PROJECT CARBON FREEDOM PRIVACY POLICY

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 28, 2021

Welcome! This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information that you share with the Project Carbon Freedom (“Coalition” or “we”).

We appreciate that you trust the Coalition with your information. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform you about who, what and when the Coalition collects and uses your personal information.

If you have questions about how the Coalition processes your personal information or this Privacy Policy, please contacting us at:

  • by email at hq@projectcarbonfreedom.com, or
  • by telephone at 802.379.5116, or
  • by U.S. mail at Project Carbon Freedom, [800 South Street, Suite 500, Waltham, MA 02453].
  1. WHERE THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of http://projectcarbonfreedom.com/ (“Site”) and to other information collected by or on behalf of the Coalition.

Certain features of the Site may notify you about additional personal information processing terms that apply. You must acknowledge and agree to these additional terms before using these features. If any of the additional privacy terms is inconsistent with any provision of this Privacy Policy, then the additional term will apply but solely to the extent of that inconsistency.

  1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information you give us. We collect information that you choose to give us when you use the Site. For example:

  • When you chose to participate in campaigns, we collect the information that you give us, such as your name, zip code, email address and phone number.
  • If you request more information about the Coalition, we collect the information needed to fulfill your request.
  • If you contact our support team, we collect the information you give us to provide you support. We may monitor or record your online or telephone discussions with our support team for training purposes and to ensure service quality. We will announce when your telephone calls are recorded when required by law.

In order to access and use them, certain features of the Site may require you to have a user name and password (an “Account”). If you create an Account, then you must provide to us the information necessary for the Account to work, such as your email address. We collect all of the information that you give us in connection with your Account.

Information Collected from Your Use of the Site
When you use the Site, we automatically collect information about your browser type and language, the date and time of your webpage view or search, hardware/software type, device ID, internet service provider, interaction data, page views, serving domains, IP address (which may give us your location but not your precise geolocation) and certain cookies that identify your browser or account.

When You Connect with the Site through Social Media
The Site may link with social media platforms and social media plug-ins (e.g., the Facebook “Like” button, ‘”Share to Twitter”‘ button) (collectively, “Social Media”). When accessing the Site through a Facebook or other Social Media account, we may (depending on the applicable settings) automatically receive information from the Social Media platform. We may collect and use this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or at the time the information was collected.

Some of this information is collected through the data collection technology described in Section 3.

  1. COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY

What is Data Collection Technology?
We use different kinds of technology to collect information when you interact with the Site or with certain third parties. Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer’s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the “lifetime” of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Site.

Web beacons (also called pixel tags or clear GIFs) are another type of data collection technology. A web beacon is computer code that enables us to monitor user activity and website traffic. To learn more about cookies and web beacons, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

The Site uses the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies, which are required for the operation of the Site.
  • Analytical/performance cookies, which allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors, to learn how visitors navigate the Site and to help us to improve Site functionality.
  • Functionality cookies, which help us recognize you when you return to the Site.
  • Targeting cookies, which help us to deliver ads or messages that we believe will interest you based on your visits to the Site, the pages you visited and the links you followed. We also may share this information with our third-party advertising partners to help us identify and send you relevant messages.
  • Interaction cookies, which allow you to recommend us on Social Media.

Google’s Data Collection Technology
We use Google Analytics, which is a Google service that uses data collection technology to collect information about use of the Site and report website trends. Google requires disclosure about Google Analytics features and inclusion of information about use of first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) or other third-party identifiers and how they are used together. Please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for more information about how Google uses the information it collects through the Site.

What is Collected through Our Data Collection Technology?
The data collection technology that we use may collect:

  • Your IP address, computer or mobile device type and operating system, access times, referring website address.
  • Your browser type and language.
  • Your time zone.

Why Use Data Collection Technology?
Data collection technology helps us improve your experience of the Site by, for example, customizing your experience, helping us analyze usage, technical and navigational metrics and detecting and preventing fraud.

You can opt out of Google Analytics by visiting https://adssettings.google.com/ or by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To opt-out of personalized advertising generally, visit DAA Opt-Out Page (web browser only). Opting out does not mean you will not see advertising – it means you won’t see personalized advertising from the companies that participate in the DAA opt-out programs. Also, if you clear your cookies, you may need to opt-out again.

Some web browsers (including some mobile web browsers) provide settings that allow you to control or reject cookies or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer. You also may be able to reject device identifiers by activating the appropriate setting on your mobile device.

Although you are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers to use the Site, if you block or reject them, you may not have access to all features available through the Site.

What about Do Not Track Signals?
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) have a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) feature that tells a website that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked. If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including us, do not respond to DNT signals.

  1. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use the information that we collect:

To deliver the Site

  • Create and manage your Account.
  • Provide you with information and support and respond to your requests for information
  • Complete transactions that you request, such as sending emails to legislators.
  • Manage and communicate with you about the Site and Coalition.

For analytics and marketing

  • Combine and analyze information collected through the Site. Combining information enables us to better understand users’ activities across the Site, to create a single set of information from all of ways that we interact with you.
  • Perform website or mobile application analytics.
  • Communicate with you by email, telephone or mobile device about issues that we think will interest you.

To learn about what you and other users like so we can improve the Site

  • Administer focus groups and surveys.
  • Conduct research and analysis to improve the Site.

To prevent and detect fraud

For legal compliance

  • Comply with legal requirements.
  • Assist law enforcement when we believe necessary to do so.
  • Enforce or exercise our legal agreements and legal rights
  1. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We share information:

  • With your Consent or at Your Request
  • With Our Service Providers
    We use third parties to help us operate the Site. These third parties include investor relations services, marketing services, analytics providers, web hosting providers, call center providers, and data security consultants.
  • With Other Coalition Members
    We may share information we collect through the Site with other the Coalition Members.
  • For Corporate Transactions
    We may share and transfer information if we are involved in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control of all or any part of the Coalition.
  • When Required by Law
    Applicable law may require us to disclose your information when: (i) reasonably necessary to comply with legal process (such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant), government investigation or other legal requirements or (ii) necessary for the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law). We also may respond to information requests from competent government regulators.
  • To Enforce Legal Rights
    We also share information (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of users, customers, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to pursue available remedies or limit the damages; (iv) to enforce our agreements with you; and (v) to respond to an emergency.
  1. YOUR RIGHTS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you are a registered user of the Site, we provide you with tools and Account settings that help you to access, correct, delete or modify the personal information that you provided to us and associated with your Account.

  1. HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION

We use technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information against unauthorized access, theft and loss. Unfortunately, however, we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or through the Internet.

If and when you create an Account, you are responsible for maintaining the security of your Account and the information in your Account.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the Site without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe that your Account or information that you provided to us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at 781-894-8800.

  1. HOW LONG WE RETAIN INFORMATION

We keep your personal information in identifiable form only as long as we need it for the lawful purpose for which we collected it or, if longer or shorter, to comply with law, to resolve disputes and to enforce agreements with you.

  1. ABOUT CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under age 13 because they are not allowed to use the Site. If you know that a person under age 18 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please notify us immediately by email at hq@projectcarbonfreedom.com or by telephone at 802.379.5116.

  1. WHEN THIS PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES

From time to time, we will update this Privacy Policy to add information about new features or services. We will notify you before we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that reduce your privacy rights so that you have time to review the changes and decide whether you would like to continue to use the Site under the terms of the new Privacy Policy.

  1. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Site may contain links to third-party websites. These links are provided for convenience and informational purposes and are not controlled by the Coalition, nor is the content monitored by the Coalition. While we try to link to websites that share our high standards and respect for personal privacy, the Coalition is not responsible for the content or the privacy practices of any third party. Use of any linked third-party website that you access through the Site is at your own risk.