Privacy Policy

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Cohen Ventures, Inc., dba Energy Solutions

Our representative

Maria Ellingson – [email protected]

Personal information

Any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household.

Categories of Personal Information

Specific Types of Personal Information Collected

Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)

First name, last name, email address, job title, company name, market role

Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Website, application, or advertisement)

Aggregated browser and clickstream information

Professional or employment-related information

Job title, company name, and market role

What we use your personal information for

Our reasons

To provide specified information to you

We send you emails through our listserv to inform you of activities the utility team is doing to support the updates to the California Energy Code and CA Green Building Code

Conducting checks to identify our consumers and verify their identity

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Gathering and providing information required by or relating to audits, inquiries, or investigations by regulatory bodies

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Ensuring business policies are adhered to, e.g., policies covering security and internet use

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to make sure we are following our own internal procedures so we can deliver the best service to you

Operational reasons, such as improving efficiency, training, and quality control

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service for you at the best price

Updating [and enhancing] consumer records

For the performance of our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract;

To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, e.g., making sure that we can keep in touch with our consumers about existing orders and new products

Marketing our services to you

For our legitimate interests or those of a third party, i.e., to promote our business to existing and former consumers

Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You

You have the right to know, and request disclosure of:

• The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including sensitive personal information;

• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;

• Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information;

• The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, if any; and

• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Please note that we are not required to:

• Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;

• Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or

• Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.

Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose

In connection with any personal information we may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

• The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and

• The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.

You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for targeted behavioral advertising. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or sharing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale or sharing of your personal information.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and

• Direct any service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records.

• Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

• Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes;

• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Right of Correction

If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

Protection Against Retaliation

You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. This means we cannot, among other things:

• Deny goods or services to you;

• Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;

• Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or

• Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.