Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”). Ezoic’s privacy policy is here. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including to display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website. For additional information about Ezoic’s advertising partners, please see Ezoic’s Advertising Partner Page here.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Energy & Sustainable World collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Energy & Sustainable World's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Energy & Sustainable World's visitors use its website. From time to time, Energy & Sustainable World may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Energy & Sustainable World also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on Energy & Sustainable World blogs/sites. Energy & Sustainable World only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Energy & Sustainable World's websites choose to interact with Energy & Sustainable World in ways that require Energy & Sustainable World to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Energy & Sustainable World gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at Energy & Sustainable World to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Energy & Sustainable World are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Energy & Sustainable World collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with Energy & Sustainable World. Energy & Sustainable World does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Energy & Sustainable World may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Energy & Sustainable World may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Energy & Sustainable World does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Energy & Sustainable World discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Energy & Sustainable World's behalf or to provide services available on Energy & Sustainable World's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Energy & Sustainable World's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Energy & Sustainable World will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Energy & Sustainable World discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests, or when Energy & Sustainable World believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Energy & Sustainable World, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Energy & Sustainable World website and have supplied your email address, Energy & Sustainable World may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Energy & Sustainable World and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Energy & Sustainable World takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Energy & Sustainable World uses cookies to help Energy & Sustainable World identify and track visitors, their usage of the Energy & Sustainable World website, and their website access preferences. Energy & Sustainable World visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Energy & Sustainable World's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Energy & Sustainable World's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Energy & Sustainable World, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Energy & Sustainable World goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of Energy & Sustainable World may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Energy & Sustainable World and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Energy & Sustainable World may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Energy & Sustainable World's sole discretion. Energy & Sustainable World encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an Energy & Sustainable World account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the such change.
