California and Vermont

If you reside in California or Vermont this page applies to you and supplements the Popless Privacy Policy. It supplements the information in our Privacy Policy above, and except as provided herein, applies solely to California and Vermont residents. It applies to personal information we collect on or through Popless Platform and through other means (such as information collected offline, in person, and over the telephone). It does not apply to personal information we collect from our employees or job applicants in their capacity as employees and job applicants. It also does not apply to information we collect about businesses that use our Service -- including any employees, owners, directors, officers, or contractors of those businesses -- in the course of our provision or receipt of business-related services. 

1. California and Vermont residents 

Popless will not share information it collects about you with its affiliates or third parties (both financial and non-financial), except as required or permitted by your state’s law. 

2. California privacy rights 

California law permits Members who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those third parties. Contact us to make a request using the email hello@popless.com. Popless does not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes without your prior consent. Accordingly, you can prevent disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes by withholding consent. 

Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) allows California residents, upon a verifiable consumer request, to request that a business that collects consumers’ personal information to give consumers access, in a portable and (if technically feasible) readily usable form, to the specific pieces and categories of personal information that the business has collected about the consumer, the categories of sources for that information, the business or commercial purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information was shared. For more information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information for business purposes, please review our Privacy Policy. California residents also have the right to submit a request for deletion of information under certain circumstances. Consistent with California law, if you choose to exercise your rights, we won’t charge you different prices or provide different quality of services unless those differences are related to your information. Contact us to make a request using the email hello@popless.com. Please note that you must verify your identity and request before further action is taken. As a part of this process, government identification may be required. Consistent with California law, you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney; or the agent must provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request and either (i) verify your identity with us or (ii) directly confirm with us that you provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. 

We do not sell personal information to third parties. We do allow third parties to collect personal information through the Popless Platform and share personal information with third parties for the business purposes described in the Privacy Policy, including without limitation advertising and marketing on the Popless Platform and elsewhere based on users’ online activities over time and across Popless, services, and devices. 

3. Summary of Information We Collect 

California law requires us to disclose information regarding the categories of personal information that we have collected about California consumers (as that term is defined in the CCPA), the categories of sources from which the information was collected, the business or commercial purposes (as those terms are defined by applicable law) for which the information was collected, and the categories of parties with whom we share personal information. 

We or our service providers may collect the below categories of information for the following business or commercial purposes (as those terms are defined in applicable law): 

• Providing the Service (e.g., account servicing and maintenance, matching freelancer talent with client needs, customer service, advertising and marketing, analytics, and communication about the Service);

• Our or our service providers' operational purposes;

• Auditing consumer interactions on our site (e.g., measuring ad impressions);

• Detecting, protecting against, and prosecuting privacy and security incidents and fraudulent or illegal activity;

• Bug detection, error reporting, and activities to maintain the quality or safety of our Service;

• Investigating compliance with, enforcing, and/or complying with the law;

• Short-term, transient use, such as customizing content that we or our service providers display on the Service;

• Improving our existing Service and developing new services (e.g., by conducting research to develop new products or features);

• Other uses that advance our commercial or economic interests, such as third party advertising and communicating with you about relevant offers from us or third-party partners;

• Other uses about which we notify you. 

Examples of these types of uses are identified below. We may also use the below categories of personal information for compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and we may combine the information we collect (“aggregate”) or remove pieces of information (“de-identify”) to limit or prevent identification of any particular user or device.

4. Your rights 

Please refer to the “Your Rights” section of the Privacy Policy. If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights and California law may permit you to request that we: 

• Provide you the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed about you in the last twelve months; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we shared personal information.

• Provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you.

• Delete certain information we have about you. 

You may have the right to receive information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any. You also have the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising certain of your rights. Any difference in the services are related to the value provided. 

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please submit a request through the Data Request Form available in our Privacy Center or email us at hello@popless.com. You will be required to verify your identity before we fulfill your request. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide us with written authorization or a power of attorney, signed by you, for the agent to act on your behalf. You will still need to verify your identity directly with us.

Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain types of information so that we can provide the Service to you. If you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use the Service.

The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” personal information. Based on the definition of “sell” under the CCPA and under current regulatory guidance, we do not believe we engage in such activity and have not engaged in such activity in the past twelve months.