Last Updated: February 01, 2024.
Tankless USA INC. (the “Company”, “our”, “we” or “us”), provides its customers and potential customers (“Customer”, “you” or “your”) with this ecommerce website (“Website”), through which we provide personally tailored offers for eyecare and eyewear products and associated services (“Services”).
This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), including the Cookie Policy, forms an integral part of our Terms of Use.
As we are committed to protecting your rights to privacy, this Privacy Policy further explains how we safeguard your information we collect or to which we may have access, through your use of our Website, the Services or otherwise through marketing campaigns, how such information may be used or shared with others, and how you may exercise your rights related to your Personal Information, as required under applicable laws.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING AND USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES.
Policy Topics
- Policy Amendments
- Categories of Information Collected and The Purpose of Processing
- How we Collect your Information
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies
- Sharing Personal Information with third parties, and the categories of such third parties.
- Data Retention
- Information Security
- Where Do We Store Your Information
- Children
- Your Rights
- California Notice
- Colorado Notice
- Connecticut Notice
- Virginia Notice
- Utah Notice
- Nevada Notice
- General Information
1. Policy Amendments:
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion. The most recent version of this Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Website and the update date will be reflected in the “Last Updated” heading. We will provide notice if these changes are material, and, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent for such changes. Any amendments to the Privacy Policy will become effective immediately, unless we notify otherwise.
2. Categories of information collected and the purpose of processing:
You are not required to provide us with any Personal Information. However, depending on the Service used, certain features will require processing of Personal Information, or otherwise Sensitive Information.
“Personal Information”: is individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or may, with reasonable efforts or together with additional information we have access to, enable the identification of an individual, where identification of an individual also includes the association of such individual with a persistent identifier such as a name, an identification number, persistent cookie identifier, etc.
“Non-Personal Information”: is information that does not personally identify an individual and includes technical information such as the type of device, time stamp, or any Personal Information that has been anonymized or aggregated, provided that such information can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person. For the avoidance of doubt, any Non-Personal Information connected or linked to Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information if such connection or linkage exists and identifies a natural person.
We may also use or disclose to third parties, aggregated, or de-identified information (“De-identified Data”) and we do not limit our third-party providers from using, selling, licensing, distributing, or disclosing de-identified data.
The explanation below details the types of information we collect, access, share or use, and the purpose for processing such information:
Information we collect and why we do that
Contact Communications:
- Information: Where you contact us with any inquiries, through any means of communications we make available (e.g., an online form available on the Website, email correspondence, chat, social media chats, toll free number, customer support, help center, etc.), you will be requested to provide us with your contact information such as your name, email address telephone number, and any other information needed to trace your order, or any information you choose to share with us through your correspondence or other communications with us.
- Why: We use such contact communications for the purpose of responding to your inquiries and provide you with the support or information you have requested. Our correspondence with you, and its content, may be further processed and stored to improve our customer services as well as in the event we reasonably determine it is needed in order to comply with any regulatory requirement, or for handling and defending against any dispute you might have with us. Further, calls may be recorded for the purpose of improving our customer support services or sales.
Checkout and Account Registration:
- Information: When placing an order, you may decide to create an account or continue as a guest. During the transaction, we process your full name, age, date of birth, language preference, email address, items you chose, saved items, shopping history, your address, phone number and any information associated with the transactions, including payment information or health insurance information, as further detailed below.
Shipping, delivery, postage, billing, and other information used to transact and deliver through the Platform, and where applicable, information required to clear customs (such as Tax ID or other identification numbers).
Additionally, if you choose to register and create an account, during the registration process you will be required to create a password. This information will be processed when you login as well, please keep your credentials secure and confidential.
- Why: We use this information to provide our Service, send you the items you requested, to personalize and customize the Services and improve the Services.
We use such information to create and designate your account, authentication and validate access, enable log-in, access and use of your account as well as to send you needed information related to our engagement (e.g., send you a welcome message, notify you regarding any updates to your orders, send applicable invoices, etc.).
By registering to or providing us with your e-mail address or any other contact information, you hereby agree that we may contact you for the purpose of informing you regarding our Services which may interest you, and to send to you other marketing material. You may opt-out by sending an email to the following address: or by pressing the “Unsubscribe” button contained in the promotional communications you receive.
Please note that the we may also contact you with essential information regarding your use and interaction with our Services, you will not be able to opt-out of receiving such service messages.
We use the transaction information to profile you, and your preference so we can offer you items we think you will like.
Payment:
Information: When you conduct a transaction through the Website, we will process your payments by third party vendors. We do not collect your payment information, we may however, keep the last credentials of your credit card in case of recurring payments.
- Why: We use any of this information to provide you with the Services and process the payments of the eye-products you have purchased.
Usage Data:
- Information: We perform such automatic collection through use of cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and similar technologies which allow us to collect information about the pages and screens you view, the links you click, and other actions you take when using our Website.
- Why: We use this information, as further detailed below, for analytic and marketing purposes, as well as, enhancing our Services, improving it, internal research, etc.
We process your information for our legitimate interests while applying appropriate safeguards that protect your privacy. Our legitimate interests may span things like detecting, preventing, or otherwise addressing fraud, abuse, security, usability, functionality or technical issues with our services, protecting against harm to the rights, property or safety of our Website, users, or the public as required or permitted by law; enforcing legal claims, including investigation of potential violations of this Privacy Policy; o comply and/or fulfil our obligations under applicable laws, regulations, guidelines, industry standards and contractual requirements, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; and in accordance with our Terms of Service (“Legitimate Interest”).
Advertising and Marketing:
- Information: Information about your impressions of, and reactions to, advertisements that appear on the Website as well as ad-campaigns which are displayed online. This information may include the following: Device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for advertising, unique device token, operating system, information regarding your clicks, views and engagement with our advertisement and Services, information concerning your traffic to and from the Platform, your referral URL, ad data, your IP address, your web log information, and your location information, including location information from your mobile device or as can be derived from your IP address. We further know whether the ad was clicked, viewed and when, if the emails sent were opened or not.
We use third party tools that enrich the data we have and add profiling data, insights, including demographic data, contact information, and information made available to the public, such as information from credit bureaus to the extent permitted by applicable law.
- Why: We perform such automatic collection through use of tools that measure the advertisement, the content viewed, the emails (if you opened it or not), to obtain insights on how or campaigns optimize and convert, measure the performance of our Services and ad campaigns, features, measure the performance of our marketing efforts, etc.
Further, we use your online behavioral information in order to market our Website and Services – send you an email to remined you that you have not completed your order of items you have added to your cart, build a profile on you in order to present you offers which are tailor made to your preference, provide you with offers which we believe you might be interested according to an offer you have redeemed previously, etc.
To the extent we’re permitted to do so under applicable law, to display or send to you marketing and advertising material and general and personalized content and to track and analyze the effectiveness and relevance of such material.
We may ask for your consent to send you our marketing offers and communications.
Analytic Information and Tracking:
- Information: Our analytics tools use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information related to user behavioral metrics on our Website, such as mouse movements, clicks, user inputs, scrolling, access time, visit duration, pages viewed, IP address (including approximate location), operating system, and page reloading. These tools provide insights into what works and what does not work for users of our Website.
We use a website analytics tool that provides session replay, heatmaps, funnels, form analytics, feedback campaigns, and similar features and functionality. This session replay tools may record your clicks, mouse movements, scrolling, form fills (keystrokes) in non-excluded fields, pages visited and content, time on site, browser, operating system, device type (e.g., desktop/tablet/phone), screen resolution, visitor type (first time/returning), anonymized IP address, location (city/country), language, and similar metadata. This tool does not collect information on pages where it is not installed, nor does it track or collect information outside your web browser.
In addition, pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs and cookies) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of our Website or action taken by email recipients.
- Why: We use web analytics tools to enhance the experience by optimizing the efficiency, design, and quality of our Website, fix errors and ensure security and for our Legitimate Interest.
We use the information and the tools to, for example, identify and repair technical errors, such as broken links that hamper the Website’ functionality, and help us reconstruct the user experience to better understand, for example, where users may be encountering frustration or impediments to using the or other Website.
We use this web-based analytics software because it provides us with a tool to track the online behavior of visitors while on the Website and lets us replay your actions. This tool gives us the opportunity to make the Website better and, in turn, provide you with an enhanced online experience as well. We obtain insights on how you and other visitors use the Website; for example, whether you can easily locate certain pages or whether it takes multiple clicks to get to those pages. More importantly, allow us to provide you with a more seamless, customer-centric e-shopping experience while on the Website and other Website.
Measure the success of our marketing efforts, and compile statistics about usage of the services and response rates.
Review and Feedback:
- Information: Where you submit a review or survey regarding your satisfaction of our products (including through our third-party service providers), you may share information such as rating, free text, and an image you actively share when submitting such review.
- Why: We use such information to improve our Services and allow others to make an informed decision prior to purchase the specific product. You agree that we may collect, use, and retain the contents of such review and you image, including for the purposes of publicly displaying such information within the Website and our marketing assets.
Social Media Interaction:
- Information: We allow you to share certain information with social platforms. If you actively communicate about us, our products, or our brands on social media, we may collect (i.e., either directly or indirectly) and use a copy of your communication for branding purposes. For example, if you post a hashtag related to our brand or Website in connection with one or more of our products across social media, we reserve the right to track, retain and use a copy of the post/tweet.
- Why: Please note that any information you post or disclose using hashtags, will become public and may be available to other users and the public.
Newsletter Registration:
- Information: If you register to receive our newsletter, updates, and other marketing materials and offers (i.e., discounts, coupons, etc.), you will be requested to provide us your email address.
- Why: We use this information to send you the content or offer you have signed-up to receive. We will further store this information to include you in our marketing lists, as well as the “opt-out” list (solely the necessary information for such purpose), and to ensure we respect your choice and comply with applicable laws in this regard.
Mobile Marketing Services:
- Information: When you opt-in to receive text messages from us, including, but not limited to, through our re-order contact lenses feature or otherwise, or when you send us a text message (i.e., SMS, MMS or WhatsApp messages), we will collect you phone number, and the date, time, content of any text messages that you send us.
- Why: We will use your phone number to provide you with the services and send your reminders. In addition, we will use your phone number to send you recurring marketing messages and promotions.
You can opt-out from such recurring text messages at any time by replying to the text message we sent you, click the link in the text message, or otherwise, whichever is available to you. Once you opted-out, you may receive one SMS, WhatsApp Message or Email confirming you have successfully opted-out. After that you will receive no further messages for this system unless you opt-in again.
Please know that, even if you opted out of receiving text messages from us, we may still contact you for transactional or informational purposes (e.g., customer service, product information, etc.).
Device Information and Permissions:
- Information: We collect information from and about the computers, phones, and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Website and Services, and we combine this information across different devices you use. For example, we use information collected about your use of our Services on your phone to better personalize the content or features you see when you visit or use our Website on another device or to measure whether you took an action on your phone on a different device. Information we obtain from these devices includes: network connections, information about operations and behaviors performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots), system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, ISP, language, time zone, browser type, Bluetooth signals, and information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers, app and file names and types, and plugins.
When you use our mobile App, we will request the following permissions: GPS, camera, photos, Bluetooth signals, and information about nearby Wi-Fi access (“App Permissions”).
- Why: We use this information to provide and enhance our Website and Services.
To access these App Permissions, you will need to actively and explicitly enable them through in-app permission or the mobile settings, you can disable the App Permissions at any time, however note, depending on the App Permission you disable a feature, or all features might not properly operate.
Please note that the actual processing operation per each purpose of use detailed in the explanation above may differ. Such processing operation usually includes a set of operations made by automated means, such as collection, storage, use, disclosure by transmission, erasure, or destruction.
In addition, we may use certain Personal Information to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, fraud, misappropriation, infringements, identity thefts, and any other misuse of our services and to enforce our terms of use and other policies, as well as to protect the security or integrity of our databases and Website, and to take precautions against legal liability.
3. How we collect your information:
Depending on the nature of your interaction with us and our Website, we may collect Personal Information as follows:
- Automatically: We may use cookies and SDKs or similar tracking technologies to gather some information automatically when you interact with our Website.
- Provided by you voluntarily: We will collect information if and when you choose to provide us with the information, such as where you create an Account, place and order, contact us, provide a proscription, etc.
- From publicly available sources: Such as through social media platforms where you open an Account through such platforms, credit bureaus, all to the extent permitted under applicable law.
4. Cookies and tracking technologies:
We use “cookies” and similar tracking technologies such as Software Developer Kits (‘SDKs) when you access to, interact with, or use our Website. The use of cookies is a standard industry-wide practice. A “cookie” is a small piece of information that a website assigns and stores on your computer while you are viewing a website. Cookies can be used for various purposes, including allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, enable automatic activation of certain features (e.g., shopping cart), for statistical purposes, as well as for advertising purposes. You can find more information about cookies here: https://allaboutcookies.org. Our Cookie Policy, available here, details the tracking technologies we use on our Website.
5. Sharing personal information with third parties, and the categories of such third parties:
We may share your personal information with third parties (or otherwise allow them access to it) only in the following manners and circumstances:
- Third Party Service Providers: We partner with a few selected service providers or business associates, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These include hosting, data and cyber security services, fraud detection and prevention services, merchant processing, shipping, postal and delivery services, website and mobile app functionality, manufacturing services, e-mail and text message distribution and monitoring services, advertising, data optimization and marketing services, affiliation and related analytics services, customer support and call center services, as well as our business, legal and financial advisors, and others. Any disclosure or access to Personal Information is strictly subject to such third party’s confidentiality undertakings and the application of appropriate safeguards. These third parties have limited access to your Personal Information solely as needed to perform their services.
- Third parties with whom you choose to share your Personal Information with: We may disclose to a family member, other relative, close friend, or any other person you identify, PHI directly relevant to that person’s involvement in your health care, health care treatment (such as pharmacists, doctors, nurses, optometrists, etc.), or payment related to your care. If a person has the authority by law to make health care decisions for you, we will generally regard that person as your “personal representative” and treat him or her the same way we would treat you with respect to your PHI. Further, we may share your Personal Information with social media platform when you choose to share information with the social platform about your activities on the Services.
- Enforcement: We may disclose Personal Information and PHI to enforce our policies and agreements, as well as defend our rights, including the investigation of potential violations thereof, alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or other users to legal liability, and solely to the extent required. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues, solely to the extent required.
- Protecting Rights and Safety: We may share your Personal Information with others, with or without notice to you, if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Company, of any of our customers, or any members of the general public.
- Our Affiliated Companies: We may share Personal Information internally within our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, should we or any of our affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition, or purchase of substantially all of our assets, your personal information may be shared with the parties involved in such event. If we believe that such change in control might materially affect your personal information then stored with us, we will notify you of this event and the choices you may have via e-mail and/or prominent notice on our Platform.
6. Data retention:
Except as specifically detailed above, we retain the Personal Information we collect as long as it remains necessary for the purposes set forth above, all in accordance with applicable laws, or until the individual expresses a preference to opt-out.
In certain circumstances, we will retain your Personal Information for longer periods of time and mainly:
- Where we are required to retain Personal Information in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements.
- Where we deem retention is necessary to obtain an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges (e.g., adverse event).
- If we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your Personal Information.
7. Information security:
Securing your Personal Information including your PHI is of high priority. We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind. We have implemented physical, technical, and administrative security measures that comply with applicable laws and industry standards, such as encryption, access restrictions and permissions, etc.
Note that we cannot be held responsible for unauthorized or unintended access beyond our control, and we make no warranty, express, implied, or otherwise, that we will always be able to prevent such access. Please contact us at: , if you feel that your privacy was not dealt with properly, in a way that was in breach of our Privacy Policy, or if you become aware of a third party’s attempt to gain unauthorized access to any of your Personal Information. We will make a reasonable effort to notify you and the appropriate authorities (if required by applicable law) if we discover a security incident related to your Personal Information.
8. Where do we store your information:
We maintain Personal Information that we collect from you in secured cloud storage environments provisioned by third party cloud providers in the United States. Nevertheless, any such information will be maintained and processed by us and our authorized affiliates and service providers which are in various locations around the world, including, without limitation, the United States and in our facilities.
9. Protecting children:
To access to, interact with or use our Services, you must be over the age of eighteen (18). Therefore, we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors under the age of eighteen (18) and do not wish to do so. Any purchase of products through our Website that is intended for a child under eighteen (18) years of age, must be carried out by his/her legal guardian within such legal guardian’s account, and without providing us any personal information of such child. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors under the age of eighteen (18) are not using the Services. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under eighteen (18) years, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any such information, please contact us at .
10. Your rights:
We acknowledge that different people have different privacy concerns and preferences. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect so that you can make meaningful choices about how it is used. We allow you to exercise certain choices, rights, and controls in connection with your Personal Information. Depending on your relationship with us, your jurisdiction and the applicable data protection laws that apply to you, you have the right to control and request certain limitations or rights to be executed.
In the table below, you can review how Consumers can exercise their rights, and appeal such decision, or if Tankless USA INC. sells or shared the personal data and how to opt-out.
- Right To Know (Access): You have the right to confirm whether we collect Personal Information, or Personal Data, and to know the information specifically collected on you. You can exercise your right by reviewing this Privacy Policy, and in case you would like to receive a copy of your information please submit a request here: https://[domain]/contact.
- Right To Correction: You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, or Personal Data, considering the nature of the processing and the purposes. At any time, you may correct any of the Account information through your account or app settings, or otherwise you may contact us at: .
- Right To Deletion: You have the right to delete the Personal Data, or Personal Information we collected from you, you can exercise your right for deletion through the App settings, and through this form: https://titanwaterheaterfl.com/contact-us/. You do not need to create an account with us to submit a request to know or delete. The deletion right is not absolute and in certain circumstances we may deny such request. We may deny your deletion request, in full or in part, if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) for any of the following reasons: (1) Complete the transaction for which we collected the Personal Data, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, 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 law or legal obligation; (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) Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it. We will delete or de-identify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our processors to take similar action.”
- Right To Portability: You have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable, and to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. We will select the format in which we provide your copy. Please fill in this form to receive a copy of your data: https://titanwaterheaterfl.com/contact-us/.
Below we will provide jurisdiction specifications on how and if the rights below apply to you, depending on your residency and how to exercise your rights. In addition to your right subject to state laws, if we process PHI, you have additional rights under HIPAA which are detailed here.
11. California notice:
This section applies only to California residents. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) effective November 2020, and as amended by the CPRA, effective January 1, 2023.
Please see the CCPA Privacy Notice available here which discloses the categories of personal information collected, purpose of processing, source, categories of recipients with whom the personal information is shared for a business purpose, whether the personal information is sole or shared, the retention period, and how to exercise your rights as a California resident.
12. Colorado notice:
This section applies to Colorado residents acting only as an individual or household context (and not in a commercial or employment context, as a job applicant or as a beneficiary of someone acting in an employment context). Pursuant to the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) please see below the disclosure of the categories of personal data that are collected or processed, the purposes, how consumers can exercise their rights, and appeal such decision, categories of third parties the controller shares or sells the personal data or sells the personal data for advertising and how to opt-out.
- Personal Data: As defined in the CPA means information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual and does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records, or that a consumer has otherwise made available to the public; de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or information excluded from the CPA scope, such as: Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPPA) or 42 CFR Part 2- “Confidentiality Of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records”, Personal information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, Children’s Online Policy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, national Security Exchange Act of 1934, higher education data and employment data.
- Sensitive Data: Includes (i) racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health condition or diagnosis, sex life or sexual orientation; (ii) Genetic or biometric data that can be processed to uniquely identify an individual; or (iii) child data. Information we collect in relation to our Virtual Try-On tool may constitute biometric information under the CPA.
Under CPA, Tankless USA INC. needs to provide a privacy notice that identifies the categories of personal data that are collected or processed, the purposes, how consumers can exercise their rights, and appeal such decision, categories of third parties the controller shares or sells the personal data or sells the personal data for advertising and how to opt-out.
In Section 2 “CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING” of the Privacy Policy, we describe our collection and processing of Personal Data, the categories of Personal Data that are collected or processed, and the purposes for which Personal Data is processed, stored, or used. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for a materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purpose without obtaining your consent. Additionally, in Section 6 “SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND THE CATEGORIES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES” details and discloses the categories of third parties we share for business purposes. Section 11 “YOUR RIGHTS” details and discloses your rights and Personal Data shared or sold for targeted advertising.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know or delete your Personal Data. If the request is submitted by someone other than you, proof of authorization (such as power of attorney or probate documents) will be required.
We will respond to your request within 45 days after receipt of a verifiable Consumer Request (no more than twice in a twelve-month period). We reserve the right to extend the response time by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and provided consumer notification of the extension is made within the first 45 days. If we refuse to act on a request, you may appeal our decision within a reasonable period time by contacting us at and specifying you wish to appeal. Within 60 days of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint as follows: Colorado AG at https://coag.gov/file-complaint/.
If you have an account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account or via email at our sole discretion. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. You do not need to create an account for submitting a request. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
13. Connecticut notice:
Under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Public Act. No. 22-14 (the “CDPA”) if you are a resident of Connecticut, acting in an individual or household context (and not in a commercial or employment context or as a representative of business, non-profit or governmental entity), your rights with respect to your personal data are described below.
- Personal Data: Means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual and does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records, or that a consumer has otherwise made available to the public; de-identified or aggregated consumer information; or information excluded from the CDPA scope, such as: HIPAA, GBPA, non-profit entities, higher education, employment data and FCRA, Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Farm Credit Act.
- Sensitive Data: Under the CDPA means data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health condition or diagnosis, sex life, sexual orientation, citizenship, or immigration status; The processing of genetic or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual; Personal data collected from a known child; Precise geolocation data. In certain cases, we will process precise geolocations data if you explicitly enable the GPS permission within our App. Further, information we collect in relation to our Virtual Try-On tool may constitute biometric information under the CDPA. For more information on our collection and processing of information that may constitute biometric information, data in relation to our Virtual Try-On tool, please click here.
Under CDPA, Tankless USA INC. is required to provide you with a clear and accessible privacy notice that includes categories of personal data processed, purpose of processing, instructions for exercising consumer rights and appealing decisions, categories of personal data shared with third parties, categories of third parties with whom data is shared, and any sale of data or targeted advertising.
In Section 2 “CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING” of the Privacy Policy, we describe our collection and processing of Personal Data, the categories of Personal Data that are collected or processed, and the purposes for which Personal Data is processed, stored or used. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for a materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purpose without obtaining your consent. Additionally, in Section 6 “SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND THE CATEGORIES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES” details and discloses the categories of third-parties we share for business purposes. Section 11 “YOUR RIGHTS” details and discloses your rights and Personal Data shared or sold for targeted advertising. Note, under CDPA consent can be withdrawn within 15-days of notice at any time.
We shall respond to your request within 45 days of receipt. The response period may be extended once by 45 additional days when reasonably necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests and we inform you of such extension within the initial 45 day response period, together with the reason for the extension.
If we decline to act on your request, we shall so inform you without undue delay, within 45 days of receipt of your request. The notification will include a justification for declining to take action and instructions on how you may appeal. Within 60 days of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to the Connecticut Attorney General at link: https://www.dir.ct.gov/ag/complaint/ or (860) 808-5318.
We shall provide information in response to your request free of charge, up to twice annually, unless requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive. If we are unable to authenticate your request using commercially reasonable efforts, we may request additional information reasonably necessary to authenticate you and your request. If we cannot authenticate you and your request, we will not be able to grant your request.
14. Virginia notice:
Under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, as amended (“VCDPA”) if you are a resident of Virginia acting in an individual or household context (and not in an employment or commercial context), you have the following rights with respect to your Personal Data.
- Personal Data: Means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person, and does not include publicly available information that is lawfully made available from government records, that a consumer has otherwise made available to the public; de-identified or aggregated consumer information; Information excluded from the VCDPA scope, such as: HIPAA, GBPA, non-profit entities, higher education, employment data and FCRA, Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Farm Credit Act.
- Sensitive Data: Under the VCDPA means data revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status; the processing of genetic or biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person; the personal data collected from a known child; and precise geolocation data. In certain cases, we will process precise geolocations data if you explicitly enable the GPS permission within our App. Further, information we collect in relation to our Virtual Try-On tool may constitute biometric information under the VCDPA.
The VCDPA requires Tankless USA INC. discloses the categories of personal data processed, purpose of processing, how you can exercise your rights, including how you may appeal our decision regarding the consumer request, the categories of personal data shared with third parties and with whom, and Tankless USA INC. sells personal data to third parties or processes personal data for targeted advertising.
In Section 2 “CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING” of the Privacy Policy, we describe our collection and processing of Personal Data, the categories of Personal Data that are collected or processed, and the purposes for which Personal Data is processed, stored or used. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for a materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purpose without obtaining your consent. Additionally, in Section 6 “SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND THE CATEGORIES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES” details and discloses the categories of third parties we share for business purposes. Section 11 “YOUR RIGHTS” details and discloses your rights and Personal Data shared or sold for targeted advertising.
We will respond to your request within 45 days after receipt of a verifiable Consumer Request (no more than twice in a twelve-month period). We reserve the right to extend the response time by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and provided consumer notification of the extension is made within the first 45 days. If we refuse to act on a request, you may appeal our decision within a reasonable period time by contacting us at and specifying you wish to appeal. Within 60 days of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If the appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to the Virginia Attorney General at https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumercomplaintform.
If you have an account with us, we may deliver our written response to that account or via email at our sole discretion. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. You do not need to create an account for submitting a request. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.
We shall provide information in response to your request free of charge, up to twice annually, unless requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive. If we are unable to authenticate your request using commercially reasonable efforts, we may request additional information reasonably necessary to authenticate you and your request. If we cannot authenticate you and your request, we will not be able to grant your request.
15. UTAH notice (effective january 2024):
Under the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) if you are a resident of Utah, acting in an individual or household context (and not in a commercial or employment context) your rights with respect to your personal data are described below.
- Personal Data: Refers that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identifiable individual and does not include de-identified data and publicly available data or data that is processed not within the scope of UCPA.
In Section 2 “CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION COLLECTED AND THE PURPOSE OF PROCESSING” of the Privacy Policy, we describe our collection and processing of Personal Data, the categories of Personal Data that are collected or processed, and the purposes for which Personal Data is processed, stored, or used. We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for a materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purpose without obtaining your consent. Additionally, in Section 6 “SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES, AND THE CATEGORIES OF SUCH THIRD PARTIES” details and discloses the categories of third parties we share for business purposes. Section 11 “YOUR RIGHTS” details and discloses your rights. Note, under UCPA, our sharing practices with third-party analytic and advertising tools are not considered a “sale”.
16. Notice to Nevada residents:
Nevada law allows Nevada residents to opt out of the sale of certain types of personal information. Subject to several exceptions, Nevada law defines “sale” to mean the exchange of certain types of personal information for monetary consideration to another person. We currently do not sell personal information as defined in the Nevada law. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you still may submit a verified request to opt out of sales and will record your instructions and incorporate them in the future if our policy changes. You may send opt-out requests to .
17. Información General:
This Privacy Policy, its interpretation, and any claims and disputes related hereto, shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware and the laws the United States of America. All such claims and disputes shall be brought in, and you hereby consent to them being litigated in and decided exclusively by a court situated in the United States of America. Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites may have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal information to these websites. For any question, inquiry or concern related to this Privacy Policy or the processing of your Personal Information, you may contact our privacy team at .