We respect consumer privacy and
do not rent or sell our customer information to third
parties. We also give consumers the option to opt-out from
our marketing contacts such as direct mail.
Unregistered Web Visitor Privacy
We do not collect automatically personal information from
individuals who do not register on our Site and are just
visiting the Site. We don't knowingly probe visitor's
computers for personal information. We do collect visitor's
Internet technical statistics, including IP addresses,
referrers, the type of browser and type of workstation used.
With this information, we may gain insight into how visitors
find us on the Internet, and how many Windows vs. Mac users
visit our Site and use the information to improve our
services to visitors and users. This information may help us
to decide how much to invest in compatibility with different
browsers.
Registered Web User and Customer Privacy Policy
A "registered" user to our Site is one who has elected to
complete the registration page on our Site and establish an
ongoing, personalized experience with us through our Website
and related resources. Most registered users are home
heating fuel or service customers. We collect personally
identifiable information from you when you register as a
user of the Site. The personal information we collect may
include your name, billing and shipping address, email
address, credit card or bank debit card information,
including expiration date and security code, and mobile and
home phone numbers. Your credit card information will be
used only to process your transactions with us. You are not
required to provide this personal information to view the
Site, however, you will not be able to register as a user
unless it is provided.
We use the personal
information you elect to submit to this Site as a registered
user for our own research, advertising and marketing
purposes, including sending you by postal and electronic
mail information about products and services offered by us
and by other companies that we think you will be interested
in.
A home heating fuel or
service customer, of course, might not be a registered web
user of this Site, but we are committed to similar privacy
safeguards for information gathered about you through
non-web methods as well. We record our calls with
prospective and actual customers, and confirm before doing
so that we have your permission to record our call.
We collect various
information about our customers as part of our routine
business operations, including, but not limited to:
- ordinary business
transactions, such as fuel deliveries, service history
and payments
- credit information from
third party bureaus
- billing, service and
delivery addresses and contact information
- characteristics of
heating and system used
- other information
incident to the provision of fuel and services.
This information may be
collected via the Website, in print application or other
forms or in person.
Each registered user may have
access to personally identifiable information we collect
about that registered user, whether or not this information
is delivered or collected through the Website,
Opt-out Policy:
You can instruct us at any time not to use your personally
identifiable information for marketing and educational
purposes by contacting us. When calling, please provide your
registration information or ccount number. However, we
are committed to communicating with you in meaningful ways
that we feel will be to your advantage. For instance, our
marketing materials may include tips for heating and
cooling, or suggestions on how best to manage your account.
Information We
Disclose to Others
Other than to our own service suppliers (marketing, Website,
advertising and other vendors, and our financial and legal
advisors), we disclose personally identifiable information
to third parties only with your permission, or when we
are compelled by law to cooperate with governmental
authorities, such as to respond to subpoenas or other
legitimate inquiries, in connection with a stolen credit or
bank card, identity theft, fraud or other criminal
investigation, or otherwise, in accordance with the
procedures prescribed by relevant laws, or in connection
with a sale or merger of our company or all or substantially
all of its assets (including a sale while in bankruptcy). We
may disclosure aggregated information collected from
visitors and users to the Website and our customers to third
parties.
Cookies and Standard
Web Practices
Our Website makes use of cookies for some features. Cookies
are not required to visit or view all pages on our Site, but
you will need to enable cookies to perform some functions on
the Site. A "cookie" is a small text file that is stored on
your computer when you access a Website. Cookies can perform
useful functions, such as allowing you to return to the
Website and be recognized without having to restart an
authentication process or type in your registration
information. Browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer
allow you to block the storage of cookies. While you may
block the storage of cookies, know that some functions on
our Site will not work properly without cookies. In general,
cookies are used to identify a session as unique. We do not
use cookies on its Site for systematic tracking of its
customers other than the methods mentioned below:
- Web Usage Tracking: we
employ various software tracking techniques to produce
website traffic reports to understand and improve the
Website experience for visitors and customers. These
reports compile individual user visits anonymously.
- Secure Transmissions to
Our Servers: We use a widely used encryption technology
called SSL to encode sensitive information when you
transmit it to us through our Website. This is generally
the same technology used by your banks. Once your
personally identifiable information is saved on our
servers, we utilize a combination of operational,
procedural and physical safeguards to secure your
personally identifiable information from unauthorized
use or compromise. To further reduce risk of compromise,
not all data on our customer accounts is available.
- Email Security:
Sensitive information about customer accounts is not
transmitted by us to you via electronic mail. Our
visitors, registered users and customers are reminded
that email is not a secure transmission method, and
should not be used to exchange private information with
us, especially account numbers and permanent passwords.
Information Accuracy
Part of the responsibility for storing your personally
identifiable information securely is to provide you with a
means of correcting information you find to be inaccurate.
We provide a means for online updating and verification of
all information you provide to us through our Website. In
addition, other customer information displayed on the Site
but collected by us through other business transactions we
conduct with you can be updated by you by calling our
customer service center.
Security Standards
We safeguard the integrity, security and privacy of the
personal information you provide to us. We store your credit
card and bank account information with industry standard
encryption algorithms.
For purposes of security,
when you complete your registration with us, you will have a
unique log in. This log in information is for you to
authenticate yourself when using your registered account.
Additionally, you will be responsible for creating a secret
password that will be used to access your online account.
You are responsible for ensuring the security and
confidentiality of the password. Keep your password in a
safe and secure place and do not share it with anyone. You
are responsible for purchases made using the password and
login and that any activity engaged in using the password
you specified during registration will be deemed to have
been engaged in by you. If you think someone has obtained
your login or password, please immediately our customer
service center.
If we suspect there is
security breach or other unauthorized activity involving
your account, we may post a notice on our Website, or try to
contact you using your email or postal address or telephone.
The personal information we
collect from you is only what is reasonably needed to
provide you with our products and services. It is accessible
only to our employees who need to access it in connection
with your purchase of our products and services.
Privacy At Other
Sites
When we provide links to other sites that we believe you may
find useful, be advised that when you visit those sites, you
will be operating under their individual privacy policies.
We encourage you to carefully review their respective
privacy policies.