Effective Date: January 1, 2021
This California Privacy Notice (“Notice”) applies to “Consumers” as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) as a supplement to other privacy policies or notices published by QS Security Services LLC and its affiliates (“QS Security Services” “us” “we” “our”). In the event of a conflict between any other QS Security Services policy, statement, or notice and this Notice, this Notice will prevail as to California Consumers and their rights under the CCPA. Please see also any Privacy Policy or notice of general applicability posted or referenced on our websites, apps, products, or services, including, without limitation.
This Notice covers the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of California Consumers’ “Personal Information” (“PI”) as defined by the CCPA, except to the extent such PI is exempt from the notice obligations of the CCPA. This Notice also covers rights California Consumers have under the CCPA.
Consistent with the CCPA, job applicants, current and former employees, and independent contractors (“Personnel”), and subjects of certain business-to-business communications acting solely in their capacity as representatives of another business, are not considered “Consumers” for purposes of this California Privacy Notice or the rights described herein. While we have included our data practices regarding Personnel in our disclosures in Section 1 (PI We Collect) and Section 2 (Sharing of PI), Personnel will not have the rights described in Section 3 (California Privacy Rights). Publicly available information is also not treated as PI under the CCPA, so this Notice is not intended to apply to that data, and your Consumer privacy rights do not apply to that data.
To aid in readability, in some places we have abbreviated or summarized CCPA terms or language, but a full copy of the CCPA is available here for your review, and in some places in this Notice we cite and/or link to specific CCPA sections for your reference. Terms defined in the CCPA that are used in this Notice shall have the same meaning as in the CCPA.
Based on our 2021 data practices, we disclose that we collect, retain, use, and disclose PI about California Consumers as follows:
Sources of PI | Purposes for PI Collection | |
1. Identifiers (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(A)) This may include but is not limited to, a real name, alias, postal address, telephone number, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers. | ·Consumer directly | ·Performing services ·Security ·Quality Assurance ·Auditing interactions with Consumers ·Debugging ·Short-term/transient ·Undertaking internal research |
2. Customer Account Details /Commercial Information (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(D)) This may include, but is not limited to, products or services purchased, service locations or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | ·Consumer directly | ·Performing services ·Quality Assurance ·Auditing interactions with Consumers ·Undertaking internal research |
3. Internet Usage Information (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(F)) This may include, but is not limited to, information regarding your interaction with an internet website or application. | ·Consumer/employee directly ·Network security vendors | ·Performing services ·Security ·Auditing interactions with Consumers |
4. Geolocation Data (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(G)) This may include, but is not limited to, travel and service locations related to the services performed. | ·Consumer directly ·NetJets flight records | ·Performing services ·Quality Assurance ·Auditing interactions with Consumers ·Undertaking internal research |
As permitted by applicable law, we do not treat deidentified data or aggregate consumer information as PI, and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your PI into deidentified data or aggregate consumer information. We have no obligation to re-identify such information or keep it longer than we need it to respond to your requests. This helps us practice data minimization, which we consider to be a privacy best practice consistent with our mission to respect our customers.
We may collect your PI directly from you or from QS Security Services-generated data related to services provided to you, or our affiliates, as well as public sources of data such as government databases. For more specifics tied to each category of PI, see the chart above.
Generally, we collect, retain, use, and disclose your PI to provide you services and as otherwise related to the operation of our business. For more specific detail on our collection of PI, and the purposes therefore, see the chart above at PI WE COLLECT . For more detail on our disclosures of PI, see the next section Sharing of PI .
As detailed in the chart above, we may collect, use, and disclose the PI we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
Subject to restrictions and obligations of the CCPA, our service providers may also use your PI for some or all of the above listed business purposes.
Our vendors may themselves engage service providers or subcontractors to enable our vendors to perform services for us, which sub-processing is, for purposes of certainty, an additional business purpose for which we are providing you notice.
We may collect, use, and disclose your PI for commercial purposes, such as for interest-based advertising.
In addition, we may collect, use, and disclose your PI as required or permitted by applicable law.
For more specifics tied to each category of PI, see the chart above.
We may share PI with our service providers, and/or affiliates, including, without limitation, as follows:
We may share your PI (as described above in PI We Collect in B. Use of PI) with our service providers and other qualified vendors for a business purpose, including as follows:
Business Purposes for Disclosures | Categories of Recipients of Business Purpose Disclosure | |
1. Identifiers (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(A)) | ·Provided to service providers (local security suppliers, etc.) ·Provided to banks for processing of payments ·Provided to government agencies (customs and border clearance) to assist in providing the services ·Passenger-related information is disclosed to aircraft owners | ·Service providers ·Banks ·Government agencies ·Owners |
2. Customer Account Details /Commercial Information (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(D)) | ·Provided to service providers (local security suppliers, etc.) ·Provided to banks for processing of payments ·Passenger-related information is disclosed to aircraft owners | ·Service providers ·Banks ·Owners |
3. Geolocation Data (as defined in CCPA §1798.140(o)(1)(G)) | ·Provided to service providers (local security suppliers, etc.) ·Provided to government agencies (customs and border clearance) to assist in providing the services ·Passenger-related information is disclosed to aircraft owners | ·Service providers ·Government agencies ·Owners |
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in our other privacy notices, we typically restrict use of your PI that is shared with our vendors to business purposes. In circumstances where we share information that may be considered a “sale” under CCPA, we treat such disclosures as sales of your PI subject to your Do Not Sell rights.
If you direct us to share PI we may, and that is not a sale. Also, disclosures amongst affiliates of QS Security Services, including NetJets, Inc. and its subsidiaries, are not a sale. QS Security Services does not sell any personal information.
The CCPA is a new law and there remain differing interpretations of it and the regulations that implement it. Accordingly, we may from time-to-time update information in our notices regarding our data practices and your rights, modify our methods for you to make and for us to respond to your requests, and/or supplement our response(s) to your requests, as we continue to develop our compliance program to reflect the evolution of the law and our understanding of how it relates to our data practices.
We provide California Consumers the privacy rights described in this section. You have the right to exercise these rights via an authorized agent who meets the agency requirements of the CCPA and related regulations. As permitted by the CCPA, any request you submit to us is subject to an identification and residency verification process (“Verifiable Consumer Request”). We will not fulfill your CCPA request unless you have provided sufficient information for us to reasonably verify you are the Consumer about whom we collected PI. Please follow the instructions below and respond to any follow-up inquires we may make.
Some PI we maintain about Consumers is not sufficiently associated with enough PI about the Consumer for us to be able to verify that it is a particular Consumer’s PI when a Consumer request that requires verification pursuant to the CCPA’s verification standards is made (e.g., clickstream data tied only to a pseudonymous browser ID). As required by the CCPA we do not include that PI in response to those requests. If we cannot comply with a request, we will explain the reasons in our response. You are not required to create an account with us to make a Verifiable Consumer Request. We will use PI provided in a Verifiable Consumer Request only to verify your identity or authority to make the request and to track and document request responses, unless you also gave it to us for another purpose.
We will make commercially reasonable efforts to identify Consumer PI that we collect, process, store, disclose, and otherwise use and to respond to your California Consumer privacy rights requests. We reserve the right to direct you to where you may access and copy responsive PI yourself. We will typically not charge a fee to fully respond to your requests; however, we may charge a reasonable fee, or refuse to act upon a request, if your request is excessive, repetitive, unfounded, or overly burdensome. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, or that we may refuse it, we will give you notice explaining why we made that decision. You will be provided a cost estimate and the opportunity to accept such fees before we will charge you for responding to your request.
Consistent with the CCPA and our interest in the security of your PI, we will not deliver to you your Social Security number, driver’s license number, or other government-issued ID number, financial account number, any health or medical identification number, an account password, or security questions or answers in response to a CCPA request.
Your California Consumer privacy rights are as follows:
You have the right to send us a request, no more than twice in a 12-month period, for any of the following for the period that is 12 months prior to the request date:
You can make a request through our data privacy team, available here, you can send an email to NJUS-DataProtectionOfficer@netjets.com, or call us at 1-855-689-2391. If you choose to send an email or leave a voicemail, you should include the following information:
Upon making a request you should follow the instructions that we send you regarding verification. Upon receiving your request, our Privacy Team will contact you to let you know that we have received your request and to verify that you are eligible to receive the requested information. For your specific pieces of information, as required by the CCPA, we will apply the heightened verification standards set forth in subsection (ii) below.
Please note that PI is retained by us for various time periods, so we may not be able to fully respond to what might be relevant going back 12 months prior to the request.
You have the right to make or obtain a transportable copy, no more than twice in a 12-month period, of your PI that we have collected in the period that is 12 months prior to the request date and are maintaining. You can make a request through our data privacy team, available here, you can send an email to NJUS-DataProtectionOfficer@netjets.com or call us at 1-855-689-2391. If you choose to send an email or leave a voicemail, you should include the following information:
Upon making a request you should follow the instructions that we send you regarding verification. Upon receiving your request, our Privacy Team will contact you to let you know that we have received your request and to verify that you are eligible to receive the requested information. Please note that PI is retained by us for various time periods, so we may not be able to fully respond to what might be relevant going back 12 months prior to the request.
QS Security Services does not sell personal information. We may disclose your PI for the following purposes, which are not a sale: (i) if you direct us to share PI; (ii) to comply with your requests under the CCPA; (iii) disclosures amongst the entities that constitute NetJets as defined above, or as part of a merger or asset sale; and (iv) as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
Except to the extent we have a basis for retention under CCPA, you may request that we delete your PI that we have collected directly from you and are maintaining. Our retention rights include, without limitation, to complete transactions and service you have requested or that are reasonably anticipated, for security purposes, for legitimate internal business purposes, including maintaining business records, to comply with law, to exercise or defend legal claims, and to cooperate with law enforcement. Note also that we are not required to delete your PI that we did not collect directly from you. You can make a request through our data privacy team, available here, you can send an email to NJUS-DataProtectionOfficer@netjets.com, or call us at 1-855-689-2391. If you choose to send an email or leave a voicemail, you should include the following information:
Upon making a request you should follow the instructions that we send you regarding verification.
We will not discriminate against you in a manner prohibited by the CCPA because you exercise your CCPA rights.
An authorized agent may make a request on your behalf by submitting the information requested in the sections above, subject to our verification of you and your agent.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, we may collect, use, and disclose your PI as required or permitted by applicable law and this may override your CCPA rights. In addition, we need not honor any of your requests to the extent that doing so would infringe upon our or any other person or party’s rights or conflict with applicable law.
In addition to CCPA rights, certain Californians are entitled to certain other notices, including:
California's "Shine the Light" law permits California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of PI to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
We do not share personal information as defined by California Civil Code § 1798.83 (“Shine the Light” law) with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your express consent. If you are a California resident, you may request information about our compliance with the “Shine the Light” law by contacting us here. or by sending a letter to 4111 Bridgeway Avenue, Columbus, OH 43219, (Attention: Legal Department). Any such request must include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer each year.
For more information about our online practices and your California rights specific to our online services, see our online Privacy Policy . Without limitation, Californians who visit our online services and seek or acquire goods, services, money, or credit for personal, family, or household purposes are entitled to the following notices of their rights:
When you visit our online services, we and third parties may use tracking technologies to collect usage information based on your device for a variety of purposes, including serving you advertising, based on your having visited our services or your activities across time and third-party locations. Some browsers may enable you to turn on or off a so-called “Do Not Track” signal. Because there is no industry consensus on what these signals should mean and how they should operate, we do not look for or respond to “Do Not Track” signals. For more information on tracking and targeting and your choices regarding these practices, see our online Privacy Policy
For more information on your California privacy rights, contact us here.
To ensure complete peace of mind for you and your travel companions, simply call us or provide your information here and a QS Security representative will contact you within 48 hours.