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Updated July 30, 2011
Thank you for visiting www.biggreencompany.com, www.biggreenrabbit.com (individually and collectively, the "Website"). This privacy policy (our "Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, and protect your information. Our Terms of Use describe the obligations and restrictions you agree to in exchange for being allowed to use our Website. Together, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use form a legally binding contract between you and us which includes several complicated legal terms. If you are under the age of 18, you MUST share and review this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use with your parent or guardian before using our Website.
NOTE TO PARENTS- For clarity, the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use both use "you" and "your" to identify both you, the parent, and your child, on whose behalf you as the parent are agreeing to be fully bound by the terms of both our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Please read anywhere that we say "you" or "your" in this policy as both applying to: (a) your child, and to (b) you, as the parent expressly agreeing to be fully and completely responsible for your child. Remember, the safety and protection of your children while online begins with your involvement and guidance. We encourage you to visit the Direct Marketing Association of America's Get CyberSavvy! program at http://www.cybersavvy.org/cybersavvy/index.html to learn more about the use, collection and risks of online information. If you have reason to believe that your child has provided any personally identifiable information to us without your consent or if you simply wish to revoke your prior consent and remove your child's personally identifiable information from our lists, please contact us at the following address:
BIG GREEN COMPANY, INC.
2400 Spruce St., Ste. #200
Boulder, CO 80302
Tel: 303-444-1428
Fax: 303-440-9128
Email: info@biggreenrabbit.com
WE ARE COMMITTED TO COMPLYING WITH THE CHILDREN'S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT OF 1998 ("COPPA"). IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE YOU MUST GET YOUR PARENTS' PERMISSION BEFORE YOU USE OUR WEBSITE OR PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION TO US. IF YOU ARE OLDER THAN 13 BUT UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE UNTIL YOU HAVE REVIEWED OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF TERMS OF USE WITH YOUR PARENTS. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE WILL MEAN THAT YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, USE OF THIS WEBSITE FOLLOWING VERIFICATION OF YOUR PARENTS' CONSENT WILL MEAN THAT YOUR PARENT HAS AGREED TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO OR UNDERSTAND ANY PART OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY AND/OR TERMS OF USE, DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE OR PROVIDE ANY INFORMATION.
PERSONAL INFORMATION - Certain parts of our Website enable You to provide information to us and/or create an account. Generally, we will try to limit the information we request from you to non-personally identifiable information. However, depending on which activities you sign up for, we may from time to time also ask for some limited personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") including your first name and email address and the name and email address of your parent. In compliance with COPPA, it is our policy to require only the information necessary for the specific activity that you request; we do not condition your participation in any activity on the disclosure of more information than is reasonably necessary to participate in that specific activity.
PARENTAL CONSENT- For certain activities, we may ask you to provide a date of birth to help us determine whether you are under 13 years of age. If you are, we will require parental consent before we can accept any information from you.
We may use any of the following methods to verify your parents' consent:
*At registration, we will require that you provide your first name and a valid email address for a parent. We will send your parent a notification email stating that you have requested to create an account and receive our e-newsletters on an ongoing basis and describing the information you provided at registration and contact information for your parent to respond and request that we stop sending you any emails, cancel your account, and/or delete, modify or edit your information. We will also use your parents' email address to let your parent know about any changes to our Privacy Policy. Your parents may at any time review, change and/or delete any Personal Information that we have collected about you by emailing info@biggreenrabbit.com. Your Personal Information is only used to send to you the electronic newsletters, communications or products that you have specifically requested and we do not sell, transfer or share your information with any other third party other than third parties engaged by us specifically to handle the preparation and delivery of those newsletters, communications or products or to perform other related technical and processing functions. We require that any third party who receives access to your Personal Information agrees to maintain your confidentiality.
*We may also require a valid credit card number to validate your parent's identity and verify that they have given their permission for you to create an account. We do not charge any amount to this credit card and we do not retain this information after we have validated your parent's identity. We simply use the credit card number to request that your parent's credit card issuer confirms your parent's identity.
USAGE INFORMATION - Our Website may also use certain web technologies such as "cookies" to track your use of our Website ("Usage Information"). Your browser may have an option that allows you to reject cookies, but doing so may limit your use of our Website. Usage Information is anonymous and does not personally identify you. In addition, we may utilize use web beacons (also known as 'action tags' or 'one pixel.gif files'), provided by our advertising serving partner, to measure the effectiveness of, and otherwise manage, our online advertising. These web beacons enable our advertising server to recognize you when you visit the Website and to determine which banner ads bring users to the Website. We do not use spy ware, adware or any other similarly intrusive software.
USE OF INFORMATION COLLECTED - If you are over the age of 13, we may use your Personal Information to contact you, respond to your inquiries, and send you other information we think you may be of interest to you, such as special offers or to notify you of important new changes to our Website. If you are under 13 years of age, we will only use your Personal Information to provide you with services and/or information that you have specifically requested and for which we have your parents' permission to provide. Regardless of your age, we may use Usage Information to analyze, manage and improve our Website or to help us diagnose problems with our server or other technical issues relating to the performance of our Website.
ACCOUNTS- Certain parts of our Website require you to create an account. For example, if you wish to make a purchase from the Big Green Rabbit Store. IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OLD, YOU MAY NOT REGISTER FOR AN ACCOUNT. Please do not provide any Personal Information or attempt to create an account with the Big Green Rabbit Store under any circumstances if you are under 13 years of age. with respect to our Big Green Rabbit Website, you may under certain circumstances, be allowed to create an account for certain features of our Website. If you have reason to suspect that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information and/or registered an account without parental consent, please let us know immediately. Whatever your age, you may never use another person's account without permission. You are solely responsible for the activity that occurs on your account, and you must keep your password secure. You must notify us immediately of any breach of security or unauthorized use of your account. Although we will not be liable for any losses caused by any unauthorized use of your account, you may be liable for our losses or the losses of others due to such unauthorized use. IT IS IMPORTANT TO REVIEW THIS SECTION WITH YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.
SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF ACCOUNT - We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account and/or your access to our Website at any time if we have reason to believe that you are under the age of 13 and you have provided Personal Information without obtaining your parents' consent; we have reason to believe you have breached our Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy or that your conduct violates applicable law or is otherwise harmful to our interests of those of any other third parties, or decide to cease operation of and/or provision of any applicable products or services in connection with the Website; or we have reason to believe that you are under 18 years of age and have registered an account with the Big Green Rabbit Store.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION - We may disclose your information: (a) when we have reason to believe that such disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference to our rights or property, or those of other users of the Website, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities, including you. We may reasonably disclose such information as is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use, take precautions against liability, investigate and defend against any third-party claims or allegations, and/or protect the security or integrity of our Website. Also, we reserve the right to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws. Subject to COPPA, we may disclose certain portions of your information to our business partners for research, analytical and marketing purposes and/or we may use your Usage Information to identify and develop products and services that may be of interest to you and/or share this information with certain third parties for direct marketing purposes. We may also disclose your information if we have your consent or, if you are under the age of 13, if we have your parent's consent.
TRANSFER - We may sell or buy other businesses or entities. If we do, we may transfer or assign the information we have collected, including your Personal Information, as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. Also, in the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used and your Personal Information may be included in the transferred assets. We do not sell Personal Information, to third parties and have no intention of doing so in the future. Under the laws of some jurisdictions, you may be entitled to request disclosure regarding how we share your Usage Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes ("Information-Sharing Disclosure"). To the extent required by applicable law, we shall provide the Information-Sharing Disclosure to you upon rightful request made in writing to Big Green Company, Inc. at the address above. Except as explained above, we will not share any of your personal information with any third party, unless we have received your express permission to do so.
OPTING-OUT - You may opt-out of receiving any communications for which you or your child has signed up at any time by clicking on a link provided at the bottom of the email communication or by contacting info@biggreenrabbit.com.
LINKED SITES - Our Website may include, as a convenience to you, links to other websites. Each linked website will have its own rules and policies with respect to how it collects, uses and discloses your personal information. THESE SITES ARE NOT PART OF THIS WEBSITE. MAKE SURE YOU AND YOUR PARENTS REVIEW THE APPLICABLE AGREEMENTS AND POLICIES CAREFULLY WHEN VISITING OTHER WEBSITES. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OR HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THOSE WEBSITES AND WE DO NOT ENDORSE ANY PRODUCT ON THOSE WEBSITES.
SECURITY PROCEDURES - We take commercially reasonable precautions and have implemented commercially reasonable technical measures intended to protect against the risks of unauthorized access to, erroneous disclosure of, and unlawful interception of Personal Information submitted via the Website. However, your email transmissions and/or other communications containing Personal Information may be unlawfully intercepted or accessed by third parties and/or the Website may be subject to hostile network attacks or administrative errors. We cannot and do not guarantee the security of any information transmitted over the Internet. Once we receive your Personal Information, we take steps that we believe are commercially reasonable to limit access to your Personal Information to only those employees and service providers whom we determine need access to the Personal Information to provide the requested products, services, offers or opportunities that may be of interest to you. However, even after we receive your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee that your Personal Information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed as a result of a breach of our commercially reasonable efforts or as a result of any other event beyond our reasonable control. Accordingly, we cannot and do not guarantee that your Personal Information is completely secure and safe from such risks. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ENSURING, GUARANTEEING OR OTHERWISE OFFERING ANY DEFINITIVE PROMISE OF SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION OR USAGE INFORMATION.
CHANGES AND UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY - From time to time, we may revise the Privacy Policy and/or Terms of Use. To help you stay current of any changes, we take the following steps: (1) we note the date the Privacy Policy or Terms of Use was last updated November 10th, 2008; (2) if you are 13 years old or younger, we will email notice your parent at the email address provided during registration when we make any change to our Privacy Policy. Your use of the Website following the foregoing shall be deemed acceptance of the revised policy, so we strongly recommend that you check this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use periodically. |
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