General

The Polluta Motor website (the “Site”) is managed and operated by the Sierra Club (collectively “Sierra Club” or “we”, “us”, or “our”) who act as the data controller. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use this website.

If you choose to use our Site, and agree to the opt-in statement, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for improving the quality of content published on this website, and to make it easier to follow and access content via other third party channels. We will not use or share your information with anyone, except as described in this Privacy Policy below, such as for the purpose of information collection, log data, Google marketing services, Facebook marketing services, LinkedIn Marketing services, and Cookies.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while reading content on this Site, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that we collect may be used to contact you with information about and/or from our Site and our campaign partners, either by email or through third party advertising campaigns. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send. If you are under 16 years of age, consent must be sought from someone with parental authorization.

​​Types of Personal Data Collected

We may collect the following types of Personal Data from you when you access or interact with our Site:

• Device information, such as IP address, device ID, and the type of device or operating system used to access the Website;

• Web analytics, such as interactions between websites, the manner through which you accessed the Website, non-identifiable request IDs, and related statistics;

• Location Data, which may be general information inferred from your IP address or specific geolocation information

Log Data

When you visit our Site, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Uses of Google Marketing Services

In order to improve our users’ experience, we use Google Analytics features such as Google Analytics’ Demographics and Interest Reporting.

Information collected by our cookies will not personally identify you. It does, however, identify your computer and connection to the Internet. We only collect general information about your computer settings, connection to the Internet (e.g. operating system and platform), IP address, browsing patterns, and interactions within our Site.

With regards to Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, we may use data from Google’s Interest-based advertising and/or third party audience data (e.g. age, gender and interests) with Google Analytics to target and optimise our marketing campaigns, strategies and our Site content.

For more information about Google Marketing Services, please visit Google Marketing Platform 

Use of Facebook Marketing Services

This Site utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes, including to redeliver the same advertisement to the user. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data is saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy at Facebook Data Policy.

Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes. If you would like to revoke your permission, please visit Facebook Ad Preferences.

Use of LinkedIn Marketing Services

This Site utilizes the Conversion tracking service of LinkedIn. This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a LinkedIn advertisement. We are therefore able to record the efficacy of LinkedIn advertisements for statistical and market research purposes, including to retarget future advertising to the user. The collected data remains anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user.

For more information about LinkedIn Marketing Services, please visit LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.

Use of Cookies

This Site also utilizes various third-parties Cookies (or browser cookies), a small file stored on your computer, to enable certain functions of the Site, to provide analytics, to store your preferences, to enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising.

The type of cookies and how they are used:

• Necessary Cookies: These cookies allow us to operate our website. They enable you to move around the website and use its features.

• Functional Cookies: These cookies let us operate the website and application according to your preferences. They enable the website and application to remember choices you make (such as language, or the region you are in.) Without these cookies certain features of our websites won’t work, and you may find that our website is less convenient and reliable.

• Analytics Cookies: We use these cookies to analyse how our website is accessed, used or performing. These cookies collect information about how visitors use our services, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from webpages. We use this information to maintain, operate, and continually improve the website.

• Targeted Advertising Cookies: We use these cookies to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests. They are usually placed by advertising networks, such as Facebook, and LinkedIn, with our permission.

You may control or limit how we and our partners use cookies by changing your customized settings on your web browser. However, if you disable cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our site.

If you are interested to find out more about Cookies, visit All About Cookies.

Data retention time period

Log data, as defined above, is retained using third party platforms including, but not limited to, Google Analytics, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Log data will not be collected if website visitors decline using the opt-out function. Log data will generally be retained for the maximum permissible time defined by the third party platforms which we are using, but in some cases may be retained indefinitely. This data will not contain information which can be used to personally identify individual website visitors.

User data is stored in the following locations:

• Google marketing services data is stored in Google data centres. Find out locations of Google data centres here: Google Data Centers

• Facebook marketing services data is stored in Facebook data centres. Find out locations here: Facebook Data Policy

• LinkedIn marketing services data is stored on LinkedIn services, currently located in the US. Find out more here: LinkedIn Data Transfer

Data Sharing

We do not share your personal information outside of our Company for marketing or other business purposes except in certain circumstances, including:

• When you allow us to share the information, such as when you:

  • Share one of our blog posts to your social media feed;

  • Use third-party features on our Site, such as commenting features or submitting a form run by third-parties;

• When we cooperate with other organisations as our partners to offer joint campaigns, if necessary and if a data sharing statement is imposed;

• When our service providers are providing services on our behalf regarding personal information. For example, we may use third party services to host a petition, to provide certain features on our Site, or to create connections or integrations between the third-party applications;

• To exercise or protect the rights, property (including intellectual property), or safety of our Company, our users, or others; and to comply with legal requirements.

Please note that once personal information is shared with another third party, the information received by the other party becomes subject to its privacy policies and practices.

We may also share aggregated information (such as usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to help them understand the usage patterns for our Sites or those of our partners. However, this sharing will not disclose any of your personal information.

Data International Transfer

In order to provide our services to you, we may disclose the information which we process to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Regardless of the location of our processing, we will impose adequate data protection safeguards and implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data is protected in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

In relation to our operations in the United States of America, we may, in the course of providing products and services, disclose personal information to overseas entities including by utilising overseas data servers to process information. Those overseas entities may be located in the United Kingdom and/or the EEA.

If you are located outside the United States of America, you should be aware that your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the United States of America, the laws of which may be deemed by your country to have inadequate data protection. If you are located in a country outside the United States of America and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this privacy policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States of America.

Your GDPR Rights

If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), we rely on the following lawful grounds under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) to process (collect, store, and use) your personal data: (a) it is necessary for the performance of a contract; (b) our or a third party’s legitimate business interest; or (c) your consent. Our partners determine the lawful grounds for the processing of personal data submitted through their use of our Services and we limit such processing to our partners’ instructions.

Right to request deletion of your data, stop communications, access, or correct data

If we rely on your consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose, you can withdraw that consent at any time. This includes the right to ask us to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes or to be unsubscribed from our email list at any time.

You also have the following rights under Article 13 and Article 14 of the EU GDPR:

1. Users have the right to request that our Company does not share its data with campaign partners and other third parties.

2. Erasure of your personal information – you can ask us for your personal information to be deleted from our records.

3. To access your personal information – you can write to us to ask for confirmation of what information we hold on you and to request a copy of that information. Provided we are satisfied that you are entitled to see the information requested and we have successfully confirmed your identity, we will usually have one month to comply.

4. To correct your personal information – if you believe our records of your personal information are inaccurate, you have the right to ask for those records to be updated.

5. You have the right to object to processing of your data.

6. You have the right to data portability.

Right to lodge a complaint

Website visitors have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in your jurisdiction. Since the audience of our Site is international, we suggest you contact the relevant data protection authority in your jurisdiction for this purpose.

Your California Privacy Rights

Residents of the State of California have the right to request a list of all third parties to which a company conducting business in California has disclosed personal information during the preceding year for direct marketing purposes. In turn, businesses (including the Sierra Club), must respond to such requests unless they have a comprehensive privacy policy that gives residents an Opt-out or Opt-in choice for use of their personal information by third parties for their direct marketing purposes and a cost-free means to exercise that right. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you a comprehensive overview of how we collect, use and share your information.

Exercising Your CCPA Rights

If you are a California resident, you may exercise your rights or authorize another person to act on your behalf by sending an email to contact@pollutamotor.com.

Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we can fulfill your request. Because we maintain limited personal information about consumers, generally consisting of email marketing subscription information, we will generally verify your identity using your email address.  We will respond to requests using the email address that is associated with the information we maintain.

Links to Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Data Security

We have used technical and organizational security measures designed to secure your personal information from manipulation, loss, destruction or from being accessed by unauthorized persons. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. The security measures are continually improved and adapted in accordance with the latest technology.

However, data provided that is unencrypted could potentially be viewed by third parties. The secure transmission of information via the Internet (e.g. by email) cannot be guaranteed. Sensitive data should therefore either not be transmitted at all or only via a secure connection (SSL).

Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. If you access pages and files and are then asked to enter personal data, please note that the transmission of such data via the Internet may not be secure and it may therefore be accessed and manipulated by unauthorized persons.

If a data leak or breach is suspected, all incidents need to be recorded and actioned with a preventative measure within 72 hours. The incident will be escalated internally within our Data Committee and action and remedy will be taken afterwards.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Details

Please send an email to contact@pollutamotor.com if you wish to make a request in relation to your rights stated above or ask any questions or make suggestions about the content on this page.