Last modified: 01-19-2023

  

Introduction 

Strategen Consulting, on behalf of the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (“PURA” or “the Authority”) (“Company” or “We“) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website CT-IES.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. 

This policy applies to information we collect: 

It does not apply to information collected by: 

  

Please read this policy 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 or interact with our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It 

We collect information from and about users of our Website, including: 

We collect this information: 

Information You Provide to Us  

The information we collect on or through our Website may include: 

  

The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information. It is collected for a business purpose as it helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to: 

  

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include: 

How We Use Your Information 

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

Disclosure of Your Information 

We may disclose Aggregated Information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. 

We may use Aggregate Information to improve and enhance your experience on the Website and for our market research activities. For example, we may share Aggregate Information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business partners, and site analytics vendors, in an aggregate, anonymous form, which means that the shared information will not contain nor be linked to any Personal Information. 

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy for a business purpose: 

  

We may also disclose your Personal Information, as we believe necessary or appropriate: 

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: 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information 

The Company provides an individual who has submitted information on the Website with the ability to review, correct, and request the deletion of any of the personally identifiable information that was entered in their profile on the Website. To correct or delete any of your information please contact the Company by e-mailing us through our Contact page on the website. 

Visitors From Outside The United States: Cross-Border Transfer 

The Website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting our Website from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in, the United States or any other country where we or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or third-party service providers maintain facilities. 

The European Commission has not determined that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection for Personal Information.  The data protection and other applicable laws of the United States or other countries may not be as comprehensive as those laws or regulations in your country or may otherwise differ from the data protection or consumer protection laws in your country. Your information may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and law applicable in such jurisdictions. 

By providing us with Personal Information, you consent to the storage or processing of your Personal Information in the United States and acknowledge that the Personal Information will be subject to the laws of the United States, including the ability of governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of the United States to obtain disclosure of your Personal Information.  By using the Website and/or providing personal data to us, you also consent to transfer, storage, and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. We will protect the privacy and security of Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy, regardless of where it is processed or stored. 

Data Security 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information 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. 

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas like message boards. 

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

Changes to Our Privacy Policy 

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.