Green Button Alliance - Privacy Policy

Terms & Conditions

Data Collection and Storage

Data collected on this website are used only in the course of the business of the Green Button Alliance.  Voluntarily submitted data (e.g., through sign-up for newsletters or to participate as an employee of a Member Company or Organization) may include but are not limited to email addresses, mailing or physical addresses, telephone numbers, images, names, URLs, revenue ranges, and descriptions.

Opinions in any forum of the website or posted through the uploading of documents may also be collected.  The website is not intended for use by minors and data are not intended to be collected from anyone under the age of 13 years.

Collected data may be stored in servers in the United States of America, Canada, the European Union, and/or any other nation through caching and/or redundancy for increased speed and/or erasure-risk reduction.
     

Utility and Third-Party Apps & Services

The Green Button Alliance provides a Green Button Directory℠ for Green Button Alliance Members and nonmembers.  The Green Button Alliance is not responsible for any Terms & Conditions of any app or service provided by Green Button Alliance Member companies or nonmember companies.  Use of any app or service — whether displayed in our Green Button Directory or not — is at the sole discretion of the user of that app or service.  The Green Button Alliance disclaims any responsibility for the Terms & Conditions, merchantability, fitness, privacy, or reliability of all Green Button apps and services.
     

Example Code Provided by the Green Button Alliance

Any and all coding examples provided by the Green Button Alliance are for educational purposes only.  They are provided strictly as a way to clarify and illuminate one or more ways to accomplish the text and intent of the article/page on which they are shown.  They are not to be used in actual deployments as-is, without modifications, for any purpose.

The Green Button Alliance disclaims any responsibility for code examples used in any deployments internally and/or exposed to the public.  It is the responsibility of the users of any code to ensure it meets the purpose, safety, and merchantability for which it is being considered by the user.

The Green Button Alliance further notes that code may or may not be free of errors for the intent of the examples or for inadvertent results unrelated to the examples.  Users of any and all code provided as examples assume all responsibility for their use or development that includes the example code. 
     

Green Button AI-based Chatbot

Users of the Green Button AI Chatbot hereby acknowledge that the Chatbot is powered by artificial intelligence (AI driven) and therefore may provide information that has been summarized, taken out of context, or is outdated.  Users are asked to note inaccuracies, using in the Chatbot interface, and to provide feedback to the GBA Staff.

Answers provided by the AI-based Chatbot shall not be used for anything that might result in loss of life, property, or any other loss whether financial, personal, or to a business.  All answers shall be verified by the user for accuracy.

Questions or concerns can be addressed directly to GBA Staff using the Contact Us form.

Permitted Uses

You are not permitted to use this website, any other Green Button Alliance website (for example but not limited to: GreenButtonData.org), nor the data contained on these websites (collectively and individually: “GBA Resources”) other than for the following, private, non-commercial purposes:

1. 1. viewing GBA Resources with a non-automated Internet-browser application;
   2. making references to pages within GBA Resources;
   3. modifying your own, personal listings/profile within GBA Resources;
   4. modifying your employer’s listings within GBA Resources if granted explicit permissions by your employer;
   5. transferring to other websites and/or resources through links or other references provided on GBA Resources;
   6. using the Green Button Directory Services (GBDS) through a non-automated Internet-browser application;

The use of automated systems or software to embed or extract data from GBA Resources for commercial purposes (known as “screen scraping” and known by other terms) is prohibited unless the party desiring to extract data has directly concluded a written license agreement with us explicitly permitting such access, and said party abides by the contractual agreement therein including but not limited to duration, termination, scope, compensation, resale, sharing, representation, and competition.

Trademark Usage

For information about Trademark Usage, see the footer of this website and the Green Button Trademarks Style Guide.

Email Security

If you are concerned about an e-mail message you received and wish to be sure it is from us, please see the following Email Security page:
https://www.greenbuttonalliance.org/email-security

Web Hosting and Analytics

The GreenButtonAlliance.org website of the nonprofit Green Button Alliance Inc. (GBA) is hosted by NOVI AMS, LLC, a for-profit company based in the USA.  NOVI AMS, LLC is not a member company of the GBA.

The GreenButtonData.org website is hosted by the GBA, as-of 2017.

The artificial-intelligence (AI) -based Green Button Chatbot, launched in July 2025, is hosted by POWERCONNECT.AI, a BHC Global company — a for-profit company in the USA and Canada.  BHC Global is a Sponsor Member of the Green Button Alliance, with a voting seat on the GBA Board of Directors.

The GBA websites use Alphabet Inc.’s Google Analytics (G4) to help ensure that our pages can be reached successfully and that we are meeting the goals of the GBA membership.  Neither Google nor its parent company are member companies of the GBA.

Presently, we do NOT use the “Advertising Features” of Google Analytics, which include Demographics and Interest reporting, Remarketing, GDN Impression Reporting, and the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration.  If we begin using those services, our Privacy Policy will be updated.  In any case, you are able to opt-out of Google advertising features.

For more information about blocking, in the US, see: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/. 
In the EU, see: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.