This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 1, 2024
Green Analytics (as defined below) provides this Privacy Policy , including, without limitation, any policies, rules and other terms that are expressly incorporated herein by reference (collectively, this “Privacy Policy”) to describe how we collect, use, and share the information of individuals who (a) visit any of our websites that link to this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms and Conditions of which this Privacy Policy is a part (the “Terms and Conditions”), including our website located atwww.greenanalyticslabs.com and any other media form, mobile application or mobile website related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”), andany content, information, functionality, products or services supplied by or on behalf of us through the Site, including our client service portal (collectively, the “Services”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Services.
The Site is owned and operated by a group of seven affiliated yet separate and privately held limited liability corporations, collectively referred to herein as “Green Analytics.” The members of our group are ISO-accredited and state-licensed cannabis testing laboratories each operating independently in a different state. Our laboratory members include Green Analytics Maryland, LLC (Columbia, MD), Green Analytics North, LLC (Harrisburg, PA), Green Analytics East, LLC (Hamilton, NJ), Green Analytics Massachusetts, LLC (Framingham, MA), Green Analytics NY, LLC (Pearl River, NY), Green Analytics West Virginia, LLC (Morgantown, W. Va), and Green Analytics Virginia, LLC (Ashland, VA) (collectively, “Green Analytics,” or “we,” “us,” or “our”).
By accessing, browsing, or otherwise using the Services, you agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your information, as described in this Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions.
Green Analytics is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its users. Green Analytics will not disclose Personal Information (as defined below) to third parties except in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as disclosed at the time of the collection of the Personal Information.
Consent
By using the Services, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Informationas explained in this Privacy Policy.You may change or withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice, by contacting us using the contact information set out below. All communications with respect to such withdrawal or variation of consent should be addressed to GA.Info@GreenAnalyticsLabs.com. Please note that in some circumstances, withdrawing or changing your consent to certain uses of your Personal Information may affect: (i) our ability to provide you with the Services you request; and (ii) your ability to access the Site.
Personal Information
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information or set of information that identifies or can reasonably be used to identify an individual. Personal Information does not include information that is encoded, anonymized, or publicly available.
Privacy of Children
Our Sites and Services are not intended for persons under the age of 21. Persons under the age of 21 are not allowed to use our Sites and Services. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a user is under age 21, we will promptly deactivate that user’s account and delete any personal information collected in connection therewith. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child or person under the age of 21, please contact us at GA.Info@GreenAnalyticsLabs.com.
Information Collected and How It is Used
Information You Give Us
Green Analytics may collect Personal Information from contacts made through the Site or Services, such as when you utilize the client service portal, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form.We may collect your age, date of birth, state of residence, location information, email address, phone number, as well as other information, including demographic information, that you directly give us. When you supply Personal Information at a Green Analytics website, we will use it for the express purpose for which it was collected and may also be used by us to send you information and/or offers about our goods and services or to invite you to participate in market research.
Information Automatically Collected
In addition, we collect information relating to your interactions with us and the Services, including browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Siteand the Services, device type, time and date of visit, and other information we collect through the use of cookies, mobile identifiers, and similar technology. We may use your IP address to derive your general location, and we may collect information about the precise location of your mobile device if you enable location services and grant permission.
Cookie Placement
The Website, like many other sites, may use a standard technology called “cookies” to collect information about the Website, such as the particular site areas visited, and the services utilized through our Website. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities at our Website. For example, a site can recognize that you have provided Personal Information previously and refrain from requesting the same information during subsequent visits. Green Analytics may use third-party analytics providers to collect and analyze statistical data about visitors to our Website.
The following cookies are used on the Site and the Services:
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of the Site and the Services. They include, for example, cookies that enable you put items in your shopping cart.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site and the Services when they are using the Site and the Services. This helps us to improve the way the Site and the Services work, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Targeting and advertising cookies. These cookies record your visit to the Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make the Site, the Services and any advertising which may be displayed on the Site and the Services more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser settings. Because each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s “Help Menu” to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your Site experience more efficient may not function properly or otherwise be available to you.
Digital Advertising & Analytics
We may partner with ad networks and other ad serving providers (“Advertising Providers”) that serve ads on behalf of us and others on non-affiliated platforms.Some of those ads may be personalized, meaning that they are intended to be relevant to you based on information Advertising Providers collect about your use of the Site and Services and other sites or apps over time, including information about relationships among different browsers and devices. This type of advertising is known as interest-based advertising.
We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Site and the Services and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. Green Analytics uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Site and the Services and for analytics and marketing purposes.For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use the Site, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may use your information for any lawful purpose, including the following:
- Improve our Services, functionality, and overall user experience;
- Deliver our Services to you;
- Better cater and market to our users, as well as learn about preferences and usage habits;
- Respond to customer service requests, comments and questions;
- Send periodic emails, notifications, and text messages regarding our Services;
- Follow up with you after correspondence (live chat, email, or phone inquiries);
- Communicate about our partners’ products and services;
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
- Troubleshoot technical difficulties and errors;
- Link or combine user information with other Personal Information;
- For our legal compliance and to maintain the security of the Services;
- As permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements; and
- For any additional purposes for which we have obtained your consent to the use or disclosure of your Personal Information.
Do Not Track Signals
We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Who Do We Provide Your Information to?
Except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose your personal information to any companies not part of Green Analytics or its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, or related entities.
Without providing advance notice, we do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties any identifying personal information or health information, except in the form of aggregate consumer information, as described below.
We may, however, share your Personal Information as follows:
- With third party vendors who perform services for us or process data on our behalf, such as e-mail service providers, payment processors, texting platforms, and e-commerce providers;
- With third parties who engage in advertising, such as advertising networks, social media networks, or advertising/marketing companies;
- Pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties;
- As part of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets, including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding;
- With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing;
- We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation; and
- We may share Personal Information for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide such information.
We may also share your Personal Information with our employees, contractors, consultants, affiliates and other parties who require such information to assist us with managing our relationship with you, including trusted third parties that provide services to us or on our behalf. For example, we may share your Personal Information from time to time with third-party information technology, data processing, and call center service providers so that we may operate our business.
Finally, we may also sell, rent, or share aggregate user information (i.e., anonymized summary data) with others for their own uses. This aggregate user information will never include your name, phone number, email address, or mailing address. We may sell, rent or share this aggregate user information with our partners and other companies for their own marketing, product development, research, or other uses.
We do not sell, trade, otherwise transfer your Personal Information outside of the situations detailed above, so we do not have an opt-out.
International Transfers
Green Analytics entities are based in and operate exclusively in the United States. If you are located in a jurisdiction outside the U.S., the data protection laws in the U.S. may not be considered to provide an adequate level of protection under your local data protection laws. If you are a visitor to this Services and prefer not to have your Personal Information transferred to the United States, do not access or use the Services. For transfers of Personal Information, we may base the transfer on appropriate safeguards, such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission or by a supervisory authority, approved code of conducts together with binding and enforceable commitments of the recipient, or approved certification mechanisms together with binding and enforceable commitments of the recipient. You can request a copy of the appropriate safeguards by contacting us as set out below.
Security
We exercise great care to protect your Personal Information. This includes, among other things, using industry standard techniques such as firewalls, encryption, and intrusion detection. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure.As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or receive from us. Green Analytics shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of Personal Information due to no fault of Green Analytics including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of Green Analytics staff and/or third parties.
In addition, we limit our employees’ and contractors’ access to Personal Information. Only those employees and contractors with a business reason have access to this information, and we educate our employees about the importance of maintaining confidentiality of Personal Information.
Links to Other Sites
We may provide links to third-party sites to provide our visitors with valuable information, services, and products. Green Analytics does not control and is not responsible for practices of any third-party websites.
How to Review and Change Your Personal Information
If you would like to review or change your Personal Information, please contact us at GA.Info@GreenAnalyticsLabs.com.Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have additional choices about how we collect, use and share your Personal Information. You may have rights to:
- Request that we erase or delete some (or all) of your Personal Information in our possession subject to limitations related to certain security measures, anti-fraud policies and procedures and other obligations set forth herein;
- Edit the Personal Information we have on file for you through your account;
- Ask us to stop using or sharing your Personal Information (subject to our legal right to do so and in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy);
- Request a copy of your Personal Information in our possession; and
- You have the ability to review, change and correct the Personal Information you provide us. If you are a registered user, you can access, correct or update your account. When you access our Site, you may opt out of receiving future e-mail communications from us.
To exercise your rights under this Section, you can contact us by email at GA.Info@GreenAnalyticsLabs.com.We will consider your requests and our obligations to respond in accordance with applicable laws. Please note, there may be circumstances in which we are unable to fulfill your request if it violates applicable laws or our other policies and procedures.. Green Analytics reserves its right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified in this paragraph.
Privacy Policy Updates
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy. We will text you, e-mail you and/or post a notification on the Site and/or in the Services in the event of any material changes to this Privacy Policy. Such changes, whether in the form of modifications, additions, or deletions, shall be effective when specified in the relevant notification and will apply to information we collect after the changes are effective. If the change is not material, the change shall be effective immediately upon appearing on the Site and the Services regardless of the date of notice. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes.
Accessibility
Individuals who need assistance accessing this Privacy Policy in an alternative format can do so by contacting us at the email address below.
Terms and Conditions
This Privacy Policy and its terms and provisions are incorporated into, and a part of https://greenanalyticslabs.com/terms.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the following information:
Green Analytics
9140 Guilford Road, Suite A
Columbia, MD 21046