Website Privacy Policy 

Last modified: July 14, 2023 

Introduction 

Cohen Ventures, Inc., DBA Energy Solutions (“Company” or “We“) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://energy-solution.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. 

This policy applies to information we collect: 

• On this Website. 
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website. 
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy. 

It does not apply to information collected by: 

• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party; or  
• Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from the Website. 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use or interact with our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. This policy has also been updated to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. 

Children Under the Age of 13 

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age.  No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on this Website or use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name and email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It 

We collect information from and about users of our Website, including information: 

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name and e-mail (“Personal Information”). Pursuant to the CCPA, this category of information relates to traditional identifiers. We may aggregate Personal Information so that the aggregated information does not personally identify you or anyone else, such as by using Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our customers who live in a particular area (“Aggregate Information”); and/or 
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details. Pursuant to the CCPA, this category of information relates to information gathered about internet or other similar networking activity.  

In most cases, we collect Personal Information directly from you.  Below are descriptions of the different types of Personal Information we process and the sources from which we obtain them: 

• Communications.  If you choose to contact us for any purpose, we will collect your contact details, your name, and the content, date and time of your message, as well as our reply and any follow up action we take in relation to your inquiry. 
• Other sources. We may receive personal information about you from other sources, including third parties that help us update, expand, and analyze our records, identify new customers, or prevent or detect fraud. We may also receive information about you from social media platforms, for example when you interact with us on those platforms or access our social media content. The information we may receive is governed by the privacy settings, policies, and/or procedures of the relevant social media platform, and we encourage you to review them. 

However, we may also obtain several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information: 

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline; 
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, location, language preferences, and/or usage details. 

We collect this information: 

• Directly from you when you provide it to us. 
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies. 
• From third parties, for example, our business partners. 

Information You Provide to Us   

The information we collect on or through our Website may include: 

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of leaving comment or requesting further information. This information is collected for a business purpose in order to be able to fulfill the reason you provided the information.   
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us. This information is collected for a business purpose in order to be able to respond to your inquiries.   

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies   

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies, such as Google Analytics, to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including: 

•  Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website. 
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type. 

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It is collected for a business purpose as it helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to: 

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns. 
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests. 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include: 

Cookies (or browser cookies).  

• A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. 
• By default, we use cookies that are necessary for the website to function, these cannot be switched off in our system, our system will issue these cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.  
• We do not use cookies to retrieve personal information from your computer for purposes that are unrelated to the Website or your interaction with the Website. 

Clickstream. 

• As you use the Internet, a trail of electronic information is left at each Website you visit. This information, which is sometimes referred to as “clickstream data,” can be collected and stored by a Website’s server. Clickstream data can tell us the type of computer and browsing software you use and the address of the Website from which you linked to the Website.  
• We may collect and use clickstream data as a form of Aggregate Information to anonymously determine how much time visitors spend on each page of our Website, how visitors navigate throughout the Website and how we may tailor our web pages to better meet the needs of visitors. This information will be used to improve our Website and our services.  
• Any collection or use of clickstream data will be anonymous and aggregate and will not intentionally contain any Personal Information. 

How We Use Your Information 

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information: 

• To present our Website and its contents to you. 
• To provide and enhance the Website services. 
• To provide you with information, or services that you request from us. 
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. 
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide though it. 
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information. 
• For any other purpose with your consent. 

Disclosure of Your Information 

We will not sell your personal information.  

We may disclose Aggregated Information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.  

We may use Aggregate Information to improve and enhance your experience on the Website and for our market research activities. For example, we may share Aggregate Information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners, and site analytics vendors, in an aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the shared information will not contain nor be linked to any Personal Information.  

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy for a business purpose: 

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support the Website and keep it running.   
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.  
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information. 
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred. 
• With your consent. 

We may also disclose your Personal Information, as we believe necessary or appropriate: 

• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request. 
• To enforce or apply our terms of use. 
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others. 
• To allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain. 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information 

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:  

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.  If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. 
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future email distributions. 

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.   

Accessing and Correcting Your Information 

The Company provides an individual who has submitted information on the Website with the ability to review, correct, and request the deletion of any of the personally identifiable information that was entered in their profile on the Website. To correct or delete any of your information please contact the Company by e-mailing us at [email protected].  

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.  

Your California Privacy Rights 

California residents are afforded certain additional rights with respect to their Personal Information under the California Consumer Privacy Act or “CCPA” (California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et. seq.) and the “Shine the Light” Law (California Civil Code section 1798.83).  This Section is a supplement to our general Privacy Policy.  In the case of any discrepancies between this Privacy Policy and your California Privacy Rights, your California Privacy Rights will govern. 

California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information regarding (i) the categories of personal information collected, (ii) the categories of sources for the personal information collected, (iii) the business purpose for collecting (or selling) that information, (iv) the categories of third parties with whom we share that information, (v) the specific pieces of personal information we collects about the user, and (vi) whether we sold or disclosed the Personal Information for a business purpose.  

If you are under 18 years of age please do not use the Website. If you are under 18 years of age and believe we have collected your Personal Information, or are the parent or guardian of a minor under 18 years of age with information collected by us, please inform us at [email protected].  

Any user may request the discontinuation (or opt-out) of our sharing of the information with third parties and/or that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your California Privacy Rights Request (see below), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. 

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to: 

• Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a service that you requested, or take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you. 
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities. 
• Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality. 
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law. 
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.) (“CCPA”). 
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent. 
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us. 
• Comply with a legal obligation. 
• Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it. 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request certain information regarding the disclosure of Personal Information to third-parties, including our information sharing practices, including the names and addresses of those businesses with whom we have shared your Personal Information, for direct marketing purposes.  To make such a request, please contact us at [email protected]. 

Please submit any requests (“California Privacy Rights Request”) by: 

• emailing us at [email protected] with a subject line of “Your California Privacy Rights”, or 
• Calling us at 888-560-2422 

For each California Privacy Rights Request, please clearly state the following: 

• sufficient detail of your request such that it allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it; 
• that the request is related to “Your California Privacy Rights;” 
• your name, street address, city, state, zip code, and email address; and 
• whether you prefer to receive a response to your request by mail or email. 

We cannot respond to your California Privacy Rights Request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We are not responsible for a California Privacy Rights Request that is incomplete, incorrectly labeled, or incorrectly sent. It may take us up to 45 days to process your California Privacy Rights Request. 

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.  

Data Security 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.  All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.  

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Websites like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Websites. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Websites. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites. 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy 

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. 

Contact Information 

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:  

E-mail: [email protected] 

Call us at: 888-560-2422 

 

CALIFORNIA PRIVACY DISCLOSURES PAGE 

This section explains your rights regarding your Personal Information that we collect, as set forth in the California Consumer Privacy Act or the (“CCPA”).  All defined terms in the California Privacy Policy shall retain the same meaning as this page.  The following chart summarizes our Personal Information collection, use, and sharing practices in the preceding 12 months since we last updated this Policy on July 14, 2023. 

 

Category of Information	Purpose of Collection	Vendors and other third-party entities with whom we share this information
Identifiers, such as, your name, address, email address, and username	To process your requests for information, to communicate with you, to improve our services, to enforce our agreements, to enforce our Terms of Use,  to register your account, for the administration and protection of our business, and to comply with applicable law, regulations, and legal and regulatory processes.     If you opt-in to do so, we may use your name and email address for our marketing purposes and to help our business partners with their marketing.	Service providers who assist in providing services on our behalf.     If you opt-in to do so, our business partners.
Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))	To process your requests for information, to communicate with you, to improve our services, to enforce our agreements, to enforce our Terms of Use, to register your account, for the administration and protection of our business, and to comply with applicable law, regulations, and legal and regulatory processes.     If you opt-in to do so, we may use your name and email address for our marketing purposes and to help our business partners with their marketing.	Service providers who assist in providing services on our behalf.     If you opt-in to do so, our business partners.
Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information, e.g., browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, or questions and other messages you address to us directly through online forms or by email	To process your requests for information, to communicate with you, to improve our services, to enforce our agreements, to enforce our Terms of Use, to register your account, for the administration and protection of our business, and to comply with applicable law, regulations, and legal and regulatory processes.	Service providers who assist in providing services on our behalf.     If you opt-in to do so, our business partners.
Other Identifiers and Internet Activity Information, e.g., IP address; similar information	To process your requests for products, services, or information, to communicate with you, to improve our services, to enforce our agreements, to enforce our Terms of Use, to register your account, for the administration and protection of our business, and to comply with applicable law, regulations, and legal and regulatory processes.	Service providers who assist in providing services on our behalf.     If you opt-in to do so, our business partners.