Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 28, 2022

Last Updated: December 13, 2025

The Pittsburgh Group, Inc. doing business as ERCZilla ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website erczilla.com (our "Website") or engage with our municipal settlement recovery services, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and our municipal clients, including information:

A. Information You Provide to Us

  • Identity Data: Name, job title, municipality/organization name, and departmental affiliation.

  • Contact Data: Email address, postal address, and telephone number.

  • Operational Data: Information regarding your municipality’s water systems, water sources (wells/intakes), historical testing data, population served, and other operational details necessary to assess eligibility for PFAS settlement funds.

  • Correspondence: Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.

B. Information We Collect Automatically As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Traffic Data: Logs, location data, and other communication data.

  • Device Information: IP address, operating system, browser type, and internet connection.

  • Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Website, including resources that you access and download.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To Provide Services: To assess your eligibility for settlement funds, coordinate water testing, and prepare claims documentation.

  • To Communicate: To notify you about changes to our Website, services, or relevant settlement deadlines (e.g., Phase 2 Claims Deadlines).

  • To Improve Our Site: To estimate our audience size and usage patterns to better serve our municipal clients.

  • For Compliance: To fulfill our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

  • For Security: To protect our Website, customers, and business operations.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal or municipal data to third parties for marketing purposes.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users (which does not identify any specific individual or municipality) without restriction. We may disclose personal or operational information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To Our Service Providers: To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (e.g., cloud hosting providers, CRM platforms, analytics engines).

  • To Settlement Partners: To third-party law firms, testing laboratories, or the Court-appointed Settlement Administrator explicitly for the purpose of processing your claim and testing your water sources.

  • Business Transfers: To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of The Pittsburgh Group, Inc.'s assets.

  • Legal Requirements: To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our Website may use "cookies" to enhance User experience. A user's web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them.

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are required for the operation of our Website.

  • Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it.

  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Website.

You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal and municipal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

6. Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

7. Third-Party Links

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites (such as official Settlement Administration websites, EPA.gov, or news sources). 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.

8. Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website.

9. Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. To learn more about California residents' privacy rights, visit [Link to CCPA Policy if applicable].

Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah each provide their state residents with rights to:

  • Confirm whether we process their personal information.

  • Access and delete certain personal information.

  • Data portability.

  • Opt-out of personal data processing for targeted advertising and sales.

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

11. Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

The Pittsburgh Group, Inc. Alexandria, VA

Email: privacy@erczilla.com