Last Modified: June 8, 2021
EQ Group LLC d/b/a Planet Home (“Planet Home” or “we”) is a place to discover a way of living better by connecting with solutionists, individuals, and entities who are interested in using our platform to communicate, participate, and exchange ideas via virtual events and other tools, buy sustainable products, and learn about, participate and experience new solutions, to promote programs and solutions for sustainability and saving. This will require us to process Personal Data — but please know that Planet Home is fully committed to the responsible use of your personal data and the protection of your privacy. This policy explains to you (“you” or “user”) how Planet Home collects, stores, uses and shares Personal Data. This policy is addressed to individuals outside our organization with whom we interact, including visitors to our websites, https://planethome.eco/ and associated sub-domains (together, our “Site”) and other users of our products and services (together, “you”). By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Defined terms used in this Policy are explained in Section (18) below. Contact details are provided in Section (17) below.
This Policy may be amended or updated from time to time to reflect changes in our practices with respect to the Processing of Personal Data, or changes in applicable law. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully, and to regularly check this page to review any changes we might make in accordance with the terms of this Policy. In the event of a material change to our privacy practices, we will give you notice by emailing you at your email address on record and your continued use constitutes acceptance of our updated privacy practices. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.
Collection of Personal Data: We may collect Personal Data about you, such as your name, address, and contact details. Examples of sources from which we may collect Personal Data include the following:
Use of Personal Data: We may use such information about you to control access to live and virtual events; to determine what future events to invite you to; to inform about internal sales and marketing activities; and to provide transactional communications related to Actions Platform.
Creation of Personal Data: We may also create Personal Data about you, such as records of your interactions using our Site, and details of your account history.
Categories of Personal Data: The categories of Personal Data about you that we may Process include:
Lawful basis for Processing Personal Data: In Processing your Personal Data in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy, we may rely on one or more of the following legal bases, depending on the circumstances:
Processing your Sensitive Personal Data: We do not seek to collect or otherwise Process your Sensitive Personal Data, except where:
Purposes for which we may Process your Personal Data: The purposes for which we may Process Personal Data, subject to applicable law, include:
We may disclose your Personal Data to:
– third party Processors (such as IT service providers; payment processors; marketing service providers; web service providers, etc.), located anywhere in the world, subject to the requirements noted below in this Section (4);
– third parties involved in our event management, processing or surveys, such as Eventbride, Hubspot or Survey Monkey.
Furthermore, we may disclose your Personal Data to any relevant third party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution or liquidation).
If we engage a third-party Processor to Process your Personal Data, the Processor will be subject to binding contractual obligations to: (i) only Process the Personal Data in accordance with our prior written instructions; and (ii) use measures to protect the confidentiality and security of the Personal Data; together with any additional requirements under applicable law.
We may create anonymous data records from Personal Data by excluding Personal Data (such as your name) that make the data personally identifiable to you. We use this anonymous data to analyze usage patterns so that we may enhance the content of our products and services and improve site navigation. Planet Home reserves the right to use for other purposes and to disclose anonymous data to third parties at its discretion.
To make our Site, products, and related services more useful to you, our servers collect Personal Data from you, such as browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit. We may also use cookies, which is a small file that is placed on your device when you visit a website (including our Site). It records information about your device, your browser and, in some cases, your preferences and browsing habits. All of these cookies are dependent on your prior consent, with the exception for cookies that are deemed strictly necessary for the functions of our website. We may Process your Personal Data through cookie technology, including third party cookies (including Google Analytics, and Hubspot).
We also use navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and which you viewed. Like most Internet services, we automatically gather this Personal Data and store it in log files each time you visit our website or access your account on our network. To update your cookie settings, please use our cookie consent manager that automatically pops up when you visit our website.
Because of the international nature of our business, we may need to transfer your Personal Data to third parties as noted in Section (4) above, subject to binding contractual obligations, solely in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy. For this reason, we may transfer your Personal Data to other countries that may have different laws and data protection compliance requirements to those that apply in the country in which you are located.
Our provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its contents, products or services. When you click on such a link, you will leave our Site and go to another site. During this process, a third party may collect Personal Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content.
Similarly, some parts of our Site may include social media integrations (such as the Facebook “like” button or, widgets, such as the “share this” button or other Social Media buttons provided on our Site) or other third-party features (such as the embedded Soundcloud audio tracks).
Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to such third-party websites, integrations, tools, content, or to any collection of data after you click on a link to a third party. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any third-party website you visit or tools you use.
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) requires businesses like Planet Home to provide the following additional information to you:
Categories of Personal Information
This Privacy Policy lists under Section 3 “Categories of Personal Data” the personal information categories which Planet Home may process.
“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
No Sale of Personal Information
Planet Home does not sell your Personal Information.
Sharing Personal Information for a Business Purpose
While Planet Home does not sell your Personal Information, Planet Home may share it to support its own operation purposes in providing services to you, as further described under the bullet points of Section 4 in this Privacy Policy.
Your Rights
You may exercise any of the rights listed under Section 14 of this policy and Planet Home will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.
Additional California Disclosure
Planet Home does not track its customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals.
Planet Home uses certain third party cookies and such third parties will obtain information about the fact that a web browser visited a specific Planet Home website from a certain IP address.
Note that some third party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, certain sites and browsers enable you to set the DNT signal so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, and other unlawful or unauthorized forms of Processing, in accordance with applicable law. Our security measures include https, colocation, encryption of sensitive information, WPEngine, HubSpot and Heroku. We ensure that you have access to your own personal information and only authorized personnel at Planet Home have access to personal information. For further information on third parties’ policy, please refer to their privacy policy.
You are responsible for ensuring that any Personal Data that you send to us are sent securely.
We take every reasonable step to ensure that:
From time to time we may ask you to confirm the accuracy of your Personal Data.
We take every reasonable step to ensure that your Personal Data that we Process is limited to the Personal Data reasonably required in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy.
We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary to fulfill our legitimate purposes, including for the purposes of providing our products and services to you and satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. The criteria that we use to determine retention periods will be determined by the nature of the data and the purposes for which it is kept and the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure.
Subject to applicable law, you may have a number of rights regarding the Processing of your Personal Data, including:
This does not affect your statutory rights.
To exercise one or more of these rights, or to ask a question about these rights or any other provision of this Policy, or about our Processing of your Personal Data, please use the contact details provided in Section (17) below or, when appropriate, edit your account profile.
Our Site is not directed toward minors and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from minors. Minors under the age of 13 years old are not eligible to use our Site and we therefore ask that minors do not submit any Personal Data to us, or use any of the services provided on, through or via our Site. If you are a parent and are aware that your minor has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at legal@planethome.eco. For further information, please also review the section about “No Sales to Children” in our Terms of Use https://planethome.eco/terms-of-use/.
All use of our Products are subject to our Terms of Use https://planethome.eco/terms-of-use/.
If you have any comments, questions or concerns about any of the information in this Policy, or any other issues relating to the Processing of Personal Data by Planet Home, please contact:
Planet Home
2443 Fillmore Street #345
San Francisco, CA 94115
E-Mail: legal@planethome.eco
Phone: (415) 226-9693
