GridLink Sourcing privacy policy

This policy describes how GridLink Sourcing handles information that business visitors send through the procurement form. It is written for commercial inquiries about solar inverters and microinverters, not for consumer account tracking.

Fields the form posts

The form uses the existing action /service/feedback.act. The named fields are name, company, email, phone and content. Content is the procurement requirement. Please include specification, quantity, US destination and requested delivery timing in that box, plus any datasheet or drawing needs you want raised with proposed suppliers.

Notes that stay inside the requirement

On-screen helpers for product family, target budget, currency, per-unit or whole-order basis, and supplier preference do not add new field names. In browsers that emit a formdata event, those helpers are appended to the content value for that submission only. The text you typed is not overwritten in the box. A later submit builds the appendix again from the current helpers, so an old appendix is not stacked onto a new one inside the textarea. Each form on the page keeps its own helpers. If you use the back button, the appendix does not remain inside the box because it was never written there.

If JavaScript does not run, the helpers stay hidden and the page asks you to type budget and preference into the requirement yourself.

Why the note is read

The desk reads the note to understand the equipment, to ask clarifying questions, and to request quotations from proposed manufacturers when the columns are comparable. Work email is used to reply. Phone is used only if you provided it and a reply by email is not enough for the question at hand. Company name identifies the buying organization.

What this desk does not do with the note

The form is not a mailing-list signup. The desk does not sell the inquiry as a marketing list. Supplier preference is stored only as part of the requirement text so a coordinator can see whether you asked for high-end, mid-range, budget or undecided posture. That word is not treated as a credit score or a verified factory grade.

Who else may see details

When you ask the desk to seek quotations, relevant technical and commercial details may be shared with proposed suppliers so they can answer. Do not include personal data you do not want a supplier to see. Payment card numbers are not requested and should not be pasted into the requirement.

Retention and access

Inquiry records are kept long enough to finish the sourcing conversation, to resolve a dispute about what was asked, and to meet accounting duties if a later engagement exists. Exact retention depends on whether a quotation process continues. You may ask, through the same form, what requirement text is still on file for your email and may ask for correction of a rating you mistyped.

Site banner

A sourcing banner may remember the first time it was shown in local storage and may remember a dismissed ticker in session storage on this browser. That storage is used to limit how long the banner appears and to keep a closed ticker closed for the session. It is not used to build an advertising profile.

Contact about privacy

Privacy questions use the contact form. No separate privacy mailbox is published. The terms of service explain the limits of what a submission means commercially.