Privacy Policy
Last Updated July 25, 2020
Braven Environmental, LLC (“Braven”) has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices relating to Braven’s website (“Site”), the delivery of our services and products, and other interactions with you. Please note that when you access any external links from Braven’s Site, such external websites may have different privacy policies from the Site and Braven is not responsible for the privacy practices of such external websites. We encourage you to read all privacy policies posted on the websites that you visit.
1. Personal Information Collection
Braven may collect personal information which is information that alone or in combination with other information could be used to identify you. This could include your name, telephone number, e-mail address, date of birth, and home or business and mailing address or other location from which you use our services from information you provide us through technology including when you access certain areas of the Braven Site that require registration for certain services, or if you require more information about those services.
When you visit, use and interact with the Site, we may receive certain information about your visit, use or interactions. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Site, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access the Site (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our system:
- Log data: Information that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site (“log data”). Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Site.
- Cookies: Please see the “How Braven Collects Personal Information” section below to learn more about how we use cookies.
- Usage Information: We collect information about how you use our Site, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
Specialized Information. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5) and application data caches. At other times, Braven may collect information that cannot be used to identify you. For example, we may aggregate non-personal information about you and others who visit our Site. Aggregated information will not contain any information that can be linked directly back to you.
2. How Braven Collects Personal Information
Braven collects personal information we receive from you and from other sources. Braven collects your personal information in connection with the use of our Site or in the provision of services or products to you. We also may use any number of tools to collect information about you, your computer access points, mobile devices, and the web browser that you use to connect to our Site. For example, “cookies” are tiny text files that we place on your computer or mobile device when you visit our Site. We may use cookies to personalize your interactions with our Site. You do not have to accept our cookies and you may set your browser to restrict their use and you may delete them after they have been placed on your computer or mobile devices. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Site may take more time to work, or may not function properly. Under the laws of certain countries, cookies may be served, as long as individuals have provided their consent, having been given clear and comprehensive information, in particular about the purposes for which their personal data will be processed. Effective consent may be provided by using your browser settings, as long as you take positive action. Before using the Braven Site, you are advised to check your current browser settings to ensure that the settings reflect your consent for Braven to place cookies on your devices.
Braven may also collect additional information from your web browser each time you visit our Site. We may collect information about the pages that you visit and the time spent on each web page or area of the Site, and other actions that you take while using our Site. This information may include your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the type of browser, the time that your browser was used to access our Site, and the referring website’s address. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us analyze use of the Site. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Our service providers may also use other standard web-based technologies to analyze your movements while accessing our Site. The technologies include web “beacons,” “pixel tags,” and “clear gifs.” These technologies help us ascertain the effectiveness of our product and service campaigns and marketing programs, allow us to customize the services offered on or through our Site, and help determine the best use for Site content, and product and service offerings. Some of this information, including the IP address, may be stored on our Internet service provider’s server logs, and may be available for extended periods of time.
3. Our Use of Your Personal Information
Braven may use your personal information to contact you via mail, e-mail, telephone or mobile device in order to give you updates about Braven’s special events, new services or current information regarding our products. We also use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive from you. We may also use your IP address, or unique devices identification numbers to help protect Braven and our Internet service providers from fraud.
If you submit a resume or seek to fulfill other staffing requirements, we will use that information solely in connection with your application for current or future staffing requirements, and we may also share your resume or application information with our business partners or affiliates that have staffing requirements for which you may be qualified.
We may also use non-personal aggregate information to improve our Site and our products and services offerings. For example, our Internet Service providers may report to us that there were a particular number of visitors to a certain area of our Site, or that a certain number of businesses or a certain number of individuals completed our registration forms in particular areas of our Site. Such information may also be used to analyze the effectiveness of our business and advertising models.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Personal Information
We do not sell, lease, or license your personal information to third parties. We may share your personal information with service providers that provide certain services to us, including, without limitation, website hosting services and visitor surveys. We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure these service providers adhere to the security standards we apply to your personal information and we prohibit them from using your information for their own marketing purposes.
Braven may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other government agencies; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the property or safety of our company and employees, contractors, vendors, suppliers, and customers; (e) defend against legal claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise required by law or permitted by law. We may disclose your information to others in connection with the sale, merger, acquisition or financing of a Braven company, or in connection with any transaction that involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets, including during the due diligence process. We reserve the right to provide non-personal information, such as aggregated data, to third parties.
5. Data Retention
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is longer.
6. Data Storage and Security
You use the Site at your own risk. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect personal information both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Site or e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any personal information to Braven via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site, or third party websites.
7. Children and Data Collection
Braven’s Site is a general audience Site. Braven’s Site content is not directed toward children who are under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children or minors. If Braven or its Internet service providers become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases. If you have questions about personal information that may have been submitted by a child, please email us at .
8. Notice to California Residents
If you are a California resident, please click here for additional information about your privacy rights.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
Braven may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by changing the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy, unless other notice is required by applicable law. You should take the time to review this privacy policy each time that you visit our Site.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about our efforts to protect your personal privacy, or if you require additional information about Braven’s privacy commitment, please contact us at: .