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Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Automatic Information Collection

The Energy Maps Project (“Energy Maps Project”) considers the privacy of our visitors and users to be extremely important. The Energy Maps Website (“Website”) does not automatically, or otherwise, collect personally identifiable information about you when you visit our Website.

User Submitted Information Collection

Users (“User”) of the Website have the option through the Map page to Submit (“Submit”, “Submitting”, “Submitted”, and/or “Submission”), at their own discretion, information on projects for inclusion in the Map. When Submitting information on a project, the User, at their own discretion, agrees to provide, as a part of the submission process, the following personally identifiable information: “Name”; “Email Address”; and “Phone Number.” When Submitting project information the User agrees to provide this information to the Energy Maps Project, and that the Energy Maps Project has the User’s permission to use the Submitted information to contact the User as necessary to verify the Submission information.

The Energy Maps Project will not publish, sell, or otherwise distribute the personally identifiable information Submitted by the User listed above to any other party.

The Submission of the above listed information by the User constitutes acceptance of this agreement on the part of the User who Submits the information. If the User does not agree to abide by the above, please do not use this Website to submit information on a project.

Cookies are files with small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. The Energy Maps Website does not use “cookies” to collect information.

The Energy Maps Project Website contains links to other Websites. Please note that these other Websites’ policies may differ from the Energy Maps’s. As the user you should carefully read and understand those policies. The Energy Maps Project is not responsible for and does not endorse the contents of any Website of any other third party nor the policies or actions of any such third party.

Terms of Use

The Energy Maps website from which you accessed this agreement (“the Website”) is provided to you subject to the following conditions. These terms are in addition to any other terms governing access to the Website. By visiting (in any manner) the Website you accept these terms and conditions (the “Terms of Service”). Please read them carefully. Any Non–Human Visitors to the Website shall be considered agents of the individual(s) who controls, authors or otherwise makes use of them. The access rights granted to you under the Terms of Service are non–transferable without the express written permission of the owner of the Website.

Data Disclaimer

The data used throughout this website is based on information provided by third parties. While the data is believed to be reliable, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the Energy Maps Project for accuracy, completeness, reliability, or legality. Furthermore, the data used throughout this website is subject to change, modification, and deletion at any time and without notice. The use of the Energy Maps website is done at the user’s own discretion and risk.

Content Usage & Attribution License

All Content by the Energy Maps Project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

You are free to:
Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material.
Under these terms:
Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial: You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
ShareAlike: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Special License Restrictions for Non–Human Visitors

Special restrictions on a visitor’s license to access the Website apply to Non–Human Visitors. Non–Human Visitors include, but are not limited to, web spiders, bots, indexers, robots, crawlers, harvesters, or any other computer programs designed to access, read, compile or gather content from the Website automatically.

Email addresses on this site are considered proprietary intellectual property. It is recognized that these email addresses are provided for human visitors alone. You acknowledge and agree that each email address the Website contains has a value not less than US $50. You further agree that the compilation, storage, and/or distribution of these addresses substantially diminishes the value of these addresses. Intentional collection, harvesting, gathering, and/or storing this Website’s email addresses is recognized as a violation of this agreement and expressly prohibited.

Applicable Law & Jurisdiction

Each party agrees that any suit, action or proceeding brought by such party against the other in connection with or arising from the Terms of Service (“Judicial Action”) shall be governed by the law of the state of residence of the registered Administrative Contact (the “Admin State”) for the Website as such laws are applied to agreements between Admin State residents entered into and performed entirely within the Admin State. You consent to the jurisdiction of federal and state courts within the Admin State. You consent to the venue in any action brought against him in connection with breaches of these Terms of Service. You consent to electronic service of process regarding actions under the above agreement.


Acceptance of Policies and Terms & Changes to Policies and Terms

By using or accessing the Website in any way, viewing or browsing the Website, or adding your own content to the Website, you are agreeing to be bound by these Policies and Terms.

The Energy Maps Project reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time. We do so by posting and drawing attention to the updated terms on the Website. Your decision to continue to visit and make use of the Website after such changes have been made constitutes your formal acceptance of the new Policies and Terms.

Therefore, we ask that you check and review this Agreement for such changes on an occasional basis. Should you not agree to any provision of this Agreement or any changes we make to this Agreement, we ask and advise that you do not use or continue to access the Energy Maps Website immediately.

Any participation in this Website will constitute acceptance of this agreement. If you do not agree to abide by the above, please do not use this Website.