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PRIVACY NOTICE

Last Reviewed: January 8, 2024

Your privacy is important to us. Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to learn how we collect, use, share, and otherwise process information relating to individuals (“Personal Data”), and to learn about your rights and choices regarding your Personal Data. For information about state-specific privacy rights, including the rights of residents of California, Virginia, Colorado, Nevada, Utah, or Connecticut, please click here.

PowerPlan, Inc. (“PowerPlan”) is the controller of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Notice, unless specified otherwise. This Privacy Notice applies to the collection and processing of Personal Data collected by us when you visit our branded websites that link to this Privacy Notice; use our products and services as an authorized user where we act as a controller of your Personal Data; visit our branded social media pages; visit our facilities; communicate with us (including emails, phone calls, texts or fax); or register for, attend or take part in our events, webinars, trade shows or contests.

This Privacy Notice does not apply when we process Personal Data on behalf of our customers in the role of processor or other service provider, such as when we allow customers to send electronic communications to others; or otherwise use, collect, share, or process Personal Data via our products and services. Our customers’ privacy policies may be different from ours, and we are not responsible for those practices. For information about the privacy practices of our customers who use our products and services as a controller, please contact that customer directly.

Collection of Personal Data

We collect three types of Personal Data from you:

  • Information You Provide: We collect and record any information that you provide to us directly, including any personal identifiers, professional or employment-related information, financial account information, commercial information, visual information, or internet activity information that you provide to us through this website or other medium.

  • Information We Collect Automatically: We automatically collect and store information about your use of this website and our services. To do so, we may use cookie technology and other online identifiers to track your IP address, web browser, geolocation, or your activity on this site.

  • Other Information We Collect: We may combine data from other sources with Personal Data we from you. These other sources may be from third parties or from publicly available sources.  This may include information related to your employment, education, commercial interactions, and internet activity.

In some cases, the collection and processing (see Section 2 below) of Personal Data is required for you to receive certain products or services. Personal Data does not include information that is anonymized or aggregated such that you cannot be identified from it. 

If you provide us or our service providers with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and have obtained any necessary consent for the information to be used in accordance with this Privacy Notice. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly or want to exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in Section 14 (Contact Us) below.

Processing Your Personal Data.

Where required by law, we obtain your consent to use and process your Personal Data for these purposes. Otherwise, we rely on other legal bases to collect and process your Personal Data. We process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • Providing our services and website access: We process your Personal Data relating to your access of our services/website (e.g., IP address, internet activity, account information, application log information, etc.) to ensure both you and we meet our obligations under the applicable contract, terms of use, or service agreement and to project future demand as well as improve our website and services; absent a contractual relationship, we process your Personal Data to further our legitimate interest in operating and improving our websites and services.

  • Securing our websites and services: We process your Personal Data (e.g., name, email address, IP address, account information, internet activity, application log information, etc.) as part of our efforts to maintain, monitor and secure our website and services. This may include aggregating data, verifying accounts, investigating suspicious activity, and enforcing our terms and policies to the extent necessary to further our legitimate interest in maintaining a safe and secure website, products, and services and in protecting our rights and the rights of others.

  • User Account Management: If you have registered for an account with us, we process your Personal Data (e.g., name, business contact information, IP address, account information, payment information, application log information, etc.) to manage your user account for the purpose of meeting our obligations to you according to the applicable contract or terms of service.

  • Responding to contact requests: If you contact us electronically or by phone, we process your Personal Data (e.g., name, account information, government identifiers) to perform our contract with you, or, if no contract applies, to the extent it is necessary for our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry and communicating with you. We may record and process communications for training, quality assurance, and administration purposes. If required under applicable law, we will obtain your prior consent or give you the option to object to a call being recorded.

  • Managing payments: We may process your financial information and other Personal Data (e.g., name, account information, financial history) to verify financial information and to collect or make payments to the extent that doing so is required to fulfill our contract with you.

  • Tracking office visitors: If you visit our facilities, we may process your Personal Data (e.g., name, business contact information, purpose of visit, government identifiers, etc.) for security, health, or safety reasons (including any NDAs our visitors may be required to sign) to the extent such processing is necessary to further our legitimate interest in protecting our offices and our confidential information against unauthorized access.

  • Marketing and Advertising: We may process your Personal Data (e.g., name, business contact information, account information, purchase history, internet activity, user profile, etc.) to advertise to you, conduct market research, and to provide other personalized content based upon your Personal Data to the extent it is necessary for our legitimate interest in advertising our websites, services, or products. Where legally required, we will obtain your consent before engaging in any marketing or advertising.

  • Complying with legal and safety obligations: We process your Personal Data (e.g., name, business contact information, government identifiers, account information, payment history, internet history) when cooperating with public and government authorities, protecting our legal rights, conducting audits, and protecting against abuse of our services and products. Any such processing is based on our legitimate interest in protecting our legal rights or, when applicable, complying with a legal obligation to which we are subject.

In some cases, we may provide specific services or offerings subject to separate or supplemental privacy notices. In those cases, we will prominently inform you of those notices and provide in an easily accessible format.

Protecting Personal Data.

We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the Personal Data in our possession from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. While we follow generally accepted standards to protect Personal Data, no method of storage or transmission is 100% secure or error-free. Personal Data you send to or from the website or via e-mail may not be secure, and we encourage you to contact us about more secure ways to share sensitive information when necessary. Where you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on this site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them and to log out of any accounts you access after your sessions.

Your Individual Rights.

You may have certain rights relating to your Personal Data based on applicable local data protection laws, including from individual US state privacy laws (e.g., California, Virginia), Canadian privacy laws, and the EU/UK General Data Protection Regulation. Depending on the applicable laws these rights may include the right to:

  • Request and receive copies of your Personal Data that we hold;

  • Request additional information about how we process your Personal Data;

  • Correct inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data (taking into account our use of it);

  • Request deletion of your Personal Data;

  • Restrict or object to our processing of your Personal Data, including restricting the sale or sharing of your data or its use for cross-context behavioral marketing. Where we process Personal Data for direct marketing purposes (either by us or third parties) or for cross-context behavioral marketing, you may not have to provide a specific reason for such objection;

  • Require us (if possible) to transfer your Personal Data to another controller (i.e., data portability);

  • Limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive Personal Data;

  • Restrict certain disclosures of your Personal Data to third parties;

  • Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects; and

  • Withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data (to the extent we base processing on consent and not on another lawful basis). 

We will not discriminate against you, in any manner prohibited by applicable law, for exercising these rights. You may exercise these rights, to the extent applicable, by sending us an email at privacy@powerplan.com, writing to us at PowerPlan, Inc., 300 Galleria Parkway, Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, USA ATTN: Privacy/General Counsel, or by calling our toll free number: 1-888-818-1733.  We will respond to any such requests within 30 days of receipt.

If you are not happy with how PowerPlan handles your Personal Data and we cannot provide you with a satisfactory resolution to your request, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory body for data protection in your jurisdiction.  If you wish to pursue any of these rights, please contact us using the details set out at the end of this Notice below.

Personal Data Retention.

Personal Data will be stored for as long as the information is required to fulfill our legitimate business needs or the purposes for which the Personal Data was collected, or for such period as is required by law.

Data Transfers to Countries Outside the EU/EEA.

Data entered on our website are transferred to a server in the U.S. and stored there. Your data may be used and disclosed by the Company and its divisions, holding companies, subsidiaries and affiliates, or other entities outside the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA) including in the U.S. Please note that in countries outside the country in which you live a different standard of data protection might apply than the standard that you are used to in your own country. 

Disclosing Personal Data to Third Parties.

We do not sell or share Personal Data about you to unrelated companies for their independent use. 

Promotional and Marketing Policy.

We may ask you to consent to being contacted by us for promotional and marketing purposes. However, you may opt-out of receiving promotional or marketing emails at any time by notifying us as a reply to any unwanted e-mail, by using the unsubscribe function in our newsletter, contacting us at marketing@powerplan.com, or by writing to us at PowerPlan, Inc., 300 Galleria Parkway, Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, USA, ATTN: Marketing. Requests to unsubscribe from PowerPlan e-mails may take 5 business days to process.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies.

Please see our Cookies and Tracking Technologies notification below.

Third-party Websites.

The website may contain links to other third-party sites. When you click on one of these links you are visiting a website operated by someone other than us and the operator of that website may have a different privacy policy. We are not responsible for their individual privacy practices, so we encourage you to investigate the privacy policies of such third-party operators.

Children.

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to us through this website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not access, use, or provide any information on the website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 16 without parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us by sending us an email at privacy@powerplan.com or writing to us at PowerPlan, Inc., 300 Galleria Parkway, Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, USA, ATTN: Privacy/General Counsel.

Data Breaches.

While we work hard to reduce the risk of data breaches, we have dedicated controls and procedures in place if such situations occur, along with procedures to make notifications to you and the relevant Supervisory Authority as appropriate.

Changes to this Privacy Notice.

We may update this Privacy Notice at our discretion to reflect changes we deem necessary or to satisfy legal requirements. We will revise the date at the top of this Privacy Notice upon such updates.

Contact Us.

We welcome comments and questions regarding this Privacy Notice. Any such questions should be directed via e-mail to privacy@powerplan.com. Additionally, you may make your request in writing to PowerPlan, Inc., 300 Galleria Parkway, Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, USA, ATTN: Privacy/General Counsel.

ADDITIONAL STATE-SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS

Provisions in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VDCPA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Nevada Senate Bill 220, and Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) require some or all the following disclosures. These disclosures supplement the Privacy Notice above and are effective as of the same date as the Privacy Notice.

Categories of Personal Data collected. The Personal Data that PowerPlan collects, or has collected from consumers in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this disclosure, fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act:

  • identifiers (e.g., name, address, phone number, IP address);

  • protected classifications (e.g., age, gender, gender identity);

  • financial and commercial information (e.g., credit card numbers, purchase history);

  • internet or other online activity information;

  • geolocation data (e.g., computer/device location);

  • audio or visual information;

  • professional/educational information; 

  • sensitive personal information (including government-issued identifiers, account log-in credentials, and precise geolocation); and

  • inferences drawn from any of the above.

Categories of Personal Data disclosed for a business purpose. In the 12 months prior to the effective date of this disclosure, PowerPlan has disclosed to the third parties identified in Section 7 of the Privacy Notice above Personal Data that falls into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act:

  • identifiers;

  • protected classifications;

  • financial and commercial information;

  • internet or other online activity information;

  • geolocation data;

  • audio or visual information; and

  • professional/educational information.

Sources from which we collect your Personal Data. We collect the categories of Personal Data listed above from the following types of sources: consumers, data analytics companies, ad networks, social networks, internet service providers, service providers that help us to run our business, and data resellers such as data management platforms. We also collect Personal Data automatically via cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies when you use our websites, online services, or mobile apps.

Purposes for which we use your Personal Data. We use your Personal Data for the purposes listed in Section 2 of the Privacy Notice above

California Privacy Rights Act Sensitive Personal Information Disclosure. The categories of data that PowerPlan collects and discloses for a business purpose include "sensitive personal information" as defined under the California Privacy Rights Act. PowerPlan does not use or disclose sensitive personal information for any purpose not expressly permitted by the California Privacy Rights Act.

Right to Access, Delete, or Restrict the Use of Personal Data. Residents of California, Virginia, Colorado Connecticut, Nevada and Utah may have the right to exercise some or all of the rights described in Section 4 of the Privacy Notice. Depending on your data choices and where you reside, certain of these rights may be limited or unavailable. You may exercise these rights by sending us an email at privacy@powerplan.com, writing to us at PowerPlan, Inc., 300 Galleria Parkway, Suite 2100, Atlanta, Georgia 30339, USA, ATTN: Privacy/General Counsel, or by calling 1-888-818-1733.  We will respond to any such requests within 30 days of receipt.

No sale of personal information. PowerPlan has not sold or shared any Personal Data of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act, in the 12 months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure.

No Discrimination. PowerPlan will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under applicable state laws.

Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act Deidentified Data Disclosure. We may use deidentified data in some instances. To the extent we use deidentified data, we will either maintain this data without attempting to re-identify it or we will treat it as Personal Data subject to applicable law.

Quebec Data Protection Contact. Pursuant to the requirements of Bill 64 of the National Assembly of Quebec, you may contact our General Counsel at privacy@powerplan.com.

COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies and other Tracking Technologies. A cookie is a small data file that a website places in your web browser to remember information about you. We use some cookies and tracking technologies for purposes which are necessary for your use of our website, products, or services. These may include technologies which remember your preferences and settings; information that you may enter online; or to keep you logged in to our offerings. With your consent, we may also use cookies and tracking technologies for other purposes.

Strictly Necessary cookies and technology. These are cookies and other technologies that are required for the operation of our website, our products, and our services, and therefore cannot be turned off. You can set your browser or device to block or alert you about these cookies, but functionality may be impaired. These cookies do not store any personal data. These cookies are used solely for the purpose of carrying out or facilitating the transmission of a communication and are strictly necessary to provide you with the information society service you have expressly requested. The use of these cookies for the purposes described above is based on our legitimate interest in ensuring your access to and the proper technical functioning of our website, products, and services that you have expressly requested.

Analytical/Performance cookies. Where you have permitted the use of performance cookies, we use Google Analytics to collect statistical information about how our website and services are used. Google Analytics services involve the use of cookies that collect information such as your IP address or other identifiers, browser information, and information about the content you view and interact with to record how you use the website, our products, and services. These analytics services help us count users, identify popular offerings, and track the demographics and interests of our users.

Targeting cookies. These cookies record your activity on our site or using our services including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make our content more relevant to you to measure the effectiveness of our marketing. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. These are also optional cookies, although if you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Your Choices: Managing Your Preferences

When you first visit our website, you will be presented with a banner which offers you a choice about whether to accept or reject cookies or tracking technologies of different types, except for those cookies which are strictly necessary for a particular service.

If you wish, you can also choose how web browser cookies are handled by your device via your browser settings. Some devices allow you to control this through your device settings. If you choose not to receive cookies at any time, websites may not function properly, and certain services will not be provided. Each browser and each device are different, so check the settings menu of the browser or device to learn how to change your settings and cookie preferences.

You can find information on how to manage cookie settings on certain browsers via the following links:

Our Use of Google Analytics. This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). 

Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the U.S. If the IP anonymization is activated, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement in the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the U.S. 

On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. 

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under 

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at:

Please note that on this website, Google Analytics code is supplemented by “anonymizeIp” to ensure an anonymized collection of IP addresses within the EU and EEA (IP-masking).