Last updated: January 23, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how Watershed Technology, Inc. or its affiliated entities (“Watershed,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, or otherwise processes information relating to individuals (“Personal Data”) and such individuals’ legal and privacy rights. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy applies to any and all websites, mobile applications, and any other electronic or digital products or other services that are made available by Watershed and that link to this Privacy Policy, and our offline services (collectively, the “Services”).
By accessing or using the Services, you are agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.
This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of Personal Data collected by us, including when you access or use our Services. For example, we may collect Personal Data when you:
We also provide an enterprise sustainability platform. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected through Watershed’s sustainability climate platform, if any. Separate terms governing such platform describe the processing of Personal Data, if any, collected with respect to such products and services.
Our Services may contain links to other websites, applications, platforms, and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of these third parties, including the social media platforms that host our branded social media pages, are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties.
You may provide us with Personal Data such as, without limitation: first name, last name, company name, email address, phone number, country location, job title, industry, or LinkedIn profile URL.
“Usage Data” refers to data that is generated by the use of our Services or from the website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). It is collected automatically when you visit our website or other online offerings.
Usage Data may include information such as the IP address from which you access our Services, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
If you access our Services by or through a mobile device, Usage Data may also include the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, and the type of mobile Internet browser you use.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Services and store certain information. Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of your browsing history on that website. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Services. We or our third party vendors also may use certain of these technologies in emails to our customers to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Services. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather additional information through other methods, subject to our obligations under applicable laws. We do not currently respond to Do Not Track signals.
Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. We may use first-party cookies and third party cookies. First party cookies are cookies administered by Watershed, and third party cookies are administered by third parties.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes set out below:
Cookie Type | Purpose |
---|---|
Necessary/essential cookies | These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Services and to enable you to use some of their features. |
Functional cookies | These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use our Services, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use our Services. |
Tracking and performance cookies | These cookies are used to track information about traffic to our Services and how users use our Services. The information gathered via these cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access our Services. We may also use these cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of our Services to see how our users react to them. |
Advertising cookies | Advertising cookies track activity across Services in order to understand a viewer’s interests and to provide marketing to them on the Services and other websites and services. Watershed may use cookies to show you ads for products or services that we think may interest you on devices you use and to track the performance of our ads. |
We may also receive information which may contain Personal Data from third parties, including our service providers, affiliates, and partners such as technology vendors and business information vendors, as well as from publicly available sources such as LinkedIn and third party company websites. We may also receive information about you from third party social platforms, such as Facebook or Instagram, when you interact with our social media profiles.
We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
We may combine information that we collect from you through the Services with information that we obtain from other sources. We may aggregate or de-identify Personal Data and use and disclose aggregated or de-identified data for any purpose, including for research, marketing, or disclosing such data to other parties.
We may disclose your Personal Data in the following situations:
We may use third party web analytics services on the Services, such as those of Google Analytics. These vendors use the sort of technology described in “Usage Data” in Section 2 above to help us analyze how users use the Services, including by noting the third party website from which you arrive. The information collected by such technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these vendors, who use the information to evaluate your use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from using your information for web analytics, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
We may also allow third party advertising networks to place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device to collect information about your use of the Services in order to (a) inform, optimize, and serve marketing content based on past visits to our Services and (b) report how our marketing content impressions and interactions with these marketing impressions are related to visits to our online Services. We may also allow other unaffiliated parties (e.g., ad networks and ad servers such as Google Analytics) to serve tailored marketing to you and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services. Those parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising as described below. You may receive tailored advertising on your computer through a web browser. Cookies may be associated with de-identified data linked to or derived from data you voluntarily have submitted to us (e.g., your email address) that we may disclose to a vendor in hashed, non-human-readable form.
If you are interested in more information about tailored advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver tailored marketing, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative's (“NAI”) Consumer Opt-Out Link, the Digital Advertising Alliance's (“DAA”) Consumer Opt-Out Link, and/or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. To exercise choices about how Google personalizes Display Advertising or to customize Google Display Network ads, you can visit the Google Ads Settings page. Please note that to the extent advertising technology is integrated into the Services, you may still receive advertising content even if you opt out of tailored advertising. In that case, the advertising content may not be tailored to your interests. Please also note that we do not control any of the above opt-out links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms. If your browsers are configured to reject cookies when you visit these opt-out pages, or you subsequently erase your cookies, use a different computer or change web browsers, your opt-out may no longer be effective.
Your information, including Personal Data, may be processed at Watershed’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction, and data may be accessible to law enforcement and national security authorities under certain circumstances.
By using the Services, or providing us with any information, you consent to the collection, processing, maintenance, and transfer of such information in and to the United States and other applicable countries in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as, or equivalent to, those in the country where you reside or are a citizen.
Our Services are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. If you believe we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected Personal Data of a minor without appropriate consent, please contact us using the information in Section 13 below.
We will retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We may also retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We offer you certain choices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails by following the directions in those emails. Please note that if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send you administrative emails regarding the Services.
You can opt out of certain cookie-related and analytics processing by following the instructions in this Privacy Policy.
You may have certain rights relating to your Personal Data, subject to local data protection laws. Depending on the applicable laws these rights may include the right to:
You may exercise your rights by contacting us as noted in Section 13 below. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may be unable to respond to your requests. We will try our best to respond to you as soon as practicable.
If you are located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.
Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we may retain certain information for legal compliance and to secure our Services. We may need certain information in order to provide the Services to you; if you ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to use the Services.
The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data through administrative, physical, organizational, and technical measures, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Our Services may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page, except as otherwise provided herein. By continuing to use the Services, you are confirming that you have read and understood the latest version of this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email: privacy@watershedclimate.com. When you contact us, please indicate in which country and/or state you reside.
Watershed is considered the “data controller” of the Personal Data (as defined under the General Data Protection Regulation) we handle under this Privacy Policy. In other words, Watershed is responsible for deciding how to collect, use, and disclose Personal Data, subject to applicable law. The laws of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom require data controllers to tell you about the legal ground that they rely on for using, sharing, or disclosing your personal data. We process your Personal Data under the following legal bases:
In addition to those rights described in Section 9, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority. However, we encourage you to contact us first, and we will do our best to resolve your concern.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”) requires us to provide additional information to California residents. This Section 15 only applies to you if you are a California resident using our Services as described in Section 1 above. It does not apply to information collected about employees, former employees, job candidates, or independent contractors. We may share Personal Data (in the form of identifiers and internet activity information) with third party advertisers for purposes of targeting advertisements on non-Watershed websites, applications, and services.
Under the CCPA, we also have to provide you with the categories of “personal information” and “sensitive personal information” we collect and disclose for “business or commercial purposes.” Where we refer to “personal information” or “sensitive personal information” in quotes, we are referring to those terms as uniquely defined in the CCPA.
In the twelve months leading up to the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we have collected and disclosed the categories of “personal information” described in Section 2 for business or commercial purposes. The categories of “personal information” are: identifiers, commercial or transactional information, internet or other electronic network activity information, general geolocation data, professional or employment-related information, audio or video information (such as through video calls), other information about you that you may provide to us voluntarily, other information that may identify you, and inferences drawn from the information we collect.
We process the categories of “personal information” identified above for the purposes as described in more detail in Section 3 above.
We collect the categories of “personal information” identified above from the following sources: (1) directly from you; (2) through your use of the Services; and (3) other parties such as data brokers and other unaffiliated parties.
We disclose the categories of “personal information” identified above for our business purposes for the purposes described in Section 3 above and to the entities described in Section 4 above.
The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” or “share” “personal information”. Where we refer to “sell” or “share” (or their variants) in quotes, we are referring to those terms as uniquely defined in the CCPA. We may use third party analytics services and online advertising services that may result in the “sharing” of online identifiers (e.g., cookie data, IP addresses, device identifiers, general geolocation information, and usage information) with advertising partners to advertise the Services on third party websites. If you or your authorized agent would like to opt out of our “sharing” of your information for such purposes, you may do so by using the tools described in Section 5 above on Tailored Advertising. We do not knowingly “sell” or “share” the “personal information” of children under 16.
California law grants state residents certain rights, including the rights to know and access specific types of “personal information”, to learn how we process “personal information”, to request deletion of “personal information”, to request correction of “personal information”, and not to be denied goods or services for exercising these rights.
For information on how to exercise your rights, please refer to Section 9 of this Privacy Policy. The CCPA also allows you to limit the use or disclosure of your “sensitive personal information” if your “sensitive personal information” is used for certain purposes. Please note that we do not use or disclose “sensitive personal information” other than for purposes for which you cannot opt out under the CCPA.
Please note that we also respond to and abide by opt-out preference signals sent through the Global Privacy Control. Any opt out preferences you have exercised through these methods will only apply to the specific device/browser on which you made them. Please see the California Privacy Protection Agency’s website at https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa for more information on valid Global Privacy Controls.
For information on how long we retain personal information about you, please see Section 8 above on How Long We Keep Your Personal Data.