PRIVACY POLICY
BlueLink System Privacy Policy
A. Data and all other information about you that you provide whether through registration or otherwise is subject to the terms of this Agreement. You acknowledge that by using the BlueLink System, you consent to the collection and use (consistent with this Agreement) of this information by Licensor and its Partners and Suppliers (collectively hereinafter sometimes referred to as “we” for purposes of this Section).
B. We are aware of the need to address internet privacy and we believe you should be aware of how we intend to treat any information about you we may receive. We collect a variety of information (both personally identifiable and anonymous) relating to you and your use of the BlueLink System for a number of important purposes, but our main goals are (i) to provide you with services and features that meet your needs and (ii) to improve upon those services and features in the future. We may also use collected information in anonymous form aggregated with other consumer information in order to study how you and others use the BlueLink System in order to determine what is most beneficial for our users, how we can continually create a better overall experience for our users, which users are likely to be interested in receiving other services, and for such other various business purposes as Licensor and its Partners and Suppliers shall determine in their sole discretion. In addition, we may use the information that we collect for any other lawful purpose.
C. Some of the information we collect specifically identifies you or your household. However, your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, while there is no guaranty, we utilize commercially reasonable efforts to anonymize collected information by removing any information that would identify any specific individual or household. Anonymous information helps us understand how the BlueLink System is used in different geographic areas, helps us analyze how customers use the BlueLink System, helps us troubleshoot technical issues with the BlueLink System, and helps us conduct other, related research.
D. Location Data. For geofencing purposes, meaning your thermostat will adjust its temperature based on if you are inside or outside a user selected geofence distance. With your express consent, we use the result of inside or outside the geofence to adjust your thermostat temperature to a user selected value. We never externally collect the real-time location from your mobile device. The mobile device determines inside or outside the user selected fence and provides a signal to the BlueLink Cloud. The BlueLink cloud then signals your thermostat(s) to set an inside or outside the geofence temperature. This information will be used only for purposes of facilitating your adjustment of the thermostat setpoint. Once you have consented to the use of the information on your mobile device, you may adjust or remove this consent by managing your Location Services preferences through the settings of your mobile device.
E. We may share such anonymous information and research derived from such information with third parties including utilities, our Partners and Suppliers, advertisers, consumer and market research companies, merchants and other similar entities. Our affiliates, distributors, Partners and Suppliers may have the same access to our collected information as we do. Each of them has agreed to treat such information with the same degree of privacy outlined herein, unless there is another agreement between you and that entity.
F. Temporary, limited and specific access to our collected information may be granted to other third parties (including but not limited to consultants, accountants, programmers, attorneys and collection agencies) in connection with our business operations. Third parties are asked to agree to protect the confidentiality of our collected information. Third parties are solely responsible if they misuse any collected information.
G. Deleting your account. The BlueLink System mobile applications provides the ability to delete your account, including disassociating any devices in your account from the account and deleting the usage history of the devices in the account. When these irrevocable steps are completed in the mobile application, you will be logged out of your deleted account and the user name and password will be deleted.
SOLO Privacy Policy
A. Data and all other information about you that you provide whether through registration or otherwise is subject to the terms of this Agreement. You acknowledge that by using the Solo System, you consent to the collection and use (consistent with this Agreement) of this information by Licensor and its Partners and Suppliers (collectively hereinafter sometimes referred to as “we” for purposes of this Section).
B. We are aware of the need to address internet privacy and we believe you should be aware of how we intend to treat any information about you we may receive. We collect a variety of information (both personally identifiable and anonymous) relating to you and your use of the Solo System for a number of important purposes, but our main goals are (i) to provide you with services and features that meet your needs and (ii) to improve upon those services and features in the future. We may also use collected information in anonymous form aggregated with other consumer information in order to study how you and others use the Solo System in order to determine what is most beneficial for our users, how we can continually create a better overall experience for our users, which users are likely to be interested in receiving other services, and for such other various business purposes as Licensor and its Partners and Suppliers shall determine in their sole discretion. In addition, we may use the information that we collect for any other lawful purpose.
C. Some of the information we collect specifically identifies you or your household. However, your privacy is important to us. Accordingly, while there is no guaranty, we utilize commercially reasonable efforts to anonymize collected information by removing any information that would identify any specific individual or household. Anonymous information helps us understand how the Solo System is used in different geographic areas, helps us analyze how customers use the Solo System, helps us troubleshoot technical issues with the Solo System, and helps us conduct other, related research.
D. Location Data. For geofencing purposes, meaning your thermostat will adjust its temperature based on if you are inside or outside a user selected geofence distance. With your express consent, we use the result of inside or outside the geofence to adjust your thermostat temperature to a user selected value. We never externally collect the real-time location from your mobile device. The mobile device determines inside or outside the user selected fence and provides a signal to the Solo System. The Solo System then signals your thermostat(s) to set an inside or outside the geofence temperature. This information will be used only for purposes of facilitating your adjustment of the thermostat setpoint. Once you have consented to the use of the information on your mobile device, you may adjust or remove this consent by managing your Location Services preferences through the settings of your mobile device.
E. We may share such anonymous information and research derived from such information with third parties including utilities, our Partners and Suppliers, advertisers, consumer and market research companies, merchants, and other similar entities. Our affiliates, distributors, Partners and Suppliers may have the same access to our collected information as we do. Each of them has agreed to treat such information with the same degree of privacy outlined herein, unless there is another agreement between you and that entity.
F. Temporary, limited and specific access to our collected information may be granted to other third parties (including but not limited to consultants, accountants, programmers, attorneys and collection agencies) in connection with our business operations. Third parties are asked to agree to protect the confidentiality of our collected information. Third parties are solely responsible if they misuse any collected information.
G. Deleting your account. The Solo System mobile applications provides the ability to delete your account, including disassociating any devices in your account from the account and deleting the usage history of the devices in the account. When these irrevocable steps are completed in the mobile application, you will be logged out of your deleted account and the user-name and password will be deleted.
