Privacy Policy

Disclaimer for California Users

Your privacy and rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) are important to us. We offer this document as a resource to explain how we collect, manage, store, and use your Personal Information in the day-to-day running of our website.

This Privacy Policy, intended for California residents, can be applied to all website users to disclose how we collect, manage, store, and use your Personal Information as defined under CIV 1798.140(v) of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

The Business

This Privacy Policy is between you and the following organization:

• Company Name: NameAvailability.com
• Website URL: www.nameavailability.com
• Website Name: NameAvailability.com

Company address and contact e-mail details should be updated here with the final business information before publication.

Personal Information Collected

We may collect the following categories of Personal Information:

• Internet or Other Similar Network Activity. Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
• Geolocation Data. Physical location or movements, such as city, state, country, and ZIP code associated with your IP address or derived through Wi-Fi triangulation; and, with permission in your mobile device settings, precise geolocation information from GPS-based functionality on your mobile device.

These categories are referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Information.”

Sources of Information We Collect

We collect certain information from your activity on the website beginning when you first access it using an electronic device. We may collect your IP address, device ID, advertising identifiers, browser type, operating system, internet service provider, pages visited, including clicks and duration, and other related log information.

For mobile phones, we may collect your device's GPS signal or other information about nearby Wi-Fi access points and cell towers.

Cookies Policy

Our website uses cookies to provide you with the best experience possible. We, in addition to our service providers, affiliates, agents, advertisers, or other parties in connection with the website, may deploy cookies, web beacons, local shared objects, and other tracking technologies for various purposes. These may be used for business operations, marketing purposes, fraud prevention, and to assist in the day-to-day operations of the website.

a.) “Cookies” Defined

Cookies act as data that is communicated between a user's web browser and a website or application. They are stored on your device to help track areas of interest, provide the best experience possible, and customize content, products, services, offerings, and advertisements. Most web browsers can be adjusted to decline or delete cookies, but doing so may degrade the experience with our online services.

b.) 1-Pixel Images

Clear GIFs, pixel tags, or web beacons, which are generally 1-pixel transparent images, may be used on our website and in communications. They are often used in connection with advertisements served to you and are meant to recognize users, assess traffic patterns, and measure site or campaign engagement.

c.) Flash Cookies

Local Shared Objects, sometimes known as flash cookies, may be stored on your device using a media player or other software. Flash cookies are similar to standard cookies in terms of their operation, but they may not be managed by your browser in the same manner.

d.) First and Third Party Cookies

First party cookies are stored by the domain you are visiting directly. They allow us to collect analytics data, remember preferred settings, and perform related functions. Third party cookies are created by domains other than the one you are visiting directly and may be used for cross-tracking, retargeting, and ad-serving.

e.) Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are technically necessary to provide website functionality. They act as a basic form of memory and are used to store preferences selected by a user. They are essential to browsing functionality and cannot be disabled by users.

f.) Performance and Function Cookies

These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of a website but are not essential to its use. Without these cookies, certain functions may become unavailable.

g.) Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to customize a user's advertising experience. When using data collected from cookies, they can prevent the same advertisement from appearing multiple times in the same session and may be used to serve related services, products, or offerings based on prior user history.

If you would like to know more about cookies and how they are used, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and that website explains how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in some cases, portions of our website may not function properly as a result.

Advertisements

Our website contains advertisements. These advertisements may relate to our own products, services, offerings, and content, may be served through third-party advertising networks, or may be connected to affiliate programs. Advertisements presented to you may use your Personal Information and may contact you through other channels outside of the website, such as telephone, e-mail, or mailings.

We do not disclose your Personal Information to third-party advertisers except as permitted by applicable laws and regulations, and we require that such third parties follow those applicable laws and regulations when they collect information from you and transfer such information to us.

How We Use Personal Information

We may use or disclose your Personal Information for the following purposes:

• Feedback. To get feedback on website improvements and provide a better experience.
• Testing. For testing, research, and analysis of user behavior on the website.
• Law Enforcement. To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
• Intended Purpose. As described for the intended purpose when collecting your Personal Information.
• Assessment. To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or outright sale, either wholly or partially, of our assets in which your Personal Information becomes a part of such sale.

Our usage of your Personal Information may change over time, and when such changes occur, we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly.

Selling Personal Information

Our policy is that we do not sell your Personal Information. If that policy changes, you will be notified and this Privacy Policy will be updated.

Sharing Personal Information

We disclose your Personal Information to third parties for business purposes. The general categories include:

• Third-party service providers whose services support the operation of the website.
• Affiliated websites and businesses in an effort to improve services, products, and offerings.
• Other companies, affiliate partners, and third parties that help us advertise products, services, and offerings.
• Third parties to whom you, or an authorized agent on your behalf, authorized us to disclose your Personal Information.
• Third parties or affiliates in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a sale, consolidation, or merger.
• Other third parties to comply with legal requirements or to disclose Personal Information to government authorities per the rule of law.

In the last 12 months, it is recognized that we have disclosed the aforementioned categories of Personal Information for business purposes.

Rights and Choices

This section describes your rights and choices regarding how we collect, share, use, and protect your Personal Information, how to exercise those rights, and limits and exceptions to your rights and choices.

a.) Exceptions

The rights and choices in this section do not apply to the following:

• Aggregate consumer information.
• Deidentified Personal Information.
• Publicly available information.

b.) Access to Information

If the above exceptions do not apply, and you have not made this request more than twice in a 12-month period, 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 from the date we receive your request.

Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you or your representative:

• The categories of Personal Information we collect.
• The categories of sources for the Personal Information we collect.
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling such Personal Information.
• The categories of third parties to whom we sold or disclosed the category of Personal Information for a business or commercial purpose.
• The business or commercial purpose for which we sold or disclosed the category of Personal Information.
• The specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you in a portable format.

c.) Deletion (Erasure) Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collect from you and retain, subject to certain exceptions.

Once we receive and verify your 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 Personal Information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Information or otherwise perform our contract with you.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible.
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech or another right provided by law.
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest under applicable ethics and privacy laws.
• Enable solely internal and lawful uses of such Personal Information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

d.) Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, deletion rights, or any other rights mentioned herein, a consumer or a consumer's authorized agent may submit a verifiable request to us by using the contact details mentioned in this Privacy Policy.

e.) Requests

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 is related to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided through a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

f.) Authorized Agent

An authorized agent is any person or legal entity registered with the Secretary of State or similar office that you have authorized to act on your behalf.

If a request is made by an authorized agent acting on your behalf, we may require:

• Submission of evidence by you giving permission for the authorized agent to submit a verifiable request on your behalf.
• Direct acknowledgment from you, via electronic communication, that the authorized agent is allowed to act on your behalf.
• Verification of the authorized agent's identity.
• A power of attorney document signed in accordance with state law.

We reserve the right to deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf and cannot verify their own identity to us.

g.) Response Timing and Format

As required under privacy laws, we agree to respond to any verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time, with a maximum of 90 days, we will inform you in writing of the reason.

If applicable, the response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily usable.

No fee will be charged to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request.

h.) Right of Non-Discrimination

We do not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights in this Privacy Policy and under applicable laws. Unless permitted by law, we will not:

• Deny you goods or services.
• Charge you different prices or rates for goods, services, and offerings, including through discounts, benefits, or penalties.
• Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

Changes and Amendments

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we agree to notify you by e-mail or other preferred communication methods when required.

Linking to Third Parties

We may provide links to third-party sources such as websites, applications, content, or software. When you use a link to visit a third party, you will be subject to that party's privacy policy and the jurisdiction of governing law. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with those terms and disclosures regarding your Personal Information.

We are not responsible for the handling of your Personal Information when using, accessing, or visiting third parties.

Security and Protection

We use reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to protect and limit access to Personal Information. This includes device safeguards used in accordance with industry standards.

It is understood by you that Personal Information you submit to us electronically may not be secure when transmitted to us. We recommend that you do not use unsecured or public channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information.

Contact

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information, your choices, or your rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights, please contact us using the official contact details published on NameAvailability.com.