- 1798.100 – Consumers right to receive information on privacy practices and access information
- 1798.105 – Consumers right to deletion
- 1798.110 – Information required to be provided as part of an access request
- 1798.115 – Consumers right to receive information about onward disclosures
- 1798.120 – Consumer right to prohibit the sale of their information
- 1798.125 – Price discrimination based upon the exercise of the opt-out right
CCPA Privacy FAQs: If a business shares information through its loyalty program with a third party fulfillment company, is it “selling” information?
Probably not.
The CCPA broadly defines the term “sale” as including the act of “disclosing” or “making available” personal information “for monetary or other valuable consideration” from one business to another.1
The definition of “sale” under the CCPA contains an exception for situations in which information is shared with a service provider. Whether the exception applies to a third party fulfillment company that has been contracted by a loyalty program operator to provide benefits (e.g. free merchandise, goods, or services) depends in part upon the contract in place with the fulfillment company.2 Specifically, the service provider exception requires that following three conditions be present:
- The transfer of information to the service provider must be “necessary” for the loyalty program’s business purpose.3 There is a strong argument that the use of a vendor to fulfill promised benefits is necessary to the operation of a loyalty program.
- The transfer of information to the service provider must be disclosed to consumers. Many loyalty programs meet this requirement by disclosing their use of service providers in their privacy policies.
- The agreement with a service provider must “prohibit” the service provider “from retaining, using, or disclosing the personal information for any purpose other than for the specific purpose of performing the services specified in the contract with the business.”4 Whether the contract in place with a fulfillment provider meets these requirements may be a case-by-case inquiry.