Privacy Policy
Southern Energy Management has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for: www.southern-energy.com.
What We Collect
Personal Identifiable Information
We collect and store the personal identifiable information you affirmatively choose to provide to us, such as your name, mailing address, email address, and other information when you fill out a survey, fill out a form, sign up for mailing lists, download content, enter contests, participate in promotions, post comments on bulletin boards, or otherwise interact with our Site. We will not sell your information or share it with external parties unless required as part of a service that you have contracted with us.
What happens to your personal information?
We use the information you share with us to provide services (such as solar assessments), analyze and improve our services, and conduct marketing.
- If you share your email address with us, you will receive monthly newsletters and one-off emails about current industry news, critical updates, company news, upcoming events, as well as your service/project updates.
- If you share your phone number with us, you may receive phone calls or text messages from us attempting to contact you about services you have solicited (such as a solar assessment or building performance analysis).
- If you share your address with us, you may receive a postcard inviting you to local events or offering a current promotion.
You can choose to opt-out of future communications at any time using the unsubscribe feature in our email communications or let us know you’d like to be removed from our communication lists by emailing happiness@southern-energy.com. Otherwise, your data is preserved in our system indefinitely, unless we are notified to remove it, so we may reference your historic interactions with our Site and company to tailor your customer experience in future encounters.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We also collect non-personally identifiable information through the use of cookies. Cookies are pieces of data your web browser stores on your hard drive to allow our Site to provide you with enhanced services. Cookies allow us to recognize whether or not you have visited our Site before. This provides us with important marketing information and lets us know how we are doing at both attracting new visitors and maintaining relationships with our existing customers.
If you wish, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, keep in mind that cookies may be required for some user-friendly Site functions, so blocking cookies will negatively impact your Site experience.
In some cases, we may also collect information from third-party sources, including social media sites and other sites with which we may partner on Southern Energy Management promotions. For example, if you post a comment on our Facebook page or send us a message on Twitter, we may collect and use that information as described in this Privacy Policy. Please note that we may combine this information with other information that we collect about you and use it as described herein.
We use Google Analytics, Adwords, and remarketing tools to log when users view specific pages or take specific actions on a website. This allows us to provide targeted advertising in the future. If you do not wish to receive this type of advertising from us in the future you can opt out using the DoubleClick opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
Security
Southern Energy Management takes reasonable steps to maintain appropriate physical, technical, and administrative security to help prevent the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of personal information.
While we take these reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information, including the use of encryption, no system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
Links to Other Sites
Our Site may contain links to other websites, which are not under our control. We provide these links for customer convenience and to allow advertisers to promote their own sites or products, and do not endorse those sites, companies, or their products or services. Also, when you link to our Site from another site, the originating site may collect information about you. We do not review, control, or monitor the practices, information, or materials on any other websites, and are not responsible or liable for the communications, practices, information, content, or materials from any of those sites. You are responsible for understanding and adhering to any other website’s terms and conditions.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by calling (919)-836-0330 or emailing happiness@southern-energy.com.
- If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, you can contact us at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Privacy Policy Change
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason and without notice. We will post changes to this Policy this Site, and we encourage all visitors and users of a Site to check this policy from time to time.
Your Agreement
By using our website, you agree to Southern Energy Management’s collection and information-use policies, as described above. If you have any questions about our information-collection or privacy practices, please contact Southern Energy Management by phone at (919)-836-0330.
About Us
North Carolina’s solar power and building performance expert. Founded in 2001, we’ve worked for 20+ years to improve the way people make and use energy.
