Applicability
We follow the terms of this privacy policy as required by applicable law in the places where we do business. We reserve the right to block any portion of this site, or application on our site, in places where we do not do business. We do not do business outside the United States of America.
You may provide personal information to us through a third-party site (such as when you request a service or product from us while you are on another company’s site and your information is transferred to us). Or you may request that we provide your personal information to another third-party site (such as when you instruct us to transfer your information to another site in connection with the use of our products or services). In these instances, this policy applies to the information we receive while you are on our site, and the privacy policies of those other sites applies to the information those parties receive from you while you are on their sites. Privacy choices you make on those third-party sites do not apply to our site or to the information you provide to us. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any such third-party sites you visit.
Retaining and Protecting Personal Information
Retention
We keep the personal information you provide to us for the length of time needed to provide you with the products, services and information you seek from our site, unless and to the extent that a longer time period is required or permitted by law.
Protection
The Company is committed to safeguarding your nonpublic personal information. As described below, we limit access to your nonpublic personal information to those persons who need it to perform their jobs and to provide service to you, or as required or permitted by law. Please read the sections below titled How We Use Your Information and How We share Your Information for more detail.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect such information from unauthorized use or disclosure.
You may have additional concerns about the privacy and security of information collected through our web site. We are committed to protecting the online privacy of visitors to our web site, and as noted above maintain a variety of measures to secure your personal information. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the internet, and there is always some risk in transmitting information electronically. As we deem appropriate, we use security measures such as firewalls and encryption technology, to protect your information. However, since no security system is absolutely impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the internet.
Former Customers
We protect information of our former customers in the same way as for our current customers.
Other Sites
Our web site may contain links to other web sites. We have no control over the privacy practices or content of any other web sites we provide links to from our web site. You should check the applicable privacy policy (and the security and retention practices) of the web site sponsor when linking to other web sites.
Cookies
We use “cookies” to enhance your access to our site. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile communications device. Cookies do not store personal information about you, unless you knowingly provide it. Cookies can store non-personal information, such as what web site pages or advertisements your browser has accessed. We use cookies to store information and personalize your experience with our web site. For example, cookies allow our web site to recognize you as a previous visitor, and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been set while you were previously browsing our web site. You do have some control over cookies. Many browsers can be set to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. Many browsers can also be set to refuse to accept cookies, although this may affect your internet experience. You can also erase cookies that are already on your computer. For more information about working with cookies, you should consult your user manual, FAQ, or “help” function of your specific browser and operating system software.
In order to further personalize our website for you, and to collect a limited set of non-personally identifiable information about you to help manage our online advertising and promotions, we or our third party advertising providers use “web beacons” (also known as “clear gifs” and “pixel tags”), in “conjunction with cookies”. Web beacons are small transparent graphic images that are often used by web sites in connection with cookies. We may also use web beacons in email communications in order to understand the behavior of our customers.
How We Use Your Personal Information
Data Controller & Data Processors
Sustainable Real Estate Solutions, Inc. is the data controller for the personal information you provide to us while on our site. Our corporate parents and subsidiaries may act as data processors. Also, if you give us permission to do so, we may transfer your personal information to third-parties for the sole purpose of providing you offers for products and services and related information. In those cases, those third-parties may also act as our data processors.
Uses
If permitted by applicable law, and by the choices you make and the permissions you grant to us while on our site, we may use your personal information as follows:
- To provide you with information and services that you request.
- To send you offers for products and services where you ask for such offers.
- To customize what content you see and what products and services you are offered information about.
- To otherwise customize your user experience while on our site.
- To better understand and improve, or to further develop our site (and the products, services and other offerings available through our site).
- To detect or deter activities that we believe may violate our terms of use, our policies, or applicable law.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We do not share your personal information, except in limited circumstances, including:
- When you request that we transfer your information to third-parties so you can receive products or services or related information, we will transfer to those third-parties the personal information we deem reasonably necessary for such purpose.
- When you opt to receive information about products and services from third-party providers with whom we have joint marketing, licensing or cooperative agreements, we will transfer to those third-parties the personal information we deem reasonably necessary for such purpose.
- If we need to validate your address in order to provide you with services, we may provide that address information to a third-party validator.
- If we need to validate information about real property and energy-related data provided by you, we may provide your address (but not your name) with third-party sources that maintain similar information.
- If we need to validate your financial information in order to provide you with services, we may share your information with third-party sources of such information.
- To the extent required by applicable laws and regulations, or by the industry regulators, law enforcement agencies or other governmental authorities, and anti-fraud organizations who enforce those laws and regulations. We do not share your personal information in violation of those laws and regulations.
- We may use your personal information to respond to your inquiries, questions or comments if you access our site or if you send us an email or voicemail with questions or comments. We may save your questions, comments and contact information for future reference.
- When third-party companies, like express mail carriers, customer service providers, web hosting and security companies, and marketing and advertising services, provide services to us; however, these companies are prohibited from using your personal information for purposes other than those requested by us or required by law.
- To the extent necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or other rules, to comply with legal process or in instances where we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, or in connection with the sale of our business or an affiliated business.
- In order to develop our services and content to better serve you, we may share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties.
- We may use your personal information to respond to your inquiries, questions or comments if you access our site or if you send us an email or voicemail with questions or comments. We may save your questions, comments and contact information for future reference.
Call Monitoring
Your calls to and from the Company may be recorded to monitor the quality of our customer service, to train our staff, to check the accuracy of information you provide to us, and to prevent fraud. We will retain these call recordings for a reasonable period of time in order to perform these activities and then will delete them provided that they are not the subject of litigation or investigation. Any personal information obtained from you during a call will be treated in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Laws of Particular Jurisdictions
Connecticut and New Jersey Customers
If you are one of our Connecticut or New Jersey customers, then to the extent required under the Connecticut Insurance Information and Privacy Act (the “Connecticut Privacy Law”) or N.J.S.A. 17:23a-1 et seq. (the “New Jersey Privacy Law”), respectively, you may access your recorded nonpublic personal information that we have collected by submitting a written request, in accordance with the Connecticut Privacy Law or the New Jersey Privacy Law, as applicable. Connecticut and New Jersey customers should send their written requests to the following address: SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS, INC., 261 S. Main St. #327, Newtown, CT 06470, Attn: General Counsel. The written request may ask us to take one or more of the following actions: (1) inform you of the nature and substance of your recorded nonpublic personal information that we have collected; (2) send you copies of such information by mail; (3) inform you of the identity, if recorded, of those persons to whom we have disclosed your personal information within two years prior to your written request; or (4) correct, amend or delete any of your recorded nonpublic personal information.
California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows residents of California to request certain information about our disclosure of their personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request please contact us at the following address: SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS, INC., Attn: Privacy Request, 261 S. Main St. #327, Newtown, CT 06470.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may from time to time in the future change any part of this privacy policy as our business, our technology, our industry, and applicable laws and regulations change, or for other reasons we deem necessary. We will provide you with notice of such change by emailing you at the last email address you provided to us (if any), or by posting notice of such change here on our site and updating the date in the last line below. These changes may include superseding statements or notices. YOU SHOULD REVIEW THIS POLICY FROM TIME TO TIME TO BE AWARE OF ANY CHANGES THAT ARE MADE, PARTICULARLY IF YOU DID NOT GIVE US, OR HAVE CHANGED OR DO NOT REGULARLY MONITOR, YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS. Your continuing use of this web site after such change constitutes your acceptance of any changes or updates to the Privacy Policy, all of which shall become controlling when posted.
This privacy policy was last updated on February 12, 2020.