This PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS of Intermex Wire Transfer, LLC and subsidiaries; Intermex Wire Transfer, Corp. and Intermex Wire Transfer II, LLC, as well as any subsidiary, affiliate or authorized service provider of Intermex including any successor and assign (hereinafter, referred to as “we”, “us”, “our”, or “Intermex”) applies solely to consumers who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.
Personal Information We Collect
We collect 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 household (“personal information”).
Since we are subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the personal information we collect comes from either: (1) GLBA consumers, (2) non-GLBA consumers such as business customers and job applicants/employees, or (3) other CCPA covered Consumers.
Below list the categories of personal information we collected within the last twelve (12) months.
Category | Examples | Collected from GLBA Consumer? | Collected from business customers and employees/applicants? | Collected from Other CCPA covered Consumers? | |||||
A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
| YES | YES | NO | |||||
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer |
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, 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 financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. |
Age (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. | YES | YES |
NO | |||||
D. Commercial information. |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
E. Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, | NO | NO | NO | |||||
F. Internet or |
Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
G. Geolocation data. |
Physical location or movements. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
H. Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
I. Professional or employment- |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
J. Non-public Education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34C.F.R. Part 99)). |
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. | NO | YES | NO | |||||
K. Sensitive |
Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number, financial account, consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, biometric information, or sexual orientation. | YES | YES | NO | |||||
L. Inferences drawn from other personal information. |
Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO | NO | NO |
Personal information does not include:
Sources of Information We Collect:
We collect the categories of personal information listed above from the following types of sources:
Exclusions from the CCPA’s scope
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) are excluded from CCPA’s scope and, therefore, are not subject to the protections under the CCPA.
How We Use Personal Information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
Processing Sensitive Personal Information
We collect and process Sensitive Personal Information for the purposes disclosed at the time we collect this information. We do not process this information for purposes other than the purpose for which it was originally collected unless required by law. We use and process Sensitive Personal Information collected from California employees, job applicants or vendors (including racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status) to comply with laws including anti-discrimination laws and disability accommodation laws. We use Sensitive Personal Information from other consumers to provide disability accommodations.
How We Disclose Personal Information
From time to time we disclose your information as described below. This includes disclosing information to our service providers, professional advisers such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and accountants, and, when required by law, regulators or law enforcement.
A. Disclosure for a Business Purpose
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for the following business purposes: (1) as necessary to effect, administer, or enforce a transaction that you request or authorize; (2) in connection with servicing or processing a financial product or service that you request or authorize; or (3) maintaining or servicing your account.
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.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for the business purposes listed above:
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 F: Internet or network activity
Category I: Professional and employment related information
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of persons:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold any personal information.
C. Sharing Personal Information for Behavioral or Cross-Context advertising
We do not share personal information with third parties who may use it for cross-context or behavioral advertising purposes.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides California residents (CCPA covered consumers, excluding GLBA consumers) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise them.
A. Information Access Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose to you certain information relating to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. In addition, you have the right to request a copy of the specific information we collected about you. Specifically, you may request that we disclose to you:
Our information collection practices:
Our information disclosure practices:
Specific Information we collected about you:
You have the right to request that we correct information that we hold which is inaccurate. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the requested corrections. In some cases, for instance if you have an account with us, you can update your information by logging into your account.
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 (see below), we will delete your personal information from our records, and we will also direct our service providers and contractors to delete your personal information from their 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:
You have the right to tell a business not to sell or share your personal information and to tell them to limit processing of Sensitive Personal Information. With us, you do not need to opt out of sharing information or to limit processing of Sensitive Personal Information because we do not engage in those activities.
Do Not Sell My Personal Information | We do not sell your personal information with third parties. |
Do Not Share My Personal Information | We do not share your personal information with third parties for cross-context or behavioral advertising purposes. |
Limit Processing of Sensitive Personal Information. | We only process Sensitive Personal Information for the purpose for which we originally collected it. |
Exercising Your CCPA Rights
Access, Correction, and Deletion. To exercise the access, correction, and deletion rights California residents may contact us by:
9100 South Dadeland Blvd. Suite 1100
Miami, Florida 33156
ATTN: CCPA Compliance
We will ask you for information that allows us to reasonably verify your identity (that you are the person about whom we collected personal information) and will use that information only for that purpose. We may request that you submit a signed statement under penalty of perjury that you are the individual you claim to be. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. However, you may request that we disclose the required information beyond the 12-month period, and we will honor that expanded request unless doing so would involve a disproportionate effort. Your right to request required information beyond the 12-month period, and our obligation to provide that information, shall only apply to personal information collected on or after January 1, 2022.
You may submit a request through someone holding a formal Power of Attorney. Otherwise, you may submit a request using an authorized agent only if (1) the person is registered with the Secretary of State to do business in California, (2) you provide the authorized agent with signed written permission to make a request, (3) you verify directly with us that you have authorize the person to make the request on your behalf, (4) you verify your own identity directly with us and (5) your agent provides us with proof that they are so authorized. We will require the agent to submit proof to us that they have been authorized to make requests on your behalf.
We will acknowledge receipt of your request for access, correction or deletion within 10 business days and will endeavor to respond within forty-five days of receipt of your request, but if we require more time (up to an additional forty-five days) we will notify you of our need for additional time.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity and confirm that the personal information relates to you.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you as a result of your exercise of any of these rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
Changes to This Notice
We reserve the right to amend this Notice at our discretion at any time. When we make changes to this Notice, we will post the updated notice on our website and update the Notice’s effective date.
Effective Date: September 1, 2024