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1. Purpose of This Notice
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully before you share any personal data with us. By accessing or using our Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound to our terms, including this Privacy Policy.
The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to let you know how SL Data Services handles personal information in connection with your access to or use of our website and related services. It also provides information about your rights related to our use of personal information.
This Privacy Notice only applies when you use the website, SLDataServices.com, and not to any third-party websites, applications, or other third-party services (collectively, "Third Party Platforms") even if such Third-Party Platforms are linked to or accessible from the Service. Each Third-Party Platform will have its own data collection and usage practices, and may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information from you. SL Data Services is not responsible for the content or practices of any Third-Party Platforms and, if you choose to visit or use them, you do so at your own risk.
2. What Personal Information Do We Collect & How Do We Use It?
The type of personal information we obtain about you depends on how you interact with us and our Service. When we use the term “personal information,” we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The outline below describes the categories and specific types of personal information that we collect, how we collect it, our purpose for collecting it, and who we have shared it with during the past 12 months.
A. Categories of personal information collected (in the past 12 months)
We collect the following categories of personal information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and similar state laws:
Identifiers
Name, email address, account username, IP address
Commercial Information
Records of reports purchased
internet or other electronic network activity
Device information, website usage analytics, cookies, browsing activity on our site
account credentials
Login username and password (hashed and encrypted)
Payment information
Payment card details (processed securely by third-party payment processors)
Publicly available records
Property or vehicle owner name, property address, property characteristics, property value, and liens, information about a court case or charges, and so forth (from public records)
B. Sources of personal information
We collect personal information from the following sources:
- Directly from you: When you create an account, purchase a report, submit an opt-out request, or communicate with us.
- Automatically from your device: Through functional and analytical cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with our website.
- From public records: Property, vehicle, and court records and related information are obtained from government agencies or aggregators of public records.
C. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
We collect personal information for the following purposes:
- To create and manage your account.
- To process and fulfill your orders for reports.
- To communicate with you about your account or purchases.
- To provide customer support and respond to your inquiries.
- To analyze website usage and improve our services (using functional and analytical cookies only; we do not track your activity across other websites).
- To comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms.
- To maintain the security and integrity of our website and systems.
- To process your opt-out requests and other privacy requests.
3. Information We Do Not Collect
We do not intend to collect, nor would we need special or highly sensitive categories of personal information such as your gender, sexuality, genetics, health, or political and religious affiliations.
5. Public Data We Collect
How we collect publicly available data: Public Data
We obtain publicly available data from another company that aggregates information from the government.
Type of publicly available data
First & Last Name, Address, Property Ownership, Criminal or Traffic Records, Registered Sex-Offender status
Our purpose for collecting publicly available data
We use this information as part of our services by organizing publicly available data and posting it on our website.
6. How We Protect Data
We take the security of data very seriously, and we work hard to protect any information you provide to us from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. We cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, but we do our utmost to protect it.
As a minimum we take the following measures to secure your data:
Data Transfer Integrity - All traffic to and from SL Data Services servers is secured by transport level security (TLS) sent over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and secured using an AES 256-bit SSL certificate. This ensures that data sent between your systems and ours is encrypted.
password encryption -SLDataServices.com user passwords are stored in our database after being hashed.
firewalls -SLDataServices.com enforces network level control for access to infrastructure by using multiple different firewall technologies to ensure that different components of its systems are logically isolated from one another.
operational access controls -SLDataServices.com employees require access to production services for operational reasons. We employ multiple authentication mechanisms to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
software updates -SLDataServices.com regularly applies software patches to production infrastructure in order to ensure a strong security posture to known software vulnerabilities.
external accreditation -SLDataServices.com takes a pro-active approach to security by employing an external company to perform monthly security scans of its infrastructure.
7. Data Retention Period
We keep your non-public personal information for no longer than reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected in the first place, except where the law or a court order allows us to keep it for longer. We may also delete your information, content, and account if we decide it violates our Terms or any applicable laws.
8. Sale of Personal Information
As stated above, we sell public records reports, generated exclusively from public records data (for example, records recorded by a court or county clerk). Depending on the nature of the underlying public records data, our reports may contain personal information of the subjects of the reports.
9. Your Privacy Rights
For the publicly available data that we collect through an aggregator from local governments like the secretary of state, vehicle records and various court records and further described in Section 6, you will need to contact your local government for information about your rights including how to remove such information. We do not have the authority to remove your information from government websites.
For personal information that you submit or that we otherwise collect when you visit our website as described in Section 2 and Section 5, your rights are as follows:
- The right to know about the personal information we collect about you and how it is used and shared;
- The right to correct your inaccurate personal information;
- The right to access a portable copy of your personal information;
- The right to delete your personal information (with some exceptions);
- The right to opt-out of the sale* of your personal information;
- The right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights;
- The right to opt-out of the sharing* for targeted-advertising based on your activity on other websites;
- The right to opt-out of automated profiling*; and
- The right to limit* our use and disclosure of sensitive information.
*Please note that these rights do not currently apply because we do not collect sensitive personal information, profile, or share data for cross-context behavior targeting. We will update this privacy notice if we intend to use personal information for such things in the future.
10. How To Exercise Your Rights
To exercise any of your rights described above, you can contact support@sldataservices.com or submit a request using the form on our website.
Before we can process a request, we will verify your identity by asking you to confirm some of the information we maintain such as your phone number, for example. In the event that an authorized representative would like to exercise rights on your behalf, we need the following information before we can process the request: (1) confirmation directly from you to us that that the authorized representative has your permission to submit the request; and (2) Verification of the authorized representative’s identity. If we cannot verify the authorized representative using reasonable efforts, we may not be able to process the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period.
11. Personal Information of Law Enforcement and Elected or Appointed Officials
We recognize that members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials may be entitled to additional privacy in accordance with U.S. state law. We will gladly honor requests from such members of law enforcement and the judiciary to anonymize or if possible, delete personal information in an expedited manner. However, because our information comes from an aggregation of data publicized by the local governments, it is impossible for us to permanently remove your personal information from the original source. If you are a member of law enforcement or an elected or appointed official, we strongly urge you to submit your deletion request to the original publisher, your local government.
To submit a Law Enforcement or Other Officials Request, send an email to support@sldataservices.com.
For the purposes of this section "members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials" includes the following:
- State Constitutional Officers
- Members of the Legislature
- Judges and Court Commissioners
- District Attorneys
- Members of a City Council
- Members of a Board of Supervisors
- Appointees of the Governor
- Mayors
- City Attorneys
- Police Chiefs and Sheriffs
- A Public Safety Official, as Defined in Section 6254.24
- State Administrative Law Judges
- Federal Judges and Federal Defenders
- Members of the United States Congress and Appointees of the President
*Please note that these rights do not currently apply because we do not collect sensitive personal information, profile, or share data for cross-context behavior targeting. We will update this privacy notice if we intend to use personal information for such things in the future.
11. Personal Information of Law Enforcement and Elected or Appointed Officials
We recognize that members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials may be entitled to additional privacy in accordance with U.S. state law. We will gladly honor requests from such members of law enforcement and the judiciary to anonymize or if possible, delete personal information in an expedited manner. However, because our information comes from an aggregation of data publicized by the local governments, it is impossible for us to permanently remove your personal information from the original source. If you are a member of law enforcement or an elected or appointed official, we strongly urge you to submit your deletion request to the original publisher, your local government.
To submit a Law Enforcement or Other Officials Request, send an email to support@sldataservices.com.
For the purposes of this section "members of law enforcement and elected or appointed officials" includes the following:
- State Constitutional Officers
- Members of the Legislature
- Judges and Court Commissioners
- District Attorneys
- Members of a City Council
- Members of a Board of Supervisors
- Appointees of the Governor
- Mayors
- City Attorneys
- Police Chiefs and Sheriffs
- A Public Safety Official, as Defined in Section 6254.24
- State Administrative Law Judges
- Federal Judges and Federal Defenders
- Members of the United States Congress and Appointees of the President
*Please note that these rights do not currently apply because we do not collect sensitive personal information, profile, or share data for cross-context behavior targeting. We will update this privacy notice if we intend to use personal information for such things in the future.