Privacy Notice for California Residents

Abalta Technologies Inc. (“Abalta,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) cares about your privacy. This Privacy Notice applies to California Residents only (“Privacy Notice”) and supplements our Abalta Privacy Policy, available at https://abaltatech.com/privacy/ (the “Privacy Policy”). If you are a resident of a U.S. State other than California, please review our Privacy Notice for Other U.S. States.

Some state consumer privacy laws provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. This Privacy Notice explains the rights of California residents regarding the collection, use, sale, and sharing of their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) and their regulations.

This Privacy Notice covers all personal information collected or processed through your use of Abalta’s websites (https://abaltatech.com/ and https://helloweblink.com/), through the WebLink® Host mobile application, as well as all personal information we may collect from our California job applicants, business partners, vendors, suppliers, or independent contractors. We may update and make changes to this Privacy Notice, so we encourage you to review it periodically.

A. Information We Collect

We may collect the personal information categories listed in the table below. The categories of personal information we have collected about California residents in the last 12 months is described below:

B. Retention Period of Your Personal Information

Please see “8. Data Retention” in the Privacy Policy.

C. How We Collect Your Personal Information

Please see “4. How We Collect Your Personal Data” in the Privacy Policy.

D. Business or Commercial Purpose for Collecting and Using Your Personal Information

Please see “2. Personal Data We Collect About You” and 5. Sharing Your Personal Data in the Privacy Policy.

E. Sharing of Personal Information

We may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for a business or commercial purpose. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, and prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose. In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed personal information for a business purpose to the categories of third parties indicated in the chart below.

During the preceding twelve (12) months, we have used technologies such as cookies, Google Firebase (Analytics and Crashlytics) and web pixels to help us understand how visitors use the Site and App, and your personal information may have been/may be transferred to Google or other companies. (Read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here and opt-out of Google Analytics here.) Such transactions may be considered a “sale” or “share” of personal information under the CCPA, which broadly defines these terms to include actions that do not involve us receiving any monetary value for your information.

California consumers have the right, at any time, to tell us not to “sell” personal information or “share” it for cross-contextual behavioral advertising. For more information, please see the “Your Rights for California Residents” section below.

For your personal information that may be collected by third-party web app modules incorporated in WebLink® and sent to those third parties, please refer to their respective privacy policies as to how they use and share your personal information. For more information, please see “6. Web App Modules by Third Parties” in the Privacy Policy.

F. Your Rights for California Residents

You have the right under CCPA, and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise the following privacy rights free of charge:

a. Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You.

You have the right to know, and request disclosure of:

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including sensitive personal information;
• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, if any; and
• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:

• Retain any personal information about you if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
• Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
• Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

b. Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose.

In connection with any personal information we may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

• The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and
• The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.

c. Right to Opt-Out of the Sale or Sharing of Personal Information.

You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” (each as defined in CCPA) of your personal information. You may adjust settings for cookies as noted in our Cookie Policy, and you may opt-out of Google Analytics here or refer to other third party websites for instructions on how to opt out of the specific technology. You may also use our Data Subject Request Form linked below.

d. Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information.

You have the right to opt-out of the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information (as defined in CCPA) for anything other than supplying requested goods or services. Currently we only use your sensitive personal information (e.g., precise geolocation while using the App) to provide our services to you and we do not otherwise sell or share that information to third parties.

e. Right to Deletion.

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records;
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records; and
• Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

f. Right to Correction.

You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us about you. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

g. Protection Against Discrimination.

You have the right to not be discriminated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA. This means we cannot, among other things:

• Deny goods or services to you;
• Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
• Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
• Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

h. Shine the Light

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us a list of what personal data (if any) we disclosed to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. We do not currently disclose personal data protected under this section to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, and we provide opt out options on our website.

G. How to exercise your CCPA rights 

To initiate the processing of your personal data request, please use the Data Subject Request Form. You may also submit your request to us by contacting us at privacy@abaltatech.com

H. How we verify requests and respond to requests

Before fulfilling your request, we take steps to verify you are who you say you are or that you have authority to act upon someone else’s behalf. Therefore, upon receipt of your request, we will request additional information that we need to verify you and, if you are submitting a request on behalf of someone else, to verify that you are permitted to act on that person’s behalf.

When we contact you to request verification information, please respond and provide the information that we have requested. Depending on the nature of the request you make, we may require you to verify your identity to either a reasonable degree of certainty or high degree of certainty. This may mean that we need to match two or three pieces of information that we hold about you with information that you provide to us. In some cases, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request or that you are authorized to make the request on behalf of someone else.

In addition to providing the information we need to verify you or your authority, you must provide us with enough information so that we can understand, evaluate, and respond to your request. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot confirm the personal information relates to you.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify your identity or authority to make the request and to locate relevant information. 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 to understand, evaluate, and respond to your request.

We cannot delete personal information in those situations where our retention is required for our own internal business purposes or otherwise permitted by the CCPA (such as fraud prevention or legal compliance). In these situations, we will retain your information in accordance with our records retention program and securely delete it at the end of the retention period.

I. Who may submit requests?

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. You may also make request on behalf of your minor child. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

J. How often you can submit requests?

You may make a CCPA-related request to know twice within a 12-month period.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

K. Response timing and format

We are required to respond without undue delay but within 45 days of receipt of your request. Depending on factors such as the type and complexity of the request, we may extend the time for response once for 45 additional days, as long as we notify you within the original 45 days.

If we decline to take action regarding your request, we must notify you without undue delay, but within 45 days of the receipt of the notice and provide information on our appeal process. We are required to provide justification and provide information on the appeal process within a reasonable time after the communication of the decision to decline.

L. Changes To This Privacy Notice

Changes to this Privacy Notice will be posted on this site, along with information on any material changes. The Company reserves the right to update or modify this Privacy Notice at any time and without prior notice. If the changes made to our Privacy Notice are substantial, we will contact you before the changes take place.

M. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or our use of your personal information, please contact:

• By email: privacy@abaltatech.com
• By visiting the “Contact Us” page on our website: https://helloweblink.com/contact/
• By mail: 9619 Chesapeake Dr., Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92123