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CT EarthNet Privacy Guidelines Thank you for visiting ctearthnet.org, a Connecticut Earth Network site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide these guidelines explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this website. We may ask you to provide additional contact information (e.g. your name, organizational affiliation, street address, city, state, zip code, phone number and billing information) depending upon how you choose to use CT EarthNet (e.g. create an account, receive email notices, participate in our online content management system make a contribution). Only persons who provide us with requested personally identifiable information will be able to participate in the site's activities and offerings. All CT EarthNet users registering to access the web site for the first time will receive a welcoming email to verify password and username. We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit CT EarthNet, such as the browser you are using (e.g., Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer), the operating system you are using, (e.g., Microsoft Windows or Mac OS) and the domain name of your Internet service provider. At some CT EarthNet pages, you can create content and participate in a variety of ways (such as by posting a comment on one of our online forums or groups, voting in polls, posting an opinion to a blog or subscribing to a newsletter or mailing list). The types of personally identifiable information that may be posted at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number or information about your interests. At some pages, you may submit information about other people. The types of personally identifiable information that may be posted about other people at these pages include: name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. CT EarthNet will not rent or sell any personally identifiable information with any third party. We may forward to you, via phone, email or other means, requests to contact you sent to CT EarthNet by third parties. How We Use the Information We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for information, programs and services, to respond to your inquiries and to offer you other information, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you about new content or when we make changes to our user agreements, to fulfill a request by you, or to contact you about a request made by a third party. The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services. If you choose to submit content for publication (e.g., a letter to our editors, a posting to a blog or a discussion board), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us. We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services. We may (and you authorize us to) disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Web Site and applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements. In addition, we may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we, or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to, or merged with another company. Agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Statement. Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites, Ad Servers, and Sponsors Some of our pages contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. Access to personally identifiable information that is collected from our sites may be accessible for a limited period of time from the point of collection. For example, if you created a password-protected account within our site, you can access that account to review the information you provided. You may also send an e-mail or letter to the following e-mail or street address requesting access to or correction of your personally identifiable information. For verification purposes please include your first name, last name, e-mail address and the password you use for said service. CT EarthNet Special Note for Parents The site you are visiting is a general audience site. How to Contact Us If you have any questions or concerns about the online privacy statement for this site or its implementation you may contact us at contact@ctearthnet.org. Privacy Guidelines posted on this site were last updated on or about February 10, 2009. |