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Privacy Policy
Earth Day Network respects your right to privacy. Earth Day Network
will only collect Personal Information (defined below) that you
voluntarily provide to us and will only disclose it or use it
for purposes as disclosed in this Privacy Policy or as disclosed
by us at the time information is requested from you.
Personal Information
When you visit our website, Earth Day Network does not automatically
collect any information that could personally identify you. Personal
information includes your name, street address, email address,
billing information, credit card number and expiration date, and
any other personally identifying information you may provide ("Personal
Information"). Your Personal Information is only collected
when you voluntarily submit it, for example, when you order products
through the Earth Day Store, subscribe to our newsletter or email
updates, participate in online interactive activities (such as
chat rooms and bulletin boards), endorse our campaigns, sign up
as a volunteer, list your event or group, make a donation, submit
content or suggestions, or register for sweepstakes or contests.
In addition to the ways described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy
or at the time information is requested, we may use Personal Information
received from visitors to our website for any of the following
purposes: (1) to confirm, process and fulfill product orders;
(2) to award prizes; (3) to respond to specific requests made
by the visitor; (4) to demonstrate public support for policy proposals;
(5) to provide to other environmental groups for use in collaborative
educational and mobilizing efforts seeking to promote responsible
environmental attitudes and policies; (6) to obtain parental consent
for visitors under eighteen (18) years of age, when necessary;
or (7) to protect the security or integrity of our website when
necessary.
With the exceptions noted above, any Personal Information received
from you will be retained by Earth Day Network and will not be
sold, transferred or otherwise disclosed to any third party, unless
such disclosure is required by law or court order.
Technical Information and Traffic Data
Each time you come to the Earth Day Network website, our web
server (like most on the web) collects some basic technical information,
including your IP address, your domain name, referral data (for
example, the address of the last URL you were at before clicking
through to our website) and browser and platform type ("Technical
Information"). Earth Day Network may use this Technical Information
to improve our website and make it more responsive to our visitors
(see "Cookies" below). The Technical Information provided
by our server is not linked to any of your Personal Information.
We also count, track, and aggregate your activity on the website
into our analysis of general traffic flows at the site, allowing
us to identify broad demographics about who uses the Earth Day
Network website ("Traffic Data"). This Traffic Data
is kept anonymously so that any such information does not personally
identify you. We may share this Traffic Data with others. For
example, we may report to third parties, such as the press, that
a certain number of our volunteers come from a specific geographic
area.
Cookies
A "Cookie" is a short line of text stored on your computer
by a website to differentiate between one anonymous visitor and
another. For Grist Magazine and all parts of the Earth Day website
other than the Earth Day Store, we only use Cookies for the limited
purpose of counting the number of anonymous visitors to our site;
we do not collect or store any personal information about you
using Cookies.
In the Earth Day Store, we assign Cookies to shoppers for additional
purposes, such as tracking the items in your shopping cart. Cookies
help us recognize you as a prior customer and allow us to serve
special features, which might be of interest to you. To better
serve your needs, we will store your personal Earth Day Store
online visiting preferences, but we will not store any Personal
Information about you using Cookies technology.
How We Use Your Information
Our website provides a variety of opportunities for your involvement
with the Earth Day Network services and features. These opportunities
and the ways in which your Personal Information is used, as expressly
permitted by you upon your voluntary submission of such, are described
below.
1. Daily Grist
To receive Daily Grist, you must submit your email address. Once
signed up, you will start receiving summaries of environmental
stories each weekday from the Earth Day Network's online environmental
publication, Grist Magazine. We ask for your email addresses only
to distribute Daily Grist; we do not share this information with
anyone.
You can unsubscribe from Daily Grist by following the unsubscribe
instructions found at the bottom of each email.
2. Letters to the Editor of Grist Magazine
To send a letter to the editor of Grist Magazine, Earth Day Network's
online publication, you agree to provide us with your phone number
so that we can verify your identity should we choose to publish
your letter. We do not keep this information for any other purpose,
nor do we sell, trade, or otherwise disclose it to third parties.
3. Sign Up for Earth Day News
To receive Earth Day News emails, you must submit your email
address, and you may be asked for your zip code if you live in
the U.S. You will then start receiving email updates on a regular
basis. We collect zip code information so that we can tell you
about Earth Day events and happenings nearest to you, and we collect
information about issues in which you are interested so that we
can tailor updates to your concerns. You agree that we may share
this Personal Information with our email list manager, a third
party company that manages the list of subscribers to the Earth
Day News emails for the sole purpose of sending you Earth Day
News -- the email list manager cannot not sell your Personal Information
or use it for any other purpose than described in this Privacy
Policy.
You can unsubscribe from Earth Day News emails by following the
unsubscribe instructions in each email or by visiting the Earth
Day News sign-up page.
4. Endorse an Earth Day Campaign Agenda
To endorse an Earth Day Campaign Agenda, you must provide us
with your name and address. By choosing to endorse the Agenda,
you agree that we may share your Personal Information with public
officials and business leaders to demonstrate public support for
our policy proposals. You also agree that we may aggregate this
information to share anonymous data with the media, such as the
number of endorsers, but we will not disclose your individual
identity to the media without your express permission. Except
for the ways described in this Privacy Policy, no other Personal
Information will be shared with third parties when you endorse
an agenda.
If your organization chooses to endorse any of Earth Day Network's
Agendas, you must provide us with the organization's name, address,
and other information about the group as described on the sign-up
page. By choosing to endorse the Agenda, your organization agrees
that we may share this information with public officials and business
leaders to demonstrate public support for our policy proposals.
Your organization also agrees that we may share this information
with the media and that we may share the names and contact information
of endorsing organizations with other organizations participating
in Earth Day Network campaigns. Except for the ways described
here, no other Personal Information about your organization will
be shared with third parties.
If you or your organization wishes to be removed as an endorser
of any Earth Day Agenda, please email earthday@earthday.net.
5. List Your Group
To list your group in our online directory, you must provide
us with your organization's contact information and other details
about the group as described on the List Your Group sign-up page.
By registering, your organization agrees that we may publish your
organization's Personal Information on our website and in the
Worldwide Network Directory, but we will not publish names of
individual contacts without the express permission of the individuals
involved.
If your organization wishes to be removed from our website and
the Worldwide Network Directory, please follow the removal instructions
by visiting the List Your Group sign-up page or email earthday@earthday.net.
6. List Your Event
To list your event, in our online events calendar, you must provide
us with contact information, as well as a description of you and
specifics about your events. By registering, you agree that we
may publish this Personal Information on our website and in the
events calendar, but will not publish names of individual contacts
without the express permission of the individual involved.
If you wish to have your event removed from our website and the
events calendar, please follow the removal instructions by visiting
the List Your Event sign-up page or email earthday@earthday.net.
8. Earth Day Store
If you wish to register with and/or purchase items from our online
store, you agree to provide us with your name, address, email
address, and credit card billing information. No orders will be
accepted from persons under eighteen (18) years of age. Your Personal
Information will only be collected on a voluntary basis for the
purpose of fulfilling orders. By placing an order at the Earth
Day Store, you agree that we may share this information with the
third-party company directly involved in helping us complete the
transaction and deliver the order. Your Personal Information will
not be used for any other purpose by the third-party company contracted
to fulfill online orders. Both the third-party company and Earth
Day Network store your Personal Information so we can keep responsible
records to handle your order, but we don't require it for you
to obtain access to our store. Unless otherwise described in this
Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be released
to any other party nor will it be used to compile email lists.
9. Donate
To make a donation to Earth Day Network, you agree to submit
your Personal Information so that we may collect it only for the
purpose of processing donations. You also agree that we may store
this information to keep responsible records. We do not share
this information with anyone.
10. Send a Letter or Postcard
To send a Letter or Postcard to an outside recipient, you must
submit your name, address, and email address. You then agree that
we may share your Personal Information with the recipient of the
postcard/letter as listed on our website. We are not responsible
for the use of your information once sent to the intended recipient.
By sending a letter/postcard, you also agree that your information
may be shared with other organizations supporting this environmental
cause. We are not responsible for the use of your Personal Information
by such organizations.
11.Contests, Sweepstakes, and Giveaways
To enter any of our contests, sweepstakes, or giveaways, you
agree to provide the information requested. This information will
be disclosed to third parties as required to process and fulfill
the contest or sweepstake rules and to award prizes. Your Personal
Information, however, will not be sold or used for other purposes
unless described in this Privacy Policy or in the rules of the
contest or sweepstakes posted on the website, or unless otherwise
required by law.
Other Disclosure of Personal Information
Except for the circumstances described in this Privacy Policy,
Earth Day Network will not otherwise use or disclose your Personal
Information to third parties unless we are required to do so by
law or we in good faith believe that such action is necessary
to (1) comply with the law or legal process; (2) protect and defend
our rights and property; (3) protect against misuse or unauthorized
use of the Earth Day Network website; or (4) to protect the personal
safety or property of our users or the public.
Children's Privacy (COPPA) Statement
Redefining Progress and Earth Day Network believe that protecting
children's privacy online is extremely important, and we encourage
parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's
use of the Internet and to spend time online with their children.
Redefining Progress and Earth Day Network have implemented measures
to ensure that the privacy of children under 13 who take the Footprint
Quiz is protected. Specifically:
On the front page of the Footprint Quiz, a user must input their
age. This information is not individually identifiable, and is
used only for aggregate demographic analysis of Footprint Quiz
users.
There are four instances within the Footprint Quiz where an e-mail
address, which would be individually identifiable information,
may be collected from a child under 13. These instances are accessible
from the Quiz's results page.
* A child under the age of 13 may email the Footprint Quiz to
a friend. The e-mail addresses entered will be used only to send
the referral e-mail and not kept for any other reason.
* A child under the age of 13 may request that their Footprint
Quiz result is e-mailed to them. In this case, after this one-time
request e-mail with the Footprint result is sent, the e-mail address
will be deleted from our records and not used again.
* A child under the age of 13 may use their e-mail address to
pledge to "Take Action" to reduce their Footprint. In this case,
the e-mail address itself will be deleted from our records and
not used again. We will only report the aggregate number of children
under 13 who signed the Take Action pledge without including any
individually identifiable information.
* A child under the age of 13 may use their e-mail address to
pledge to "Take Action" to Involve Others. In this case, the e-mail
address itself will be deleted from our records and not used again.
We will only report the aggregate number of children under 13
who signed the Take Action pledge without including any individually
identifiable information.
Security
Earth Day Network uses all reasonable security safeguards to
protect the information obtained against such risks as loss or
unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification or disclosure
by storing it on secure servers, which cannot be accessed over
the Internet.
Public Posting
This policy does not protect information you may post to any
online public forum within our website.
Unsubscribe and Data Removal Policies
If you would like to unsubscribe from any of the Earth Day Network
website services and features as described in this Privacy Policy,
please follow the instructions within each listing or at the bottom
of the emails you receive once signed up for the Earth Day Network
service or feature.
Correction of Information
Where necessary, you may correct or update any Personal Information
that you have provided to us by following the instructions at
the sign-up page for each of the services or features described
above or by following the instructions listed on the emails you
receive from us.
Other Sites
Earth Day Network contains many links to other sites on the web.
We cannot control and are not responsible for the privacy practices
or content of these other websites. We encourage you to review
the privacy policies for these websites before you submit any
Personal Information.
Your Consent
By accessing and using our website, you consent to the collection
and use of information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If
Earth Day Network revises its Privacy Policy, we will post the
changes on our website. In the event you do not consent to these
revisions, you may discontinue use of our website, or unsubscribe
to our services or features.
Any Questions?
If you have any further questions or concerns about Earth Day
Network's Privacy Policy and use of Personal Information, please
send them to earthday [at] earthday.net.
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