California Privacy Notice (CCPA)
Introduction and Scope
Residents of California enjoy specific protections and choices regarding their personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively known as the "CCPA"). This disclosure from Reactionlogic.com outlines what personal information we gather, the ways we put it to use, which parties receive access to it, and the steps you can take to exercise your legal rights. This notice applies only to California and works alongside our full Privacy Policy.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
Over the preceding twelve (12) months, Reactionlogic.com has potentially collected these categories of personal information from California residents: identifiers such as your IP address or email when you subscribe; internet and network activity records including your browsing patterns on our site, the referring URL, and request timing; city-level geolocation information inferred from your IP address; commercial data reflecting your newsletter subscriptions; information we derive or infer based on your activity patterns, such as your preferences across our content; and audio or visual content only when you choose to provide it yourself, such as photos sent with tips submitted via our Contact form.
Sources of Personal Information
Personal information comes to us from three main channels: directly from you when you complete forms or navigate the site; automatically from your device each time your browser retrieves pages and transmits standard HTTP headers; and from a small number of service providers responsible for running Reactionlogic.com's infrastructure, including our hosting company, security and edge services provider, and email platform vendor. We do not acquire personal information through data broker purchases.
Business and Commercial Purposes
Your personal information serves these business and commercial ends, each as made clear to you when collection occurs: delivering our editorial content and newsletters you have subscribed to; replying to your requests and correspondence; ensuring the site operates smoothly, remains protected, and functions better over time; generating aggregated reader statistics; displaying advertising that is non-personalized by standard practice and personalized only with your agreement; spotting and managing security threats; and fulfilling whatever legal requirements apply to us.
Disclosure to Service Providers and Third Parties
We share personal information with service providers who work under formal agreements to help with the business purposes listed above. These partners currently are: our cloud infrastructure company; our content distribution and edge protection vendor; our email distribution service for newsletters; our analytics provider; and our ad platform. Every service provider is bound by contract not to keep, use, or share your personal information except to the extent necessary for providing their particular service.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
Reactionlogic.com neither sells nor shares personal information as those terms are used in the CCPA — we do not receive money or anything of value in return for sharing personal information with others, and we do not permit third parties to use your personal information for behavioral advertising across different websites and apps. This practice has held true throughout the entire preceding twelve-month period and remains our policy going forward.
Sensitive Personal Information
Reactionlogic.com does not actively gather sensitive personal information from California residents except where it appears incidentally within optional submissions you provide, like a message you decide to send us via the Contact form. We make no use of sensitive personal information to draw conclusions about your characteristics, which means you have no basis to submit a right-to-limit request. That said, if you wish to place restrictions on how we handle such information in the future, we will honor that choice.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under the CCPA, you as a California resident have these rights over your personal information held by Reactionlogic.com: the right to know what categories we have gathered, where they came from, what we do with them, and who gets them; the right to receive the actual information itself; the right to have inaccuracies corrected; the right to request deletion; the right to tell us not to sell or share your information; the right to put limits on how we use sensitive personal information; and the right to be free from retaliation should you assert any of these rights.
How to Exercise Your Rights
Submit a request by filling out the Contact form in our site footer or by mailing us at the address shown on our Contact page to make any of these requests. We will verify who you are with a level of certainty that fits the request — for newsletter subscriptions, confirming the email address is usually enough; for more extensive access or deletion, we may ask for more details. You will receive an answer within 45 days, though we may let you know that an additional 45 days is needed to finish the process.
An authorized agent acting on your behalf can exercise your CCPA rights. When an agent makes a request, Reactionlogic.com will ask for signed authorization from you—either a written statement or a power of attorney—along with reasonable proof of your identity. We may also reach out to you personally to confirm that the agent is truly authorized to act.
Consumers Under 16 Years of Age
Reactionlogic.com does not sell or share personal information of anyone under age 16 and has no actual knowledge of gathering personal information about children younger than 13. Should we ever choose to sell or share personal information of teenagers from 13 to 16, we would obtain their own signed consent (opt-in) as the CCPA mandates. Parents or guardians are welcome to ask us to delete their children's information by submitting a request through the Contact form.
Right to Non-Discrimination
Your choice to exercise your CCPA rights will not cause Reactionlogic.com to treat you unfairly. We will continue to serve you without denial of service, price changes, quality reductions, or any other penalty for submitting a valid consumer request. The news and editorial material we publish free of charge is offered under identical conditions to every visitor, whether or not they take action on their CCPA rights.
Retention of Personal Information
Reactionlogic.com stores personal information collected from California residents only as long as needed to fulfill the purposes stated in this notice, plus any time period required by law. In practice: newsletter subscriptions are maintained throughout your active subscription; contact form messages are kept for up to 24 months; system logs are stored up to 90 days; aggregated non-identifying analytics may remain indefinitely.
Changes to This Notice and How to Reach Us
This notice may be updated as conditions change. The version displayed here is always the most recent, and the "Last updated" date reflects when the current version became effective. To request CCPA rights or ask anything about this privacy notice, please use the Contact form at the bottom of each page on Reactionlogic.com — your message will route directly to the privacy contact responsible for your inquiry.