Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

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What data is gathered by us and why?

Personal Info

We collect personal information you consent to submitting when expressing an interest in learning more about us or our products and services, using our website, submitting your information on web forms (Typeform, Calendly, Facebook Lead Ads, etc.), or contacting us through other means. The personal information we collect is determined by how you engage with us and our services, the choices you make, and the goods and features you use. We may gather the following personal information:

  • Name and Contact Data: When you submit your information, we gather your first and last name, email address, home address, and home information used for service qualification (shade report, average energy bill payment, etc.), postal code, phone number, and other similar contact data.
  • Payment Information: We gather payment information exclusively when taking credit card payments or installment payments. Payment information will be securely held on our end and securely destroyed after payments have been properly completed.

All personal information supplied must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must tell us of any changes to your information so that we may continue to contact you correctly. Please contact us using the information given below.

Data gathered from other sources

In some cases, we may collect information about you from sources other than the company, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), and other third parties. Other sources of information that we get include:

  • Information from social networking platforms (your name, gender, birth date, email, current city, state, country, and user identification)
  • Marketing prospects
  • Search phrases (as determined by sponsored search advertising)
Feedback

When visitors post comments on the site, we gather the information displayed in the comments form as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam identification.

Media

If you post images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) since people who use the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

How your information is used

This section will explain how we utilize your data for commercial purposes. We use your personal information to pursue our legitimate business interests, such as entering into and/or performing a contract with you with your agreement and/or complying with any legal requirements arising from the deal. The following describes all of the purposes for which personal information will be used.

We use your information to do the following:

  • supply marketing and promotional communications: We and/or any third-party marketing partners with whom we collaborate may use the personal information you supply us for marketing purposes, based on user choices (preferred means of contact). You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any email or telling us via other means of contact.
  • Deliver targeted advertising: We and third-party marketers may use your information to create and display content and advertising on social media that is tailored to your interests and/or location, as well as to assess the success of this advertising. You can opt out of social media advertising by hiding our ads (the technique differs per site).
  • Request Feedback: We may use your information to contact you and solicit feedback on our services, such as customer testimonials, reviews, and so on.
  • To Provide Services to the User: We may use your information to provide you with the requested service, such as contacting you via email and phone to schedule a consultation, utilizing your address to determine whether your home qualifies for solar, and so on.
  • Other Business Purposes: We may use your information for other Business purposes such as analytics, calculating the efficacy of our promotional programs, evaluating and improving our Services or goods, marketing, and user experience. We may use and keep this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not correlated with specific end users and does not include personal information. We will not use personally identifiable information without your permission.
Who we share your information with and why

We may handle or share data in the following situations:

Consent: We may use your data if you have granted us specific permission to use your personal information in a specific situation (for example, if you agree to a consent statement on a web form).

Legitimate Interests: We may treat your data when doing so is required to fulfill our business interests, which are discussed further in the policy.

Contract Fulfillment: We may use your information to fulfill contractual responsibilities, such as delivering services.

Legal Requirements: We may disclose personal information where we are legally compelled to do so in order to comply with relevant legislation or in another legal situation, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to satisfy the demands of law enforcement).

Violations: We may disclose personal information when it is necessary for us to investigate, prevent, or take steps concerning possible breaches of our policies or the law, such as suspected fraud, threats to the Company or an individual (whether an employee of the Company, a contractor, or a third party providing services), or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

Your information may be shared with:

  • Third-Party Service Providers (Vendors, Consultants, and Others): We may share your information with third-party suppliers, service providers, contractors, or marketers that provide services for us and need access to your information to do so.

          Here are several examples:

    • Payment processing
    • analytics 
    • website hosting 
    • customer service 
    • businesses 
    • email, social media, and other marketing activities
  • We may permit chosen third parties to use tracking technology on the website to collect data about how you interact with it. This information may be used to evaluate and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand internet behavior.
  • Transfers of Ownership: We may transfer your information to another firm as a consequence of a merger, financing, or purchase of all or a portion of our business.
  • Third-Party Advertisers: When you visit our website, we may utilize third-party advertising businesses to show advertisements. These firms may use information contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies about your visits to our Website(s) and other websites to offer advertising about goods and services relevant to your interests.
  • An automatic spam detection service may be used to review visitor comments.

Unless otherwise noted elsewhere in this Policy, we DO NOT share, sell, rent, or exchange your information with other parties for their own use.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information?

We will only store your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention term is required or authorized by law (for example, contractual obligations, tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy requires us to store your personal information for more than two years or for the duration of a contract you sign with us. When we no longer need your information for commercial purposes, we will delete it or anonymize it; if this is not feasible (due to backup databases, for example), we will securely keep your personal information and prevent it from being used for any activities until it can be removed.

For comments on our site, the comment and its information are kept permanently. This allows us to automatically detect and approve any subsequent comments, rather than putting them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we additionally keep the personal information they submit in their user profile. All users can read, amend, or remove their personal information at any time (although they cannot alter their username). Website administrators can also view and change that information.

Concerning Minors' Personal Information

We do not intentionally collect information from anyone under the age of 18. By entering information, you affirm that you are at least 18 years old or that you are the parent or guardian of a minor and consent to the minor’s information submission. If we become aware that data from minors is being collected, we will erase such data from our records as soon as possible. If you become aware of any information we have obtained from minors under the age of 18, please notify us immediately at sion@solargloryny.com.

Regarding California/EU Residents' Personal Information

Recent legislation in California and the European Union has provided users with more data safeguards. We do not do business in any of these regions, so we do not intentionally seek information from the inhabitants of these places. As a result, any data obtained from them will be anonymized and removed as soon as feasible for compliance reasons.

Cookies

What are Cookies?

Cookies are little text files that contain data fragments that are saved to your device and are accessible when websites are loaded or otherwise utilized. Cookies are often used to save preferences, such as entries into internet forms. Cookies are set by the site itself or by third parties (companies that provide advertising or other data collection services on the page). Web beacons, or pixels, which are small, invisible images used to collect data and track campaign effectiveness, may also be found on websites. While they are similar, they are not cookies and are not kept as such. Even if cookies are removed completely, pixels may still load, but not all data will be gathered.

How We Make Use of Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of purposes. Some are required to secure the site’s functioning, while others allow users to enjoy a more personalized experience. At the moment, we use cookies to:

  • Gather information on users’ surfing behavior.
  • Gather information on website activities.
  • Temporarily store information entered by users into forms (such as registration forms, calculators, and so on).
  • Collect information about you kept by Facebook Pixel in order to contact you about our services.
  • For more information on how Facebook uses data through the Pixel, go to Facebook Pixel Page.

Cookies can be set at any moment, such as when a page is loaded or when a site visitor performs an action (such as clicking a button or filling out a form). If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose whether or not to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are provided for your convenience so that you do not have to enter your information again while leaving another comment. These cookies are good for a year. We will create a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies if you have an account and log in to our site. This cookie includes no personally identifiable information and is deleted when you exit your browser. 

We will also set up many cookies when you log in to preserve your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies expire after two days, while screen options cookies expire after a year. If you check the “Remember Me” box, your login will be saved for two weeks. When you log out of your account, the login cookies are deleted. Cookies and pixels are currently only used on our website. If this policy is changed, the policy will be updated, and a revision date will be added to the page.

Embedded material from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded material (for example, videos, photographs, articles, and so on). Embedded material from other websites operates exactly as if the visitor had visited other websites.

These websites may gather information about you, utilize cookies, embed extra third-party monitoring, and track your engagement with embedded material, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are signed in to that website.

Embedded material from other websites

Articles on this site may contain embedded material (for example, videos, photographs, articles, and so on). Embedded material from other websites operates exactly as if the visitor had visited other websites.

These websites may gather information about you, utilize cookies, embed extra third-party monitoring, and track your engagement with embedded material, including tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are signed in to that website.

What rights do you have to your data?

You can request an exported file of the personal data we possess on you, including any data you have supplied to us if you have an account on our site or have posted comments. You can also ask us to delete any personal information we have on file for you. This excludes any data that we are required to store for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

By default, most web browsers allow cookies. If you choose, all users can restrict which cookies are set or prohibit them from being set at all. Many browsers have internal options or add-ons that make this possible. Please keep in mind, however, that removing or rejecting cookies may impair the performance of some features or services on our website. Please visit aboutads.info/choices to opt out of third-party targeted advertising on our Website.

How we safeguard your information

We seek to safeguard your personal information by implementing a system of organizational and technological security measures that prevent data from being accessed by anyone who is not authorized to see it (see above). Please keep in mind, however, that we cannot guarantee that the internet is completely safe. Although we will do our best to secure your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from any location where you submit it to us is entirely at your own risk. You should only use the services in a safe setting (for example, from your home’s or office’s protected WiFi).

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our Privacy Policy or the use of cookies, please contact us at sion@solorgloryny.com, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.