Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) values your privacy. We do not share e-mail addresses or other personal information provided by EESI website users, newsletter subscribers, and customers who purchase or subscribe to our products and services, except to the extent necessary to complete transactions. Information collected from our users is utilized to communicate with them or to improve our Web site, products, and services and is not shared with other organizations or individuals.
Security of your Personal Information
Collection of your Personal Information
Use of your Personal Information
Control of your Personal Information
Donations via EESI's Website
Use of Cookies
Enforcement of this Privacy Statement
Contact Information
Changes to this Statement
EESI is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. Physical, electronic and managerial procedures have been employed to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which are located on our secure, in-house network server. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
EESI collects personal information online, including names, postal and e-mail addresses, phone and facsimile numbers, and interest areas from individuals seeking to be added to EESI information distribution lists. If you wish to be added to or removed from any of our newsletters, event notices, or other bulletins, or you just need to update your information, please send your e-mail requests to eesi@eesi.org or send us a fax at 202-628-1825. We will be happy to make those changes usually within 5 business days. The EESI web site provides opportunities for you to sign-up to receive free electronic newsletters, briefing and other event notices. All of the registration information you provide will be securely stored on EESI’s server.
Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information through EESI group communications with other organizations or other public online forums, this information may be collected and used by others. EESI cautions you against providing personal information to strangers online, which they may use for illegal or harmful purposes.
EESI keeps track of how visitors access the information on our web pages in order to determine what EESI pages and services are the most popular and how we may make improvements to our web site.
EESI collects and uses your personal information to deliver the services you have requested. EESI uses your personal information to inform you of events, briefings or services available from EESI. We also may contact you occasionally via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of our current services or of potential new services that may be offered or to request financial support of EESI programs.
EESI does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. EESI may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of other organizations or agencies as part our outreach agreements to announce other events or briefings that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.
EESI may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process required by any third-party donation service; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of EESI; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of EESI services or members of the public.
Personal information collected on this site is stored and processed in the United States. EESI abides by the safe harbor framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the European Union.
EESI may send out periodic e-mails informing you of announcements and news about EESI. EESI offers its customers choices for the collection, use and sharing of personal information.
Please help us keep our records current. If you wish to subscribe to any of our newsletters, event notices, or other bulletins, or you just need to update your information, please send your e-mail requests to eesi@eesi.org or send us a fax at 202 628-1825. We will be happy to make those changes usually within 5 business days.
You may stop the delivery of future e-mail or faxes from EESI by following the specific instructions in the e-mail or fax you receive.
Each EESI newsletter or notice you receive will have instructions on how to unsubscribe included in it. You may subscribe and unsubscribe to EESI newsletters and briefing notices by going to the email address listed in the particular publication or eesi@eesi.com.
Donations to EESI via EESI’s website are processed by Groundspring.org. Groundspring uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to encrypt all data submitted to and from our site over the web. SSL renders donors' personal information, including credit card numbers, virtually unreadable to anyone who intercepts it. SSL is supported by all major browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. (To find out if your browser is connected to a secure transaction server, look for a solid gold key in the lower right-hand corner of a Netscape browser. For a Microsoft browser, look for a locked padlock.) Groundspring also employs fraud protection at the time a donation is made due to concern about growing credit card fraud via the Internet. In particular, they will now verify credit card donations by requiring the "Card Security Code," a three-digit code on the back of most cards.
Groundspring.org never sells, trades, or rents donor information, and their site has security measures to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of donor and donation data. Additionally, donors have the option to give anonymously to EESI.
EESI uses JavaScript in order to help sort and easily manage the content contained on this site. The JavaScript used by EESI reads basic information from your browser: the current date; the users browser application name; and mouse interactions with the site;
EESI may use "cookies" to help personalize your online experience
at some point in the future. However, we currently do not use cookies.
Use of Third Party Ad Networks EESI does not allow third party advertisements on
our web site. We do offer links to relevant sites we believe are useful to
our audience.
EESI uses external CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript files. Unless caching has been disabled in your browser these external files will be download to your computer in order to lower the time it takes to load this site for our users. Most website if not all sites you visit use this method to decrease load times for visitors and reduce bandwidth on their servers. If you wish to disable Caching please reference this topic in your browsers help menu or at the developers website.
All EESI agents and contractors with access to personal information obtained on the EESI web site are bound to adhere to this policy. If you have questions regarding this statement, you should contact EESI via eesi@eesi.org.
EESI welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Statement. If you believe that EESI has not adhered to this Statement, please contact EESI by telephone, e-mail, or postal mail.
Our contact information is located at the bottom of every page.
EESI will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect company and customer feedback. When EESI posts changes to this Statement, you will see the word "updated" next to the Privacy Statement link on the front page of EESI. If there are material changes to this Statement or in how EESI will use your personal information, EESI will prominently post such changes prior to implementing the change. EESI encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how EESI is protecting your information.