Distributed World Power, Inc. ("DWP") is committed to protecting online user privacy.
In order to ensure your privacy while using this website, we collect your information
only in the manner and for the purposes described below.
This "Privacy Policy" contains the privacy practices governing DWP's collection,
use, and disclosure of personal information. Capitalized terms used herein shall
have the same meaning as designated in the DWP Terms of Service located at
http://www.dwpower.com/legal/terms.html, unless otherwise specifically defined
in this Privacy Policy. All references herein to "we" or "us" refer to DWP.
All references to the "Site" refer to our website located at http://www.dwpower.com.
Children
Our Site is not directed towards children 13 years of age or younger and we do not knowingly
collect any information from children 13 years of age or younger through the Site.
Collected Information
Personally Identifiable Information
Although you may generally use our Site without providing us with any personally
identifiable information, for some Site applications or services, we may collect
certain types of personally identifiable information, including: name, postal
address, e-mail addresses, birth date, and phone number. This type of information
is only collected from you voluntarily; we will never gather or store such information
without your knowledge and consent. Examples of where we might gather such information
from you: when you sign up to receive e-mail updates or newsletters about the Site,
our products, or services; to allow you to register or update your individual profile
on the Site; to help personalize the Site for you; or to allow you to provide feedback,
or ask a question. In some situations, you will need to provide some or all of the
above-described personally identifiable information in order for certain personalized
features of the Site to function properly (e.g., company and product email alerts).
We may use such information to contact you about our products, company or other
related marketing or promotional purposes.
We do not share personally identifiable information collected at this Site with
third parties, except for the limited instances noted below. The exceptions are:
- We may share your information with our agents who assist us in administering the Site and
various programs and promotions. They can only use the information to administer our Site, services, and products.
These agents are required to keep your information private and secure.
- If you opt-in (either at the time of providing personally identifiable information, or at a later time) to have us share
your information with our partners for the purpose of receiving information from our partners and other companies.
- We may also disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to comply with laws, or if in our good
faith judgment, such action is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, to respond to any claims, or to
protect the rights of DWP, its customers and the public.
- In the event of an acquisition of all or part of DWP by another company, or in the event that DWP was
to sell or dispose of all or a part of the DWP business, the acquirer would have access to the information
maintained by DWP, which could include personally identifiable information, subject to applicable law. S
imilarly, information may be transferred as part of a reorganization or insolvency proceeding.
We may on occasion combine information we receive with outside records or Site usage information to enhance our
consumer profiles for our own marketing and development purposes (in accordance with this Privacy Policy).
Although we use reasonable efforts to maintain the privacy of your personally identifiable data and information, due
to technological limitations, and the risk of unlawful interceptions and accessing of transmissions and/or data,
we cannot completely assure you, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable data and information,
and any other electronically communicated information, will be absolutely confidential.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We also collect and store non-personally identifiable information, such as visitor traffic, page hits, Site referral
information, browser information, downloads, and general Site sue information through typical Internet data collection
tools, such as web beacons, cookies, and embedded web links.
This Site may use cookie and tracking technology. A "cookie" is a tiny file that your browser places on your computer's hard drive,
which acts to identify your computer. Cookie and cookie tracking technology is useful for gathering information such as browser
type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the Site, and understanding how visitors use the Site.
Cookies can also help tailor the Site to visitors' needs and help customize the Site for visitors. For example, we
may use cookies to store your Site preferences, usage patterns, and other information so that the Site will
function better for you on subsequent visits. The Site may also use cookies to deliver content specific to
your interests and for other similar purposes. Personally identifiable information cannot be collected
via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided personally identifiable
information (as discussed above), cookies may be tied to such information. Aggregated cookie and tracking
information may be shared with third parties. If you choose to reject the Site's cookies, some areas of
the Site may not function properly or may not be accessible.
Automatically Collected Log Information
In addition to the information discussed above, when you visit the site we may collect and store the following information in
our logs for each browser request. We may use such information for development and marketing purposes (we will not use IP
addresses externally except as set forth above):
- the date and time
- the originating IP address
- the type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser)
- the URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser)
- the object requested
- completion status of the request
- pages visited
The tools we use do not obtain personal information about you and cannot obtain information from your hard drive or
pass on a computer virus. We use non-personal information to better understand the use of this Site, to improve and
revise the Site, and to track interest.
Correspondence
We maintain and review e-mail correspondence that you send to us. We will use the personally identifiable
information disclosed in the e-mail. Because such correspondence contains information that is not transmitted through
the operation of our web site, it is not subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Information Processing
We process information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries. In some cases,
we process personal information on a server outside your own country. We may process personal information to
provide our own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to
the instructions of a third party, such as our advertising partners, provided that we will not reveal such
information except in accordance with this privacy policy.
Demographic Information and Surveys and Polls
We may ask for demographic or profile (age, gender, household, interests, etc.) information in a survey/poll or
at registration. This information is used to assist us in tailoring the site, our communications, and our services
and products to visitors and consumers. We may share aggregated demographic and survey information, as opposed to
individual information, with third parties. You always have the option of not responding to any questionnaire, survey, or poll.
Security, Opting Out, and Access to Information
DWP uses commercially reasonable efforts to keep personally identifiable information secure. Only authorized DWP employees,
agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information and only
to help DWP administer its promotional programs and the site.
If you have signed up to receive newsletters and email from us, we will make every effort to have all such communications allow
you to opt-out of further such communications. To unsubscribe from our mailing list(s), please email
unsubscribe@dwpower.com.
If enabled on the site, you may visit your account settings page to delete your account and/or information.
You can also contact us at
info@dwpower.com to request deletion of your account and/or information. Please note that
any information that we have may remain in back-up storage for some period of time after your deletion request.
This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases. Also
please note that log files are not affected by account deletion requests.
Links to Other Internet Websites
This Site may include hyperlinks or data that can take you to a third party website, document, file, or other materials.
These third party sites will contain their own, different privacy provisions. We encourage you to review the privacy policy
of any company before submitting Personal Information to those sites. We are not responsible for the collection, use, or
disclosure of information collected through these other web sites, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability related
to such collection, use, or disclosure.
Amendments
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy periodically. Any amendments made to this Privacy Policy will be
considered effective ten (10) days after the amendments are posted on the site.
Sale of Assets
In the event that there is a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or another company acquires the stock or assets of DWP,
we reserve the right to include information among the assets to the changed corporate structure.
Terms
Reference is made to the Terms of Service for the Site which shall apply to this Privacy Policy as if set forth in full herein.
You may wish to review them at
http://www.dwpower.com/legal/terms.html.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about our services or Privacy Policy, please contact
Distributed World Power, Inc.,
130 West Union Street, Pasadena, CA 91103
or send an e-mail to
info@dwpower.com.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 13, 2008.