This is the official Privacy Policy for TogetherGreen, a national initiative of the National Audubon Society, Inc. (“Audubon”). TogetherGreen aims to provide the inspiration, leadership and opportunities for people everywhere to take conservation actions in their homes, their communities, and beyond to improve the health of the environment we share. TogetherGreen is made possible by generous funding from Toyota.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information gathered through this site and is designed to help you understand how we collect and use the personal information you decide to share, and to help you make informed decisions when using TogetherGreen, www.togethergreen.org.
By using this site, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our site. Audubon reserves the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your use of our site after we post changes to this Privacy Policy affirms your consent to any new terms contained therein.
Audubon may collect email addresses and other personally identifiable data about visitors when such data is voluntarily submitted to togethergreen.org. Examples of instances when we collect personally identifiable information include when you:
Areas of the site at which information is requested will direct you to this policy. You always have a choice as to whether to provide your personally identifiable information. Although you are not required to disclose any personally identifiable information to us, portions of our Web site may be unavailable to you without such information.
Contact information is used, when necessary, to follow up directly with individuals in order to verify the accuracy or details of user-submitted content. We will use this information to provide visitors with the best-possible information about conservation issues and actions.
If you choose to e-mail a page of our site to a friend, in most circumstances we do not have access to and do not collect any personally identifiable information regarding you or your friend. On certain pages of the site, we need to have access to your and your friend's e-mail addresses temporarily to send the e-mail. This information is deleted as soon as the e-mail is sent and is not used for any other purpose.
We occasionally have third parties perform services on our behalf, such as marketing and analytics. These third parties have access to your personal information only as needed to perform their services for Audubon and are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of the personal information.
We may also use or disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or to comply with legal process served on us or this site; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, this site or our users; and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of our employees, affiliates, agents, site users, or the public.
Audubon does not sell or otherwise disclose your personal information outside the organization. However, such information may be used by Audubon to provide you with additional information about TogetherGreen, Audubon or both.
Audubon and certain third parties acting on our behalf use various Internet technologies to help us to manage our site operations and track usage behavior so that we can tailor information to make your visits more enjoyable and meaningful. These Internet technologies include:
Information that is collected via IP Address and Cookies is not personally identifiable. However, if you choose to provide Audubon with personally identifiable information – such as by registering a user profile -- your information may be linked to the data stored in these technologies. In addition, we may share aggregate (not individual) site usage statistics and demographic information and other non-personally identifiable information with advertisers and other third parties, but this information will not include any personally identifiable information. Personal information about you as an individual will not be provided to any third party without your consent, except under the circumstances described above in the “Collection and use of personally identifiable information” section.
To opt out of having your user profile information used to provide you with additional information about TogetherGreen, Audubon or both, please send us an email at privacy@togethergreen.org or click on the following URL to manage subscriptions: http://www.togethergreen.org/unsubscribe.aspx
We may continue to contact you via email for administrative or informational purposes, such as follow-up messages regarding the administration of your account or for contests you enter.
If you suspect that we have handled your personal information in a manner that doesn't comply with the Privacy Policy, please contact us by e-mailing an explanation to privacy@togethergreen.org.
Audubon reserves the right to alter our Privacy Policy as needed. If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose it to anyone. All changes to this policy will be posted on our Web site prior to the time they take effect. In the event that we make material changes to the way we use personally identifiable information, affected consumers will be notified via e-mail and will be given the opportunity to opt-out.