Effective date: February 13, 2020
This privacy policy (“Policy”) applies to inerG, Inc. and its related and/or affiliated
companies
(“Company” or “inerG”) online tools, services and platform(s), including any associated
inerG mobile and desktop applications
(collectively, the “Services”), www.inerg.io, www.inerg.com or their subdomains
(collectively, the “Websites”) and other interactions
(e.g., customer service inquiries, user conferences, etc.) you may have with inerG.
The Policy describes how inerG collects, uses, discloses, and shares your personal
information.
What we collect
We get information about you in a range of ways.
Information You Give Us
We may collect your name, postal address, email address, phone number, username, password,
demographic information (such as your occupation), social security number, tax ID number,
bank account information, as well as other information you directly give us on our Services
or Websites.
For customers who have paid software services, we collect your billing details such as
credit card information, banking information, and/or billing address.
Information We Get From Others
We may get information about you from other sources, such as your employer. We may add this
to information you provide us through our Services or Websites
Information Automatically Collected
Device Information
We may collect information about the devices accessing our Services or Websites.
Some examples are: type of device, operating system used, application information,
unique device identifiers and crash data. The type of information we collect depends on the
type of device used and its settings.
Transactional and Usage Information
We may automatically log information about you and your computer, subject, where necessary,
to your consent. For example, like most services when visiting our website, we log your
computer operating system type, browser type, browser language, pages you viewed, how long
you spent on a page, location (your IP address), access times and information about your use
of and actions on our website. This is information we collect from every visitor to the
Website, whether they have an account or not. This information may include personal
information.
Cookies and Similar Technologies Information
As further described below, and subject, where applicable, to your consent, we automatically
collect information from cookies and similar technologies (such as cookie ID and settings)
to keep you logged in, to remember your preferences, and to identify you and your device.
Third party data
inerG may receive data about organizations, industries, website visitors, marketing
campaigns, and other matters related to our business from affiliates, subsidiaries,
partners, or others that we use to make our own information better or more useful. This data
may be combined with other information we collect and might include aggregate level data.
We may use personal information as follows:
To operate, maintain, and improve the Services or Website. This includes use of other
information to support delivery of our services under contract, assist with service request,
monitor for errors, remedy security or technical issues, analyze website and application
performances.
To respond to comments and questions, verify permission access, and provide customer
service.
To send information including confirmations, invoices and billing, technical notices,
updates, security alerts, and administrative messages.
To communicate system updates, upcoming events, and other news about products and services
offered by us. We may contact you to inform you about important services-related notices,
such as privacy and policy update notices or changes in our terms of service. These
communications are strictly necessary and you may not opt out of them.
To link or combine user information with other personal information.
To protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
To provide and deliver products and service customers requests.
To fulfill our customers’ instructions.
To comply with any applicable law.
For legal, protection, information security, and safety purposes. Examples include enforcing
contracts or policies, reporting on security breaches, or assisting with investigating and
preventing fraud or security issues.
We may share customer and user access on the customer’s account. Administrators for the
customer, authorized users and other designated representatives may be able to add, modify
or restrict access.
To comply with laws and regulatory requests. Examples include responding to lawful requests
and legal or regulatory processes.
To protect the rights and property of inerG, our agents, customers, and others. This
includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use.
With those who need it to do work for us. An example is granting an inerG employee the
necessary access in order to perform their duties.
We may share aggregated or anonymized data. We may disclose or use aggregated or anonymized
data for any purpose. An example would be for marketing, analytics or research purposes.
We will not share personal information with investors of the Company beyond any personal
information that such investors are entitled to for customary legitimate business purposes.
If we engage in or negotiate a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding
of some or all of inerG’s assets or stock, financing, public offering of securities,
acquisition of all or a portion of our business, a similar transaction or proceeding, or
steps in contemplation of such activities (e.g. due diligence), some or all personal
information may be shared or transferred subject to reasonable confidentiality restrictions
with respect to personal information.
We may share other information with consent with third parties when we have consent to do
so. We may engage third party companies or individuals as service providers to process
information and support our services. An example would be cloud services for data center
colocation and storage services.
When Customers authorize access to customer data to third parties.
Age Limitations
inerG does not allow the use of our services and Site by anyone younger than 18 years old.
If you learn that anyone younger than 18 has unlawfully provided us with personal data,
please contact us and we will take steps to delete such information.
Information choices and changes
Our marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” If you opt-out, we may still send you
non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our
business dealings with you that are necessary for fulfilling our obligations to our
customers.
You may send requests about personal information to our Contact Information below. You can
request to change contact choices, opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your
personal information.
You can typically remove and reject cookies from our website with your browser settings.
Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or
reject our cookies, it may affect how our website works for you.
We strive to provide you the tools to update your personal information. If you are unable to
correct inaccurate information on your own, you may request our assistance to update such
information by contacting privacy@inerg.com.
Notice for California Residents
Scope. This section applies to your Personal
Information that we handle as a “business” (as
defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”)) if you are a California
resident. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” has the meaning given in the
CCPA but does not include information exempted from the scope of the CCPA. In addition, this
section does not apply to Personal Information reflecting communications or transactions
with you in your capacity as an employee, controlling owner, director, officer or contractor
of a company, partnership, sole proprietorship, non-profit or government agency, where your
communications or transactions with us occur solely within the context of our provision of
services to, or receipt of services from, such an entity.
inerG does not sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA) the Personal Information we
collect (and will not sell it without providing a right to opt out).
Your California privacy rights. You have the
following rights under the CCPA:
Information. To request the following information
about how we have collected and used your
Personal Information during the past 12 months:
The categories of Personal Information that we have collected.
The categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information.
The business or commercial purpose for collecting Personal Information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Information.
Whether we have disclosed your Personal Information for a business purpose, and if so, the
categories of Personal Information disclosed to each category of third party recipient.
Access. To request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected
about you
during the past 12 months.
Deletion. To request that we delete the Personal
Information that we have collected from
you.
Nondiscrimination. To exercise the rights described
above free from discrimination as
provided in the CCPA.
How to exercise your rights. You may submit a
request to exercise your information, access
or deletion rights by emailing support@inerg.com. We will need to verify your identity to
process your information, access and deletion requests and we reserve the right to confirm
your California residency. Government identification may be required. If you wish to
designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, we will need to verify both
your and your agent’s identities and your agent must provide a valid power of attorney or
other proof of authority acceptable to us in our reasonable discretion. We cannot process
your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and
respond to it. In certain cases, we may be required or permitted by law to deny your
request.
Collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information.
The categories of Personal
Information that we collect and the sources from which we collect them are described above
in the section entitled What we
collect. These categories include identifiers, commercial
information, financial data, internet activity information and professional or
employment-related information as described in Section 1798.140(o) of the CCPA. The
business/commercial purposes for which we use these categories of Personal Information are
described in the section above entitled Use of personal
information. The categories of third
parties to which we these categories of Personal Information are described in the section
above entitled Sharing of
personal information. The foregoing describes our practices as of,
and during the twelve month period preceding, the effective date of the Privacy Policy.
Contact information
We welcome your comments or questions about this Privacy Policy. You may also contact us at
our address:
inerG, Inc., 5151 San Felipe Street, Suite 1850, Houston, TX 77056
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy. If we make any substantive changes related to how we
collect or use data, we will change the effective date above. Other changes including
grammar or spelling corrections will automatically update the timestamp at the bottom of
this document.
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