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Website Terms of Use

Agreement between User and SustainableWestchester.com

westchesterpower.portal.acadiamicro.com Welcome to sustainablewestchester.org. The sustainablewestchester.org website (the “Site”) is comprised of various web pages that are owned and operated by Sustainable Westchester Inc. and/or its agents and third parties (“Sustainable Westchester”). Sustainablewestchester.org is offered to you, the “User”, conditioned on the User’s acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the “Terms”). User’s use of sustainablewestchester.org constitutes an agreement to be legally bound and abide by all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully and keep a copy of them for your reference.

     1. Privacy
User agrees that use of sustainablewestchester.org is subject to Sustainable Westchester’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs Users of our data collection practices.

     2. Electronic Communications
Visiting sustainablewestchester.org or sending emails to help@westchesterpower-support.org constitutes electronic communications. By visiting westchesterpower.portal.acadiamicro.com, or sending emails to help@westchesterpower-support.org, User consents to receive electronic communications and User agrees that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that Sustainable Westchester provides to User electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. Sustainable Westchester does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If the User is under 18, the User may use sustainablewestchester.org only with permission of a parent or guardian.

     3. Links to third party sites/Third party services
sustainablewestchester.org may contain links to other websites (“Linked Sites”). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Sustainable Westchester and Sustainable Westchester is not responsible for the content of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Sustainable Westchester is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Sustainable Westchester of the site or any association with its operators.

     4. No Unlawful or Prohibited Use/Intellectual Property
Users are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use sustainablewestchester.org strictly in accordance with these terms of use. As a condition of User’s use of the Site, User warrants to Sustainable Westchester that User will not use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. User may not use the Site in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Site or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Site. User may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Site. All content included as part of the Service, such as text, graphics, logos, images, as well as the compilation thereof, and any software used on the Site, is the property of Sustainable Westchester or its suppliers and protected by copyright and other laws that protect intellectual property and proprietary rights. You agree to observe and abide by all copyright and other proprietary notices, legends or other restrictions contained in any such content and will not make any changes thereto. You will not modify, publish, transmit, reverse engineer, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, found on the Site.

Sustainable Westchester content is not for resale. Your use of the Site does not entitle you to make any unauthorized use of any protected content, and you will not delete or alter any proprietary rights or attribution notices in any content. You will use protected content solely for your personal use and will make no other use of the content without the express written permission of Sustainable Westchester and the copyright owner. You agree that you do not acquire any ownership rights in any protected content. We do not grant you any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property of Sustainable Westchester or our licensors except as expressly authorized by these Terms.

     5. International Users
The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Sustainable Westchester from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are
responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use the Sustainable Westchester Content accessed through sustainablewestchester.org in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions, or regulations.

     6. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Sustainable Westchester, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Sustainable Westchester reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Sustainable Westchester in asserting any available defenses.

     7. Liability Disclaimer
The information, software, products, and services included in or available through the site may include inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically added to the information herein. Sustainable Westchester and/or its suppliers may make improvements and/or changes in the site at any time without notice. Sustainable Westchester and/or its suppliers make no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, or accuracy of the information contained on the site for any purpose. In no event shall Sustainable Westchester be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever including, without limitation, damages for loss of use, data or profits, arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of the site, with the delay or inability to use the site, the provision of or failure to provide services, or for any information obtained through the site, or otherwise arising out of the use of the site, whether based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or otherwise, even if Sustainable Westchester has been advised of the possibility of damages. Because some states/jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, the above limitation may not apply to the user. If the user is dissatisfied with any portion of the site, or with any of these terms of use, the user’s sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue use of the site.

     8. Limitation of Liability
In no event will either party be liable for any indirect, consequential, incidental, special or punitive damages, including without limitation loss of use, interruption of business, loss of data or loss of profits, arising out of or in any way connected with this agreement, even if the liable party has been advised of the possibility of such damages, except for liability arising out of unauthorized use of confidential information or intellectual property.

     9. Termination/Access Restriction
Unless specifically agreed otherwise, Sustainable Westchester reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate User’s access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of the State of New York and User hereby consents to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in New York in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

User agrees that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between User and Sustainable Westchester as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Sustainable Westchester’s performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of Sustainable Westchester’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to User’s use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by Sustainable Westchester with respect to such use.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the User and Sustainable Westchester with respect to the Site and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the User and Sustainable Westchester with respect to the Site. A printed version of this agreement and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to this agreement to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form.

     10. Changes to Terms
Sustainable Westchester reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which access to sustainablewestchester.org is offered at any time without notice. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Sustainable Westchester encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

     11. Severability
If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

If any provision of these Site Terms shall be deemed unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from these Site Terms and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

     12.Contact Us
Sustainable Westchester
40 Green Street
Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Email Address:
info@sustainablewestchester.org
Telephone number:
(914) 242-4725

Effective as of May 1, 2020

Privacy Policy

Sustainable Westchester

Privacy Policy

Updated 11/15/2019

We are committed to protecting your privacy. The policies below are applicable to Sustainable Westchester, Inc. websites including all Sustainable Westchester, Inc. email newsletters published or distributed by Sustainable Westchester, Inc. and all other interactive features, services, and communications provided by Sustainable Westchester, Inc., however accessed and/or used, that are operated by us, made available by us, or produced and maintained by Sustainable Westchester, Inc. and associated and legal current or future DBA including but not limited to Westchester Power.

We have established this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to let you know the kinds of personal information we may gather during your visit to the site (s), why we gather your information, for what purposed we use your personal information, and how you can manager your personal information.

Online security:

Our website has security measure in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our website uses SSL encryption. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer, a global standard security technology that enables encrypted communication between a web browser and a web server. This means that the connection between your browser and the webserver is secure, and even if someone were able to intercept your data on the way to the webserver the information they would get is scrambled. This is important so that all the information through our website then held private. However, no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so you provide your
information at your own risk.

Information we collect:

We may collect Personal Information including name, email address, postal address, phone number, profile picture, social media ID and similar contact information.

Sustainable Westchester and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including but not limited to:

    1. We collect information from you when you subscribe to our newsletter, sign up to support our organization, make a donation, volunteer or otherwise engage in a partnership relationship. When registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, email address, mailing address, phone or mobile number. You may at any time, choose to opt-out (”unsubscribe”) of receiving marketing-related emails by following the opt-out (‘unsubscribe”) procedures at the bottom of our emails.
    2. We may use third-party postal address, phone number and email address products to provide accurate and updated contact information.
    3. To send a message from our online action center to government officials and other decision-makers, you are required to identify yourself by name, address, email address, phone number or other personal information. Sustainable Westchester, Inc. includes this information when we send your message. This is necessary for your message to be effective, and in the case of many government officials, it is required.
    4. Sustainable Westchester may also use this personal information to contact you with the latest alerts and progress reports. Please note that comments sent to federal agencies may be made available publicly, often via the web, and will sometimes include the full name and address of the person(s) submitting the comments.
    5. Sustainable Westchester, Inc. may also ask for your mobile phone number so that you can be kept up to date on breaking news and the latest actions. You can opt-out at any time by emailing info@sustainablewestchester.org or replying to a text message with STOP.

How we use collected information:

    1. To personalize your interactions with Sustainable Westchester, Inc. such as, but not limited to, customized email content based on your interests, requests to participate in events in your area and otherwise target content and communications to you.
    2. To respond to inquiries and fulfill your requests, such as, but not limited to, process donations, renew your membership or send you information about an event or project, as well as to provide membership services
    3. To facilitate social media sharing functionality
    4. For our internal purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new product and services, enhancing/improving/modifying our website, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operating/expanding our activities.

Sustainable Westchester, Inc. does not sell or share your personal information with anyone else, nor do we send mailings on behalf of other organization with whom we are not involved, partnered, cosponsored or otherwise closely affiliated.

If you would like to modify Personal Information you have previously provided us, please contact us at info@sustainablewestchester.org.

Other information we may collect:

    1. We use “cookies” to help us monitor traffic and collect information about use of the website. Cookies can help us see which parts of our website are popular and provide direction to improve our users’ online experience.
    2. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and other, similar technologies to collect information about the Sustainable Westchester, Inc. site use anonymously and reports website trends, without identifying individual visitors. You can learn more about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt-out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
    3. We may use pixel tags and other similar technologies to, among other things, track the actions for users of the Sustainable Westchester, Inc. sites, measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about use of the Sustainable Westchester, Inc. sites and response rates.
    4. We collect an IP address from all visitors to our site. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the internet. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our site, analyze trends, track users’ movement, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
    5. When you interact with any Sustainable Westchester, Inc. property page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, we may collect the personal information that you make available to us on that page or account including your account ID or “handle.” However, we will comply with the privacy policies of the corresponding social media platform and we will only collect and store such personal information that we are permitted to collect by those social media platforms. If you choose to link or login to your Sustainable Westchester, Inc. account with or through a social networking service, Sustainable Westchester, Inc. and that service may share certain information about you and your activities. With your consent, we also may share information about your activities, including what you view on the site, with that social network’s users.

Links to Other Sites

The Sustainable Westchester, Inc. website provides links to several other third-party websites. While we make efforts to choose our links carefully, we cannot take any responsibility for the content of linked websites, or for the privacy policies of websites with which we link. Since we do not control these websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third-party websites prior to any use.

Disclosure to Third Parties

We occasionally have third parties perform services on our behalf, such as data processing, marketing, analytics, outreach, hosting, billing, integration, fraud protection, etc. These third parties have access to your personal information only as needed to perform their services for Sustainable Westchester, Inc. and are contractually obligate to maintain the confidentiality and security of the personal information.

“Do Not Track” Signals

Our website does not respond to web browser ‘Do Not Track” signals.

Children’s Policy

Unless otherwise disclosed during collection and with parent or guardian consent (i.e. education content, school contests), Sustainable Westchester, Inc. does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, you should nor provide personal identifiable information to Sustainable Westchester, Inc. without providing us with parental consent. If Sustainable Westchester, Inc. discovers that, a child under 13 years of age has done so and we do not have parental consent we will immediately delete all information for that child in all areas of our sites.

Retention of User Information

Following termination or deactivation of your account, Sustainable Westchester, Inc. or its service providers may retain information (including your profile information) and any submitted for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

Governing Law

These sites are published in the U.S. We attempt to protect the Personal Information of all users of our sites, we attempt to comply with local data protection, and consumer right laws to the extent they may apply to Sustainable Westchester, Inc. services, but our sites are located and targeted to U.S. citizens and our policies are directed at compliance with those laws. If you are accessing this website from a county in the EU, or other areas (outside the U.S.) please note that this website and the information contained within is nor provided for or directed to you.

Changes to this policy

Sustainable Westchester, Inc. reserves the right at any time and without notice to change this Privacy Policy. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting to this sire. We encourage you to check back regularly to ensure that you understand our current privacy policies.

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