PRIVACY POLICY

2. Collected Personal Data

By using this website, you declare your EXPRESS CONSENT to us collecting information about you necessary for the provision of our services or for the use of our website, such as:

• Data you offer. We collect the data provided by you at the time of registration, such as name and surname, email address, IP address, other online contact information or telephone number, and other information required in the registration.
• Content of interest to you. We may collect content from areas of interest to you when you use our Services, such as when you conduct a search, access or create content, register an account, create or share comments or content, etc.
• We can record and record all data provided in all communication carried out with our team, whether by electronic mail, messages, telephone or any other means.
• Email Address. When you log in to the website, we will collect your email for registration purposes, through which you will be notified of platform updates, promotions and account management.
• We record data from your visit to the platform through cookies and other tracking technologies including your IP address and domain name, the version of your browser and operating system, online traffic data, location data, web logs, and other browsing data.

3. Purposes: use of personal data collected

By using the website and expressing your consent, you EXPRESSLY AUTHORIZE the processing of personal data for the following PURPOSES:

Provide, improve and develop the services available. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide and support our services, through the personalization of shared content, to ensure that platform content is relevant.

Marketing: We may use the data provided by the user at the time of registration on the website to send promotions, advertising, marketing and communication, and the user may at any time request their deletion from the mailing (“opt-out”) using the unsubscribe link inserted in the body of the emails.

Content construction. All content shared, or disseminated, whether through comments, tips or suggestions for improvements, make up the website’s database, enabling the improvement and knowledge of the product by other users.

Usage monitoring. We use your data to monitor activities in order to ensure service quality, compliance with applicable laws, compliance with procedures and to combat fraud.

4. Data sharing

The information collected will only be shared when necessary: (i) for the adequate provision of services; (ii) protection in case of conflict; (iii) by judicial decision or request from a competent authority; (iv) with companies providing technological and operational infrastructure and information storage service providers.

All information requested by government agencies, public authorities or official bodies by legal means will be evaluated and provided in accordance with the requirements contained in the act and duly in accordance with the relevant Legislation.

5. Where we store and process your data

The data collected is processed in Brazil and in any other places where the partners involved with the processing are located. The data you provide may be transmitted, used, processed and stored outside your home country.

Whenever Simple Energy handles personal data, regardless of where it occurs, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws and regulations.

All personal data will be duly stored for the legal term, in accordance with the provisions of the Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (Law no. 12.965/14), General Data Protection Law (Law no. 13.709/18) and in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

6. Legal basis for Processing

Simple Energy may process Personal Data related to the user of this website if one of the following applies:

a) the user has given his consent for the specific purposes (Simple Energy may have permission to process the Personal Data even if the user objects to this through the “opt-out”, when there is another legal basis for processing);

b) the provision of the data is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract with the user and/or any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

c) the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which Simple Energy is subject;

d) the processing is related to a task that is performed in the public interest or in the exercise of an official authorization in which Simple Energy is invested;

e) the processing is necessary for the purpose of Simple Energy’s legitimate interests.

In any case and upon request of the holder, Simple Energy will inform what legal basis applies to the processing, especially if the provision of Data is a mandatory requirement by virtue of law or contract, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

7. Security measures

All data you provide to us is processed solely to achieve the purposes listed in item 3 of this Policy. This data is stored on secure servers of ours or contracted suppliers, accessed and used in accordance with our security policies and standards. All traffic between our servers or between your computer and our servers is encrypted using SSL or similar secure protocol.

We have adopted best practice measures to ensure that the data we collect is processed securely wherever the data is located.

Access to your user profile is solely your responsibility, through a password (or through other chosen media) that allows you to access certain parts of our website, and it is your responsibility to keep this password confidential and to comply with any other security procedures. We will never ask for your password, and we ask that you do not share it with anyone. The security and reliability of the devices you use to access our website, such as computers, mobile phones, tablets or other devices, is your sole responsibility. You must, by your own means, seek to protect the operating systems of these devices against any external threat.

8. How long will we store your data

User personal data may be processed and stored by Simple Energy for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

In addition, Simple Energy may be required to store personal data for a longer period whenever it is necessary for the performance of a legal obligation or by order of an authority.

When the retention period expires in accordance with the respective legal basis, the Personal Data will be deleted by Simple Energy. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right of rectification and the right to data portability cannot be fulfilled after the expiration of the retention period.

Simple will take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or unauthorized destruction of the Data. Data processing is carried out using computers and/or enabled IT tools, following organizational procedures and means strictly related to the indicated purposes.

9. Data Subject Rights

The holder of the personal data has the right to obtain from the controller, information regarding the data processed, at any time and upon formal request, according to article 18 of Law 13. 709/2018:

I – Confirmation of the existence of processing;

II – Access to the data;

III – correction of incomplete, inaccurate or outdated data;

IV – anonymization, blocking or elimination of unnecessary, excessive or processed data in violation of the provisions of this Law;

V – data portability of data to another service or product provider, upon express request, in accordance with the regulations of the national authority, observing commercial and industrial secrets;

VI – elimination of personal data processed with the consent of the holder, except in the cases provided for in art. 16 of the LGPD;

VII – information of the public and private entities with which the controller has shared use of data;

VIII – information about the possibility of not giving consent and about the consequences of the refusal;

IX – revocation of consent, according to the procedure established in this privacy policy and pursuant to § 5 of art. 8 of the LGPD.

10. How to exercise your rights?

The data subject can request information about his/her data and exercise his/her rights when applicable in accordance with the legislation, by contacting the contact email of the Person in Charge of Simple Energy Data:

[email protected].

Simple Energy will endeavor to provide the requested clarifications as soon as possible.

11. Data deletion

The user registered on the website can unregister from the platform with the express request for total deletion of their data, through the email of the person in charge of Data, that is, [email protected].

The user can also request information, changes or clarifications about their data through the same contact ([email protected]).

If you re-register on the website after requesting data deletion, Simple Energy may process your data again under the terms of this policy.

You can request to delete your account at any time. But, remember that Simple Energy will only be able to delete your data if there is no legal basis for treatment that prevents deletion.

Comments, testimonials and publications made available by you for publication on the website will also be deleted, if this is your option, provided that you expressly express your intention.

The user may stop receiving marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link inserted in the body of the emails (opt-out).

The data of the holder will be deleted at the request of the user or opt-out, when there is no legal basis for treatment that justifies the maintenance of such data in the Simple Energy database, in accordance with the General Data Protection Law.

12. Copyright and intellectual property

All content on this site is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. These rights are owned by Simple Energy.

The user or visitor declares that he will respect the intellectual property rights and those arising from the protection of trademarks, as well as all rights relating to third parties that may be, or were, in any way available on the website. Simple access to the website does not grant the user any right to use the names, titles, words, phrases, trademarks, patents, works, among others, that are, or were, available on it.

Reproduction of the contents described above is prohibited, unless previously authorized in writing by Simple Energy, and in no case shall the user acquire any right to them.

13. Changes to this privacy policy

Simple Energy reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time, in our sole discretion, by notifying its users on the website itself, to the extent possible. The manner in which such announcement will be made is at our sole discretion. Once published on our website, they will be considered automatically valid and, if you use the website after the changes become valid, you are expressing your agreement to them. The user shall check and revise the terms and conditions of this Agreement, so that it is aware of the most current rights and obligations.

14. Forum

This policy will be governed, interpreted and enforced in accordance with the Laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil, especially Law no. 13.709/2018, regardless of the Laws of other states or countries. Any conflict situation that cannot be resolved in an amicable negotiation must be resolved in the Central Forum of São Paulo.