Privacy Policy

EDF Renewables and/or any parent, subsidiary, and affiliated entities (the “Company” or “we”) respect the privacy of our visitors to our website, as well as other individuals who interact with our business. This privacy policy is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any personal information we collect, or you submit to us. “Personal information” is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, address, email address, or phone number, and other information that is not otherwise publicly available.

This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individual consumers, applicants, contractors, and other individuals who visit or interact with this website, visit any of our facilities, contract with us, apply for employment, or otherwise interact with the Company.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices as they apply to our website, your choice is not to use our website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy.  This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.  This policy was last updated January 1, 2023.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

As you navigate our website, certain passive information will be collected, including Internet protocol addresses and navigational data. This type of information will be used for the purposes of gathering data to provide improved administration of our website, and to improve the quality of your experience when interacting with our website. We may also use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server or to administer our website.

If you choose to use the form on the Contact page, or to email, text, instant message, call us, or speak with us in-person, we will also collect the information you provide.  Such information will be used to respond to your inquiry and may be used for the purposes of gathering data to provide improved service.

We do not and will not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on the website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs, language preference, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests and language preferences.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our website.

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 our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, 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).
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our website or any services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, in which personal information about our website users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may also send us an email at info@edf-re.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Residents of certain states, such as California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, and Utah may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.

A.) California Residents

Rights Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”)

This section of the privacy policy applies only to California residents who are natural persons; it does not apply to any entities (whether business, non-profit or governmental). If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:

1. Right to Know. The right to request, up to two times in a 12-month period, that we identify to you (1) the categories of personal information we have collected, shared or sold about you, (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the business purpose for which we use this information, and (4) the categories of third parties with whom we disclose or have disclosed your personal information;
2. Right to Access. The right to request, up to two times in a 12-month period, that we provide you access to or disclose to you the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
3. Right to Delete. The right to request, up to two times in a 12-month period, that we delete personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
4. Right to Correct. The right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information (to the extent such an inaccuracy exists) that we maintain about you;
5. The right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the above requests on your behalf. See below for how you can designate an authorized agent; and
6. The right to not be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of the above rights.

You Can Submit Any of the Above Types of Requests by Either Option Below:

1. Submit an online request on our website at https://www.edf-re.com/contact/
2. Call our privacy toll-free line at 888-903-6926.

How We Will Verify That it is Really You Submitting the Request:

If you are a California resident, when you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, or Right to Correct request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and respond to your request. Specifically, we will ask you to verify information that can be used to link your identity to particular information in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and interaction with us. For example, we may need you to provide your name, address, email, phone number, last 4 digits of your social security number, and/or your date of birth.

Responding to your Right to Know, Right to Access, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct Requests

Upon receiving a verifiable request from a California resident, we will confirm receipt of the request no later than 10 business days after receiving it. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable request within forty-five (45) calendar days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to an additional 45 calendar days, or 90 calendar days total from the date we receive your request), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

For a request to correct inaccurate personal information, we will accept, review, and consider any documentation that you provide, and we may require that you provide documentation to rebut our own documentation that the personal information is accurate. You should make a good-faith effort to provide us with all necessary information at the time that you make the request to correct. We may deny a request to correct if we have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that a request to correct is fraudulent or abusive. If we deny your request to correct, we shall inform you of our decision not to comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is fraudulent.

If You Have an Authorized Agent:

If you are a California resident, you can authorize someone else as an authorized agent who can submit a request on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a valid, verifiable, and notarized power of attorney, or (b) provide other written, signed authorization that we can then verify. When we receive a request submitted on your behalf by an authorized agent who does not have a power of attorney, that person will be asked to provide written proof that they have your permission to act on your behalf. We will also contact you and ask you for information to verify your own identity directly and not through your authorized agent. We may deny a request from an authorized agent if the agent does not provide your signed permission demonstrating that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

Applicants

California residents who are job applicants, please see the Privacy Notice to California Job Applicants for more information specific to you.

Independent Contractors

California residents who are independent contractors, please see the Privacy Notice to California Independent Contractors for more information specific to you.

Vendors

California residents who interact with the Company while employed through a third-party vendor, please see the Privacy Notice to California Vendors for more information specific to you.

B.) Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah Residents

Residents of these states have rights to:

• Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• Access and delete certain personal information.
• Data portability.
• Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.

Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia also provide their state residents with rights to:

• Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature processing purpose.
• Opt-out of profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

To exercise any of these rights please email info@edf-re.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, you may contact us at info@edf-re.com with the subject line “request to appeal.”

C.) Nevada Residents

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to 888-903-6925 or info@edf-re.com.   However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure sites behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.

How We Protect the Information That We Collect

The protection of the information that we collect about individuals is of the utmost importance to us and we take every reasonable measure to ensure that protection, including:

• We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
• We restrict access to private information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.

Consent to Terms and Conditions

By visiting or interacting with this website or providing personal information to EDF Renewables and/or any parent, subsidiary, and affiliated entities – whether online, via email or telephone, or in person, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this privacy policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using personal information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this privacy policy. We encourage you to check the website frequently to see the current privacy policy in effect and any changes that may have been made. You may also contact us at the address listed at the end of this policy.  Continued use of our website following notice of any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

Employees, Former Employees, Employees’ Family Members, Dependents, and Beneficiaries

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of employees or any of their family members, dependents or beneficiaries.  Employees, former employees, employees’ family members, dependents, and beneficiaries are covered by the Employee Privacy Policy.  The Employee Privacy Policy is available on EDFR Connect or by contacting Human Resources.  Information is also available by contacting info@edf-re.com or 888-903-6925.

Individuals With Disabilities

This policy is in a form that is or will be made accessible to individuals with disabilities.  If you need assistance with accessing contact, please contact us at US-TA-Accommodations@edf-re.com or call 866-952-1085.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this website or through any of its features, register on the website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@edf-re.com or call 888-903-6925.

Questions About the Policy

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the Company’s privacy practices, please contact us at info@edf-re.com or call 888-903-6925.