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This Notice of Collection for California Residents (“Notice”), which is provided by Cerity Partners LLC, and its subsidiary Cerity Partners Retirement Plan Advisors LLC, ARGI Financial Group LLC, ARGI Investment Services LLC, Advisor Insurance Solutions LLC, ARGI Business Services LLC, ARGI Alt Investment Management Co LLC, Retirement Plan Support Services LLC, and ARGI Innovations LLC (together “Cerity Partners”, “we” or “our”) pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), applies to the Personal Information of California residents (“consumer,” “you,” or “your”) collected by Cerity Partners in connection with the services we provide to you. If you reside outside the State of California, this Notice does not apply to you. Capitalized terms have the meaning set forth in this Notice or the CCPA, as applicable.
In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between this CCPA Notice and our Privacy Policy, this CCPA Notice shall control only with respect to the Personal Information (as defined in CCPA) of consumers, their households or devices. If you are located outside of the State of California this CCPA Notice does not apply to you and you should refer to our Privacy Policy.
Categories of Personal Information. Cerity Partners has or may have collected and/or received the Categories of Personal Information identified below (with examples) from or about consumers, their households or devices, within the twelve (12) months preceding the Last Update of this CCPA Notice (“Last Update”). Personal Information does not include (i) publicly available information from government records; (ii) deidentified or aggregated Personal Information; or (iii) information excluded from the CCPA including information regulated by certain sector-specific data protection laws including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, and the California Financial Information Privacy Act.
Categories of Sources. We collect the Categories of Personal Information listed above from the following Categories of Sources: (i) directly from consumers (e.g., forms, surveys, responses, or other direct interactions from or with consumers), (ii) indirectly from consumers (e.g., consumer activity online, interactions with our Website and other sites), and (iii) government entities/databases.
Use of Personal Information. We may use or disclose the Personal Information we collect for one or more of the following commercial or business purposes (each, a “Business Purpose”): (i) to investigate and to manage enquiries, disputes and legal proceedings, (ii) comply with court orders, mandatory dispute resolution determinations and mandatory government authority or law enforcement orders or directions, (iii) as described to you when collecting your Personal Information or as otherwise permissible under the CCPA, (iv) to evaluate or consummate a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information is among the assets transferred, (v) to conduct our business, including providing our services, where necessary, in order to assist us in verifying your identity, (vi) to fulfill and respond to your inquiries and requests, and to otherwise carry out the purposes for which you provided the information, (vii) for distribution of our marketing materials, including event invites, (vii) to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our business, including all systems and services, (viii) to enable visitors to use the Website, (ix) to establish customer and vendor relationships and to communicate with customers and vendors, and (x) to evaluate job applicants.
Categories of Third Party Recipients. We may share your Personal Information with the following Categories of Third Party Recipients for Business Purposes:
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose. In the twelve (12) months preceding the Last Update, we may have disclosed for a Business Purpose the Categories of Personal Information to the Categories of Third Parties set forth in Table I. In the twelve (12) months preceding the Last Update, we have not sold Personal Information.
The CCPA provides consumers with specific rights regarding their Personal Information. This section describes such rights and explains how to exercise them.
Right to Know About Personal Information. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, disclosure, sale and use of your Personal Information. Once we receive and verify your request, we will disclose to you the following (to the extent applicable to your request):
Right to Request Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and verify your request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
Exercising Rights to Know or Request Deletion. To exercise the rights to know or request deletion described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either: (a) calling us at 1-866-906-0929 or (b) by visiting https://ceritypartners.com/ccpa-notice/#rights_request_form and following the instructions provided on the web page. You may only make a verifiable consumer request under the right to know twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must: (i) provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an authorized representative; and (ii) describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. 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 confirm the Personal Information related to you.
Verification Process. To submit a verifiable consumer request, the consumer may be required to provide up to three data points, which may include the consumer’s name, phone number, email address, or other Personal Information, to enable us to verify the consumer’s identity with the degree of certainty required by the CCPA. We will use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request solely for the purpose of verifying the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. We or a third party on our behalf may follow up with you to determine whether a request is a verifiable consumer request under applicable law. If we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information relates to you, we will deny the consumer request in whole or in part and will not to disclose the information requested or, as applicable, will not delete the information requested. We will respond to any such consumer request with a denial, and will also explain why it has no reasonable method by which it can verify the identity of the requestor.
Response Timing and Format. We will confirm receipt of a verifiable consumer request within then (10) business days of its receipt. We will endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) calendar days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will notify you of the extension and provide an explanation of the reason for the extension in writing, and we will provide you with a response no later than ninety (90) calendar days of receipt of the request. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance. We may charge a reasonable fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer requests if they are excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will inform you of the reasons for this decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information. We do not sell the Personal Information of consumers (including minors under 16 years of age). However, if you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right, at any time, to direct us to not sell your Personal Information (the “right to opt-out”) and if you are under 16 years of age you have the right to opt-in to the sale of your Personal Information.
Right to Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We will not (i) deny you products or services, (ii) charge you different prices or rates for products or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties (except for financial incentives permitted by the CCPA, see below), (iii) provide you a different level or quality of products or services, and (iv) suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for products or services or a different level or quality of products or services.
If you submit a request to know or delete your Personal Information through the use of an authorized agent, we may require that you (i) provide the authorized agent written permission to act on your behalf, and (ii) verify their identity directly with us. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof of authorization.
Pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83), California residents have the right to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, including the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed by those third parties.
To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected]
This CCPA Notice is effective as of the date of the Last Update stated at the top of this CCPA Notice. We may change this CCPA Notice from time to time with or without notice to you. By visiting or accessing the Website, purchasing products or services from us, or otherwise engaging or interacting with us after we make any such changes to this CCPA Notice, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, and without prejudice to the foregoing, our use of your Personal Information is governed by the CCPA Notice in current effect. Please refer back to this CCPA Notice on a regular basis.
If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your information described below and in the CCPA Notice, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
Phone: 1-866-906-0929
Website: https://ceritypartners.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Postal address: 335 Madison Avenue, 23rd Floor, New York, NY 10017
If you are a California resident, you have certain rights with regard to how we handle your personal information depending on where you are. Fill out the form below to exercise your privacy rights.
If you are an agent submitting a request on behalf of a California resident (“consumer”), please complete this form, print out a copy, and email the form along with your power of attorney or notarized authorization from the consumer to us at [email protected] We may contact the consumer to verify your authority and/or to authenticate the consumer.
We will send an acknowledgment within ten (10) days of receiving your request. If you do not receive confirmation of your request, please resubmit your form or contact us. After verifying your identity, we will process your request. If you have requested a copy of your information, we will provide that data via email. Access and deletion requests may take up to 45 days to process.
Visit our CCPA Privacy Policy to learn more about your specific data rights as a California resident.
For additional information about how we get, use, and protect your data, please view Cerity Partners’ Privacy Policy.
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