The Energy innovation Center Institute, Inc. (the “Company”) is the owner, developer and operator of this website. A person or company accessing this website is considered a user of the website (the “User” or “Users”). By accessing or using this website in any way, the User is deemed to have read, and agreed to be bound by, the following Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms”):

General Privacy Statement

The Company is committed to protecting the User’s privacy, and has long recognized that individuals and companies with whom we conduct business value their privacy. However, in order to properly represent our clients and conduct business in current times, the collection of personal and business information is often necessary and desirable. Our goal is to balance the benefits of necessary information with the right of individuals and companies to prevent the misuse of their personal or business information.

These Terms set out the different areas where User privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the User and the Company. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores and protects User data and information will also be detailed within these Terms.

The Company takes a proactive approach to User privacy and ensures that the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its Users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all United States laws and requirements for User privacy.

Intellectual Property Notice

Other than any exceptions referenced in these Terms, this website and all of its original content, including but not limited to all Company trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, domain names, logos, text, data, graphics, pictures, images, video, audio and source code are the exclusive intellectual and proprietary property of the Company (the “Company Intellectual Property”). The Company Intellectual Property is protected by all applicable United States and International laws and treaties pertaining to intellectual property rights.

This website may also contain certain intellectual and proprietary property owned by third parties and that the Company has the right to feature, display and promote on the website. Nothing contained on this website or in these Terms should be construed as granting the User any right, title, interest or license in and to either the Company Intellectual Property or any intellectual or proprietary property of any third party.

 

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the User’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable, this website uses a cookie control system allowing the User, on their first visit to the website, to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device.

Cookies are small files saved to the User’s computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the User’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the User with a tailored experience within this website.
Other cookies may be stored to the User’s computer hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

This website also uses tracking software to monitor its visitors in order to better understand how they use it. This tracking software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to the User’s computer hard drive in order to track and monitor the User’s engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information:

[http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].

Users are strongly advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or the Company do so at their own discretion, and provide any such personal information or details requested at their own risk. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process. However, the Company strongly advises Users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

The Company uses any personal information submitted via this website to provide Users with further information about the products/services the Company offers or to assist Users in answering any questions or queries that may have submitted. This includes using a User’s personal information to subscribe a User to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made expressly clear to the User and the User’s express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. A User’s personal information may also be used when the User has previously purchased from (or enquired about purchasing from) the Company a product or service that is the subject matter of the email newsletter.

Email Marketing/Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, which is used to inform subscribers about products and services offered by the Company via this website. Users can subscribe to the Company’s email newsletter through an online automated process, but do so at their own discretion and risk. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the User.

All personal information and details relating to subscriptions are kept private, and no personal information or details are passed on to third parties or shared with any companies or people outside of the Company and its authorized personnel.

Email marketing campaigns published by the Company via this website may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include, but is not limited to, the opening of emails; forwarding of emails; the clicking of links within the email content; and times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the User with more relevant content based around their activity.

If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable, clear instructions on how to un-subscribe to the email newsletter will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website strives to include only quality, safe, and relevant external links to other websites and content, Users need to be aware that these other websites and/or content are not owned, developed, operated or controlled by the Company. These other websites may also have their own detailed terms of use, privacy policies and other policies relating directly to that particular website. The Company does not monitor or review the content of other parties’ websites that are linked to this website. Opinions expressed or materials appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Company. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or other content of these other sites, and cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website. Users are therefore strongly advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned or featured throughout this website. Users clicking on any external links do so at their own risk, and the Company assumes no liability for a User visiting any external links mentioned or featured on this website. If you click on these links, you will leave this website. (External links are clickable text/banner/image links to other websites, similar to; www.websitename.com).

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may also contain adverts and sponsored links. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may also have their own detailed terms of use, privacy policies and other policies relating directly to the adverts and sponsored links they serve. Clicking on any such adverts or sponsored links will send a User to the advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and track the number of referrals sent from this website. These cookies which may in turn be saved on a User’s computer hard drive. Users need to be aware that these advertiser websites and/or content are not owned, developed, operated or controlled by the Company. The Company does not monitor or review the content of the advertiser websites that are linked to this website. Opinions expressed or materials appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by the Company. The Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or other content of these other sites, and cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any adverts or sponsored links. Users are therefore strongly advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any adverts or sponsored links mentioned or featured throughout this website. Users clicking on any adverts or sponsored links do so at their own risk, and the Company assumes no liability for a User visiting any advertiser websites or sponsored links mentioned or featured on this website. If you click on these adverts or sponsored links you will leave this website.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that the Company participates in via this website are subject to the specific terms and conditions, as well as the privacy policies, of each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal information and details. The Company will not ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms, and encourages Users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact the Company through primary communication channels such as telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and risk, and should be aware that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

The Company may share web links to relevant web pages through its social media platform accounts. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and use good judgment before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by the Company via this website. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking. Therefore the Company assumes no liability that may be caused by visiting any shortened links.

Right to Modify and Revise Terms

The Company reserves the right to modify and revise these Terms at any time and at its sole discretion, and without any advance notice to the User, by posting the modified or revised Terms on this website. User agrees to review these Terms periodically to be aware of any such modifications or revisions, and by accessing or using the website Users further agree to accept and be bound by any such modified or revised Terms.

Right to Terminate Access

The Company reserves the right to unilaterally terminate a Users access to this website at its sole discretion, and without any advance notice to the User.

Entire Agreement

These Terms represent the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes any prior oral or written representations, arrangements, understandings or agreements between them. No other oral or written representations, arrangements, understandings or agreements relating to the subject matter of this agreement exist among the parties.

Waiver

No consent or waiver, express or implied, by Company to or of any breach of any covenant, condition or duty of User shall be construed as a consent or waiver to or of any other breach of the same or any other covenant, condition or duty to be observed by User.

Governing Law

This agreement must be exclusively governed by, and construed pursuant to, its terms and the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without giving effect to its conflicts of laws provisions. The parties submit to the jurisdiction of the federal and state courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Indemnification

User shall indemnify and defend Company and its directors, officers, employees, agents, representatives, attorneys, affiliates and business partners from and against any claims, suits, liabilities, losses, injuries, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs of litigation) arising out of or resulting from any use or misuse of this website by User, or any breach of, or failure to abide by, these Terms by User.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

THE INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE AND ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED VIA THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE COMPANY AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, ATTORNEYS, AFFILIATES AND BUSINESS PARTNERS:

  1. EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL REPRESENTATIONS AND IMPLIED OR EXPRESSED WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND RELATING TO THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND THE PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED VIA THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE; AND

 

  1. SHALL NOT BE HELD LIABLE TO USERS OF THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY CLAIMS, SUITS, LIABILITIES, LOSSES, INJURIES, DAMAGES, COSTS OR EXPENSES (INCLUDING ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS OF LITIGATION), WHETHER FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT OR NEGLIGENCE, ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM ANY USER’S USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED VIA THIS WEBSITE, OR ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM ANY ERROR, OMMISSION OR INACCURACY CONTAINED IN THIS WEBSITE. FURTHERMORE, COMPANY AND ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, ATTORNEYS, AFFILIATES AND BUSINESS PARTNERS ARE NOT LIABLE TO ANY USERS OF THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY CLAIMS FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF PROFITS OR ANTICIPATED PROFITS AND LOSS OF DATA, ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM ANY USER’S USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OFFERED VIA THIS WEBSITE, OR ARISING OUT OF OR RESULTING FROM ANY ERROR, OMMISSION OR INACCURACY CONTAINED IN THIS WEBSITE.

 

THE USER ACCEPTS, AND AGREES TO BE BOUND BY, THE ABOVE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE BY ACCESSING AND USING THIS WEBSITE.

 

If you have any questions about this website or the Terms and Conditions of Use, you may contact us at info@eicpittsburgh.org.