Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice for Great State Waste Service Company (doing business as Great State Waste) (“we,” “us,” or “our“), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“Process“) your Personal Information, as defined below, when you use our services (“Services“), including when you:

• Visit our website at https://www.greatstatewaste.com, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
• Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events

Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand our privacy policies and procedures when we Process your Personal Information..  However, we strongly encourage you to review your legal rights under Florida’s Information Protection Act (FIPA) which can be reviewed by clicking here.

We are serious about making sure that your Personal Information is Processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at jeff@greatstatewaste.com.

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

This summary provides key points from our Privacy Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.

• What Personal Information do we Process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may Process Personal Information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about Personal Information you disclose to us.
• Do we Process any sensitive Personal Information?  Certain information such as  racial or ethnic origins, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs, citizenship or immigration status, genetic or biometric data, information from a child under 18 years of age or precise geolocation data may be considered “sensitive”. We do not Process sensitive Personal Information.
• Do we collect any information from third parties? We do not collect any information from third parties.
• How do we Process your information? We Process your Personal Information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also Process your Personal Information for other purposes with your consent. We Process your Personal Information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Learn more about how we Process your information.
• In what situations and with which parties do we share Personal Information? We may share Personal Information in specific situations and with specific third parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your Personal Information.
• How do we keep your information safe? We use reasonable measures that consist of organizational methods and security tools that are the standard for  safeguarding your Personal Information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about how we keep your information safe.
• What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your Personal Information. Learn more about your privacy rights.
• How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by submitting a data subject access request, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Want to learn more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the Privacy Notice in full.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal Information you disclose to us

In Short: We collect Personal Information that you provide to us.

We collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You. The Personal Information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The Personal Information we collect may include the following (collectively referred to herein as “Personal Information”:

• names
• phone numbers
• email addresses
• mailing addresses
• contact preferences
• usage data (Usage Data may include information such as your device’s internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data)*

*Cookies: Our website is built using the WordPress platform and uses cookies primarily to ensure proper functionality of the platform and theme. Additionally, the use of cookies may vary depending on the features, third-party scripts or add-ons integrated into our site. This includes, but is not limited to, tools for SEO, analytics, and other similar functionalities, which may deploy their own third party cookies, tracking scripts, or data collection methods.

Sensitive Information: We do not ask for nor should you provide sensitive information to us.  We are not responsible for processing such information. All Personal Information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such Personal Information.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We Process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also Process your information for other purposes with your consent.

We Process your Personal Information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may Process your information to provide you with the requested service.
• To deliver targeted advertising to you. We may Process your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.

3. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

In Short: We may share Personal Information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following third parties.

We may need to share your Personal Information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Service Providers:  We may share your Personal Information with our service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our services by you. ]
• Law Enforcement:  Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Information if required by law or in response to a valid request by a public authority.

We may disclose your Personal Information to others in the good faith belief that such action is needed to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the site owner
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our site
• Protect the personal safety of other users of the site or the public

Protect against legal liability

4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to Process your Personal Information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further Processing until deletion is possible.

5. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short: We aim to protect your Personal Information through reasonable measures consisting of  a system of organizational and technical security measures to secure data in electronic form.

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information we Process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, transmission of Personal Information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

6. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data or Personal Information from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such Personal Information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that Personal Information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at jeff@greatstatewaste.com.

7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to Process your Personal Information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?” below.

However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the Processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the Processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful Processing grounds other than consent.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at jeff@greatstatewaste.com.

8. TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

In Short. We may transfer your Personal Information to offices, servers and other places where parties involved in Processing your Personal Information are located.  This means that the information could be transferred to computers or servers located outside your state, province or country.  Your consent to this Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to such transfer.

9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.

10. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES.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.  This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us as part of our Services and you visiting our site.

With external/third party Payment Processors: We do not process payments via our website. We may share your Personal Information with the companies we use for processing payment for our Services (Payment Processors).  We will not collect or store your credit card number or similar financial information in any database owned by, operated by, or accessible to us. All payment-related information (including credit card numbers or similar financial information) is handled by third-party payment processors and held by those vendors in accordance with those vendors’ terms and conditions. We may share your Personal Information with third-party vendors (e.g., shipping, customer/support services) solely for the purpose of providing the third-party service to us.  We presume, but do not guarantee, that each Payment Processor and vendor implements and maintains commercially reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of your Personal Information to protect it from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.