Privacy Policy

The Residential Energy Producers Association (ResEPA) is committed to the privacy of our members and users.  W assume and recognize that this privacy is essential to building a Community Platform that maintains individual privacy and this includes our every intention to not become just another web site that feeds leads to third party suppliers and contractors.

In the future, we may provide individual members and users to explicitly opt-in to having selected segments of their data to specifically enumerated third parties.

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Cookies & Technical Necessities

We minimize technical tracking:

• Cookies are used only for essential functionality

• No third-party tracking for marketing purposes

• Data aggregation - we do monetize this resource using only the aggregated characteristics of our membership and target markets

• Technical tools serve community functionality only

Anonymous Usage Data

Like many other websites, ours may collect anonymous usage data (“Non-Personally Identifiable Information”) about your activity at this Website. We may store information about the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the time, date, and length of your visit, and the referring site. 

This information is collected via computer code sent to your computer (commonly referred to as a “cookie”). The cookie will not expire, unless you manually delete it or set your browser to reject it. If you do not accept the cookie, however, you may have difficulty navigating our full Website.

Legal Framework 

We operate under strict privacy protection principles:

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• Your data remains under your control

• We only share information in legally required situations (court orders, fraud prevention, or legal compliance)

• All of our service providers and partners must contractually commit to protecting your privacy

• We maintain transparency about any necessary data handling

Data Security 

While we implement robust security measures, we encourage responsible internet usage:

• Maintain strong account security

• Members only need to provide a valid email address and their zip code.  We has for a user name so your membership posts enhance member to member communications.  We use your email address to validate your account and to provide internally managed accountability (for posting comments, etc.) to your account

• We highly recommend that all members exercise caution when sharing personal information

• Understand that external links fall under different privacy policies

• Please report any privacy concerns immediately

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Security

We employ commercially reasonable security measures to reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your Personally Identifiable Information. However, we cannot and do not guarantee that these measures will be sufficient to protect against all efforts to gain unauthorized access to that information.

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Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties: 

ResEPA may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

Storage of Data

We may store and process Personal Information in the USA, Europe, Israel, or other jurisdictions, whether by ourselves or with the help of our affiliates and service providers.

ResEPA's data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data.

Among other things, ResEPA will ensure that there is the adequate level of protection or that relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place for the international transfer of our EU users’ data.

We may keep your Membership Information for as long as your account is active, and longer as needed (for example, if we are legally obligated to keep it longer, or need it to protect our interests).

Please address any specific questions, comments, and/or concerns regarding these policies to:  info@resepa.com.