Privacy Policy

1. What this policy covers

This policy explains what the National Energy Foundation ("NEF", "we") collects when you use the Take Action! website and take part in the program, how we use it, and who we share it with. Take Action! is sponsored by Demo Sponsor and administered by NEF.

It covers this website and the program activities run through it: class registration, materials and kit fulfillment, the Home Energy Worksheet, and program evaluation. It does not cover sites we link to, which run under their own policies.

2. Information we collect

We collect only what the program needs to run, and the amount depends on who you are.

• Teachers and administrators who register a class give us a name, school, school address, work email, grade level, and number of students. Registration is handled in NEF's registration system.
• Students and families submit Home Energy Worksheet responses: the counts and readings the worksheet asks for, plus the teacher's name or class identifier so the results reach the right classroom. We do not ask students for a home address, a phone number, or a personal email.
• Everyone who visits generates ordinary technical data: IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, and the time of the visit.

We do not ask for Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, or utility account numbers on this site.

3. Students and children's privacy

Take Action! is written for grades 3 – 5, so most of the students it reaches are under 13. We collect as little from them as the program allows, and we collect it through their school rather than directly.

Worksheet responses are submitted as classroom work, under the school's authority to consent on a parent's behalf for educational purposes. Students do not create accounts, and we do not build profiles of individual students.

We do not use student information for advertising, and we do not sell it. If a parent or a school asks us to delete a student's submission, we delete it.

4. How we use information

We use what we collect to:

• confirm eligibility for the program and schedule classroom presentations
• ship program materials to the right school
• return worksheet results and classroom awards to the teacher who registered
• calculate program-level energy and water savings estimates
• read program evaluations and revise materials for the next school year
• answer questions sent to us and provide support
• keep the site working, secure, and protected from abuse

We do not use the information to make automated decisions about anyone, and we do not sell it to anyone, for any purpose.

5. Who we share it with

We share information in three narrow circumstances.

• With Demo Sponsor, the program's sponsor, we share aggregate reporting: how many classrooms took part, in which districts, and what savings the worksheets add up to. Sponsor reporting does not identify individual students or families.
• With service providers who work on our behalf: kit fulfillment and shipping, printing, email delivery, and website hosting. They may use the information only to do that work for us.
• When the law requires it, in response to a valid legal process, or to protect the safety of a person.

6. Cookies, storage, and analytics

This site may store a few preferences in your browser. These stay on your device, and clearing your browser data removes them.

We also use analytics to count visits and see which pages get used, in aggregate. We do not run advertising trackers on this site and we do not sell browsing data.

7. How long we keep it

Registration and fulfillment records are kept for the school year plus the sponsor's reporting period, then archived in aggregate form. Worksheet responses are kept long enough to report classroom results and program savings, then de-identified.

We keep nothing longer than the program needs it, except where a record has to be retained for accounting or legal reasons.

8. Your choices

You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Teachers can ask for their registration record; parents and schools can ask about a student's worksheet submission.

Program emails include an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing does not affect materials already scheduled for delivery. Depending on where you live, state law may give you additional rights. Write to us and we will honor them.

9. How we protect it

Information travels to this site over an encrypted connection and is stored on access-controlled systems. Only the NEF staff and service providers who need it to run the program can reach it.

No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your information, we will notify you and the appropriate authorities as the law requires.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will post the new version here and update the date at the top of the page. Material changes to how we handle student information will be communicated to participating schools directly.

11. Contact us

Questions about this policy, or a request about your information, can go to the National Energy Foundation, 5505 South 900 East, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84117, 800-616-8326. Teachers can also reach their Educational Service Representative, .