Privacy Policy

This website, www.greenforall.org (the “Site”), is operated by Green For All (including its related entities) which, for the purposes of this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), should be considered the entity who will store and use your information. We respect your privacy and have established this policy to describes Green For All’s current policies and practices regarding collection, use and disclosure of personal information collected through the Site.

If AT ANY TIME you would like to unsubscribe to our services offered through the Site (“Services”) and terminate your membership, you may do so by clicking here  and completing the form. If you unsubscribe and/or terminate your Membership, you will no longer be able to use the Services or the Site and your Membership will be terminated.

You should review this Privacy Policy in conjunction with the Terms of Use located at/gfa/wp/terms. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is part of the Terms of Use, and together, these documents are the overall Agreement between you and Green For All. Certain terms in this Privacy Policy (such as “User,” “Content” and “Membership”) are defined in the Terms of Use, and we use them here for ease of reference. Green For All may use third party websites to host the Site and/or offer certain Services. Green For All is not responsible for those third parties’ terms of use, privacy policies and/or practices.

The Site is currently directed to users in the United States only, and users should be aware that all information is stored on servers located in the United States.

Please review this privacy policy periodically because we modify it from time to time.

Each time you visit this Site, use any of the Services, or provide us with information through the Site, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in the Privacy Policy in effect at that time. You are also accepting our specific rules or terms of use which may be posted on specific sections of the Site, including areas for making donations, volunteering, attending or hosting events, receiving information updates, signing letters (or petitions), or sending emails, and taking part in our campaigns, generally. Each campaign may also have specific guidelines that may be accessed from the landing page of a specific campaign.

This Privacy Policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage and data gathered only on the Site. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other website or any offline contact between Green For All and any other entity or offline contact between you and Green For All.

Information We Collect

When you use the Site, we may collect the following types of information:

• Information you provide - Much of the Site can be viewed without revealing personally identifiable information to us; however, you may be unable to access certain features of the Site and/or use certain Services without providing your personally identifiable information. When you use, sign up for, and/or access our general Services on the Site we ask you for personally identifiable information (“PII”), which may include your name, street address, telephone number, e-mail address, and organization name and phone. Use of certain features and/or Services of the Site may also require you to provide your PII.
• Green For All cookies - When you visit the Site, we send a small file to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. This file is called a cookie. We use cookies to improve the quality of our Site by storing your preferences to share user trends about how people utilize the Site. Your browser is probably set up by default to accept cookies, including Green For All cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to alert you when a cookie is being sent to your computer. You should be aware, however, that some of Green For All’s features might not function properly if you disable cookies on your computer. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any PII you submit while on our site.
• Log information - When you visit and use the Site or our Services, our servers automatically record information that your computer’s browser sends whenever you visit any 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 computer’s browser. In order to better serve our members, we periodically analyze web logs. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our website. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to Green For All members.
• User communications - When you send e-mail to Green For All, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Site.
• Links - Green For All may provide links to third party sites from the Site. Green For All is not responsible for the terms of use, privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our Privacy Policy only governs information collected through our Site.

At times the Site may ask you for PII relating to third parties. For example, you may have the opportunity to send certain content to a friend by entering that friend’s email address. If you choose to use one of these services, Green For All stores this information for the sole purpose of sending the one-time email.

Surveys or Petitions and Events

For petitions and surveys you’ve signed or completed on our Site, we treat your name, city, state, and comments as public information – for example, we may provide compilations of petitions, with your comments, to the President, legislators, or other U.S. elected officials. But, except as required by law or authorized by this Agreement, we will not disclose your street address, email address or phone number to another User, without your written permission. We may also make your comments, along with your first name, city, state, and country, available to the press and public online. Green For All reserves the right to use your personally identifiable information provided during the petition signing process, for all purposes set forth in this Agreement, including but not limited to for action requests, solicitations, or information alerts.

If you sign up to host, attend or find an event and/or sign or create any petition, then you have opted in to receive email correspondence from Green For All or our affiliated websites. In each email you receive, you will be told why you are receiving the email and how the sending party received your name. You will also have the option to opt out of and remove yourself from our mailing list at any time. To do so, use the relevant link in the email messages we send to you, or let us know here.

Sending Emails Via The Site

In certain cases, like when you host an event, we enable you to send individual e-mails to people who have signed up to attend your event. In such a case, your name will be disclosed to the recipient, by way of a secure communication tool (“email tool”), through our Site. Event hosts will not receive the personal email addresses or other personal information of event participants. If you add a message to this email, you are solely responsible for the specific message(s) you send using our email tool.

Sending Emails On Your Own

We encourage you to voluntarily share your email address with members of Green For All. If you do, however, you should be aware that Green For All does not guarantee the privacy of that information. Accordingly, you share your email address and other personal information at your own risk. If you have obtained an email address from this Site and wish to contact another person, please use your company manners and contact them only for the purposes outlined on the Site or Set forth herein.. Sorry, but if we discover that you are using third party information for another purpose that, in our opinion, does not support the goals of Green For All, we reserve the right to terminate your Membership with the Site.

Financial Donations or Purchases

If you choose to make a donation on the Site and/or purchase any product or Service, we will collect your credit card information and use it only for the authorized transaction through our secure online payment system. Green For All does not retain your credit card information. Green For All is comprised of not-for-profit public interest organizations.

Phone Campaigns

From time to time, Green For All staff and volunteers conduct campaigns using the telephone. If you have provided your telephone number to us for a specific campaign, then you may be contacted by one of our staff or volunteer members. If you would like to be removed permanently from our phone list, please let us know here. Please allow 8-10 days for your information to be removed.

URLs

URLs contained in emails may contain an id that enables us to correctly identify the person who takes an action using a web page. We use these URLs to simplify the process of signing petitions and filling out surveys. We may occasionally present a shortened URL that references a longer URL that contains an id–we do this to simplify the display, to prevent links from becoming broken when copied, and to ensure compatibility with email programs that do not handle long URLs. When a shortened URL is displayed in an email, you will see the full URL in the browser’s address bar when you access the page.

You Own Your Information

You own your PII, and we have a license to use what you decide to share with us.

If you were referred to this website from an outside party, we reserve the right to share your PII with that referring party.

Except as set forth herein, we do not have current plans to share PII with any other third parties (other than for the legal, safety and security reasons as set forth in this Privacy Policy), but that could change. If we do intend to share your PII, we will notify you using the email address you provided and give you an opportunity to opt out. We may look at and share collected information in an aggregate or “headless” form, which does not specifically identify you personally. This is detailed below. We do not consider such information PII.

Ways We Use Your Information

We collect PII to authenticate Users of the Site, process requests for our goods and Services, and send notifications about the Site or our goods and Services. You can decline to submit PII, in which case you may not be allowed to use the Services of the Site, including Membership. By voluntarily providing us with PII, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide PII on the Site, you acknowledge and agree that it may be transferred from your current location to the officers and servers of Green For All and any authorized third parties located in the United States. If you use a bulletin board, blog, chat room or other publically viewable forum on the Site, you should be aware that any PII you submit can be read, collected or used by other Users and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for PII that you choose to publically disclose.

We hold the PII we collect from you and other Users individually for Services we provide directly to you; and in aggregate form – similar to a counter – to compare website activity information about all of Green For All Users collectively. We may share certain aggregated non-personal information about our Users with third parties such as the number of Green For All Users who use certain Services or purchase certain goods, for example. We have the expectation that the third parties with whom we may share your information use reasonably commercial efforts in maintaining the security of your information. Except as may be required by law or as otherwise set forth in this Agreement, we do not disclose data about individual members’ behavior to any other organization.

In addition to what’s already been stated herein, Green For All may process your PII for the following purposes:

• Providing our Site or Services to you, including the display of customized Content;
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our Site and/or Services;
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
• Sending communications, updates, newsletters, action alerts, and/or news;
• Sending communications and/or information about campaigns and petitions;
• Developing new products and/or Services;
• Keeping you informed of products, Services, and promotions;
• Third party hosting of the Site or Services.

Furthermore, Green For All may use your PII without your prior consent when we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such PII is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce Green For All’s applicable Terms of Use, 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 Green For All, its Users or the public as required or permitted by law. From time to time, we may supplement PII collected on our Site with information collected by third parties.

If Green For All becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets, your PII may, and likely will, be disclosed to third parties and we will provide notice before your PII is transferred to the acquiring company and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

If we propose to use your PII for any purposes other than those described in this Policy, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of your PII for those other purposes. We will not collect or use PII for purposes other than those described in this Policy unless we have obtained your prior consent.

If you are visiting Green For All from outside of the United States, please be advised that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected under the laws of the United States. By using our Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Policy.

California has passed legislation requiring certain specific disclosures be made available to California residents who use the Internet and provide information that may be used for marketing purposes. That legislation requires any business that discloses a customer’s PII to any third party for direct marketing purposes to provide the customer a method for obtaining the names, addresses and certain other specified details of anyone who might have received that PII.

We would like to offer this option, regardless of whether you are a California resident. As such, you may request this information from Green For All by writing to:

Green For All

Attention: Privacy Rights

1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600

Oakland, California 94612

or by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. You can also reach us by telephone at510.663.6500

Green For All is not obligated to respond to more than one such request from you per calendar year.

Links to Third Party Websites and/or Third Party Advertising

Green For All may provide links to and advertisement by third party web sites, and other web sites may provide links to the Site. Third party web sites operate according to their own terms of use and privacy policies. Green For All has no control over such third party web sites, and by using this Site, you acknowledge and agree that Green For All is not responsible for the availability of such third party sites, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites. You further acknowledge and agree that Green For All will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites.

Children

Green For All does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Green For All requests that children under the age of 13 not use the Site or Service nor submit any personal information to the Service. Since information regarding children under the age of 13 is not collected, Green For All does not knowingly use or distribute personal information regarding children under the age of 13. If Green For All obtains actual knowledge that it has collected personal information about a child under the age of 13, that information will be immediately deleted from our database.

Security

Green For All takes commercially reasonable security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data that you share and that we collect we store. These security measures 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 your PII.

Unfortunately, no security system can be 100% secured; accordingly, Green For All cannot guarantee the security of any information provided to us in connection with the information that we collect through the Site. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of Member information at any time.

In light of the above and because of the complex and constantly changing nature of our business, and the security risks associated with using the Internet, Green For All does not guarantee error-free performance under this Privacy Policy. To the extent permissible under law, Green For All shall not be liable for any incidental, consequential or punitive damages relating to this Privacy Policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Green For All reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you by posting Privacy Policy changes on this page. Such modifications to the Privacy Policy will become effective on the day they are posted. Green For All encourages you to frequently review the Privacy Policy for any modifications.

We will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide a more prominent notice (including e-mail notification) of significant policy changes which greatly reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy as determined by Green For All in its sole and complete discretion.

Do You Have Questions?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or the practices of this Site, you can contact us by clicking here or writing to:

Green For All

1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600

Oakland, California 94612