Privacy Policy
BAY SIDE SOLAR CLEANING CO PRIVACY POLICY
Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co ("we," "our," or "us") values your privacy and is dedicated to safeguarding it in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we may collect from you when you visit the Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co website (the "Website") and how we utilize, protect, and disclose that information. By using our Website, you consent to the practices detailed in this Privacy Policy.
Please take the time to read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with our policies, please refrain from using our Website. This Privacy Policy may be subject to revisions, and the date of the most recent update will be indicated at the bottom of this page. Your continued use of our Website post any modifications implies your acceptance of those changes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Information We Collect
A. Information You Provide To Us
We may collect information directly from you when you provide it to us on the Website. This may include when you use our services, register or create an online account with us, request information from us, sign up for newsletters or our email list, enter into sweepstakes or other promotions, fill out a survey, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with or contact us. The information we collect may include your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, referrals, and information about your solar activities, such as home ownership, home statistics, home energy usage or utility provider, or demographic information.
You also may provide us with certain information in connection with your interactions with the Website:
Information You Provide When You Make a Purchase: If you make a purchase from us, we collect the necessary payment details to process your payment, depending on the form of payment you choose.
Information You Provide Through Third-Party Websites or Services: If you connect or link to us through a third-party website or service, such as a social media account, we may automatically receive certain information about you based on your registration and privacy settings on those third-party websites or services. This may include, but may not be limited to, your name, user name, demographic information, updated address or contact information, location, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as online activity.
B. Information Automatically Collected
Whenever you visit or interact with the Website, we may use a variety of technologies such as cookies, clear GIFs, pixel tags, log files, and other technologies or third-party services to automatically or passively collect certain information about users of the Website and interactions with our emails and online advertisements.
Computer or Device Information: We may automatically collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address or other unique identifier or information from the computer, mobile device, tablet or other device you use to access the Website, including but not limited to your browser type, device type, system type, and the domain name from which you accessed the Website.
Usage Information: We may collect information about your use of the Website, including the date and time you visit the Website, the content, areas, or pages of the Website that you visit, the website or app from which you navigated to the Website, the page or app you visit after leaving the Website, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Website, the number of times you return to the Website, as well as other click-stream or usage data, and whether you open, forward or click-through an email to the Website. For legal compliance purposes, we may also capture or record your interactions with www.baysidesolarcleaningco.com to confirm that your information was submitted to us through www.baysidesolarcleaningco.com.
Via Our Third Party Service Providers: We may use third-party service providers to support our Website. Some of these service providers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Flash cookies, or HTML5 cookies to receive, collect, and store information.
C. Information Collected from Other Sources
We may acquire information from other sources as follows:
From Our Partners and Service Providers: We may use third-party service providers to support our Website and perform other business processes on our behalf, including, without limitation, to perform credit checks and process credit card payments, and we may obtain information from these third parties.
From Other Third Parties: We may obtain information about you from other third-party sources, including commercially available sources, such as data aggregators and public databases. This information may include your name, demographic information, utility usage information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as online activity.
We may use this information to help us maintain the accuracy of the information we collect, personalize your experience with the Website, target our communications so that we can inform you of products, services or other offers that may be of interest to you, to measure ad quality and responses, and for internal business analysis or other business purposes.
How We Use Your Information
A. Information Use By or For Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co
We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:
To present our Website and their contents to you.
To analyze, improve, operate, and maintain the Website, our programs, services, and other systems, and to develop new products and services.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, and to contact and communicate with you when necessary.
To assess the suitability of your home for a solar system.
To allow you to take certain actions related to your account, including, but not limited to, tracking the progress of your solar system installation, making and managing payments, viewing billing history, calculating your post-solar savings, reviewing and monitoring your solar production, managing your account and contact information, and viewing and downloading your solar system agreement.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through them.
To provide you and other users with customized content, targeted offers, and advertising on the Website, or across other websites, mobile applications, social media or online services, or via direct mail, email, and/or telemarketing regarding offers, contests, events, news, programs, and other retail opportunities from us and/or selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you.
To determine the effectiveness of our marketing programs.
To use your data in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information to us.
B. How We Use Your Information for Interest-Based Advertising
We may use third parties to measure and target advertisements for us about our products and services that are tailored to your online interests. We allow these third-party companies to use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags and similar technologies to collect certain data and other information about your online activity. This information is used to display advertisements for Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co on the Website or across other websites, mobile applications, social media or online services that you use.
We also may display interest-based ads through social media platforms or websites. This is done through tools like Facebook Custom Audiences or similar business tools. These tools allow us to personalize our ads based on your interaction with us, without sharing your personal information. We do this by using hashed information, which converts your email or phone number into a unique string of numbers and letters. This information is then used solely for the purpose of serving advertisements.
For information on your choices with respect to interest-based ads, see the “Interest Based Advertising Choices” section below.
Disclosure of Your Information
A. Sharing of Information by You
The Website offers various ways to find, enjoy, and share content. Your activity in connection with the Website may include filling out surveys, reviewing and rating products or services, inquiring about or purchasing products or services, participation in online communities, "liking" or "sharing" our content on your social media accounts, or otherwise interacting with the Website. Any information you may disclose through the Website, in blogs, on message boards, in chat rooms, or on other public areas through the Website or other third-party websites, applications, or services that these Website may link to, becomes public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.
B. Sharing of Information by Us
We may share your personal information for business or commercial purposes as follows:
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries for business and operational purposes.
Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party contractors, service providers, and other third parties that we use to support our business and who are required to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
Marketing Partners and Other Third Parties: Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co does not monetize your information. Bay Side Solar Cleaning Co may share your information with our online and email advertisers or other third-party vendors we use who may provide cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs or other similar technologies for use on our Website or other websites to manage and improve our online and email advertising campaigns.
Compliance with Laws: We may access and disclose your information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any subpoenas, judicial processes, or government or regulatory requests and investigations.
Enforcing Our Rights: We may disclose your information to enforce or apply our terms of service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes, or to protect the security of our Website, servers, network systems, and databases.
Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets: We may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be among the assets transferred.
Safety: We may access and disclose your information if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Aggregate or Anonymous Non-Personal Information: We may share aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.
Other: We may share your information as described to you at the point of collection.
Your Choices & Opting Out
A. Cookies, Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures
Certain parts of our Website require cookies. You may adjust your device or Internet browser settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Website or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your device’s settings or your Internet browser’s “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable cookies or to control your tracking preferences.
Our system may not recognize “do not track” requests or headers from some or all browsers. We may use cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and to link data collected across other computers or devices that you may use.
B. Email Marketing Opt-Out
If you no longer wish to receive marketing emails from us, you may opt out by following the instructions provided in any marketing email you receive from us. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you important transactional or administrative messages.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: brendan@baysidesolarcleaningco.com
Website: www.baysidesolarcleaningco.com