Privacy Policy

Mouton Notary Privacy Notice for California Residents

As originated by the CCPA on 1/1/2021 and as amended by the CPRA on 1/1/2023.

Effective Date: May 24, 2025

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT:

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and as expanded by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and sharing of their “Personal Information,” as well as rights to know/access, delete, and limit sharing of Personal Information. The CCPA defines “Personal Information” to mean “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”

Mouton Notary (“Company”) adopted this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice, and as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA).

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Mouton Notary only collects Personal Information directly from you, from your interaction with the website. Information you provide about yourself in a contact form, a survey, or other website feature, is used only for the stated purpose. Participation is voluntary. To the extent that we collect Personal Information that is subject to the CCPA, that information, our practices, and your rights are described below.

The website obtains/We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you. For example, personal information you provide in contact forms, surveys or other website features.

• Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our website.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell or disclose the personal information we collect. We may use the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.

• To provide, support, personalize, and develop our website, products, and services.

• To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.

• To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

• To personalize your website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).

• To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.

• For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our website, products, and services.

• To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

• As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

USE OF SMS

Mouton Notary service offerings include SMS messaging via short code, available via opt-in to California customers. At any time, recipients may discontinue receiving SMS offers by sending the SMS message “STOP”. Opting out from SMS messaging does not apply to any other communications.

If you opt-in to receive texts from Mouton Notary, we may send messages regarding scheduled appointment. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Opt-out anytime by replying STOP. We will not share your mobile number or SMS opt-in data with third parties.

SHARING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We no not disclose your personal information to a third party for any business purpose or sell your personal information.

DISCLOSURES AND SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR A BUSINESS PURPOSE

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Mouton Notary has not disclosed or sold any of the following categories of personal information for a business purpose.

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 I: Professional or employment-related information.

Category J: Non-public education information.

YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold

You have the right to request information regarding your CA Personal Information that we have collected, used, disclosed, or “sold” (as defined under CCPA) within the preceding 12 months. Our collection, use, disclosure, and sale of Personal Information is described in our Privacy Policy.

Right to Know/Access Information/Correct Inaccurate Personal Information

You have the right to request access to Personal Information collected about you and information regarding the source of that information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it. Additionally, you have the right to correct inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information. You may submit such a request as described below.

Right to Request Deletion of Information

You have the right to request in certain circumstances that we delete any Personal Information that we have collected directly from you. You may submit such a request as described below. We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.

Right to Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information to Third Parties

We do not sell information to third parties.

Right to Information Regarding Participation in Data Sharing for Financial Incentives

You have the right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of your CCPA rights. We do not discriminate against anyone who chooses to exercise their CCPA rights.

HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS

You may submit a request to exercise your rights to know/access or delete your Personal Information by emailing a request to admin@moutonotary.com. Please help us locate your data by including information and any email address you used.

VERIFICATION PROCESS

To protect consumers’ Personal Information, and to comply with the CCPA, we will use a verification process to confirm your identity before we act on your request. If you use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf, we may require that you (1) provide the authorized agent written permission to do so and (2) provide us a copy of the authorization or a copy of a power of attorney.

In verifying requests, we employ reasonable measures to detect fraudulent requests and prevent unauthorized access to your Personal Information. To meet our obligations, we are required to verify your identity, and the identity of your authorized agent if the request is submitted via an agent, by associating the information provided in your request to personal information previously collected by us.

If we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity we may decline a request or request that you provide further verifying information.

You may only make a verifiable consumer request twice within a 12-month period. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify your identity or authority to make the request.

SHINE THE LIGHT LAW

While we do not provide your personal information to third parties for their use in marketing, under California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) California residents have the right to opt out of such use of your Personal Information if it occurred. California residents are entitled once a year, free of charge, to request and obtain certain information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. To obtain this information, please send an email to admin@moutonotary.com with the phrase “California Privacy Request” in the subject line and in the body of your message.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the website and update the notice's effective date. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which Mouton Notary collects and uses your information described here and in our Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: 1-616-214-7899

Website: https://moutonotary.com/contact

Email: admin@moutonotary.com