1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on the services, or otherwise when you contact us. 

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect me, include the following:

• email addresses

• phone numbers

We do not process sensitive information. 

All personal information that you provided to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us if any changes to such personal information.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) that may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language, preferences, referring, URLs, device name, country, location, information about how, and when you use our services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technology. The information we collect includes:

• Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance, information or servers automatically collect when you access or use our services, and which we can record and log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files, viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use). Device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called “crash dumps”), and hardware settings).

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

• To request feedback. We may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our services.

• To deliver targeted advertising to you. We may process your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising tailored to your interest, location, and more

• To protect our Services. We may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our services, safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.

• To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.

• To determine the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns. We may process your information to better understand how to provide marketing and promotional campaigns that are most relevant to you.

• To save or protect an individual’s vital interest. We made process your information with necessary to save, or protect an individual’s with vital interest, such as to prevent harm.

3. WHAT LEGAL BASIS DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

• Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for specific purposes. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.

• Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reliably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interest and those interest do not outweigh your interest and fundamental rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:

  • Develop and display personalized and relevant advertising content for our users

  • Analyze how our services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users

  • Support our marketing activities

  • Diagnose problems and/or prevent fraudulent activities

  • Understand how our users use our products and services so we can improve user experience

• Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law-enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclosure information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

• Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interest, or the vital interest of a third-party, such as situation involving potential threats, the safety of any person.

We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.

In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:

• If collection is clearly in the interest of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way

• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention

• For business transactions provided certain conditions are met

• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim

• If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim

• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin

• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse

• If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information in the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province

• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court, order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records

• If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession, and the collection is consistent with the purposes, for which the information was produced

• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes

• If the information is publicly available in a specified by the regulations

4. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? 

We may need to share your personal information In the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sales of company, assets, financing, or acquisition of all, or a portion of our business to another company.

5. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS? 

California civil code section 1798.83, also known as “Shine the Light” law, permits our users, who are California residence to request an obtained from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclose the third parties for direct marketing purposes, and the names and addresses of all third parties, with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with services, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the services. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the Data is not publicly displayed on the services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensibly removed from all our systems (e.g., backups, etc.).

California code of regulations to find a “resident” as:

• Every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and 

• Every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.”

If this definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

• Receiving help through our customer support channels;

• Participation in customary surveys or contests; and

• Facilitation in the delivery of our services and to respond to your inquiries.

More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.

You may contact us by email at drew.johnson@concursus.group, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. 

If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt out, we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.

We may disclose your personal information with our service providers, pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf, following the same strict privacy protection, obligations mandated by the CCPA. 

We may use your personal information for our business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal information.

Grotégé, LLC has not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months. Grotégé, LLC will not sell or share personal information in the future belonging to website, visitors, users, and other consumers.

Right to request deletion of the data - Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request to delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his, or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements, resulting from a legal obligation, or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.

Right to be informed – Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:

• Whether we collect and use your personal information;

• Participation in customary surveys or contests; and

• The categories of personal information we collect;

• The purpose for which the collected personal information is used;

• Whether we sell or share personal information to third parties;

• The categories of personal information that we sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose;

• The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, shared, or disclose for a business purpose;

• The business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information; and

• Specific piece of personal information we collected about you.

In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information. That is de-identified in response to consumers request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
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Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
We do not process consumer’s sensitive personal information.

Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in the system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submitted, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provided with you information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g., phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification message as the circumstances dictates. 

We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purpose of verification. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity in for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

Other privacy rights

• You may object to the processing of your personal information.

• You may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant or ask restrict the processing of the information.

• You can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.

• You may request to opt out from the future selling or sharing of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt out request, we will act upon request as soon as feasibly possible but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request submission.

To exercise your rights, you can contact us why email at drew.johnson@concursus.group, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.

11. DO VIRGINIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

Under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA): 

“Consumer” means a natural person who is a resident of the commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. It does not include a natural person acting in a commercial or employee context.

“Personal Data” means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable natural person. “Personal Data” does not include de-identified data or publicly available information.

“Sale of personal data” means the exchange of personal data for monetary consideration. 

If this definition “consumer” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal data. 

The information we collect, use, and disclose about you will vary depending on how you interact with Grotégé, LLC and our Services. To find out more, please visit the following links:

• Personal Data we collect

• How we use your personal data

• When and with whom do we share your personal data

You rights with respect to your personal data

• Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your data

• Right to be informed whether or not we are processing your data

• Facilitation in the delivery of our services and to respond to your inquiries.

• Write to request deletion of your personal data

• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data, you previously shared with us

• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in the furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant affects (“profiling)

Grotégé, LLC has not sold any personal data third parties for business or commercial purposes. Grotégé, LLC Will not sell personal data in the future belonging to website, visitors, users, and other consumers.

Exercise your rights provided under the Virginia CDPA
More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.
You may contact us by drew.johnson@concursus.group, by submitting a data request access request, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you are using an authorized agent exercise your right, we may deny request of the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized act on your behalf.

Verification process
We may request that you provide additional information responsibly necessary to verify you and your consumer’s request. If you submit the request to an authorized agent, we may need to collect additional information to verify your identity before processing your request

Upon receiving your request, we will respond without undue delay, but in all cases, within forty-five (45) days of receipt. The response may be extended once by forty-five (45) additional days when reasonably necessary. We will inform you of any such extension with you need to initial 45-day response, together with the reason for the extension.

Right to appeal
If we decline to take action regarding your request, we will inform you of our decision and reasoning behind it. If you wish to appeal our decision, please email us at drew.johnson@concursus.group. Within sixty (60) days of receipt of an appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decision. If your appeal is denied, you may contact the Attorney General to submit a complaint.

12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date, and the updated version will be affective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to the privacy notice, we may notify you either by promptly posting a notice of such changes or by directly or send you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions, or comments about this notice, you may email us at drew.johnson@concursus.group or contact us by post at:

Grotégé, LLC 
P.O. Box 101
Scarbro, WV 25917
United States

14. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, to change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.