North America Specific Disclosures

1. California-Specific Disclosures

The disclosures in this section apply solely to individual residents of the State of California and provide additional information about how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal information within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended, including its implementing regulations ("CCPA"). Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms in this section have the same meaning as defined in the CCPA.

1.1. Sensitive Personal Information

Certain data elements we collect and use to provide the Services may be deemed "sensitive personal information" under CCPA. These include your username and password to access your account. We do not use or disclose such sensitive personal information to “infer” characteristics as defined under the CCPA, or for any purpose other than that which is necessary to provide the Services as specified in the CCPA.

1.2. Sales and Sharing of Personal Information (including Targeted Advertising)

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies that enable certain advertising networks, social media companies, analytics services, and other third-party businesses to collect and disclose your personal information directly from your browser or device when you visit or interact with our Services or otherwise engage with us online. In some cases, we may upload personal information to certain of these partners for advertising or analytics purposes.

To opt out of these “sales” or “sharing” of personal information (as these terms are defined under the CCPA or other applicable US state privacy laws), you must:

• Toggle cookies off in our cookie preference center or enable Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) on your browser; and
• Submit a request in the privacy centre

To learn more about GPC, please visit http://globalprivacycontrol.org.

1.3. California Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the personal information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

• The Right to Know any or all of the following information relating to your personal information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:
  • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
  • The categories of sources of the personal information;
  • The categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for a business purpose, and the categories of recipients to whom this information was disclosed;
  • The categories of personal information we have sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was sold or shared; and
  • The business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing the personal information.
• The Right to Request Deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• The Right to Request Correction of inaccurate personal information.
• The Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales or Sharing to third parties now or in the future.

You also have the right to be free of discrimination for exercising these rights. However, please note that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal information (such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our Services or engage with you in the same manner.

1.4. How to Exercise Your California Privacy Rights

Please see Section 1.2 (Sales and Sharing of Personal Information (including Targeted Advertising)) above for a description of how to exercise your right to opt out of personal information sales or sharing.

To exercise your rights to know, correct, or delete, please submit a request by:

• Please submit a request in the privacy centre

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally require either the successful login to your account (if applicable) and/or the matching of sufficient information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. Although we try to limit the personal information collected in connection with a request to know, correct, or delete, certain requests may require us to obtain additional personal information from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the right to know, correct, or delete, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems, or as permitted by law.

1.5. Minors Under Age 16

We do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age. Please contact us at privacy@cognism.com to inform us if you, or your minor child, are under the age of 16.

1.6. California’s "Shine the Light" Law

In addition to the rights described above, California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section §1798.83) permits California residents that have an established business relationship with us to request certain information regarding our disclosure of certain types of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year.

To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@cognism.com

2. Disclosures to Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia

The disclosures in this section apply solely to individual residents of the States of Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Privacy laws in Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia give residents certain rights with respect to their personal data, and privacy laws in Montana, Oregon, and Texas will give residents certain rights with respect to their personal data when they take effect over the course of 2024. Those rights include:

• Right to Access Information. You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal data.
• Right to Request Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
• Right to Correct. You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
• Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising. You may ask us not to use or disclose your information for the purposes of targeting advertising to you based on your personal data obtained from your activity across different businesses, services, websites, etc.  
• Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales to third parties.

To submit a request to exercise your access, deletion, or correction privacy rights, please visit the privacy centre. Please see Section 1.2 (Sales and Sharing of Personal Information (including Targeted Advertising) above for a description of how to exercise your right to opt out of personal information sales or sharing.

Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia may appeal a refusal to take action on a request by contacting us by email at privacy@cognism.com 

Residents of Oregon may request that we provide a list of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data. To make such a request, please follow the instructions above for submitting an access, deletion, or correction request.

3. Nevada-Specific Disclosures

For residents of the State of Nevada, Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes permits a Nevada resident to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. Cognism currently sells certain covered information. Please contact us at privacy@cognism.com to submit such a request

4. Canada-Specific Disclosures

If you live in Canada, you have the following rights:

• Right to Access. You can ask us to: (i) confirm that we have personal information about you, and (ii) provide you a copy of that information.
• Right to Correct. You can ask us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information that we have about you.

You may submit a request by contacting us at privacy@cognism.com with the subject line “Canadian Privacy Rights Request”. Before we honor your request, we will need to verify your identity.