Effective Date: August 21, 2024
This California Privacy Summary (the “Notice”) of Making Sense Media LLC (“Making Sense”) applies solely to California residents and supplements our Privacy Policy with additional information about Making Sense’s handling of personal information about California residents in connection with our samharris.org website.
In connection with our website, Making Sense collects:
We may use personal information about you:
We keep your information until after we determine its retention no longer is necessary for the purposes described in this Notice. We may collect and use the same category of personal information for different purposes and in different contexts, so the length of time for which we retain a particular category of personal information may vary. For example, information may remain in copies made for backup or business continuity longer than in production systems.
Our specific retention practices may vary by jurisdiction. For example, the chart below lists the categories of personal information we collected about California residents in the last twelve months, along with examples of how long we typically would intend to retain those types of personal information in the particular situations described below. However, these are not necessarily the only retention periods applicable to California personal information, and information about residents of other states and countries may be handled differently.
| Category of personal data regarding California residents | Examples of how long we normally plan to keep this information |
|---|---|
| Identifiers, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, phone number, and Apple ID | We retain your email address for at least as long as your Making Sense account is active and you remain subscribed to our newsletters. We also may retain it if you unsubscribe to ensure we honor your opt-out. |
| Financial information, such as credit card numbers and payment information (which is processed by our third-party payment processor) | We do not retain your full payment card information. Your transactions are fulfilled by our third-party payment processor or the relevant operating system provider for your device, so we do not collect or otherwise have access to this information. |
| Details about user interaction with particular content on our website | We may retain information on your interactions with or interest in the Making Sense website for up to three years after your last contact with us. |
| Audio and visual information, such as profile photo and recordings of calls or meetings. | Because meeting recordings could contain any type of record and pertain to any type of matter, retention periods vary. With respect to profile photos, we retain these for at least as long as your Making Sense account is active. |
| Commercial information, such as records of transactions | We may retain records of transactions for at least three years, based on general statutory requirements. Records maintained for tax compliance may be retained for seven years or longer, depending on the situation. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your IP address, cookie information, device identifiers, browser characteristics, operating system details, language preference, and browsing information | We retain logs associated with account logins from California IP addresses on our site for several years for account authentication, fraud detection, and other security purposes. |
| Geolocation data (inferred from IP address) | We retain logs associated with account logins from California IP addresses on our site for several years for account authentication, fraud detection, and other security purposes. |
| Inferences drawn from any of the above | We typically retain inferences for the same period of time for which we retain the underlying information. |
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines the “sale” of personal information to include selling user data to random third parties for money, like a data broker does—something we have never done. But it also defines “sale” and “sharing” in a broader sense that includes some more common practices. For example, under the CCPA, these terms include the use of certain advertising services, like when we pay an ad tech company to place a cookie on the browser of a visitor to our website so that the user can see an ad for our web on other websites. We’ve done that over the last year and plan to continue to do so. The ad tech company can see the website visitor’s IP address and other browser/device data as part of that process. The terms “sale” and “sharing” also cover our use of certain other advertising services, like if we were to pay a third-party website to serve ads for us to individuals that we specify by giving that website a list of those individuals’ email addresses (or hashes of those email address).
Californians can exercise their CCPA right to opt out of “sales” and “sharing” as defined in the CCPA by following the instructions on our Your Privacy Choices page, or they can start their request by emailing us at info@samharris.org and then completing the instructions we send in response.