Privacy Policy
CENTER FOR HUMANS AND NATURE
WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY
Last revised August 20, 2007
This website is owned and operated by The Center for Humans and Nature ("Center", "we," "us," or "our"). At the Center, we recognize that many visitors to our website are concerned about the information they provide to us, how we treat that information, and who receives that information. This document discloses the Center's privacy policies and procedures for the website.
PLEASE NOTE BY ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AS A PART OF THE TERMS & CONDITIONS http://www.humansandnature.org/home/terms_of_use.php AND YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AS DISCUSSED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS & CONDITIONS, DO NOT ACCESS THIS WEBSITE.
MODIFICATIONS
The Center reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes shall be effective immediately upon their posting. Material changes will be posted conspicuously on this website. BY ACCESSING THE WEBSITE FOLLOWING POSTING OF CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY, YOU AGREE TO ALL SUCH CHANGES.
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
You can visit and browse this website without revealing personally identifiable information. You may also choose to disclose personally identifiable information.
We collect your personally identifiable information from our website as follows:
Communications - You may choose to communicate with the Center through email, mail or telephone. If you send us any such communications, we may collect the information in your communications, which will include any information that is personally identifiable.
Registration Forms – We may have private portions of our site for which you need to register to access. In that event, if you want to access, review, or download those private pages of our website you would need to become a registered user of the website. This registration process may require certain personally identifiable information which may include, without limitation, your name, email address, postal address, and telephone number.
ANONYMOUS INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
When you visit the Center's website, like when you visit most other websites, certain anonymous information about your visit is automatically logged and collected, including the server name through which you access the internet (such as "aol.com" or "earthlink.net"), your IP address, the date and time you access our site, the web pages you view while at our website, the amount of time spent on particular pages of our website, the type of internet browser you are using, and the Internet address of the website, if any, from which you linked directly to our site. The website may also place a cookie on your computer, as further explained below. This type of information is not personally identifiable.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of alphanumeric data stored on your computer by the website. Although cookies are unique to each computer, cookies are not linked to any personally identifiable information collected from our site. The cookies on this website are temporary,
Cookies allow our server to recognize your computer while you are accessing or are on our website. Cookies can help us to customize your online experience and make it more convenient for you. Cookies are also useful in tracking transaction histories and preserving information between sessions. The information collected from cookies may also be used to improve the functionality of our website.
Most web browser applications (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator) have features that can notify you when you receive a cookie or prevent cookies from being sent. If you disable cookies, however, you may not be able to use any personalized functions of this website.
HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION
We use the personally identifiable and anonymous information we collect through our website as follows:
• helping to establish and verify the identity of users;
• opening, maintaining, administering and servicing users' accounts/memberships;
• processing, servicing or enforcing transactions and sending related communications;
• providing services and support to users;
• improving our website, including tailoring it to users' preferences;
• providing users with product or service updates, newsletters, promotional notices and other information about the Center and our mission;
• responding to your requests, questions, inquiries, comments and instructions;
• maintaining the security and integrity of our systems.
No personally identifiable information will be linked to anonymous information at any time (i.e. cookies or IP addresses linked to registration information].
You may opt out of receiving promotional messages or correspondence from us at any time by replying to the message and asking to be removed from the mailing list.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information about you in connection with legal requirements, such as in response to an authorized subpoena, governmental request or investigation, or as we otherwise believe, in good faith, to be required by law, or if necessary to protect someone's safety, our rights or the rights of others, or enforce our Terms & Conditions.
We may disclose anonymous information in aggregated form to third parties in order to provide anonymous demographic information about our user base to potential advertisers and or market researchers and in order to improve our website.
OWNERSHIP OF INFORMATION
The Center maintains full rights to any information collected on this website, and my freely collect, use and disclose such information unless prohibited by this Privacy Policy or applicable law. In the event of a change of control on the Center or sale by the Center of substantially all of its assets, any information owned by or in the control of the Center may be transferred to such Center successor or assign.
EXTERNAL LINKS
The Center may offer links to third-party websites that we believe may be helpful to you. However, we do not maintain such websites nor do we endorse the content of any such websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third parties or third-party websites, including any linked or linking websites. To the extent that you access or disclose personally identifiable information to any such third parties, different rules may apply to their use and disclosure of anonymous or personally information that you disclose to them. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such websites before disclosing your personal information to them to understand your rights.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
This website is directed towards and designed for use by persons aged 13 or older. We do not solicit or knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we nevertheless receive personally identifiable information from an individual who indicates that he or she is, or whom we otherwise have reason to believe is, under the age of 13, we will delete such information from our systems.
SECURITY
The Center limits access to personally identifiable information about you to our employees and third-party agents, who the Center reasonably believes need to have access to your information to provide you with the information or services you request.
This website has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While the Center cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, the Center uses industry standards, such as Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) technology, to help safeguard against such occurrences. In certain areas, the information passed between your browser and our system is encrypted with SSL technology to create a protected connection between you and our Website to ensure confidentiality. In the event that a breach into our security systems occurs and there is a possibility that an unauthorized person acquires your personal information, the Center will notify you of such a breach under applicable law.
ACCESS
The Center allows you to verify, change, or update the personal information you may provide to us. If you would like to verify, change, or update your personal information, please contact us at the address below.:
CONTACTING US
If you have any other questions or concerns regarding these Terms & Conditions, please contact us at:
THE CENTER FOR HUMANS AND NATURE
109 West 77th Street, Suite 2
New York, NY 10024
212-362-7170
212-362-9592 (fax)
website@humansandnature.org