Effective Date: January
23, 2006
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to
assist you-businesses, consumers and the general public-in understanding how we
collect and use the personal information you provide to us, and to help you make
informed decisions when using our web site and all of our related services
therein.
Contact Information
To request a correction or
deletion of your private information, or if you have any questions and general
comments about this privacy policy, please contact us: e-mail:
Surface
mailing address:
SOLAR VELOCITY, LLC
3300 Highlands Parkway
Suite
260
Smyrna, GA 30082
404.978.2241
info@solarvelocity.com
What Information Do We Collect?
When visiting the our web
site, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you
voluntarily choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis, and Web
site use information gathered on a collective basis as you and others browse our
Web site.
Personal Information You Choose to Provide
Registration
Information
You will provide us
information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you
register to be a user of our services, register for certain services, or
register for email newsletters and alerts.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may
retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and
our responses. If you use our "Email this page" feature to send a copy of that
page to someone else, your email address will appear as the sender of the email.
Both your email address and the recipient's email address will not be used for
any other purpose.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Generally, we use personal information for purposes of managing and
expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making
available other products and services to our customers and prospective
customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify
you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we
think you will find valuable.
Choice/Opt-out
We allow you the
choice to opt-out of having your information used for purposes not directly
related to our site, when we ask for the information.
Until you
explicitly opt-in for the first time we consider you in the opt-out category. We
always notify our customers when their information is being collected by any
outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to
whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.
If you do not wish to receive any promotional or marketing e-mails
and/or surface mail marketing letters, you may opt-out of receiving those
communications by using the opt-out mechanism on the User Account Settings Web
page, or by sending an e-mail with the subject line "Unsubscribe" to or e-mail
address - see above.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small
text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you
visit a Web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to
store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for
cookies. Each Web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's
preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a
Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent
to you by other sites.
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you visit our Web site, the site uses its cookies to
differentiate you from other customers. In some cases, we also use cookies to
prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in
more than is necessary for security.
Cookies, in conjunction with our
Web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people
visiting our Web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps
us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve
our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about
you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to
us in your cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We
may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third
parties who may be given access to personal information including your name,
address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information
regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you.
In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also
provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the
information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party.
We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not
limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection
with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third
parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with
business activities.
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell
assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is
generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions.
We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures,
mergers, or any dissolution.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Secure
Information Transmissions
Email is not
recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that
you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you
may enter on our Web site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer
SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs
that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact if you have any questions
or concerns.
How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable
information that we collect online and maintain in our database by contact us,
see the above contact information.
What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web
Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web
sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained
therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to
information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site. Please
remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site,
our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any
other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is
subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules
and policies before proceeding.
Your Consent
By using our Web
site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as
described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and
procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what
information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may
disclose it.At any time you may request to view any and all changes and updates,
via surface mail.
Notification of Changes
The Privacy
Policy is subject to periodic review and change. In order to view the current
Privacy Policy, simply check this section of the website.
If we materially
change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement
and other places we deem appropriate so users are aware of what information we
collect, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
In some cases where we post a notice, we may also email user who have opted to
receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy
practices.