GENI Privacy Statement
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for http://www.geni.org
Because this web site wants to demonstrate its commitment
to your privacy, it has agreed to notify you of:
What personally identifiable information of yours or third party
personally identification is collected from you through the web site
The organization collecting the information
How the information is used
With whom the information may be shared
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution
of the information
The kind of security procedures that are in place to
protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under GENI control
How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
If you
feel that this company is not abiding by its posted
privacy policy, you should first contact Peter Meisen
(GENI's President) directly by EMAIL, PHONE, or POSTAL MAIL.
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EDITOR'S NOTE: If you or someone you know wishes to
contribute to a Secure Server certificate for GENI, please contact
GENI. We feel that having a Secure Server certificate and
displaying the appropriate logo improves the amount
of donations/pledges GENI receives, and the number of online orders
that GENI receives. ]
Information Collection and Use
GENI
is the sole owner of the information collected on
this site. We will not sell, share, or rent
this information to others in ways different from
what is disclosed in this statement. GENI collects
information from our users at several different points
on our website (and via our shopping cart account at http://www.mcssl.com/).
Order
We request information from you on our order
form. Here you must provide contact information
(like name and shipping address) and financial information
(like credit card number, expiration date).
This information is used for billing purposes and
to fill customer’s orders. If we have trouble
processing an order, this contact information is used
to get in touch with you.
Log
Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad
demographic information for aggregate use. IP
addresses are not linked to personally identifiable
information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information
with our sponsors, partners and advertisers. This is not linked
to any personal information that can identify any
individual person.
We
partner with another party to provide specific services (eg. our shopping cart and newsletter services).
When you sign up for or use these services, we will
share names, or other contact information that is
necessary for the third party to provide these services.
These
parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable
information except for the purpose of providing these
services.
Links
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be
aware that GENI is not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other sites. We encourage
our users to be aware when they leave our site and
to read the privacy statements of each and every web
site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information
collected by the GENI Web site.
Material Connection Disclosure: Since our site's pages often include affiliate links to other sites, you should assume that ALL of the links are affiliate links, and that GENI will be earning a commission if you buy products or services after visiting a web site you were linked to via one of these links.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter,
we ask for contact information such as name, email
address, telephone number (in case your email address doesn't work any more), and mailing address (in case we want to send you a hard copy version).
Material Connection Disclosure: Since our email newsletters often include affiliate links, you should assume that ALL of the links in these emails are affiliate links, and that GENI will be earning sales commission if you buy products or services after visiting a web site you were linked to in one of these emails.
Surveys
& Contests
From
time-to-time our site may request information from you
via surveys or contests. Participation in these
surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose
this information. Information requested may
include contact information (such as name and shipping
address), and demographic information (such as zip
code, age level). Contact information will be
used to notify the winners and award prizes.
Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring
or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Tell-A-Friend
/ Refer-This-Page
If
you elect to use our referral service for informing
a friend about our site, we ask you for your name
and email address, as well as your friends’ name and
email addresses. GENI will automatically send
the friend an email inviting them to visit the site,
and a confirmation email to the originator of the
message. GENI stores this information for the
purpose of sending this email, and regular promotional
emails from GENI about GENI products, services and
events. You and your friend may contact
GENI at info@geni.org
to request the removal of this information from the
GENI database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect
your information. When you submit sensitive
information via the website, your information is protected
both online and off-line.
When our
registration/order form asks you to enter sensitive
information (such as credit card number and/or social
security number), that information is encrypted and
is protected with the best encryption software in
the industry - SSL. While on a secure page,
such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom
of Web browsers such as Firefox, Safari, and Microsoft
Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked,
or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.
While we
use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information
online, we also do everything in our power to protect
user-information off-line. All of our users’
information, not just the sensitive information mentioned
above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees
who need the information to perform a specific job
(for example, our billing clerk or a customer service
representative) are granted access to personally identifiable
information.
ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security
and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well
as any time new policies are added, our employees
are notified and/or reminded about the importance
we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure
our customers’ information is protected.
If you have any questions about the security at our
website, you can send an email to info@geni.org.
Supplementation of Information
In
order for this website to enhance its ability to tailor
the site to an individual’s preference, we combine
information about the purchasing habits of users to create a
personalized user profile. When a user makes
a purchase from these other companies, we collect
and share that purchase information so we can tailor
the GENI site to our users’ preferences.
Special Offers
We
send all new members a welcoming email to verify email
and contact information. Established members will
occasionally receive information on products, services,
special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for
the privacy of our users we present the option to
not receive these types of communications. Please
see our choice and opt-out below.
Site
and Service Updates
We
send user site and service announcement updates. Members
are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements,
which contain important information about GENI. We
communicate with the user to provide requested services
and in regards to issues relating to their account
via email, fax, or phone.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If a user’s personally identifiable information
changes (such as your address), or if a user no longer
desires our service, we will provide a
way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal
data provided to us. This can done by clicking on provided links or by emailing
our Customer Support department at info@geni.org.
Choice/Opt-out
Our
users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having
their information used for purposes not directly related
to our site at the point where we ask for the information.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter
or promotional materials from GENI or our partners may opt-out
of receiving these communications by clicking on the Opt-out links provided or by replying with
"unsubscribe" in the subject line in the email and send it to info@geni.org.
Users of
our site are always notified when their information
is being collected by any outside parties. We
do this so our users can make an informed choice as
to whether they should proceed with services that
require an outside party, or not.
Notification
of Changes
If
we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post
those changes on this page or our Homepage so our
users are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what 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
will notify users by way of an email. Users
will have a choice as to whether or not we use their
information in this different manner. We will use
information in accordance with the privacy policy
under which the information was collected.
