Zenergy's Privacy Policy

Last update – June 10, 2020 | https://www.zenergytechnologies.com.

For questions regarding this privacy policy please reach out to us at contact@zenergytechnologies.com.

Zenergy Technologies is committed to respecting your privacy and to complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws and regulations.

Zenergy Technologies has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of our candidates, employees, and clients. We give our best effort to ensure that the information that you submit to us remains private, and that information is utilized only for the purposes described herein. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices at Zenergy Technologies.

Your Consent to This Privacy Policy

By using our site, you consent to Zenergy’s online privacy policy. Policies often change, (we strive to change for the better) so please review whenever possible to keep up with any changes made. All information in this Privacy Policy referring to “you,” “your” and “yours” refer to the visitor on our website.

Your privacy is very important to us. Please contact us if you feel that this policy does not appropriately secure your personal information. Zenergy is happy to discuss ways to improve the security of information while using this site. You can contact us via email at contact@zenergytechnologies.com or by phone 336.245.4729.

Zenergy utilizes Leadfeeder website visitor tracking software for the intended purposes of helping our organization manage leads, increase ROI, and to better understand how our users interact with our website. Visitors are tracked in our lead generation system through the use of cookies and when one of the following actions is completed on our website:

• Webform submissions and newsletter opt-ins
• As you interact with our content (downloads, videos, and email, and campaigns)
• When you click on links or downloads within direct emails, campaigns, and newsletters
• When you participate in an online-chat on our website

After a visitor has completed one of the actions listed above, it will recognize/track returning visitors and provide us with data on the pages the user visited and the amount of time they have spent on our website. This information provides us with a better understanding of our audience and any patterns that our potential clients present. At times we may also utilize cookies to collect and analyze anonymized data on our visitor’s browser/device use, industry/job title, pages hit on our website, and location (city, country).

Under the current GDPR regulations pertaining to the U.S. we may collect data on potential leads from in-person events (conference, workshops, MeetUps), based on their direct consent:

• LeadCapture
• Direct email follow up/referral pertaining to an in-person event
• Business card submittal
• Newsletter registrant signup sheets
• Conference attendee lists supplied to exhibitors via conference organizer

Any of the following attendee information presented on an attendee conference list, who resides in the EU, may be automatically excluded from our marketing and sales follow-up/outreach.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (aka a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar services to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public and the context of your content.

Contact Forms

This site utilizes contact forms to collect information on those seeking out job opportunities, software solutions services and/or blog comments through form submissions. We may keep job application submissions in our database for up to 7 years to reach out to prospective employees if a job that suites their capabilities arises. However, we do not use this information submitted through our online forms for marketing purposes.

California Online Privacy Protection Act:

Zenergy is compliant with the California Online Privacy Protection Act and ensures that your information will not be shared with any outside parties without prior or direct consent.

How to Access, Update, Alter, or Delete Personal Data:

Zenergy aims to be completely transparent when it comes to our website visitors. If at any time you wish to update, manage, or request us to provide the data we have stored on you, (pertaining to the data we store on you for either sales, marketing, and/or recruiting purposes) you may do so by contacting us directly and we will promptly supply a list of all the data we have stored on you.

Breach Procedure:

In the instance of any data breaches, we have an internal system that will notify us promptly and promise to notify all personnel in our database within 72 hours of being aware of the breach. This website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

The data collection and retention of our visitors is permitted solely by the active content the individual user has provided.

LeadFeeder, Google Analytics, and Mailchimp provide us with data based on how our visitors interact with our website. We use this data to fix bugs and improve the experience for all visitors. We will also store information to create marketing campaigns pertaining to certain groups and visitors. If you would like to unsubscribe from our monthly newsletter, please do so here. If you have a question about the data you have supplied to us through our website please contact us here. You may find more information about our use of cookies and update your tracking preferences here.

Zenergy does not process payments directly through the website. Payments for in-person events (conferences, workshops, or other scheduled services we provide) will be processed directly through Eventbrite. Any data collected through Eventbrite (third-party payment processing application) is solely used to contact you about any updates pertaining your account or orders, responses to questions and/or other requests. All other payments for Zenergy’s services will be initiated by a written contract and signed agreement between Zenergy and the associated party before payment processing is completed.

Other Uses of Personal Data Collection Include:

• Utilizing demographics and analytics for improvements in sales and marketing initiatives
• Delivering services or completing payment transactions
• To alert you of any technical issues, security breaches or invoice reminders

How Long we Retain your data: 

• Any entries submitted through contact forms may be kept on record for no longer than 6 months.
• Analytics records may be kept on record for up to 1 year.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely unless we are specifically asked to remove or delete the comment. This helps us recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For recruiting purposes, we collect personal data from potential candidates and add them to our recruiting database when an individual submits a resume through our website or through a career website. We will automatically add any potential candidates to our recruiting database for the current position they applied for as well as any future positions that may fit their interests or skills.

The recruiting and employee information that we collect is only used for government employee documentation, correspondence for open positions and applying for positions. When you create an account in our recruiting database and employee database you may be asked to provide the following:

• Your name, street address, telephone number and email address and other contact details;
• Your competences, skills, experience and education, e.g. your CV or resume, previous employment, educational details and qualifications, third-party references.
• Your preferences, e.g. preferred state of employment, areas of interest as well as your preferred ways of contact
• Your user identity, e.g. alternative names and other such information in connection with authenticating you.

This information is kept secure in our database and is available to be viewed only by appropriate personally.

If you have any feedback regarding an open position you have applied to please contact us at contact@zenergytechnologies.com.

All materials on our website belong to the property of Zenergy Technologies and our produced by Zenergy’s employees. As you declare your privacy setting to make use of our website, you consent that you will not use any of our materials on our website for the purpose of sales or reproduction, as they belong to the copyright of Zenergy Technologies.

Vimeo:

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.