AIxEnergy Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 5, 2026
Last updated: June 5, 2026

AIxEnergy is an independent editorial, research, membership, and advisory platform focused on the intersection of artificial intelligence, energy systems, infrastructure, markets, policy, and sustainability. AIxEnergy is operated by Clean Energy Research LLC d/b/a AIxEnergy.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit AIxEnergy.io, subscribe to our newsletters or memberships, contribute content, participate in surveys or events, purchase research or advisory services, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with AIxEnergy.

By using AIxEnergy, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before collecting or using certain types of information.

1. Who We Are

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “AIxEnergy,” “we,” “us,” or “our” means:

Clean Energy Research LLC d/b/a AIxEnergy
17717 W. 78th Dr.
Arvada, CO 80007
United States
Email: bowens@aixenergy.io

For purposes of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation, and similar privacy laws, Clean Energy Research LLC is the “controller” of personal information collected through AIxEnergy’s website, newsletter, membership, research, editorial, and advisory activities, unless we state otherwise in a written agreement.

2. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to personal information we collect through:

AIxEnergy.io and related webpages; email newsletters and subscriber communications; paid or free memberships; research briefings, reports, portals, downloadable materials, and webinars; contributor, author, editor, and expert communications; consulting, advisory, market-intelligence, and client engagements; surveys, forms, comments, feedback, and event registrations; and ordinary business communications.

This Policy does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, payment processors, social networks, embedded content, or services that we do not control. Those third parties maintain their own privacy policies and practices.

3. Information We Collect

We collect personal information in several ways, depending on how you interact with AIxEnergy.

3.1 Information You Provide Directly

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

Your name, email address, organization, title, role, professional affiliation, billing contact information, subscription preferences, login or membership information, communications with us, comments, survey responses, event registrations, article submissions, contributor biographies, headshots, social media handles, contractual information, and advisory or consulting materials you choose to share.

If you purchase a paid subscription, research product, event, or advisory service, payment information may be processed by third-party payment providers such as Stripe, PayPal, or other billing platforms. We do not intentionally store full credit-card numbers on our own systems.

3.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit or use our website or digital services, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information, including:

IP address; browser type; device type; operating system; referring pages; pages viewed; time spent on pages; links clicked; approximate location derived from IP address; date and time of visit; cookie identifiers; newsletter open and click activity; membership login activity; and other diagnostic, security, and usage information.

We may collect this information through first-party cookies, server logs, Ghost CMS analytics, email delivery tools, Google Analytics or similar analytics services, security tools, and other standard web technologies.

3.3 Information From Third Parties and Public Sources

We may receive or collect information from third-party and publicly available sources, including:

Professional profiles; company websites; public regulatory filings; public agency records; conference or event pages; social media platforms; publication databases; payment verification services; fraud-prevention tools; referral sources; and business contact databases.

We use this information to support editorial research, contributor coordination, audience development, client service, market intelligence, fraud prevention, and ordinary business operations.

3.4 Information in Editorial, Research, and Advisory Work

AIxEnergy publishes analysis concerning companies, technologies, infrastructure projects, markets, government policy, and public figures acting in professional capacities. Our editorial and research work may include publicly available professional information about individuals, such as names, titles, affiliations, public statements, publications, biographies, and professional contact details.

Where we receive confidential client information, non-public business information, or personal information in connection with an advisory engagement, that information is also governed by any applicable written agreement between AIxEnergy and the client.

3.5 Sensitive Personal Information

AIxEnergy does not seek to collect sensitive personal information such as precise geolocation, government identification numbers, financial account credentials, health information, biometric identifiers, race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, union membership, sexual orientation, or children’s information.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is strictly necessary for a specific engagement and we have agreed in writing to receive it. If we learn that we have collected sensitive personal information that is not necessary for our services, we may delete it.

4. How We Use Information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

To operate, maintain, and improve AIxEnergy.io, newsletters, memberships, and related services; deliver free and paid content; manage subscriptions and accounts; process payments and invoices; provide research, advisory, consulting, and market-intelligence services; communicate with readers, subscribers, contributors, clients, and prospective clients; review, edit, publish, and promote contributed content; administer events, webinars, briefings, and surveys; personalize content and understand reader interests; analyze site performance and audience trends; protect our systems from fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security threats; comply with legal, tax, accounting, contractual, and regulatory obligations; enforce our terms, agreements, and policies; preserve legal claims and business records; and develop new editorial, research, subscription, and advisory offerings.

We may also use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information for research, analytics, benchmarking, editorial planning, product development, and business strategy. We do not attempt to re-identify information that has been properly de-identified, except as permitted by law for security, compliance, or validation purposes.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable privacy law requires a legal basis for processing, we rely on one or more of the following grounds:

Contractual necessity, when processing is needed to provide a subscription, research product, advisory service, event registration, contributor arrangement, or other requested service.

Legitimate interests, when processing supports our editorial operations, research, audience development, platform security, business communications, fraud prevention, service improvement, and ordinary business administration, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

Consent, when you subscribe to certain marketing communications, accept non-essential cookies where required, participate in optional surveys, or otherwise give us permission to use your information for a specific purpose.

Legal obligation, when processing is necessary to comply with tax, accounting, corporate, regulatory, court, law-enforcement, or other legal requirements.

Protection of rights and safety, when processing is necessary to protect AIxEnergy, our users, clients, contributors, systems, or the public from fraud, security threats, abuse, or legal claims.

6. Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

We use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, server logs, and similar technologies to operate our website, maintain secure sessions, remember preferences, measure site performance, understand readership, improve editorial focus, and support subscription or membership functionality.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Others are used for analytics, performance measurement, or marketing-related purposes. Depending on your location and applicable law, we may request consent before placing non-essential cookies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect login, membership, payment, preference, analytics, or other site functions.

We may use third-party services such as Ghost, Google Analytics, Stripe, PayPal, Google Workspace, email delivery platforms, and similar vendors. These providers may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.

7. Newsletters, Memberships, and Marketing Communications

If you subscribe to AIxEnergy newsletters, memberships, alerts, research updates, event notices, or marketing communications, we may use your contact information and engagement data to send relevant communications.

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us at bowens@aixenergy.io. We may still send non-marketing messages related to your account, subscription, payment, legal notices, security, contributor relationship, or client engagement.

8. Contributors, Authors, Experts, and Guest Writers

If you submit an article, commentary, expert response, interview, biography, image, headshot, or other material for potential publication, we may use the information you provide to evaluate, edit, publish, attribute, promote, archive, and distribute that content.

Published contributor information may remain publicly available as part of AIxEnergy’s editorial archive unless we agree otherwise in writing or unless applicable law requires removal. We may retain editorial records, drafts, correspondence, rights documentation, publication history, and related metadata for business, legal, archival, and editorial-integrity purposes.

9. AI Tools and Automated Processing

AIxEnergy may use artificial intelligence, machine-learning, automation, transcription, summarization, editing, analytics, research, or productivity tools to support editorial, research, administrative, and advisory workflows.

We do not use AI tools to make legally binding decisions about individuals without appropriate human review. We also do not knowingly submit confidential client information, unpublished contributor materials, or sensitive personal information into public AI systems unless authorized, protected by appropriate terms, or otherwise permitted by the relevant agreement and law.

Where AI tools are used in client work, the applicable statement of work, engagement letter, or client agreement may provide additional terms.

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling names, emails, or profiles for money.

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

Service providers and processors, including website hosting providers, Ghost CMS, email delivery platforms, payment processors, analytics providers, cloud storage providers, security vendors, customer-support tools, accounting systems, document-management tools, and other technology providers that help us operate AIxEnergy.

Professional advisers, including lawyers, accountants, auditors, insurers, bankers, and consultants, where reasonably necessary for business, legal, tax, insurance, compliance, or risk-management purposes.

Clients and collaborators, where necessary to perform an advisory, research, editorial, sponsorship, event, or consulting engagement, and subject to applicable agreements.

Publication partners, contributors, and editors, where necessary to review, edit, fact-check, publish, attribute, distribute, or promote editorial content.

Government, regulatory, legal, or law-enforcement authorities, where required by law, subpoena, court order, legal process, or to protect rights, safety, security, or property.

Successor entities, in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, transfer of business, or similar transaction, provided the recipient is bound by appropriate confidentiality and privacy obligations.

We may also share aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify you.

11. No Sale or Targeted Advertising Statement

AIxEnergy does not currently sell personal information for money. AIxEnergy also does not currently disclose personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in the manner commonly understood under certain U.S. state privacy laws.

If our practices change, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any legally required opt-out mechanisms.

12. International Data Transfers

AIxEnergy is based in the United States, and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. If you access AIxEnergy from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in jurisdictions that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.

Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards for international transfers, which may include standard contractual clauses, data-processing agreements, adequacy decisions, consent, contractual necessity, or other lawful transfer mechanisms.

13. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, contract, tax, accounting, audit, archival, dispute-resolution, or legitimate business needs.

As a general guide:

Subscriber and membership records are retained while your account is active and for a reasonable period thereafter. Billing, invoice, and tax records may be retained for at least seven years. Newsletter engagement and analytics records may be retained for up to twenty-six months or longer in aggregated or de-identified form. Advisory and client files may be retained for the duration of the engagement and for a reasonable period thereafter to support legal, contractual, audit, professional, and dispute-resolution needs. Editorial, contributor, publication, and archival records may be retained indefinitely where necessary to preserve the integrity, provenance, and historical record of published work.

We may delete, anonymize, or de-identify information when it is no longer needed.

14. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, misuse, or destruction. These safeguards may include HTTPS encryption, access controls, authentication procedures, vendor review, software updates, limited internal access, data minimization, and secure business processes.

No website, email system, cloud service, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we work to maintain safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information we process.

15. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have rights to:

Request access to personal information we hold about you; request correction of inaccurate information; request deletion of certain information; request portability of certain information; object to or restrict certain processing; withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; opt out of marketing communications; opt out of certain sales, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling where applicable; and appeal a privacy-rights decision where applicable law provides an appeal right.

To exercise a privacy right, contact us at bowens@aixenergy.io with the subject line Privacy Request.

We may need to verify your identity before responding. We will respond within the time required by applicable law. We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights.

Some rights are subject to exceptions. For example, we may retain information where necessary for legal compliance, security, fraud prevention, accounting, editorial integrity, contractual performance, dispute resolution, or the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

16. California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents to the extent the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to AIxEnergy.

During the past twelve months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information:

Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, account identifiers, and billing contact information; customer records, such as subscription, invoice, payment status, and service records; commercial information, such as subscriptions, purchases, memberships, research products, event registrations, and advisory services; internet or network activity, such as site usage, newsletter engagement, browser information, and device data; geolocation information, limited to approximate location derived from IP address; professional or employment-related information, such as title, organization, affiliation, biography, or contributor credentials; audio, visual, or similar information, such as webinar recordings, interview recordings, contributor headshots, or event materials if you choose to provide or participate in them; and inferences, such as content interests, subscription preferences, or audience segments.

We collect this information from you, your devices, service providers, payment processors, public sources, professional sources, clients, contributors, and business partners.

We use this information for the purposes described in Sections 4, 7, 8, and 9 of this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose these categories of information to service providers, professional advisers, clients, collaborators, publication partners, authorities, and successor entities as described in Section 10.

AIxEnergy does not knowingly sell personal information for money. AIxEnergy does not knowingly sell or share the personal information of individuals under sixteen years of age.

California residents may have the right to know, access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, and opt out of certain uses or disclosures of personal information, subject to legal exceptions. California residents may also have the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information if such information is collected and used in a manner covered by California law.

To exercise California privacy rights, contact bowens@aixenergy.io with the subject line California Privacy Request.

17. Colorado and Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and other states with comprehensive privacy laws may have rights to access, correct, delete, obtain a copy of, or opt out of certain processing of personal information, including certain targeted advertising, sales, or profiling, subject to legal thresholds and exceptions.

AIxEnergy does not currently sell personal information or use personal information for targeted advertising in the manner commonly regulated by these state laws. If this changes, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide appropriate opt-out mechanisms.

Colorado residents and residents of other applicable states may submit requests by contacting bowens@aixenergy.io with the subject line State Privacy Request.

If we deny your request and your state law provides an appeal right, you may appeal by replying to our decision email with the subject line Privacy Appeal.

18. European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland Rights

If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you may have rights under applicable data-protection laws, including the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, request portability, and withdraw consent.

You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority. We encourage you to contact us first so we can try to resolve your concern.

AIxEnergy does not have an establishment in the European Union or United Kingdom. If our activities require appointment of an EU or UK representative or data-protection officer in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly.

19. Children’s Privacy

AIxEnergy is intended for professionals, researchers, policymakers, investors, infrastructure leaders, and adult readers. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under sixteen.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to AIxEnergy, contact us at bowens@aixenergy.io, and we will take appropriate steps to delete the information where required.

AIxEnergy may link to or embed content from third-party websites, publications, social media platforms, podcast platforms, video platforms, payment processors, event platforms, analytics providers, or other services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party services. Your interactions with third parties are governed by their terms and privacy policies.

21. Business Clients and Contractual Data

Where AIxEnergy provides research, advisory, consulting, market-intelligence, workshop, or enterprise services to a business client, the applicable agreement, statement of work, nondisclosure agreement, or data-processing agreement may supplement or override portions of this Privacy Policy with respect to the client engagement.

Clients should not provide personal information, confidential information, regulated data, export-controlled information, sensitive personal information, or third-party proprietary information unless authorized to do so and unless the information is necessary for the engagement.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, technical, operational, editorial, or business developments.

When we make material changes, we will update the effective date and may provide additional notice through AIxEnergy.io, email, account notices, or other appropriate means. Your continued use of AIxEnergy after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated Policy.

23. Contact Us

For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, contact: