The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires OPTERRA Energy Services, LLC and its affiliates and subsidiaries (the “Company”, “OPTERRA” or “we”) to provide additional information about our use of personal information.
This California Privacy Statement (“Statement”) supplements the Website Privacy Policy and covers solely personal information collected about California residents.
If you are a California resident, please read carefully this Statement to understand how we may collect and use your personal information, with whom we may disclose it and the choices regarding the use of your information under California law. The Statement also describes how you can contact us if you wish to exercise your rights or have any question related to your privacy.
“Personal Information” is broadly defined as any information that could identify you either directly (e.g. your name) or indirectly (e.g. your postal address or phone number). The CCPA defines personal information as “any information that defines, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with or could be reasonably linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household”.
OPTERRA collects some categories of personal information about you.
Depending on the context, we may or may have collected over the past 12 months, the following categories of personal information including sensitive information:
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We may use or may have used over the past 12 months your personal information for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy and for the following business purposes:
We will retain your personal information including sensitive personal information for the time reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in the OPTERRA Privacy Policy and this Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of collection, considering applicable statutes of limitation and our records retention requirements and policies.
During the 12-month period, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:
We may disclose or have disclosed in the past 12 months the categories of personal information to the following third parties for one of the business purposes or purposes mentioned in the Privacy Policy:
Identifiers – this may include real name, unique identification number, postal address, telephone number, email address and/or account name, unique personal identifier.
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our business partners.
Our service providers and vendors operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798 – This may include bank account information and other financial information.
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our business partners.
Our service providers and vendors operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
Payment processors and financial institutions.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Commercial information – This may include records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered.
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our business partners.
Our service providers and vendors operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Online Activity – This may include internet and other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, your browsing history, search history, and information regarding your interaction with our websites and applications
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our business partners.
Our website analytics providers and online service providers, vendors that operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Records and copy of your correspondence with us
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our business partners.
Our service providers and vendors operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Job applicant/candidate Information – This may include identification information including your contact information and professional information including resume, education details, spoken language, pre-employment screening and background checks, professional experience details, skills and qualifications as well as certain protected classifications, including gender, race, ethnicity military and veteran status.
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our service providers and vendors operate on our behalf.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Your professional or employment-related information such as your employment details.
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our service providers.
Our vendors operate on our behalf.
Our external legal counsels.
With third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
With government entities and other third parties as required by law.
Inferences. This may include the creation of an individual’s profile to deduce the individual’s aptitudes, performance and abilities at work
Our affiliates and subsidiaries.
Our service providers for maintenance operations
For additional information about the third parties we may disclose your personal information, please consult the “With whom may we disclose your Personal Information?” section of the Privacy Policy.
You have the right to opt-out of sale and sharing of your Personal Information, as defined under the CCPA and other applicable state privacy laws. California residents have the right to opt-out of the sharing of Personal Information for cross-contextual behavior advertising/targeted advertising purposes. You may express your right to opt-out from these practices through the user enabled Global Privacy Control (GPC) mechanism or through the interactive form available via the “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link at the bottom of the homepage. To know more about how the GPC works, please consult our Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions related to the sale or sharing of your personal information, please contact us at privacy@opterraenergy.com.
In addition, we do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. If you want to learn more about our position regarding the Children’s personal information, please consult the section “Children’s personal information” in our Privacy Policy.
As a California resident, you have certain privacy rights on your personal information which you may exercise at any time. These rights are subject to certain exemptions or other limitations under applicable laws.
You may have the right to:
Access and disclosure : You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, the access, free of charge, to the categories and/or the specific pieces of personal information we have collected, used and disclosed about you. In addition, you can request (a) the disclosure of the sources for that personal information, (b) the purposes for which we used your personal information and (c) the categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed your personal information.
Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Opt out: You have the right to request that we opt-out from the sale/share of personal information including via the user-enabled Global Privacy Control mechanism* or through the “do not sell my personal information” link.
Limit Use: You have the right to request that we limit our use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to the extent required by applicable law.
Shine the Light Request: You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (a) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) the identity of those third parties.
*If you want to learn more about the Global Privacy Control and its functionality, please consult our Privacy Policy and the GPC website.
If you wish to exercise one of your rights, you may submit such request via e-mail at privacy@opterraenergy.com or by mail at OPTERRA Energy Services, LLC, 500 12th St #300, Oakland, CA 94607 Attn: Privacy Department. In either case, you please provide the following information:
To process your request to access, correct or delete your personal information, we must be able to verify your identity. This verification will allow us to ensure that you are the person who requests the information**. For this purpose, you may be asked to fill in a PDF Form sent by us. We will compare the information you provide via the PDF Form to the information we have in our possession. If necessary, we may also contact you to request additional information in relation to your request.
** Please note that all these measures are in place to help protect your personal information. The information collected through this process will be used for verification purposes only.
Please note that you may also authorize an agent to exercise any of the rights on your behalf by submitting a request, at mailto:privacy@opterraenergy.com or by mail (at the address above) with the subject line “Authorized Agent Request”. If you use an agent, we will take measures to verify your agent’s authorization like the verification described above for fulfilling any access, correction or deletion requests. We may also request additional information for your verification and the agent’s identity and authorization.
In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we may require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the individual whose personal information is the subject of the request.
The right to Non-Discrimination. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, we will not discriminate against you.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
Individuals with disabilities. This notice is in a form that is or will be made accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance with accessing this statement, please contact us at privacy@opterraenergy.com.
How you may Contact Us?
For questions or concerns about this Statement or our privacy practices or if you need assistance to exercise your rights, please contact us as at privacy@opterraenergy.com.
For additional information, please consult the Privacy Policy. If you are an OPTERRA employee, former employee, or independent contractor, you are covered by the Employee Privacy Notice available in our Intranet.
Update of the CA Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement may be updated periodically due to legal and technical evolutions. When we post changes to this Privacy Statement, we will modify the “Last Updated Date” at the bottom of this statement to indicate when such changes have come into effect.
Last Updated: October 2024
