Covington & Burling LLP values the privacy of its clients and Inside Energy & Environment Blog site viewers.  Any of the following personal information that may be made available to Covington & Burling LLP when browsing or navigating the site shall be kept confidential:

  • First and last name
  • Company, home, postal or other physical address
  • Other contact information, for example, telephone number, fax number, email address, and other similar information
  • Title or position in a company or an organization
  • Occupation
  • Industry
  • Personal interests
  • Any other information needed to provide a service you requested

Examples of scenarios where our visitors provide their personal information include, but may not be limited, to:

  • Emailing, calling or communicating with the lawyer or law firm.
  • Posting a question or comment through the site.
  • Requesting literature.
  • Registering to attend a seminar or any event.
  • Participating in an online survey.
  • Requesting inclusion in an email or other mailing list.
  • Submitting an entry for a contest or other promotions.
  • Logging in to the site, thus requiring a user name and/or a password.
  • Any other business-related reason.

Covington & Burling LLP provides you the opportunity to agree or decline to give your personal information via the Internet.  The lawyer or firm will inform you of the purpose for the collection and does not intend to transfer your personal information to third parties without your consent, except under the limited conditions described under the discussion entitled “Information Sharing and Disclosure” below.  If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may transfer that information, within the law firm or to a third party service provider as necessary.

Domain Information Collection
Covington & Burling LLP may collect domain information to enable us to analyze how our visitors use this site.  This data enables us to become more familiar with which people visit our site, how often they visit, and what parts of the site they visit most often.  Covington & Burling LLP uses this information to improve its Web-based offerings.  This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.

Use of Cookies and Tracking User Traffic
Some pages on this site may use “cookies”—small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes.  A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID to track the pages visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.  These files are used for site registration and customization the next time you visit us.

Some parts of the site may also use cookies to track user traffic patterns.  Covington & Burling LLP does this in order to determine the usefulness of our Web site information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.  Please note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive.  Your Web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not.  If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our Web site, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence.  You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser.  By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this site.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your personal information is never shared outside Covington & Burling LLP without your permission, except under conditions listed below:

  • Consenting to share your information to a third party service provider working on our behalf to serve you.
  • Requiring us to provide you with a product or service.

Covington & Burling LLP will also disclose your personal information, if required to do so by law, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our sites.

Internet Security
Covington & Burling LLP strives to protect your personal information; however, we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet.  Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers.

Protecting the Privacy of Children
Children under 13 years old are not the target audience for our Web site.  To protect their privacy, Covington & Burling LLP prohibits the solicitation of personal information from these children.

Links to Third Party Sites
This site may contain links to other sites.  Covington & Burling LLP does not share your personal information with those Web sites and is not responsible for their privacy practices.  We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
Covington & Burling LLP reserves the right to change, modify or update this policy at any time without notice.  Any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information will be posted on this site.

If you have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please email us at the contact information on the site.