WHAT THIS PRIVACY NOTICE COVERS
Augusta Precious Metals (“Augusta” or “we,” “our,” “us”) is dedicated to protecting your privacy and safeguarding your personally identifiable information.
Augusta respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with applicable data protection and privacy laws and the terms of this notice (this “Privacy Notice”). This Privacy Notice describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website augustapreciousmetals.com (our “Website”). If you opt in to receiving text, email or other electronic messages from us (“Electronic Messaging”), this Privacy Notice describes our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. The Website and Electronic Messaging are collectively referred to in this Privacy Notice as the “Services”. This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect (i) on the Website; (ii) in Electronic Messaging between you and us; and (iii) when you interact with our advertising on other Augusta websites or third-party websites and services. Should you purchase any products or services from us, these will also be considered Services under this Privacy Notice and such transaction will also be governed by the terms of our transaction agreement, which can be found at
https://www.augustapreciousmetals.com/shipping-transaction-agreement/
. Please note that we also have a separate privacy notice for collection of personal information from our employees and contractors.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Services. By using the Services, you agree to this privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Notice periodically for updates.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, which, at certain times, we divide into Sensitive Personal Information and Non-Sensitive Personal Information (collectively, “Personal Information”).
We collect the following categories of Non-Sensitive Personal Information:
Personal Identifiers, including name, email address and telephone number;Demographic Information, including age, birth date and gender;Commercial Information, including details of transactions you carry out with us or the fulfillment of your orders;Geolocation Data, including your address;Professional or employment-related information, including work history as provided in the resume of an applicant for employment;Education information, including education history as provided in the resume of an applicant for employment;Sensory Data, including recorded telephone calls between you and Augusta to the extent Personal Information is shared by you; andInternet Browsing Activity, includingdetails of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Website,information about the equipment you use to access the Services, your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, browser type; andinformation collected through cookies and other tracking technologies about your online activities, browsing actions and patterns over time and across third-party websites or other online services (including behavioral tracking).
We collect the following categories of Sensitive Personal Information:
Government Identifiers, including your social security number;Correspondence Information, including the information you provide by filling in forms on our Website, Electronic Messaging and any other correspondence with us;Financial Information, including financial/banking and/or billing and credit card information; andSensory Data, including recorded telephone calls between you and Augusta to the extent Sensitive Personal Information is shared by you.
ONLINE TRACKING
If you choose not to provide requested information, you may not be able to use some of the features of the Services. Augusta does not respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide customers and other consumers the ability to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The Global Privacy Control is a browser setting that allows you to notify websites you visit about your privacy preferences. We honor Website users’ Global Privacy Control signals.
PURPOSE OF COLLECTION & USE
We may use and share your Personal Information and other information collected (unless otherwise restricted by applicable law) for the following purposes:
to operate, provide, and enhance the Services and to provide the products, information and services you request from us or sign up for through the Services or that may be of interest to you. For example, we may use your Personal Information to contact you with respect to information you requested or with respect to offering or providing the Services, for administrative, maintenance and customer service purposes, to facilitate a third party’s provision of services you request and to address issues such as intellectual property infringement, rights of privacy, or defamation claims;to track and analyze your usage trends and preferences in order to improve the Website, the Services and our offerings;to personalize the Services and to monitor the operation and effectiveness of the Services;to analyze aggregate Website usage metrics;to provide you with customized third-party content and information;to send you messages, including to notify you about changes to our Services or any products or services we offer or provide through the Services and promotional messages related to the Services and of third parties we work with. You will have the ability to opt out of receiving any such communications through links provided in the messages;to engage in transactions with you and to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;to respond to your requests;to evaluate and respond to your application for employment with us;to obtain third-party services from those who provide services to us, such as analytics, website management, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other similar services. When we share Personal Information with third-party service providers, we require that they use your Personal Information subject to terms consistent with this Privacy Notice;to work with our trusted partners for joint marketing efforts, promotional activities, or to offer products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.[For example, we may share your contact information with select partners to send you promotional materials or special offers related to their products or services];to work with third-party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to you based on your use of the Website and to otherwise collect and use data about your use of the Website. These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behavior. These companies may use information about user behavior in order to provide customized advertisements across various websites, services and products. In the course of placing advertisements, these third-party companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your computer, and may record information to these cookies based upon your activities on our Website and on third-party websites. Each of these companies use cookie information according to their own privacy and security policies. If you do not wish to have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, and you have a right to opt out of targeted advertising, you may opt out as indicated in the Your State Data Privacy Rights, Additional Rights in the United Kingdom and European Economic Area, or California Privacy Rights sections. Please note this does not opt you out of being delivered advertising. You will continue to receive non-targeted ads;as we believe to be necessary or appropriate to protect the health and safety of our employees, contractors and operations or the employees, contractors or operations of any of our third-party service providers; andas we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) to comply with legal process; (b) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence, for national security and/or law enforcement purposes; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; (d) to verify your identity and for fraud prevention; (e) to protect the security of our Website; (f) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; (g) to fulfill the purpose for which you provided it to us; (h) for any other purpose disclosed by us at the time you provide your Personal Information to us; and (i) for other purposes permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence.
We may share your Personal Information with other selected third parties, including contractors and service providers as well as our subsidiaries and other affiliates, for the purposes stated above. In such an event, the privacy policy of the applicable third party, subsidiary, or other affiliate will apply to any of your subsequent separate interactions with them. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we may disclose or transfer the Personal Information we have collected to relevant third parties, including to a buyer of our company.
We may use, transfer, and disclose other information we collect when permitted by law. If we are required to treat other information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we will only use it in the same way that we are permitted to use and disclose Personal Information.
Data obtained through the short code program will not be shared with any third parties for marketing purposes.
[We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that such Personal Information is no longer linked to you. We may use and share this aggregated and/or anonymized information for any purpose, including without limitation, for research and marketing purposes.]
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We may collect information from the following sources:
Direct Interactions: From your use of and interaction with us through the Services and other activities such as submission of forms.
Third Parties: We may collect information from third-party sources, including without limitation, our business partners, service providers, marketing agencies, and credit agencies. We may combine such information with information we collect directly from you or automatically.
Automatically: We may automatically receive and record information about your interaction with us and the Services, such as how often you access the Services, performance data, aggregate usage, or general geolocation data. More information on how we may collect information automatically is described below.
Electronic Communications Protocols: We may automatically receive information from you as part of the communication connection itself, which often consists of network routing information (where you came from), equipment information (browser type or device type), your IP address (which may identify your general geographic location or company), and date and time.
Cookies: We collect information through cookies. We may use cookies to collect your unique identifier, user preferences, profile information, location information, membership information, and general usage and volume statistical information. We may also use cookies to collect individualized Website use data, provide Website personalization, or conduct and measure the effectiveness of advertising in accordance with this Privacy Notice. Some cookies may remain on users’ computers after they leave the Website. You can set your browser to alert you when a cookie is being used, and accept or reject the cookie. You can also set your browser to refuse all cookies or accept only cookies returned to the originating servers. Cookies, however, are important to the proper functioning of a site, and disabling them may degrade your experience and interfere with Website features and customizations.
We may engage third-party service providers to track and analyze both individualized usage and volume statistical information from interactions with the Website. The service provider(s) may set cookies on our behalf. We may also use third-party cookies to provide advertising and personalization services in accordance with this Privacy Notice, and to track the performance of our advertisements and emails.
Managing Cookie Preferences: Your browser should allow you to access or change your cookie preferences at any time.
Flash Cookies: We may use “Flash cookies,” also known as “local shared objects,” on our Website that employ Flash technology. Flash cookies are used to remember the Website’s settings to personalize the look and feel of the Website. Like normal cookies, Flash cookies are represented as small files on your computer. You may be able to prevent Flash cookies from being placed by adjusting your browser’s settings.
Embedded URLs: We may use a tracking technique that employs embedded URLs to allow use of the Website without cookies. Embedded URLs allow limited information to follow you as you navigate the Website, but are not associated with Personal Information and are not used beyond the session.
Embedded Pixels and Similar Technologies: We may use embedded pixel technologies for the purposes of identifying unique user visits (as opposed to aggregate hits), and for advertising purposes. In addition, embedded pixels or other technologies may be used in emails and our online display advertising to provide information on when the email or ad was opened to track marketing campaign responsiveness; information collected using these technologies may be associated with your email address.
Physical Location: We may collect and share the physical location of your device for purposes consistent with this Privacy Notice, such as to provide you with personalized location-based services or content. In some instances, you may be permitted to allow or deny such use of your device’s location, but if you choose to deny such use, we may not be able to provide you with the applicable personalized services or content.
PREFERENCES AND OPT-OUT
You may opt out of email marketing by using our general unsubscribe automated link that is included in our marketing emails. If you have any problems using any of these opt-out mechanisms, please contact us at [[email protected]].
Some non-marketing communications are not subject to general opt-out, such as communications related to customer services and disclosures to comply with legal requirements.
If you do not want us to use your Personal Information to notify you of products or services of interest to you or if you do not want us to share your Personal Information with selected third parties, affiliates and subsidiaries, and you have the legal right to opt out, please opt out by contacting us via the contact information provided in this Privacy Notice. If you have consented to receiving text messages or auto-dialed telephone calls from us, you may revoke that consent by writing, emailing, or calling us at the contact information provided in this Privacy Notice or by any other reasonable means.
Cookies and Do Not Track Preferences. You may opt out of cookies by using your browser settings. We do not process or recognize any “do not track” signals.
Information-Sharing Choices. We may only share Personal Information with selected companies after providing you the ability to make choices about the sharing, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Notice. There are limitations to opting-out of such sharing in the case of: (1) where you have previously requested the sharing of your Personal Information with these companies; (2) where third parties are required to perform a service in connection with our provision of Services to you; and (3) where required by law.
RETENTION AND DELETION
We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active; as needed to provide you the Services; as needed for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice or at the time of collection; as needed to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to honor opt-outs); as needed to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements; or to the extent permitted by law.
At the end of the retention period, we will delete your Personal Information in a manner designed to ensure that it cannot be reconstructed or read. We may also delete some or all of your Personal Information at our discretion, as permitted by law. For example, we regularly delete emails containing birthdays, credit card information, and social security numbers.
ADVERTISING AND THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
The Services may contain links to websites and services provided by third parties. Any Personal Information you provide on third-party sites or services is subject to that third party’s policies, if any, governing privacy and security. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third-party sites or services. You should read the third parties’ privacy policies before providing them with your Personal Information.
SECURITY
The security of your Personal Information is very important to us. We use commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards that are designed to protect your Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and your transfer of your Personal Information to us is at your own risk.
In the event that your Personal Information is acquired, or is reasonably believed to have been acquired, by an unauthorized person and applicable law requires notification, we will notify you by email, fax, or U.S. mail. If required by law to notify you of a breach, we will give you notice in a timeline consistent with applicable law, taking into account the reasonable needs of law enforcement and Augusta to determine the scope of the breach and to investigate and restore the integrity of the data system.
YOUR STATE DATA PRIVACY RIGHTS
State privacy laws may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information. At least the following states have passed comprehensive consumer privacy laws: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Depending on your state of residency, you may have some or all of the following rights, if your state’s data privacy legislation applies to us:
Confirm whether we process your Personal Information, and if so access and receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you;Request to review, correct, update, suppress, delete, remove, or otherwise modify any of your Personal Information that you have previously provided to us through the Website;Data portability for the information you provide to us;Request to obtain a copy of your Personal Information in a commonly used electronic format so that you can manage and move it;Opt out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects; andOpt out of the processing of Personal Information for the purposes of targeted advertising or the sale of Personal Information.
Please note that you may be asked to verify your identity before receiving a response to such requests. Please be aware that if you delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use our Services or products. Please note that if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may in our sole discretion retain certain information, including your Personal Information, to satisfy our legal, audit and/or dispute resolution requirements. We may also retain your non-Personal Information indefinitely. If you have privacy concerns regarding your Personal Information, or if you are entitled to exercise one of the above rights and wish to do so, please contact us at [email protected].
In your request, please make clear your state of residence, the privacy rights(s) you are exercising and the Personal Information to which the request applies. If you are a resident of California, please see the California Privacy Rights section below for more details.
While some questions and issues related to access can be handled quickly, complex requests may take more research and time. In such cases, issues will be addressed, or you will be contacted regarding the nature of the problem and appropriate next steps within thirty (30) days.
If we refuse to take action on your request to exercise your rights, you may appeal our refusal. To appeal a refusal, please submit a copy of your request for an appeal and the original request at [email protected]. We will inform you, in writing, of any action taken or not taken in response to your appeal within forty-five (45) days or the period required by applicable state law, whichever is shorter.
We will include a written explanation of the reasons for our decisions. If we deny your appeal, you may contact your local privacy enforcement authority to submit a complaint.
CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS AND INTERNATIONAL USERS
This Privacy Notice is intended to cover only customers and other users residing in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, by visiting our Website and by providing us with your Personal Information or data, you acknowledge and agree that we may use the Personal Information or data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this Privacy Notice or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such Personal Information and data may be stored on servers located in the United States. By providing us with your Personal Information or data, you consent to the transfer of your Personal Information and other data to our servers, which may be located anywhere in the world. Personal Information may be transferred, accessed and stored globally as necessary in accordance with this Privacy Notice, where data protection laws may not offer the same level of protection as those in your resident jurisdiction.
ADDITIONAL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA
If you are located in the United Kingdom (“UK”) or European Economic Area (“EEA”), you may have the following rights:
Withdrawal of Consent: If consent is the lawful basis of our processing, you have the right to withdraw consent that you have provided to us to process your personal data.Access: You have the right to access your personal data.Rectification: You have the right to rectify inaccurate personal data.Erasure: You have the right to have your personal data erased if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was processed, you have withdrawn your consent to, or object to, its processing and there is no other legitimate grounds for processing it or it has been unlawfully processed.Restriction: You have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted if you contest its accuracy, if its processing is unlawful, if we no longer need it but you need it preserved for purposes of a legal claim, or if you have objected to its processing and are awaiting verification of our legitimate grounds for processing it. Data Portability: You have the right to have certain personal data you provide to us transferred to another company in a machine-readable format.Objection: You have the right to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your personal data for certain purposes.
In order to exercise any of these rights if they apply, or for more information, please use the contact details specified under Contacting Us and Updating Your Communication Preferences. Please note that these rights are subject to certain preconditions and qualifications under applicable law.
Please note that the right to erasure is not absolute and it may not always be possible to erase personal data on request, including, for example, where the personal data must be retained to comply with a legal obligation.
If you are in the UK, you may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Officer (https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/). If you are in the EEA, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has authority in your country or region. Please click
here
for contact information for such authorities.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
You have the right to lodge complaints about the data processing activities carried out by us before the competent data protection authorities. If you have any complaints regarding our compliance with this Privacy Notice, you should first contact us at [email protected]. We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
MINORS
Our Services are not directed to minors, we do not market to minors, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18. We do not sell, and to our actual knowledge, we have never sold the Personal Information of customers or other consumers we know are under 16 years of age. If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected Personal Information of a minor without appropriate consent, please notify us so that we may immediately delete the information from our servers and make any other necessary corrections.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits users of our Services that are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected].
Customers in the state of California may request a list of categorized third parties and in some cases affiliates to whom we may have disclosed their Personal Information specifically for those third parties’ and/or affiliates’ own marketing purposes, as well as the type of Personal Information disclosed to those parties. Augusta discloses your Personal Information to third parties or affiliates for those third parties’ or affiliates’ own marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to more information about our compliance with this law, please email [email protected]. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided email address listed.
RIGHT TO KNOW, DELETE AND CORRECT
Consumers who are California residents (and not representatives of businesses, whether those businesses are our customers or others) have the right to know certain information about our data practices in the preceding twelve (12) months. In particular, they have the right to request the following from us:
The Personal Information we have collected about them, including the categories of Personal Information;The categories of sources from which the Personal Information was collected;The categories of Personal Information about them that we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;The categories of third parties to whom the Personal Information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;The business or commercial purpose(s) for collecting, selling or sharing the Personal Information; andThe specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
In addition, California consumers have the right to correct inaccurate Personal Information, and, in certain circumstances, delete the Personal Information we have collected from them.
To exercise any of these rights, California consumers should submit a request by email at [email protected] or by filling out the
Consumer Privacy Request Form
. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than those provided. In the request, please specify which right you are seeking to exercise and the scope of the request. We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) days. We may require specific information from you to help us verify your identity and process your request. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may deny your requests to know or delete.
DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
To the extent Augusta sells or shares your Personal Information as the terms “sell” and “share” are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), you have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your Personal Information by us to third parties at any time. You may submit a request to opt-out by email at [[email protected]] or by filling out the
Consumer Privacy Request Form
. You must include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through the provided email address or the Consumer Privacy Request Form.
RIGHT TO REQUEST ACCESSIBLE ALTERNATIVE FORMAT
This Privacy Notice has been designed to be accessible for blind and visually-impaired users and to allow for user interaction on such web form. If you experience any difficulties accessing this information, please email us at [email protected].
RIGHT TO NON-DISCRIMINATION
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any of your privacy rights conferred by the CCPA, including an employee’s, applicant’s, or independent contractor’s right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their CCPA rights.
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California consumer or household. In particular, we have collected one or more data types from the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the twelve
(12) months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Notice:
CategoryExamplesCollectedPurpose
Identifiers
A real name, birth date, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, or passport number
Yes
Enter into or perform a contract with you; Provide customer service and respond to your inquiries or requests, or to complete and fulfill any purchases or services requests; Send transactional or administrative information to you; Send you communications we believe may interest you, for our own or third parties’ products and services; Personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you
Personal information categories listed in CA Consumer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.80(e)).
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number
Yes
Enter into or perform a contract with you; Respond to your inquiries or requests, or to complete and fulfill any purchases or services requests; Send transactional or administrative information to you; Send you communications we believe may interest you, for our own or third parties’ products and services; Personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you; Identify you more precisely where needed, such as for fraud prevention or compliance verification; or As required by law, such as for tax or financial processing or other purposes
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law
Age, birth date, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation for same sex benefits, veteran or military status
Yes
Personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you
Commercial Information
Including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
Yes
Personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you; Complete and fulfill any purchases; Configure your profile to reflect your communications preferences (for example, preferring email over text messages or postal mail, or opting in or out to certain types of messages)
Biometric Information
Fingerprint, iris scan, or facial scans
No
-
Internet or other similar network activity
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application
Yes
Analyze usage of the Services; Understand how you use our Services across the various devices, and to deliver tailored promotions; Recognize you across devices you use, and allow us to serve advertisements about goods or services that may interest you when you access and use our Services or other websites, apps or online services; Simplify your Website use by saving your preferences to improve your next visit to our Website; Determine how the Website is used (statistical or marketing purposes); Facilitate tailored advertising or monitor patterns of buying specific goods or interest and run advertisements tailored to the user based on online habits
Geolocation data
Physical location
Yes
Analyze usage of the Services; Allow us to serve advertisements about goods or services that may interest you when you access and use our Services or other websites, apps or online services
Sensory data
Audio
Yes
Record certain telephone calls, with your consent, for internal training and compliance and to confirm your purchases with us
Professional or employment-related information
Current or past job history or performance evaluations
Yes
Information contained on an applicant’s resume.
Education information, as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
-
Yes
Information contained on an applicant’s resume.
Inferences drawn from other Personal Information
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, or abilities
No
-
Sensitive Personal Information
Government identifiers (social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number); complete account access credentials (usernames, account numbers, or card numbers combined with required access/security code or password); precise geolocation; racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; genetic data; mail, email, or text messages contents; unique identifying biometric information; health information; and sex life or sexual orientation information
Yes
Enter into or perform a contract with you; Respond to your inquiries or requests, or to complete and fulfill any purchases or services requests; Send transactional or administrative information to you; Send you communications we believe may interest you, for our own or third parties’ products and services; Personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you; Identify you more precisely where needed, such as for fraud prevention or compliance verification; or as required by law, such as for tax or financial processing or other purposes.
SALES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
[In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have sold Personal Information for the purporses of targeting advertising, as defined by the CCPA.]
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have “shared” Personal Information for the purposes of targeted advertising, as defined by the CCPA.
Exclusion of Text Messaging Opt-In Data
Sharing excludes text messaging originator opt-in data and consent. This specific information will not be shared with any third parties under any circumstances.
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION SOLD OR SHARED WITH THIRD PARTIES
The below chart shows the categories of Personal Information that we have sold or shared in the preceding twelve (12) months:
Category of Personal InformationSold or SharedCategory of third parties to whom information was sold or shared
Personal Identifiers
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, data brokers, and marketing partners
Demographic Information
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Commercial Information
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Financial Information
No
-
Geolocation Data
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Sensory Data
No
-
Internet Browsing Activity
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Government Identifiers
No
-
Correspondence Information
No
-
Sensitive Personal Information
No
-
CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION DISCLOSED TO THIRD PARTIES
The below chart shows the categories of Personal Information that we have disclosed to third parties in the preceding twelve (12) months, and the purposes for the disclosure:
Category of Personal InformationDisclosed to Third PartiesCategory of third- parties to whom information was disclosed
Personal Identifiers
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, data brokers, and marketing partners
Demographic Information
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Commercial Information
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Financial Information
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Geolocation Data
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Sensory Data
No
-
Internet Browsing Activity
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Government Identifiers
Yes
advertising networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Correspondence Information
Yes
internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities, operating systems and platforms, social networks, and data brokers
Sensitive Personal Information
Yes
government entities, operating systems and platforms
PURPOSE FOR SHARING INFORMATION
Personal Information is shared for the following purposes:
to obtain third-party services from those who provide services to us; andpersonalizing experiences and product offerings, including targeted advertising, for our Services or the products and services provided by some of our service providers and marketing partners. More details are provided in the Purpose of Collection & Use section of this Privacy Notice above.
USE AND DISCLOSURE OF SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not use or disclose Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than the purposes listed in section 7027(m) of the CCPA Regulations.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
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Investment in precious metals involves risk and is not suitable for all investors. Augusta recommends that you consult your own financial or investment advisors prior to investing in precious metals. Augusta is not qualified and does not offer financial, investment, legal, or tax advice. This Website and the information provided by Augusta throughout its sales process is general in nature and is not tailored to any specific person, their circumstances, or their financial goals.
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All decisions regarding the purchase or sale of precious metals are your own, and should only be made after considering your investment objectives, risk tolerance, and level of experience. Augusta cannot guarantee, assure, or promise future market movement, prices, or profits. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Any investment in precious metals is speculative and could result in significant financial losses.
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