Web Site Privacy Policy
The nonprofit National Gardening Association (NGA) values the support of our
members, donors, customers, and others who visit our Web sites. We know
that protecting personal information is important to our supporters. This
notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting this Web site, you are
accepting the practices described in this policy.
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General Browsing Information - If you visit our site to read or
download information, we may collect and store the following general
information in order to analyze trends, gather broad demographic
information, and monitor site traffic patterns that can help us further
develop and improve the design and functionality of our site: Your
computer's IP address, browser type, and operating system; the date and
time you access our site; the Internet address of the Web site from
which you linked directly to our site; and the various pages you visit
while on our site.
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Personally Identifiable Information - National Gardening
Association does not sell, trade or rent your e-mail address. We will
occasionally send offers to our customers on behalf of other trusted
businesses, but we do not give those businesses your e-mail address or
other personal information. National Gardening Association does not sell
or rent your postal address. Occasionally we may exchange the postal
addresses of those who input their postal address on our Web site and
those who are on our customer list to other reputable nonprofit
organizations whose products or services we think you might find
interesting. If you provide us any personally identifiable information
(e.g., your name, postal address, or contact information) we may use it
within our organization for the purposes of responding to any comments
or questions you submit and/or providing follow-up information about our
organization. If you do not want us to share your personally
identifiable information with other organizations or companies, please
let us know by clicking writing to
us. We will not provide any of your personally identifiable
information to other organizations if you elect to keep your record
private.
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Publicly Sharing Your Comments - NGA often receives information
from Web site visitors who have successfully participated in our
programs and/or used our resources. We may want to publicly share
specific comments and stories we receive by posting this information on
our Web site. We will not, however, publicly share ANY information we
receive on our Web site without first receiving the consent of the
individual who submitted the information. Furthermore, we will not post
information in any way that specifically identifies the sender of that
information unless the sender approves it.
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Children's Information - We do not sell products or offer
services to children. We do develop programs for adults that are
intended to instill children with an interest in gardening. We will not
collect or disseminate any personally identifiable information about
children. If you are under 18, you may use this site only with the
involvement of a parent or guardian.
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Cookies - A cookie is a small file stored on your hard disk
drive. Cookies may contain information such as site preferences and
login information. NGA does not use this cookie to link to personally
identifiable information on our site. We may use cookies to record
generic session information and user-specific information on what pages
users access or have accessed on our site.
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Other Security Measures - We provide our members and supporters
with a secure experience when they are ordering memberships, making a
donation, or buying merchandise. Our technical security measures include
using industry standard encryption to secure the transfer of data
between your browser and our servers. Although we will use all
reasonable means to safeguard the privacy of your personal information,
transmissions made via the Internet cannot be made absolutely secure.
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Ad Servers - In an effort to bring you offers that are of
interest to you, we have relationships with other companies that we
allow to place ads on our web pages. As a result of your visit to our
site, ad server companies may collect information such as your domain
type, your IP address, and clickstream information.
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Changes to this Policy - NGA reserves the right to amend this
policy at any time. Our current privacy policy applies to all
information we have about you. We encourage you to check our Web site
frequently to review the current privacy policy.
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Contact Information - If you have any questions or comments
related to NGA's privacy policy, please contact us via e-mail or mail: National
Gardening Association, Inc., 1100 Dorset Street, South Burlington, VT
05403.