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PRIVACY POLICY – California Residents Addendum

Last Modified:  June 1, 2026

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide you with some additional information, as described here (this “Addendum”).  This Addendum incorporates by reference the Company’s Privacy Policy to the extent it does not conflict with it.  In case of any conflict between this Addendum and the Privacy Policy, this Addendum will govern if you are a California resident.

This Addendum does not apply to our collection and use of personal information in an employment capacity. Employees, job applicants, contractors, interns, or other workers seeking more information about our employment-related personal information policies and practices may contact the Company to request our applicable employee/applicant/intern/independent contractor privacy policy.

Personal Information Collected

We collect and use information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household (“personal information”). Personal information does not include: (i) publicly available information, including from government records, through widely distributed media, or that the consumer made publicly available without restricting it to a specific audience; (ii) lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern; or (iii) deidentified or aggregated personal information.

Personal Information Categories Chart

The chart below identifies the categories of personal information we anticipate collecting from our Website users.

Category	Examples	Retention Period
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers.	For only as long as necessary to address consumer’s inquiry.
B. Internet or other similar network activity.	Activity on the Website or our other digital systems, such as internet browsing history, search history, system usage, and electronic communications with us.	For only as long as necessary to address consumer’s inquiry, administer the Website and conduct internal operations.
C. Professional Information	Employer’s name, industry, job title, and education	For only as long as necessary to address a consumer’s inquiry or job opportunity submission.

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

• Directly from you, such as from the forms or other information you provide to the Company.
• Indirectly from you, such as from your interactions with the Website.

How We Use Personal Information

Personal Information Collection, Use, and Disclosure Purposes

We may use and disclose the personal information we collect to advance the Company’s business and commercial purposes, specifically to:

• Develop, offer, and provide you with our products and services, including content creation, news gathering, live sports, news and entertainment broadcasting, and television production services.
• Meet our obligations and enforce our rights or comply with legal requirements.
• Fulfill the purposes for which you provided your personal information or that were described to you at collection, and as the CCPA otherwise permits.
• Administer the Website, our systems and conduct internal operations, including troubleshooting, safety, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.Comply with all applicable laws and regulations, court orders, or law enforcement requests.
• Exercise or defend the legal rights of the Company and its employees, affiliates, contractors, and agents.

Additional Categories or Other Purposes

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. We may collect, process, and disclose aggregated or deidentified consumer information for any purpose, without restriction. When we collect, process, or disclose aggregated or deidentified consumer information, we will maintain and use it in deidentified form and will not to attempt to reidentify the information, except to determine whether our deidentification processes satisfies any applicable legal requirements.

We Do Not Disclose, Sell, or Share Personal Information

We have not disclosed, sold, or shared users’ personal information to third parties for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months.  We do not anticipate disclosing, selling, or sharing users’ personal information to third parties for a business purpose in the following 12 months.

Your Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the following rights regarding your personal information

Right to Know and Data Portability Requests

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information (the “right to know”), including the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you (a “data portability request”). Our response will cover the 12-month period preceding the request. You may exercise your right to know twice in any 12-month period. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:

• The categories of personal information we collected about you and sources from which we collected your personal information.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information.
• If applicable, the categories of people, including third parties, to whom we disclosed your personal information.
• When your right to know submission includes a data portability request, a copy of your personal information, subject to any permitted redactions.

Right to Delete and Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions and limitations (the “right to delete”). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will delete your personal information from our systems unless an exception allows us to retain it.

You also have the right to request correction of personal information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate (the “right to correct”). We may require you to provide documentation, if needed, to support your claim that the information is inaccurate. Unless an exception applies, we will correct personal information that our review determines is inaccurate.

Rights Related to Sensitive Personal Information Use Not Applicable

You have a right to ask businesses that use or disclose your sensitive personal information to limit those actions as set forth in the CCPA. As we do not use or disclose any personal information, including sensitive personal information, we do not currently provide this right.

Personal Information Sales or Sharing Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights Not Applicable

You have a right to ask businesses to stop selling or sharing your personal information at any time.  As we do not sell or share personal information, we do not currently provide this right.

ADMT Rights Not Applicable

When a business uses automated decision-making technology (ADMT) to make significant decisions about you, you may have certain rights. ADMTs are technologies that process personal information and use computation to execute a decision and either replace or substantially replace human decision-making, resulting in decisions made without human involvement. Decisions are significant when they result in the provision or denial of financial or lending services, housing, education enrollment or opportunities, employment or independent contracting opportunities or compensation, or healthcare services. Advertising is not a significant decision.
As we do not use ADMT to make any decisions about users, we do not currently provide any ADMT related rights.

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of your privacy rights under the CCPA.

How to Exercise Your Rights

Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, or Correct

To exercise the right to know (including data portability), delete, or correct described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by one of the following methods:

• By Mail to:
  TBS International Inc.
  c/o Privacy Policy Dept.
  780 Third Avenue, Suite 2503
  New York, NY 10017, USA
• By Email to:
  info@tbsi-us.com
• Via the Contact
  Page at:>www.tbsi-us.com/contact/

Verification Process and Authorized Agents

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know, delete, or correct related to your personal information. We may request specific information from you or your authorized representative to confirm your or their identity before we can process your right to know, delete, or correct your personal information. We cannot respond to your request to know, delete, or correct if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relating to you.