Privacy Policy

2.1. Categories of Personal Data We Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:

2.2. Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:

• You
  • When you provide such information directly to us.
    • When you create an account or use our interactive tools and Services.
    • When you place an order for the Cleaning Services, we collect payment data, depending on the form of payment you choose.
    • When you send in your garments or other items for the Cleaning Services, we may collect information on such items, including type, service requested, brand, color, size, and photos.
    • When you voluntarily provide information in text messages or in free-form text boxes through the Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.
    • When you choose to refer a friend through the Services, we will ask for your friend's contact information.
    • When you send us an email or otherwise contact us.
  • When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically.
    • Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section below).
    • If you download our mobile application or use a location-enabled browser, we may receive information about your location and mobile device, as applicable.
    • If you download and install certain applications and software we make available, we may receive and collect information transmitted from your computing device for the purpose of providing you the relevant Services, such as information regarding when you are logged on and available to receive updates or alert notices.
• Third Parties
  • Vendors
    • We may use analytics providers to analyze how you interact and engage with the Services, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
    • We may use vendors to obtain information to generate leads and create user profiles.
  • Advertising Partners
    • We receive information about you from some of our vendors who assist us with marketing or promotional services for the Rinse Services related to how you interact with our websites, applications, products, Services, advertisements or communications.
  • Social Networks
    • If you provide your social network account credentials to us or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third-party site or service, some content and/or information in those accounts may be transmitted into your account with us.

2.3. Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data

• Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services
  • Creating and managing your account or other user profiles
  • Processing orders or other transactions; billing
  • Providing you with the Cleaning Services, or other products, services or information you request
  • Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us, such as to message to your friend inviting him or her to sign-up for the Service
  • Providing support and assistance for the Services
  • Analyzing trends and consumers’ interactions with the Services
  • Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development
  • Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences
  • Doing fraud protection, security and debugging
  • Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws,such as the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CCPA”), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA”), the Colorado Privacy Act(the “CPA”), the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (the “CTDPA”), or Utah Consumer Privacy Act (the “UCPA”) (collectively, the “State Privacy Laws”).
• Marketing the Services
  • Marketing and selling the Services
  • Providing you with customized offers or promotions that we think might be interested to you
  • Showing you advertisements, including interest-based or online behavioral advertising, and retargeted online and mobile advertisements to you across computers or devices you may use
• Corresponding with You
  • Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Rinse or the Services
  • Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display content that we think will interest you
• Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
  • Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities
  • Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Rinse or another party
  • Enforcing any agreements with you
  • Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights
  • Resolving disputes

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

3.1. Legal Obligations

We may disclose any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

3.2. Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

3.3. Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

4.1. Information about Interest-Based Advertisements

We may serve advertisements, and also allow third-party ad networks, including third-party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms, to serve advertisements through the Services. These advertisements may be targeted to users who fit certain general profile categories or display certain preferences or behaviors (“Interest-Based Ads”). Information for Interest-Based Ads (including Personal Data) may be provided to us by you, or derived from the usage patterns of particular users on the Services and/or services of third parties. Such information may be gathered through tracking users’ activities across time and unaffiliated properties, including when you leave the Services. To accomplish this, we or our service providers may deliver Cookies, including a file (known as a “web beacon”) from an ad network to you through the Services. Web beacons allow ad networks to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for us and for advertisers. Web beacons also enable ad networks to serve targeted advertisements to you when you visit other websites. Web beacons allow ad networks to view, edit or set their own Cookies on your browser, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

4.2. Opt-out Choices

We comply with the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. Through the DAA and Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), several media and marketing associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to give consumers a better understanding of, and greater control over, ads that are customized based a consumer’s online behavior across different websites and properties. To make choices about Interest-Based Ads from participating third parties, including to opt-out of receiving behaviorally targeted advertisements from participating organizations, please visit the DAA’s or NAI’s consumer opt-out pages, which are located at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices or www.aboutads.info/choices. To opt-out of the use of your mobile device ID for targeted advertising, see http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.

We provide our consumers with the opportunity to opt-out of having their information used for purposes not directly related to placement, processing, fulfillment, or delivery of a product or service. To opt-out of marketing communications, you may use one of these convenient methods:

• Electronic Promotional Offers. If you do not want to receive emails from us regarding special promotions or offers, you may click the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email, or contact us at privacy@rinse.com with “Unsubscribe Promotional Offers” in the subject line.
• Mobile Promotional Offers. When you provide us with your mobile number for marketing purposes, we may send you certain marketing alerts via text message. Standard data and message rates will apply. If you no longer wish to receive mobile alerts from us, you can follow the instructions provided in those messages or otherwise reply “STOP” to any Rinse alert.

Your instructions to limit the use of your information for these purposes will be processed as soon as reasonably practicable. Additionally, we are not responsible for informing third parties (including without limitation our third party service providers or partners) with whom we have already shared your personal information of any changes requested pursuant to this section, or for removing information from or causing information to be removed from the databases or records of such entities.

7.1. Access

You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Data. In response, we will provide you with the following information in the past 12 months:

• The categories of Personal Data that we have collected about you
• The categories of sources from which that Personal Data was collected
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Data
• The categories of third parties with whom we have shared your Personal Data
• The specific pieces of Personal Data that we have collected about you

If we have disclosed your Personal Data to any third parties for a business purpose over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data shared with each category of third party recipient. If we have sold your Personal Data over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of Personal Data sold to each category of third party recipient.

You may request the above information beyond the 12-month period, but no earlier than January 1, 2022. If you do make such a request, we are required to provide that information unless doing so proves impossible or would involve disproportionate effort.

7.2. Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested, or if deletion of your Personal Data involves disproportionate effect. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

7.3. Personal Data Sales and Shares Opt-Out

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ and ‘share’ as it is defined in the CCPA. We sell and/or share your Personal Data, subject to your right to opt-out as described in this section.

As described in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section above, we have incorporated Cookies from certain third parties into our Services. These Cookies allow those third parties to receive information about your activity on our Services that is associated with your browser or device. Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our Services or on other websites you visit. Under the CCPA, disclosing your data through third party Cookies for online advertising may be considered a “selling” or "sharing" of information. You can opt out of these sales by following the instructions in this section.

We sell or share your Personal Data to the following categories of third parties:

• Analytics providers, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
• Ad Networks
• Data brokers
• Marketing providers

Over the past 12 months, we have sold the following categories of your Personal Data to categories of third parties listed above:

• Profile or Contact Data
• Payment Data
• Commercial Data
• Device/IP Data
• Web Analytics
• Social Network Data
• Consumer Demographic Data
• Geolocation Data
• Internet or other similar network activity information
• Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide

We have sold or shared the foregoing categories of Personal Data for the following business or commercial purposes:

• Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development.
• Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences.
• Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
• Marketing and selling the Services.
• Showing you advertisements, including interest-based or online behavioral advertising.

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data by following the instructions in the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section. Once you have submitted an opt-out request, we will not ask you to reauthorize the sale of your Personal Data for at least 12 months.

To our knowledge, we do not sell the Personal Data of minors under 16 years of age.

7.4. Limit the Use of Sensitive Personal Information

Consumers have the right to request that we limit the use or sharing disclosure of their Sensitive Personal Information (“Right to Limit”). However, since our use and disclosure of Sensitive Information are limited to the purposes set forth in section 7027(m) of the CCPA regulations, including: 1) performing the services or providing the goods reasonably expected, 2) preventing, detecting, and investigating security incidents, 3) resisting malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions, 4) ensuring physical safety of natural persons, 5) for short-term transient use, 6) performing services on behalf of the business, 7) verifying or maintaining quality or safety of a product or service, and 8) collecting or processing Sensitive Personal Information but not for the purpose of inferring characteristics, we do not offer a way for you to submit such a request.

7.5. We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CCPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

8.1. Access

You have the right to request confirmation of whether or not we are processing your Personal Data and to access and request a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible, twice within a calendar year.

8.2. Correction

You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, to the extent such correction is appropriate in consideration of the nature of such data and our purposes of processing your Personal Data.

8.3. Deletion

You have the right to delete Personal Data concerning you.

8.4. Personal Data Sales and Targeted Advertising Opt-Out

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ as it is defined in the CPA. We sell and process for the purposes of targeted advertising your Personal Data, subject to your right to opt-out of these sales.

As described in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section above, we have incorporated Cookies from certain third parties into our Services. These Cookies allow those third parties to receive information about your activity on our Services that is associated with your browser or device. Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our Services or on other websites you visit. Under the CPA, disclosing your data through third party Cookies for online advertising may be considered a “sale” of information. You can opt out of these sales by following the instructions in this section.

We sell and process for the purposes of targeted advertising your Personal Data to the following categories of third parties:

• Analytics providers, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
• Ad Networks
• Data brokers
• Marketing providers

We sell and process for the purposes of targeted advertising the following categories of your Personal Data to categories of third parties listed above:

• Profile or Contact Data
• Payment Data
• Commercial Data
• Device/IP Data
• Web Analytics
• Social Network Data
• Consumer Demographic Data
• Geolocation Data
• Internet or other similar network activity information
• Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide

We have sold or shared the foregoing categories of Personal Data for the following business or commercial purposes:

• Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development.
• Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences.
• Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
• Marketing and selling the Services.
• Showing you advertisements, including interest-based or online behavioral advertising.

You have the right to opt-out of the sale or share of your Personal Data by following the instructions in the “Exercising Your Rights” section. If you are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must authorize us to sell or process for the purposes of targeted advertising your Personal Data.

8.5. Profiling Opt-Out

We do not process your Personal Data for ‘Profiling’ to make ‘Decisions’ under the CPA. ‘Profiling’ means any form of automated processing performed on personal data to evaluate, analyze or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable individual's economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements. ‘Decision’ means any ‘Decisions that Produce Legal or Similarly Significant Effects Concerning a Consumer,’ as defined in the CPA that concern you.

8.6. We Will Not Discriminate Against You

We will not process your personal data in violation of state and federal laws that prohibit unlawful discrimination against consumers.

9.1. Access

You have the right to request confirmation of whether or not we are processing your Personal Data and to access your Personal Data.

9.2. Correction

You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, to the extent such correction is appropriate in consideration of the nature of such data and our purposes of processing your Personal Data.

9.3. Deletion

You have the right to delete Personal Data you have provided to us, or we have obtained about you.

9.4. Portability

You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data that is processed automatically in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible.

9.5. Personal Data Sales and Targeted Advertising Opt-Out

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ as it is defined in the CTDPA. We sell and process for the purposes of targeted advertising your Personal Data, subject to your right to opt-out of these sales.

As described in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section above, we have incorporated Cookies from certain third parties into our Services. These Cookies allow those third parties to receive information about your activity on our Services that is associated with your browser or device. Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our Services or on other websites you visit. Under the CTDPA, disclosing your data through third party Cookies for online advertising may be considered a “sale” of information. You can opt out of these sales by following the instructions in this section. You can opt out from these “sales” by following the instructions in the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section.

Under the CTDPA, we disclose the Personal Data of minors under 13 years of age in a way that may be considered a sale, including processing for the purposes of targeted advertising. If you are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must authorize us to sell or process for the purposes of targeted advertising your Personal Data.

9.6. Profiling Opt-Out

We do not process your Personal Data for ‘Profiling’ as defined under the CTDPA. ‘Profiling’ means any form of automated processing performed on personal data to evaluate, analyze or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable individual's economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements.

9.7. We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CTDPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CTDPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CTDPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CTDPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

10.1. Access

You have the right to request confirmation of whether or not we are processing your Personal Data and to access your Personal Data.

10.2. Portability

You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible.

10.3. Deletion

You have the right to delete Personal Data you have provided to us.

10.4. Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities

• You have the right to opt-out of the processing of your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes. We process your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes. You can opt out this processing of your Personal Data by following the instructions under the “Exercising Your Rights under the State Privacy Laws” Section.
• You have the right to opt-out to the sale of your Personal Data. UCPA defines sale as the exchange of Personal Data for monetary consideration to a third party. You can opt out this processing of your Personal Data by following the instructions under the “Exercising Your Rights under the State Privacy Laws” Section.

10.5. We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the UCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the UCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the UCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the UCPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

11.1. Access

You have the right to request confirmation of whether or not we are processing your Personal Data and to access your Personal Data.

11.2. Correction

You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, to the extent such correction is appropriate in consideration of the nature of such data and our purposes of processing your Personal Data.

11.3. Portability

You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible.

11.4. Deletion

You have the right to delete Personal Data you have provided to us, or we have obtained about you.

11.5. Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities

• You have the right to opt-out of the processing of your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes. We process your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes.
• You have the right to opt-out to the sale of your Personal Data. VCDPA defines sale as the exchange of Personal Data for monetary consideration to a third party.

To exercise any of your rights for these certain processing activities, please follow the instructions under the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section.

11.6. We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the VCDPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the VCDPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the VCDPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the VCDPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

14.1. California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at privacy@rinse.com.

14.1. Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties who intend to license or sell that Personal Data. You can exercise this right by contacting us at privacy@rinse.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account. Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Rinse website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.