GroundWork Renewables Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the personal data handling policies of GroundWork Renewables, a California B-Corporation (or “Company,” “us,” “we,” “our”) in connection with our publicly available website at https://grndwork.com/ (the “Website”), including the following:

• What personal data we collect from the Website;
• How we use the data;
• With whom we may share the personal data;
• Storage and security of your data;
• Your Privacy Rights, Choices and Disclosures;
• Users outside the United States; 
• Links to other sites; 
• Privacy Policy updates; and
• Contact Information.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not address the “Client Portal” accessible through a link at the top of the homepage, or any other information related to the Company’s business-to-business interactions.

1. The Website captures some information about you automatically utilizing background local storage and session storage technologies (“Cookies”). Cookies are small files or other pieces of data which are downloaded or stored on your computer or other device, that can be tied to information about your use of the Website (including certain third-party services and features offered as part of our Website). Examples of information of this type are your IP address, the browser you are using, the operating system you are using and the pages on the Website that you visit. When we use Cookies, we may use “session” Cookies that last until you close your browser or “persistent” cookies that last until you or your browser delete them. You may change your browser setting to decline the use of Cookies.Pixel Tags or Clear GIFs, also known as Web Beacons or Web Bugs, are transparent graphical images placed on a website. We may now or in the future use these items on our Website to permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).We use Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”) which uses cookies to identify the frequency of use of certain areas of our website and to identify preferences. For more information regarding how Google collects, uses, and shares information please visit http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can deactivate Google Analytics using a browser add-on. You can download the add-on here:
   https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. 

   We operate social media pages on third party networks and have social media icons on our Website. When you visit or link to our social media pages, data is processed both by us and the applicable social media provider. Social media providers are unaffiliated with us, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of social media providers. Social media providers have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit their websites or interact with their platforms.

2. We also collect information that you provide to us voluntarily.
   • The Company collects the information that you provide to us when you contact us via email or phone.
   • The Company collects the information that you provide to us when you request a quote. We may ask for your name, email, phone number, and your area of interest (e.g., development, construction, operations). You may also be asked to provide information explaining in more detail information that may help us provide the quote.
   • We collect information when you sign up to receive news and updates from us. We may ask for your name, company name, phone number and email address.
   • We may allow for event or conference registrations on our Website, in which case we may collect details such as your name, email address, company name, job role, industry, payment card details, and billing address.
   • If you inquire about a career with us through the Website’s careers page, you will be asked to provide personal information about your interest in the position, and you are invited to upload a resume and cover letter. We may utilize a third party provider to host our job applications and assist with the application process. Our job hosting provider has its own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit their website or interact with their platform.
3. We do not knowingly collect information from users of our Website under the age of 18 and/or their internet usage, and such persons are not authorized to use the Website. By using the Website, you represent that you are at least 18 years old and of legal age to enter into legal agreements.

We use the personal data we collect for the following:

• To communicate to you information regarding the Company and its products and services. 
• To send you marketing communications. 
• To improve and customize our Website’s content, layout and services. These uses improve and customize our interactions with you to better meet your needs. 
• To provide to you a quote upon your request. 
• If you register for an event on the Website, we use your information to confirm and fulfill your order, prevent and detect fraud or abuse, respond to your request or inquiry, provide you with other administrative information regarding your order and provide you with any other information we deem helpful or interesting to you. 
• To respond to your inquiries.
• To perform our contractual and legal obligations. 
• To provide updates and other important information related to your activity on and with the Website.
• To fill employment positions.
• To compare and review your personally identifiable information for errors, omissions and accuracy. 
• To improve our marketing and promotional efforts, Website content and product offerings. 
• To comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. 
• To investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any personal or as otherwise required by law. 
• For other legitimate business purposes.

We share your personal data with third parties who perform services on our behalf, including without limitation, our Website hosting provider, job hosting provider, payment processor, other technology providers and our professional advisors.  

When you register for an event or conference, your information may be shared with other attendees, but you may opt out of such sharing.

We may exchange information, including personally identifiable information, with other companies and organization for credit fraud protection and risk reduction

We may share information as necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request.

We may disclose information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to protect and defend our or others’ interests or property, or to enforce agreements you enter into with us.  

We may share your data with a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, liquidation or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock with such third party.

We may share aggregated and de-identified information with third parties for analytical, research or other similar purposes. 

The Company may obtain your written consent from time to time in electronic form by using online agreements or other acknowledgements on the Website, including for any other contemplated uses of your personal data not addressed in this Privacy Policy. Please read all online agreements carefully before accepting them. 

We retain the personal data we collect for so long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the data was collected and to perform our contractual and legal obligations. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, we store email addresses until the user requests to be unsubscribed.  

The Company is committed to the protection of the personally identifiable information that you share with us. We utilize a combination of security technologies, procedures and organizational measure to help protect your personally identifiable information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers with limited access. Additionally, when we transfer sensitive personal information (for example, credit card information) over the Internet, we protect it using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology.

We do not store payment card information; rather we utilize a payment processor and store only an electronic receipt that sets forth confirming payment details, such as purchase date, the expiration date of the payment card and the payment ID, but not complete payment card information.

No Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free, however.  We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of your data, and we are not responsible for processes and networks that we do not control.  Users assume the risk of security breaches and the consequences resulting from them.  Please be careful in deciding what information you send to us via email or over the Internet.

We are committed to facilitating the exercise of your rights granted by the laws of your jurisdiction, which may include the right to request the correction, modification or deletion of your personal information and the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information (as applicable). We will do our best to honor your requests subject to any legal and contractual obligations.  If you would like to make a request, please contact us at support@grndwork.com. 

You may opt out of receiving electronic marketing communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link on the communication or contacting us at support@grndwork.com. 

Subject to local law, you may have additional rights under the laws of your jurisdiction regarding your personal data, such as the right to complain to your local data protection authority and appeal the outcome of a data access request. 

You may be able to disable Cookies through your browser settings, but if you delete or disable Cookies, you may experience interruptions or limited functionality in certain areas of the Services. 

California Disclosures

California “Shine the Light” Information-Sharing Disclosure: California residents may request a list of all third parties with respect to which we have disclosed any information about you for direct marketing purposes and the categories of information disclosed.  If you are a California resident and want such a list, please send us a written request by email to support@grndwork.com with “California Shine The Light Rights” in the subject line.  

California Do Not Track Disclosure: We do not track our Website visitors over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising on our Website and, therefore, our Website does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.  

California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures:  If you are a resident of California (or another state that has adopted laws substantially similar to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”)), you have the right to request:

• The categories of personal information (including sensitive personal information if applicable) we have collected about you;
• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
• The business or commercial purpose of collecting, selling or sharing personal information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share or sell personal information;
• The categories of personal information about you that we have disclosed for business purposes; and
• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Additionally, you have the right:

• to know the length of time we retain your personal information;
• to request deletion of your personal information; 
• to request the correction of any inaccurate data; 
• to opt out of the sale or sharing of your information (if applicable); 
• to limit the use of sensitive personal information (if applicable); and 
• to not be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

Please see the chart below regarding the categories of data we may have collected or received in the 12 months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy from consumers in connection with providing our Website and to whom we may have disclosed the information for business purposes.

Any sensitive data we collect is used only for a business purpose and not for the purposes of inferring characteristics of a consumer.

We do not sell or share personal information for monetary consideration under CCPA. Personal data may be provided to our service providers, contractors and, pursuant to Sections 1798.140(ad)(2)(A) and 1798.140(ah)(2)(A) of the CCPA, to third parties. 

You may opt out of the use of Cookies using your browser settings and opt out of the use of Google Analytics Cookies by downloading the browser add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Our contact information is listed at the bottom of this policy.  You may also submit a request via our website by clicking on this link: Data Subject Request Form. If you submit a data subject request, we will ask for your name and email address. If this information or these processes are insufficient to verify your identity and assess your privacy request, we may need to ask for additional information.  You may also designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA privacy request.

The Company and the Website are controlled and operated from the United States. If you are an individual located outside the United States with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, please be advised that we may store and process the information we collect in the United States.  Personal data may also be transferred from the country of your residence to other countries, including the United States. 

Our Website may contain links to other websites for your convenience or information.  These websites may be operated by companies unaffiliated with the Company, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those websites.  Linked websites may have their own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit the websites. 

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices, and any such amendments shall apply to information already collected and to be collected. Your continued use of the Website after any changes to our Privacy Policy indicates your agreement with the terms of the revised Privacy Policy.  Please review this Privacy Policy periodically and especially before you provide personal information to us.  If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you here, by email or by means of a notice on our home page.  The date of the last update of the Privacy Policy is indicated at the top of this Privacy Policy. 

If you have any questions about our data handling practices, or if you would like to exercise a privacy right, please contact us. 

GroundWork Renewables
433 Orange Avenue
Sand City, CA  93955 
Phone: 831.920.1687
Email: support@grndwork.com