Privacy Policy

Your privacy is and will always be taken seriously by us. Therefore, Eternalplanet (collectively, “Eternalplanet”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) has developed this “Privacy Policy” that covers how we collect, use,disclosure, protect, store and transfer your information. Please read the sections below to understand our privacy policy and let us know if you have any questions.

Information We May Collect

Information you provide to us, including:

 

Contact information

such as your name, address, region, email, phone number, professional title, and company name, contact preference.

 

Content information

such as text, images, audio, video, and the metadata associated with the files you upload.

 

Profile information

such as your username and password that you may set to establish an online account with us, your account name, account number, Eternalplanet system identification number, photograph, interests, and preferences.

 

Registration information

such as information that may be related to a service, an account or an event for which you register.

 

Communications or interactions

such as your preferences for information, calls, emails, or in person communications, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications. We also may conduct user surveys, and research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products and surveys.

 

Energy information

such as your energy production/consumption, electric bill, existing solar capacity, battery settings and usage history, and other information relating to any of your energy resources.

 

Site information

home details related to your system installation including roof type, house size, device configuration settings, appliance usage, micro-inverter details, system configuration settings, electrical circuit breaker and panel details, permit information, and photographs.

 

Transaction information

such as information about your billing address, payments to and from you, customer number, and other details of products or services you have purchased from us.

 

Usage information

such as information about how you use the Service and interact with us, including information associated with any meter identifier (make, model and serial number) or augmented revenue grade meter data (such as cumulative counter ending values as of the end of the month), output information, efficiency and other technical variables, content you upload to the websites or otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any interactive features of the Service.

 

Other information

that we may collect which is not specifically listed here but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

 

Information we collect through our products:

The Smart Gateway is the networking hub that connects EP Cube hardware (such as hybrid inverters, and storage) of a EP Cube Home Energy Storage System suite to our monitoring and management software. Once the Smart Gateway is connected to the internet, it begins reporting your energy production, consumption, and site information to us and will continue to do so as long as it is online.

 

Information from social media platforms.

We may maintain pages for Eternalplanet on social media platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and other third party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

Information from other third parties

We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner, such as a solar energy system installer, a grid services aggregator, or a utility, may share your contact and energy-related information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our products or services, or the types of products or services we offer. Similarly, a business partner may share profile or registration information if they assist you in setting up a Eternalplanet Account. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources, existing Eternalplanet customers, and data providers. In certain circumstances, Eternalplanet collects your personal information from your installer at your direction. These third-parties’ privacy policies govern their sharing of information with Eternalplanet and their other processing, so we advise you to contact the third-parties for further information.

 

Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means.

We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Service. The information that may be collected automatically includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier, browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before navigating to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on the Service, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access. Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications. If it is a Eternalplanet advertising partner that has collected your personal information, its privacy policy will govern its use of that information. For more information on how we use your information, as collected in the manner described in this paragraph, please see the section below titled "To display advertisements."

On our web pages, this information is collected using cookies, browser web storage (also known as locally stored objects, or “LSOs”), web beacons, and similar technologies. Our emails may also contain web beacons. In our mobile application, we may collect this information directly or through our use of third-party software development kits (“SDKs”). SDKs may enable third parties to collect information directly from our mobile application.

 

Referrals.

Users of the Service may have the opportunity to refer other individuals to us. If you are an existing user, you may only submit a referral to us if you have permission to provide the referral’s contact information to us so that we may contact them.

 

How We Use Your Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

 

To operate our Business.

We may use your personal information to: provide, operate and improve our business, including to provide the services that you request (including the Service); provide information about our products and services; establish and maintain your user profile on the Service; enable security features of the Service, such as by sending you security codes via email or text, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged into the Service; facilitate social features of the Service, such as providing chat or messaging functionality; communicate with you about the Service, including by sending you notices about your system’s energy consumption and production, announcements, updates, security alerts, support, service related matters, and administrative messages; communicate with you about events, programs or contests in which you participate; understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications; provide customer support and maintenance for the Service; and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

 

For research and development.

We analyze your use of the Service (including your personal information such as demographics) to improve the Service, to develop new products and services, and to market and promote our business.

 

To send marketing and promotional communications.

When permitted by law, we may send Eternalplanet-related marketing communications. Recipients of our marketing communications will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt-out of Marketing Communications section below.

 

To display advertisements.

We may work with advertising partners to display advertisements on the Service or elsewhere online. Our third-party advertising partners (e.g. Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook, and others) may automatically collect information about you when you use the Service through methods such as cookies and other tracking technologies (as further described below). Such third-party advertisers may use such information about you to display advertisements on the Service or elsewhere online, and such advertising may be targeted to you based on your use of the Service or your activity elsewhere online. To learn more about your choices in connection with advertisements delivered to you by our third-party advertising partners, please see the section below titled “Targeted online advertising.” Targeted online advertising includes displaying advertisements on social media through programs offered by partners like Facebook Lookalike Audience. Facebook Lookalike Audience enables us to target users of Facebook who “look like” our existing or prospective customers. A lookalike audience uses an existing custom/tailored audience group as a "seed," which may include identifiers that we provide them like your email, or online identifiers automatically collected by them like your usage information or device data. To this end and as permitted by law, we may transfer your contact data to Facebook, so that an audience of similar users is built on that basis by Facebook. Lookalike audiences help reach people who are similar to you for purposes such as customer acquisition, site registration and brand awareness. We do not provide data subject to the GDPR for Facebook Lookalike Audience.

 

To comply with law.

We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

 

For protection of rights, fraud prevention, and safety.

We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

 

With your consent.

In certain circumstances, we may specifically ask for you to consent to the collection, use or sharing of your personal information, such as when required by law or in connection with a specific offering in which you have elected to participate.

 

To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data.

We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

How We Use Your Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:

 

To operate our Business.

We may use your personal information to: provide, operate and improve our business, including to provide the services that you request (including the Service); provide information about our products and services; establish and maintain your user profile on the Service; enable security features of the Service, such as by sending you security codes via email or text, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged into the Service; facilitate social features of the Service, such as providing chat or messaging functionality; communicate with you about the Service, including by sending you notices about your system’s energy consumption and production, announcements, updates, security alerts, support, service related matters, and administrative messages; communicate with you about events, programs or contests in which you participate; understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications; provide customer support and maintenance for the Service; and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

 

For research and development.

We analyze your use of the Service (including your personal information such as demographics) to improve the Service, to develop new products and services, and to market and promote our business.

 

To send marketing and promotional communications.

When permitted by law, we may send Eternalplanet-related marketing communications. Recipients of our marketing communications will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt-out of Marketing Communications section below.

 

To display advertisements.

We may work with advertising partners to display advertisements on the Service or elsewhere online. Our third-party advertising partners (e.g. Google Ads, Google Analytics, Facebook, and others) may automatically collect information about you when you use the Service through methods such as cookies and other tracking technologies (as further described below). Such third-party advertisers may use such information about you to display advertisements on the Service or elsewhere online, and such advertising may be targeted to you based on your use of the Service or your activity elsewhere online. To learn more about your choices in connection with advertisements delivered to you by our third-party advertising partners, please see the section below titled “Targeted online advertising.” Targeted online advertising includes displaying advertisements on social media through programs offered by partners like Facebook Lookalike Audience. Facebook Lookalike Audience enables us to target users of Facebook who “look like” our existing or prospective customers. A lookalike audience uses an existing custom/tailored audience group as a "seed," which may include identifiers that we provide them like your email, or online identifiers automatically collected by them like your usage information or device data. To this end and as permitted by law, we may transfer your contact data to Facebook, so that an audience of similar users is built on that basis by Facebook. Lookalike audiences help reach people who are similar to you for purposes such as customer acquisition, site registration and brand awareness. We do not provide data subject to the GDPR for Facebook Lookalike Audience.

 

To comply with law.

We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.

 

For protection of rights, fraud prevention, and safety.

We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.

 

With your consent.

In certain circumstances, we may specifically ask for you to consent to the collection, use or sharing of your personal information, such as when required by law or in connection with a specific offering in which you have elected to participate.

 

To create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data.

We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

How We Share Your Information

We do not share personal information with other companies, organizations and individuals unless one of the following circumstances applies:

 

Share with consent.

We may share your personal information with your consent or as otherwise instructed by you.

 

To fulfill your request.

In order to carry out our obligation or contract to you, or fulfill your request, we may need to share your personal information. For example, if you order a product then we need to share your contact information with our shipping partner; if you wish to get a quote from an installer then we will need to provide them your information; or if you wish to enroll in a Grid Services program then we may need to provide your contact and system information with a utility and/or aggregator.

 

Share with our affiliates.

Your information may be shared with our corporate parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Share with service providers. We may disclosure your information to third party companies and individuals that provide services for or on behalf of us or help us operate the Service (such as payment processors, customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, database management, as well as permit and rebate application preparation and submission services.)

 

Share with third party energy providers.

At your direction, we may share or instruct our service providers to share your personal information with third party energy provider partners or enable third party energy provider partners to collect information directly via our Service. For example, if you wish to sign up with a third party energy provider (such as a utility company or an energy aggregator) or submit an application to a utility or governmental authority, we may share your information with such provider. This may include, without limitation, your name, email address, system location information, meter identifier information, and augmented revenue grade meter data. Any such use of your personal information by a third party energy provider as set forth in this paragraph will be governed by such provider’s privacy policy. Accordingly, we suggest that you review the third party energy provider’s privacy policies to inform yourself as to that entity’s privacy practices.

 

Share with installers and their partners.

If you grant us permission, we may share your information with an installer of Eternalplanet systems for purposes of facilitating a transaction; monitoring and servicing your Eternalplanet product; customer service; and/or other purposes. This may include your system’s energy consumption and usage times. The installer may partner with other companies with whom your information is shared.

 

Share with Canadian Solar Group.

If you grant us permission, we may share your information with Canadian Solar Group company to process the indicated data to receive commercial communications(latest releases,news,products,service announcements,webinars and events) by email.

 

Share with developers using our API.

We may share your personal information and performance data about your system with developers via our API. We are joint data controllers with the developers who are using our API for any data we share with them but separate controllers for any other processing activities they undertake. If you would like to exercise any of your data subject rights, you can contact either us or the developer.

 

Share with social media platforms and advertisers.

Subject to your marketing preferences, we share information with social media platforms, such as Facebook, and advertisers to present our ads to you on other platforms. For example, we may share with Facebook actions that you take on our website such as your visits to our website, your interactions on our website, use of Facebook tools such as Facebook Connect, and information collected from cookies or similar technologies including the Facebook pixel. This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, improve our marketing practices, and helps us deliver more relevant advertising to you (including on social media such as Facebook): for this activity, we are a joint data controller with Facebook. This means that we have to provide you with this notice, but you should contact Facebook if you wish to exercise your data protection rights. Further information, including how Facebook enables you to exercise your data protection rights, and subsequently processes your information as independent data controller can be found in Facebook's Data Policy.

 

Share with other users of the Service and the public.

We may provide functionality that enables you to disclose personal information to other users of the Service or the public to exchange ideas and information or otherwise communicate. For instance, you may be able to submit information through the Eternalplanet Developer Website or Eternalplanet Community forum, and you may choose to display your name, username, and a link to your user profile along with the content you submit. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to other users or the public.

 

Share with professional advisors.

We may disclose your information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

 

Share with governmental authorities and private parties.

We may share your personal information in connection with protection of rights, fraud prevention and safety, as described above.

Choices and Transparency

In this section, we enable you to obtain access and control the data that we collect, use and share. Through device permissions, in-app settings, communication preferences, your Eternalplanet Account, etc. - you are in the driver’s seat, even when it comes to your data.

 

Access or update your information.

If you have registered for a Monflow Account, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the Eternalplanet Account.

Opt-out of marketing communications.

If you no longer want to receive promotional-related emails or messages, you may opt out at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in the communication received from us, and, if you have a Eternalplanet Account, by adjusting your preferences in the settings section for both mobile and web applications. If you receive marketing text messages from us, you may opt out of receiving further marketing text messages from us by replying STOP to our marketing message. Even if you opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing communications.

 

Cookies & browser web storage.

We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Service and third party websites.

 

Privacy settings.

We may make available certain privacy settings on the Service, such as options to control how and whether we share your data with installers. If available, you may exercise these controls using the settings section in both mobile and web applications.

 

Choosing not to share your information.

Where we are required by law to collect your personal information and you do not provide it or you ask us to delete it, we may not be able to provide the Service to you. Additionally, we may not be able to provide you with the Service or the quality of the Service may be affected if (1) you do not provide personal information when requested (2) you withdraw consent previously given or (3) you later ask to delete it. We will tell you what information you must provide to receive the Service by designating it as required at the time of collection or through other appropriate means.

 

Links to Other Sites and Services

The Service may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and online services you use.

Security Practices

The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. Should this Privacy Policy be revised from time to time, Eternalplanet will let you know by revising the date this Policy was last updated on our website. In all cases, your continued use of the Service after the posting or effective date as stated in the notification of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.

How to Contact Us

For any questions or comments about this Policy, to opt out from certain services, or to submit a data privacy request, please contact us.

 

Email us at

privacy@eternalplanetenergy.com.

 

Updated: September 2022