The Yale Center for Business and the Environment is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of confidential information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize access, personal information is not actively shared. In particular, we do not re-distribute or sell personal information collected on our web servers.

Information collected:

Analytics

Community.cbey.yale.edu servers collect the following analytics: 

Information is collected and stored when users log in to view restricted content or submit forms. Specifically, the following information is collected:

• Web pages requested; and
• Date and time.

However, these data points are not collected on an individual level and only as aggregated data.

Cookies

community.cbey.yale.edu may use "cookies" in order to deliver web content specific to individual users' interests. Sensitive personal information is not stored within cookies.

Registration form

The activation of your account on community.cbey.yale.edu requires that you fill out a form on the site. This form requires users to give the following personal identifiers to join the platform:

• First name;
• Last name;
• Location (ZIP code);
• Email address.

This contact information from the registration form is used only to facilitate engagement of the Financing and Deploying Clean Energy community for which it was collected and will never be sold to another party.

In addition, the website requires that you identify:

• The industry in which you work;
• The Financing and Deploying Clean Energy cohort to which you are affiliated; and
• Your favorite clean energy technologies.

Profile information

In addition to the contact information and data collected in the registration form as mentioned above, other information that is not required for participation on the platform but that is offered by the user and/or communicated from LinkedIn at the choice of the user is collected by the platform. These may include:

• Professional background:
  • Job function;
  • Headline;
  • Summary;
  • Skills;
• Other email addresses:
  • Secondary email;
  • Complementary email;
• Social media links:
  • Facebook profile URL;
  • Instagram profile URL;
  • Twitter profile URL;
  • Skype;
  • LinkedIn profile URL;
  • Website;
  • BBM;
• Phone numbers:
  • Personal cell;
  • Work cell;
  • Personal mailing addresses;
  • Professional mailing addresses;
• Education:
  • Degree;
  • Field of study; and
  • School name.

Use of collected information:

community.cbey.yale.edu will only use personal information collected from this site for the purpose of managing the community engagement platform.

community.cbey.yale.edu may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for statistical purposes. This information is used to improve presentation and utilization. IP address information may also be used for troubleshooting purposes.

community.cbey.yale.edu will retain user data only during the length of the user’s subscription to the platform and upon request will delete the user data within a reasonable time from receiving a request to delete such data at [email protected].

Distribution of collected information:

community.cbey.yale.edu will not disclose, without your consent, personal information collected about you, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure is required by law.

community.cbey.yale.edu will not distribute or sell personal information to third-party organizations.

This Privacy Statement does not apply to the other Yale University websites and is limited to community.cbey.yale.edu. You should review the privacy statement posted on other Yale University websites when you visit them. 

Hosting of user’s personal data:

The following service providers host all data and content you produce and/or provide, as well as images, profile pictures and backups for the community.cbey.yale.edu platform:

• Microsoft Azure Cloud – Microsoft Azure Cloud’s privacy policy is available at the following URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Privacy/gdpr/default.aspx
• AmazonAWS – AmazonAWS’s privacy policy is available at the following URL: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/gdpr-center/

Access to data:

Your data is accessible only to authorized administrators at the Yale School of the Environment for administrative or maintenance purposes of the platform, and if applicable, in order to enforce your rights about your data.

In addition to hosting as detailed above, community.cbey.yale.edu is delivered and managed via the HIVEBRITE solution owned by KIT UNITED. KIT UNITED is a French société par actions simplifiée with a capital of 284.280,00 Euros, registered with the Paris Companies Register under the number 75339171300017, and with its registered office located at 8, rue de la Grande Chaumière, 75008 Paris, France.

Privacy Statement Revisions:

This Privacy Statement was last revised on December 17, 2020. We may change this Privacy Statement at any time and for any reason. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement each time you visit the website.

If we make a significant change to our Privacy Statement, we will post a notice on the homepage of our website for a period of time after the change is made. 

Responsibility for external sites:

This website may contain links to other websites. Some of those websites may be operated by third parties. We provide the links for your convenience, but we do not review, control, or monitor the privacy practices of websites operated by others.

We are not responsible for the performance of websites operated by third parties or for your business dealings with them. Therefore, whenever you leave this website, we recommend that you review each website's privacy practices and make your own conclusions regarding the adequacy of these practices.

While using this website, you may encounter hypertext links to the webpages of other Yale University websites or organizations not directly affiliated with Yale University. All Yale University websites must comply with the privacy statement for Yale University websites but may have refined the standard campus privacy statement to include additional or stronger privacy provisions. Yale University does not control the content or information practices of external organizations.  We recommend you review the privacy statements of these organizations.

How to contact us:

You may contact us by email at [email protected] or at (203) 432-5100.