Privacy Policy

To write your report I ask for an email address, a ZIP code and a few details about your car. This page says what each is for, who else sees it, and how to have it deleted.

1. What I ask for

• Your email address. Where the report is sent. There is no account.
• Your ZIP code. It sets which utility and electricity rate your charging is priced on.
• The car you drive and the electric car you are considering. Year, make and model of each. These set the fuel economy and which prices I look up.
• How far you drive, a year or a day.
• Optionally, what you pay for gas and a price you have seen for the EV.
• Whether you have a home charger or solar.

I do not ask for your name, street address, phone number, utility account, bills or income.

Collected automatically

The site uses Google Analytics: pages viewed, location at city or region level, device type, and which buttons and forms get used. It sets cookies to tell one visit from another. Its data retention is set to two months, the shortest Google offers.

Analytics is Google’s product, so Google also uses that data on its own terms. The pages load fonts from Google’s servers, so Google sees your IP address when a page loads. Nothing on the site breaks if you block either.

2. What I use it for

One thing: producing your report and emailing it to you.

No profile and no mailing list. The only messages you get are the report and a reply if you write to me first.

3. Keeping and deleting it

I keep your answers, your email address and a copy of your report so I can resend or correct it. To have them deleted, use the privacy request form or email info@electrifynow.io, and I will delete them.

4. Who else touches it

• Vercel hosts the site and runs the form.
• My email provider delivers your report, which I send myself. It handles your email address and the PDF.
• Airtable stores report requests and privacy requests.
• fueleconomy.gov, run by the US Department of Energy and the EPA, supplies fuel economy figures. It receives a year, a make and a model, never your email address or ZIP code.
• Public price listings and valuation guides. I search them by year, make and model. Nothing about you goes into those searches.
• Google Analytics and Google Fonts, as described in section 1.

None of these may use your data to advertise to you, except that Google uses Analytics data on its own account. None of them pays me anything.

I would disclose information if the law required it, such as under a subpoena or court order.

5. Your rights, including your California rights

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, you can ask me to:

• Delete what I hold about you. The report cannot be regenerated afterwards.
• Tell you what I hold. The categories are: identifiers (your email address), geolocation at ZIP-code level, and commercial information (your answers about your cars). The source is you, through the form. The business purpose is producing and sending your report. The third parties it is disclosed to are the ones listed in section 4. It is sold or shared with nobody.
• Correct anything I have wrong.
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. I do not sell or share any of it, but I will record the request. See the privacy rights page.
• Not be penalized for asking. You get the same report either way.

Submit any of these through the privacy request form or by emailing info@electrifynow.io. An authorized agent may submit a request for you.

Your email address is the only thing I can match a record on, so I will not ask for ID or any further personal information. I confirm receipt within 10 business days and act within 45 calendar days.

6. Children

The site is not directed at children, and I do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. I do not sell or share anyone’s personal information, including that of consumers under 16.

7. Security

The site is served over HTTPS, the form validates what it accepts, and only I have access to what is stored. No system is perfectly secure.

8. If this changes

If I start collecting anything not described here, this page changes first.

The “last updated” date at the top shows when it last did.

9. Contact

Questions, or a request you would rather email: info@electrifynow.io.