The Emerging Technologies Coordinating Council (ETCC) is a group of representatives from Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas, San Diego Electric and the California Energy Commission. The ETCC respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information that you provide to us. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by us. We review and update this Privacy Policy on an on-going basis as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically, such that you are aware of how we collect and use personal information. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by us as defined below.

1. Personal Information.
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you are able to visit our website without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to provide you with the information you are requesting. This "User Information" may include, but is not limited to, name, address, email address, etc. If you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list.

2. Use of "User Information".
We intend to use any "User Information" for purposes of supporting our relationship with you by replying to your inquiries and/or alerting you to the latest ETCC information. This "User Information" may be retained by us to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use your personal "User Information" to contact you, please feel free to let us know, and we will be happy to not utilize that information for such purposes.

3. Disclosure of "User Information".
The ETCC does not sell, trade, or transfer "User Information" to third parties. We only disclose your "User Information" if we have your consent, we need to share it in order to provide you with the information you have requested, we respond to a court order, or if you violate our Terms of Use. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their Privacy Policies.

4. Accuracy and Security.
The accuracy and security of your "User Information" is very important to the ETCC. If you contact us to correct your "User Information", we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. We are concerned with the security of your "User Information" and are committed to taking reasonable measures to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we have established the appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal "User Information". We will also continue to implement processes to maintain accurate, complete, and current "User Information".

5. Cookies.
The ETCC may choose to use "cookies". A cookie is a small data file that a website can transfer to a visitor's hard drive to keep records of the visits to the website. A cookie contains information to help us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but on our website, does not contain personal information. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.

6. External Links.
Our website provides links to third party websites. Even if the third party is affiliated with us through a business partnership or otherwise, the ETCC is not responsible for the Privacy Policies, practices, or the content contained in these third party websites. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only, and you access them at your own risk.

7. Terms of Use.
Please refer to our Terms of Use, which describes the restrictions, disclaimers, indemnification, and limitation of liability governing the user of the entire ETCC website.

8. Questions.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .