercising Your Rights

Please visit the sections "Your Rights and Choices" of the IvyPanda Privacy Policy and "How to Exercise Your Rights" of our United States Regional Privacy Policy for information regarding your privacy rights and how to exercise them.

California residents may request a notice describing categories of personal information we share with third parties for their own marketing purposes. IvyPanda does not share or sell any personal information to any third party for their own marketing purposes unless you give consent directly to them.

If you have questions about these practices, you can contact us via the Contact page on our website. We reserve the right to ask for confirmation of your identity and California residency. We do not accept via mail, telephone, or facsimile, and we cannot be held responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly, of that lack of complete information.

Colorado Privacy Notice

This Colorado Privacy Notice supplements IvyPanda's Privacy Policy and United States Regional Privacy Policy. This Notice applies to personal information we collect online about Colorado consumers. In this Notice, we use terms that have the meaning given to them in Colorado Privacy Act (the "CPA").

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Please see the sections "Information We Collect,” "How We Process Your Information," and "What and How We Process Your Information" of the IvyPanda Privacy Policy and "Why We Collect Your Personal Information" in our United States Regional Privacy Policy to learn about the categories of personal information we collect, how we process it, and purposes for which we use the information.

Sensitive and Children Personal Information

At IvyPanda, we do not knowingly collect, process, store, or share sensitive information about you, including your precise location (GPS coordinates), race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, or union membership, any details concerning your health condition, biometric data, such as fingerprints or facial recognition, citizenship or immigration status, or any other as the term "Sensitive data" is defined under the CPA.

We do not knowingly process personal information from children under the age of 13.

We share your information with our service providers where it is necessary to perform our Services, comply with our obligations, or for purposes set out in the IvyPanda Privacy Policy.

We may share your information with our service providers or other third parties where it is necessary to perform the Services, comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, or for purposes set out in IvyPanda Privacy Policy. Please note that not every one of the following categories may apply to your personal information.

We share the following categories of your personal information:

Payments information
Transaction information
Customer support information
Name when you post a comment on our blog post pages
Browser and/or device information
Service usage information
Location information.

We may share your information with the following third parties:

Visitors to our website when you post a comment on our blog post pages
Professional services organizations such as law firms or auditors
Our marketing partners
Online advertising services
Data analytics providers
Social networks
Government and tax entities
Internet service providers and platforms

Selling Your Personal Information and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell your personal information in exchange for money. However, we may share your personal information by allowing third parties, such as advertising services, for targeted advertising purposes. We may “sell” or share for targeted and/or cross-context behavioral advertising purposes the following categories of your personal information to online advertising services:

Identifiers: information that includes your name, email address, unique personal identifiers such as a device identifier and/or IP address,
Commercial information: information about your orders
Online and network activities: information about your interaction with our services, including traffic-related information, device type, operating system and its version, cookie-related information, browser type, and settings.

You can choose to opt out of such disclosures of your personal information.

Profiling

At IvyPanda, although we engage in automated processing or profiling to detect, prevent, protect against, or respond to illegal or fraudulent activity, we are not required to offer the right to opt-out. Otherwise, we do not engage in profiling, which is required and defined under the CPA.

Colorado Consumer Privacy Rights

Please visit the the sections "Your Rights and Choices" of the IvyPanda Privacy Policy and "How to Exercise Your Rights" of our United States Regional Privacy Policy for information regarding your privacy rights and how to exercise them.

Contact Us

For questions related to this Privacy Policy, contact Us via email at [email protected].