Privacy policy

Last updated January 31, 2023

Privacy Policy 

ClearCaptions developed the following privacy policy to demonstrate our commitment to privacy on the Internet. The following explains how we collect and use information about you and your use of our websites, products and services. Please review the below information. By entering our website or registering for and/or using our products and services you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and authorize ClearCaptions to disclose the information as described below. 

Summary of Changes 

ClearCaptions provides this summary of recent changes pursuant to its right to change the private policy ClearCaptions has incorporated a notice to Californian residents regarding ClearCaptions’ adherence to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), and other California privacy laws. This privacy policy is also compliant with Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act (“DOPPA”). Any terms defined in the CCPA/CPRA/DOPPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. Under the CCPA/CPRA and DOPPA consumers have the right to request deletion or disclosure of personal information collected by ClearCaptions, subject to certain restrictions. ClearCaptions does not sell the personal information it collects nor discriminate against customers who request such information be disclosed or deleted. 

Collection of Information 

Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) is information that can be used to identify or contact you. ClearCaptions generally collects Personal Information in two ways: (1) when you choose to use, register for, or purchase a service or product offered by ClearCaptions, or (2) when you choose to send an e-mail, fill out on-line forms, participate in surveys, or engage in other transactions or interactions with ClearCaptions. We also may collect non-personally identifiable information when you visit our ClearCaptions website(s), respond to e-mails or other informational communications, or register for or use the Web site, products or services of ClearCaptions. 

In order to have access to certain ClearCaptions services, including without limitation caption relay services, you are required to complete an application or other registration form(s) and provide other information reasonably necessary for us to provide the products and/or services to you. Some examples of the type of information we collect in registration form(s) and when you use our products or services are: your name, your address(es) (i.e., physical location from where you access ClearCaptions services), your email address(es), your phone number(s), your IP address(es) and your usage of our services (including quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, and amount of use). In addition, FCC regulations require we collect your date of birth and last four digits of your Social Security number at registration. 

Use of Cookies 

ClearCaptions may place Internet “cookies” on user’s and visitors’ hard drives. Internet cookies save data about individual users and visitors, such as the person’s name, password, user-name, screen preferences, the pages of a site viewed by the visitor and the advertisements viewed or clicked by the user/visitor. When the user/visitor revisits ClearCaptions’ website, ClearCaptions may recognize the user/visitor by the Internet cookie and customize the experience accordingly. Users/Visitors may decline Internet cookies, if any, by using the appropriate feature of their web client software, if available. 

Use of Personal Information Collected 

We use the information we collect to provide you with our products and services and to respond to your questions. We also use the information for editorial and feedback purposes, for marketing and promotional purposes, to inform advertisers as to how many visitors have seen or clicked on their advertisements and to customize the content and layout of ClearCaptions’ site. We also use the information we collect for statistical analysis of users’ behavior, for product development, for content improvement, to ensure our products and services remain functioning and secure and to investigate and protect against any illegal activities or violations of our Terms of Service. 

ClearCaptions may also use personal information in connection with federal or other legal requirements, such as responding to subpoena or court order, or providing information for purposes of emergency communications. Aggregate data on home servers may be used for internal purposes or provided to third parties such as advertisers. Individually identifying information, such as names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers and other personal information which visitors voluntarily provide to ClearCaptions may be (i) added to ClearCaptions’ databases and used for future calls and mailings regarding site updates, new products and services, upcoming events, and status of orders placed online, or (ii) provided to reputable third parties who provide products and services in support of ClearCaptions’ services. 

Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) 

Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) is information that ClearCaptions and other telecommunications relay service (TRS) providers obtain when providing customers with relay service. CPNI includes the types of relay a customer uses, the amount of relay calls made and the location of those calls. 

ClearCaptions may use or disclose CPNI without further authorization from you under the following circumstances: to provide you with caption relay service and phones, to process 911 calls, for installation, maintenance and repair of our products and services, to offer you additional caption features and services of the type you already registered for with ClearCaptions, in response to legal requirements such as subpoena or court order, upon request from the FCC’s Telecommunications Relay Service Fund, to prevent fraud, abuse, or misuse of the service(s) and to protect the rights and property of ClearCaptions. 

ClearCaptions may also use or disclose CPNI to other authorized companies to offer you products and services that may be different from the types of services you already use. Disclosure of CPNI does not equate to or translate to mean the sale of CPNI. ClearCaptions asks for your consent to do this during your registration process. At any time you may choose to opt out of this use of your CPNI for marketing purposes. Consumers have the right to deny any telecommunications relay service (TRS) provider the right to use, disclose or permit access to customer CPNI for certain marketing purposes, and TRS providers have a duty under federal law to honor the customer’s right and to protect the confidentiality of CPNI. 

If you wish to restrict ClearCaptions’ use of your CPNI for marketing purposes, you may do the following: 1. Log in at www.clearcaptions.com; 2. Go to the Email & Password section of your User Profile; and 3. Uncheck the CPNI Opt-in checkbox. Alternatively, you may contact ClearCaptions Customer Care at 866-868-8695. 

Your approval or denial for use of CPNI for these marketing purposes will not affect ClearCaptions’ provision of relay services to you; however, the lack of access to CPNI may prohibit ClearCaptions and its affiliates or authorized companies from offering you new and different services that may be of interest to you and tailored to your relay needs. Your approval or denial for use of CPNI outside of the service for which ClearCaptions and its affiliates are your default provider will stay in place until you change it. 

Security Measures 

ClearCaptions has implemented various security features to prevent the unauthorized release of or access to Personal Information. In particular, when a person registers, fills out an online form, or places an order on this site (if any) or accesses his or her account information (if any), ClearCaptions offers the person the ability to use a secure server. The secure server encrypts all information a visitor inputs before it is sent to ClearCaptions, and is also used to securely store personal information. Please be advised, however, that while ClearCaptions has endeavored to create a secure and reliable site for visitors, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from ClearCaptions via this site or e-mail cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, ClearCaptions is not responsible for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. 

Disclosure of Personal Data to Third Parties 

Any third party to which ClearCaptions shares otherwise discloses personal data will be under a contractual obligation to use the personal data for services which ClearCaptions determines, in its sole judgment, that visitors might find of interest. ClearCaptions will use its reasonable efforts to identify such third parties who may have services of interest to visitors to ClearCaptions’ site; however, such parties are independent third parties over which ClearCaptions exercises no control, and therefore ClearCaptions is not responsible for their conduct, products, or services, and will not be liable therefore. ClearCaptions will disclose to third parties only information in aggregate form, that is publicly available, and/or that is knowingly and voluntarily disclosed by visitors. If there are advertisements on ClearCaptions’ website or equipment, through the use of third party cookies, the advertiser(s) will be electronically notified when visitors view or click on its advertisements.  ClearCaptions does not sell its consumers’ personal information. 

Opt-Out Right and Access to and Ability to Correct Personal Data
Visitors may opt out of having their personal information collected by ClearCaptions, used by ClearCaptions for secondary purposes, disclosed to third parties or used by ClearCaptions or third parties to send promotional correspondences to the visitor, by contacting ClearCaptions via postal mail, email or telephone at the addresses below, or by checking the appropriate “opt-out” box. Upon request via postal mail, email or phone, ClearCaptions will provide to visitors a summary of any personal information retained by ClearCaptions regarding the visitor. Visitors may modify, correct, change or update their personal record or cause their personal record to be removed from ClearCaptions’ database. ClearCaptions will only send personal records to the email address on file for the visitor name associated with it. 

Collection of Personal Data from Children 

To the extent ClearCaptions is able to determine the age of users by their submissions to or communications with ClearCaptions’ website, ClearCaptions will not knowingly (i) collect or post information from individuals under the age of sixteen (“children”) without their parent’s or guardian’s consent, or (ii) provide any personally identifying information collected from children, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever. No information collected through ClearCaptions’ website from users self-identified as children will knowingly be used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside ClearCaptions. 

ClearCaptions’ Right to Contact User 

ClearCaptions reserves the right to contact site visitors regarding account status and changes to the subscriber agreement, privacy policy, or any other policies or agreements relevant to site visitors. 

California Online Privacy Protection Act Notice
ClearCaptions does not track consumer online activities over time and across third-party websites and therefore does not use “do not track” signals. 

ClearCaptions does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information by third parties about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when a consumer uses the ClearCaptions website or service. 

Privacy Notice to California Residents 

 

This supplemental privacy notice applies to California residents (herein referred to as “you,” “the consumer,” or “California residents”) in order to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CPRA”), and other California privacy laws. 

 

Consumer Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA/DOPPA 

 

The CCPA, CPRA and DOPPA establish several rights for you, the consumer. 

Note, ClearCaptions does not sell your personal information. 

 

Right to Request Disclosure or Deletion of Personal Information 

 

You have the right to submit a request for disclosure or deletion of the personal information that ClearCaptions has collected about you. You may make such a request for disclosure or deletion of personal information twice within any given 12-month period. You may request that ClearCaptions disclose the categories of information that it has collected about you, the specific pieces of information that it has collected about you, or both. ClearCaptions will provide responsive information for a period of 12 months preceding the date of your request.  ClearCaptions will provide this information to you within a period of 45 days from the date of your request. If needed, ClearCaptions may require up to an additional 45 days to complete the request but will provide notice to you of the need for the additional time prior to the expiration of the initial 45-day period. 

 

 

In order to respond to your request for disclosure or deletion, ClearCaptions will need to obtain enough information from you to verify that yours is a valid and legitimate request. This provides further protection for your personal information. 

 

You also have the right to submit a request that ClearCaptions delete the personal information it has collected about you. There are several exceptions to the consumer’s right to deletion; namely, ClearCaptions may retain your information despite your request for deletion if ClearCaptions requires the information in order to do any of the following: 

 

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected; 
  • Provide a good or service requested by the consumer or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer; 
  • Otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer; 
  • Detect security incidents and protect against “malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;”  
  • Use for internal debugging purposes or to repair software errors;  
  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise free speech, or any other right provided by law;  
  • Use the information to comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;   
  • Engage in research in the public interest that follows all other privacy laws (with consumer consent);  
  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business;  
  • Comply with a legal obligation; or 
  • Otherwise use the information internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.   

 

ClearCaptions offers consumers two distinct methods for submitting requests for disclosure or deletion: 

  • Consumers may submit their request by calling ClearCaptions’ toll-free number 866-868-8695. 
  • Consumers may submit their request online at clearcaptions.com/data-requests. 

 

Submitting a verifiable consumer request does not require that you have an active ClearCaptions account, nor are you required to create an account. As previously stipulated, ClearCaptions will need to obtain enough information from you to verify your request in protection of your information before responding to your request.  Information that ClearCaptions may need from you to verify your request may include the following: 

  • Legal name; 
  • Email address; 
  • Phone number; 
  • Date of birth; 
  • Last four digits of your social security number; and 
  • Billing address. 

 

Requests by an Authorized Agent 

 

A California resident may use an authorized agent to submit a right to know request or a request to delete.  To use an authorized agent to submit such a request, the California resident must provide the agent with written authorization.  In addition, the California resident may be required to verify their own identity with ClearCaptions or to authenticate the agent’s authorization.  ClearCaptions may deny a request from an agent that does not submit proof, including written authorization from the resident, that the agent has been authorized by the California resident to act on their behalf.  However, such requirements will not apply where a California resident has provided the authorized agent with power of attorney pursuant to California Probate Code Sections 4000 to 4465. 

 

Right to Not be Discriminated Against for Exercising the Rights to Disclosure or Deletion 

 

ClearCaptions will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights to disclosure or deletion. Unless otherwise permitted by the CCPA/CPRA/DOPPA or other California or Delaware law, ClearCaptions will not deny you goods or services, charge you a different rate for goods or services, provide you a different quality of goods or services, or suggest that any aspect of your service will change if you exercise any of your rights enumerated here. 

 

Categories of Information ClearCaptions Has Collected in the Past 12 Months, Including Sensitive Personal Information 

 

Personally Identifiable Information 

  • Account Name 
  • Alias 
  • Date of Birth 
  • Email Address 
  • Legal Name 
  • Military or Veteran Status 
  • National Origin – Includes language use and possession of a driver’s license issued to persons unable to provide their presence in the United States is authorized under federal law 
  • Postal Address 
  • Signature 
  • Social Security Number (Sensitive Personal Information) 
  • Unique Personal Identifier 

 

Medical Information – (Sensitive Personal Information) 

  • Health Insurance Information 
  • Medical Condition – Genetic characteristics, cancer or a record or history of cancer 
  • Medical Information 

 

Phone Network Information 

  • Commercial Information – Includes records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies 
  • Geolocation Data (Sensitive Personal Information) 
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and info about a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement 
  • Online Identifier Internet Protocol Address 
  • Telephone Number 

 

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information 

You have the right to direct us to limit our use of your sensitive personal information, as defined by the CPRA, to that use which is necessary to perform our services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer of those services or goods, except as provided by law.  To make such a request, please call us at the number listed in the section above or click on the link titled ”CCPA/CPRA/DOPPA” on our homepage. 

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties 

ClearCaptions may provide your information, including your identity, to Authorities and Third Parties as explained in this section. First, to validate your identity, ClearCaptions may provide a Third Party the following personally identifiable information: full name, residential address (and registered location/911 Address, if different), telephone number, last four digits of your Social Security Number, and date of birth. Second, if we believe that you have used the ClearCaptions Endpoints or related Services for an unlawful purpose, we may forward the relevant communication and other information, including your identity, to the appropriate authorities for investigation and prosecution. You consent to our forwarding of any such communications and information to these authorities and third parties.  In addition, you hereby agree that we may disclose your name, telephone number, credit card information and other personal information, any communications sent or received by you, and any other information that we may have about your account, including but not limited to, types of service, length of service, IP address, email address, registered 911 address, automatic locations information, other data related to location and all other account information, as follows: (a) in response to law enforcement or other governmental agency request; (b) as required by law, regulation, rule, subpoena, search warrant, or court order as we determine and subject to our sole discretion; (c) as necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be misusing the Products, Software or the Services; (d) to protect ClearCaptions’ rights and property; or (e) in emergency situations where we reasonably believe that disclosure of such information is necessary to protect ClearCaptions customers, you or third parties from imminent harm. 

ClearCaptions does not sell personal information. However, in the event that ClearCaptions is considering a sale, partial or complete, asset transfer, partial or complete, or other financing matter, ClearCaptions would make any and all necessary disclosures to you before certain information we possess concerning you may be accessed, disclosed, and/or processed by third parties.  Such third party access would be governed by a written agreement that limits such access, disclosure, and processing. 

ClearCaptions’ Right to Change Privacy Policy 

The foregoing policy is effective as of January 2023. ClearCaptions reserves the right to change this policy at any time by notifying visitors of the existence and location of the new or revised privacy policy. Changes to the policy will be posted to this page, and if changes are significant a summary of the changes will be posted at the beginning of the policy. By entering the ClearCaptions website and by continuing to use our services, you are accepting all terms and conditions outlined in the above ClearCaptions Privacy Policy. 

If you have any questions about this policy, you may contact us via email at compliance@clearcaptions.com or via regular mail to the attention of ClearCaptions Compliance/Legal Department, 3010 Lava Ridge Ct. Ste. 200, Roseville, CA 95661.