PRIVACY POLICY

Energy Hire LLC (“Energy Hire”) respects the privacy of others. This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is intended to explain Energy Hire’s privacy practices with respect to the www.energyfreelance.com, website, and other website(s) published by Energy Hire that links to this Privacy Policy (together with its respective pages and features, the “Site”).  Your use of the Site is governed by Energy Hire’s User Agreement (https://energyfreelance.com/user-agreement.html).  This Privacy Policy is also intended to provide you (together with any person helping you visit, access, or use any of those online or digital properties, products or services, “you” or “your”) with an overview of the following:

• the type of information about you Energy Hire collects through the Site;
• how Energy Hire collects such information;
• how Energy Hire uses such information;
• who will have access to such information; and
• Energy Hire’s security measures for protecting such information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through the Site.  Carefully read this Privacy Policy in its entirety.

You are automatically accepting and agreeing to the most-recent version of this Privacy Policy, whenever you visit, access, or use the Site or any services provided by Energy Hire on the Site; and your continuing visit, or use of any of the forgoing reaffirms your acceptance and agreement in each instance.

As used herein, the term “personal information” means information that relates to an identified or an identifiable individual (e.g., your name, physical address, telephone number, email address, social security number); and the term “non-personal information” means any information other than personal information that Energy Hire may collect from you, such as anonymized data.

1. A Special Note About Minors.

The Site is a general audience website intended for use by adults.  The Site is not designed or intended to attract, and is not directed to, children under eighteen (18) years of age, let alone children under thirteen (13) years of age. Energy Hire does not collect personal information through the Site from any person it actually knows to be under thirteen (13) years of age.  If Energy Hire obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information through the Site from a person under thirteen (13) years of age, then it will use reasonable efforts to refrain from further using such personal information or maintaining it in retrievable form.

Furthermore, if you are under eighteen (18) years of age, then you (or your parent or legal guardian) may at any time request that Energy Hire remove content or information about you that is posted on the Site.  Please submit any such request (“Request for Removal of Minor Information”) to legal@energyfreelance.com, with a subject line of “Removal of Minor Information.”

For each Request for Removal of Minor Information, please state “Removal of Minor Information” in the email or letter subject line, and clearly state the following in the body:

1. the nature of your request;
2. the identity of the content or information to be removed;
3. whether such content or information is found on the Site;
4. the location on content or information on the Site (e.g., providing the URL for the specific web page the content or information is found on);
5. that the request is related to the “Removal of Minor Information;”
6. your name, street address, city, state, zip code and email address; and
7. whether you prefer to receive a response to your request by mail or email.

Energy Hire is not responsible for failing to comply with any Request for Removal of Minor Information that is incomplete, incorrectly labeled or incorrectly sent.

Please note that the aforementioned removal does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of such content or information posted on the Site.

Also, please note that Energy Hire is not required to erase or otherwise eliminate, or to enable erasure or elimination of, such content or information in certain circumstances, such as, for example, when an international, federal, state, or local law, rule or regulation requires Energy Hire to maintain the content or information; when the content or information is stored on or posted to the Site by a third party other than you (including any content or information posted by you that was stored, republished or reposted by the third party); when Energy Hire anonymizes the content or information, so that you cannot be individually identified; when you do not follow the aforementioned instructions for requesting the removal of the content or information; and when you have received compensation or other consideration for providing the content or information.

The foregoing is a description of Energy Hire’s voluntary practices concerning the collection of personal information through the Site from certain minors, and is not intended to be an admission that Energy Hire is subject to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Federal Trade Commission’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule(s), or any similar international, federal, state, or local laws, rules, or regulations.

2. Categories of Information Collected.

Energy Hire may collect personal and non-personal information about you through the Site.  Depending upon your use of the Site, the categories of such information might include:

• Your name (first, last and/or middle) and unique identifiers (e.g., username);
• Your contact information (e.g., mailing address, email address, telephone number, facsimile number);
• Your gender;
• Your date of birth;
• Your electronic signature;
• Your experience and work history (e.g., resume, CV, education information, employment experience);
• Your billing, payment or shipping information (e.g., payor or payee name, checking account number, credit card number, expiration date, verification code, accountholder name, cardholder name, billing address, mailing address, tax ID number, billing history);
• Your business information (e.g., company, title, mailing address, email address, telephone number, facsimile number, tax ID number);
• Information related to your inquiries about possible employment with Energy Hire and/or one or more of its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies (e.g., name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, salary requirements, interests, resume);
• Your computer, mobile device, and/or browser information (e.g., IP address, mobile device ID information, operating system, connection speed, bandwidth, browser type, referring/exit web pages, web page requests, cookie information, hardware attributes, software attributes);
• Third-party website, network, platform, server and/or application information (e.g., Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Instagram);
• Usage activity concerning your interactions with the Site and/or third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications accessed through the Site (e.g., how you accessed the Site, where you go when you leave the Site, number of clicks on a page or feature, amount of time spent on the Site or a page or feature, identity of third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers and applications accessed through the Site);
• Usage activity concerning products and services provided to or accessed by you on or through the Site (e.g., number of viewers, viewing habits, viewing preferences, viewing history, title selections, favorites, streams, downloads, demographics and closed captioning selections);
• Your transactional information (e.g., offers, orders, pricing, payments, purchaser, seller, item information, shipping terms, comments, ratings, feedback and instant messages and/or other communications made within or through the Site);
• Information about third parties that you refer to Energy Freelance (e.g., name, email and/or other contact information, relationship);
• Your name associated with your mobile device;
• Your telephone number associated with your mobile device;
• Your geolocation; and/or
• Your mobile device ID information.

3. How Information Is Collected.

Depending upon your use of the Site, Energy Hire might collect personal and non-personal information from you when you visit, access, or use the Site; when you purchase any products and/or services on, through or in relation to the Site; when you allow the Site to access, upload, download, import or export content found on or through, or to otherwise interact with, your computer or mobile device (or any other device you may use to visit, access or use the Site) or online accounts with third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications (e.g., your online social media accounts, your cloud drives and servers, your mobile device service provider); whenever you provide information on or through the Site; or whenever Energy Hire asks you for such information, such as, for example, when you process a payment through the Site, or when you answer an online survey or questionnaire.

In addition, if you or a third party sends Energy Hire a comment, message or other communication (such as, by way of example only, email, letter, fax, phone call, or voice message) about you or your activities on or through the Site, then Energy Hire may collect any personal or non-personal information provided therein or therewith.

Finally, Energy Hire might use various tracking, data aggregation and/or data analysis technologies, including, for example, the following:

• Cookies, which are small data files (e.g., text files) stored on the browser or device you use to view a website or message.  They may help store user preferences and activity, and may allow a website to recognize a particular browser or device.  There are several types of cookies, including, for example, browser cookies, session cookies, and persistent cookies.  Cookies may record information you access on one page of a website to simplify subsequent interaction with that website, or to help streamline your transactions on related pages of that website.  Most major browsers are set up so that they will initially accept cookies, but you might be able to adjust your browser’s or device’s preferences to issue you an alert when a cookie is downloaded, or to block, reject, disable, delete or manage the use of some or all cookies on your browser or device.
• Flash cookies, which are cookies written using Adobe Flash, and which may be permanently stored on your device.  Like regular cookies, Flash cookies may help store user preferences and activity, and may allow a website to recognize a particular browser or device.  Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for regular cookies.
• Retargeting pixels, which are cookie-based technologies that might follow you across the web.
• Web beacons, which are pieces of code embedded in a website or email to monitor your activity on the website or your opening of the email, and which can pass along information such as the IP address of the computer or device you use to view the website or open the email, the URL page on which the web beacon is located, the type of browser that was used to access the website, and previously set cookie values.  Web beacons are sometimes used to collect advertising data, such as counting page views, promotion views or advertising responses.  Disabling your computer’s, device’s or browser’s cookies or other tracking technology features may prevent some web beacons from tracking or recording certain information about your activities.
• Tokens, which are digital objects or pieces of code that enable the tracking of emails and other electronic communications, online activities and devices (such as, for example, tracking tokens, device tokens), or that authenticate the identity of individuals or devices authorized to access certain secured information (such as, for example, access tokens).  Disabling your computer’s, device’s or browser’s cookies or other tracking technology features may prevent some tokens from tracking certain information about your activities.
• Scripts, which are pieces of code embedded in a website to define how the website behaves in response to certain key or click requests sent by the user.  Scripts are sometimes used to collect information about the user’s interactions with the website, such as the links the user clicks on.  Scripts are often times temporarily downloaded to the user’s computer or device from the website server, active only while the user is connected to the Site, and deactivated or deleted when the user disconnects from the Site.
• Analytic tools and services, which are sometimes offered by third parties, and which track, measure and/or generate information about a website’s or program’s traffic, sales, audience and similar information, and which may be used for various reasons, such as, for example, statistical research, marketing research, and content ratings research, and conversion tracking.
• Other third-party data tracking or analytic technologies (e.g., deep linking, eTags, device fingerprinting or cross-device tracking).

Please be advised that if you choose to block, reject, disable, delete or change the management settings for any or all of the aforementioned technologies and/or other tracking, data aggregation and data analysis technologies, then certain areas of the Site might not function properly.

By visiting, accessing, registering with or using the Site, you acknowledge and agree in each instance that you are giving Energy Freelance permission to monitor or otherwise track your activities on the Site, and that Energy Hire may use the aforementioned technologies and/or other tracking, data aggregation and data analysis technologies.

4. Use of Information Collected.

Energy Hire may use the personal and/or non-personal information it collects from you through the Site in a variety of ways, such as, for example, to:

• Fulfill your requests;
• Process your payments;
• Place, fulfill, process and/or track your orders and purchases;
• Facilitate your movement through the Site;
• Facilitate your use of the Site;
• Provide customer service;
• Send you communications like, for example, administrative emails, answers to your questions and updates about the Site;
• Provide you with information about Energy Hire, its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies and/or their respective businesses, products and services by letter, email, text, telephone or other forms of communication;
• Provide you with customized content and services, including advertising and promotional information (e.g., targeted ads, retargeted ads), recommendations for content you might like, and cross-app or cross-site functionality across multiple third-party websites and mobile apps;
• Provide you with information about third-party businesses, products and/or services by letter, email, text, telephone or other forms of communication;
• Improve the Site and/or its respective content, features and services;
• Improve the products, services, marketing and/or promotional efforts of Energy Hire and/or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies;
• Create new products, services, marketing and/or promotions for Energy Hire and/or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies;
• Market the businesses, products and/or services of Energy Freelance and/or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies;
• Help personalize user experiences with the Site and/or its respective products and services;
• Analyze traffic to and through the Site;
• Analyze user behavior and activity on or through the Site;
• Conduct research and measurement activities for purposes of product and service research and development, advertising claim substantiation, market research, and other activities related to Energy Hire, its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies, the Site, and/or their respective products and/or services;
• Monitor the activities of you and others on or through the Site;
• With your consent;
• Create device fingerprints and profiles about the possible relationships among different browsers and devices;
• Create consumer profiles, which may combine your personal or non-personal information from the Site with your personal or non-personal information from another source or service;
• Protect or enforce Energy Hire’s and/or its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies’ respective rights and properties; and/or
• Protect or enforce the rights and properties of others (which may include you).

Energy Hire reserves the right to use your personal and non-personal information when:

• Required by applicable law, court order or other governmental authority (including, without limitation and by way of example only, in response to a subpoena or other legal process); or
• Energy Hire believes in good faith that such use is otherwise necessary or advisable (including, without limitation and by way of example only, to investigate, prevent, or take legal action against someone who may be causing injury to, interfering with, or threatening the rights, obligations or properties of Energy Hire, a user of the Site which may include you or anyone else who may be harmed by such activities or to further Energy Hire’s legitimate business interests).

5. Sharing of Information Collected.

Energy Hire may share your personal information with the following:

• Energy Hire’s employees, agents and administrators;
• Energy Hire’s accountants, financial advisors and legal advisors;
• Energy Hire’s parents, subsidiaries and affiliates;
• Other users of the Site, as necessary to facilitate your use of the Site and the services offered thereon (e.g., in job postings, in Freelancer profiles;
• Service providers and other third parties who help Energy Freelance provide, manage, administer, maintain, monitor, distribute, operate or facilitate the Site, who help Energy Freelance develop, market or provide its products and services, or who help further Energy Hire’s business efforts (e.g., web hosting companies, website administrators, mobile app distribution platforms, support services companies, data analysis companies, credit card or other payment processing companies, online shopping cart providers, advertising partners), as needed in order for them to perform such services;
• Law enforcement or other governmental entities in response to what Energy Hire believes to be an allegation or suspicion of illegal activity, a request relating to a civil or criminal investigation, an allegation or suspicion of illegal activity, a subpoena, a court order, or any other activity that may expose Energy Hire to liability if it does not act or comply;
• Any third parties who Energy Hire believes are necessary to help or allow Energy Hire to protect the rights and properties of other (which may include you), assuming that Energy Freelance believes it has an obligation to do so.
• Testimonials.  Energy Hire may display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on the Site, in addition to other endorsements. With your consent we may post your name alongside your testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at legal@energyfreelance.com with the subject line of “Removal of Testimonial.”
• Work Listings Through the Site.  If you choose to post a work listing via the Site, the contents of such listing will be viewable publicly, unless you designate the listing as private using the settings available on the applicable website. Work listings include information such as budget, entity or individuals name, location, history of work listing(s) by the Client, Client feedback and rating information and timing of project performance.
• Feedback.  We collect feedback from Site users about their experience with other users. Please note that any feedback you provide via the Site or feedback provided about you is publicly viewable via the Site.

Energy Hire also reserves the right to share your personal information with third parties in connection with or as a result of any potential or actual merger, acquisition or other event involving a change in ownership or control of Energy Hire or Energy Freelance’s business (whether by sale of assets, merger, stock purchase or otherwise).

Energy Hire does not limit the ways in which it might use or share non-personal information – and Energy Hire reserves the unencumbered right, but not the obligation, to use or share non-personal information – because non-personal information does not identify you.  For example, Energy Hire may freely share non-personal information with its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, its vendors, its suppliers, its representatives and other individuals, businesses and government entities.

You may choose to share certain information and/or follow other users on the Site.  You may choose to share your contact information with other users or provide it publicly.

6. Data Retention.

Energy Hire may retain your personal information and non-personal information for as long as it reasonably necessary for a legitimate business purpose.  Energy Hire may dispose of or delete any such personal information or non-personal information at any time, except as set forth in any other agreement or document executed by both you and Energy Hire concerning the same or as required by law.

7. Third Parties and Their Applications and Networks.

The Site and/or any communications sent through or as a function of the Site might contain links to third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers and/or applications.  Third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers and/or applications might also contain links to the Site.

In addition, you might have the opportunity to access the Site using your online user accounts with certain third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications, which might be subject to separate privacy policies pertaining to those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications.  Energy Freelance might also collect information from those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications (such as, for example, your name, gender, date of birth and personal interests, when you “like” or click links provided by or through those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers, or applications and other information available through your online account or page with those third-party websites, networks, platforms, servers or applications).

Moreover, Energy Hire might permit third parties to use their own tracking, data aggregation and/or data analysis technologies like the ones described above (e.g., third-party cookies).  

You should carefully review the relevant terms of use and privacy policies associated with third party websites, networks, platforms, servers and applications.  

8. Security.

Energy Hire implements security measures to help protect the personal information it collects through the Site.  For example, Energy Hire encrypts the transmission of information through the Site by using secure socket layer (SSL) technology.

To help maintain the security of your personal information, Energy Freelance asks that you please notify it immediately of any unauthorized visit, access or use of the Site, or the loss or unauthorized use of your user access information for the Site (e.g., username or password).

9. Retention, Review, and Change of Information Collected.

You may request at any time that Energy Hire provide you with an opportunity to review and change your personal information collected through the Site, if any, or to no longer use your personal information to provide you with any products or services.  Please submit any such request (“Request Concerning Personal Information”) to legal@energyfreelance.com with a subject line of “Your Personal Information.”

For each Request Concerning Personal Information, please state “Your Personal Information” in the email or letter subject line, and clearly state the following in the body:

1. the nature of your request;
2. that the request is related to “Your Personal Information;”
3. your name, street address, city, state, zip code and email address; and
4. whether you prefer to receive a response to your request by mail or email.

Energy Hire is not responsible for any Request Concerning Personal Information that is incomplete, incorrectly labeled or incorrectly sent.  You are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of your personal information, and for keeping your personal information current and correct.

10. California privacy rights

If you are a natural person residing in California, you may have additional rights, including:

• The right to know.  You may request that businesses disclose to you certain personal information they have collected in the 12-month period preceding your request, used, shared, or sold about you, and why they collected, used shared, or sold that information.  Specifically, you may request that businesses disclose:
• The categories of personal information collected
• Specific pieces of personal information collected
• The categories of sources from which the business collected personal information
• The purposes for which the business uses the personal information
• The categories of third parties with whom the business shares the personal information
• The categories of information that the business sells or discloses to third parties
• The right to delete.  You may request that businesses delete personal information they collected from you and to tell their service providers to do the same. However, there are many exceptions that allow businesses to keep your personal information.
• The right to opt-out.  You may request that businesses stop selling your personal information.
• The right to non-discrimination.  Businesses cannot deny goods or services, charge you a different price, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services just because you exercised the rights above.

Energy Hire does not believe it is currently subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, but has elected to provide these services to California residents.  To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

• Emailing legal@energyfreelance.com, with a subject line of “CCPA Request.”
• Calling Energy Hire at  (817) 764-1045

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.  When you authorize an agent to make a verified request on your behalf, we will require the agent to provide written permission from you to make the request and will directly confirm the agent’s own identity.  Your request must provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which we will compare with our data, and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

11. Online Tracking

Energy Hire does not respond to “do not track” (DNT) signals.

12. Modifications of this Privacy Policy.

We regularly review and revise our Privacy Policy, which we may do in our sole discretion.  We make changes to the Privacy Policy available on this page and note that the policy has been updated, effective as of the date specified.  If we make material changes to how we treat your personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and through a notice on our home page.  

13. Severability.

If any term or condition of this Privacy Policy is deemed invalid or unenforceable by a court of law with binding authority, then the remaining terms and conditions shall not be affected, and the court shall reform the invalidated or unenforceable term or condition to the maximum extent permitted under the law and consistent with the intent of this Privacy Policy.

14. Contact Us.

Please direct any questions you may have about this Privacy Policy to legal@energyfreelance.com, with a subject line of “Privacy Policy.”  The foregoing contact information may change from time-to-time by supplementation, amendment, or modification of this Privacy Policy.

15. Mergers, acquisitions, and other business transactions

Energy Hire may decide to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize its business.  If that occurs, you will be notified by email or a prominent notice on our webpage of any ownership change and any change in the use of your personal information.  These types of transactions may involve the disclosure of personal information to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers.  We seek appropriate protection for personal information in these types of transactions.

16. Modification Date.

This Privacy Policy was last modified on February 1st 2021.