Privacy Policy
TheHVACguru.com respects your privacy. You will never have to register or provide any personal information in order to browse our website and read the TheHVACguru.com discussion boards. However, registration is required for downloading files from this site and to purchase products from the site and is required for posting on the discussion boards and for becoming a privileged Member.
Information About You
TheHVACguru.com may from time to time ask you to provide information about yourself to us on a voluntary basis, through surveys, polls, and as a requirement for entry into TheHVACguru.com contests. This information may include your name, address, telephone number, Zip Code, e-mail address, sex, age range, the types of equipment you use, planned purchases, and what kinds of business you run.
TheHVACguru.com aggregates this information to determine trends, preferences, and demographics about our HVACR community in general. We will use this aggregated information to study the trends of our user community. Occasionally we may provide this aggregate data to the sponsors of TheHVACguru.com. Specific information such as name, email address, or other contact information will never be shared with sponsors.
For classifieds postings, we collect contact information, such as name(s), phone/fax number(s), and address for billing purposes and posting authentication.
We sometimes collect your phone number for account authentication purposes, and may transmit it to a third party service for tele-robotic verification.
theHVACguru.com does not store credit card information. Credit card transactions are transmitted to a financial gateway, and we endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology.
We may collect personal information if you provide it in feedback or comments, post it on our classifieds or interactive forums, provide it to download digital files, or if you contact us directly. Please do not post any personal information on theHVACguru.com’s forums or classifieds that you expect to keep private.
Your E-mail Address
We collect your email address for purposes such as membership, sending self-publishing and confirmation emails, authenticating user accounts, providing subscription email services, registering for forums, etc.
No one enjoys unsolicited e-mail, or spam. However, TheHVACguru.com may use your e-mail address to send you information about TheHVACguru.com that we think you might be interested in. You can opt-out from TheHVACguru.com by letting us know. TheHVACguru.com will never sell or share your e-mail address with any outside source without your permission
Account Information
Account information is password-protected. Keep your password safe.
Forums use basic webserver authentication. Close your browser to log out.
Circumstances in which theHVACguru.com may release information
TheHVACguru.com may disclose information about its users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process.
TheHVACguru.com may also disclose information about its users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of theHVACguru.com, its users or the general public.
Links
theHVACguru.com, or people who post on theHVACguru.com, may provide links to third party websites, which may have different privacy practices. We are not responsible for, nor have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites, and encourage all users to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited.
International Users
By visiting our web site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that due to the international dimension of theHVACguru.com we may use the data collected in the course of our relationship for the purposes identified in this policy or in our other communications with you, including the transmission of information outside your resident jurisdiction. In addition, please understand that such data may be stored on servers located in the United States. By providing us with your data, you consent to the transfer of such data.
We welcome your feedback on this document.
