Purpose

The intent of this policy statement is to clarify issues regarding ownership and responsibility, while promoting the dissemination of energy-efficiency information.

Scope

As part of the effort to provide information on energy efficiency, the www.EnergyIdeas.org website and all databases herein provide users with access to information related to commercial, industrial, residential, and agricultural buildings and processes. Documents available here may or may not be published elsewhere.

Responsibility

The EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse and the www.EnergyIdeas.org website are managed by the Washington State University Extension Energy Program (WSU), and funded by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance . WSU is responsible for building, maintaining, and operating this website from its office in Olympia, Washington, USA.

Statements of fact or opinion in the externally-supplied electronic documents presented here are the sole responsibility of the author(s).

Inclusion on this website of information about products or organizations does not imply an opinion or commercial endorsement on the part of WSU, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, or the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse. Likewise, any organizations or individuals mentioned do not necessarily endorse the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse, www.EnergyIdeas.org, or the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance.

Ownership

The originator of data transmitted over this website is responsible for content of the data transmitted and retains ownership of the data.

The EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse, EnergyIdeas.org, and all other word and design trademarks displayed on the EnergyIdeas.org website are the sole and exclusive property of the Washington State University Extension Energy Program (WSU). All rights reserved. WSU also owns all proprietary rights associated with the EnergyIdeas.org website, including any and all copyrights in text and images.

Copying, Distribution, and Linking

Permission to copy or disseminate all or part of this material is granted for educational purposes only. Documents copied must be unchanged, with title and source included. Linking to EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse webpages is welcome, as long as they are not framed by another entity's webpage or otherwise altered in any way. Copying, reprinting, or dissemination (electronic or otherwise) for any other use requires prior written permission from the EnergyIdeas Clearinghouse.

Privacy Notice

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. However, we automatically gather and store the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain), and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Web) from which you access our website
  
  
• The date and time you access our site
  
  
• The pages you visit

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors—to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. This information does not identify you personally.