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lifornia consumer privacy act ccpa requires us to provide california residents with some additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share where we get that personal information and how and why we use it the ccpa also requires us to provide a list of the categories of personal information we collect as that term is defined in the law so here it is in the last 12 months we collected the following categories of personal information from california residents depending on the services used identifiers like your name contact information and device and online identifiers commercial information your billing information and purchase history for example characteristics protected by law for example you might provide your gender as part of a research survey for us internet or other electronic network activity information such as your usage of our services like the actions you take as an administrator of a wordpress com site geolocation data such as your location based on your ip address audio electronic visual or similar information such as your profile picture if you uploaded one professional or employment related information for example your company and team information if you are a happy tools user or information you provide in a job application and inferences we make such as likelihood of retention or attrition you can find more information about what we collect and sources of that information in the information we collect section above we collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the how and why we use information section and we share this information with the categories of third parties described in the sharing information section if you are a california resident you have additional rights under the ccpa subject to any exemptions provided by the law including the right to request to know the categories of personal information we collect the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it the categories of sources from which the information came the categories of third parties we share it with and the specific pieces of information we collect about you request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain opt out of any sale of personal information and not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the ccpa you can find detailed metrics about automattic s compliance with these rights in our privacy report the ccpa personalized advertising in our ads program our mission is to democratize publishing and commerce and that means making our services accessible to as many people as possible we show ads on some of our users sites as well as some of our own sites and the revenue these ads generate lets us offer free access to some of our services so that money doesn t become an obstacle to having a voice our ads program also allows our users to earn revenue to support and grow their own sites as part of our advertising program we and our users do use cookies to share certain device identifiers and information about your browsing activities with our advertising partners and those advertising partners may use that information to show you personalized ads on some of our users sites and some of our own the personal information we share includes online identifiers internet or other network or device activity such as cookie information other device identifiers and ip address and geolocation data approximate location information from your ip address these disclosures may be considered a sale of information under the ccpa we do not sell or share information through our ads program that identifies you personally like your name or contact information we don t knowingly sell personal information of those under 16 learn how you can opt out by going to california do not sell my personal information contacting us about these rights you can usually access correct or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer but if you aren t able to or you d like to contact us about one of the other rights scroll down to how to reach us to well find out how to reach us when you contact us about one of your rights under this section we ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything for example if you are a user we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account you can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorization we may still require you to verify your identity with us controllers and responsible companies automattic s services are worldwide different automattic companies are the controller or co controller of personal information which means that they are the company responsible for processing that information based on the particular service and the location of the individual using our services depending on the services you use more than one company may be the controller of your personal data generally the controller is the automattic company that entered into the contract with you under the terms of service for the product or service you use in addition automattic inc our us based company is the controller for some of the processing activities across all of our services worldwide the chart below explains the current controllers for processing your personal information we use the term designated countries to refer to australia canada japan mexico new zealand russia and all countries located in europe including the uk and roi all automattic services except woocommerce if you reside outside of the designated countries automattic inc 60 29th street 343 san francisco ca 94110 if you reside in the designated countries aut o mattic a8c ireland ltd grand canal dock 25 herbert pl dublin d02 ay86 ireland automattic inc is also the controller for some of the processing activities related to services provided by aut o mattic a8c ireland ltd woocommerce services woocommerce services includes woocommerce woocommerce payments woocommerce shipping and tax mailpoet and any products purchased from woocommerce com if you reside outside of the designated countries woocommerce inc 60 29th street 343 san francisco ca 94110 automattic inc is also the controller for some of the processing activities related to services provided by woocommerce inc if you reside in the designated countries woocommerce ireland ltd grand canal dock 25 herbert pl dublin d02 ay86 ireland automattic inc and woocommerce inc are also the joint controllers for some of the processing activities related to services provided by woocommerce ireland ltd how to reach us if you have a question about this privacy policy or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the your rights section above please contact us through our web form or via email these are the fastest ways to get a response to your inquiry but you can also contact us by telephone at 1 877 273 3049 other things you should know keep reading transferring information because automattic s services are offered worldwide the information about you that we process when you use the services in the eu may be used stored and or accessed by individuals operating outside the european economic area eea who work for us other members of our group of companies or third party data processors this is required for the purposes listed in the how and why we use information section above when providing information about you to entities outside the eea we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the recipient protects your personal information adequately in accordance with this privacy policy as required by applicable law these measures include entering into european commission approved standard contractual arrangements with entities based in countries outside the eea you can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the eu ads and analytics services provided by others ads appearing on any of our services may be delivered by advertising networks other parties may also provide analytics services via our services these ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies like cookies to collect information about your use of our services and across other websites and online services these technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device this information allows us and other companies to among other things analyze and track usage determine the popularity of certain content and deliver ads that may be more targeted to your interests please note this privacy policy only covers the collection of information by automattic and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers third party software and services if you d like to use third party plugins or embeds woocommerce payments powered by stripe woocommerce extensions that enable services provided by third parties or other third party software or services please keep in mind that interacting with them may mean providing information about yourself or your site visitors to those third parties for example some third party services may request or require access to your yours your visitors or customers data via a pixel or cookie please note that if you use the third party service or grant access your data will be handled in accordance with the third party s privacy policy and practices we don t own or control these third parties and they have their own rules about information collection use and sharing which you should review before using the software or services visitors to our users websites we also process information about visitors to our users websites on behalf of our users and in accordance with our user agreements please note that our processing of that information on behalf of our users for their websites isn t covered by this privacy policy we encourage our users to post a privacy policy that accurately describes their practices on data collection use and sharing of personal information if you d like you can also read more about the data we collect on behalf of our users in our privacy notice users control the content posted on their sites so any disputes regarding content on a user s site should be made directly to the site owner through their contact us page at an email address they provide or by leaving a comment on the site privacy policy changes although most changes are likely to be minor automattic may change its privacy policy from time to time automattic encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its privacy policy if we make changes we will notify you by revising the change log below and in some cases we may provide additional notice like adding a statement to our homepage or the wordpress com blog or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard your further use of the services after a change to our privacy policy will be subject to the updated policy other information and resources jetpack privacy center woocommerce and the gdpr translation our privacy policy was originally written in english us we may translate it into other languages for example french https automattic com fr privacy spanish https automattic com es privacy german https automattic com de privacy in the event of a conflict between a translated version of our privacy policy and the english version the english version will control that s it thanks for reading change log october 18 2022 added wp cloud to the list of our websites april 26 2022 included information regarding woopay november 22 2021 included information for wpscan october 8 2021 included information for wordpress com courses and newspack updated the information we collect from other sources section with new examples january 1 2021 included information for automatewoo and jetpack crm updated the controllers and responsible companies section to reflect changes affecting woocommerce users december 7 2020 included information for mailpoet october 12 2020 renamed woocommerce services to woocommerce shipping tax august 1 2020 renamed some payments features and updated the controllers and responsible companies section to reflect changes affecting woocommerce users february 21 2020 updated for woocommerce payments and added a new section other information and resources december 31 2019 updated for california consumer privacy act and miscellaneous clarification throughout october 2 2019 a few miscellaneous changes such as new sections about translations of this privacy policy and how to opt out of our internal analytics program may 31 2019 included information for the recurring payments feature april 1 2019 included information for happy tools march 13 2019 added clarifications and additional details to existing sections for example about icann policies and what we may store when you communicate with us february 1 2019 included information for longreads and additional information regarding longreads accounts november 6 2018 removed references to polldaddy which has been rebranded as crowdsignal september 24 2018 included information for simplenote simperium cloudup and lean domain search may 25 2018 added more specific information to help clarify our practices included information for crowdsignal and woocommerce com services and added information to reflect the requirements of the eu s general data protection regulation january 3 2018 revised and reorganized language throughout to help simplify the policy and clarify our practices august 22 2017 added information we collect from other sources section november 2 2016 added that comments submitted as missed spam are retained by akismet to improve future performance february 18 2015 updated creative commons license from 2 5 to 4 0 september 18 2013 added that blog commenter email addresses are disclosed to administrators of the blog where the comment was left february 1 2011 clarified subpoena language and added business transfers paragraph january 3 2011 added court order and subpoena clarification july 1 2010 revised paragraph about ip addresses to explain when they are collected and that commenter ips are visible to blog administrators october 29 2009 added comments paragraph to explain akismet comment storage policy march 10 2009 added ads paragraph to alert users that ads from third parties may use cookies sections who we are and what this policy covers creative commons sharealike license information we collect information you provide to us information we collect automatically information we collect from other sources how and why we use information purposes for using information legal bases for collecting and using information sharing information how we share information information shared publicly how long we keep information security 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