Privacy Policy

Online Privacy Policy

MaxolCarbonNeutral.ie is managed by PDI Technologies, Inc.

The policy describes how PDI Technologies, Inc., and its partner, subsidiary, and affiliate companies (collectively, “PDI,” “we,” or “us”), is committed to keeping any and all personal information collected of those individuals that visit our website and make use of our online facilities and services accurate, confidential, secure and private. Our privacy policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with PDI of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet but to exceed most existing privacy standards.

THEREFORE, this Privacy Policy Agreement shall apply to PDI, and thus it shall govern any and all data collection and usage thereof. Through the use of MaxolCarbonNeutral.ie you are herein consenting to the following data procedures expressed within this agreement.

Collection of Information

It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statements of any website you choose to use or frequent as a means to better understand the way in which other websites garner, make use of and share information collected. This website collects various types of information, such as:

  • Voluntarily provided information which may include your name, address, email address, billing and/or credit card information, etc. which may be used when you purchase products and/or services, and to deliver the services you have requested.
  • Information automatically collected when visiting our website, which may include cookies, third party tracking technologies and server logs

Please rest assured that this site shall only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide by way of surveys, completed membership forms, and emails. It is the intent of this site to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested, and any additional uses specifically provided on this site.

Information automatically collected when visiting our website, which may include cookies, third party tracking technologies and server logs.

Use of Information Collected

PDI may have the occasion to collect non-personal anonymous demographic information, such as age, gender, household income, political affiliation, race and religion, as well as the type of browser you are using, IP address, type of operating system, via Google Analytics or Facebook pixels, at a later time, that will assist us in providing and maintaining superior quality service.

PDI may collect and may make use of personal information to assist in the operation of our website and to ensure delivery of the services you need and request. At times, we may find it necessary to use personally identifiable information as a means to keep you informed of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from www.MaxolCarbonNeutral.ie.

PDI may also be in contact with you with regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or potential future services that may be offered.
PDI does not now, nor will it in the future, sell, rent or lease any of its customer lists and/or names to any third parties.

PDI may disclose your personal information – without any prior notice to you, unless required to do so in accordance to applicable laws and/or in a good faith belief that such action is deemed necessary or required – in an effort to:

  • Remain in conformance with any decrees, laws and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon PDI and/or its website;
  • Maintain, safeguard and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of PDI;
  • Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of www.MaxolCarbonNeutral.ie or the general public.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit PDI, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze the use of the website and its services. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Non-Marketing Purposes

PDI greatly respects your privacy. We do maintain and reserve the right to contact you if needed for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes in PDI products and services). In certain circumstances, we may use our website, newspapers, or other public means to post a notice.

Children Under Age of 18

PDI does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of eighteen (18) without verifiable parental consent. If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of eighteen (18), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database. Anyone under the age of eighteen (18) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website.

Unsubscribe or Opt-Out

All users and/or visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communication from us and/or reserve the right to discontinue receiving communications by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe to our website please send an email that you wish to unsubscribe to [email protected]. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe and/or opt-out. PDI will continue to adhere to the privacy policy described herein with respect to any personal information previously collected.

Links to Other Websites

Our website does contain links to affiliate and other websites. PDI does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

Security

PDI shall endeavor and shall take every precaution to maintain adequate physical, procedural and technical security with respect to its offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or modification of the user’s personal information under our control.

The company also uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for authentication and private communications in an effort to build users’ trust and confidence in the internet and website use by providing simple and secure access and communication of credit card and personal information.

Changes to Privacy Policy Agreement

PDI reserves the right to update and/or change the terms of our privacy policy, and as such we will post those changes to our website, so that our users and/or visitors are always aware of the type of information we collect, how it will be used, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose such information. If at any point in time PDI decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether or not to permit the use of their information in this separate manner.

Acceptance of Terms

Through the use of this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, then you should refrain from further use of our sites. In addition, your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you are in agreement and acceptance of such changes.

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR) PRIVACY NOTICE

1. Purpose of this notice
This portion of our Privacy Policy provides mandatory information as required under Articles 13 and 14 of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the transparency of personal data processing in connection with individuals residing in countries that have adopted the GDPR. Definitions of certain terms within this notice are explained in the GDPR Appendix below.

2. The Data Controller for personal data
PDI will be a Data Controller when it collects personal data directly from you (in which cases you are the “Data Subject”). In these circumstances PDI will be acting under a ‘Legitimate Interest’ to legally process the data for the provision of services to you and to fulfill the contractual requirements under our Terms of Use.

3. Your Rights
If you are a Data Subject located in a country that has adopted the GDPR, then you have certain rights under the GDPR. These rights can be seen below. PDI will always fully respect your rights regarding the processing of your personal data, and has provided below the details of the person to contact if you have any concerns or questions regarding how we process your data, or if you wish to exercise any rights you have under the GDPR.

Data Subject Rights: (Chapter 3 of the GDPR) each Data Subject has eight rights. These are:

  • The Right to Be Informed. This means anyone processing your personal data must make clear what they are processing, why, and who else the data may be passed to.
  • The Right of Access. This is your right to see what data is held about you by a Data Controller.
  • The Right to Rectification. The right to have your data corrected or amended if what is held is incorrect in some way.
  • The Right to Erasure. Under certain circumstances you can ask for your personal data to be deleted. This is also called ‘the Right to be Forgotten’. This would apply if the personal data is no longer required for the purposes it was collected for, or your consent for the processing of that data has been withdrawn, or the personal data has been unlawfully processed.
  • The Right to Restrict Processing. This gives the Data Subject the right to ask for a temporary halt to processing of personal data, such as in the case where a dispute or legal case has to be concluded, or the data is being corrected.
  • The Right to Data Portability. A Data Subject has the right to ask for any data supplied directly to the Data Controller by him or her, to be provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
  • The Right to Object. The Data Subject has the right to object to further processing of their data which is inconsistent with the primary purpose for which it was collected, including profiling, automation, and direct marketing.
  • Rights in Relation to Automated Decision Making And Profiling. Data Subjects have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

4. Contact Details
If you need contact PDI regarding your rights under the GDPR, please direct your inquiries to the contact information below.

5. Data Protection Principles
PDI has adopted the following principles to govern its collection and processing of Personal Data:

  1. Personal Data shall be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner.
  2. The Personal Data collected from the Data Subject will only be those specifically required to provide the Data Subject with the service(s) he/she has actively chosen to obtain from PDI, including the provision of notifications in connection with such services. Data may be used for other purposes such as marketing additional products and services from PDI and its partners, but you will always have the right to turn such other uses on and off within the privacy section of your user account settings. Such data will only be processed for these purposes.
  3. Personal Data shall only be retained for as long as it is required to fulfil contractual requirements, comply with accounting and auditing requirements or to generate aggregated statistical information for our internal marketing purposes or the development of statistical reports such as user trend reports.
  4. Personal Data shall be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or processed. Personal Data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
  5. The Data Subject has the right to request from PDI access to and rectification or erasure of their personal data, to object to or request restriction of processing concerning the data, or to the right to data portability. In each case such a request must be put in writing to the contact above.
  6. The Data Subject has the right to make a complaint directly to a supervisory authority within their own country. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Personal Data shall only be processed based on the legal basis explained above, except where such interests are overridden by the fundamental rights and freedoms of the Data Subject which will always take precedent. If the Data Subject has provided specific additional Consent to the processing, then such consent may be withdrawn at any time (but may then result in an inability to fulfil travel requirements).
PDI will not use personal data for any monitoring or profiling activity or process, and will not adopt any automated decision-making processes.

6. Transfers to Third Parties
PDI does not share or transfer Personal Data to third party companies.

7. Transfers outside the EU
PDI is located in the United States and all Personal Data that the Data Subject shares with PDI will be processed and stored by PDI in the United States. When the Data Subject provides Personal Data, it will be transferred to PDI and its servers within the United States.

GDPR Appendix – Definitions of certain terms referred to above:
Personal Data: (Article 4 of the GDPR): ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Processing: (Article 4 of the GDPR): means any operation or set of operations which is performed upon personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, erasure or destruction.

Legal Basis for Processing: (Article 6 of the GDPR): At least one of these must apply whenever personal data is processed:

  1. Consent: the individual has given clear consent for the processing of their personal data for a specific purpose.
  2. Contract: the processing is necessary for compliance with a contract.
  3. Legal obligation: the processing is necessary to comply with the law (not including contractual obligations).
  4. Vital interests: the processing is necessary to protect someone’s life.
  5. Public task: the processing is necessary to perform a task in the public interest, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.
  6. Legitimate interests: the processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Data Controller unless there is a good reason to protect the individual’s personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

Data Controller: (Article 4 of the GDPR): this means the person or company that determines the purposes and the means of processing personal data.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement related to our website, please feel free to contact us at the following email, telephone number or mailing address.

Email:
[email protected]

Mailing Address:
PDI Technologies, Inc.
11675 Rainwater Dr.
Alpharetta, GA 30009