PRIVACY POLICY
The Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (“VGIC”) has adopted this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to govern the collection, use, and storage of data. VGIC places a high priority on protecting your privacy. This Policy was created in order to demonstrate VGIC’s commitment to the privacy of our members and website users. This Policy governs all forms of Personal data collected by VGIC. By accessing our website or providing your information to us, you accept and agree to the practices described in this Policy.
What Types of Data We Collect
We collect and store personal information about you when you visit this website including membership inquiries, completing registration forms, consenting to email notices, registering for events and webinars, cookies, and through the use of Google Analytics:
-The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., 123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP);
-The date and time you access our site;
-The pages you view (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page);
-The Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site; and
-The browser name and version you are using.
How We Collect and Use Personal Data
In general, a visitor will know when personal data is being collected because he or she will have to fill out a form. In addition, we may collect personal data through your use of the website(s) and Apps. Personal data may also be requested in connection with membership registration, event activities, webinars, educational workshops, purchasing products or services, requesting additional information, signing up for newsletters, or submitting questions through this site.
We use your Personal data to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you, to answer your requests, to process your membership application, to process your meeting registration, and to market services that we believe would be of interest to you, etc.
We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the Site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.
Interaction with Children
Websites under the control of VGIC are not designed with the intent to attract the collection of information from individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from these individuals and we ask that children under the age of 13 not submit any personal information to us while viewing our websites.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored for varying amounts of time on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. VGIC may use cookies in order to collect certain information about you, such as IP addresses (the Internet address of a computer), domain names (e.g., whether you are logged on from a .com, .gov, or .edu domain) and the type of computer and operating system being used. We may also use cookies to identify your computer or mobile phone when you revisit our website or to recall your authentication information. VGIC may collect such information in order to better operate the website so as to enhance your experience while using the website. You have the option of setting your computer to disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are being used. If you choose to disable cookies, please be aware that portions of the website may not function properly.
How We Share Information
VGIC may provide personal information to third party agents that have been hired to help provide a requested good or service. Unless directed otherwise at the time of collection, we may also share collected personal information with third parties who may have information or services that we believe could be helpful to members or visitors. Visitors may opt-out from the sharing of collected information by contacting us.
VGIC reserves the right to disclose without notice any information in its possession if required to do so by law, to protect or defend VGIC’s rights or property, or to respond to an emergency.
External Links
This Policy only addresses VGIC’s use and disclosure of your personal data. The website may contain links to other websites, so please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and we are not liable for their misuse of personal data. We encourage you to be aware that when you go to another website you should carefully read their privacy policy. Links to other sites do not imply VGIC’s endorsement of the products or services, or privacy or security practices of those websites.
Rights of European Residents
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
You have the right to:
Request access to your personal data. This enables you to receive a copy of your personal data and to verify that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of your personal data. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
Request erasure of your personal data. You may have the right to request that personal data we hold about you is deleted.
Object to processing of your personal data. You may have the right to prevent or restrict processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of your personal data. Where technically feasible, we will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Withdraw your consent. However, if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
How You Can Access and Change Information
VGIC acknowledges that you have the right to access your personal data. In case you request us to remove data, we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.
Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal data. You can update or correct your personal data or remove it from our system by making a request to us at the contact information provided below. Requests typically receive a response within thirty (30) days. If access cannot be provided within that time frame, we will provide the requesting party with an estimated date by which the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation of why access has been denied.
Our Security Measures to Protect Your Personal Data
We are committed to taking reasonable efforts to secure the information that you choose to provide us, and we use a variety of security procedures to help protect against unauthorized access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of personal data. We restrict access to personal data to our board members, employees, contractors and servicers who need to know the information to operate, develop, or improve our services.
Unfortunately, no transmission of personal data over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Accordingly, and despite our efforts, VGIC cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, or to or from our online services. VGIC has no responsibility or liability for the security of information transmitted via the Internet. If you have questions about this Policy or the security of your personal data, please contact us as indicated under the “Contact Us” section below.
We retain your personal data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
Modifications
We may amend this Policy from time to time without prior notice. If we decide to change this Policy, we will post those changes on our home page so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it, so please review it periodically.
Your continued use of our website will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please contact as at:
Contact:
Address: 2150 Allston Way, Suite 400, Berkeley, CA
Phone: (510) 665-7811
Email: info@vgicouncil.org