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Posting and Printing Policy

The content on InsideHPC.com is protected under United States and international copyright laws, and is the exclusive property of InsideHPC.com or its content providers. Content may not be reproduced, rebroadcast, distributed, transmitted, modified, or published without the written consent of the copyright owner, except as otherwise stated by law. Content includes articles, podcasts, reader comments, graphics, icons, software, and any other material on the site. For terms of use for material from our content providers, please contact the provider.

We welcome you to link to InsideHPC.com’s content without our consent. The link may be accompanied by the headline and the first one or two paragraphs of an article. Or when linking to a podcast, you may include its title and its description. You may also quote text or data from our site, but we ask that you attribute the quote or data to InsideHPC.com with the proper link where appropriate.

You may print material found on InsideHPC.com for personal use. If you wish to distribute multiple, printed copies, please contact us for permission at [email protected] Please provide the article link and title, your organization’s name and contact information, and a brief description of how you plan to use the article.

Comments and Manners

We welcome your ideas and encourage debate about HPC issues in the comments section of our site. We ask that all discourse be courteous and on topic. We reserve the right to remove any comments that violate our terms, including those that are vulgar, obscene, hostile or fraudulent. You also may not: defame character or disparage another’s company or product; link to sexually explicit material; engage in false impersonation; post advertisements or solicitations or engage in other offensive, illegal or commercial activity.

Advertisers and liability

InsideHPC.com uses commercially reasonable efforts to screen advertisers and sponsors, yet has no liability for any transaction, communication, representation or purchase between you and our advertisers or sponsors. This includes the delivery of goods and services and their payment, and any other transaction, warranty or representation between you and the third party advertiser.

Editorial Accuracy

InsideHPC.com strives to achieve the highest standards in communication and accuracy. We cannot, however, guarantee that our content will always be error free. Please contact our editors about any material you consider inaccurate. We will review the material, and if a correction is warranted, will change the content in a timely fashion. Commenters and content providers are responsible for the legality, accuracy, originality and any confidentiality associated with their submissions and posts. Our editorial staff does not, as a matter of practice, submit articles for pre-approval to sources who we quote.

Other legal stuff

InsideHPC.com may be used for lawful purposes only. We are not liable for any damages from downloading content or any other use of this site. This includes loss or injury caused by our negligence or by issues beyond our control. No information submitted to InsideHPC.com shall be deemed confidential or proprietary.

Inside HPC Media LLC is based in the US in the state of Massachusetts. These terms are governed by US and Massachusetts law. You agree that a Massachusetts court is the proper forum for any claim arising under these terms.

If any provisions of these terms are contrary to law, all other provisions remain in full force and effect. The failure of Inside HPC Media LLC to enforce any provision does not constitute a waiver of the provision unless acknowledged by Inside HPC Media LLC in writing.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy outlines the manner in which InsideHPC.com collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from the visitors to the InsideHPC website.

Committed to Safe Guarding Your Privacy

InsideHPC is committed to safeguarding the information Users entrust to InsideHPC and believes every user should know how InsideHPC utilizes the information collected.

Information We Collect

InsideHPC may collect personally identifiable information (including demographic and biographic information) from Users in a variety of ways, such as when you register for a newsletter, white paper, webinar, RSS Feeds or events. InsideHPC may also collect information about how users use our Website, for example, by tracking the number of pages viewed. We may use “cookies” to track how users use our website. A cookie is a piece of software that a web server can store on the users’ PC to identify the user should they visit the web site again. While not all of the information that we collect from users is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information that users provide us through our website. We currently use third party ad software to serve ads on our site. The cookies received with banner ads served by this software are used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted ads and tracking referrals.

How this Information May be Used

InsideHPC and its trusted business partners may use personally identifiable information collected through the website to contact users regarding relevant products and services, and otherwise to enhance the users’ experience. InsideHPC may also use information collected through our website for research regarding the effectiveness of the website, advertising and sales efforts of Inside HPC, its trusted business partners.

Disclosure of Information
InsideHPC may disclose information collected from Users to trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners who will use the information for the purposes outlined above. Finally, we may transfer information collected from Users in connection with a sale of InsideHPC’s business.

InsideHPC reserves the right to disclose personally identifying information if we have a good-faith belief that the disclosure is reasonably necessary (a) to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, (b) to address fraud or security issues, or (c) to protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of the Publisher, or our employees or customers.

Maintaining and Safe Guarding Information

We utilize industry standard information technology security to keep users’ information secure. We also attempt to have privacy protection controls in place with our vendors in order to ensure that users’ personal information is protected from unauthorized access or disclosure. All of our employees must abide by our privacy policy. Only authorized employees are permitted to access users’ personally identifiable information. If an employee violates our privacy policies, he or she will be subject to our disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Nevertheless, InsideHPC cannot guarantee that Users’ information will be completely secure.

How to Update Your Information

It is important that we keep only the most accurate, up-to-date information about you in our records. Therefore, if you believe that our records contain information that needs to be updated, you can email us at [email protected]. to correct or update your contact information. You may also email us at [email protected].  to remove your name, telephone, postal and email addresses from lists that we maintain for purposes of sending out notices or updates, or to request that we refrain from disclosing your personally-identifiable information to third parties.

Interest Enhanced Advertising

InsideHPC uses advanced ad serving technology to offer interest-based advertising. This platform uses unique cookies to identify and collect data such as web browser type, browsing habits etc. and to store that data for advertising purposes. The data we collect with this targeting is considered non-personally identifiable information. This data is information that cannot be used to identify, contact or locate a particular individual or entity. We use this data in order to deliver you more relevant advertising and to enhance your experience.

Revisions to Privacy Policy

This is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by the Energy Efficiency Markets. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from the industry and our audience. InsideHPC reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifiable information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website.

Questions

Users may direct questions concerning this Privacy Policy by email to: [email protected]..