ENERGY CONSUMERS EDGEPRIVACY POLICYWe recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use Energy Consumers Edge, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us. Energy Consumers Edge strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers', consumers' and online visitors' privacy on our website. _________________________________________________________________ NAME Energy Consumers Edge and energy-consumers-edge.com both refer to the same entity. _________________________________________________________________ PERSONAL INFORMATION Energy Consumers Edge collects personally identifiable information from the visitors to our website only on a voluntary basis. Personal information collected on a voluntary basis may include name, postal address, email address, company name and telephone number. This information is collected if you request information from us, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, sign up to join our email list, or request some other service or information from us. The information collected is internally reviewed, used to improve the content of our website, notify our visitors of updates, and respond to visitor inquiries. Once information is reviewed, it is discarded or stored in our files. If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. Personal information received from any visitor will be used only for internal purposes and will not be sold or provided to third parties. _________________________________________________________________
USE OF COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables Energy Consumers Edge to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site. A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site. We may serve third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our web site to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site. Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose. _________________________________________________________________
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT This website is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. If you enter your name, address, or e-mail, anywhere on our site, you are verifying that you are over the age of 13. _________________________________________________________________
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. _________________________________________________________________
RELEASE OF INFORMATION If Energy Consumers Edge is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us. _________________________________________________________________
HOW TO CORRECT OR REMOVE INFORMATION We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use our CONTACT US page. _________________________________________________________________
UPDATES AND EFFECTIVE DATE Energy Consumers Edge reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it. _________________________________________________________________
DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Energy Consumers Edge makes a serious effort to link only to sites of high ethical standards including, but not limited to high standards regarding users privacy. While Energy Consumers Edge also makes a serious effort to screen sites we link to, or refer our readers to, Energy Consumers Edge cannot be held liable for the privacy policies, or any other policies of third party services, vendors, or any other sites we link to. Users of Energy Consumers Edge are advised to check the privacy policies and general reputation of everyone they choose to do business with. While Energy Consumers Edge makes a serious effort to assure accuracy of all of the content on this site, neither Energy Consumers Edge nor its associates warrant the accuracy or completeness of the content provided on this site. Energy Consumers Edge does not warrant the products or services offered for sale on the Energy Consumers Edge site; users of Energy Consumers Edge are advised to refer to the originator of information for complete service or product details, including but not limited to warranty details. Energy Consumers Edge specifically disclaims warranties of any kind. No information given by Energy Consumers Edge, nor its associates, shall create a warranty. The Energy Consumers Edge site is provided on an "as is" basis. Neither Energy Consumers Edge nor its affiliates, directors, employees, sponsors, or any other associates warrant that use of the Energy Consumers Edge site will be uninterrupted or error-free. Under no circumstances shall Energy Consumers Edge be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the Energy Consumers Edge site, including but not limited to reliance by a user on any information obtained at the Energy Consumers Edge site, or that results from mistakes, interruptions, omissions, deletion of files or email, errors, viruses, defects, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance. User hereby acknowledges that this paragraph shall apply to all content, merchandise and services available through the Energy Consumers Edge site. (Because some states do not allow the exclusion or Limitation of Liability for consequential or incidental damages, in such states liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.) Prices and availability of products and services advertised on the Energy Consumers Edge site are subject to change without notice. Energy Consumers Edge reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions. _________________________________________________________________
AGREEING TO TERMS Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy. _________________________________________________________________
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