Confidentiality

We know that your data is important and you want us to exercise care in their use, so we want to explain how we may use the data.

The data is used to prepare your individual assessment report. Your company's name and address do not appear in the report. Upon completion, the report will be sent to you. The report will not be sent to the Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, or any regulatory body.

Some data from the report are entered into a national database available for public access on the Internet at http://iac.rutgers.edu/database/. This database is a valuable tool for manufacturers and researchers who want to know the savings of various types of projects. The data entered into the national database that is available for public access includes:

-Industrial Assessment Center performing the assessment (University of Illinois-Chicago)

-State where facility is located

-Assessment date

-Facility SIC, principal product, floor area and employees

-Annual sales, volume, production hours and energy cost

-Name, type, estimated annual resource savings, annual cost savings, implementation cost, simple payback and implementation status of each assessment recommendation.

Our work in your facility may be a good subject for a future case study; however, such a case study will be subject to your review and approval. We may be asked to supply a list of facility names and addresses for facilities we have served to the Department of Energy in order to make public a list of program participants. The list will not associate facility names with report numbers or other facility production, operation, or cost data. In addition, we may call you after a few months to ask about project implementation, and other follow-up may include a survey.

Some individual assessment recommendations make excellent teaching tools and are used as examples on our website at https://iac.university/center/IC. However, there is no linkage between individual assessment recommendations used as teaching examples and your company or assessment.