California Privacy Notice (CCPA)
Introduction and Scope
This California Privacy Notice is part of the Indatacloud.ai Privacy Policy and addresses individuals, customers, and other parties who live in California ("California consumers" or "you"). We offer this notice to meet our obligations under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as updated by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the "CCPA"). All terms used here that are defined in the CCPA carry the same meaning they have in the statute.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
Within the past twelve (12) months, Indatacloud.ai has gathered the following categories of personal information. "Identifiers" include your IP address, browser fingerprint, and any email address you submit to us. "Customer records" cover any name, email, or message you share via our forms. "Commercial information" refers to whether you subscribe to our newsletter. "Internet activity" encompasses the articles you view and how you arrived at our site. "Geolocation" consists of approximate location derived from your IP at the city or country level. "Inferences" are audience-segment classifications we develop from patterns in your reading history.
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain personal information through exactly three channels: when you provide it directly (such as through site forms); when your interactions with our platform generate it automatically (including page loads and cookie data); and when our service providers furnish it as part of operating the website (under signed data-protection agreements with each). We do not purchase or license personal information from external sources.
Business and Commercial Purposes
Indatacloud.ai relies on personal information to serve these specific business needs: furnishing the content you request; distributing newsletters you have affirmatively opted into; answering inquiries you send via Contact and related forms; generating anonymized usage reports for our editorial and advertising teams; protecting against fraud and abuse; and satisfying our legal obligations under California law and other applicable statutes.
Disclosure to Service Providers and Third Parties
We share personal information with the following categories of third parties (always under binding service-provider or processor agreements): website hosting companies, edge and CDN security providers, email delivery platforms, web-analytics vendors, and ad-network operators. Each recipient is bound by contract to use that information only for the specific business purposes we disclose, and is forbidden from keeping, using, or sharing it for any other reason.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
Under the CCPA, Indatacloud.ai declares that during the preceding 12 months we have not sold or shared the personal information of California consumers, including those we know to be under 16 years old, and we have no plans to begin. The CCPA defines "sale" and "sharing" in specific ways; sharing data with operational service providers who are bound by contract is not considered a sale or sharing under that definition.
Sensitive Personal Information
Indatacloud.ai does not collect or use sensitive personal information (as the CCPA defines it) for the purpose of making inferences about your characteristics. In cases where sensitive personal information is incidentally received—such as when you voluntarily mention it in a message—we use it only for the specific business purpose you intended and do not apply it to any other use that would require your consent under the CCPA.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under the CCPA, you as a California consumer are entitled to exercise the following rights regarding information Indatacloud.ai maintains about you: the right to know what categories we collect, where we obtain them, what we do with them, and who we share them with; the right to access the specific information we hold; the right to have inaccurate information corrected; the right to have your information deleted; the right to stop us from selling or sharing your data; the right to restrict how we use sensitive personal information; and the right to be free from retaliation if you assert any of these rights.
How to Exercise Your Rights
To invoke any of the rights listed above, please file a request using the Contact form that appears in the site footer, or send an email to our address on the Contact page. We will authenticate your identity to a degree appropriate to your request—for newsletter-related requests, confirming the email address is often enough; for more extensive access or removal requests, we may ask for more details. You will hear back from us within 45 days, or we will let you know if we need an extension (which we are allowed to take for an additional 45 days).
A California consumer's authorized agent—including a privacy service or lawyer—may file a CCPA request on the consumer's behalf. Indatacloud.ai will ask for evidence of written authority from the consumer or proof of legal authority, and we reserve the right to reach out to the consumer directly to verify the request and confirm identity. We are entitled to decline requests that do not satisfy the CCPA's verification and authorization standards.
Consumers Under 16 Years of Age
Indatacloud.ai does not knowingly gather, sell, or share personal information about California residents younger than 16. The site is intended for grown-ups. If we ever change this approach (which we do not foresee), we would seek the affirmative opt-in consent the CCPA requires for children 13 to 15, or parental opt-in for children under 13. If a parent believes a child's information has been entered into our system, we welcome contact to arrange swift removal.
Right to Non-Discrimination
Indatacloud.ai will treat you equally regardless of whether you exercise your CCPA rights. We will not withhold access to our service, ask for more money, reduce service quality, give you worse treatment, or punish you in any way for making a CCPA request. Since our service comes at no cost and operates uniformly for all users, there is neither a financial benefit nor a pricing structure that would incentivize you to consent to or decline anything.
Retention of Personal Information
Indatacloud.ai observes a balanced approach to data retention. Newsletter subscriptions are kept only as long as they remain active, with a small notation retained afterward to avoid accidental resubscription. Responses to contact forms are archived for as long as 24 months to enable correspondence follow-up and compliance documentation. Server logs persist for a maximum of 90 days. Aggregated analytics without personal identifiers are archived indefinitely for long-term editorial strategy.
Changes to This Notice and How to Reach Us
This California Privacy Notice may be amended periodically as our practices evolve or as laws change. The version posted here is the current one, and the "Last updated" date marks when it took effect. If you have questions or want to assert your CCPA rights, reach Indatacloud.ai via the Contact form in the site footer—that is our primary channel for privacy communications with California residents.