Avantus LLC (doing business as Avantus Power LLC in California and Nevada) Privacy Notice

Last modified: September 20, 2024

1. Introduction

Avantus LLC (“Avantus” or “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Privacy Notice (our “Privacy Notice”) describes the types of information we may collect, use, maintain, protect, disclose, or otherwise process about you when you visit the following websites: www.avantus.com; www.angelenostorage.com; www.aratinasolar.com; www.boothhillstransmission.com; www.catclawsolar.com; www.kittsolar.com; www.redantelopesolar.com; www.siennasolarcenter.com; www.buttonbushsolar.com; www.redantelopesolar.com; oretownsolar.com (collectively our “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, disclosing, or otherwise processing that information.

This Notice applies to information we collect:

• on our Websites; and
• in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Websites.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Avantus or any third-party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries);
• us or any of our affiliates or subsidiaries related to your or any other individual’s employment or potential employment with us; or
• any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Websites.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites. By accessing or using these Websites, you agree to this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Your continued use of these Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Notice periodically for updates.

2. Children Under the Age of 18

Our Websites are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any Personal Data to or on the Websites. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information directly from a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@avantus.com.

3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Throughout this Privacy Notice, the term “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device. However, Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated information.

Generally

We collect Personal Data from various sources, including:

• directly from you when you provide it to us; and
• automatically as you navigate through the Websites.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect the following types of Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Websites: real name, email address, telephone number, and employer name. In addition, we also collect other types of information that you may provide when you fill out a form or through your correspondence with us.

The Personal Data we collect on or through our Websites include:

• information that you provide by filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information provided at the time of requesting further information. We may also ask you for information when you contact us and when you report a problem with our Websites;
• if you contact us, records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses); and
• your search queries on the Websites.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

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

• details of your visits to our Websites. This includes traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access on the Websites; and
• information about your computer and internet connection, i.e., your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It helps us to improve our Websites and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• store information about your preferences;
• customize our Websites according to your individual interests;
• speed up your searches; and
• recognize you when you return to our Websites.

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. Our Websites may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Websites. 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 Websites. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you do not consent to our use of cookies or select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Websites. You can find more information about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org and http://youronlinechoices.eu.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Websites 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 Avantus, 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).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Websites are served by third parties, including content providers and social media companies.

4. How We Use Your Information

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

• to provide our Websites and its content to you;
• to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• to provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses;
• to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including our terms of use;
• to notify you about changes to our Websites or any products or services we offer or provide though them;
• to allow you to participate in interactive features on our Websites;
• in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
• to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
• for any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you wish to change your choice, you may do so at any time by sending us an email stating your request at privacy@avantus.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, or otherwise disclose your Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined in this Privacy Notice. However, we may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

• We may disclose Personal Data that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Notice:
• 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 Data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• to a potential or actual buyer or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Avantus LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Avantus LLC about our Websites’ 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; and
• with your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Data:

• 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; and
• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Avantus LLC, our customers, or others.

6. 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 our Websites may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Information from Avantus. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our own Services and the products we offer, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@avantus.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may click the unsubscribe link in the body of that email to be omitted from future email distributions.

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 learn more about interest-based advertisements and your opt-out rights and options from:

• members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on its website (www.networkadvertising.org);
• members of the Digital Advertising Alliance on its website (www.aboutads.info);
• Your Online Choices (Europe) (www.youronlinechoices.com).

7. Accessing, Correcting, and Deleting Your Personal Data

You may send us an email at privacy@avantus.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Data that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change or delete your Personal Data if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Proper access and use of information provided on the Websites is governed by our Terms of Use.

The jurisdiction in which you are a resident or are located may provide you with additional rights and choices regarding your Personal Data. Please see Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights for more Information.

8. Jurisdiction-Specific Privacy Rights

The law in some jurisdictions may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of Personal Data. To learn more about any additional rights that may be applicable to you as a resident of one of these jurisdictions, please see the privacy addendum for your state that is attached to this Privacy Notice.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a resident of California, you have the additional rights described in the California Privacy Addendum.

9. Do Not Track Signals

We do not track your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services for any purpose. Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.

10. Data Security

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

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

11. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We may change this Privacy Notice at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you through a notice on the Websites’ home page. The date this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Websites and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.

Your continued use of our Websites following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance to such changes.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Notice or the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in this Privacy Notice, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact Us” page on our Websites.

Avantus LLC
4370 Town Center Blvd., Suite 110

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

(866) 532-9786

privacy@avantus.com