Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)
ENERGY STAR provides a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly pledges not to sell personal data and limits data collection to necessary program administration.
Highly protective government privacy policy. No data sale or tracking.
All emails that we send have the option to un-subscribe if you no longer wish to receive communications.
You have a clear, simple way to opt out of email communications.
All information and messages communicated over the web are secured by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect data transmissions.
The service uses industry-standard encryption to protect your data while it is in transit.
We do not sell or share the information collected at this site or any other information we collect.
The agency explicitly commits to never selling or sharing your personal information with third parties.
ENERGY STAR never collects information or creates individual profiles for commercial marketing.
The service does not engage in behavioral profiling or commercial marketing activities.
Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.
The agency follows formal government retention and destruction schedules for data logs.
Last reviewed 2026-08-24 under rubric v3.5.