Privacy

Protect the Rainforest, LLC recognizes that you are concerned about privacy. We are committed to preserving your privacy and safeguarding your sensitive information. The following statement describes the general information-gathering and usage practices of our sites.

Our staff, contractors, Internet service providers and others involved in this site follow this policy or similarly strict policies regarding your information.

Disclosure

ProtectTheRainforest.com is committed to fully disclosing our policies regarding the collection, use, maintenance, disclosure and security of personal information obtained from users of our site. The term "personal information" includes a name, address, email address, or any other information which could be used to contact you directly or to identify you personally.

ProtectTheRainforest.com only uses personal information about its Web site users for specific purposes. We do not share user information with third parties except when we have told users about the disclosures, when we have prior consent, or when required by law.

ProtectTheRainforest.com gathers personal information from users only insofar as you are purchasing a product or in order to respond to a request of information by you. Personal information is used for activities such as auto-completion of commonly-used forms and helping us contact you when you solicit information from ProtectTheRainforest.com

We do not normally disclose personal information to anyone outside of ProtectTheRainforest.com unless we have previously informed users about the disclosures. However, some data may be used from time to time by outside contractors, including auditors or consultants, to assist us in carrying out necessary financial or operational activities. These uses will be consistent with this privacy policy and all contractors using this potential personal information must agree to safeguard it, to use it only for the authorized purpose, and to return it or destroy it upon completion of the activity. ProtectTheRainforest.com might be required to disclose personal information in response to a valid legal process such as a subpoena, search warrant or court order.

Although unlikely, it is possible that we may have to make certain disclosures to ensure the security of our Web site, to protect its integrity, or to take precautions against potential liability. In any of these situations, we will take any reasonable steps to limit the scope of the data disclosed.

Some pages on our sites offers users the opportunity to email either ProtectTheRainforest.com, its affiliate organizations or other companies or organizations about specific issues. To do so, users are asked to provide certain personal information to facilitate these communications. This information often includes the user’s name, email address, and, depending on which contact method the user chooses, postal address. This information is used to create a template letter or message from the user to the organization or company and, if the user chooses to email the message using our automated function, it will include the user’s email address to as part of the email message. This provides the organization or company a way to respond to users regarding the content of the message.

We occasionally may ask users to complete surveys on our sites and may ask for personally-identifying information as part of that process. Unless otherwise clearly specified at the point of the request, this information is not used by ProtectTheRainforest.com for any purpose other than to process or analyze the results of the survey or to fulfill a request that you make as part of the survey.

All our employees and processors who have access to the personal data of users and are associated with the processing of that data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of users’ personal data.

ProtectTheRainforest.com will work with users to resolve any complaints about our privacy policies or practices.

If you have a complaint about our privacy and fair information practices policy or about our implementation of the policy, you can contact us. ProtectTheRainforest.com will try to resolve any problems that arise in a fair and prompt manner.

While we work to ensure the security of personal information, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.

As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.

ProtectTheRainforest.com occasionally uses "cookies" to provide convenience features to return visitors. "Cookies" are bits of information that are stored by your browser on your hard drive. As you activate certain information services at our Web site, we create a cookie to help our program remember who you are. The information stored in the cookie we send you contains personally identifiable information but is automatically deleted from your hard disk when you close your browser.

ProtectTheRainforest.com uses cookies only when appropriate and we never use cookies to retrieve information from your computer that was not originally sent in a cookie from us.

Links to Other Sites: ProtectTheRainforest.com may carry advertising on its site and provides links to other sources of information which we believe may be of interest to site visitors. We have no control over the content of the sites to which you may be directed by a link in ProtectTheRainforest.com and these sites may have different privacy policies, which we encourage you to review. When you click through to other Web sites, you may get cookies directly from them. ProtectTheRainforest.com does not see or use these cookies, and we do not control how other sites use cookies.

Changes to Privacy Policy

ProtectTheRainforest.com features and services will change over time and our information-gathering practices and policies may also change. While our philosophy of protecting user information from inappropriate uses and disclosures will not change, this policy will be updated occasionally to include any change that materially affects the collection, maintenance, use, or disclosure of personal information.

Other changes to this privacy policy statement that reflect refinements, improvements, updates, and new features will be made as appropriate and posted as soon as possible. Whenever the privacy policy changes, we will modify the date and version number to reflect that a change was made.