Effective Date: January 4th, 2009

 

At Extropy Green we recognize that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered by Extropy Green. Where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we will publish supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information. These notices can be found on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our website or write to us at:

 

Privacy Matters

c/o Extropy Green

P.O. Box 15211

San Luis Obispo, California 93406

USA

Information we collect and how we use it

Information you provide - when you sign up for a Extropy Green service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you personal information (such as your name, email address). For certain services, we may request account payment information which we maintain in encrypted form on secure servers. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

Cookies

When you visit Extropy Green, we may send one or more cookies (a small file containing character strings) to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our services by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. We may set a cookie in your browser when you visit our website.

Log Information

When you access Extropy Green 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 Communication

When you send email or other communications to Extropy Green, 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 and organizations. Personal information that you provide to those sites may be sent to Extropy Green in order to deliver the service. We process such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

Links

Extropy Green 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 customized content.

Other Sites

This Privacy Policy applies to Extropy Green services only. Extropy Green processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and in the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content.
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our site.
• Developing new services.

Extropy Green processes personal information in the United States of America and on our servers in Canada.

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 Privacy Policy and the specific services privacy 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 Privacy Policy and supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent.

Information Sharing

Extropy Green shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Extropy Green in the following limited circumstances:

• We do not sell, rent, or lease our customer lists to third parties.
• We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
• We provide such information to affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf.

Information Security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or unauthorized disclosure of data. These include internal oversight of our data collection, storage, and processing practices to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Extropy Green employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.

Changes to this Privacy 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. Regardless, changes to our Privacy Policy will appear on this appear on this page - significant changes will be provided with more prominent notice. Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of this page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.

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