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Privacy Notice

Who we are

Student Energy is a global youth-led organization empowering the next generation of leaders who are accelerating the transition to a sustainable, equitable energy future. We are a registered Canadian charity, and engage over 50,000 young people in 120+ countries.

Our website address is: https://studentenergy.org.

Privacy Notice

Student Energy respects your privacy and strives to protect it. When you visit our website, or subscribe to our newsletter, we need to collect certain information about you, and we believe you have a right to know how we use that information and keep it secure. So we’ve answered a number of frequently asked questions below. If you have any more questions about our policy, please email us at info@studentenergy.org

What information do we collect?

Newsletter

When you sign up for our General Newsletter mailing list, we require your email and university or community organization affiliation.

We may, from time to time, conduct online surveys or open registrations for Student Energy programs, which may ask for additional information including your first and last name, your country of residence, age, postal code, company, email and/or mailing address.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. The cookies are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make the website more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.

Our website uses cookies first-party and third-party cookies for a number of purposes. The first-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.

The third-party cookies used on our websites are used mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who do we share your data with?

We share your information only with the trusted third party service providers who manage our website. These third parties provide specific services and administer activities offered at our website; for example, content management, email management, registration, and credit card processing. These third parties are not authorized to make any use of or discuss your personal information; it can only be used to provide the specified services. 

Student Energy never sells or rents your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes. You have the right to access and review your personal information online at any time.

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How do we make sure your data is secure?

Student Energy uses the latest encryption technology (Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL) to keep your personal information secure. Your information is encrypted (or coded) using a secure server for maximum security. This coding makes it extremely difficult for anyone to reach your information as it moves through our system.

WHAT ABOUT SITES THAT STUDENTENERGY.ORG IS LINKED TO?

Our website may provide links to other sites that aren’t under our control. We cannot be held responsible for these linked websites, their content or for the actions of the providers of such sites. You should always review the privacy and security policies and terms of use for any websites you use. 

CONSENT TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND UPDATING OUR PRIVACY POLICY

By using our website and registration system, you are agreeing to let us collect and use your information as we describe in this Privacy Policy. Occasionally, we may make changes to our information practices or change our website’s functionality. If we do, we’ll update this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or comments about our website or this Privacy Policy, please contact us and let us know.

WEBSITE HOST

Bluehost is our web hosting company. You can view their Privacy Policy online.