Privacy Policy - EntireEarth.com
Privacy Statement for EntireEarth.com Effective 12/06/06
EntireEarth.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm
commitment to privacy. Your privacy is important to us, and to better protect your privacy
we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can
make about the way your information is collected and used while visiting EntireEarth.com
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully
understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that
information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use
it.
The Information EntireEarth.com Gather and Tracks
EntireEarth.com gathers two types of information about users:
Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are
voluntary submissions to receive our reply to the "Feed-Back" Form and to the
"Suggest This Page To A Friend" form that you will see by clicking on the
"Tell a Friend" link on our pages:
Information EntireEarth.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly
by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor
our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand
the demographics of our audience. Because EntireEarth.com derives its revenue mainly from
sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to
keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does EntireEarth.com divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
EntireEarth.com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We have the following services, which require some type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
1. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone
else by clicking the "Tell a Friend" link on any page. The user must provide
their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in
the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the
email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
2. "Feed-Back" policy
Our site users can choose to send us any feed back about any matter or questions
pertaining to the EntireEarth.com site, by using the Feed-Back form on this site. Any and
all information the users submit to us by using the Feed-Back form on this site will be
used only by us, and only to reply to users asking for a reply from us. We will not sell,
rent, or share any identifiable information about you to any third party. Any personal
information received is secured and will not be used without your consent. We do not share
or sell your email addresses to any third parties. We will only use it to respond to your
email.
Usage tracking
EntireEarth.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout most of the entire site. However,
we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. EntireEarth.com
does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type,
and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained
in every user's browser).
EntireEarth.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our
Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use
tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based
on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well
each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
ANTI-SPAM POLICY
EntireEarth.com is 100% opposed to unsolicited commercial email ("spam"). We do
not send emails to anyone without permission and we do not sell, rent or provide email
addresses to any unauthorized third party. If you receive any unsolicited emails from
spammers, please be assured that EntireEarth.com did not provide your email address to
such parties. We do not spam anyone and do not authorize use of spam from anyone to
promote ads or products listed on our site.
This does not mean that we can prevent spam from happening on the Internet. Unfortunately,
spammers may obtain email addresses in a number of devious ways, including when you
respond and ask to be taken off a spam email list, and in some cases by just generating
emails to millions of random email addresses in the hopes of getting a few
"live" ones. Please be assured that at EntireEarth.com we hate spam as much as
you do.
OPT-OUT POLICY
Since we at EntireEarth.com have never send any unsolicited commercial email to anyone
and we haven't used any email list to send any email to anyone, we don't have any list to
OPT-OUT of. The only way that you will receive any email from EntireEarth.com is if you
contact us first, and we need to reply to your email, otherwise you will not get any email
from EntireEarth.com.
If at any time in the future we decide to start a mailing list, we will then make
available the relevant information on this site, about how to Join and OPT-OUT of any
future mailing list.
Links to Other Sites
EntireEarth.com contains links to other websites. EntireEarth.com is not responsible for
the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If you have concerns about how other
websites collect and use information about you, make sure to read that site's own privacy
policy.
We use the services of third-party advertising companies like shareasale.com, Commission
Junction, etc, to display ads on our site and these ads may contain cookies that allow
them to collect and use anonymous information about your visits to the EntireEarth.com
website. For more information about their practices and your options regarding their
information collection and use, make sure to read those site's own privacy policy.
EntireEarth.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those
sites.
For your convenience, most of the links to the third-party advertising companies will
open on a new window, but never on any pop-up, pop-under or iframe window.
Pop-Ups
We do not use any pop-up or pop-under advertisements on our site. We take strong measures
to prevent this from occurring on our site while you are on our site.
Cookies
Third Party Advertising
We work with third parties, including advertising companies and website analysis firms,
who use cookies and clear gifs to collect non-personally identifiable information when you
visit our Web site and other sites. This information may be used to provide you with
better shopping or savings opportunities through advertisements on this and other Web
sites that you visit, or to conduct market research and website analysis.
Our advertisers may use cookies to track the ads you see when you visit EntireEarth.com
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your
computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable
us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly
provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply
yourself.
The first time you visit most sites, a cookie will probably be set on your computer and
when you return, the cookie is read again. What does this specifically mean? Only that a
certain computer visited and returned to our site and which pages were browsed, but no
personal information is automatically collected or can be collected by us. You can refuse
cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before
accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. To disable
cookies in Internet Explorer, select Tools, then Internet Options.
USE OF INFORMATION
EntireEarth.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their
experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our
users.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and
don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read,
but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better
service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures
of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
EntireEarth.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more
effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their
needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or
sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad, unless that specific user
provides that information themselves. We will not disclose any information about any
individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect
the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
EntireEarth.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your
needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is
essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual
users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or
to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Any Changes To Our Privacy Policy
We at EntireEarth.com reserve the right to amend or revise this privacy policy at any
time we consider it necessarily and we will post these changes on this page.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by
EntireEarth.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on
this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and
under what circumstances we disclose it.
How To Contact Us
Should you have other questions, suggestions or concerns about any of these privacy
policies, send us an email by using the Feed-Back form on
this site.
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