We recognize the importance of privacy concerns to visitors of GoElectricDrive.com. This Privacy Policy explains what type of information may be collected from you when you visit this Site, and how that information may be used.

Gathering Information

GoElectricDrive.com collects information from users when they register with the Site.  This includes information from which you may be personally identified (“Personally Identifiable Information”), including your name, address, company information, telephone number, e-mail address, and other information you may provide.

Additionally, GoElectricDrive.com may register the IP address of each visitor and utilize other automatic data collection technology to record the visits and browsing habits of users.  This information is anonymous and does not include Personally Identifiable Information.

Cookies and Other Technologies

GoElectricDrive.com also uses 'cookies' to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user's hard drive when the user visits a web site, application or service. Only the web site, application or service that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record-keeping device to store user ID’s and information the site already has. It cannot be used to read other information from the user's hard drive.

GoElectricDrive.com uses cookies to track users' activity through the Website in order to improve the Site/application/service architecture, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to GoElectricDrive.com.

Third party vendors that measure and analyze the use of the GoElectricDrive.com for GoElectricDrive.com may also use their own cookies.

If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies or web beacons from being set to your hard drive or device, or to clear existing cookies or web beacons from your browser’s or device’s cache, you may be able to disable them in your browser's preferences.  However, your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on GoElectricDrive.com in subsequent visits to the Site.

How We Use Your Information

GoElectricDrive.com may use the information it collects from you in the following ways:
- Keep you informed of electric vehicle news and information through our newsletters, e-mails, social media and other communications channels.  These dispatches will provide an opportunity to ‘opt out’ of future communications.
- To respond to user inquiries and requests.
- To facilitate improved functionality of the Website by monitoring usage, through cookies and IP addresses.
- For any other purpose disclosed at the time the information is collected from you,  to which you will be asked to consent.
- As otherwise described in this policy statement.

Our Disclosure of Your information

GoElectricDrive.com may disclose aggregated, anonymous statistics about many users, and individual information that is not Personally Identifiable Information, without restriction, as long as no individual is identifiable by the information disclosed.  For example, GoElectricDrive.com may provide utilities with aggregated information on geographic ‘clusters’ of interest in plug-in electric vehicles, to assist them in anticipating the engineering and load management requirements of their facilities, to prepare for the needs of plug-in vehicle users.

In addition, GoElectricDrive.com may share personally identified information with third parties for research and marketing purposes.  These third parties are contractually required to keep your information confidential and not to disclose the information to other parties.  These companies will use the information only for research and marketing purposes, in order to advance the commercial viability of electric vehicles, but not to market products or services to you directly.  In addition, these parties are required to take reasonable safeguards to ensure the privacy of the Personally Identifiable Information.  You may opt out of such disclosures by sending an e-mail to webmaster@goelectricdrive.com with the subject line: Do Not Disclose.

Security

We use reasonable safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information we collect on the Site from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors beyond our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.

Links

The Site contains content, services, advertising and other materials that link to websites operated by third parties. We have no control over those other sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to them. We encourage you to refer to the privacy policies, if any, of those sites.

Children
Under 13: You must be at least 13 years old in order to register for e-mail newsletters or other features of the GoElectricDrive.com. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not send any information about yourself, including your name, address, phone number or e-mail address. If we discover that we have collected any personally-identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.

Social Media

GoElectricDrive.com provides opportunities for the exchange of information on plug-in vehicles through Twitter™, Facebook™ and other ‘social media’ or ‘interactive’ opportunities.  The Site does not control the content of these exchanges.  You are responsible for any personal information provided through communications you may initiate on these or other publicly-available communications channels made available through GoElectricDrive.com.

Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms

GoElectricDrive.com reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page, so please check this policy periodically.

Use of GoElectricDrive.com constitutes consent to the  policies then posted and in-effect.

Please make certain that you also read GoElectricDrive.com's Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions that apply to the use of GoElectricDrive.com.