Privacy Statement for treesfromseeds.org

June 16, 2003

treesfromseeds.org has created this statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for treesfromseeds.org:

Scope

This document addresses the privacy policy of treesfromseeds.org and does not necessarily reflect the privacy policy of any other affiliated organization or individual.

This statement is subject to change or alteration at any time, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. Notices of such changes will be posted on this web page. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes.

Information Gathering

General Information: We will never collect any personal information from you, including  your name, age, address, e-mail address, credit card number and facts about your computers, profession and similar information, without your consent. We will, however, collect such information if you subscribe or enroll in any newsletters or e-mail information distribution systems, if you provide such information willingly. If you share information or supplies with us, we may use only your first name in our web pages, unless you expressly forbid such use.

IP addresses: We do not currently, but may in the future, use your IP address (the location of your computer on the internet) to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our web site, to gauge the popularity of content areas, and to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies: Although we do not currently do so, we reserve the right to use "cookies" to authenticate registered users and subscribers. You may refuse these cookies at any time.

Information Use and Sharing

We may use information in the following ways:

For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify subscriptions.

To send you e-mail notifications about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you.

To enhance existing features or develop new features, products and services.

Email Addresses: We will not share your e-mail address with third parties.

Subscription Lists: We will never rent, exchange or sell to third parties information you provide us when ordering a subscription to our online publications.

If you wish not to receive unsolicited offers by mail, we strongly encourage you to take part in the Direct Marketing Association's Mail Preference Service.

Agents: We do not 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, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. 

Affiliated Businesses We Do Not Control: We are not affiliated with any other business. 

Links

This site contains links to other websites in the form of hyperlinks. Treesfromseeds.org  is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Our site does not currently, but may in the future, use an order form for customers to subscribe to our online publications. In this event, we will collect visitor's contact information (like their postal and e-mail addresses). Contact information from the order form will be  used to send orders to our customers, or to send e-mail newsletters that they have requested. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Opt-Out section below.

Public Forums

This site does not currently, but may in the future, make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.

Children

treesfromseeds.org is directed to children who are supervised by their parents, teachers or other guardians, teenagers and adults, and is not directed to children under the age of 6. treesfromseeds.org  will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13.

Opt-Out

Our site does not at present, but may in the future, provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications  at the point where we request information about the visitor.

In this case, you will be able to remove yourself from our  newsletter at anytime by following the instructions at the bottom of each  newsletter. Note: You do not need to enter a password.

Correct/Update

This site does not at present, but may in the future, give users options for changing and modifying information previously provided. 

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, click here.

History of This Document

06/16/2003 - document generated.
08/10/2005 - hyperlink changed to contact page.