Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2020
This privacy policy applies to sites owned and operated by Golden Gate Electric, LLC (“Golden Gate Electric,” “We,”“Us,” or “Our”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this privacy policy explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected, used, disclosed, transferred, and secured. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. To make this privacy policy easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personal information may be requested. This policy describes Our privacy practices in relation to the use of Golden Gate Electric’s web sites and the related applications, services, and programs offered by Golden Gate Electric, as well as individual’s choices regarding use, access and correction of personal information.
The Information We Collect
This privacy policy applies to all information collected or submitted on the Golden Gate Electric website and its platform. On some pages, you may make requests, and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are:
- Name
- Address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Company Name
- Title
- Payment Information (billing name, address, and credit card or financial account information – billing platform only)
The Way We Use Information
We may use the information collected to provide you with the Golden Gate Electric services you request. We may use information collected to provide you with additional information about Golden Gate Electric’s services, partners, promotions and events.
We may use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
We may use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify visitors to our site or applications.
Finally, unless described in this privacy policy, we never share, sell, rent, or trade the personal information provided to us to third parties for their promotional purposes.
Information Sharing
We will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this privacy policy.
We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities and fulfill your requests such as payment processors in order to process payments on behalf of our clients. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- in certain situations, Golden Gate Electric may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements;
- as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, or similar legal process;
- when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request,
- if Golden Gate Electric is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Web site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information,
- to any other third party with your prior consent to do so.
Our Commitment To Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms or when you login to our platform (using your login credentials), we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can contact us at scott@goldengateeletric.net.
How You Can Access Or Correct Your Information
Upon request, Golden Gate Electric Systems, Inc. will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. To request this information please contact us at scott@goldengateeletric.net.
You can update, delete or correct factual errors in your personal information by sending us a request using the contact information below. If you no longer desire our service, contact us directly through the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access a reasonable timeframe.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Opt-out Preferences
If you have provided your contact information to Golden Gate Electric and receive marketing or non-transactional communications from Golden Gate Electric, you may choose to stop receiving such communications by following the “unsubscribe” instructions included in these communications, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page, or you can contact us at https://www.goldengateelectric.net/contact.
If you are a Client, we may send you service related email announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. You do not have an option to opt out of these emails, which are not promotional in nature.
Information Related to Data Collected through the Golden Gate Electric Service
Access and Retention of Data Controlled by our Clients:
Golden Gate Electric acknowledges that you have the right to access your personal data. Golden Gate Electric has no direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data it processes. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data should direct his query to the Golden Gate Electric’s Client (the data controller). If requested to remove data, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain personal data we process on behalf of our Clients for as long as needed to provide services to our Client. Golden Gate Electric will retain this personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Website Technologies
Blog
Our website offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. Our blog is managed by a third-party application that may require you to register to post a comment. We do not have access or control of the information posted to the blog. You will need to contact or login into the third-party application if you want your personal information that was posted to the comments section removed. To learn how the third-party application uses your information, please review their privacy policy.
Testimonials
We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at https://www.goldengateelectric.net/contact.
Referrals
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our website, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Golden Gate Electric stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may click the unsubscribe link in the message or contact us at https://www.goldengateelectric.net/contact to request that we remove this information from our database.
Social Media Widgets
Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and Twitter buttons and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Golden Gate Electric and our analytics partners, affiliates, or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking users’ movements around the website and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies for authentication and to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference). Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
Log Files
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data. We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you. Local Storage Objects (HTML5)
We use Local Storage, such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
Links to 3rd Party Sites
Our website includes links to other sites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Golden Gate Electric. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any sites you visit.
Changes to this Policy
We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you or our Client by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please call using the contact information below.
Golden Gate Electric, LLC
Phone : (612) 208-5194