Privacy Policy
Last modified: February 14, 2011
At Greening we recognize that
privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered
by Greening Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies collectively, Greening´s
"services". In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain
our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how
particular services process personal
information. These notices can be found in the Greening Privacy Center.
If you have any questions about
this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website
or write to us at
c/o Greening Inc.
Information we collect and how
we use it
We offer a number of services
that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal
information to us, such as links to other websites. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types
of information:
- Information you provide: When you sign up for a Greening Account or other Greening
service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal
information (such as your name, email address and an account password).
For certain services, such as our advertising programs, we also request
credit card or other payment account information which we maintain in
encrypted form on secure servers. We may combine the information you
submit under your account with information from other Greening services or
third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to
improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you
the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.
- Cookies: When you visit Greening, we send one or
more cookies – a small file containing a string of characters – to your
computer or other device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use
cookies to improve the quality of our service, including for storing user
preferences, improving search results and ad selection, and tracking user
trends, such as how people search. Greening also uses cookies in its
advertising services to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage
ads across the web. We may set one or more cookies in your browser when
you visit a website, including Greening sites that use our advertising
cookies, and view or click on an ad supported by Greening’s advertising
services.
- Log information: When you access Greening 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 communications: When you send email or other
communications to Greening, we may retain those communications in order to
process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
- Affiliated Greening Services on other sites: We offer some of our services on
or through other web sites. Personal information that you provide to those
sites may be sent to Greening in order to deliver the service. We process
such information under this Privacy Policy. The affiliated sites through
which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we
encourage you to read their privacy policies.
- Gadgets: Greening may make available third party
applications through its services. The information collected by Greening
when you enable a gadget or other application is processed under this
Privacy Policy. Information collected by the application or gadget
provider is governed by their privacy policies.
- Location data: Greening offers location-enabled services,
such as Greening Maps for mobile. If you use those services, Greening may
receive information about your actual location (such as GPS signals sent
by a mobile device) or information that can be used to approximate a
location (such as a cell ID).
- Links: Greening 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 search technology, customized content and advertising
.
- Other sites: This Privacy Policy applies to Greening
services only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as
search results, sites that include Greening applications, products or
services, or links from within our various services. These other sites may
place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or
solicit personal information from you.
Greening only processes personal
information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the
supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above,
such purposes include:
- Providing our services, including the display
of customized content and advertising;
- Auditing, research and analysis in order to
maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Ensuring the technical functioning of our
network;
- Protecting the rights or property of Greening
or our users; and
- Developing new services.
You can find more information
about how we process personal information by referring to the supplementary
privacy notices for particular services.
Greening processes personal
information on our servers in the
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/or in the specific service 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/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained
your prior consent.
Most browsers are initially set
up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or
to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Greening features and
services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
You can decline to submit
personal information to any of our services, in which case Greening may not be
able to provide those services to you.
Information sharing
Greening only shares personal
information with other companies or individuals outside of Greening in the
following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent. We require opt-in
consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
- We provide such information to our
subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons
for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. We
require that these parties agree to process such information based on our
instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other
appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
- We have a good faith belief that access, use,
preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to
(a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including
investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect
against harm to the rights, property or safety of Greening, its users or
the public as required or permitted by law.
If Greening becomes involved in a
merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will
ensure the confidentiality of any personal information involved in such
transactions and provide notice before personal information is transferred and
becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term,
for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such
information does not identify you individually.
Please contact us at the address
below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal
data.
Information security
We take appropriate security
measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration,
disclosure or destruction of data. These 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 personal data.
We restrict access to personal
information to Greening employees, contractors and agents who need to know that
information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These
individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to
discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to
meet these obligations.
Data integrity
Greening processes personal
information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance
with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We
review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we
only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or
improve our services or as otherwise permitted under this Policy. We take
reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is
accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or
correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and updating personal
information
When you use Greening services,
we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information
and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at
your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for
legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves
and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before
processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are
unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical
effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical
(for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or
for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide
information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except
if doing so would require a disproportionate effort. Some of our services have
different procedures to access, correct or delete users´ personal information.
We provide the details for these procedures in the specific privacy notices or FAQs for these services.
Enforcement
Greening regularly reviews its
compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions
or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Greening´s treatment of personal
information by contacting us through
this web site or by writing to us at
c/o Greening Inc.
When we receive formal written
complaints at this address, it is Greening´s policy to contact the complaining
user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate
regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve
any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved
between Greening and an individual.
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
Privacy Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes
will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page
and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice
(including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy
changes). Each version of this Privacy Policy will be identified at the top of
the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this
Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional
questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us
any time through this web site or at:
c/o Greening Inc.