Welcome to our Home Energy Monitoring platform. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website dedicated to helping you track which appliances are consuming your electricity and driving up your energy bills. We believe in transparency and want you to understand how these technologies work and how they enhance your experience while monitoring your home energy consumption.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other devices when you visit our website. They help us recognize your device and store information about your preferences and usage patterns. Cookies play an essential role in providing you with a seamless experience as you navigate through our energy monitoring tools, analyze your appliance consumption data, and access personalized recommendations for reducing your electricity costs.
| Cookie Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly Necessary Cookies | Enable core functionality including secure login access to your energy dashboard, appliance tracking features, and navigation throughout the platform | Session/Persistent |
| Performance Cookies | Collect anonymous data about how visitors use our energy monitoring tools, which pages are most visited, and error messages encountered | Up to 2 years |
| Functionality Cookies | Remember your preferences such as measurement units (kWh/watts), dashboard layout, notification settings, and customized appliance categories | Up to 1 year |
| Analytics Cookies | Help us understand user behavior patterns, popular features, and how effectively our energy-saving recommendations are being utilized | Up to 2 years |
We use strictly necessary cookies to ensure our home energy monitoring platform functions correctly. These cookies enable you to log into your account, access your real-time energy consumption data, view historical appliance usage patterns, and save your customized monitoring settings. Without these cookies, our service cannot operate properly, and you would be unable to track which appliances are consuming the most electricity in your home.
Functionality cookies allow us to remember your preferences and provide a personalized experience. When you set up your appliance categories, choose your preferred energy measurement units, or customize your dashboard layout to focus on specific high-consumption devices, these cookies ensure your settings are preserved across sessions. This means you can quickly access the information most relevant to managing your electricity consumption without reconfiguring your preferences each time you visit.
Performance and analytics cookies help us continuously improve our energy monitoring platform. By understanding which features are most valuable to users tracking their appliance consumption, we can enhance data visualization tools, improve real-time monitoring capabilities, and develop better energy-saving recommendations. These cookies collect aggregated, anonymous data that never identifies you personally but helps us create a better experience for everyone managing their home electricity usage.
Our cookies specifically support features unique to energy monitoring, including: maintaining your appliance database, remembering your electricity rate settings for accurate cost calculations, storing your energy-saving goals, preserving your notification preferences for high-consumption alerts, and keeping your comparison data for month-over-month analysis of which appliances are driving changes in your electricity bill.
We work with carefully selected third-party service providers who may place cookies on your device to help us deliver and improve our energy monitoring services. These partners assist with analytics, providing insights into how users interact with our appliance tracking features, and helping us understand which tools are most effective for identifying electricity-consuming devices in your home.
Third-party analytics providers use cookies to compile reports on website activity, user engagement with energy monitoring features, and the effectiveness of our educational content about reducing electricity consumption. These partners operate under strict data protection agreements and do not use your information for purposes unrelated to our services. The data collected helps us refine our algorithms for detecting high-consumption appliances and improve the accuracy of our energy-saving recommendations.
You have several options for managing cookies on our energy monitoring platform:
We respect your privacy and your right to control how cookies are used when you visit our home energy monitoring website. Upon your first visit, we present a clear cookie consent mechanism that explains what types of cookies we use and allows you to make informed choices about which categories you wish to accept.
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by accessing our cookie settings or adjusting your browser preferences. Withdrawing consent for optional cookies will not affect your ability to access core energy monitoring features, track your appliance consumption, or view your electricity usage data. However, some enhanced features, such as personalized energy-saving tips based on your historical usage patterns or customized dashboard layouts, may be limited.
For strictly necessary cookies that are essential to operating our energy monitoring platform, consent is not required as these cookies are fundamental to providing the service you have requested. These include cookies that maintain your login session, secure your account data, and enable basic functionality like viewing your real-time appliance consumption and accessing your energy reports.
As we continue to enhance our home energy monitoring platform with new features for tracking appliance consumption and identifying electricity-wasting devices, we may update this Cookies Policy to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we use cookies to support your energy management goals. Any significant changes will be prominently displayed on our website, ensuring you remain fully informed about the technologies we use to help you reduce your electricity bills and make more informed decisions about your home energy consumption.
Last Updated: January 2025