PRIVACY POLICY Welcome to Grid Tech Ltd. website (“Grid Tech”, “we”, “our” or “us”). Grid Tech recognizes and appreciates the importance of respecting the privacy of our customers. This privacy notice sets forth our current policy with respect to how Grid Tech collects, shares, and protects your personal information. For the purposes of European data protection laws, Grid Tech is the data controller of your personal information. We remind you that if you visit a link outside of the website, you are subject to the privacy policies of that website. Collection of Personal Information Grid Tech may use your personal information to provide and improve our services, provide you with a personalized experience on our sites, contact you about your account and our services, provide you customer service, provide you with personalized advertising and marketing, or to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements. The types of personal information we collect may include: • Contact information, such as name, mailing and e-mail address; • Informative provided on website forms; • Information we receive from customer telephone/email inquiries; • Information from public sources (such as web directories); • Information about customer transactions with us or our affiliates; Periodically, we may choose to send marketing materials or other information to you, and will also use personal information to send such communications, and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. You can always choose not to provide personal information to the website. Sharing of Information Grid Tech is not in the business of selling personal information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share personal information with certain third parties without notice to you including those set forth below: Agents, Consultants and other Third Parties We may use selected third parties to provide us with services or technical support for the website who may have access to your personal information. Examples may include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, analyzing data, and providing marketing assistance. All service providers are permitted to use data only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf. Similarly, we may share your personal information as required by law to protect our rights and property, or the rights, property or safety of others, including to advisers, law enforcement agencies, judicial and regulatory authorities. Advertisers We may aggregate your personal information with other users of the website, and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing and promotional purposes. In these situations, we will not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Business Transfers As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event, personal information may be part of the transferred assets. Cookies & Web Analytics We automatically collect basic technical information from all visitors to the website through our automatic data collection tools, which may include cookies and other commonly used technologies (e.g., Google Analytics). These tools collect certain standard information that your browser sends to the website such as your browser type and language, access times, completion or success status of the request for a webpage or other on-line item, file size of the webpage visited and the address of the site from which you came to the website. They may also collect information about your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, or click stream data within our website (i.e. the actions taken in connection with the website). This information helps us improve the functionality of the website. “Cookies” are small pieces of data sent to your computer browser from our web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. The data identifies you as a unique user and facilitates your ongoing access to and use of this website. If you do not want us to use cookies when you use this website, you can adjust your internet browser settings not to accept cookies. Your web browser's help function should tell you how to do this. However, without these identifier files you may not have access to many features that may make your browsing of our website smoother, and some of our services may not function properly. We may allow third party ad serving companies or ad networks to display third party advertisements on the website. Some of these companies may place a cookie in order to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. Thus, these companies may compile information about where you are using your computer, where you saw their advertisements, and which ads you clicked on. This information allows these companies to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. We do not have access to the cookies that may be placed by these companies. California Privacy Rights Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California customers are entitled to request information relating to whether a business has disclosed personal information to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. That notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and addresses. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing at the address information below. You may also have certain data privacy rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions. These rights include the right to: (i) ask for a copy of your personal information to be provided to you; (ii) request the deletion of your personal information; and (iii) opt out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. Information That Is Not Covered By This Privacy Policy We may allow you to communicate with other users of the website and post information using message boards and other similar features available through the website. NONE of the information that you provide using these features is protected by this Privacy Policy. Grid Tech may also use online survey instruments to obtain feedback on your experience with the website. The survey initiation pops up for a random sample of visitors, is voluntary and does not collect personal information. If you decline the survey you will still have access to the same information and resources of the Site as those who do take the survey. The survey reports are available only to the website’s managers and other staff who require this information to perform their duties. Grid Tech retains the data from the survey results in accordance with its data retention policy. Social Media and Third Party Websites Grid Tech uses some social media tools and websites to interact with its customers and resource partners. Social media websites are used to publicize Grid Tech programs and services and engage with members of the public. Grid Tech does not use third party websites to solicit and collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by a third party website will not be transmitted to Grid Tech unless required for law enforcement purposes or as otherwise permitted by law. Grid Tech’s privacy and other web policies do not apply to these third party websites and we encourage you to read the policies of the third party website when deciding whether to use it. Data Retention Grid Tech may retain your personal information as long as necessary for the provision of the services, internal analytical purposes, or to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce agreements (e.g. settlement). The criteria used to determine the retention periods include: (i) how long the personal data is needed to provide the services and operate the business; (ii) the type of personal data collected; and (iii) whether we are subject to a legal, contractual or similar obligation to retain the data (e.g., mandatory data retention laws, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or data that must be retained for the purposes of litigation or disputes) Website Security and Safeguarding of Information Grid Tech maintains physical, electronic and procedural controls in accordance with applicable data protection laws and other pertinent regulatory bodies to safeguard personal information. These controls include computer safeguards and secured files and offices. Children Grid Tech does not sell products for purchase by children. In order to respect the privacy of minors, CAIS does not knowingly collect, maintain or process personal information submitted online via our Internet Services by anyone under the age of 18. Rights of Individuals in Europe If you are based in Europe, you may have certain data privacy rights which may be subject to limitations and/or restrictions. These rights include the right to: (i) request access to and rectification and erasure of your personal information; (ii) obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of your personal information; and (iii) ask for a copy of your personal information to be provided to you, or a third party in a digital format. You also have the right to lodge a complaint about the processing of your personal information with your local data protection authority. International Transfer When you are based in Europe, personal information collected from you, including via the website will be transferred to certain recipients located outside Europe, (including the United States where this website is hosted) which do not provide a similar or adequate level of protection to that provided by countries in Europe. You hereby consent to the transfer of your personal information to recipients as described in this Privacy Policy which are located outside of Europe. You may withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Revisions to this Privacy Policy We may revise or supplement this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use or share your personal information, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to refer to this Policy on an ongoing basis so you understand our current privacy practices. Contact Us. If you have any questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, or if you are located in Europe and wish to exercise your rights as described above, please feel free to contact us at infor@pluginbim.com.