420A3

420a3 is an online directory of businesses and information related to cannabis.

9.3/10

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Handling

Does the policy allow personally-targeted or behavioral marketing? No

10/10

Does the service allow you to permanently delete your personal data? Yes, using an automated mechanism

5/5

Does the service allow third-party access to private personal data? No

10/10

This may come in the form of outright data sharing or by using local third-party analytics software (such as Google Analytics, which collects a plethora of user information).

Note that whether the policy allows sharing aggregated user data does not affect this question.

If the personal data is encrypted when it passes through the third-party, it does not count as third-party access (as the data is inaccessible to that party).

If personal data has been made public by, for example, posting it to a blog, it does not count as private personal information (and is therefore not considered by this question).

Score

Yes

The policy allows sharing personal data with third parties (not just critical service providers), and does not explicitly list the third parties.

Yes, all parties specified (including non-critical service providers such as advertisers)

30%

Yes, not all parties specified (but only to critical service providers)

70%

Yes, all parties specified (only to critical service providers)

80%

100%

Citation

How 420A3 Discloses Your Information

We may share your information as follows:

We DON'T share your data.
We WILL NOT disclose your information even if we believe we are required to do so by law, or to comply with a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. We will fight it because nothing we have is relevant to anything but your login. We don't track what you search or when you search.
The ONLY event that would cause us to pass user data to another entity is if 420A3 is acquired by or merged with another company or involved in any other business deal (or negotiation of a business deal) involving sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets, we may transfer or assign your information as part of or in connection with the transaction. Finally, in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, information may be transferred as a business asset.

When does the policy allow law enforcement access to personal data? N/A (no personal data to share)

5/5

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Always

This includes cases in which law enforcement either runs the service or has a known backdoor into (or relationship with) the service.

Not specified

When reasonably requested

60%

Only when required by a court order or subpoena

80%

N/A (no personal data to share)

The service would have no personal data to share with law enforcement.

100%

Never (special legal jurisdiction)

The service operates in a jurisdiction in which sharing data with law enforcement is never required.

100%

Citation

We WILL NOT disclose your information even if we believe we are required to do so by law, or to comply with a court order, judicial or other government subpoena, or warrant. We will fight it because nothing we have is relevant to anything but your login. We don't track what you search or when you search.

Transparency

Does the policy outline the service's general security practices? Yes

2/3

Score

Somewhat

The policy provides only a very vague overview of its security practices.

30%

Yes

60%

Yes, including audits

"Reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as audits.

80%

Yes, including independent audits

Independent "reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as independent audits.

100%

N/A

The service doesn't collect any personal information.

100%

Citation

Security

420A3 takes EXTRA steps and encrypts anything potentially sensitive in our database and any other commercially reasonable steps to help protect your Information against loss, misuse and unauthorized access, or disclosure. For more details [link href="https://www.420a3.com/data-security-integrity]Data Security[link] No company can fully prevent security risks, however. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. To help protect yourself and your information, choose a unique password for our Services and do not use a password on our Services that you would use on any other website or online service.

Notes

Please note: a link was added to a detailed security page in the citation above as the PP was updated 11/16/2019 to include link to

wwwdot420a3dotcom/data-security-integrity - which spells out the security steps in detail - would have made the PP much more verbose and harder to read.

Is the policy's history made available? Only the date it was last modified

3/5

Does the policy require users to be notified in case of a data breach? N/A

7/7

Will affected users be notified when the policy is meaningfully changed? Yes

5/5

Collection

Does the service collect personal data from third parties? No

10/10

Is it clear why the service collects the personal data that it does? Mostly

7/10

Score

Somewhat

30%

Mostly

70%

Yes

100%

N/A

The service doesn't collect any personal information.

100%

Citation

420A3 generally uses your information to:

Facilitate the creation of and secure your account on the Services;
Identify you as a user in our system;
Provide and improve the Services;
Communicate with you about your use of the Services;
Develop new products and services,
Protect, investigate, and prevent potentially fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activities;
Protect our rights and the rights of other users; and
As otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or in notices we provided to you.

Notes

The privacy policy uses phrases like "generally" and employs vague statements like "420A3 generally uses your information to develop new products and services."

Does the service allow the user to control whether personal data is collected or used for non-critical purposes? N/A (no data used for non-critical purposes)

10/10

Does the policy list the personal data it collects? Yes, exhaustively

10/10

Score

The policy does not claim to not collect personal data, but it also doesn't provide any meaningful insight into the types of personal data it collects.

Only summarily

The policy uses overly vague language to provide a summary of the types of collected personal data.

30%

Yes, generally

All general categories of collected personal data are listed, though not all types of personal data are explicitly mentioned (for example, the list might use a phrase like 'such as' when listing types of personal data).

70%

Yes, exhaustively

All types of collected personal data are listed specifically

100%

N/A (no personal data is collected)

100%

Citation

When you create an account and use our Services, we collect the following types of information from you.

ANY potentially sensitive data is either not stored on our servers, database, or is encrypted

User Name: This should be a fun name you can recall - We Recommend you DO NOT use your email address as your User Name.
Email Address, Stored Encrypted. Never shown onscreen, or shared, unless you otherwise allow it.
Passwords are NEVER sent in emails or displayed onscreen. Passwords ARE stored in our database, encrypted via a 1-way salted hash.
We will NEVER store Credit Card data on our servers or database.
Any other information, such as ratings, reviews, content, and bio, you provide us.

Last Updated

May 26, 2021

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