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Privacy Statement

Thanks for visiting BestHomeEnergyGuides. We have created this privacy statement/policy in order to demonstrate our firm and ongoing commitment to the privacy of personal information provided by our visitors and people interacting with this website as well as a gesture of our openness and honesty. We believe in full transparency.

Your privacy is important to us!

We hold your personal information in the highest regard. The following statement discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

What information do we collect from our visitors?

When you visit this website you may in fact provide us with two (2) different types of information:

1. Personal information - that is to say, information that you knowingly choose to disclose/provide to us, and
2. Website use information - this is information which is collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

> Personal information

This may consist of:

a. Registration Information
If you nominate to register for any of our services, products or to our newsletter you will be providing us information about yourself, and
b. Email information
If you elect to correspond with us via email we may retain the content of your email messages and the originating email address together with our responses to such.

> Website use information

This involves using "cookies":

Our website is similar to any other commercial sites insofar that our site utilizes a system called "cookies". Our web server log files collect information and statistics about how our site is used. This information may include date and time of your visits, the amount of time which you spent at out website, what pages were views by our visitors and other websites recently visited.

How do we use the information that you give us?

Our objective is to effectively use personal information to provide a better customer experience and also in the general administering of our business activities in order to provide the services and products which you request and to process your payment(s) as they are applicable, to monitor the usage of our service, for our promotional and marketing efforts, to improve our website content and for other lawful purposes, as dictated by law. Essentially we do this to continually improve our site and make it a more enjoyable experience for our visitor's. This information may be shared with others on an aggregate basis ONLY.

Personal identifiable information or business information will NEVER BE SHARED with any other parties whatsoever except as required by relevant law.

Sometimes we may use the personal information we collect to let you know about important modifications to our website or any special offers or new services that we may think you might find valuable. You have the right to notify us that you do not wish to receive these offering by emailing us via the email address provides in our contact us link found on our home page of on our newsletter.

What exactly are 'Cookies'?

A cookie is just a small text file which incorporates an anonymous and unique identifier. When you visit a website that site's computer asks your own computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard disk drive which has been pre-designated for storage of cookies.

Each website that you visit can send its own cookie to your browser (and only if your browser' s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Browsers are usually set to accept cookies. However, if you prefer not to receive cookies, you may change your browser settings to refuse to accept any cookies. Please be aware that if you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our website will not function as effectively for you. A cookie will not and cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive or pass on computer viruses.

How do we use the information we collect from cookies?

As you visit and browse our website, the site uses cookies to differentiate you from other users. Cookies, in conjunction with our Web server's log files, allow us to calculate aggregate number of people visiting our website and which parts of the website are the most popular. This helps us gather feedback so that we can constantly improve our site and provides better service for our visitors and customers. Cookies do NOT allow us to gather any personal information about you and we will not and do not intentionally store any personal information that your browser provided to us in your cookies.

What are 'IP Addresses'?

IP addresses are used by each and every computer that connects to the Internet. Your IP address is a uniquely assigned number that is used by your own internet service provider in order to identify your computer on the internet. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as traffic data so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.

Sharing and selling of information

We will NEVER sell, lend, share or lease any uniquely identifiable information about you except as necessary to process transactions or provides authorizations or services that you, yourself have requested

How can you access and correct your information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by contacting us via our contact ("Contact Us") link situated at the bottom of each page on this website.

What about legally compelled disclosure of information?

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we in good faith believe that relevant law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. We may also disclose account information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is absolutely necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Terms of Service, copying, abusuing or manipulating our services or content or to protect the safety of our users and the public.

What about other websites linked to our website?

We take no responsibility for the practices or policies employed by websites linked to or from our Web site or the information or content contained on those other websites. Often links to other websites are provided solely as affiliate links, pointers to information or topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to any other website, our Privacy Policy ceases to be in effect. Your browsing and interaction with/on any other website, including websites which have a link on our website is subject to that particular website' s own rules and policies. You should read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your consent

By using our Website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Furthermore, we reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice.

Choice/Opt-In/Opt-Out

This site allows visitors to unsubscribe to newsletters, mailing lists or other forms of communication so that they will not receive future unsolicited messages or correspondence. After unsubscribing we will discontinue sending the particular messages as soon as technically feasible.

Surveys & contests

From time-to-time our site may request information from users via surveys or contests (i.e competitions). Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code/post code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

A special note about children (Minor's)

CHILDREN ("Minor's") are NOT ELIGIBLE TO USE OUR SERVICES UNSUPERVISED and we ask that children (under the age of 14) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with permission and guidance from your parents or guardians.

Acquisition or changes in ownership

In the event that this website (or a substantial portion of its assets) is sold your information would be considered to be part of those assets and therefore may form part of those assets that are transferred to the new owner/s of this website.

Policy modifications

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If/when changes are made to this privacy policy, we will email users who have given us prior permission to do so. We will post any changes here, so be sure to check back periodically to re-read this privacy statement. However, please be assured that if/when this privacy policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this privacy policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this privacy policy, without your prior consent.