Terms and Conditions

The content on this Site is provided by DeregulatedEnergy.com and its licensors and content providers. The “Site” refers to https://deregulatedenergy.com and all other Web properties owned or operated by DeregulatedEnergy.com now and in the future (or anything that replaces, supplements, or supersedes the Web as the site of DeregulatedEnergy.com). DeregulatedEnergy.com is a fully owned subsidiary of Single Integrated Operations Portal, Inc. The basic agreement is the Terms & Conditions (“T&C”) which you are now reading. The T&C sets out the legal terms by which DeregulatedEnergy.com makes its web site and services available. When you visit DeregulatedEnergy.com, you will automatically be bound by the T&C. By using the Site, you accept our then current T&C, as revised and updated.

Description of Services

What is DeregulatedEnergy.com?

DeregulatedEnergy.com provides you with access to a variety of resources and tools:

• Q&A forums (questions and answers covering a variety of industry topics);
• Posts (blogs and other informational material);
• News, analysis, and reports (both original content and links to 3rd party sites);
• Specific product information (posts, Q&A, and links to 3rd party sites);
• Online communities, such as profiles, professional networks, user groups, or other communication tools; and
• A variety of other services

(collectively “Services”). All Services offered by DeregulatedEnergy.com, including any updates, enhancements, new features, and/or the addition of any new Web properties, are subject to the T&C.
Our Site is a ‘free’ site for the Utility and Deregulated Energy community to share material and experiences. In order to enable DeregulatedEnergy.com to host and operate the Site, and keep its use free to you, we need to impose legal terms on you that establish our basic rights and responsibilities between us, and restrict your ability to take actions against us that could increase our costs of operating the site, or impose onerous obligations on us.

Use of Services

We need you to comply with our T&C in order to fix practical and effective rules for the orderly functioning of the Site as we see it.
Your use of the Services is subject to your continued compliance with these T&C and any other agreements, guidelines or rules that DeregulatedEnergy.com may post in respect of its Services. We can terminate your access to the Site without warning if you fail to comply with the T&C or any other applicable Agreement, guidelines or rules published by DeregulatedEnergy.com.

Community Standards

Be respectful of each other, and please recognize that we are not responsible for the acts of the community. All posts are the sole responsibility of the Contributors providing or posting such material . We do not guarantee a person’s identity. Do not assume that people are who they say they are, know what they say they know, or are affiliated with whom they say they are affiliated. Content may include material that some persons will find offensive, indecent or objectionable. Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information in any Services. Nothing submitted to DeregulatedEnergy.com or to any Communications Services on our Site shall be deemed confidential. Do not reveal any private information, including but not limited to health, financial and personally identifiable information, if you do not wish this information to be published. You must not reveal the health or other private information of third parties without their knowledge and consent.
DeregulatedEnergy.com does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Services, and is not and cannot be responsible for content, messages or information, or the accuracy, integrity, or quality thereof. DeregulatedEnergy.com will not be responsible for any reliance or decisions made based on such content, messages or information. DeregulatedEnergy.com specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Services and any posts, and any actions resulting from your participation in any Services and use of any Material. Managers, administrators and hosts may not be authorized spokespersons of DeregulatedEnergy.com, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of DeregulatedEnergy.com.

Communication Services

The Services may contain e-mail services, comments, forums, communities, profile pages, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with others (each a “Communication Service” and collectively “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Services, you will not:

• Use the Services in connection with surveys, contests, promotions, pyramid schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited messages (commercial or otherwise).
• Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to DeregulatedEnergy.com with respect to any raffle, contest or game requiring a fee by participants.
• Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
• Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
• Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links that exploit the images of children under the age of 18, or that disclose personally identifying information belonging to children under 18 or harm minors in any other way or make any sexual request on behalf of a minor or make any sexual request of a minor.
• “Stalk” or otherwise harass another.
• Use, download or otherwise copy, or make available (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity: any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof;
• Upload, download, use, or otherwise copy, or make available (whether or not for a fee) any file(s) that contain text, images, photographs, software or other material protected by trade secret, or any intellectual property laws, including, by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark or service mark or patent laws (or by rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consent to do the same.
• Use any material or information which are made available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
• Modify, publish, transmit, settle, transfer or sell, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, link, display or in any way exploit DeregulatedEnergy.com database other than for the limited purposes for which material is licensed for your use.
• Use or exploit any part of the Site or any software deployed in connection with the Site as, or as the content of, a service offered or supplied to other persons or entities without the express written consent of DeregulatedEnergy.com. For example, you will not create a site or maintain a site that links to our Site for the purpose of using, indexing, reformatting, or searching and retrieving, material from our site for the benefit of users of your site, without our knowledge and express consent; we want those users to come directly to our site to obtain material as we have spent considerable time, effort, and financial resources to build and maintain the Site and to attract submissions of Code and Documents, and to attract a wide base of users.
• Decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, adapt, reverse engineer, create derivative works from, or sublicense any software deployed in connection with DeregulatedEnergy.com’s delivery and operations. Your access to DeregulatedEnergy.com is limited to your rights to use Services to which you are entitled to use, and only for the limited purposes of your licensed use of such Services.
• Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to, any content that facilitates hacking or that promotes any illegal activity, including instructions for illegal activity.
• Upload files that contain viruses, worms, trojan horses, time bombs, trap doors, cancelbots, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs or malicious code that may damage the operation of another’s computer or property of another or are intended to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of DeregulatedEnergy.com.
• Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, agents, or the like to download data from any database of DeregulatedEnergy.com, or from the Site itself (for example, site or page scraping is prohibited).
• Exploit known or unknown weaknesses of the scripts or servers to disrupt or alter the Site’s operation.
• Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose unless such Communications Service specifically allows such messages.
• Download any file posted by another user of the Services that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed, performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
• Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded.
• Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Services.
• Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Service.
• Harvest or otherwise collect or store information about others, including e-mail addresses.
• Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage information or any portion thereof.
• Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
• Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
• Impersonate any person, including an employee, contractor, forum leader, guide or host of DeregulatedEnergy.com, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity.
• Employ misleading email addresses or falsify information in the header, footer, return path, or any part of any communication, including emails, transmitted through DeregulatedEnergy.com.
• Create multiple accounts with the purpose of altering polls or affecting voting.
• Upload, post, email, otherwise transmit, or post links to any material, or act in any manner, that is offensive to DeregulatedEnergy.com community or the spirit of these T&C.
• Breach any posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination; you are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.

Contributors Agreement

You represent, warrant, and confirm that:

1. No Infringement: To the best of your knowledge and belief, after reasonable inquiry, your Work does not knowingly infringe the rights of any third party, including but not limited to, rights in copyrights, patents, trade marks, service marks, trade secrets, privacy, personality, or other proprietary rights.
2. DeregulatedEnergy.com is committed to helping companies, people and organizations protect their intellectual property rights. To report claims of intellectual property infringement, including but not limited to copyright and trademark infringements, please send an email to admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com
3. Using a company or business name, logo, or other trademark-protected materials in a manner that may mislead or confuse others or be used for financial gain may be considered a trademark policy violation. Accounts with clear intent to mislead others will be suspended; even if there is not an explicit trademark policy violation, attempts to mislead others may result in suspension.
4. You have necessary Rights to your Work: You are the author of the Work and have not assigned your rights or had such rights vest in any third party by contract, operation of law or otherwise or if not the author, you have secured all necessary rights and licenses from the owner(s); and you have the right to grant the rights and licenses contained herein.
5. No malicious code: You have not included, and to the best of your knowledge and belief, after reasonable inquiry, your Work does not contain, any virii, Trojan horse, worm, spyware, adware, or other harmful or malicious code.
6. We have the right to identify you: DeregulatedEnergy.com can and shall publish your name and/or site ID in connection with your Work, and if you require end users to contact you for any reason in connection with licensing of your Work, DeregulatedEnergy.com can and shall publish your contact information.
7. We don’t want to breach other publisher’s rights: If the Work is a previously published work, Contributor must give DeregulatedEnergy.com notice of the prior publication and provide the consent of all copyright holders to the Work being posted on DeregulatedEnergy.com and made available to users of the Site.

The Work is otherwise provided “as is”, “where is”, “as available”, without warranty or guarantee of any kind. This means no express, implied or statutory warranty, including without limitation, warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Nothing in this Contributor’s Agreement restricts or limits your pre-existing rights to use, publish, perform, or distribute your Work.
Submissions are Received Without Payment to You: Your submissions and the rights and licenses you grant are provided without cost to DeregulatedEnergy.com and to participants in DeregulatedEnergy.com Site. You accept that you receive benefit sufficient to constitute any necessary good and valuable consideration for the rights and licenses granted herein.
Rights of DeregulatedEnergy.com: You grant DeregulatedEnergy.com, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive, fully assignable and transferable right and license, to edit, adapt, translate, reformat your Work, to post your Work (e.g. publish, display, perform, digitally perform) anywhere on our Site, to do what DeregulatedEnergy.com feels it needs to do to manage and update the Site, to make and maintain back-up and archival copies, and to make your Work available to End Users in accordance with this Agreement and the DeregulatedEnergy.com EULA.
DeregulatedEnergy.com has no obligation to police compliance with any participant’s use or misuse of any Work and the Contributor releases DeregulatedEnergy.com from all liability arising from any use or misuse of the Work by a participant in DeregulatedEnergy.com Site.
By making any submission of Work to DeregulatedEnergy.com, you understand that you have read and agreed to the above usage terms. These terms will be strictly enforced.
Minors
We do not want to have responsibility for issues concerning minors
In cases where you have authorized a minor to use the DeregulatedEnergy.com Site, a site owned by DeregulatedEnergy.com or any of the Services, you recognize that you are fully responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such minor; (ii) controlling the minor’s access to and use of the DeregulatedEnergy.com Site, a site owned by DeregulatedEnergy.com or any of the Services; and (iii) the consequences of any misuse by the minor. You acknowledge that some of the areas of DeregulatedEnergy.com Site (or affiliated sites) may contain material that is inappropriate for minors.
Privacy
DeregulatedEnergy.com values your privacy and you can find our privacy policy here.
Limitation of Liability
The “We are not liable clause”. This allows us to keep our costs down and still allow relatively free and open disclosure from our contributors
DeregulatedEnergy.com AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS AND CONTRIBUTORS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE MATERIAL PUBLISHED AS PART OF THE SERVICES FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL MATERIAL IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, “WHERE IS”, “AS AVAILABLE”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. DeregulatedEnergy.com AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO ALL MATERIAL, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
THE MATERIAL PUBLISHED ON THE SERVICES COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. DeregulatedEnergy.com AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE PRODUCT(S) AND/OR THE PROGRAM(S) DESCRIBED HEREIN AT ANY TIME.
You release, indemnify and hold harmless DeregulatedEnergy.com, its affiliates, employees, contractors, agents, and assigns from all liability for loss or damage howsoever occasioned resulting from your use, misuse, reliance upon, or inability to use anything found on DeregulatedEnergy.com, and from DeregulatedEnergy.com’s use, misuse, or non-use of any posts submitted, and from any bugs, virii or other malicious code, errors in, interruption, suspension, or termination of any Services.
IN NO EVENT SHALL DeregulatedEnergy.com AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM USE, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF PROFITS, OR OTHERWISE, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF MATERIAL AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES. ABSENT GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR GROSS MISCONDUCT BY DeregulatedEnergy.com, IN NO EVENT SHALL DeregulatedEnergy.com BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY.

Links to Other Sites

If another site causes you damages, look to that other site for relief. DeregulatedEnergy.com does not endorse the owners of, or the content, products or services on any third-party Web sites. Linked sites are not under the control of DeregulatedEnergy.com and DeregulatedEnergy.com is not responsible for the contents of linked third-party sites, indexes or directories, sites framed within this Site, or third-party advertisements, or any changes or updates to such sites. DeregulatedEnergy.com is not responsible for any form of transmission received from any linked site, and DeregulatedEnergy.com does not make any representations regarding their content, accuracy or non-infringement. DeregulatedEnergy.com does not endorse any product or service advertised on this Site. Your use of third-party Web sites is at your own risk and subject to the terms of use for such sites. You should be aware that both the terms of use and the privacy policies of linked sites may differ from those of DeregulatedEnergy.com.

Limitation of Action

In the event that any action or other proceeding is sought to be brought against DeregulatedEnergy.com for any purpose, you agree, notwithstanding any legislative Statute of Limitations to the contrary, that such proceeding must be brought within one year of the action or event giving rise to the cause of action, or such proceedings shall be forever barred as against DeregulatedEnergy.com and any persons who in law or at equity could claim contribution or indemnity against DeregulatedEnergy.com.

Protection against Your Breach

We need to be able to operate a site that many people can feel comfortable using, without liability to us. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless DeregulatedEnergy.com, its affiliates, licensors and suppliers, and the directors, officers, employees, agents, licensees, representatives and independent contractors of the foregoing from any and all claims, liabilities, costs, damages or losses they may incur (including, without limitation, attorney’s fees) arising out of a violation or alleged violation by you of these T&C or arising from material posted by you or contributed by you on the Site. You agree to cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. DeregulatedEnergy.com reserves the right (but is not obligated) to do any or all of the following:

• Record the dialogue submitted through the Services.
• Investigate an allegation that a communication(s) do(es) not conform to these policies and/or the T&C and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the communication(s).
• Delete, move or edit communications that are determined, in the sole discretion of DeregulatedEnergy.com, to be abusive, defamatory, obscene, in violation of copyright, patent, or trademark laws, otherwise illegal, disruptive, or otherwise unacceptable for any reason.
• Terminate a user’s access to any or all of the Services or the Site upon any breach of these policies and/or the T&C.
• Monitor, edit or disclose any communication posted in the Site.
• Edit or delete any communication posted in the Site, regardless of whether such communication violate DeregulatedEnergy.com’s standards.

DeregulatedEnergy.com reserves the right to take any action it deems necessary to protect the personal safety of our guests or the public. DeregulatedEnergy.com has no liability or responsibility to users of this Site or the Services or any other person or entity for performance or nonperformance of the aforementioned activities.

Assignability

DeregulatedEnergy.com, its successors and assigns, shall have the right to assign or transfer this Agreement, all other agreements between the parties, and all DeregulatedEnergy.com’s benefits in their absolute discretion and from time to time.

Relationship of Parties

You and DeregulatedEnergy.com are independent contractors. Nothing in this Agreement or any schedules or documents incorporated by reference herein or into which this Agreement is incorporated by reference into, create a partnership, joint venture, agency, or employment relationship between you and DeregulatedEnergy.com or give you any rights or authority to bind DeregulatedEnergy.com to any contractual or other obligations.

Submission of Ideas and Suggestions

DeregulatedEnergy.com does not accept or consider unsolicited ideas, including new ideas and suggestions as to improvements to the Site, marketing, advertising, promotions, new product and service offerings, product and service names and marks (“Submissions”). Please do not send any original creative artwork, samples, demos, or other works for any such purposes. We wish to avoid confusion or misunderstanding or dispute when DeregulatedEnergy.com’s products, services or strategies might seem similar to Submissions. Consequently, we advise you that any Suggestion made to DeregulatedEnergy.com will not be treated as proprietary information of you, and will be received by DeregulatedEnergy.com without any obligations of confidence whatsoever. Second, you grant DeregulatedEnergy.com, its affiliated companies and necessary sub-licensees permission to use and a grant of a worldwide, non-terminable, royalty-free, full assignable and transferable right and license in perpetuity to use and apply your Suggestions for any purpose(s) DeregulatedEnergy.com considers fit in its sole discretion. Third, DeregulatedEnergy.com is under no obligation to use your Suggestion or pay you anything for your Suggestion. Fourth, you confirm that you will own or otherwise control all of the rights to your Submission including, without limitation, all the rights necessary for you to provide, post, upload, input or submit, or for DeregulatedEnergy.com to use your Submissions.

If you identify problems with the usability, operability, or interoperability of DeregulatedEnergy.com or any Services, you may deliver or suggest amendments or “bug fixes” for DeregulatedEnergy.com’s consideration. DeregulatedEnergy.com shall have the absolute right to incorporate all such amendments or “bug fixes” accepted by DeregulatedEnergy.com into products and Services provided by DeregulatedEnergy.com for all purposes, without any payment or other compensation to you. All right, title and interest to any submitted amendments or “bug fixes”, whether accepted or not, shall transfer to DeregulatedEnergy.com at no cost to DeregulatedEnergy.com as a royalty free right granted in perpetuity.

If you wish to present a business proposition between yourself and DeregulatedEnergy.com on a confidential basis, you should first enter into negotiations with DeregulatedEnergy.com to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and only after such non-disclosure agreement is signed will any disclosure be deemed confidential, and only to the extent and for the purposes contained in that agreement.

Material Inducement

You expressly acknowledge that DeregulatedEnergy.com has entered into this agreement, and has and will make its Site and Services available to you in reliance upon the limitations and exclusions of liability and the disclaimers set forth herein, and that the same form an essential basis of the bargain between you and DeregulatedEnergy.com. You expressly agree that the limitations and exclusions of liability and the disclaimers set forth herein will survive, and continue to apply in the case of, a fundamental breach or breaches, the failure of essential purpose of contract, the failure of any exclusive remedy or termination of this agreement.

General

If any provision of these T&C is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these T&C, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these T&C shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition. Your obligations to DeregulatedEnergy.com contained in these T&C and in all applicable agreements between yourself and DeregulatedEnergy.com shall survive termination.

Governing Law, Choice of Forum and Agreement to Arbitrate

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of Texas, United States of America, without regard to principles of conflicts of law, and any action regarding same or the use of this website and the services provided by DeregulatedEnergy.com shall be initiated and maintained in a forum of competent jurisdiction in Houston, Harris County, Texas, United States of America. Any such legal actions or disputes shall be resolved by binding arbitration pursuant to the rules of the American Arbitration Association.

Privacy Policy

DeregulatedEnergy.com is committed to protecting your privacy and to developing technology that gives you the most powerful and secure online experience while furthering your professional life.

Note: Any reference to “we,” “us”, “our website” or DeregulatedEnergy.com are references to the DeregulatedEnergy.com site (the “Website”) and all of our partner web sites. DeregulatedEnergy.com may provide links to the websites of many other companies to which this policy does not apply. We cannot, and do not, assume responsibility for the privacy or information policies, practices or actions of any third parties. 

We at DeregulatedEnergy.com are committed to good privacy practices regarding your personal information. Your loyalty as a community member, customer or visitor is important, and we hope that our concerns regarding your privacy, as described in this policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”), demonstrate our commitment to making your experience with DeregulatedEnergy.com an enjoyable and satisfying one. This privacy statement explains data collection and use practices of DeregulatedEnergy.com it may be amended from time to time as we adapt to a changing business, technological, and regulatory environment.

By providing personal information to DeregulatedEnergy.com, you are consenting to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.

THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS AN AGREEMENT. BY PROVIDING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE OR BY ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE.

Accountability

We will maintain and protect the personal information under our control. We have designated an individual who is accountable for compliance with the Principles. If you have questions about our privacy statement or our use of your information, or if you need help changing your personal information or to opt-out, please contact us by sending e-mail to admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com or contacting us at:

DeregulatedEnergy.com
2855 Mangum Rd
Suite 122
Houston, TX 77092

1. THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

We gather two types of information about users:

Non-personally identifiable information (information that does not identify a specific individual): When visitors use the Services, we collect and aggregate information indicating, among other things, which pages were visited, the order in which they were visited, and which links were “”clicked.” Collecting such information involves the collection and logging of IP addresses, operating system, and browser software used by each user of the Services. Although such information is not personally identifiable, we can determine from the IP address a visitor’s Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of his or her point of connectivity.

The non-personally identifiable information we collect helps us identify the most popular areas of our Website and determine the effectiveness of our promotional activities. In addition, we may disclose some of this information to advertisers to inform them of the number of people who have seen and/or clicked through their advertisements. We collect non-personally identifiable information in part through the use of “cookies” – that is, small text files placed on your computer’s hard drive – that help us determine the type of content and pages to which you link, the length of time you spend at any particular area of the Services, and the Services you choose to use.

Cookies allow us to serve you better and more efficiently, and to personalize your experience with the Services. Nevertheless, you should be able to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your web browser. For more information on how to do so, please refer to the documentation accompanying your browser.

Third Party Advertisers

Please note that our advertisers and their designees, as well as other third parties, may collect information about you through cookies or other technologies when they serve advertisements through the Services or when you visit their web site(s). If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you targeted ads, you should be able to prevent the collection of that information via privacy settings of your browser. Please refer to the documentation accompanying your browser. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Links to Other Sites

This Website contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by this company and our policies. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Website.

Personally identifiable information: In certain areas of the Services, such as those in which you complete a profile, submit your writings, create a new account, or enter DeregulatedEnergy.com -sponsored contests or promotions, we may request that you provide us with certain personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, zip code, profession, or work experience. We will, in such situations, seek to identify which informational items are required and which are optional. When a user chooses to create a DeregulatedEnergy.com advertisement we also collect billing information.

Job seekers should post profiles on our Website only if they wish such information to be viewed by our customers. At any time, community members may elect that their profile not be searchable by our customers by logging into their account and changing the status of their profile or, if that is not possible, they may contact us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com and we will make the change for them.

In addition, members may elect to make their profile searchable by our customers on a confidential basis only. In this case, the user’s name and contact information will not be displayed to customers performing searches on the Website. If the customer desires to contact the confidential member regarding an employment opportunity, they will send an email to the member through our system. We will forward the email to the member’s email address. The member’s email address will not be provided directly to the customer. When posting a profile confidentially, it is the member’s responsibility to ensure that their contact information is not included within their resume attachment.

The Services are not available to children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age.

Please note that we cannot control the acts of users of the Services. All members and visitors should be aware that, when they disclose personally identifiable information in a resume or profile or other medium, the information may be collected and used by others to send that person unsolicited email from other parties outside DeregulatedEnergy.com. In the event that you encounter any DeregulatedEnergy.com user who is improperly collecting or using information about you or other users, please contact admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com.

2. HOW WE USE (AND DO NOT USE) THE INFORMATION WE GATHER

Please take some time to familiarize yourself with the different ways we use the information we gather. Keep in mind that, while DeregulatedEnergy.com encourages all third parties involved, including but not limited to its advertisers, to adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our visitors and members and to otherwise handle personal information in a responsible manner, we cannot and do not assume any responsibility for any actions or omissions of third parties, including the manner in which they use information received either from DeregulatedEnergy.com or independently. Nevertheless, in the event you encounter any third party associated with, or who claims association with DeregulatedEnergy.com, who you feel is improperly collecting or using information about you, please contact admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com. We will be happy to forward your message to the third party or contact the third party on your behalf.

How we use (and do not use) non-personally identifiable information: We use non-personally identifiable information in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful Services by performing statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our visitors and members, and by measuring demographics and interests regarding specific areas of the Services. We may provide statistical information based on this data to advertisers, users, and other current and potential business partners. We may also use the aggregate data to inform these third parties as to the number of people who have seen and clicked through links to their sites.

How we use (and do not use) personally identifiable information: We do not sell, re-sell or distribute for re-sale your personally identifiable information. Our customers may only use the information provided in profiles of job seekers to evaluate seekers’ qualifications for the customer’s open job opportunities. Job seekers should be aware, however, that DeregulatedEnergy.com has no way to control how a customer actually uses the service and how they use the profile information. If you believe a DeregulatedEnergy.com customer is using personally identifiable information inappropriately, please notify DeregulatedEnergy.com at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com.

Please note that DeregulatedEnergy.com reserves the right to disclose information submitted by or concerning any visitor or member as we reasonably feel is necessary to protect our systems or business. We may also disclose your personal information as required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or other legal process, when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request. We cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who may be using our servers or Services for illegal activities. We also reserve the right to report any suspected illegal activity to law enforcement for investigation or prosecution, or to suspend or terminate your membership in connection with any suspected illegal or infringing activity or if you are in violation of our Terms of Use Agreement or other published guidelines.

If DeregulatedEnergy.com is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information. DeregulatedEnergy.com reserves the right to assign, sell, license, or otherwise transfer to a third party your personally identifiable information in connection with an assignment, sale, joint venture, or other transfer or disposition of any portion or all of DeregulatedEnergy.com’s or its affiliated entities’ assets or stock.

Subject to the foregoing, DeregulatedEnergy.com uses your personally identifying information in several ways:

• to customize various aspects of the Services to your preferences;
• to determine which advertisements or sponsor messages will appear on your screen;
• in connection with your use of the Services, we may send you service announcements, administrative messages, and other information. You may opt out of some of those communications;
• if other users already have your email, or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible DeregulatedEnergy.com Profile information, such as your name and photo;
• to send to you DeregulatedEnergy.com solicitations, product announcements, and the like that we feel may be of interest to you (you may “opt out” of receiving these materials, as provided below);
• to send to you certain e-mail messages that are critical to your use of the Services, such as system status updates or order confirmations (because these messages contain important information, you may not be able to “opt out” of receiving such messages);
• to send you certain e-mail messages from third party advertisers (you may “opt-out” of receiving these materials, as provided below). Such third-party advertisements are distributed by DeregulatedEnergy.com on behalf of the advertiser. DeregulatedEnergy.com does not disclose your email address to its advertisers. However, you will be interacting directly with the advertiser and will be subject to their privacy policy once you “click-through” on an advertisement.
• to generate marketing materials based on data you provide via uploading files to the Website or connecting to third party services (e.g. LinkedIn, Gmail) that transmit data directly to the Website, including, but not limited to, photos, likenesses, names, contacts, email addresses, personal descriptions, skills, work history, urls, blog posts, and other similar data;
• to “pre-populate” forms that are displayed for the purpose of collecting individual data by DeregulatedEnergy.com and/or its sponsors (in no case will pre-populating a form automatically transfer any data to an advertiser or other third party – only if you voluntarily request that such data be transferred will any such transfer take place, e.g., by clicking the “Submit” button); and
• as may be necessary to support the operation of the Services, such as for billing, account maintenance, and record-keeping purposes.

In addition to the circumstances described above, DeregulatedEnergy.com may disclose your personally-identifiable information to third parties as follows:

• When a member posts a profile on the Website on a non-confidential basis, such information will be shared with our customers. (Note that at any time, job seekers may elect that their profile not be searchable by our customers by logging into their account and changing the status of their profile or they may contact DeregulatedEnergy.com at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com and we will make the change for them.)
• When a job seeker elects to make his or her profile searchable by our customers on a confidential basis only, the user’s name and contact information will not be displayed to customers performing searches on the site. If the customer desires to contact the confidential job seeker regarding an employment opportunity, it will send an email to the job seeker through the DeregulatedEnergy.com system. We will forward the email to the seeker’s email address. The seeker’s email address will not be provided directly to the customer. When posting a resume confidentially, it is the job seeker’s responsibility to ensure that their contact information is not included within their resume attachment.
• If you “opt in” to receive promotional materials from third parties, information you have made available to us may be made available to third parties who provide goods or services that we believe may be of interest to you.
• We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as processing credit card transaction or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

Opting Out: You may receive promotional materials from us about DeregulatedEnergy.com Services, or on behalf of DeregulatedEnergy.com’s affiliates, advertisers, or other business partners. You may “opt out” of receiving such materials at any time in a variety of ways: by using the “opt-out” link included in each email, by changing your subscriptions preferences on the “user settings” page in your DeregulatedEnergy.com account or by contacting us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com. If you have provided more than one email address to our service, you may continue to be contacted, unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you have provided. If you opted in to receive information directly from third parties, then you must contact those third parties directly to opt-out.

All information made available to DeregulatedEnergy.com may be made available to our contractors and consultants, and professional advisors (such as attorneys or accountants), but only to the extent necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, and only under a duty of confidentiality.

Invite a Friend: If you choose to use our referral service to tell another person about a job, we will ask you for that person’s email address. We will automatically send that person a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. We use this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, and do not store these email addresses.

Connections: A key feature of the DeregulatedEnergy.com professional network is allowing members to invite and connect with their current and former colleagues and associates. To support this functionality, you may provide the email addresses of your contacts, either by typing them in or uploading a list of contacts, which DeregulatedEnergy.com will contact on your behalf. For your contacts who are already members of DeregulatedEnergy.com, a connection will be initiated and the member notified via a private message and email, if the user has opted to receive such notifications via email. For your contacts who are not members of DeregulatedEnergy.com, an invitation email will be generated and sent to the email address provided, if the user has not previously opted out of email communications from DeregulatedEnergy.com. In either case, reminder emails may be sent to the recipient, if he or she does not opt out of receiving further connection or invite reminders. In addition, as long as your connection or invite is in a pending state (i.e. it has not been accepted or ignored by the recipient or cancelled by you, the sender), it may be aggregated or combined with other pending connections or invites to a given member or email address in order to provide a count or list of pending connections in other email communications sent to that member or email address.

3. SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can contact us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com.

4. SURVEYS AND SWEEPSTAKES

Occasionally, DeregulatedEnergy.com may conduct surveys in order to better deliver advertisements and content and to better understand your needs relating to the Services. We will not share your survey information with any third party, except in aggregate form.

From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). That information, to the extent it conflicts with this policy, will govern that particular promotion or sweepstakes – please remember to read it carefully.

We may use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor Website use, to personalize the site, to send participants an email, and to measure participants’ demographics, interests and opinions. We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

5. SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as Widgets, that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. These Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

6. FORUMS/BULLETIN BOARDS/COMMENTS

If you contribute to any user generated forum on this Website (for example: answers, debate, comments), you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

7. CORRECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to have your personally identifiable information removed from DeregulatedEnergy.com’s database, or would like to correct an error in such information, please contact us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com, and we will use reasonable efforts to comply with your request. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within DeregulatedEnergy.com databases, access logs, and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes; if you have provided more than one email address to our service, you may continue to be contacted, unless you request to unsubscribe each email address you may have provided.

Access: If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, amend, delete/remove or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing our Customer Support at DeregulatedEnergy.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.

Data Retention: We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you Services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, contact us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Note that, by using the Services, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Policy, please do not use the Services. Your continued use of the Services subsequent to changes to this Policy will mean that you accept the changes; therefore, please bookmark this page and review it periodically. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or any other privacy issues in connection with the Services, please e-mail us at admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com.

QUESTIONS?

Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to admin@DeregulatedEnergy.com.