PRIVACY
POLICY
We at Green Enterprises respect your privacy. This statement is our
privacy policy, which discloses our information practices.
It describes:
* What personally identifiable
information of yours (information from which someone
may personally identify you) is collected from you
through our Web site
* What personally identifiable information of a third
party (such as your Internet Service Provider) is
collected from you through our Web site
* The organization or company that is collecting the
information
* How the information is used
* With whom the information may be shared
* What choices you have regarding collection, use
and distribution of the information
* The kind of security procedures that are in place
to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information
under our control
* How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information
If you believe that we are
not abiding by our posted privacy policy, you should
contact our Privacy Patrol by e-mailing your concern
to SidGreen@gsplans.com
Information Collection
Green Enterprises collects information
from our users in several areas of our Web site as
described in this privacy policy.
Registration
This Web site includes a registration form for you
to provide information to us. You are required to
give us information so that we may contact you (such
as your name and e-mail address). We use this information
to contact you about the services on our site for
which you have expressed an interest. In order to
provide you with a more personalized experience on
our site, we give you an opportunity to provide demographic
information (such as income level and gender) and
unique information that identifies you (such as your
social security number).
Newsletter
If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask
for contact information such as your name and e-mail
address.
Order Forms
We request information from you on our order form.
You must provide contact information (such as name
and shipping address) and financial information (such
as credit card number and expiration date). This information
is used to fill your orders and for billing purposes.
If we have trouble processing your order, we use this
contact information to get in touch with you.
Surveys & Contests
From time to time our site requests information from
you to conduct surveys or contests. Participation
in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary.
Therefore, you have a choice whether or not to disclose
the information. This information may include contact
information (such as name and address) and demographic
information (such as age or zip code). Unless otherwise
stated near the information form, we use survey information
to monitor or improve our site and contest information
to notify the winners and award prizes.
Tell a Friend
If you elect to use our referral service to inform
a friend about our site, we ask your friend for his
or her name and e-mail address. We automatically send
the friend a one-time e-mail inviting him or her to
visit our site. We store this information for the
sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail. The
friend may contact us at SidGreen@gsPlans.com to request removal of this information
from our database.
Cookies
A cookie is a message that the server for our Web
site gives to your Web browser. Your browser stores
the message in a file called cookie.txt. Each time
the browser requests a page from the server, a message
is sent back to the server. Purposes for cookies include
identifying users and preparing customized Web pages
for them. When you fill out a form on our site, this
information is packaged into a cookie and sent to
your browser. It’s stored for later use. The
next time you visit our site, your browser will send
the cookie to the server, which can use the information
to present you with a more personalized experience.
For instance, the site may greet you by your name
or remember your username when you begin to fill out
a form.
If you reject the cookie, you
may still use our site; however, you may only receive
limited information in some areas of the site.
Some of our business partners,
such as advertisers, use cookies on our site. We have
no access to these cookies or control over them.
Log Files
We use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to analyze
trends, administer the site, track a user’s
movement and gather broad demographic information
for aggregate use. “Aggregate use” means
that information from all users is collected and gathered
into a whole unit so that information as a whole can
be used. We do not link IP addresses to personally
identifiable information.
Special Offers
When you complete our registration form, we send you
a welcoming e-mail to verify your password and username.
You may occasionally receive information on products,
services and special deals. We offer you the option
to discontinue receiving these communications by “opting
out” of receiving promotional offers and material.
Site and Service Updates
We send you update announcements that contain important
information about our site and services. If you register
on our site, you may not discontinue receiving these
announcements unless you choose to delete your registration
information and discontinue using our site. We will
communicate with your regarding your account through
e-mail or the telephone.
Information Use
Green Enterprises is the sole owner of
the information collected on this site. We will not
share, sell or rent this information to others in
any way other than as disclosed in this policy or
stated at the point where the information is collected.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with
our partners and advertisers. This information is
not linked to any personal information that can identify
any individual person.
We use a credit card processing
company to bill for goods and services and an outside
shipping company to ship orders. These companies do
not use, share, retain or store personally identifiable
information for any purposes other than to process
the transaction or to ship the order.
We partner with other companies
and individuals to provide specific services. When
you sign up for these services, we will share your
name or other contact information that is necessary
for the third party to provide these services. These
parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable
information except for the purpose of providing these
services.
Your Choice to Opt-Out
You have the opportunity to “opt-out”
of having your information used for purposes not directly
related to our site at the point where we ask you
for the information. For example, our order form has
an opt-out box. If you want to buy a product from
us, but you do not want to receive future promotional
e-mails or marketing material, you simply check the
box to opt-out of the group receiving such e-mails.
If you no longer wish to receive
promotional material from our partners, you may opt-out
of this group by responding to the “unsubscribe”
e-mail link or by e-mailing us at SidGreen@gsPlans.com.
We notify you when your information
is being collected by any outside parties. You may
then make an informed choice as to whether or not
you would like to continue receiving services that
require an outside party.
Correcting and Updating
Personal Information
If any of your personally identifiable information
changes or if you no longer wish to use our service,
we will offer you a way to correct, update or remove
your personal data that you have provided to us. Usually
this can be done on the member information page or
by e-mailing us at SidGreen@gsPlans.com.
Security
We want to protect your information. When you submit
sensitive information on our Web site, your information
is protected online and off-line.
When you provide sensitive
information on our site (such as credit card number
or social security number), that information is encrypted
and protected with encryption software. While you
are on a secure page, such as our order form page,
the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as
Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer
becomes locked.
While we use encryption software
to protect sensitive information online, we also use
our best efforts to protect your information off-line.
All of our users’ information, not just the
sensitive information, is restricted in our offices.
Only employees who need the information to perform
a specific job (such as our billing clerk or customer
service representative) are granted access to personally
identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected
screen savers when they leave their desk. The servers
on which we store personally identifiable information
are kept in a secure environment behind a locked cage.
If you have any questions about
the security for our Web site, please e-mail us at
SidGreen@gsPlans.com.
Links
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. We
are not responsible for the privacy practices of the
other sites. We encourage you to read the privacy
statements of each and every Web site that collects
personally identifiable information. This privacy
policy applies solely to information collected by
this Web site.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes on our Home Page so you will always
be aware of what information we collect, how we use
it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose
it. If we decide to use personally identifiable information
in a manner different from that stated at the time
it was collected, we will notify you by e-mail. You
will have the choice to allow us to use the information
in this different manner. We will use information
according to the privacy policy posted at the time
the information was collected. |
