Clean Energy Funding values its website visitors. To help create a transparent organization, we make this Privacy Policy available. We strive to balance our policies in ways that help us effectively achieve our mission through the use of best practices, while also recognizing your needs as a valued supporter of our important work.
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Clean Energy Funding collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (“You” or “Users”) of our website located at www.CleanEnergyFunding.org (the “Website”).
The Types of Information Clean Energy Funding Collects
Non-personally identifiable information
Clean Energy Funding may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you visit our Website. Such information includes the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you used, the type of browser and operating system you used, the date and time you visited the Website, the Internet address of the site from which you linked to the Website, which pages you viewed on the Website, and comments you left on blog posts. Clean Energy Funding only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally identifying information as described below.
Web browser cookies
The Website may use “cookies” to enhance your experience with the Website. Clean Energy Funding may also use cookies to measure aggregate web statistics, such as collecting the number of Users to the Website, the number of repeat Users and the most popular webpages, and for other purposes. Clean Energy Funding does not use cookies to track User activity on an individual basis. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, however, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
Personally identifiable information
Clean Energy Funding collects personally identifiable information, such as names, email addresses and mailing addresses, from Users when they voluntarily provide such information to us, including, for example, when Users sign up to join our mailing list, submit a testimonial, or when Users leave a comment.
How Clean Energy Funding Uses the Information that It Collects
Clean Energy Funding uses Users’ personal information to better understand how Users use the Website so that Clean Energy Funding can improve the Website and its offerings. Clean Energy Funding also uses Users’ personal information for the purpose for which the Users provided the information, in other words, to add you to our email list, to provide requested information, or to otherwise fulfill a request. If you provide Clean Energy Funding with your email address, Clean Energy Funding may add you to its email list which is managed by Conservation Voters of PA and may contact you with information that Clean Energy Funding or Conservation Voters of PA thinks will be of interest to you. If at any time you wish to stop receiving communications from Clean Energy Funding or Conservation Voters of PA, please follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email Clean Energy Funding or Conservation Voters of PA sends you, or send Clean Energy Funding an email to cleanenergy@conservationpa.org and ask to be removed from Clean Energy Funding’s distribution list. If you provide Clean Energy Funding with your cell phone number, you consent to receive autodialed and/or prerecorded messages at that number on any subject from Clean Energy Funding or Conservation Voters of PA.
Opting Out
All of our online communications contain opt out instructions and links at the bottom of the email. You can always “opt-out” of Clean Energy Funding’s or Conservation Voters of PA’s online communications to keep from receiving unwanted emails. To opt out of receiving online communications, you may also send an email with your request to cleanenergy@conservationpa.org. Be aware that our sites link to other websites and we cannot control and are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those websites.
Clean Energy Funding Uses Google AdWords for Remarketing
Clean Energy Funding uses the remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
How Clean Energy Funding Protects User Information
Clean Energy Funding adopts appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to help protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, but Clean Energy Funding cannot guarantee that your information is 100% secure. In addition, please recognize that email is not a secure method of communication, so you should not include sensitive information in any email you send to us.
Sharing Personal Information
Clean Energy Funding uses third party service providers to help it operate its business and the Website or administer activities on Clean Energy Funding’s Website. Clean Energy Funding may share User information with these third parties for those limited purposes but Clean Energy Funding requires that such third parties protect the confidentiality of your information and use it for no other purpose.
In addition, Clean Energy Funding may share personally identifiable information about Users with other like-minded organizations, including our partner organization PennFuture, to the extent that sharing your information is consistent with our mission. Moreover, Clean Energy Funding will share personally identifiable information about Users when required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws or to respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant.
Clean Energy Funding may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personally identifiable information regarding Users with third parties.
Third Party Websites
Clean Energy Funding may provide links from the Website to other websites. Clean Energy Funding does not control the content or links that appear on these third party websites and is not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Website. These websites and services have their own privacy policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to or from Clean Energy Funding’s Website, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies. This Privacy Policy covers only information collected through the use of Clean Energy Funding’s Website. In addition, Clean Energy Funding does not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals.
Compliance with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Protecting the privacy of the young is especially important. For that reason, Clean Energy Funding never collects information at the Website from those Clean Energy Funding knows are under 13, and no part of the Website is structured to attract anyone under 13. If Clean Energy Funding becomes aware of having information about anyone under 13, Clean Energy Funding will promptly delete the information.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Clean Energy Funding may update this Privacy Policy at any time. When it does, Clean Energy Funding will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. Clean Energy Funding encourages Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about what information Clean Energy Funding collects and how it uses that information. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any modifications since your last visit.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contacting Clean Energy Funding
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or anything relating to the Website, please contact Clean Energy Funding at cleanenergy@conservationpa.org.