Privacy Statement
GoodConscience Privacy Policy
April 10, 2007
At GoodConscience we recognize that privacy is important. This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by
GoodConscience Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, GoodConscience’s "services").
Safe, secure encrypted payment technology keeps our customer’s identity and financial information private, we use Secure Socket Layers
(http://www.verisign.com/ssl/ssl-information-center/how-ssl-security-works/index.html) , a Verisign certificate(http://www.verisign.com/ssl/),
secure hosting by Rack Space (http://www.rackspace.com/aboutus/ ) and all payment information is encrypted.
GoodConscience adheres to the US safe harbor privacy principles of Notice, Choice, Onward Transfer, Security, Data Integrity, Access and Enforcement.
If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at Privacy Matters,
c/o GoodConscience Inc., PO Box 205, Southampton, NY 11969
Information we collect and how we use it:
Information you provide - When you sign up for a GoodConscience Account or other GoodConscience service or promotion that requires registration,
we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services we also request credit
card or other payment account information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you submit
under your account with information from other GoodConscience services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and
to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
Log information - When you use GoodConscience services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you
visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser
language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
User communications - When you send email or other communication to GoodConscience, we may retain those communications in order to process
your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Affiliated sites - We offer some of our services in connection with other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those sites
may be sent to GoodConscience in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Policy. The affiliated
sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.
Links - GoodConscience may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this
information to improve the quality of our service, customized content and advertising.
Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by GoodConscience. We do not exercise
control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies
or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
GoodConscience only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for
specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:
Providing our products and services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising;
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain protect and improve our services; Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
GoodConscience processes personal information on our servers in the United States of America. We may process personal information to provide our
own services. In some cases, we may process personal information on behalf of and according to the instructions of a third party, such as our
advertising and service partners.
Choices for personal information:
When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we use this information
in a manner different than the purpose for which it was collected, then we will ask for your consent prior to such use.
If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices,
we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive
information for purposes other than those described in this Policy and/or in the specific service notices, unless we have obtained
your prior consent.
You can decline to submit personal information to any of our services, in which case GoodConscience may not be able to provide those
services to you.
Information sharing:
GoodConscience only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of GoodConscience in the following limited circumstances:
We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information. We provide such information to our subsidiaries,
affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We require that these
parties agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality
and security measures.
We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation
of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent
harm to the rights, property or safety of GoodConscience, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
If GoodConscience becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal
information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users that clicked on a particular
advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security
measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
We restrict access to personal information to GoodConscience employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to
operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline,
including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
Data integrity
GoodConscience processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any
applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect,
store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal
information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information
whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal information
When you use GoodConscience services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to
correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for
legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or
removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require
disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning
information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and
correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have
different procedures to access, correct or delete users personal information. We provide the details for these procedures in help screens
or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
GoodConscience regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or
GoodConscience's treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or by writing to us at Privacy Matters, c/o
GoodConscience Inc., PO Box 205, Southampton, NY 11969. When we receive formal written complaints at this address, it is GoodConscience's
policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including
local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between
GoodConscience and an individual.
Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit
consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are
significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version
of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy
in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or at
Privacy Matters, c/o GoodConscience Inc., PO Box 205, Southampton, NY 11969.
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