Commitment to User Privacy
The Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership (CEIL) is a nonpartisan organization designed to facilitate information and education exchange among government professionals charged with identifying, specifying and buying green goods and services and with the vendors, contractors and consultants that provide green goods and services. CEIL is committed to protecting your privacy. You can visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about yourself. But to participate in the groups and peer-to-peer communication, we request that you join CEIL and provide additional information.

This document is designed to give a clear explanation of CEIL's data processing practices. Please see below for further information or if you have any questions or concerns relating to CEIL's site, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The Information We Collect & the Primary Purpose for its Collection
The information you provide is being collected by CEIL in order to insure that people participating in the forums and social networking groups are government employees, to process a registration or to respond to an information request. The provision of this information is voluntary. All information provided by you will be held in the strictest confidence.

The information collects includes, but is not limited to:
• Full Name & Job Title
• Company Name & Address
• Phone & Fax Number
• Email Address
• Interest Areas & Preferences

CEIL is the sole owner of the information collected this site.

Use of Cookies & Log Files
When you visit our site, a cookie (a very small text file) is placed on your machine (if it is accepted) in order to provide you with a personalized experience and to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics. You may refuse the cookie, if you wish. To do so, you will need to check your browser settings.

CEIL collects certain information about your computer hardware and software, this includes (however is not limited to):
• Your IP Address
• Browser Type
• Operating System
• Access Times
• Referring Website Addresses

This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of CEIL's website. Cookies are also used in connection with the membership of our site. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies, you will be able to view the majority of our site, however you will not you be able to register as a site member.

Information Sharing
We do not share, rent or sell our customer e-mail lists. We may share other contact information with other professional organizations (including our event sponsors/exhibitors) to promote similar products and services. If you do not want to make your details available please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it indicating either or both of the statements below:

• I do not wish to have my details made available to other organizations
• I do not wish to receive information about CEIL events or services

No list supplied by CEIL may be used by anyone other than for the confidential use of the original mailer. All lists are seeded with decoy names to protect against abuse. Violators will be prosecuted.

Links to Other Websites
CEIL contains some links to other sites. CEIL is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to the information collected by CEIL.

Surveys & Promotions
CEILC may occasionally run surveys and promotions and may request information from users as part of these. Participation is entirely voluntary.

Security
CEIL takes precautions to protect your information. When users submit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Access to all of our users' information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment.

Correcting, Updating or Removing Your Personal Information
If your personal information is incorrect, changes or if you no longer wish to receive information from CEIL, please email your request to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Data Protection
If you no longer wish to receive newsletters or promotional materials, you may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the unsubscribe method on the promotional piece or returning the item(s) to us with "unsubscribe" marked upon it. However, very occasionally, it may be necessary to send you important service announcements about a conference you are attending, for example, we may contact you to inform you of a venue change.

Notification of Changes
In the event this Privacy Policy changes, a notice will be posted in a prominent place on the website.

If at any point we decide to use your information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will let know you, by placing a prominent notice on this website. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected. [Last updated: February 2010]