Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy applies to the use of our website and any information collected while browsing our site.

When we work with clients to provide sustainability services, we adhere to a Privacy and Confidentiality Commitment in relation to any data collected while calculating clients’ carbon footprints and environmental metrics. We do not share any client information (such as energy or waste data) with third parties, unless with the prior consent of the client.

We handle clients’ data with the utmost security and care, and aim to provide the same commitment to all of our website users.

Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for the website absolutesustainability.com, operated by the Company “Absolute Sustainability Inc.”.

This privacy policy applies solely to information collected on this website and will notify you of:

The types of personally identifiable information collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it is shared.

The choices available to you in regards to the control of your data.

The security procedures in place to protect your information.

We disclose these practices in order to be transparent to our clients, and to comply with US, EU, Canadian, and other international regulations on internet privacy. If you have any concerns with this policy, please contact info@absolutesustainability.com.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using our website, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, or email address. We only collect information that you voluntarily give us via email, contact forms, or other direct contact from you.

This information is used to contact you to provide answers to your requests, or, if you sign up for our newsletter, to provide you with news and updates. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone, and will not share your information with any third party unless expressly requested by you.

If you actively decide to sign up for our newsletter, we will contact you via email to provide environmental news and updates. Rest assured we do not send spam mail, and users may unsubscribe at any time via the unsubscribe button included in each email.

Access and Control of Information

As a user of our website, we allow you control over the information you provide us. You may contact us at info@absolutesustainability.com at any time to:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. Any time you submit sensitive information via the website, this information is collected securely and stored safely.

Wherever we collect sensitive information such as payment data, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us securely. If submitting any payment information, you may verify a secure connection by looking for a lock icon () in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. The servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment, and protected by two-factor authentication. We do not unnecessarily share personal information with employees or contractors. Only employees and contractors who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to users’ personal information.

Cookies

Our website uses “cookies” to collect information to improve our website’s performance. A cookie is a small piece of data which is sent to your browser when you visit the site. These cookies allow the website to know if your device has visited the site before.

We use cookies to help understand how the website is being used, remember visitor preferences, smooth navigation between pages, and improve general website functionality.

These cookies do not collect information that identifies you, and all information collected is aggregated and anonymous. This anonymous data is used to help optimize our website and make it easier for you, and other users, to navigate.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our website, we may collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies (such as MailChimp or Google Analytics), for reasons such as: website analytics, and mailing lists.

We want to inform our website users that these third parties, in the provision of their services, may have access to user information (such as name and email address), and this information is handled according to their respective privacy policies.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us; and we have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children’s Privacy

Our website does not address anyone under the age of 13. While we encourage young people to be interested in climate action, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete this from our servers.

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so we may resolve the issue.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, or feel that we are not abiding by this policy, you may contact us via email at info@absolutesustainability.com.