Privacy

The Energy Renaissance website (‘this site’) is maintained by Energy Renaissance. This privacy policy applies to all publicly accessible pages on this site. Energy Renaissance does not have any responsibility for the privacy policy or practices of third party sites linked to the this site. If you have any questions about this site please contact us. Our policy is to treat your privacy in line with the NSW Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 (PPIPA) and the NSW Health Records & Information Privacy Act 2002 (HRIPA).

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information volunteered by you, such as comments and enquiries which contain your contacts and email addresses, is used only for internal purposes and is not shared with people or organisations outside Energy Renaissance without your permission.
When you look at the pages on this site, our computers automatically record information that identifies for each page accessed:

• the IP (internet protocol) address of the machine which has accessed it your top-level domain name (e.g. .com, .gov, .au, .uk, etc)
• the address of your server
• the date and time of your visit to the site
• the pages accessed and documents downloaded
• the previous site visited
• the type of browser and operating system you have used
• cookies are used from this to collect information

HOW DO WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

The information collected during each visit is aggregated with similar logged information to identify patterns of usage of the site. This assists us in improving this site and the services it offers. Energy Renaissance will not disclose or publish information that identifies individual machines or potentially identifies sub-groupings of addresses, without consent or otherwise in accordance with our privacy policy

WHAT EXCEPTIONS ARE THERE TO THIS RULE?

Energy Renaissance will collect, use and disclose more extensive information than stated above in the following circumstances:

• unauthorised attempts to access files which are not published on Energy Renaissance pages
• unauthorised tampering or interference with files published on this site
• unauthorised attempts to index the contents of this by other sites
• attempts to intercept messages of other users of this site
• communications which are defamatory, abusive, vilify individuals or groups or which give rise to a suspicion that an offence is being committed, and;
• attempts to otherwise compromise the security of the web server, breach the laws of the State of New South Wales or Commonwealth of Australia, or interfere with the enjoyment of this site by other users.

Energy Renaissance reserves the right to make disclosures to relevant authorities where the use of this site raises a suspicion that an offence is being or has been committed. In the event of an investigation, Energy Renaissance will provide access to data to any law enforcement agency that may exercise a warrant to inspect our logs.

IS THE INFORMATION STORED SECURELY?

Yes. Information collected is stored in an appropriately secure format and held by Energy Renaissance for archival purposes. When the information is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected, it is deleted.

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION PROVIDED?

Energy Renaissance provides a feedback option on this to allow users to provide input into the future development of the site and to comment on the provision of services byEnergy Renaissance . The provision of personal details on feedback is optional. Users may provide personal details for the purpose of receiving a reply to their feedback. This information will only be used for the purpose for which it was provided. We will not add your email address or name to any mailing list. Energy Renaissance may publish aggregated information about feedback on the site, to the extent that is does not identify or cannot be used to identify individual users.

WHO ELSE HAS ACCESS TO INFORMATION WITHIN ENERGY RENAISSANCE?

Energy Renaissance captures this information on a secure, externally hosted computer. Access to the raw data is restricted to a limited number of team members in Energy Renaissance for the purpose of analysis and to report our success in meeting our communication and access objectives.

WILL THIS POLICY BE UPDATED OVER TIME?

Due to the evolving nature of privacy principles for online communication, this policy may be modified or expanded in light of new developments or issues that may arise from time to time. Any amended policy will be posted to this site and will operate from the time it is posted.