Terms & Conditions:

1. Introduction

Welcome to BarCal Electric. By accessing or using our services, including receiving SMS communications, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not engage with our services.

2. Consent for SMS Communication

Your consent to send/receive SMS communication to/from BarCal Electric helps us provide better service. By providing your consent, you acknowledge and agree to receive text messages from BarCal Electric at the phone number you provided. BarCal Electric will only use your phone number to enhance our communications related to services you’ve asked us to perform. We will never share your number with third parties or affiliates for marketing purposes.

Opt-In Method

 You may opt-in to receive SMS messages from BarCal Electric in the following ways:

• By texting us
• Verbally, during a conversation

3. Types of SMS Communications

When you consent to receive text messages from BarCal Electric, you may receive SMS communications, including the following:

• Appointment confirmation
• Arrival updates
• Answering questions and inquiries
• Links to options related to the specific service you have requested: for example, if you ask us to install light fixtures, we may send a link to fixture options so you can choose the fixture
• Project updates
• Request for review

      Example: “This message confirms that you have scheduled an appointment with BarCal Electric on January 20^th with a planned arrival between 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM.”

4. Standard Messaging Disclosures

• Message Frequency: The frequency of messages will vary depending on your interactions with us. You may not receive any messages from us for months, but you will receive several messages when a service is scheduled.
• Your mobile service provider will charge standard messaging rates.
• You can opt-out of receiving SMS messages at any time by texting “STOP” to the number from which you received the message.
• For assistance, text “Help” directly to BarCal Electric at 208-264-2525, or you can email us at [email protected].

Disclaimer:

By providing my phone number to BarCal Electric LLC, I agree and acknowledge that BarCal Electric LLC may send text messages to my wireless phone number for any purpose. Message and data rates may apply. Message frequency will vary, and you will be able to opt-out by replying “STOP”.

 

Privacy Policy:

SMS opt-in or phone numbers for the purpose of SMS are not being shared with any third party and affiliate company for marketing purposes. All the above categories exclude text messaging originator opt-in data and consent; this information will not be shared with any third parties.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

In common with other websites, log files are stored on the web server saving details such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, referring page and time of visit. Cookies may be used to remember visitor preferences when interacting with the website. Where registration is required, the visitor’s email and a username will be stored on the server.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you submit a contact form on our site, the information related to the submission will be stored in our system & may be sent out to 3rd party vendors to assit us in serving you.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

 

Who we share your data with

Google Ads

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to sites they visit on the Internet. Website visitors may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.