Solarproductinfo Privacy Policy
Last updated October 1, 2009
This Privacy Policy
discloses the privacy practices of the Solarproductinfo.com website (the "Site").
Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you
while you are using the Site, and the ways in which we use and share this
information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may
provide to us, or that we may collect, offline and/or through other means (for
example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail).
Please read this Privacy
Policy carefully. By visiting and using the Site, you agree that your use of
our Site, and any dispute over our online privacy practices, is governed by
this Privacy Policy and our Terms
of Service. Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change
our Privacy Policy at some point in the future, in which case we'll post the
revised Privacy Policy on this website and update the "Last Updated"
date to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Site after we
post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
What Information is
Collected About Visitors?
The information that we
collect about you while you are using the Site falls into two general
categories, as described below. The information we collect may be collected
directly by us, or it may be collected by a third-party website hosting
provider, or another third-party service provider, on our behalf.
1. Information You
Provide to Us.
We may collect and store
information, including personally-identifiable information (such as your name,
postal address or e-mail address), or other information, that you voluntarily
supply to us either while on the Site or in responding via e-mail in connection
with a feature provided on the Site. Some examples of this type of information
include information that you electronically submit when you contact us with
questions, information that you post on blogs, discussion forums or other
community posting and social networking areas on our Site, information that you
electronically submit when you complete an online registration form to access
and use certain features of our Site, and information contained in search
requests or questions that you submit to the Site. We also may ask for information
(including a credit card number and other financial information) from those
users who make purchases or have payment transactions on our Site. If you
decline to supply or provide us with certain information while using the Site,
you may not be able to use or participate in some or all of the features
offered through the Site.
2. Information that
is Automatically Collected.
We also collect and
store non-personally identifiable information that is generated automatically
as you navigate through the Site. For example, we may collect information about
your computer's connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other
things, to improve the delivery of our web pages to you and to measure traffic
on the Site. We also may use a standard feature found in browser software
called a "cookie" to enhance your experience with the Site. Cookies
are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for
record-keeping purposes. By showing how and when visitors use the Site, cookies
help us deliver advertisements, identify how many unique users visit us, and
track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to re-enter
your preferences on certain areas of the Site where you have entered preference
information before. This Site also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic
files also known as "transparent GIFs") to access cookies and to
count users who visit the Site or open our HTML-formatted e-mail messages.
How is this Information
Used?
We use the information
we collect from you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways,
including, for example, to process your registration request, provide you with
services and communications that you have requested, customize features and
advertising that appear on the Site, deliver our Site content to you, measure
Site traffic, measure user interests and traffic patterns, and improve the Site
and the services and features offered via the Site.
We reserve the right to
use and to disclose to third parties any or all of the information that we
collect online about you and other visitors in any way and for any purpose,
with one important exception. We will not use the information that we collect
online from you while you are using the Site, nor will we authorize third
parties to use such information, to mail or e-mail promotional offers directly
to you unless you have specifically informed us that you would like to receive
promotional offers from us and/or from third parties. If you choose to receive
these promotional offers, then your information may be used for direct mail or
e-mail marketing. You may view or update your preference to receive these
promotional offers by visiting www.Solarproductinfo.com/newsletter
The site also includes
links to other websites and provides access to products and services offered by
third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control. When you access
another website or purchase products or services from a third party Site, use
of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the
operator of the site you are visiting or the provider of such products or
services.
We also make some
content, products and services available through our Site through cooperative
relationships with third party providers, where the brands of our provider
partner appear on the Site in connection with such content, products and/or
services. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide,
or that is collected, in the course of visiting any pages that are made
available in cooperation with our provider partner. In some cases, the provider
partner may collect information from you directly; in which cases the privacy
policy of the provider partner may apply to the provider partner's use of your
information. The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours.
If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider
partners, you should contact the provider partner directly for more information.
Please be aware that we
may occasionally release information about visitors if required to do so by law
or if, in our business judgment, such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (a)
to comply with legal process; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service or (c) to
protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Site, us, our
affiliates, our officers, directors, employees, representatives, our licensors,
other users, and/or the public.
Please also note that as
our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In the unlikely event
that we sell some or all of our assets, or our Site, is acquired by another
company, information about our Site users may be among the transferred assets.
Data Collected in
Connection with Ad Serving and Targeting
We may use cookies, web
beacons and similar technologies, and/or a third-party ad serving software, to
collect non-personally identifiable information about site users and site
activity, and we may use this information to, among other things, serve targeted advertisements on this site. The information collected allows us to analyze how
users use the site and to track user interests, trends and patterns, thus
allowing us to deliver more relevant advertisements to users.
We also may use
third-party service providers to target and serve some of the advertisements
you see on the pages of our Site, and these providers likewise may use their
own cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect non-personally
identifiable information from our Site. These service providers may use that
information, sometimes in conjunction with similar non-personally identifiable
information gathered through other websites, to deliver advertisements on this
Site, and on other websites that participate in our service providers’ advertising
networks, that are tailored to match the perceived interests of consumers. This
information also may be used to help measure and research an advertisement’s
effectiveness, or for other purposes.
The data collected in
connection with the ad serving and ad targeting on our Site does not identify
you personally and does not include your name, address, e-mail address or
telephone number, but it may include the IP address of your computer.
The use and collection
of information by our third-party advertising service providers is governed by
the individual privacy policies of those providers.
Information You Post to Blogs, Discussion Forums and Other Community
Posting or Social Networking Areas
Please keep in mind that
whenever you voluntarily make your personal information or other private
information available for viewing by third parties online - for example on blogs, discussion forums, or other community posting or social networking areas
of our Site - that information can be seen, collected and used by others
besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of
such information.
Children's Privacy
Statement
This children's privacy
statement explains our practices with respect to the online collection and use
of personal information from children under the age of 13, and provides
important information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to
such information.
- This Site is not directed to children under the age of
thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 13 as part of the Site. We
screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent
users under the age of 13 from providing such information. If we become
aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable
information from a user under the age of 13 as part of the Site, we will
delete such information from our records.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 13 via the Site, we also do NOT
knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
- We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of 13
to publicly post or otherwise distribute personally identifiable contact
information through the Site.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 13 via the Site, we do NOT
condition the participation of a child under 13 in the Site's online
activities on providing personally identifiable information.
How To Make Changes to
Your Information
If you are a registered
member of our Site, you can make changes to your account information by logging
in to the Site and using the account tools available via the Site. If you have
subscribed to one or more of our e-mail newsletters, you may also change your
subscriber information, modify your subscriptions, and/or unsubscribe from
these newsletters at any time by visiting www.Solarproductinfo.com/newsletters. If you
have any questions about modifying your account or preference information,
please visit the customer service pages of our Site.
Storage of Information
All information gathered on our Site is stored within a database to which
only we and our hosting services provider are provided access. However, as
effective as the reasonable security measures implemented by us may be, no
physical or electronic security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the
security of our Site’s servers or databases, nor can we guarantee that
information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us
over the Internet.
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