California Privacy Notice

This California Privacy Notice (the “CA Disclosures”) supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to individual residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

These CA Disclosures describe how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process the personal information of individual residents of the State of California within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms in these CA Disclosures have the same meaning as defined in our Privacy Policy or as otherwise defined the CCPA.

When we use the term “personal information” in these CA Disclosures, we mean information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.

For the purposes of these Disclosures, personal information does not include:

• Publicly available information from government records.
• Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not capable of being associated with or linked to you.
• Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
  • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.
• Information relating to our job applicants, employees, contractors and other personnel.

We collect various categories of Personal Information in connection with our Services. Please review the section of our Privacy Policy entitled “What Personal Data do we collect and how do we collect it?” to learn more about the personal information we collect.

In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:

We collect personal information from and about you for a variety of purposes. To learn more about the types of personal information we collect, the sources from which we collect or receive personal information, and the purposes for which we use this information, please refer to ”What Personal Data do we collect and how do we collect it?” and “Why do we collect and use your Personal Data?” in our Privacy Policy.

In the last 12 months, we have disclosed for a business purpose and sold the following categories of personal information:

As described in our Privacy Policy, we share personal information with third parties for business purposes or we may sell your personal information to third parties, subject to your right to opt out of those sales (see The Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales below).

We disclose your personal information to the following categories of third parties:

• Our service providers: We engage third-party service providers that perform business or operational services for us or on our behalf, such as website hosting, infrastructure provisioning, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, marketing and advertising services, and other similar services, subject to contractual terms restricting the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information for any other commercial purpose.
• Third parties at your request. We share your personal information with third parties with your consent or at your direction.
• Businesses as needed to provide Services. We may share personal information with third parties as needed to fulfil your request or transaction, including, for example, payment processing.
• Our affiliate companies. We may share your personal information with other companies owned or controlled by DomainTools, and other companies owned by or under common ownership with DomainTools, which also includes our subsidiaries (i.e., any organization we own or control) or our ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that owns or controls us) and any subsidiaries it owns;
• Security providers. We may share your personal information with third-party security providers, for example, to detect, prevent, or otherwise address actual or suspected fraud, harassment, security or technical issues, violations of any law, rule, regulation or the policies of DomainTools;
• Business partners. We may disclose personal information to third parties with whom we partner to provide contests, joint promotional activities or co-branded services;
• Other third parties. Depending on the services to which they have subscribed, DomainTools customers may have access to certain domain and DNS-related information obtained from sources available to the public;
• Ad networks and advertising partners. We work with third party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content to you on our Services, on other sites and services you may use, and across other devices you may use. These parties may collect information directly from your browser or device when you visit the Services through cookies or other tracking technologies. This information is used to provide and inform targeted advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research;
• Analytics providers. We work with third party analytics providers to better understand the demographics of our users and visitors, and to personalize, enhance and improve our Services;
• Law enforcement and third parties pursuant to legal request. From time to time, we may disclose personal information as reasonably necessary to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations;
• Third parties in the context of a corporate transaction. We may disclose personal information as reasonably necessary to evaluate, negotiate or conduct 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.

We utilize third-party partners to engage in online advertising. These ad networks and other third-party businesses collect your personal information directly from your browser or device through cookies or similar tracking technology when you visit or interact with our website, use our apps or otherwise engage with us online. These third parties use your personal information to serve relevant ads on our site, on other websites or mobile apps, or on other devices you may use, or to personalize content and perform other advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. These third-party businesses may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties, including other advertising networks.

Please see the section of our Privacy Policy called “What cookies and tracking technologies do we use?” for more information about how third parties use cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically on our websites and other online services, and the choices you may have in relation to those choices.

As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the Personal Information that we have collected about you (subject to certain limitations under the law):

To exercise your Right to Know and/or your Right to Deletion, please submit a request by:

• Emailing [email protected] with the subject line “California Rights Request,” or
• Contacting us at the following address:
  DomainTools, LLC
  2101 4th Avenue Suite 1720
  Seattle, WA 98121
  Attn: Privacy Officer

We will need to verify your identity before processing your request, which may require us to request additional personal information from you. We will only use personal information provided in connection with a Consumer Rights Request to review and comply with the request.

In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity. If we are unable to comply with all or a portion of your request, we will explain the reasons for declining to comply with the request.

Unless you have exercised your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales, we may sell personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration.

To exercise the Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales, you may submit a request by clicking the following link:

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales. However, we may ask you to provide additional personal information so that we can properly identify you in our dataset to track compliance with your opt-out request. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request. If you choose not to provide this information, we may only be able to process your request to the extent we are able to identify you in our data systems.

Once you make an opt-out request, you may change your mind and opt back in to personal information sales at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

We utilize third-party partners to collect certain personal information directly from your browser or device when you visit or interact with our websites and other online services for the purpose of serving relevant advertisements on our site, as well as on other websites or mobile applications, or personalize content or perform other advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. These third-party businesses will use personal information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy notice or privacy policy, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties. Please visit the “What cookies and tracking technologies do we use?” section of our Privacy Policy for more information about how third parties use cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically on our websites and other online services, and the choices you may have in relation to those practices.

We do not sell the personal information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “Right to Opt In”) from either the minor who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a minor less than 13 years of age. Please contact us at privacy@domaintools to inform us if you, or your minor child, are under the age of 16.

At the time of this writing, we do not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes, as described in California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section §1798.83). To opt-out of having your personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the future, please click the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link above and provide your contact information to be added to our suppression list.

In certain circumstances, you are permitted to use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf where (i) you provide sufficient evidence to show that the requestor is an authorized agent with written permission to act on your behalf and (ii) you successfully verify your own identity with us.

We currently do not offer financial incentives in exchange for the retention or sale of personal information.

We will update these CA Disclosures from time to time. When we make changes to these CA Disclosures, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of these Disclosures. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the notification.

If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Notice or other privacy-related matters, please send an email to [email protected].

Alternatively, inquiries may be addressed to:

DomainTools
2101 4th Avenue
Suite 1720
Seattle, WA 98121