Privacy Policy

Solar Rankings ("we," "our," or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://www.nationalsolarratings.com (the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Site.

1. Information We Collect

Browsing Data

When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your visit, including:

• Your IP address and approximate geographic location
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring website or URL
• Pages you view and links you click on our Site
• Date and time of your visit
• Time spent on pages and other browsing behavior

Contact Form Submissions

If you contact us through our website contact forms, we collect the information you voluntarily provide, which may include:

• Your name
• Email address
• Phone number (if provided)
• The content of your message
• Any other information you choose to include in your correspondence

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate, maintain, and improve our Site and services
• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
• To analyze website traffic and usage patterns to improve user experience
• To monitor and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity
• To comply with legal obligations
• To send administrative information, such as updates to our terms and policies

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with solar contractors, lead generation companies, or any third party for their direct marketing purposes.

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activity on our Site. Cookies are small data files stored on your device that help us improve your experience.

Types of cookies we may use include:

• Essential cookies: Required for the Site to function properly.
• Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with our Site so we can improve it.
• Preference cookies: Remember your settings and preferences for future visits.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling cookies may limit your ability to use certain features of our Site.

4. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services that collect, monitor, and analyze browsing data to help us improve our Site. These services include:

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to analyze website traffic and usage patterns. Google Analytics may collect information about your browsing behavior using cookies. For more information on how Google uses data, visit Google's Privacy Policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
• Supabase: We use Supabase as our database and backend infrastructure provider. Supabase processes data on our behalf in accordance with their privacy policy and our data processing agreements.

5. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Contact form submissions are retained for up to 24 months unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Browsing data collected through analytics is retained in accordance with the retention settings of our analytics provider.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Access: You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correction: You may request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
• Opt-out: You may opt out of certain data collection practices, including analytics tracking.
• Portability: You may request a copy of your data in a structured, commonly used format.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@nationalsolarratings.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

7. California Residents — Your California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides you with additional rights regarding your personal information. Under the CCPA, you have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell (if applicable).
• Delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
• Opt-out of the sale of your personal information. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
• Non-discrimination for exercising your CCPA rights. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.

Categories of personal information collected: We may collect identifiers (such as name and email address), internet or other electronic network activity information (such as browsing history on our Site), and geolocation data (approximate location derived from IP address).

We do not sell personal information. Solar Rankings does not sell, and has not in the preceding 12 months sold, any personal information of consumers.

To submit a CCPA request, please contact us at info@nationalsolarratings.com with the subject line "CCPA Request." We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

8. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@nationalsolarratings.com.

9. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated policy on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Site after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: