Last Updated: November 8, 2024

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) applies to information about you that Resource Environmental Solutions, LLC (“RES”) may obtain when you visit www.res.us. (the “Site”). This Policy describes how we may collect, use, or disclose information about you; your choices regarding our use of your information; how we safeguard such information; and how you may contact us regarding your privacy practices.

RES may use the information you provide to us for various internal business purposes, such as for marketing purposes. You can learn more about our data collection practices by reviewing our Policy below.

Collection and Use of Your Information

We may collect the following categories of personal information about consumers. Note that the personal information we collect about you may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us, may not include all of the examples listed below, and some examples may fall into more than one category.

Identifiers (such as name, email address, telephone number, and Internet Protocol address)

• How We Use the Information: (1) to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and to obtain your feedback; (2) to send you marketing materials; (3) to recognize you when you use our Site; (4) to audit, research, and analyze your use of our Site; (5) to maintain and improve the Site; (6) to detect and prevent fraud; and (7) for any other internal business purposes
• Sources of Personal Information: (1) directly from you; (2) automatically when you use our Site; (3) from our partners, including organizations we sponsor and co-sponsors of our events; and (4) from service providers/processors that help us to run our business
• Categories of Recipients of Personal information: Service providers/processors
• Why We Disclose Personal Information: so that our service providers/processors can assist us in maintaining our relationship with you and communicating with you, including providing you with the services you requested, certain marketing functions, and for customer service purposes

Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information (such as browsing on our Site and information about how you interact with our Site)

• How We Use the Information: (1) to facilitate, manage, personalize, and improve your Site experience; (2) to provide you with recommendations; (3) to audit, research, and analyze your use of our Site; (4) to maintain and improve the Site; (5) to detect and prevent fraud; and (6) for any other internal business purposes
• Sources of Personal Information: (1) automatically when you use our Site; and (2) from service providers/processors that help us to run our business
• Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service providers/processors
• Why We Disclose Personal Information: so that our service providers/processors can assist us, including by providing certain marketing functions

Professional or Employment-Related Information (such as job title and organizations to which you belong or are affiliated)

• How We Use the Information: (1) to communicate with you; (2) to send you marketing materials; and (3) for any other internal business purposes
• Sources of Personal Information: (1) directly from you; and (2) from our partners, including organizations we sponsor and co-sponsors of our events
• Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service providers/processors
• Why We Disclose Personal Information: so that our service providers/processors can assist us in maintaining our relationship with you and communicating with you, including providing you with the services you requested, certain marketing functions, and for customer service purposes

In addition to the uses and disclosures of personal information described above, we may use and disclose any personal information as reasonably necessary to comply with law and legal requirements, cooperate with and respond to law enforcement requests, or as otherwise required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations. We also use personal information we collect as necessary to maintain appropriate records for internal administrative purposes, to protect our rights and interests or those of others, to resolve any disputes, to enforce our policies, or to prevent harm.

Any personal information we collect may be provided to our professional advisors, including accountants, auditors, consultants, and lawyers, when reasonably necessary for our professional advisors to perform services for us and give us appropriate advice. Any and all personal information we collect may be given to another company in the event of a transaction such as a sale, merger, or other acquisition of some or all of our assets or business, or as part of the negotiation or evaluation of such transaction.

Information Collected Automatically

We may use technology, such as cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies, that automatically or passively collect or receive information about visitors to our Site. This information may include your Internet usage, such as your use of this Site, your IP address, and browser and device information.

We, and the third-party vendors that we use such as Google, use technologies in connection with your activity on the Site to help us understand and analyze how visitors use the Site, including for advertising purposes and to understand your use of the Site (including clicks,). For more information on how Google Analytics uses data it collects, visit: policies.google.com/technologies/partner‑sites. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. To adjust your Google advertising settings, visit: myadcenter.google.com

Although we may collect information about your online activities over time and across different devices when you use the Site, we do not collect information about your online activities across different websites. Your web browser may have settings that allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites or use online services. Like many websites, the Site is not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you usually can change your browser settings to remove or reject cookies. Please note that blocking cookies on our Site may prevent you from using some of the features of our Site. Also, disabling cookies may invalidate opt‑outs that use cookies to recognize devices that have opted out.

Social Features

The Site may permit you to interact with social media platforms operated by unaffiliated parties, for example, to “like” RES on those platforms (“Social Features”). If you interact with us through Social Features (e.g., if you “like” or “follow” our page on another platform), we may have access to information about you from that platform. Please note that if you mention or comment about RES or our Site in your post on another platform, that platform may allow us to publish your post on our Site. You should review the terms, policies, and settings of these other platforms to learn more about their data practices and/or adjust your settings.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the Internet and online digital storage are not completely secure, so we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through the Site.

Retention of Personal Information

We keep the categories of personal information described in this Policy for as long as is necessary for the purposes described or otherwise authorized by law. This generally means holding the information for as long as one of the following apply:

• Your personal information is reasonably necessary to manage our operations, to manage your relationship with us, or to satisfy another purpose for which we collected the information;
• Your personal information is reasonably necessary to carry out a disclosed purpose that is reasonably compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected;
• We are otherwise required or permitted to keep your information by applicable laws or regulations.

Where information is used for more than one purpose, we will retain it until the purpose with the latest period expires. For more information about our retention policies, please contact us using the contact details below.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have obtained personal information from a child under age 13 we will delete such information in accordance with applicable law.

Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to features or websites that are not operated by RES. You may be asked by these websites to provide personal information. Please be aware that this Policy does not apply to information collected through those websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites, nor any adverse consequences that may result from your interaction with such third-party websites. We encourage you to be cautious when leaving our Site and to review the privacy statements of other websites.

Your Choices

We offer choices about how we use information that we receive from you. If you would like to be removed from our email database, please contact us at privacy@res.us to adjust your communication preferences.

California Privacy Rights

As a supplement to other information provided throughout this Policy, we provide the following additional notice for residents of California.

Although we do not sell personal information in exchange for money, some of the ways in which we disclose personal information may be considered “sales” or “sharing” under the CCPA.  We have sold and/or shared the following categories of personal information to outside parties, including business partners, for the purpose of co-marketing and event promotions and to provide operational, analytical, and other support to our business partners:

• Identifiers
• Professional or Employment-Related Information

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under the age of 16.

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to submit certain requests relating to your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, please email privacy@res.us.

Please note that, if you submit privacy rights requests, we may ask you for specific information to help us confirm your identity prior to processing your request. Please follow any instructions provided and promptly respond to any follow-up inquiries so that we may confirm your identity and respond to your request. If you ask for access to your personal information or that we delete or correct certain types of personal information, we may apply heightened authentication standards, which require additional proof of your identity.

You may designate an authorized agent to make certain requests on your behalf, but you may still need to authenticate your identity directly with us before your request can be processed.

If we decline to fulfill your privacy rights request, we will tell you why, unless we are not legally permitted to do so.

Right to Know. You have the right to request the following details about the personal information we have collected about you:

(1) The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including

• The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected
• Our business or commercial purposes for collecting personal information
• The categories of recipients to which we disclose personal information
• The categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, and for each category identified, the categories of recipients to which we disclosed that particular category of personal information

(2) The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you

Right to Delete Your Personal Information. You have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.

Right to Correct Personal Information. If you believe that personal information we maintain about you is inaccurate, you have the right to request that we correct that information.

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information if it is used or disclosed other than for certain purposes specified under California privacy law. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes to which the right to limit the use and disclosure applies under California privacy law.

Right to Opt Out. You have the right to opt out of the sale and/or sharing of your personal information.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights. We will not discriminate against you if you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights.

Please note that if you make a privacy rights request, we will retain the personal information submitted in connection with your request for recordkeeping purposes.

Policy Changes

This Policy is subject to change at our discretion. We will indicate changes to the Policy by updating the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of the Policy. Your continued use of this Site after any update to this Policy will constitute your acceptance of the changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions regarding this Policy, please contact us at: privacy@res.us