CCPA PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Effective Date: [9/12/2024]

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in HAIX North America, Inc.’s (“HAIX”) Website Privacy Notice https://www.haixusa.com/privacy-policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect

We may 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 consumer, household, or device ("personal information"). In particular, we may have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

We may obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products you purchase.


• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website.


• From third parties. For example, Google Ads, Google Analytics, MailChimp, etc.

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

• To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.


• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, and products.


• To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.


• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.


• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.


• To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).


• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.


• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, and products.


• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.


• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.


• To evaluate 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, in which personal information held by HAIX is among the assets transferred.

We 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.

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 into 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 or otherwise complying with the law.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

• Service providers.


• Data aggregators.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, HAIX may have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

• Identifiers.


• California Customer Records personal information categories.


• Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.


• Commercial information.


• Internet or other similar network activity.


• Geolocation data.


• Inferences drawn from other personal information.

We may use, or disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

• Service providers.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (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 may 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. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request as set forth below, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you.


• The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.


• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.


• The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.


• The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).


• If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:


• sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and


• disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

You may have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request as set forth below, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

1. Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.


2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.


3. Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.


4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.


5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).


6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.


7. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.


8. Comply with a legal obligation.


9. Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Calling us at 866-344-HAIX(4249).


• Emailing us at [email protected].


• Visiting www.haixusa.com/ccpa.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. To designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, please provide us with a power of attorney or other legally binding written document signed by you and identifying your agent. We may also verify the identity of your designated agent.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. 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.


• 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 relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

If you have an account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt, unless the request specifies a different time period. 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 do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Non-Discrimination

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

• 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.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Other California Privacy Rights

California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request 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] or write us at: HAIX North America, Inc., 2320 Fortune Drive, Suite 120, Lexington, KY 40509.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Website 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 HAIX collects and uses your information described here and in the Website Privacy 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:

HAIX North America, Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Officer
2320 Fortune Drive, Suite 120
Lexington, KY 40509
Phone: 859-281-0111
Toll Free: 866-344-HAIX (4249)
www.haixusa.com
[email protected]

NOTICE AT COLLECTION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Haix North America, Inc. (“HAIX”) collects your personal information to support its business operations, including the business purposes listed in the chart below. We do not collect sensitive personal information.

We will not sell the personal information, we collect or share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.

To view our full privacy notice, visit https://www.haixusa.com/privacy-policy.

We may collect the personal information categories listed in the table below. The table also lists, for each category, our expected retention period, use purposes, and whether we share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.

If you have any questions about this Notice or need to access it in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact [email protected] and 859-281-0111.

9/16/2024