Communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of Solar Home Review. We are based in B.C. Canada and our principal activities are: providing readers of our online magazine “Solar Home Review” with high quality content about residential solar energy, news on global renewable energy projects and climate concerns, compiling current international consumer resources for readers to use free of charge, and offering product and services recommendations, while all payment transactions are processed offsite by those sellers we have recommended. Our privacy statement covers Solar Home Review and its Website: http://www.solarhomereview.com.  Primary contact for Solar Home Review is Owner and Editor Anja Atkinson who can be contacted directly by email at solarhomereview@gmail.com.

You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. Our website enables you to communicate with other visitors via posting comments, and once comments are approved they are accessible by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect data about yourself that you have voluntarily provided.  Our website does include links to third party web service providers for solar products or solar related service, and other high quality open access information resources we deem most useful to our readers.

We do not collect or use your personal data for any purpose other than when you provide your email so that we can send you free information by email. If you opt out of this service we do not retain your email address, name or any other personal data you provide.  If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we will offer you the means to consent to this new purpose: by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected.  At this time we have no plans and don’t foresee needing to use your email address for any purpose other than that which is stated here.

We do not use cookies to store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals. We only collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our websites resources. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

Our privacy policy is compliant with the following instruments: Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act (PIPEDA) Canada, Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (B.C.) Canada, PIPA Personal Information Protection Act (B.C.) Canada. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the herein stated privacy instruments namely PIPEDA, FIPPA and PIPA, we are subject to a Government Agency for Privacy legislation in B.C. Canada.  Solar Home Review and it’s owner, volunteers or employees are also compliant with the following global instrument: OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data.

Any personal data you provide us we will not disclose to any private or public subsidiaries or other organizations for any reason. We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data: primary personal data, such as name and contact details.  Paypal is the only secure online payment transaction service we use at this time and payment details provided at point of purchase are not kept on record by Solar Home Review and we do not have access to your payment information.  When purchasing products via a referral from our website payment transactions are not processed on www.solarhomereview.com, but you will be directed to the seller and their secure online payment tansaction service.  We recommend you become familiar with the secure payment systems used by those sellers.  We make every effort to recommend only secure, reputable, quality online products or services.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control, which you have freely provided, from: unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and volunteers, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State, Territorial, National or International institutions and authorities except if required by law or other legal regulation.

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