Privacy Policy

Last updated April 10, 2023

Thank you for visiting Lightning Motors Corporation’s (“Lightning”) Website. Lightning is committed to protecting visitors’ privacy, and the following Privacy Policy is intended to explain how we collect, handle and share information in connection with our web sites, email, mobile media marketing campaigns, and other media sites

Who are “we”?: This Policy sets out how Lightning Motors Corporation and our affiliated companies (together, “Lightning” (or “we”) handles your personal data.  Lightning is the data controller for your personal data. Where processing of personal data is undertaken by our affiliated companies, they are joint controllers with Lightning for your personal data.

Who are “you”?: This Policy applies to any visitor to our Sites; users of the Services; individuals who contact us or with whom we communicated via phone, email, or otherwise; and Customers, including both free trial and paid account holders

For purposes of this Policy, “Website” or “Websites” shall mean all aforementioned web-based platforms and pages within the domain of Lightningmotorcycle.com, and “Websites” shall mean all pages within the domains of Lightning.com.

Please carefully review this Policy, and if you have comments, concerns, or questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com. If you’d like to be removed from any of our contact lists or have questions concerning the services, products and/or information being delivered, please contact privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

Pursuant to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we function in the capacity of a “processor” for the services we provide. The scope of applicable data protections and processing for those Services are set forth in contractual agreements covering the relevant data processing.

Controller versus Processor. We may process certain personal information in order to maintain and provide the Services to our Clients, such as names, addresses, email addresses, and other contact information for designated Client representatives or personnel (“Client Relationship Data”).  In addition, we may send marketing materials or communications to potential or existing Clients (“Marketing Activities”).  For purposes of Client Relationship Data and Marketing Activities, we function as a “data controller” under GDPR.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

You may provide your personal information to us when you visit our Sites and express interest in obtaining information from us or in engaging with us. “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

In some cases, we will ask for your consent so that we may process your personal information.  However, in certain circumstances, applicable data protection laws allow us to process your personal information without needing to obtain your consent.  Those situations might include:

FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF A CONTRACT.

To perform our contractual obligations to you, including our fulfilling orders or requests you have made, contacting you in relation to any issues with your order or use of our Services, or where we need to provide your Personal Data to our service providers related to the provision of the Services.

TO COMPLY WITH LEGAL OBLIGATIONS. 

To comply with laws, regulators, court orders, or other legal obligations, or pursuant to legal process.

LEGITIMATE INTERESTS.

To operate our business and provide our Services (other than in performing our contractual obligations to you) for our “legitimate interests” and for the purposes of applicable law, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of personal data. Legitimate interests may include:

To communicate with you regarding the Services, including to provide you important notices regarding changes to our operations and to address and respond to your requests, inquiries, and complaints.

For our direct marketing purposes.

To send you surveys in connection with our Services.

To assist in the investigation of suspected illegal or wrongful activity, and to protect and defend our rights and property, or the rights or safety of third parties.

To develop, provide, and improve our Services.

To enforce our Terms of Use, License Agreements, or this Privacy Notice, or agreements with third parties.

The information you provide may include the following:

Your first and last name, email address, company name, country and area of interest when you register with the website for services or events and voluntarily provide the information.

INFORMATION YOU POST OR PROVIDE WHEN USING THE WEBSITES.

Information you may choose to provide in response to an email or phone contact with us that you have requested.

Information obtained from satisfaction and product surveys that you may have opted in to receive.

Information provided when you visit our career site, submit an application for a position, or query about a job opening.

Visitors who provide information to us about the company for which they work are presumed to have the authority to provide such information.

REGISTRATION AND MARKETING

To use certain portions of our Sites and to access certain requested content and information, a user must first complete registration and request forms. During registration and requests, users are required to provide personal information. This information is used to provide the user with a more personalized online experience, to process requests and orders, to track references and topics of interest and to contact the user about products and services on the Websites for which they have expressed interest. You will only receive communications from us if you have consented to this at the time of registering or through other communications with us. You have the right to ask us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive such communications, please contact privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

INFORMATION WE AUTOMATICALLY COLLECT

Like most websites, we also automatically collect and store certain anonymous information from visitors on our Sites. This may include the your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address or device ID, operating system, browser type, username, the pages of the Sites that you visit, the time spent on those pages, access dates and times, and location data sufficient to understand if certain regional offerings of our products are utilized . We may also collect the Internet address of the site that you visited before accessing the Sites and/or Websites. We use this information to monitor, analyze and administer the Sites and Websites, and to better tailor them to your needs. We also use this information to monitor usage of the Sites and Websites, analyze trends, administer the Sites and Websites, track user movement, personalize the user experience, and gather broad demographic information about our users.

We may also capture “clickstream data” about your Website usage. Clickstream data includes information about your “clicks” or actions on our Websites, such as what you see or click on during your visit and how you interacted with certain features. It can include information about your computer or device, web browser and operating system and settings and may include referrer URL information that is automatically passes to us (that is, information about where the user came from before arriving on our Website, which may include search terms included in the URL string.

To collect this information, we use a variety of technological tools including cookies and click tracking: A cookie is a small data file that is sent from a website and stored on your computer or device.  Cookies allow us to recognize your browser when you return to our Sites, to serve certain features, to better understand how you interact with our Sites, and to monitor aggregated usage of our sites.

WE MAY USE COOKIES FOR THESE PURPOSES:

Remembering that customers have already given a user name and password, so that they do not need to input these every time they visit the Site or move from one web page to another within the Site.

• Keeping track of preferences visitors specify while they are using Lightning’s services.
• Displaying the most appropriate content and messages, based on visitors’ stated references, interests, and activity with Lightning.
• Estimating and reporting our total audience size and traffic.
• Gathering information on how visitors use the Site, so as to help us improve the way the Site works and to improve our service to users.
• Third-Party Cookies on Lightning Sites

 

We use a variety of third parties to collect, track and analyze non-personally identifiable usage and statistical information from users, such as the user’s browser type, operating system, browsing behavior and demographic information.  In addition, when you use the Internet, third parties such as web analytics companies and social networking platforms may collect information about your online activities over time and across ours and other websites. This information may be used to provide advertisements for products and services that may interest you, and those companies may use cookies, clear GIFs and other tracking technologies.

A list of companies that use cookies on our Website is included in our Cookie Policy. The list includes a description of what services third parties perform on our site, the types of data they collect, and a link to applicable privacy documents from those parties. You should note, however, that the parties listed in Exhibit A may also dynamically redirect to other third parties, not listed on Exhibit A, for purposes such as interest-based advertising.

Most browsers have settings that allow you to block certain types of cookies (such as “third party” cookies) and also allow you to delete cookies.  To learn more about browser cookies, including how to manage or delete them, look in the “Tools”, “Help”, “Settings”, “Internet Options” or similar section of your web browser.

For more information about third-party advertisers and how to prevent them from using your information, or to opt out of certain tracking, visit the NAI’s consumer website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.  If you choose to opt out using these tools, you need to opt out separately for each of your devices and for each web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari) that you use on each device.

DO NOT TRACK

Our web servers do not change the way they respond to your browser when they receive a “do not track” signal.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR INFORMATION:

Lightning uses contact and other information voluntarily given by our Sites’ and Websites’ users or obtained through Sites’ and/or Websites’ tracking to deliver, maintain, develop and monitor the Sites and Websites and services and to enhance user experience on our Sites and/or Websites by personalizing the experience. Information we collect may also be used in the following ways:

To register you as a user of the Website(s).

To provide our services and Information to you and to notify you about changes to our services and/or the Websites.

To keep you posted on Lightning and its Subsidiary and Affiliates and, with proper consent, Lightning’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events. You may opt out anytime by contacting Lightning customer care and/or client services (contact information above).

• For marketing purposes where you consent to us sharing such data with third parties.
• To enable attendance at our events, provide newsletters/alerts, and fulfill other requests.
• To ensure the content on the Sites is presented in the most effective manner.
• To help administer our Sites, Websites, and services generally, including providing you with support and otherwise taking action to ensure that our services are operating as expected.
• To plan future content, services and events based on users’ interests and our assessment of important trends and issues in the industries we serve.
• We may use visitors IP address to determine roughly where users are located, so that we can deliver advertisements to them while they are on our Site and Websites.

 

We may create de-identified or anonymous data from your information by removing data components (such as your name, email address, or linkable tracking ID) that makes the data personally identifiable to you or through obfuscation or through other means.  Our use of anonymized data is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

WHO ELSE MAY USE YOUR DATA

Lightning and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy and with applicable laws and regulations. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.

Lightning may share aggregated demographic information and user data with our partners. This data/information is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual.

Lightning may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:

For marketing purposes where you consent to us sharing such data with third parties.

To third-party vendors, consultants or other service providers in connection with the operation of the Sites and our business (“Service Providers”) who need access to such information to carry out their work for us. This may include cloud computing companies, cloud communications platform as a service (PaaS), web analytics services, employment-related service providers, social networking services, and mailing and emailing services. For example, we may use credit card processing or verification service companies to verify credit card information.

To our affiliated companies with proper consent.

As required by law to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.

To protect the rights, property or safety of Lightning or other Websites’ users.

In addition, we may offer various features through service providers. When visitors use these services they are leaving the Website(s) (oftentimes via a link on the Lightning site) and are providing information directly to the provider of these services. However, any information transferred outside of the Websites will remain subject to this privacy policy at all times.

INTERNATIONAL USERS

If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that your information will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States and in other countries where we do business. Information you provide may also be transferred to or accessed by entities around the world and may be stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our third parties, Affiliates and Subsidiaries, partners or service providers.

By submitting your personal data, you agree that we may transfer, process and store your data in this way. Wherever the data is, it will be treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable privacy laws in North America and the EU.  These laws may be different from the privacy laws in your country. However, this does not change our commitments to safeguard your privacy and we will comply with all applicable laws relating to the cross-border data disclosure of your personal information.  Where required, we implement Standard Contractual Clauses with our third parties, and you may request a copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses by emailing us at privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

From time to time, our Sites and Websites may contain links to other websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites will have their own privacy policies that will govern the use of any personal information you submit while visiting their websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or the privacy practices of such third parties. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each web site they visit that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Sites and Websites.

YOUR DATA RIGHTS

​You have the right to request confirmation from us as to whether or not we are processing your Personal Data in our capacity as a Controller.  Where we are processing your Personal Data as a Controller, you also have the right to request access to, modification of, or deletion of such Personal Data.

You also have the right in certain circumstances to receive the Personal Data concerning you that you provided to us, to restrict processing of your Personal Data, or to transmit such data to another controller.

To exercise these rights with respect to your Personal Data, please contact us at privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

At any time, you may withdraw the consent you provide for the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy by contacting us at dataprivacy@Lightning.com, provided that we are not required by applicable law or professional standards to retain such information.

If you want to stop receiving future marketing messages and materials, you can do so by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included in our email marketing messages or by contacting us at privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

SECURITY

We are committed to protecting the security, integrity and confidentiality of the data through the use of a variety of commercially reasonable, industry standard physical, administrative and technical safeguards. This includes, but is not limited to access controls, employee training, industry-standard encryption, firewalls, and server authentication technology to protect data when the Sites are accessed using a supported web browser. We host data in a secure server and cloud-based environment that use firewalls and other industry-standard technology in an effort to prevent interference or access from outside intruders.

The Internet, however, is not perfectly secure and we are not responsible for security incidents not reasonably foreseeable or reasonably within our control.

We require that you maintain the confidentiality of your user names and passwords. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of an account, loss of your account credentials or suspect a security breach, notify us immediately.

DATA RETENTION:

Lightning retains data for as long as necessary to provide access to the Websites to you or as long as legally permissible in accordance with applicable law, including as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, comply with applicable industry standards, and in accordance with disaster recovery procedures.

SITE AND SERVICE UPDATES

We occasionally send customers and users website and service announcement updates. Customers are not able to unsubscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the services which they have purchased.

We communicate with users via email, postal mail or phone to provide requested services and to make them aware of issues relating to their account.

CHILDREN

We do not direct any Sites or Websites to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from children under thirteen.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We keep this Privacy Policy under review and may occasionally make changes to it (including if necessary as a result of development of the Websites or services, changes to technologies, legal or regulatory changes, etc). We reserve the right to change the provisions of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting a revised Privacy Policy on the Site and indicating on the Privacy Policy the date it was last updated. Visitors’ use of the Sites or Websites following the posting of such changes or revised statement shall constitute their acceptance of any such changes. Visitors who do not wish to accept the revised Privacy Policy should not use or access (or continue to use or access) the Sites, Websites and/or services. We encourage visitors to review our Privacy Policy whenever they visit our Sites and Websites to determine if any changes have been made and to make sure that they understand how any personal information they provide will be used.

CONTACT:

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our practices relating to use of your personal information are very welcome and should be addressed to privacypolicy@Lightningmotorcycle.com.

Lightning Motor Corporation US: +1 548-9088