Terms of Use

Welcome to RPB Energy Economics’ Internet Site (the “Site”). It is owned and operated by RPB Energy Economics LLC (“RPB”). By using or accessing the Site, you agree to be legally bound and abide by the terms and conditions set forth below and elsewhere on this Site.

I. GENERAL DISCLAIMERS

This Site is not intended for any use which would be contrary to local, state, federal or international laws or regulations. No portion of this Site is directed at you if RPB is prohibited by any law of any jurisdiction from making the information on this Site available to you. No portion of this Site constitutes investment, legal or other advice nor is it to be relied upon in making an investment decision. Personal Information, any

II.PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

You acknowledge that this Site is owned by RPB or other parties that have licensed their materials to RPB, and you further acknowledge that it may contain information, data, software, photographs, graphs, videos, typefaces, graphics, music, sounds, and other material (collectively “Content”) that are protected by copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secrets, or other proprietary rights, and that these rights are valid and protected in all forms, media, modes of distribution, and technologies existing now or hereinafter developed. All Content is copyrighted individually or as a collective work under applicable copyright laws and treaties, and RPB owns all copyrights in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such Content and in databases pursuant to applicable laws and treaties. If no specific restrictions are displayed, you may make copies of selected portions of the Content, provided that the copies are made only for non-commercial purposes and as long as you properly attribute RPB.

III. DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

RPB provides the Site only for your convenience.  

RPB does not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted or error-free; RPB does not make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of the Site.

The Site is provided without warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Neither RPB nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or distributing the Site shall be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages that result from the use of or inability to use the Site, including but not limited to interruptions, deletion of files or email, errors, defects, viruses, delays in operation or transmission, or any failure of performance, whether or not resulting from force majeure, communications failure, theft, destruction, or unauthorized access to RPB’s records, programs, or services.

IV. USE OF LINKS

Should you leave this Site via a link contained herein, and view content that is not provided by RPB, you do so at your own risk. The content to which you link will not have been developed, checked for accuracy, or otherwise reviewed by RPB. RPB is not responsible for damages or losses caused by any delays, defects or omissions that may exist in the services, information or other content provided in such site, whether actual, alleged, consequential or punitive. RPB makes no guarantees or representations as to, and shall have no liability for, any electronic content delivered by any third party, including, without limitation, the accuracy, subject matter, quality or timeliness of any electronic content.

V. PRIVACY POLICY

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. By using or accessing this Site, you accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not want us to collect and process information about you, please do not provide it to us and do not access the Site.

RPB may collect the following information, including Personal Information, either from you active submission or use of the Site.

“Personal Information” means information that can personally identify you.  This information includes but is not limited to your name, email address and telephone number.  RPB may maintain one or more databases to store your Personal Information and retain it as reasonably required to serve you and operate this Site.

RPB collects your Personal Information when you: (1) use the Site, (2) inquire about or engage RPB to provide its services through the “Contact Us” tool, (3) contact us with any other inquiry, complaint or notice, and (4) voluntarily provide comments when you submit an inquiry through our Site email.

Personal Information that RPB collects includes any information submitted to RPB via the Site, in the “Contact Us” page of the Site and/or your email(s) sent to RPB. Providing such Personal Information to RPB is your choice. If you choose not to provide RPB with certain Personal Information, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features of the Site.

In addition, when you visit the Site, RPB may automatically collect information, such as your browser information, operating system information, device information, IP address, and the date, time, length of stay and specific pages accessed during your visits to the site.

By using the Site, you are agreeing that your Personal Information may be utilized by RPB and may be held and processed by RPB, both electronically and manually, for the purposes of RPB’s administration and/or management of its relationship with its prospective clients and/or its business, and/or for compliance with applicable policies and procedures, laws and regulations.  RPB may share your Personal Information with certain third-party companies that we hire to perform services on RPB’s behalf, such as, but not limited to hosting or operating the Site and related software applications, sending and managing email, analyzing data, and providing search results. For RPB’s own purposes, RPB and its contractors use your Personal Information to analyze and improve how RPB delivers its communication to contact representatives, of its clients or prospective clients and to market to them.

E-mail messages may not be secure and may be intercepted by third parties. If you send RPB an e-mail containing confidential information about you, you agree that you do so at your own risk and that you hold RPB harmless from any loss that you may suffer as a result.

Note that this Site is hosted in the United States.  Should you choose to provide us with your email address and other profile personal data, such activity will constitute your consent to the transfer of such information to the United States, a jurisdiction that may not provide an equivalent level of data protection to the laws in your home country.

RPB collects your profile information, including Personal Information, to communicate with you.  RPB may also use your profile information to create aggregate reports.

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer to outside parties email addresses or other personally identifiable information.  However, we use trusted third parties to operate our website and process information for us.  RPB reserves the right to cooperate fully with local, state or provincial, national, and international officials in any investigation relating to any Content (including personal or private electronic communication transmitted on the Site) or purported unlawful activities of anyone who accesses the Site.

This website includes links to external third party websites that are not controlled or operated by RPB.  This Privacy Policy does not pertain to those third party websites, and RPB has no responsibility for the privacy or other practices of os is not responsible for the content of such third party websites.We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; any changes will be posted on this page.  RPB will treat your continued use of the Site following such revision(s) as your acceptance of the revised terms. Any revisions will be posted to the Site and will apply to any Personal Information collected on or after the date posted.

VI. MISCELLANEOUS

As a visitor to the Site, you may submit questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, or feedback via the Site or email (“Comments”).   By using this Site, you hereby acknowledge and agree that Comments you choose to submit are not confidential and may be publicly available on the Site.  You hereby grant to RPB a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free license to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, publish, modify, edit or otherwise use such Comments as RPB deems appropriate, for any and all purposes, in its own sole discretion.  

VII. TERMINATION OF USAGE

RPB may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site, without notice, for any conduct that RPB, in its sole discretion, believes is in violation of any applicable law or is harmful to the interests of another person, RPB, or its affiliates.