(I) Categories of Sources
We may collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
(II) Why We Collect, Use, and Share Personal Information
We may use and disclose the personal information we collect for our commercial and business purposes, as further described in this Privacy Policy. These commercial and business purposes include, without limitation: our commercial purposes, including marketing, advertising, and enabling commercial transactions. Our business purposes include, but are not limited to:
Auditing related to our interactions with you;
Legal compliance;
Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
Debugging;
Performing services (for us or our service provider) such as account servicing, processing orders and payments, and analytics;
Internal research for technological improvement;
Internal operations; and
Activities to maintain and improve our services.
(III) Retention of Personal Information
All of the above categories of personal information are stored by us and/or our service providers for as long as necessary to fulfill the specific purpose(s) described herein and to the extent permitted by applicable law. When we no longer have a legitimate commercial or business purpose for retaining your personal information, or when you request that we delete your personal information (subject to certain exceptions), we will remove such information from our systems and records and direct our service providers to do the same, which includes taking steps to anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it.
(C) Your Rights Regarding Personal Information
Subject to certain exceptions and limitations, if you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the following rights with respect to the personal information about you that we have collected:
Right to know — the right to request that we disclose to you: the categories of personal information we have collected about you; the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing the personal information; the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information; and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Right to correct inaccurate personal information — the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information.
Right to be informed at point of collection — the right to know the categories of personal information to be collected and the purposes for which the categories of personal information shall be used, before or at the point of collection.
Right to request deletion of personal information — the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to opt-out of sale/sharing/profiling — the right to opt-out of the sale of personal information, the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Right not to receive discriminatory treatment — the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of privacy rights.
To exercise your rights, you may submit a verifiable consumer request by clicking the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information & Privacy Rights" link in the footer of our website, or by adjusting your Cookie Preferences. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law. Please note that to protect your privacy and security, we may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
(D) Verification Process and Required Information
Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled. For all requests, you must at minimum provide your name, email address, and country of residence so we can attempt to verify your identity and process your request.
(E) Appeals
If we decline to take action on your request, you may appeal our decision within 60 days of receiving our response. To submit an appeal, please use the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information & Privacy Rights" link in the footer of our website. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to your appeal, along with a written explanation of the reasons for our decision. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the attorney general in the state where you reside to submit a complaint.
(F) Authorized Agents, Parents, Guardians, and Conservators
You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide the authorized agent with written permission to submit the request, and we may require you to verify your own identity directly with us. However, if you have provided the authorized agent with a power of attorney pursuant to applicable law, no further verification will be required. Connecticut and Utah residents: please note that rights requests may be submitted on behalf of children by a parent or guardian, and on behalf of an adult individual by a conservator.
(G) Minors’ Right to Opt-In
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age or that we share the personal information of minors under 16 with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.
(VIII) How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Wide Moat Research
📧 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: widemoatresearch.com
(IX) Data from Outside the United States
Sparkle City Research, LLC companies are based in the United States. If you are based in another country, your data will be processed by us in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By using our Services, you acknowledge and consent to the transfer and processing of your personal information in the United States.
(X) Security Measures
Sparkle City Research, LLC companies have established reasonable precautions to protect the personal information we collect from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Technical measures include use of firewall protection and encryption technology where appropriate. However, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.
(XI) Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal information of children under the age of 16. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will take steps to immediately delete this information from our servers. If you believe that a child under the age of 16 may have provided us with personal information, please contact us using the information provided in the "How to Contact Us" section above.
(XII) Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Sparkle City Research, LLC companies may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. You should check this page periodically for updates. Your continued use of our Services after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
