Last Updated: 2026

Viega LLC and/or its affiliates (“us” or “we” or “our” or “Viega”), respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) describes how we collect, use, process, and disclose personal information regarding individuals that interact with us, including business partners, clients, and their customers (“Business Contacts”), apply for a job with us (“Job Applicants”) or otherwise interact with us on our online services such as this website and any other service, platform, website, or application that links to this Policy and any communications and interactions between you and us, such as through customer and other service interactions, emails and other communications exchanged between you and Viega (collectively, the “Services”).  

Residents of States with Applicable Consumer Privacy Laws: Please see our State Privacy Notice below for supplemental information required under, among other various states’ laws, California’s privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Canadian Residents: Please see our Canadian Residents’ Privacy Choices and Privacy Rights section below for supplemental information required under Canadian privacy laws.

Scope of Policy/Exclusions. Notably, this Policy does not apply to data that is not treated as personal information, or to the extent the data is subject to an exemption, under applicable law. This Policy also does not apply to information collected independently by third-party content, websites, applications, platform, code (e.g., plug-ins, application programming interfaces, and software development kits, and certain cookies and other tracking technologies (collectively, “Third-Party Services”). The Services may also contain links to Third-Party Services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any Third-Party Services. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of each Third-Party Service that collects personal information.

Changes to this Policy. Viega reserves the right to change this Policy at our discretion, at any time. When Viega makes such a change, a revised copy of the Policy will be made available on the Services, and we will update the Last Updated date. Viega may amend this Policy from time to time and will obtain your prior consent if required by applicable law. We suggest you visit the Services and review this Policy periodically to determine whether any such changes have been made. Any changes or updates to the Policy are effective immediately upon posting to the Services and your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. The date that this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this page.

I.                Personal Information We Collect

We collect several types of personal information from and about users of our Services, including information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number. We may also collect information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Services, and usage details. We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us and/or automatically as you navigate through the Services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

Specifically, the information we collect on or through our Services may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Services (which includes, but is not limited to first name, last name, postal address, email address, phone number, etc.);
• Information provided when you submit information via our contact forms, our chat feature, or by some other mechanism;
• Information collected when you report a problem with our Services;
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses) if you contact us;
• Your responses to surveys, from us or from third parties, for example, our business partners, which we might ask you to complete for research purposes;
• Any business or contact information you submit to us;
• Your interactions, tendencies, and communications with Viega (including content of your conversations, correspondence, and email messages to us, history of online inquiries and contacts with Viega, interactions with sales representatives and customer contact records and notes);
• Customer records and purchase history (including paper and electronic invoices and purchase orders, details of your purchases or requested products/services and other customer records that contain personal information such as names, signatures, or addresses);
• As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we (or a third party designated by us) may also use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
  • Details of your visits to our Services, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on the Services; and
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, device identifier, browser type, operating system, data regarding network connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device), the page(s) you request, the domain name of the website from which you may link to the Services, and your computer operating system and browser type (“Usage Information”).

Viega does not collect all of the above types of information in all cases. Viega may also collect information in an anonymized or aggregate format (in a way that does not identify you) and which is not subject to this Policy.

II.              How We Collect Personal Information

We collect personal information both directly and indirectly in several ways, including:

• Information you provide to us directly, such as in person, in an email or letter, in a phone conversation, an invoice, quote, or contract, or on a web form.
• Usage Information automatically collected when you use or access the Services such as through cookies, web beacons, electronic communication protocols, or widgets, buttons, and tools.
• Publicly available information and information from third parties, such as commercially available sources, Vendors and Third-Party Services providers. For example, by providing your information to, and participating in, a trade show, training, or similar event, your personal information may be provided to us indirectly through the organizers of the event or through business analytics and reporting providers.

We may combine information that we receive from the different sources described above; for example, we may create a profile based on personal information provided directly from you and input information regarding your interaction history with sales representatives into that profile.

III.           Persons Under the Age of 18

Our Services are not intended for persons under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under age 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Services, or on or through any of the features on the Services, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or username. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under the age of 18, please contact us at dataprotection@viega.us. Upon being notified that we have collected or received personal information from a person under age 18, we will delete that information.

IV.           Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

The technologies we (or a third party designated by us) use to collect Usage Information may include cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other tracking technologies (“Tracking Technologies”).  We may use a variety of technologies that store or collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with the Services. This information may be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that may be downloaded to your personal computer, browser, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device whenever you visit or interact with our Services.

A.              Analytics

We may use Google Analytics or other analytics services. These analytics services may use cookies and other Tracking Technologies to help us analyze Services users and how they use the Services. Information generated by these analytics services (e.g., your IP address and other Usage Information) may be transmitted to and stored by these vendors on servers in the U.S. (or elsewhere) and these vendors and/or Third-Party Services may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the Services, compiling statistic reports on Services activity, and providing other services relating to the foregoing. See Section VI for more information on your choices regarding certain analytics Tracking Technologies.

B.              Interest-Based Advertising

We may engage and work with Vendors and Third-Party Services to serve advertisements on the Services and/or on other websites and services. Some of these ads may be tailored to your interest based on your browsing across time on the Services and elsewhere online (other websites and services), which may include use of precise location and/or cross-device data, sometimes referred to as “interest-based advertising” (“Interest-based Advertising”). See below in this section for more information on your choices regarding Interest-based Advertising, and our State Privacy Notice  for information on your choices under applicable law that you may have with respect to these activities.

Our Services may integrate with social sharing features or other similar Third-Party Services which let you share actions you take on our Services with other apps, sites, or media, and vice versa. These features may enable the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the social sharing service. These features may also collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Services and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the relevant platform and we are not responsible for such data practices. Please refer to the privacy policies of those social sharing services for more information.

C.              Your Privacy Choices

Below is further information on use of cookies and other Tracking Technologies on our Services, and available choices. Please note that you will need to exercise the below choices on each browser and/or device that you use. Please be aware that if you disable or remove strictly necessary Tracking Technologies, some parts of the Services may not work or will function with more limited capabilities. In addition, please note that your choices sometimes rely on cookies or other Tracking Technologies, such that when you clear or disable them, your choices are reset.

Consent Management Platform: You can access the consent management platform and exercise choice over certain types of cookies by clicking here.

Ad Industry Tools: Some third parties may collect personal information in association with your use of our online services for advertising (including Interest-based Advertising), analytics, and other purposes. Please visit https://www.privacyrights.info/ for information on how to submit applicable opt-outs to participating third parties. However, opting out does not mean you will stop seeing ads and you may continue to still see interest-based ads. To learn more about Interest-based Advertising and additional opt-out choices related to it, please visit https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Please note, clearing cookies or changing settings may affect your choices, and you can exercise your choices as to cookies separately via each browser and other device you use. Cookie-enabled opt-out signals may no longer be effective if you delete, block, or clear cookies. We are not responsible for the completeness, accuracy, or effectiveness of any third-party notices, tools, or choices.

Browser Settings: You can exercise control over browser-based cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser, and mobile devices may offer ad and data limitation choices. Use the help or settings function on your browser to adjust such settings. You may be able to refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services.

Mobile Device Settings: You can use mobile device settings to limit mobile Tracking Technologies and associated activities. For instance, you can adjust or reset the advertising identifiers on your mobile device in the device settings. These controls work much like deleting cookies in a browser—the device is harder to associate with past activity, but tracking may still occur using the new advertising identifier. In addition, third party tools may enable you to search for and opt-out of some of these trackers, such as the Ghostery browser plug-in available at https://www.ghostery.com/.

V.              Security of Personal Information

At Viega, we have a firm commitment to protecting your privacy and security. We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, please be aware that the transmission of information via the Internet and online digital storage is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to, through, or by our Services. Any transmission of personal information through the Services or otherwise to us is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Services.

Depending on the volume and sensitivity of the information, the purposes for which it is used, and the format in which it is stored, we implement a combination of measures to protect your personal information, including:

• A privacy framework governing the protection of personal information through its lifecycle. This framework defines the roles and responsibilities of Viega personnel, provides a process for dealing with complaints regarding the protection of the information, and addresses the retention and destruction of personal information.

• Internal policies and procedures that define the roles and responsibilities of our employees throughout the information life cycle and limits access to information on a “need-to-know” basis.

• If information is collected or stored in electronic format, technical safeguards such as encryption, firewalls, passwords, antivirus software, and similar measures.
• Employee privacy and data security training.

VI.           How We Use Personal Information

Generally, we collect, retain, and use your personal information to provide you the Services and as otherwise related to the operation of our business.

We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• When you submit your personal information to us, you are entered into our database. You may then be added to our list to receive job alerts via e-mail and, subject to any applicable choice requirements, communications from us via e-mail, text messages, and other means relating to our products or services, provided that we will obtain your consent for these activities if legally required;

• To present our Services and their contents to you;

• Transact with you, provide services or information you request, respond to your comments, questions and requests, serve you content, and send you notices;

• To provide you with information and services that you request from us;

• To notify you about changes to our Services, or any products or services we offer or provide;
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• For our own internal business purposes, such as to help us tailor our products and services to you and other customers, improve or evaluate the use, performance, and safety of our programs, systems and technologies, to evaluate and improve the quality of your user, customer or vendor experience, to design new products and services, to conduct data analysis and testing, and to maintain proper business and other relevant records;

• For legal, safety, or security reasons, such as to comply with legal requirements, to protect the safety, property, and rights of Viega, those who interact with Viega, and others, including in emergency situations, to enforce or apply this Policy, our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, and to detect, prevent, and respond to security incidents or other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
• For any other purpose with your direction, authorization, or consent; and

• Other purposes that are related to or compatible with the context in which we collected your personal information, or that are required by applicable law.

The information that we (or a third party designated by us) collect automatically is stored and used for purposes including, but not limited to, aggregate research, promotional purposes, and for future site development to better understand your needs and improve our products and services, to improve our Services and to deliver better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns and analyze certain trends and statistics related to user sessions;

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests;
• Advertising, marketing, and analytics;

• Speed up your searches; and

• Recognize you when you return to our Services.

VII.           How We Disclose/Make Available Personal Information to Others

Generally, we may disclose or otherwise make available your personal information to provide you the Services and as otherwise related to the operation of our business, including for the purposes we describe above in the How We Use Personal Information section and in the following contexts:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
• To contractors, service providers, Vendors and other third parties we use to support our business (“Vendors”). Our standard practice is to impose data security obligations upon our Vendors and to prohibit them from using the information that they receive from us or otherwise process on our behalf for any purpose other than providing us services, except some Vendors may use personal information for their own, limited purposes in relation to their services (fraud prevention, security purposes, etc.) that are permitted by applicable law;
• To Third-Party Services (described further above in this Policy)
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Viega’s assets or business, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding (“Transaction”), or to a potential buyer or other potential successor in connection with Transaction-related due diligence;
• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes;

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Viega, our clients, or others;

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and

•  With your consent, direction, or authorization.

We may disclose aggregated, non-personal information about our users without restriction.

VIII.         Communications Preferences

You can opt-out (or as applicable, withdraw your consent where consent is legally required) to receiving certain promotional communications from us at any time by (i) for promotional e-mails, following the instructions provided in emails to click on the unsubscribe link; (ii) for text messages, following the instructions provided in text messages to unsubscribe; and (iii) for app push notifications, turning off push notifications on the settings of your device and/or the app, as applicable. Please note that your opt-out (or consent withdrawal) is limited to the e-mail address or phone number used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions. If you opt-out of (or withdraw your consent as to) only certain communications, other subscription communications may continue. Even if you opt-out of (or withdraw your consent as to) receiving promotional communications, we may, subject to applicable law, continue to send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your transactions, servicing, or our ongoing business relations.

IX.           International Transfer

Some of our service providers may access, process, or store your personal information outside of the country where we are located and where you reside, including in Canada, the European Union, and the United States. As a result, when your personal information is used or stored in a jurisdiction other than where you are residing, it may be subject to the law of this foreign jurisdiction, including any law permitting or requiring disclosure of the information to the government, government agencies, courts, and law enforcement in that jurisdiction.

It is possible that the governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of those countries may be able to obtain access to your personal information through the laws of the foreign country. Please contact us using the details below if you would like to learn more about our locations and use of service providers in other countries. Your use of the Services or provision of any information therefore constitutes your consent to the transfer to and from, processing, usage, sharing, and storage of your information, including personal information, in any jurisdiction, including the U.S., as set forth in this Policy.

X.              Canadian Residents’ Privacy Choices and Privacy Rights

By using our Services and/or submitting information to us in connection with using our products and services, you are providing your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as set out in this Policy. In some cases, your consent may be “implied,” and your permission is assumed based on your action or inaction at the point of collection, use, or sharing of your personal information. Viega generally obtains consent when we use personal information for a new purpose or for a purpose other than those stated at the time of collection in this Policy or in the terms and conditions of a specific service you signed up for or have agreed to participate in, in compliance with applicable privacy laws.

You have choices about the way we handle your personal information. For instance, you can always choose not to receive marketing or promotional messages from Viega by email by clicking on “unsubscribe” in any email you receive. Please note that even if you have indicated your choice not to receive commercial messages from us, we may still communicate with you in connection with a service, in accordance with applicable law. In addition, it may take up to ten (10) business days to register a change of preference across all our records.

In addition, you may withdraw your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Policy at any time upon reasonable notice to Viega in writing, subject to legal or contractual restrictions. To withdraw your consent, please contact us in writing using the relevant contact information listed in the section below. The withdrawal of your consent may affect our ability to provide you with our services. In certain situations, we may be entitled to retain your personal information in order to comply with applicable legal requirements, to establish, exercise or defend our rights or legal claims, and for other legitimate business purposes described under in this Policy.

Finally, you may be entitled to access your personal information and request the rectification information that is inaccurate, incomplete, or no longer up to date, subject to limited exceptions set out in applicable laws. Depending on the jurisdiction where you reside, you may also be entitled to request the rectification of your personal information if our collection, disclosure, or retention of such information is not authorized by law.

We may request specific information from you to: (i) help us confirm your identity and your right to access the Services; (ii) provide you with the personal information that we hold about you; and (iii) make your requested changes to your personal information. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal information that we hold about you or which we may have destroyed, erased, or made anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions. If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact us using the details below.

XI.           Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, or the ways in which Viega collects and uses your personal information, please contact us at dataprotection@viega.us.

State Privacy Notice

This State Privacy Notice (“State Privacy Notice”) describes how Viega may collect, retain, use, and disclose personal information of Business Contacts and Job Applicants who are residents of states with applicable consumer privacy laws. We have adopted this State Privacy Notice to address compliance obligations under such laws, including, without limitation the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”). Any term defined in the CCPA and used in these provisions has the meaning given to that term in the CCPA.  If any provision of this State Privacy Notice conflicts with any provision in the remainder of the Policy, the provisions in this State Privacy Notice will control. If you are a resident of a state without applicable consumer privacy laws, Viega will endeavor to provide you the same or similar rights as residents of those states with applicable consumer privacy laws, but the provision of any such rights will ultimately be at Viega’s discretion.

This State Privacy Notice provides consumers with whom we have interacted notice of our recent, historical data practices over the prior 12 months (from the Last Updated date listed at the top of this State Privacy Notice). This State Privacy Notice also applies to our current data practices, such that it is also meant to provide you with “Notice at Collection,” which is notice of personal information we collect online and offline, and the purposes for which we process information. For any new or substantially different processing activities that are not described in this State Privacy Notice, we will notify you as required by applicable law, including by either notifying you at the time of collecting information, or by updating this State Privacy Notice.  

I.                Collection, Uses, Sources, and Disclosure of Personal Information

Generally, we collect, retain, use, and disclose your personal information to provide you with our products and services and as otherwise related to the operation of our business. More specifically, we collect, retain, use, and disclose your personal information for the business and commercial purposes listed in the Policy above, including in the Personal Information We Collect, How We Use Personal Information, and How We Disclose/Make Available Personal Information to Others sections above.

The tables below describe our data collection and disclosure practices in detail including the categories of information we collect (left column), examples of types of data that fit within such categories (middle column), and the categories of recipients that receive such information as part of disclosures for business purposes, as well as disclosures which may be considered a sale or sharing under the CCPA (right column).

We may disclose all categories of personal information (of both Business Contacts and Job Applicants) for business purposes to the following categories of recipients and in accordance with the tables below:

• Affiliates and other members of Viega’s corporate group;

• Law enforcement, government regulators, and courts pursuant to legal requirements or legal process;

• Other parties (e.g., professional advisors, and potential or actual acquirers or investors and their professional advisers in connection with any actual or proposed merger, acquisition, or investment in all or part of our business).

As permitted by applicable law, we do not treat deidentified data or aggregate information as personal information and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your personal information into deidentified data or aggregate information, and may elect not to treat publicly available information as personal information. We will not attempt to reidentify data that we maintain as deidentified. 

  I.              Sources of Personal Information

Viega collects personal information directly from you or your device/computer, your employer if you are a Business Contact, Third-Party Services, Vendors, our affiliates, other individuals, and other third parties. 

If you are a Job Applicant, we may collect personal information from the above sources, as well as recruiters or employment agencies, your current employer or former employers, schools, colleges, or universities that you attended; and references listed on your resume or application.

   II.           Retention of Personal Information

Because there are many different types of personal information in each category, and many purposes and use cases for different types of personal information, we are unable to provide retention ranges based on categories of personal information in a way that would be meaningful and transparent to you.  Retention periods for each category of personal information will depend upon how long we have a legitimate purpose for the retention consistent with the collection purposes and applicable law. For instance, we may maintain business records for so long as relevant to our business and may have a legal obligation to hold personal information for so long as potentially relevant to prospective or actual litigation or government investigation. We apply the same criteria for determining if we have a legitimate purpose for retaining your personal information that you ask us to delete.

If you make a deletion request, we will conduct a review of your personal information to confirm if legitimate ongoing retention purposes exist, will limit the retention period to such purposes for so long as the purpose continues, and will respond to you with information on any retention purposes on which we rely for not deleting your personal information, if we make such a determination. For more information on deletion requests, see the Your Right to the Deletion of Personal Information section.

  III.           Privacy Rights Requests

As described in further detail below, subject to meeting the requirements for a Verifiable Privacy Request (defined below), we provide residents of states with applicable consumer privacy laws the privacy rights described in this section. For residents of states without such rights, Viega will endeavor to provide you the same or similar rights as residents of those states with applicable consumer privacy laws, but the provision of any such rights will ultimately be at Viega’s discretion.

As permitted by the CCPA and other applicable consumer privacy laws, certain requests you submit to us are subject to an identity verification process (“Verifiable Privacy Request”). For certain types of requests, we are not permitted to fulfill your request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the individual who is the subject of the request or an agent of that individual. For certain types of requests, however, we are only permitted to confirm that the request is not fraudulent, but this may require us to collect more limited information from you. If we cannot comply with a request, we will explain the reasons in our response.

Some information we maintain about individuals that is technically considered personal information may, nonetheless, not be sufficiently associated with information that you provide when making your request. For example, if you provide your name, email address, and phone number when making a request, we may be unable to associate that with certain data collected on the Services, such as clickstream data tied only to a pseudonymous browser ID. Where we are unable to associate such information with the information you provide, we do not include such information in response to those requests. If we cannot comply with a request, we will explain the reasons in our response. We will use personal information provided in a Verifiable Privacy Request only to verify your identity or authority to make the request and to track and document request responses unless you also gave it to us for another purpose.

We will make commercially reasonable efforts to identify personal information that we collect, process, store, disclose, and otherwise use and to respond to your privacy requests. We will typically not charge a fee to fully respond to your requests; provided, however, that we may charge a reasonable fee, or refuse to act upon a request, if your request is excessive, repetitive, unfounded, or overly burdensome where permitted by applicable law. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, or that we may refuse it, we will give you notice explaining why we made that decision. You will be provided a cost estimate and the opportunity to accept such fees before we will charge you for responding to your request.

A.              Right to the Deletion of Personal Information

Residents of states with applicable consumer privacy laws have the right to request that Viega delete any of your personal information about you that Viega has collected, subject to certain exceptions which we will explain if they apply. After we confirm that your deletion request is a Verifiable Privacy Request, subject to permitted retention exemptions, we will carry out one or more of the following: (i) permanently erase your personal information on our existing systems with the exception of archived or back-up systems; (ii) deidentify your personal information; or (iii) aggregate your personal information with other information. In our response to your request to delete, we will tell you the method for deleting your personal information. Where legal exceptions will apply to your request for deletion, we will tell you which one(s) and will limit retention to the permitted purpose(s).

B.              Right to the Correction of Inaccurate Personal Information

You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies that you find in your personal information maintained by Viega. Your request to correct is subject to our verification procedures and the response standards in the CCPA and other applicable laws.

C.              Right to Know/Access

You have the right to request that we share with you certain information about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information over the 12-month period prior to the request date, related to categories of personal information. You can request that we disclose to you: (1) the categories of personal information we collected about you; (2) the categories of sources for the personal information; (3) our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing that personal information (i.e., if we have, in fact, sold personal information); (4) the categories of third parties with whom we disclosed that personal information to; (5) a list of the categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose in the prior 12 months and, for each, the categories of recipients, or that no disclosure occurred; and (6) a list of the categories of personal information sold or shared about you in the prior 12 months and, for each, the categories of recipients, or that no sale or share occurred.

You have the right to request a transportable copy of the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you on or after the CCPA’s lookback date, which is January 1, 2022. Please note that personal information is retained by us for various time periods, so there may be certain information that we have collected about you that since the lookback date, but that we no longer retain; there also may be personal information collected 12 months prior to your request that proves impossible to provide or that would involve disproportionate effort to provide (and thus, it would not be able to be included in our response to you). Please also note that you are limited to making two “right to know” requests per year.

D.              Right to Obtain a List of Third-Party Recipients

Residents of some U.S. states have a right to request a list of specific third parties, or categories of third parties, to which we have disclosed your Personal information, or any Personal Information. You can also find information about categories of third-party recipients in a format not specific to you in this State Privacy Notice.

E.              Right to Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing

You have the right to opt-out of certain processing activities, including sale and targeted advertising, which involves the use of personal information from different businesses or services to target advertisements to you.

Third-Party digital businesses (“Third-Party Digital Businesses”) may collect information about your device and/or your visit to the Service, through cookies and other Tracking Technologies. These Third-Party Digital Businesses may also collect and process personal information that we make available about you to them, such as digital activity information. Giving access to personal information on the Services, or otherwise, to Third-Party Digital Businesses, which may be carried out for the business and commercial purposes of advertising, marketing, and analytics, could be deemed a sale or targeted advertising. Therefore, we will treat such personal information collected by Third-Party Digital Businesses (e.g., cookie ID, IP address, and other online IDs and internet or other electronic activity information) as such, and subject to the opt-out requests described above. In some instances, the personal information we make available about you is collected directly by such Third-Party Digital Businesses using cookies and other Tracking Technologies on the Services or our advertisements that are served on third-party sites (which we refer to as “cookie personal information”). However, certain personal information which we may make available to Third-Party Digital Businesses may include non-cookie personal information, such as your email address (which we refer to as “non-cookie personal information”).

When you opt-out pursuant to the instructions below, it will have the effect of opting you out of sale and targeted advertising, such that our opt-out process is intended to combine both activities into a single opt-out. Please note that there are distinct instructions for opting out of cookie personal information and non-cookie personal information, which we explain further, below.

Opt-Out for Non-Cookie Personal Information. If you would like to submit a request to opt-out of our processing of your non-cookie personal information (e.g., your email address) relating to the sale or targeted advertising of such data, make an opt-out request by contacting us at dataprotection@viega.us.

Opt-Out for Cookie Personal Information. If you would like to submit a request to opt-out of our processing of your cookie-related personal information relating to the sale or targeted advertising of such data, you need to exercise a separate opt-out request on our cookie management tool here. Our cookie management tool enables you to exercise such an opt-out request and enable certain cookie preferences on your device. You must exercise your preferences on each of our websites and mobile apps you visit, from each browser you use, and on each device that you use. Since your browser opt-out is designated by a cookie, if you clear or block cookies, your preferences will no longer be effective, and you will need to enable them again via our cookie management tool.

The CCPA also requires us to state that we do not knowingly sell, or share for targeted advertising, the personal information of individuals under 16.

We may disclose your personal information for the following purposes, which are not a sale or sharing for targeted advertising: (i) if you direct us to share your personal information; (ii) to comply with your requests; (iii) disclosures amongst the entities that constitute Viega as defined above, to Viega’s business Vendors, or as part of a Transaction; and (iv) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

OPT-OUT PREFERENCE SIGNALS (ALSO KNOWN AS GLOBAL PRIVACY CONTROL OR GPC)

The CCPA and other applicable state consumer privacy laws require businesses to process GPC signals, which is referred to in California as opt-out preference signals (“OOPS”), which are signals sent by a platform, technology, or mechanism enabled by individuals on their devices or browsers that communicate the individual’s choice to opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information. To use an OOPS/GPC, you can download an internet browser or a plugin to use on your current internet browser and follow the settings to enable the OOPS/GPC.

Please note that when we receive and process a GPC signal, we will apply such signal as an opt-out of sale and sharing as to cookie personal information only. You must follow the instructions above to make an opt-out request as to non-cookie personal information.

We do not: (1) charge a fee for use of our websites if you have enabled GPC; (2) change your experience with our websites if you use GPC; or (3) display a notification, pop-up, text, graphic, animation, sound, video, or any interstitial in response to the GPC.

F.               Right to Limit Sensitive Personal Information Processing

Certain personal information qualifies as sensitive personal information under the CCPA, which we refer to in this Policy as “sensitive personal information.” Residents of states with applicable consumer privacy laws have the right to direct businesses to limit their use and disclosure of sensitive personal information if we use or disclose it beyond certain internal business purposes. However, we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond such internal business purposes.

G.              Automated Decision-Making

We may engage in processing that constitutes automated decision-making or profiling under CCPA. However, as of the Last Updated Date, the definitions of these concepts, and any associated opt-out and access rights have not been finalized and added to the updated regulations of the CCPA.

H.              Right to Non-Discrimination; Notice of Financial Incentive

We will not discriminate or retaliate against you in a manner prohibited by the CCPA and other applicable state consumer privacy laws because you exercise your privacy rights.

Notice of Financial Incentive. From time-to-time, we may offer you the opportunity to participate in sweepstakes, contests, or other promotions (collectively “Promotion(s)”, which may qualify as a “price or service difference” or “financial incentive” under applicable law (collectively, “incentive programs"). The categories of personal information we collect and process in connection with your participation in the Promotions include identifiers, contact information, personal records, commercial information, Service usage information, and inferences.

You may opt-in to Promotions by signing up to them, typically through an online form we provide. Because Promotions are typically not ongoing programs, you cannot opt-out of Promotions once you have signed up. You can, however, exercise your privacy rights by following the instructions in this policy. If we provide any other incentive programs that provide ongoing benefits or otherwise which you can opt-out of, we will provide you with information on how to do so by updating this section or when you sign up.

We are required to explain how incentive programs we offer are reasonably related to the value that we receive from the personal information we collect in connection with the incentive programs. In addition to administering the Promotions, we use and disclose the personal information you provide for the other purposes described in our privacy policy, including marketing and advertising purposes. These activities generate revenue for us that we believe is reasonably related to the benefit you receive from participating in the sweepstakes. We treat the value of your personal information that we collect in connection with Promotions as equivalent to the potential increase in revenue attributable to additional marketing customization value to the participant due to the enriched understanding, minus the program expenses associated with a Promotion. We calculate that value by looking at the potential additional marketing customization value to the consumer due to the enriched understanding of said consumer to determine the average value of the data based on the attribute collected. For this reason, Promotions are reasonably related to the value of the consumer’s data that we receive in connection with Promotions.

I.                Verification of Requests

When you make a request, we will verify that you are the person you say you are, or, if you are seeking information on behalf of another person, that you are authorized to make the request on their behalf. In addition, we will compare the information you have provided to ensure that we maintain personal information about you in our systems. As an initial matter, if we have collected personal information about you, we ask that you provide us with, at a minimum, your full name, phone number, and email, and the nature in which you have transacted or interacted with us. Depending on the nature of the request and whether we have the phone number or email address you have provided in our systems, we will request further information from you to verify that you are the individual about whom we have collected information. We will review the information provided as part of your request and may ask you to provide additional information via e-mail or other means as part of this verification process. We will not fulfill your Right to Know (Categories), Right to Know (Specific Pieces), Right to Delete, or Right to Correction request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the individual about whom we collected personal information, or an agent of an individual authorized to act on the individual’s behalf. The same verification process does not apply to opt-outs of sale or sharing for targeted advertising, or limitation of sensitive personal information requests, but we may apply some verification measures if we suspect fraud.

The verification standards we are required to apply for each type of request vary. We verify your categories requests and certain deletion and correction requests (e.g., those that are less sensitive in nature) to a reasonable degree of certainty, which may include matching at least two data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying you. For certain deletion and correction requests (such as those that relate to personal information that is more sensitive in nature) and for specific pieces requests, we apply a verification standard of reasonably high degree of certainty. This standard includes matching at least three data points provided by you with data points maintained by us, which we have determined to be reliable for the purpose of verifying you, and may include obtaining a signed declaration from you, under penalty of perjury, that you are the individual whose personal information is the subject of the request.

If we cannot verify you with respect to certain requests, such as if you do not provide the requested information, we will still take certain action as required by the applicable law. For example:

• If we cannot verify your deletion request, we will refer you to this State Privacy Notice for a general description of our data practices.
• If we cannot verify your specific pieces request, we will treat it as a categories request.

J.               Authorized Agent

You may designate an authorized agent to submit your request on your behalf by submitting a request in the manners described above. If you are an authorized agent who would like to make a request, the CCPA and other applicable state consumer privacy laws require that we ensure that a request made by an agent is a Verifiable Privacy Request (except Do Not Sell/Share requests) and allows us to request further information to ensure that the individual whose personal information is the subject of the request has authorized the agent to make the request on their behalf. Generally, we will request that an agent provide proof that such individual gave the agent signed permission to submit the request, and, as permitted under applicable law, we also may require the individual to either verify their own identity or directly confirm with us that they provided the agent permission to submit the request.

K.              Making Requests

To make a privacy rights request, please contact Viega at the address shown below.

IV.              Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this State Privacy Notice or practices described in it, please contact us at dataprotection@viega.us.