How Blumi Solar collects, uses, and protects information across our website and services.
Blumi Solar ("Blumi," "we," "us," or "our") provides solar estimate, education, and lead information tools for residential solar businesses. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website, use a Blumi-powered solar estimate experience, interact with our services, or communicate with us.
This Privacy Policy applies to:
By using Blumi, you agree to the collection and use of information described in this Privacy Policy.
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We may collect information directly from you, automatically through your use of our services, and from third-party data providers or service providers.
When a homeowner uses a Blumi-powered estimate experience, we may collect:
Some estimate experiences may allow homeowners to explore solar without immediately submitting contact information, depending on the configuration. If contact information is submitted, that information may be shared with the solar company connected to the Blumi-powered experience.
When a solar company or business customer uses Blumi, we may collect:
Payment information may be processed by third-party payment providers. We do not directly store full payment card details unless expressly stated otherwise.
When you use our website or services, we may automatically collect:
We use this information to operate, secure, improve, and analyze the performance of Blumi.
To generate solar estimates, Blumi may use third-party data sources and service providers, such as mapping, solar, geocoding, utility, analytics, hosting, email, or payment providers.
These services may help us estimate roof characteristics, sunlight exposure, solar production, electricity rates, location information, or other inputs used in the estimate experience.
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We use information to:
We may also use aggregated or de-identified information to understand product performance, improve estimate quality, analyze market trends, and develop new features. Aggregated or de-identified information does not identify a specific individual.
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We may share information in the following ways.
If a homeowner uses a Blumi-powered experience on or through a participating solar company's website, we may share submitted contact information, estimate inputs, estimate results, and related lead context with that solar company.
This allows the solar company to follow up, review the estimate, answer questions, and discuss solar options.
We may share information with third-party service providers that help us operate Blumi, including providers for:
These providers may only access information as needed to provide services to us, subject to their own terms and privacy obligations.
Solar companies using Blumi may receive homeowner lead information and estimate context generated through their Blumi-powered experience. Solar companies are responsible for how they use that information after receiving it, including their own communications, sales practices, and privacy obligations.
We may disclose information when we believe it is necessary to:
If Blumi is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, reorganization, or similar transaction, information may be disclosed or transferred as part of that transaction.
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Blumi does not sell homeowner personal information.
We do not use homeowner estimate information for unrelated advertising purposes. We use homeowner information to provide the estimate experience, support the connected solar company's follow-up, operate and improve Blumi, and perform related business and legal functions.
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We may use cookies, pixels, local storage, analytics tools, and similar technologies to understand how people use our website and services.
These technologies may help us:
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect certain features.
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We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Blumi, support our business customers, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and improve our services.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information, the purpose for collection, legal requirements, and customer account settings. For example:
We may delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed.
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We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no system, website, or method of transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
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Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:
To make a request, contact us at privacy@blumisolar.com.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. Some information may be retained where required or permitted by law, such as for security, legal, accounting, or legitimate business purposes.
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If you submit your contact information through a Blumi-powered estimate experience, you may receive communications from the connected solar company and/or from Blumi related to your estimate, inquiry, or submitted request.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link where available or by contacting the sender directly. Service-related or transactional messages may still be sent where necessary.
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Blumi is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
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Blumi may appear on or be embedded within third-party websites operated by solar companies. Those websites may have their own privacy policies, terms, cookies, analytics tools, and data practices.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or solar companies. We encourage users to review the privacy policies of any solar company they interact with.
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We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on our website with a revised "Last Updated" date.
Your continued use of Blumi after changes are posted means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
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For questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, reach out to us directly.
We're happy to answer questions about how Blumi collects or handles information.