Privacy Policy

Last Updated on Friday, 04 September 2009 08:20 Written by GHV Editorial Friday, 04 September 2009 08:18

PRIVACY POLICY
GreenHudsonValley.com considers your privacy to be of the utmost importance. The following discloses our Privacy Policy, including how we gather and disseminate information on our website. By visiting and/or using our website for purchases of products and otherwise, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that our Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time in order to maintain its accuracy. As a result, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to keep up to date.

1. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this website, or any of your other privacy rights, and the information you may provide in connection therewith, you can contact us here.

2. STANDARD TERMS OF USE; DISCLAIMER
You acknowledge that you have read our standard Terms and Conditions pertaining to the use of this website and the services provided by us. Those terms and conditions are deemed to be incorporated herein.

3. OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We provide this notice to explain our online and off line information practices and the choices you can make about the way information is collected and used. Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, at no time will we sell, trade, rent or use your personal information without your prior written consent.

4. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES GREEN HUDSON VALLEY.com GATHER?
We gather various information from customers and other persons that use our website in order to personalize your experience uin using our website. The type of information we gather is as follows.

Information You Provide to us. This generally includes personally identifiable information that you provide to us when you (i) register with GreenHudsonValley.com; (ii) add listings on our website; and (iii) enter promotions. We normally collect the following personally identifiable information when you register with GreenHudsonValley.com: your full name, address, telephone number, e-mail address. We use this personally identifiable information, among other things to: (1) respond to customer requests; (3) customize future browsing for our readers; (4) improve our readers' browsing experience; and/or (4) communicate with our customers.

5. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features that will help you to enjoy a more personal and relevant browsing experience.

Cookies are used to auto-log you onto our system, which will allow you to access settings and personal preferences stored within your profile. This means that you may login without having to type your login name each time. Instead, only your password is needed to access the system.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in future. The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

6. DOES GREENHUDSONVALLEY.COM SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH OTHERS?
Information about our readers is an important part of our business. We do not rent, sell, or share your personal information with others, except as follows:

Agents: We engage other companies and individuals to provide certain services, on our behalf, including fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and email, marketing, processing credit card payments and customer service. These agents have access to certain personal information, to the extent required to perform their services. We sign confidentiality agreements with all of our agents, pursuant to which they agree not to use any personally identifiable information provided to them, except for the limited purposes required to perform their services. While we use our best efforts to oversee our agents? compliance with their confidentiality covenants, and intend to enforce the terms of these confidentiality agreements, where necessary, we do not have any direct control over these agents, and therefore, we cannot guarantee their compliance with these provisions.

Promotion of products and services: We sometimes send you promotional offers on behalf of other businesses. These offers normally involve products and services we believe may be of interest to you. When we do this, we do not give these other businesses your name and address. If you prefer not to receive these periodic offers, please inform us of your customer communication preferences.

Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy business assets. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that GreenHudsonValley.com, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, customer information in our database will, of course, be one of the transferred assets.

Certain Necessary or Required Disclosure of Information: In addition to the other circumstances described herein, we may disclose information provided by you if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable including, without limitation, to protect our rights or properties or when we have reason to believe that disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

8. SURVEYS
We value opinions and comments from participants and other visitors to our web site, and you may have the opportunity to give us your feedback through online and off-line surveys. In conducting these surveys, we may ask for your name, address, and/or email address so that we can appropriately identify you. Survey information collected will be aggregated and used to make improvements to the site and to improve our service and general offerings. Participation in the surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information.

9. IP ADDRESSES
We collect IP addresses to help collect statistical information about the performance of our servers and to help our system administrators optimize our server?s performance. These IP addresses will also be used to identify the most popular sections of our site, which we will then use to help provide you with a more relevant service.

10. LINKS
Our site may contain links to other web sites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another web site for which neither Green Hudson Valley nor its agents have any responsibility. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of all such sites as their policies may be materially different from our Privacy Policy. Of course, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

11. SAFEGUARDS TO PROTECT THE LOSS, MISUSE OR ALTERATION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We take all reasonable precautions to protect our users? personal information. When you submit sensitive information via this website, your information is protected both on- and off-line and the information resides within a controlled and secure infrastructure.
We also take all reasonable precautions to protect user information off-line. Access to all of our users? information is restricted to our offices, except for the limited information that we may provide to others, as described in this Privacy Policy. Only employees and/or contractors who need the information to perform a specific project are granted access to personally identifiable information.

12. NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we shall endeavor to post notice of a Privacy Policy update on our website so that our users may view our updated policy and be aware on an ongoing basis of what information we collect, how we use it, and under which circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we shall endeavor to notify registered users by way of email or by posting on our website. Users will have the right to approve the use of their personally identifiable information in any such different manner. We will not use your personally identifiable information in any way other than in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected, unless otherwise approved by you.