Supplemental Privacy Notice
FOR CALIFORNIA AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
EFFECTIVE DATE: MAY 1, 2024
This Supplemental Privacy Notice for California and Virginia Residents (“Supplemental Privacy Notice”) supplements the information contained in RESPONSE's Privacy Notice, is incorporated therein by this reference, and applies solely to California and Virginia residents who receive emergency towing or roadside services, or call center services (the “Services”) offered by and/or through RESPONSE through its provider network (Response) to you (”consumers” or “you”). This notice is provided to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”), and any terms defined in the CCPA and VCDPA (“Applicable Law”) have the same meanings when used herein. Further, capitalized terms within this notice that are not defined herein, are defined in RESPONSE's Privacy Policy referenced above.
Notice at Collection
We may collect or process various categories of personal information. The section titled “Information We Collect/Disclose” contains information on the categories of personal information collected and our disclosure practices. As an overview, we collect identifiers; personal information found in customer records; characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law; commercial information; internet or other similar network activity information; sensitive personal information in the form of account log-in and password, and mobile device information such as your SMS messages; sensory information; and professional or employment-related information. We collect this information to fulfil or meet the reason you provided the information, to comply with contractual requirements with you and our Clients, to process your requests, to provide you with support, to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Applications and Services, to perform analysis to better understand Clients and our customers, and other business and commercial purposes outlined throughout this Supplemental Privacy Notice. We only collect sensitive personal information to provide our Services. We do not sell or share personal information. We only keep personal information for as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
Information We Collect / Disclose
Through the provision of Services, and/or our other interactions with you, we collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, device, or household (“personal information”). In particular, through the provision of Services, RESPONSE has collected the following categories of personal information from consumers, and/or disclosed for a business or commercial purpose such categories to third parties, within the twelve (12) months preceding the posting of this notice:
Category | Examples | Collected | Disclosed |
A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, or other similar identifiers. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, address, telephone number, insurance policy number, credit card number, medical information including COVID-19 symptom-related, testing related, and vaccination- related information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. | In obtaining information to identify consumers for the roadside services, at times we may collect the consumers' identifying characteristics or special need requirements, such as gender, physical disability, or similar identifying information. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property (such as the VIN, year, make, model, and color for the disabled vehicle), products or services purchased, obtained, or considered. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
G. Sensitive personal information. | Account log-in and password, precise geolocation information to inform us of the physical location of the disablement location, and (if you are using a mobile application) the movement of the towed vehicle to the tow- to location. We also collect mobile device information such as your SMS messages to us. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. We only disclose sensitive personal information to provide our Services. |
H. Sensory information including audio, electronic, visual, thermal, or similar information. | Audio recordings are made of your communications with our contact centers. | YES | YES, to the parties listed in the “Disclosing Personal Information” section. |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO | NO |
Personal information does not include:
Publicly available information from government records.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information. We maintain and use all deidentified information in deidentified form. We do not attempt to reidentify it except to ensure our deidentification processes are in compliance with Applicable Law.
Information specifically excluded from the scope of Applicable Law.
Sources of Personal Information
RESPONSE obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Use of Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information listed in categories A, B, C, D, F, G, H, and I for one or more of the purposes listed below. We only collect sensitive personal information to provide our Services.
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RESPONSE will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
Disclosing Personal Information
RESPONSE may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. We disclose your personal information with the following categories of third parties.
Service providers who are towing, roadside, and vehicle repair industry participants, and other service providers that provide support services, including call center services. We disclose your information to companies we work with in connection with the provision of our
Services. These companies provide services that include towing and roadside assistance, vehicle appraisal, vehicle repair, call center services, customer support, payment processing, cloud computing and communications, data analytics, hiring, document and records management, data backup and recovery, digital communications, and other support services. These companies will only have access to your personal information that is reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf.
Third parties who provide customer requested services, such as ride sharing, taxi services, vehicle repair, vehicle transport, concierge services, public emergency and first response services, and membership discount benefits. These parties are responsible for providing you with notice of their privacy practices.
Sales and Sharing of Personal Information
In the preceding twelve (12) months, RESPONSE has not sold or shared personal information of consumers who are California or Virginia residents, including California or Virginia residents under 16 years of age.
Your Rights and Choices
Applicable Law provides individuals who are California and Virginia residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. To exercise any of the rights described above, please submit a verifiable privacy request directly to the Client by visiting the Client's website.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice
RESPONSE reserves the right to amend this Supplemental Privacy Notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Supplemental Privacy Notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which RESPONSE collects and uses your information, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California or Virginia law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
RESPONSE
1000 AAA Drive, M/S 99
Heathrow, FL 32746
Attention: Legal/Consumer Privacy Inquiries Mailbox
Email: NissanRAP@RESPONSEroadservice.com
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