Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Welcome to www.2g-energy.com (this “Site”). This Site is operated by 2G Energy, Inc. (“2G Energy” or “we” or “us”) and has been created to provide our customers the information, products and other initiatives developed and/or offered by us and our subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, the “Services”). We respect your concerns about privacy and, as described in this Privacy Policy, we will take appropriate measures to protect your privacy as you use this Site. This Privacy Policy describes the types of personal information we may obtain from you via this Site and social media pages that reference this Privacy Policy, how we may use that personal information, with whom we may share it, and how you may exercise your rights regarding our processing of the information. The Privacy Policy also describes the measures we take to safeguard the personal information we obtain and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
By using this Site, you acknowledge that you have reviewed the terms of our Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”). If you do not agree with these terms, you may choose not to use our Site, and please do not provide any personal information through this Site. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Use and such shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, United States of America. You agree to submit any dispute arising out of your use of this web site to the exclusive jurisdiction of the State of Florida.
Please read the entire Privacy Policy carefully. Should you have any questions about this Statement or about our data collection, storage and use practices, please contact us as provided below.
What Information Do We Collect?
We may obtain personal information through the Channels. The types of personal information we may obtain include:
- contact information (such as name, phone and fax number, email and postal address) for you or for others (e.g., principals in your business);
- information used to create your online account (such as username, password and security question and answer);
- location data (such as data derived from your IP address, country and zip code) and the precise geolocation of your mobile device where we have provided notice and choice, as appropriate;
- inferences about you, including about your preferences; and
- clickstream data and other information about your online activities (such as information about your devices, browsing actions and usage patterns), including across third-party websites, that we obtain through the use of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies (see our Cookie Policy).
We use the personal information that we collect in an effort to provide you with a superior customer experience on the Site and to improve and market the Services. We may store such personal information itself or it may be stored in databases owned and maintained by our affiliates, agents or service providers. We retain rights to these databases and the information contained in them.
If you register with us or use certain other of the personalized options we offer, we will create a profile that includes your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone number and other information that you provide that is pertinent to your specific situation. We may combine such information with data gathered from other sources. For instance, if incorrect postal codes are received, we may use third party software to correct them. When you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence and may occasionally ask you to complete surveys for sales and research purposes.
In some instances we contract with outside parties to collect and maintain our information collection servers and to perform technology and related services. We seek to provide any such third parties with only the information they need to perform their specific function and we require them to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Wherever we collect personal information we will provide a link to this Privacy Policy.
Please note that providing personal information to us is voluntary on your part. If you choose not to provide us certain information, we may not be able to offer you certain products and services, and you may not be able to access certain features on the Site.
Cookies and Similar Technology
Like most companies, GE uses cookies and similar technologies (“cookies”) on our websites to personalize and enhance your experience on our sites. For additional information, please review our Cookie Policy.
How Do We Use Your personal information and Other Information?
We use the personal information you provide for our business purposes in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.
If you provide personal information for a certain reason, that personal information will be available to us for use in connection with the reason for which it was provided or for a consistent purpose, including, if applicable, processing an order placed by you or informing you that the product is no longer available. For instance, if you contact us by e-mail, we may use the personal information you provide to respond to you. We may also combine personal information that you have provided to us with information obtained by us from other parties.
We and our affiliates also may use your personal information, User Data and other information collected through the Site to help us improve the content and functionality of the Site, to better understand our customers and markets, to improve our products and services and to effect and facilitate sales.
We and our affiliates may use this information to contact you, electronically, through telemarketing or otherwise, in the future to tell you about, and to offer for sale, products or services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to “opt out” of receiving future communications.
If at any time you wish not to receive any future communications or to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, you may follow the “unsubscribe” procedure included with our communication. In addition, you may e-mail us at info@2g-energy.com below.
Transfer of Your Data Abroad
By voluntarily providing us with your personal information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Site is intended for use only in the United States, however, due to the nature of the Internet if you are visiting this Site from a country other than Canada and the United States, your communications will inevitably result in the transfer of information across international boundaries. By visiting this Site you consent to these transfers. If you provide personal information to this Site, you acknowledge and agree that such personal information may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of us and our affiliates, agents and service providers referred to herein located in the United States and in other countries.
What are Your Choices?
You can use this Site without providing your personal information, although doing so may limit your ability to obtain certain information or to use other valuable the Services, including, for example, informational newsletters and responses to specific inquiries you may have.
We keep your personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal reporting or document retention requirements. Upon your request, we will take update, correct or, delete your personal information in our possession that you have previously submitted via this Site. In order to request an update, with respect to your personal information, please contact us as provided below. If at any time you wish not to receive further communications, you may also follow the unsubscribe procedure included in our communication or send your request to info@2g-energy.com.
Do Not Track browser settings
www.2g-energy.com does not use pervasive online web tracking for behavioral advertisements. Enabling of the Do Not Track setting in your browser will have no effect on the types of data we collect and use as follows:
Personally non-identifiable information is used only for commonly accepted practices such as visit and click-through rates collected to improve site design and navigation.
Personally identifiable information is only gathered when data is explicitly entered into an on-line form found on the Site. At any time, you can also opt-out of receiving any future communications.
Do We Share the Information that We Receive?
We consider your information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. We will share information including personal information with our subsidiaries and affiliates that have also agreed to be bound by this Privacy Policy. In addition, we, like many businesses, sometimes hire other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments. When we retain another non-affiliated company to perform a function of this nature, we seek to provide them with only the information that they need to perform their specific functions, and we require them to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our restrictions.
In addition, if you input personal information on a co-branded registration page, relating, for example, to a contest co-sponsored by both us and a partner company, then your personal information will be available both to us and to such partner company. While we will only use such personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, such partner company’s use of your personal information will be subject to the privacy policy of that company and we cannot be responsible for their use of your information. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of such partner company before providing information on any such co-sponsored page or promotion.
There are also a limited number of circumstances in which we may share your personal information and other information in our possession with certain additional third parties without further notice to you, as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose your personal information, User Data and other information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a legal obligation, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of us or our affiliates, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the public, or (d) protect against legal liability.
Business Transfers, Combinations and Related Activities:
As we develop our business, we might sell, buy, restructure or reorganize businesses or assets. In the event of any sale, merger, reorganization, restructuring, dissolution or similar event involving our business or assets, personal information may be part of the transferred assets.
2G Energy is a subsidiary of a German parent company. In light of this fact, we may, from time to time transfer your personal information to one of our databases in another country as provided above under the heading Transfer of Your Data Abroad.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect any personal information you provide to us and to protect such information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Unless otherwise stated on the relevant page of the Site, we use general security standards but has not taken additional action to secure data provided to its sites, and such transmissions are subject to normal Internet security risks. As noted, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from this Site may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information to us or to any other party via the Internet. Moreover, when you use passwords, ID numbers, or other special access features on this Site, it is your responsibility to safeguard them, in this respect please refer to the Terms of Use.
California Privacy Rights
California law requires that we provide to certain customers, upon request, certain information regarding the sharing of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We may share personal information with some affiliates for those affiliates’ direct marketing purposes. If you make a request by sending an email to info@2g-energy.com, we will provide you with a list of personal information that we may have shared with some or all of these affiliates.
Effective January 1, 2020, California residents have the following additional privacy rights:
Right to Know: As a resident of California, you have the right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we hold about you and how we use them. To request this information, you simply need to submit a Right to Know request for your Personal Information Report.
Right to Delete: As a resident of California, you have the right to have us delete any information collected from you that’s not critical for us to deliver your services nor to provide you with a personalized experience. To make this request, you simply need to submit a Right to Delete request.
Right to Opt-out: As a resident of California, you have the right to instruct us not to sell your personal information to third-parties. To make this request, you simply need to submit a Right to Opt-out request.
If you have never been a 2G Energy customer the sale of your personal information is very limited - if you visit our websites some of the cookies we use might share personal information in a way that is considered a sale. Please click [here[TMS7] ] for information on managing the cookies on our sites that may collect and share personal information.
If you’d like to exercise any of these rights, please click the button [TMS8] below to make your request.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
This Site and our business change constantly. As a result, at times it may be necessary for us to make changes to this Privacy Policy We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any personal information. Your continued use of the Site after any changes or revisions to this Privacy Policy shall indicate your agreement with the terms of such revised Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy or the information practices of this Site.
2G Energy, Inc.
205 Commercial Drive
St. Augustine, FL 32092 USA
info@2g-energy.com
June 24, 2020