Additional State-Specific Privacy Disclosures

Last Updated: July 30, 2024

This additional state-specific privacy disclosure page (“Disclosure”) supplements the Blink Privacy Notice and is effective as of July 30, 2024. The Blink Privacy Notice describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it.  These additional disclosures are required by certain state privacy laws, and provide a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights Act:

1.    Categories of personal information collected.  The personal information that Blink collects, or has collected, from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date above,  fall into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on which Blink service is used:

  • identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, IP address, or your Blink log-in information;

  • information that may reveal your age, gender, or other protected classifications, for example if you share this information with us as part of participating in our beta program or responding to a survey;

  • commercial information, such as purchase activity;

  • internet or other electronic network activity information, including video and audio content interaction information, such as downloads, streams, and playback details; or information used to prevent or detect fraud or other unauthorized activity, including information about affected customers;

  • geolocation data, such as the location of devices to provide location-based features, which may in some cases constitute precise geolocation information;

  • audio or visual information, such as videoclips collected and stored in connection with the cloud services we provide;

  • activity information, such as alarm events;

  • professional information, such as data you may provide about your business; and

  • inference data, such as information about your preferences regarding Blink products and services.

2.    Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose.  The personal information that Blink may have disclosed for a business purpose to the third parties identified in the “Does Blink Share Your Personal Information?” section of the Blink Privacy Notice  in the twelve months prior to the effective date above falls into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on which Blink service is used:

  • identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address, for example if you choose to connect with us through our customer support, or authentication credentials, such as your username and password, if we use a third-party service to verify your identity;

  • information that may reveal your age, gender, or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider;

  • commercial information, such as the details of a service you purchased if a third-party service provider assists in providing that service to you;

  • internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our devices and services, or information used to prevent or detect fraud or other unauthorized activity, including information about affected customers, which may require disclosing certain information about potentially affected customers to law enforcement;

  • geolocation data, which may constitute precise geolocation data;

  • audio or visual information, for example recordings of customer service phone calls for quality assurance purposes; and

  • professional information, such as data you may provide about your business if you interact with Blink as a representative of a vendor or business partner of ours in order to conduct business between our companies.

3.    Your Data Rights:  You may have certain data rights under state privacy laws, including to request information about the collection of your personal information by Blink, to access your personal information in a portable format, and to correct or delete your personal information.  If you wish to do any of these things, please visit here, or contact customer service at support@blinkforhome.com or 781-332-5465.  

You may have the right to appeal the denial of any of these rights by contacting Customer Service. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable. To ensure the security of your Blink account, we will generally ask you to verify your request using the contact information you have already provided. If you do not have an account, or if you are an authorized agent under applicable state law, visit here.

4.    No Sale or Sharing of Personal Information.  In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, Blink has not sold or shared any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Privacy Rights Act. 

5.    De-identified Data Disclosure.  Blink may use de-identified data in some instances.  Blink either maintains such data without attempting to re-identify it or treats such data as personal data subject to applicable law.

6.    California Privacy Rights Act Sensitive Personal Information Disclosure.  The categories of data that Blink collects and discloses for a business purpose include “sensitive personal information” as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act.  Blink does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose not expressly permitted by the California Privacy Rights Act.

7.    California Privacy Rights Act Retention Disclosure. To enable your continued use of Blink, we keep your personal information for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in the Blink Privacy Notice, as permitted or as may be required by law, or as otherwise communicated to you.

8.    California Privacy Rights Act Non-discrimination Statement.  Blink will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.

9.     Colorado Privacy Act and Oregon Consumer Privacy Act Profiling Disclosure.  Blink does not engage in profiling of consumers in furtherance of automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, as those terms are defined under the Colorado Privacy Act or the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act.

10.   Oregon Consumer Privacy Act Controller Entity Disclosure. The controller entity that is subject to the Blink Privacy Notice and this Disclosure is Immedia Semiconductor, LLC.