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California Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 26, 2023

This privacy notice for California residents supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of Above and Beyond—Business Tools and Services for Entrepreneurs, Inc. (“Get Beyond,” “we,” or “our”).  Get Beyond adopts this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws.  Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning used in this notice.

Information Get Beyond Collects

Get Beyond collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being association with, or could be reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”). In particular, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:

CategoryExamples
A. IdentifiersName, address, personal identifier, IP address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records StatuteA name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport numbers, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other finance information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
C. Protected classification under California or federal lawAge (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information.)
D. Commercial InformationRecords of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
E. Biometric InformationGenetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health or exercise data.
F. Internet or other similar network activityBrowsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application or advertisement.
G. Geolocation dataPhysical location or movements.
H. Sensory dataAudio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
I. Professional or employment-related informationCurrent or past job history or performance evaluations.
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act)Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
K. Inferences drawn from other personal informationProfile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence abilities, and aptitudes.

Personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • De-identified or aggregated consumer information.
  • Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, including, but not limited to:
    • Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) 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 (FCRA), the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994.

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

  • Directly from our customers or their agents. For example, from documents and/ or applications that our customers provide to us related to the services for which they engage us.
  • Indirectly from our customers or their agents. For example, from information we collect from our clients in the course of providing services to them.
  • Directly or indirectly from activity on our website. For example, from submissions through our website portal or website usage details collected automatically.
  • From third parties that interact with us in connection with the services we perform. For example, credit reporting agencies that provide us with credit information in connection with services we provide.

Use of Personal Information

Get Beyond may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • To fulfill or meet the reason for which the information is provided. For example, if you provide us with personal information in order for us to provide payment processing services, we will use that information to set up a merchant account.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To provide you with email alerts, event registrations and other notices concerning our products that may be of interest to you.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collections.
  • To improve our website and present its contents to you.
  • For testing, research, analysis and product development.
  • As necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of Get Beyond, our customers or others.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • To comply with federal, state or local laws including, but not limited to complying with civil, criminal or regulatory inquiries, investigations, subpoenas or summons.
  • To exercise or defend legal claims.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restricting, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of or assets.

Sharing Personal Information

We 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 information confidential and not use it for any purpose except for performing the contract.

In the preceding twelve months we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:

Category A:    Identifiers

Category B:    California Customer Records personal information categories

Category D:    Commercial Information

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

  • Our affiliates
  • Service providers
  • Third parties to whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide you.

In the preceding twelve months, we have not sold any personal information.  In the event that we do sell any personal information, prior to doing so, we will make available to you a method for opting-out of that sale.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (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 that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal 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, we will disclose you:

  • 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:
    • 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 we 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, 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 providers to:

  • 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.
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing functionality.
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy act.
  • 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.
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • 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 a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize 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 with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. The verifiable request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are a person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized 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 that personal information related 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 45 days of its receipt.  If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.  If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account.  If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.  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 and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

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.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time.  When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will notify you by email or through a notice on our website.

Contact Information

Jason Casella | Deputy General Counsel
Get Beyond
902 Carnegie Center, Suite 160
Princeton, NJ 08540