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  September 09, 2010 
Privacy Statement

PRIVACY INFORMATION
This document covers important information regarding your privacy at the climasource web site. The following sections outline the information that is collected from members, how it is used, and how you can update it. Additionally, this document outlines how you may control what emails are sent to you from the site. Please read the following document in its entirety before registering.
Table of Contents
Member Profile Information
Cookies

Subscription Email
Discussion Forum
Your Password
   - the Remember Password feature
Charge Gateway
Logging In and Logging Out
Contacting climasource

Member Profile Information

During the registration process the user is requested to fill in a form, which contains some profile information about the user. Also, the user is able to subscribe to any of several newsletters, articles, events, news updates, special offers, etc. The member profile information includes, the following information:

Name, address, phone #, fax #, email address, climasource subscription information and occupation

You are not required to enter your street address, phone or fax numbers during the registration process.

Only climasource administration personnel will use the information collected. This information will be used for the purpose of communicating with members through occasional e-mailings, etc. Occasionally, climasource administration personnel may wish to view compiled statistics solely for the purpose of improving the service to all members. climasource will not distribute user profile information to any individual or organization. If you have any concerns about your privacy while on the climasource network, please email us at admin@climasource.com.

Viewing/ Editing Your Member Profile Information

You may view your profile information by clicking the Your Account link and then clicking view profile. To update your member profile information, click Your Account then click edit profile. The Your Account link is displayed in the top header of all climasource pages.

Cookies

climasource may set and use cookies on your computer. This enables the site to remember who you are each time you return. Cookies must be enabled in your browser in order for us to retrieve the information within the cookie. By placing an identification code within the cookie file, climasource can simply read the identification code when you return to the site.

The only function that the cookie serves is to enable the Remember me feature on the login page. You can disable this feature on the login page. When this feature is disabled, a cookie will not be stored on your drive. If cookies are disabled in your browser, you will be required to enter your email address and password each time to return to the site.

Subscription Email

Climasource has a number of newsletters, educational articles, industry event notifications, news updates, special offers, etc that you may subscribe to. To view the items that your are currently subscribed to, visit the Subscriptions area. If you choose not to subscribe to any of these items, the only mail you will receive from climasource, is information that is considered to be important to all members.

Special Email Offers

When subscribed to special offers, members may receive special offers along with other information from companies within or outside of the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) industry. All special offers will be emailed to you directly from climasource. By doing this, climasource gives you full control over what email you will receive.

Subscribing and Unsubscribing

If you prefer not to have certain information sent to you, you may simply unsubscribe from any or all email items and simply visit the climasource home page on a regular basis to retrieve the information manually. You may subscribe or unsubscribe from a particular item at any time by visiting the Subscriptions area.

Discussion Forums

The purpose of the discussion forum section is to stimulate online user discussion between members of the climasource community.

It is essential that all members fully read, understand, and abide by all content as outlined within the Terms of Service agreement before participating in a discussion forum.

The discussion forum area is offered to members free of charge. climasource and/or climasource staff can not be held responsible for information that is sent between users participating in a climasource discussion forum. However, if it comes to the attention of climasource personnel that inappropriate discussion is taking place, or that one member is harassing another member, the offending member may lose all membership privileges. If you encounter this type of problem while visiting climasource, please contact climasource administration at admin@climasource.com.

Your Password

Keeping Your Password Confidential

Your password is your key to the large information resource, tools and utilities that the climasource network provides. Please keep your password confidential. Revealing your password may result in the possibility of other users accessing your member profile information, altering your subscriptions, or perhaps using your information to participate in inappropriate discussion within the discussion forums area. climasource staff members will never ask you for your password over the phone, via email or while on line!

What to do when you forget your password

If you have forgotten your password, please click the I forgot my password link on the login page to have it emailed to you.

Changing your Password

If you wish to change your password, you may do so by clicking Your Account, and then Change Your Password.

ChargeGateway

There are some services within the climasource web site, which are available to members for a fee. For example, tokens may be purchased and applied against these services. Note: tokens may be purchased by clicking Your Account and then clicking Buy Tokens.

When purchasing token, you have the option of paying by cheque or credit card. Credit card payments are handled using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) at www.ChargeGateway.com where the payment is then processed.

Logging In and Logging Out

Each time you visit climasource, you will need to click the login link. When the login page appears, you will be prompted to enter your email address and password. You will need to do this each time you return to the climasource unless the ‘remember password’ box is checked.

The ‘Remember Password’ Checkbox

When the "Remember Password" box is checked on the login screen, your email address and password information will automatically appear on the login screen each time you return to the site. This made possible through the use of cookies. Please note that when you use this login method, others who use the same computer will have access to your member profile information, password, subscription information, etc. Therefore, it is important that you log off after each session.

If you fail to log out before leaving climasource, you will be automatically logged in when you return. Note: We recommend that you do not use this login method if others are able to use the same computer.

Contacting climasource

To contact climasource with privacy or security related questions, please email admin@climasource.com.  For other climasource contact information, please click on the Contact Us link which can be found at the bottom of each climasource page.

This document may be updated at any time. When major changes are made to this document, climasource will inform you via email or through an announcement on the climasource home page. You may view the most current version of this document at any time by visiting the Privacy link at the bottom of all climasource pages.

From here, you may view the Terms of Service agreement or go back to the previous page.


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