Synergy Privacy Policy

SYNERGY PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Synergy - Consulting Engineers. Your privacy on the internet is of the utmost importance to us. At Synergy, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION SYNERGY GATHERS AND TRACKS

Synergy gathers one type of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions consist of a voluntary user submitted contact request form

Children

Synergy is consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

Usage tracking

Synergy tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Synergy does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Cookies

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Synergy uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

Privacy Policy Use

USE OF INFORMATION

Synergy may use any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Synergy never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

Synergy creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION

Synergy uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service competitive. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY

Synergy operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We do not give users opt-out options as there is no area within the Synergy website where this would be applicable.

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Synergy. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

    Hans Nelson and his team of engineers are our First Choice of engineering firms. For over seven (7) years, his team has provided a consistent and high level of service and performance that continues to be the standard in which other engineering firms are measured.

~Albert A. Goudreua
President
Goudreau & Associates, Inc





    I have found you and your staff to be very knowledgeable in regards to health care mechanical and electrical design.  It is good to know that I can approach health care clients with confidence that you have provided a complete design of the appropriate systems for their facility.

~David S. Daining - Design e3





    The quality of the [feasibility study provided by Synergy] led the district to immediately retain Synergy to design a new boiler plant and serve as construction manager... After one year of working with Synergy, I can say without hesitation that our assessment of their company was accurate. From the budget development stage to the punch lists, Synergy offers their experience as "your representation."

~Todd Bell
Director of Facilities and Operations
Kentwood Public Schools





    We were impressed with the end product deliverable, a commissioning report that includes detailed results of the functional tests, which will be very useful to the Owner and our design team in resolving the many deficiencies discovered by Synergy throughout the Commissioning process.

~Justin L. Kowatch
Professional Engineer
Wade Trime, Inc.