California Business and Professions Code

§ 22575

BPC § 22575 Effective Jan 1, 2014Div. 8 · Ch. 22

Statute text

(a)An operator of a commercial Web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service shall conspicuously post its privacy policy on its Web site, or in the case of an operator of an online service, make that policy available in accordance with paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 22577. An operator shall be in violation of this subdivision only if the operator fails to post its policy within 30 days after being notified of noncompliance.

(b)The privacy policy required by subdivision (a) shall do all of the following:

(1)Identify the categories of personally identifiable information that the operator collects through the Web site or online service about individual consumers who use or visit its commercial Web site or online service and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom the operator may share that personally identifiable information.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 390, Sec. 1. (AB 370) Effective January 1, 2014.