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At
TheEnergyShow.com, we are committed to protecting the online privacy
of visitors to our websites. This Policy applies only to the websites
and online services provided by TheEnergyShow.com. This Policy
does not cover any interaction you may have with The Energy Show
by telephone, postal mail, or other offline communications. The
purpose of this Policy is to inform you about the types of information
we gather about you when you visit our websites, how we may use
that information, and how we disclose it to third parties.
Our websites are not designed for use by children
without their parent’s supervision. We ask that anyone under
the age of thirteen not submit any personal information through
our websites. We do not knowingly collect any personal information
from children under the age of thirteen, and therefore we do not
knowingly distribute such information to third parties.
Our websites may contain links to other websites,
including websites directed to children. We have no control over
the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners,
advertisers, sponsors or other websites to which we provide links
from our websites. You should check the applicable privacy policy
of the website sponsor when linking to other websites.
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| I. Information
That We Collect |
Personal
Information
At various locations on our websites, such as in registration
forms, sweepstakes entries, message boards, online stores, surveys,
and polls, we may request that you supply us with "personal
information," such as your name, email address, mailing and
shipping addresses, home or work telephone number, and/or credit
card information. You will always know when we are collecting
personal information, because we only collect personal information
when you voluntarily submit it to us through our online forms
and questionnaires. Although you do not have to provide us with
any information to visit our websites, you may not be able to
fully utilize all of the services on our websites if you choose
not to provide certain information. If you do choose to give us
personal information through our websites, we will collect and
retain that information.
Non-Personal Information
When you use our websites, we may also collect "non-personal
information," which is information that, by itself, cannot
be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information
(your age, gender, income, education, profession, zip code, etc.).
Non-personal information may also include technical information,
such as your IP address, the type of browser you are using, the
websites you visit immediately before and immediately after you
visit our websites, and other anonymous data involving your use
of our websites. Non-personal information may also include information
that you provide us through your use of our websites, such as
the time zone you select if you use our TV schedule feature, or
the terms you enter into the search functions of our websites.
Cookies
We use "cookies" to enhance your visits to our websites.
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser
from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Cookies do not store personal information about you, unless you
knowingly provide it. Cookies can store non-personal information,
such as what websites, pages, or advertisements your browser has
accessed. We use cookies to store information and personalize
your experience with our websites. For example, cookies allow
our websites to recognize your browser as a previous visitor,
and thus save and remember any preferences that may have been
set while you were previously browsing our websites. Our cookies
can also store your password, personalize pages, and keep track
of selections, such as your time zone and episode selections,
or items you have placed in a "shopping cart."
You do have control over cookies. Most browsers can be set to
notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. Most
browsers can also be set to refuse to accept cookies, although
this may affect your Internet experience. You can also erase cookies
that are already on your computer. For more information about
working with cookies, you should consult your user manual, FAQ,
or "help" function of your specific browser and operating
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| II. How
We Use the Information We Collect |
Our
Services and Websites
We use your personal information to provide you any services that
you may request or require, to communicate with you, to allow
you to make purchases, and to allow you to participate in online
contests, surveys and games. We use aggregated non-personal information
about our users to understand our website’s demographics,
such as the percentage of male and female users, the geographic
distribution of our users, the age ranges of our users, or a combination
of these or other demographics. We use the non-personal information
we collect to analyze how our websites are being used, and to
improve the content of our websites, online product offerings,
and marketing and promotional efforts.
Email Communications
If you send us an email with questions or comments, we may use
your personal information to respond to your questions or comments,
and we may save your questions or comments for future reference.
However, aside from our reply to such an email, it is not our
standard practice to send you email unless you request a particular
service that involves email communications, you otherwise consent
to being contacted by email or if such contact is to communicate
with you about products purchased through our online stores, to
provide customer support in connection with those products, and
to send you information about other products and services which
we believe may be of interest to you. There may be times when
you will have the opportunity to subscribe to an email list or
electronic newsletter that will send information about our websites
or our advertisers to your email address. However, we will provide
you with the option to change your preferences and opt-out of
receiving those communications. You may request at any time that
we not email you in the future by clicking the "unsubscribe"
link which is included at the bottom of any email that you receive
from us, or by contacting us at privacy@TheEnergyShow.com.
If you unsubscribe, we will make reasonable efforts to discontinue
these email communications as soon as practicable.
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| III. Disclosure
of Information to Third Parties |
Affiliates
and Non-Affiliates
Except as specifically set forth in this Policy, we do not share
your personal information with any non-affiliated third party
without your permission. We may disclose aggregate information,
such as demographic information, and our statistical analyses
to third parties, including advertisers or other business partners.
This aggregate information does not include your personal information.
Please refer to our Affiliates’ privacy policies for details
regarding how they handle your personal and non-personal information.
Service Providers
We sometimes engage unaffiliated businesses to assist us in providing
you certain services. For example, we may hire a shipping company
to help us deliver our products or services to you. We may also
use third parties to process online transactions and credit card
payments, provide advertising, marketing and promotional assistance,
provide email services, or facilitate our online services (such
as message boards, chat rooms, and surveys). In those instances,
we may need to share your personal information with them. We require
these companies to use your personal information only to provide
the particular product or service and do not authorize them to
use your personal information for any other reason.
We sometimes offer promotions (like sweepstakes or free subscriptions)
in conjunction with a third party sponsor. If you choose to participate
in one of those promotions, we may share your information with
the sponsor if they need it to send you a product or other special
promotion they offer.
Business Transactions
As TheEnergyShow.com and its websites continue to develop, we
may buy, sell or combine with other businesses. If so, personal
and non-personal information that we or other businesses have
collected will likely be transferred as part of the transaction.
If we sell a business, we will attempt to ensure that requests
made of us regarding email communications will be honored.
Public Forums
We feature public forums such as chat rooms, message boards, bulletin
boards, or similar activities where you and other users of our
websites can communicate with one another. This Policy does not
protect you when you use these public forums or provide information
(including personal information) about yourself. Any information
you share in a public forum such as a chat room, message board,
or bulletin board is public information and may be seen or collected
by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy
Policy. TheEnergyShow.com is not responsible for events arising
from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly
post or share through our websites.
Third Party Advertisers
We use third-party advertising companies to deliver specific advertisements
to you, which appear on pages throughout our websites. These companies
collect non-personal information about your visits to our websites
and other websites in order to provide advertisements about products
and services that may be of interest to you. These companies may
also aggregate your non-personal information for use in targeted
advertising, marketing research, and other similar purposes. These
companies may place their own cookies on your computer. If you
want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting and using
this information, you may visit each third party advertiser’s
website directly and opt-out.
Other Disclosures
We may disclose personal information when we are required or requested
to do so by law, court order or other government or law enforcement
authority or regulatory agency; to enforce or apply our rights
and agreements; or when we believe in good faith that disclosing
this information is necessary or advisable, including, for example,
to protect the rights, property, or safety of TheEnergyShow.com,
our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with
other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit
risk reduction. We reserve the right to use or disclose non-personal
information in any way we see fit.
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| IV. Security
of the Information We Collect |
| The security
of your personal information is important to us. We maintain physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards to secure your personal information.
However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet,
and there is always some risk in transmitting information electronically.
The personal information we collect is stored within databases that
we control. As we deem appropriate, we use security measures consistent
with industry standards, such as firewalls and encryption technology,
to protect your information. However, since no security system is
impenetrable, we cannot guarantee the security of our databases,
nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be
intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Of
course, any information you post to any message board, discussion
group, or other public posting area on our websites is available
to anyone with Internet access. |
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| V. Accuracy
of the Information We Collect |
Any questions
you may have regarding our Privacy Policy, the accuracy of your
personal information or the use of your personal information,
or any requests that we correct, update, or remove your information
in our databases, should be directed via email to privacy@TheEnergyShow.com,
or via telephone to 1-877-8-ENERGY.
You also can write us at:
The Energy Show
Attn: Website Privacy Policy
ADDRESS: 2777 Stemmons Frwy., Ste 936, Dallas, Texas 75207
After receiving a request to change your information, we will
make reasonable efforts to ensure that all of your personal information
stored in databases we actively use to operate our website will
be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as
soon as reasonably practicable. However, we reserve the right
to retain in our archival files any information we remove from
or change in our active website databases. We may retain such
information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce
our terms of use. In addition, it is not technologically possible
to remove each and every record of the information you have provided
to us. A copy of your personal information may exist in a non-erasable
form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate.
This Policy is effective as of August 24, 2006. We reserve the
right to change this Policy at any time, and will post any changes
to this Policy as soon as they go into effect. Please refer back
to this Policy on a regular basis. |
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