CCPA Policy

This California Privacy Policy supplements the information contained in our general Privacy Policy and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California. We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

1. Categories of Information We Collect

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a particular individual or household ("personal information"). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from California residents within the last twelve (12) months:

• Identifiers: Such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.
• Commercial Information: Records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• Internet or Other Similar Network Activity: Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

2. Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

• To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided: For example, if you provide your personal information to make a purchase, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery.
• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries: Including investigating and addressing your concerns and monitoring and improving our responses.
• To improve our website and services: We may use your information to better understand how our users access and use our services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis.
• For marketing purposes: We may use your information to contact you about new products, services, promotions, and events that may be of interest to you.
• To comply with legal obligations: We may use or disclose your personal information as required to comply with legal obligations, such as responding to court orders, law enforcement requests, or as otherwise required by law.

3. Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. 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. We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Service Providers: We disclose personal information to service providers to help us provide our services, such as payment processors, analytics providers, and customer service support.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your personal information if required by law or in response to a valid legal request.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

4. Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights:

• Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.
• Deletion Request Rights: You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions.
• Opt-Out of Sale of Personal Information: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. However, please note that we do not sell personal information.

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at marketing@amloceanographic.com.

5. Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

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

6. Verifiable Consumer Requests

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. The verifiable consumer request must:

• Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative. This includes using the IP address of the request made to confirm the person is in California.
• Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

7. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this California Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at marketing@amloceanographic.com.