California Privacy Rights

For California Residents: Your Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

Last Updated: July 22, 2025 California Residents Only

CCPA at a Glance

This section applies to California residents and describes your privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). This notice supplements our main Privacy Policy with additional information specific to California law requirements.

As a California resident, you have specific rights regarding the personal information we collect, use, and share about you. We are committed to honoring these rights and providing you with transparency about our data practices.

Your California Privacy Rights:

  • Right to know what information we collect
  • Right to delete your personal information
  • Right to correct inaccurate information
  • Right to opt-out of sale/sharing
  • Right to limit sensitive information use
  • Right to non-discrimination

1. Personal Information We Collect

Under the CCPA, "personal information" means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information from California consumers:

Categories of Personal Information:

Identifiers: Real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.

Commercial Information: Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Internet Activity: Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

Professional Information: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.

We collect this information directly from you, automatically through your use of our services, from third parties such as business partners and service providers, and from publicly available sources. The specific sources and business purposes for collection are detailed in our main Privacy Policy.

2. Business Purposes for Collection and Use

We collect and use personal information for the following business purposes as defined by the CCPA:

Performing Services: We use your personal information to provide, maintain, and improve our services, process transactions, authenticate users, provide customer service, and fulfill orders or requests.

Security and Fraud Prevention: We process personal information to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for such activities.

Business Operations: We use personal information for auditing related to counting ad impressions, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, conducting research and development, and performing accounting, legal, and other business functions.

Legal Compliance: We may process your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to third parties for business purposes. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

Categories of Third Parties

We share personal information with the following categories of third parties: service providers and contractors, business partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, legal and regulatory authorities, and parties involved in business transactions such as mergers or acquisitions.

Sale and Sharing for Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising

Under the CCPA, "sale" includes disclosing personal information to third parties in exchange for valuable consideration, and "sharing" includes disclosing personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. In the preceding 12 months, we may have sold or shared the following categories of personal information: identifiers, commercial information, and internet or electronic network activity information.

We do not sell or share personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age without affirmative authorization.

4. Your California Consumer Rights

The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. You may exercise these rights free of charge, and we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Right to Know

You have the right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected about you over the past 12 months, including: the categories of personal information collected; the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; and the specific pieces of personal information collected about you.

Right to Delete

You have the right to request that we delete any personal information about you that we have collected and retained, subject to certain exceptions. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to perform certain functions, such as completing transactions, detecting security incidents, complying with legal obligations, or exercising free speech rights.

Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing.

Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information and the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on our website or by contacting us directly.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information

You have the right to request that we limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to what is necessary to perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer, or for certain specified business purposes under the CPRA.

5. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights under the CCPA, you may submit a request by:

Email: contact@publicfund.com

Verification Process

To protect your privacy, we will verify your identity before processing your request. For requests to know or delete personal information, we will verify your identity by asking you to provide information that matches information we have on file about you. For requests involving sensitive personal information, we may require additional verification steps.

Authorized Agents

You may designate an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf. We will require proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request and will verify your identity directly. Alternatively, an agent with power of attorney need not provide additional authorization.

Response Timeframes

We will respond to your request within 45 days. If we require more time (up to an additional 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response electronically unless you request otherwise.

6. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing

California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information and the sharing of their personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.

When you opt-out, we will stop selling and sharing your personal information going forward. However, we may continue to share your information with service providers for business purposes as permitted by law. Your opt-out request will remain in effect for at least 12 months before we ask if you'd like to opt back in.

If you are under 16 years of age, we do not sell or share your personal information without your affirmative authorization (or that of your parent or guardian if you are under 13).

7. Sensitive Personal Information

Under the CPRA, "sensitive personal information" includes information that reveals a consumer's social security number, driver's license number, state identification card number, passport number, account log-in credentials, financial account information, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, genetic data, biometric information for identification purposes, health information, or information concerning sex life or sexual orientation.

Our Collection and Use

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CPRA. If we inadvertently collect such information, we will handle it in accordance with applicable law.

Your Right to Limit Use

You have the right to request that we limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to provide the services or goods you request, or for other specified business purposes. You can exercise this right by contacting us using the methods described in this notice.

8. Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Specifically, we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, provide you a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-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. You have the right to opt-out of such programs at any time.

We may charge a different price or rate or provide a different level or quality of goods or services if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to you by your personal information.

9. Contact Information and Updates

California Privacy Contact Information

Email: contact@publicfund.com

This California Privacy Notice was last updated on July 22, 2025 and is effective as of July 22, 2025 . We may update this notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. When we make material changes, we will notify California residents as required by law.

This notice supplements our main Privacy Policy and provides additional information specific to California residents. In case of any conflict between this notice and our main Privacy Policy, this notice takes precedence for California residents.