California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

1. Sources of the information we collect

• Publicly available information
• First-hand research
• Information submitted by AroundDeal customers or users of free products
• Third-Party Data Providers
• Affiliated parties of AroundDeal
• Information directly or indirectly collected from AroundDeal website
• Directly and indirectly collected from our customers or their representatives
• Directly from suppliers and other contractual counterparties
• Through communication with potential customers, other companies and their representatives
• Other data sources listed in AroundDeal's Privacy Policy

2. Purposes of our personal information collection

AroundDeal collects and shares personal information for the following business and commercial purposes:

• Provide, maintain and improve AroundDeal services
• Verify, clean, update and maintain business information and other information provided through AroundDeal services
• Provide and deliver services, process transactions, and send related information, including correspondence and invoices
• Send technical notifications, updates, security alerts, and support or management information
• Respond to comments, questions and requests, and provide customer support
• Create accounts for customers and identify the users logged in to their accounts
• Communicate about products, services, discounts, promotions, incentives and events offered by other companies, and provide news and information related
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activity related to our website
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraud or other illegal activities
• Protect the rights and property of AroundDeal, AroundDeal's affiliates, customers and other parties
• Provide notices of material changes of our website, including changes or updates of Privacy Policy
• Create aggregate statistical data, inferred non-personal information, and anonymous or pseudonymous data (non-personal and non-identifiable), which can be used by ourselves, our business partners or customers to provide and improve our respective services
• Comply to our legal obligations, resolve disputes with users, and fulfill our agreements
• Realize any other purposes described at the time of information collection or otherwise permitted in the CCPA

3. When handling personal information

AroundDeal commits that we will:

• Ensure that there are legitimate business reasons for collecting data
• Ensure consent is obtained for data collection and usage (where required)
• The collection, storage and use of data is limited to the scope of specific business and obtained consent
• In the event of a data irregularity that could affect the security of personal information of employees, customers or suppliers, we will take steps to notify the corresponding authorities within 72 hours upon discovering such incident
• When launching new projects or products, implementing new software, or making new vendors that may process personal information onboard, we will assess implications of the above-mentioned events on data privacy to ensure adequate protection of personal information in any system or process controlled by AroundDeal

4. Third party recipients

AroundDeal may share personal information with the following third-party recipients:

• Affiliated parties of AroundDeal
• Service Providers
• Clients
• Partners
• Other data recipients listed in AroundDeal's Privacy Policy

5. The rights you will have:

- Right to learn the truth

You may request AroundDeal to disclose to you your personal information which we collect, use, share, or sell, and the reason why we collect, use, share, or sell such information.

Specifically, you may request us to disclose:

• Categories of personal information collected
• Sources of personal information collected
• The business or commercial purposes for which we use personal information
• The category of third party with which we share personal information
• The specific personal information we collect from you

The above disclosure request can be sent to us through support@arounddeal.com, with a copy of your relevant details. We will provide you with the relevant information within 12 months upon your request. This service is free of charge.

We may reject your request for deletion if retention of the information is necessary for us or our service providers or customers. The purposes of such retention include:

• To complete the transactions for which we collect personal information, to provide the goods or services you request, or to otherwise perform our contract
• To detect security incidents, prevent malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activities, or to prosecute those responsible for such activities
• To debug products to identify and fix errors that will impair intended function
• To exercise freedom of expression, to ensure the exercise of such right by another consumer, or to exercise other rights provided by law
• In the public or peer review of scientific research projects, if you have given your knowledge and consent and the deletion of specific information could make the research unable to proceed or seriously damage the results of the research
• For our internal use only
• To comply with relevant applicable laws

- Right to delete

You may request AroundDeal to delete any personal information that we collect and retain about you. Unless an exception applies, once we receive and confirm a verifiable request from a consumer, we will delete (and instruct our service providers and/or customers to delete) that consumer's personal information from our records.

If you choose not to sell your personal information, you can click "Do not sell my information". We promise to respond to your request within 45 working days. If necessary, we may extend this period for another 45 business days upon notice to you.

You have the right to instruct us not to sell your personal information to a third party as defined by the CCPA at any time. This is also known as your right to “opt out”. You have the right to opt out of the sale of certain information regulated by the CCPA. If necessary, please click "Do not sell my information" to exercise your rights.

6. We will also provide:

- Non-discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA, including by refusing to provide goods and services, charging different prices or rates, offering goods or services of different grades or qualities, or implying that consumers will receive goods or services of different prices or qualities, etc.

- Child Protection

AroundDeal will not collect personal information from children under the age of 13 intentionally. If you are aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us through support@arounddeal.com. If we acknowledge that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take action to delete such information.