This privacy policy outlines how Energy Changemakers collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users of the Energy Changemakers website and subscribers to our newsletter.
Committed to safeguarding your privacy
Energy Changemakers is committed to safeguarding the information users entrust to us. We want you to know how we use the information collected.
Information we collect
Energy Changemakers may collect personally identifiable information (including demographic and biographic) from you in various ways, including during newsletter or community registration. We may collect information about your website use by tracking the number of pages viewed. We may use “cookies” to track your use of our website. A cookie is a piece of software that a web server can store on the users’ PC to identify the user should they visit the website repeatedly. While not all the information we collect is personally identifiable, it may be associated with the information you provide us.
How information may be used
Energy Changemakers may use personally identifiable information collected through the website to contact you regarding relevant products and services and otherwise to enhance the your experience. We may also use information when researching how effectively our website attracts readers or in sales efforts.
Disclosure of information/consent to use
Energy Changemakers may disclose your information when we have your consent to provide you with any offering you have requested or authorized or for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We may also disclose information collected, including personally identifying information, if a) the disclosure is necessary or useful to our provision of services or operation of the website; b) we believe in good faith that the disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our rights, interests, or property; c) we are acting in good faith protect your safety or the safety of others, or to investigate fraud; d) we believe in good faith that the disclosure is necessary to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; or e) a third party acquires us or the website, in which case your information will likely be among the assets transferred. Using the Energy Changemakers website, you expressly grant consent for use of your information per this privacy policy.
Controlling your data
You can choose how your data is collected and used by Energy Changemakers. Various tools are available for you to control the data collected by cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. For example, you can use controls in your internet browser to limit how the websites you visit can use cookies and to withdraw your consent by clearing or blocking cookies. You can also refuse to accept cookies in any pop-up box on the website. If you block cookies, you may still gain access to some of the Energy Changemakers website, but you may not be able to conduct certain activities.
You can control the use of your personal data by “opting out” or “unsubscribing” on any emails, messages or pages where that option is provided for you.
Maintaining and safeguarding information
We use industry-standard information technology security to keep your information secure. But as effective as our reasonable security measures may be, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases and cannot guarantee that personally identifiable information supplied to us will not be intercepted or accessed.
We also attempt to have privacy protection controls in place with our vendors and business partners to protect users’ personal information from unauthorized access or disclosure. All third-party use and sharing of your information will be subject to such provider’s privacy and consent policies. One such provider we use is Google. By using Energy Changemakers website, you expressly consent to Google’s privacy policies.
Though we endeavor to use generally accepted industry vendors and business partners, we are not responsible for any third party’s use or sharing of your information.
All of our employees must abide by our privacy policy. Only authorized employees are permitted to access users’ personally identifiable information. If an employee violates our privacy policies, he or she will be subject to our disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Nevertheless, Energy Changemakers cannot guarantee that users’ information will be completely secure.
Linked sites and third-party use of information
Other websites that you visit, including any such sites linked from or to our website may have separate privacy policies or no policy at all. Other websites may use personally identifiable information differently than our policy permits so we strongly encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party site before you provide them with your personally identifiable information. You agree that we are not responsible for the unauthorized third-party use of your information.
How to update your information
It is important that we keep only the most accurate, up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, if you believe our records contain information that needs to be updated, you can email us at privacy@energychangemakers.com to correct or update your contact information. You may also email us at privacy@energychangemakers.com to remove your name, telephone, postal and email addresses from lists that we maintain to send out notices or updates or to request that we refrain from disclosing your personally identifiable information to third parties.
Revisions to privacy policy
This is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by Energy Changemakers. We re-evaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on changes in applicable law, requirements of our vendors and business partners, best practices, and feedback from the industry and our users. We may change this privacy policy at any time by posting the updated policy on our website. If there are any changes to the use of personally identifiable information that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a clear notice of such on our website.
Vendors and business partners
See the list below for links to the privacy policies and user consent policies that may apply to you and the data collected in connection with your visits to Energy Changemakers:
Partner Privacy Policies
Questions Please direct questions concerning this Privacy Policy by email to: privacy@energychangemakers.com.