[Home Page] [About EarthRescue] [Mission Statement] [Livable Communities] [Sustainable Marketplace][Kids at EarthRescue] [Surveys] [Support EarthRescue] [Comments] EarthRescue wants to make your experience online satisfying and safe. Our data collection policies allow you to choose how much information to provide to us and to control how we use whatever information you tell us. Our goal is to provide you with a robust experience while allowing you to control your privacy and giving you a means to voice any questions or concerns you may have.
EarthRescue has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: http://www.EarthRescue.org.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. We use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.
This site contains links to other environmental and earth-friendly sites. http://www.EarthRescue.org is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
Our online surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and demographic information (like their zip code, age, or income level). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. We are an environmental non-profit and use this data to aid us in determining current project success as well as future directions. We will NOT sell, lease, rent, or give ANY personal information you may supply us to ANY other organization.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All information is stored on our office computers, not at our host location.
Children's Guidelines
Our Commitments to Your Family
Like you, we at the EarthRescue have children of our own and are concerned about their safety when they use the Internet. We want you and your family to be safe while visiting our Internet site. That is why we have established the following guidelines for the way we interact with children when they access our services.Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent. We will place a "Children's Seal" on any page that requests information directly targeted to children under 13 informing them that parental consent is needed and we will use a secure method for confirmation of such consent.
Additionally, EarthRescue offers additional levels of protection for minors beyond that which is required by law. While EarthRescue will not target registration to those under 13 without using the safeguards listed above, we recognize that some minors will utilize the registration products associated with our general release products. If a customer does register with us and their birth date indicates that they are not just under 13 but are in fact any age less than 18, we will:
- Never knowingly send a copy of a mass emailing to them, regardless of their stated preference given at registration;
- Never voluntarily share their information with any third-party, regardless of their stated preference given at registration;
- Never list them in any Member Directory in a manner in which their age can be easily identified.
In summary, for those who register on our site who are under 18, we'll do everything we can to make sure that their information won't leave our company for commercial use and someone using our site won't be easily able to look up their age. These protections are a start, but there are some actions that we cannot control and in these areas we need help from the child's parent or guardian as well. For instance, we can't stop a minor from giving their age in our unmoderated online chat sessions – but you can counsel them against taking actions like this. EarthRescue will:
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.
Cookies
There is much confusion about cookies, how they are used, and what they can do. Cookies are very small text files written by an Internet server to a customer's browser when information is exchanged. Cookies only contain information that the server computer "knew" in the first place and can only be read by the serving domain that placed them. For instance, Yahoo!™ utilizes cookies but the EarthRescue server can't read their contents nor can Yahoo!'s servers read ours. Cookies are an essential part of how the Internet works today and allow server computers to recognize your computer's browser when you return. If you have ever gone to a web page that automatically provides personalized content to you without you having to "log in," such as your own stock portfolio, this is almost certainly being accomplished with a cookie. As cookies are only text files, they cannot "run" on your computer and have no ability to search your computer for other information or transmit it to anyone.
Cookies are implemented as part of the technology implemented by your web browser. But don't just take our word for it – read what the companies who wrote the browsers have to say!
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, you can contact:
EarthRescue PO Box 10828 Oakland, California 94606 Admin@EarthRescue.org
