Privacy Notice for California Residents

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Last Reviewed on: April 6, 2021

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in Weber-Stephen Products LLC’s (“Weber”) Privacy and Cookie Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

 

Information We Collect

Your interactions with and use of Weber Customer Service, mobile applications, promotions and websites (collectively “Applications”) result in collection of information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device ("personal information"). In particular, Weber Applications have collected the following categories of personal information from some or all of its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

 

Category

Examples

A. Identifiers.

A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol (IP) address, email address, account name, driving licence number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).

A name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driving licence or state identification card number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

Age (40 years or older), race, colour, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, sex, sexual orientation.

D. Commercial information.

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

E. Internet or other similar network activity.

Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.

F. Geolocation data.

Physical location or movements.

G. Sensory data.

electronic, thermal, or similar information (for instance, when using temperature sensing features of certain Weber products).

H. Inferences drawn from other personal information.

Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes.

Personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • Deidentified, anonymised, or aggregated consumer information.
  • Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, like:
  • health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data;
  • personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

 Weber obtains the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete as a consumer or job applicant, your interactions with Customer Services, or products and services you purchase or otherwise receive from Weber.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website and engaging in analytical analysis, or if you were to participate in consumer research regarding our products through a third-party service provider of Weber.

 

Use of Personal Information

As described in greater detail in the Privacy and Cookie Policy, we may use or disclose the personal information we collect for several purposes, including the following:

  • To fulfil or meet the reason you provided the information.
  • To provide, support, personalise, and develop our Website, products, and services.
  • To create, maintain, customise, and secure your Weber-ID or other online or mobile app account with us.
  • To provide product and availability information, process your requests, purchases, transactions, shipments and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with customer support and to respond to your enquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To personalise your experience on our Applications and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).
  • To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Applications, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business, and to allow for bug fixes and other repair.
  • For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Weber's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Weber about our Application users is among the assets transferred.
  • Weber will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

 

Sharing Personal Information

Weber may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Service providers.
  • Data aggregators.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Weber has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

  • Category A: Identifiers.
  • Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
  • Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
  • Category D: Commercial information.
  • Category E: Internet or other similar network activity.
  • Category F: Geolocation data.
  • Category G: Sensory data.
  • Category H: Inferences drawn from other personal information.

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:

  • Service providers.

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Weber has not sold personal information.

 

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers who are California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request Weber disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you information which may include:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
  • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
  • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that Weber delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

1.      Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

2.      Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

3.      Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

4.      Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

5.      Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).

6.      Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.

7.      Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

8.      Comply with a legal obligation.

9.      Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

Only you, or someone legally authorised to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorised representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period.

We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option (depending on how you make your request).

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

 

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the programme's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive programme requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

 


Other California Rights

Privacy/Third Party Marketers

California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy.americas@weberstephen.com and include “Privacy Rights” in the subject line.

Do Not Track Notice. 

Given the divergent practices of organisations that offer browsers, and the lack of a standard in the marketplace, we do not respond to Do Not Track signals at this time.

Changes to This Privacy Notice for California Residents

Weber reserves the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice for California Residents, we will post the updated notice on and within the Applications and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our Applications following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

 

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which Weber collects and uses your information described below and in the Privacy and Cookie Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Email: privacy.americas@weberstephen.com

Postal Address:

Weber-Stephen Products LLC

Attn: Associate General Counsel

1415 S. Roselle Rd.

Palatine, IL 60067