DATE: May 10, 2007
This is the Privacy Policy for the EnergyTrek.com site (“Energy Trek™”). Your privacy is important to us, and we provide this Privacy Policy regarding our online collection, use and disclosure practices to help you to make informed decisions regarding use of this site, and our collection, use and disclosure of the personal information about you from the site.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into and is subject to the terms of the Energy Trek™ Terms of Use at http://www.energytrek.com/energytrek/terms_of_use/index.html
The Information We Collect
At Energy Trek™, you may become a member, provide and receive feedback regarding your home and office energy conservation activities, receive news and information about events, meetings and programs that may be of interest to Energy Trekkers, enter contests, and communicate and share photos, videos and other information with groups of other Energy Trekkers.
In providing these offerings on our site, we may collect the following types of information at registration: your screen name and password, first and last names, email address, country, state and city. If you register as an organization, we may collect your organization name and password, email address, country, state and city, and type of organization. If you register as a celebrity, we may collect a specific set of additional information through an alternative registration process.
We may also collect your energy conservation activities, your opinions about certain products or services, as well as photos, videos and other material that you decide to post on our site. In addition, we may collect information regarding what pages of our site you visited.
Regardless of whether you become a member, we may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit our Web site, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows 2000 or Mac OS), ISP from which you receive Internet access, and aggregate information regarding what pages users of the site access or visit.
Collection of Information by Third-party Sites, Vendors and Sponsors
Our site contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. We encourage you to consult the other sites’ privacy policies, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
To try to bring you advertising that is of interest to you, we have relationships with third parties we believe to be reputable that we may allow to present or serve advertisements on our site. As a result of your visit to our site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain type, your IP address and click-stream information. Our Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that a third-party ad server may collect from you.
If you make a purchase from one of our third-party vendors through our site, the information you submit to the vendor will be collected by that vendor. We have no control over our third-party vendors’ privacy practices and encourage you to visit these vendors’ Web sites to learn more about their information practices.
We sometimes may offer activities (e.g., contests, sweepstakes or promotions) that are sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that users voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties' use of this information.
Our Use of Information Collected at our Site
We may use the personally identifiable information that we collect to provide you with an interactive online experience, to score your energy conservation activities on an individual or aggregated basis, to fulfill your requests for products or services, to respond to your postings, to personalize or localize your experience on our site, to allow us to make personalized recommendations to suggest products, services or activities that you may be interested in, or to contact you about your Energy Trek™ membership. We may, on occasion, combine information we receive online from you with records from other sources.
As provided in the Terms of Use agreement, if you choose to post content on our site (e.g., text, a photo or a video), we may use that information in any manner. Furthermore, that information may be used by others in ways that we do not and cannot control.
We use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage and energy conservation practices, as well as to offer you products, programs or services.
Cookies and other Technical Information
We may send “cookies” to your computer primarily to enhance your online experience and to store your preferences, record session information, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, or to customize site content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies are files that can identify you as a unique visitor and store your personal preferences as well as technical information (including click-through and click-stream data). Cookies can either be permanent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser).
We may also use “Web beacons” that monitor your use of our site. Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the Web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the Web beacon appears, the time the page containing the Web beacon was viewed, the type of browser that fetched the Web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, Web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.
If you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information can be stored in or linked to other data stored in the cookies/Web beacons.
By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies and Web beacons as described herein.
You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other Web site. Additionally, by setting your Web browser to display HTML e-mails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some Web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, there is certain information on our site that can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content.
Disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information
We try to limit our disclosures of personally identifiable information to those that are important to carrying on our business or the mission of our site. For example, by posting content on our site (e.g., a video), you will be affirmatively consenting to our freely disclosing that content to others, along with any other information you have provided to us, other than your e-mail address and password.
We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process--for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a government agency’s request or when we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use or as otherwise required by law. In addition, if Energy Trek™ or Pajamas Media® is acquired by or merged with another entity, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our visitors and members as part of such merger, acquisition, sale or other change in control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred or used.
We instruct agents and contractors of Energy Trek™ who have access to personally identifiable information provided through this site to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy including not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for Energy Trek™.
Although we take measures we believe to be reasonably appropriate to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Security
We have implemented physical and electronic procedures designed to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access and maintain the security of personally identifiable information collected through this site.
Important Note About Children and Privacy
We do not want to collect information from children under the age of 13 and it is against our policy for these children to register at or post information on our site. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit personal information to this site or post on this site. Instead, please have a family member who is 13 or older register and participate on your behalf. If we learn that personal information has been submitted by a user under age 13, we will do our best to remove it.
International Users
If you visit this site from the European Economic Area or other parts of the world with laws governing data protection that differ from U.S. laws, please be advised that by deciding to provide your personal information to this site you will be affirmatively consenting to the use of your personal information for the uses identified in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of your personal information to the United States whose laws may not afford the same level of protection to your personally identifiable information as your local laws..
If you do not consent to such use and transfer of your personal information, do not submit personal information to this site.
Notice Regarding Changes to this Policy
From time to time, we may use member and visitor information for uses not previously disclosed in our Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes together with a new date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy periodically and review the effective date at the top of the Privacy Policy to see if the Policy has changed, so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it and to whom we disclose it.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation you may write us at privacy@EnergyTrek.com
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