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eConsciousMarket.com Privacy and Security Policy At eConscious Market™, we take your privacy and security seriously and are committed to protecting your personal information. Our privacy policy will assist you in understanding exactly what information is collected when shopping online and how that information will be used. By visiting eConsciousMarket.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. What Customer Information Does eConscious Market™ Collect?: While maintaining our commitment to your privacy, we do collect personally and non-personally identifiable information about you. A detailed description of the types of information collected is outlined below. Personally identifiable information includes your name, shipping address, billing address, e-mail address, and credit card information. We collect this information during the online checkout process so that we can properly fulfill your orders but we do not store it. Non-personally identifiable information includes your browser type, domain name, IP address and how you maneuvered through eConsciousMarket.com's web site. We collect this information so that we can identify general shopping and navigation patterns so we might better understand how to improve your experience with us. The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at eConsciousMarket.com. Here are the types of information we gather. • Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you. Credit Card information is never stored. • Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many Web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses eConsciousMarket.com. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit Web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at eConsciousMarket.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist. • E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from eConsciousMarket.com if your computer supports such capabilities. • Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. What About Cookies?: Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide certain features and storage of items in your Shopping Cart between visits. The "cookies" that eConsciousMarket.com uses do not contain any personal data such as credit card information, passwords, or even your name or address. Cookies simply help us to identify your session on the site. They also help us maintain specific visit information about you without forcing you to register or to give personal information. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the Website of its manufacturer. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of eConsciousMarket.com's coolest features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on. If you choose to disable the "cookies" you will not be able to add items to your cart or complete an order online. We may also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. These cookies record information such as the fact a click was made, an order was placed and the amount of the order. They do not record what was bought or any personal data. The uses for these range from email effectiveness, banner ad effectiveness, search marketing effectiveness and also our way to reward personal or charity sites that get a percentage back of orders placed through them. These companies may also use information (not including private information like your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies. Examples of Information Collected - Information You Give Us: You provide most such information when you search, buy, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire, or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you search for a product; place an order through eConsciousMarket.com or information in Your Account (and you might have more than one if you have used more than one e-mail address when shopping with us) or Your Profile; communicate with us by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form; compile a gift registry; provide employer information when opening a corporate account; participate in Discussion Boards or other community features; provide and rate Reviews; specify a Special Occasion Reminder; share information with eConsciousMarket™ Friends; and employ other Personal Notification Services, such as Available to Order Notifications. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, and phone numbers; people to whom purchases have been shipped, including addresses and phone number. Automatic Information: Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as Top Sellers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our Web site, including date and time; cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; your Auction history; and the phone number you used to call our 800 number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our Website for fraud prevention and other purposes. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page. Information from Other Sources: Examples of information we receive from other sources include updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, updated product information; account information, purchase or redemption information, and page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising, or other services: Search term and search result information from some searches conducted through Web search features; and search results and links. How Is My Personal Information Used?: If you sign up to receive updates, your email and address may be used to send emails or newsletters notifying you of special offers, product updates and sustainable and healthy lifestyle information on our site. If at any time you wish to stop receiving these updates, you may cancel your request. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site. Does eConsciousMarket.com Share the Information It Receives? Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described in this policy and in the Terms of Use policy. • Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We work closely with our affiliated businesses, retailers and warehouses. When you place an order, it is necessary to share your order information with the affiliated businesses, retailers and warehouses. • Third-Party Service Providers: We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. • Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries, or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event that eConscious Market™ or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information will of course be one of the transferred assets. • Protection of eConscious Market™ and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of eConscious Market™, our users, or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. This does NOT include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice. • With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information. How Secure is Information About Me?: • We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. • We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing. • It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer. eConscious Market™'s Email List: We will never rent, sell, or exchange any email address we receive. By signing up for eConscious Market™ emails, you will not be sent advertising or messaging from any other company, regardless of their affiliation with eConscious Market™. We work with a reputable email provider that adheres to a strict set of standards and policies and only send emails to those who have requested it. eConscious Market™ provides a permanent opt-out link with each email sent. To be removed from the list, simply follow the link included in the email or visit our website at www.eConsciousMarket.com. Please note that it may take some amount of time for the removal to take effect. We will make it happen as soon as possible. What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?: eConscious Market™ does not sell, trade, or rent your email or phone number to anyone. We use outside shipping companies to ship orders (FedEx, and UPS), and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies may receive personally identifiable information to help us process your order. These companies will not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes. Tell-A-Friend: If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend, nonprofit, or vendor about our site, we will ask you for your friend, nonprofit, or vendor’s name and email address. We will automatically send a one-time email inviting that person, organization or company to visit the site. Out email provider stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend, nonprofit, or vendor may contact us at customerservice@eConsciousMarket.com to request that we remove this information from our database. Links: This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information. Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions: If you choose to visit eConsciousMarket.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the state of Colorado. If you have any concern about privacy at eConsciousMarket.com, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice and the Terms of Use will change also. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our Web site frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. Our Address: eConscious Market™ 603 Alpine Ave. Boulder, CO 80305 Phone: 303-444-4144 Fax: 303-362-8903 info@eConsciousMarket.com Happy Giving! ~ The eConscious Market™ Team Last Updated: July 5, 2007 |
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