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OpenCart CCPA Extension- California Consumer Privacy Act

“OpenCart CCPA Extension helps California businesses comply with the CCPA law without following any arduous approach. The extension makes it easy to set up the California Consumer Privacy Act conditions on the front end of your website.”

What is CCPA?

CCPA stands for California Consumer Privacy Act. Passed on June 2018, by the California State Legislature, the law will be effective for businesses from January 1, 2020.

The businesses falling under this law would be those who have gross annual revenue of more than $25 million, have personal data of more than 50,000 consumers and earn half of the total annual revenue by selling consumer’s personal information.

It is implemented to give consumers better control over their data and to avoid breaching of personal information.

The law gives consumers

Right to Access- Have a check on the information that the company has collected about them.

Right to Deletion- Ask companies to delete their personal information.

Right to Equality- Not to be discriminated against consumers for denying any product or services to the consumers or charging a different price.

Right to be Informed- know what kind of data is getting shared and why is it getting shared and to whom.

Right to Opt-out- Deny companies to share the personal data to any third party.

OpenCart CCPA Extension

Understanding the urge of businesses to comply with the CCPA law and avoid any penalty, OpenCart has introduced the CCPA Extension. OpenCart CCPA extension simply adds a “Do not sell my data” tab at the front end header.

The tab consists of the following 5 options-

1. Right of Access to Personal Data

2. Right to Data Portability

3. Right to be forgotten

4. Right to Data Rectification

5. Right to User Consent

Let us have an in-depth analysis of each-

1. Right of Access to Personal Data

Through this option, consumers can ask a business to share the personal details that they have collected over time.

All a consumer needs to do is provide his/her email address and submit a request. Once submitted, a confirmation email will be sent to the consumer. Upon confirmation, they will receive their personal data over their email address.

It will display the entire information the business has captured about the consumer.

2. Right to Data Portability

This option allows consumers to download their personal data in a CSV format. They can download their personal information, address details and order details.

They just need to submit a request to the merchant.

3. Right to be forgotten

This right allows consumers to permanently delete their entire information from the website. A consumer just needs to request for his/her account deletion by providing his email address.

Upon confirmation, all the associated data of the consumer will be removed from the system and they will no longer be able to access their account, however, they can create a new account using the same email address.

4. Right to Data Rectification

This option allows consumers to rectify their existing information on the website. It includes updating personal information, address and password.

Put simply, a consumer can modify their personal information easily.

5. Right to User Consent

The last option that we have is “Right to User Consent.” Under this option, you can ask for the consumers’ consent regarding sharing of their personal data with the third-party websites or selling it for the monetization purpose.

As per the CCPA law, consumer aged between 13 to 16 has the right to opt-in for allowing sharing of their personal data and consumers below 13 need a guardian authority.

Get the OpenCart CCPA Extension today. If you need any assistance regarding this extension, you can raise a ticket at support@knowband.com

Check out the admin demo and front demo of the OpenCart CCPA module.

Understanding CCPA: California Consumer Privacy Act

The 1st day of the year 2020 will mark the arrival of new privacy law for the people and online businesses of California. The law is named as California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, also denoted as CaCPA, sometimes.

The CCPA bill was passed by the California State Legislature on June 18, 2018, and will turn into an Act following January 1, 2020.

What is CCPA?

The California Consumer Privacy Act deals with the privacy of the people residing in the California state of the United States. The CCPA compliance will enforce businesses to allow consumers to get insights into their personal information being captured by them.

Companies would be required to share what data they have collected of a consumer, and modify or delete it on a consumer’s request.

It’s a great initiative to keep consumers’ privacy within a boundary and maintaining transparency. This will also have a positive effect on the brand-customer relationship since consumers will have more control over their personal data.

Today, there is a heavy breach of data all over the world. Data is getting stolen and sold to companies that even have no relevance with that audience.

California legislators realizing the importance of respecting consumer’s privacy and keeping it confidential introduced CCPA which was the demand of the hour.

CCPA Consumer Rights

Let’s take a look at the consumer rights that fall under the CCPA law-

1. Right to Access Personal Data

Consumers will be able to track what information do the businesses have about them. They can request the business to disclose the information they have collected.

2. Right to Deletion of Data

Consumers will have the option to approach a business and ask them to eradicate their entire details from their business panel. This will lead to the permanent removal of the customer data.

3. Right to be Informed about the Data collection

This gives consumers the right to ask what kind of information is being collected by the businesses, whom it is getting shared with or why it is getting shared.

4. Right to Opt-out

Consumers have the right to say no to the distribution of their personal data to any third party company.

There is also the right to opt-in for the minors, which says that any consumer aged between 13 to 16 can permit businesses to sell their information. Consumer below the age of 13 will require authority through a guardian.

5. Right to Non-discrimination

CCPA highly forbids businesses from discriminating against the consumers. It prohibits-

Discrimination denying goods or services to the consumer

Discrimination for charging a different price than the original price of the goods and services

Discrimination on the level of quality

In short, consumers have the right to equality or say equal prices and services.

Who does CCPA apply to?

CCPA applies to businesses that have-

An annual turnover of more than $25 million

Data of more than 50,000 consumers

Earn more than half of the annual revenue selling consumer’s personal information

To comply with the law, businesses need to add the options on their website that matches with the above-mentioned consumer rights. Feeling the necessity, KnowBand has come up with the CCPA module to help businesses go in accordance with the CCPA law.

CCPA Module by Knowband

The CCPA module by Knowband adds a CCPA tab on the front end of your website. Customers can visit that section and raise a request regarding any information falling under the rights in the CCPA law.

This module is currently available for PrestaShop and OpenCart merchants. Check out-

PrestaShop CCPA addon

OpenCart CCPA extension

It’s high time to re-structure your privacy policy. Companies failing to comply with the CCPA law can be charged with a heavy penalty of up to $7500 depending on the level of breach.

For any query or assistance, reach out to us at support@knowband.com