Privacy & Security Policy
Forever Green Gifts and its affiliates understand the
importance of customer privacy and security. We respect the privacy of our
customers; therefore, Forever Green Gifts does not trade, sell, rent or share
personal information to third parties. Any and all personal information
provided to us by our customers is only used by Forever Green Gifts to enhance
each individual’s shopping experience while visiting our Website.
Protecting the information entrusted to us and maintaining the highest level of personal privacy shall remain our number one priority. The function of this Privacy Policy is to describe what kinds of personal information we collect, how we may use and protect that same information, and choices our customers have regarding their personal information. Although no method of internet transmission or electronic storage can guarantee 100% security, Forever Green Gifts follows the generally accepted industry standards for protection of personal information. We endeavor to stay current with the most up-to-date physical, electronic and managerial security procedures to protect the personal information we collect; however, Forever Green Gifts cannot guarantee the absolute security of its website.
By visiting organicbug.com, you agree to the practices expressed in the current version of the Privacy & Security Policy. Please review the Privacy & Security Policy upon each visit to this Website to make yourself familiar with its present terms. Any change to our Privacy & Security Policy is always clearly posted on these pages of our Website to inform users about what information we collect and how we use it.
Non-Personal Information
This Website automatically collects non-personally
identifiable information from your computer. This information includes your
browser type, domain name, and computer Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. This
is the number automatically assigned to your computer upon any kind of internet
access. We use IP addresses to monitor the number of visitors including the
average time spent on our Website, analyze user trends, measure marketing
performance, assist in diagnosis of problems or failures on our server, and to
make improvements to our Website.
Forever Green Gifts uses “cookie” technology to identify you while you use our Website. A cookie is a non-personally identifiable alphanumeric data file that a site places on your hard drive to enable it to remember you while you use and return to a site. Forever Green Gifts uses session ID cookies, which terminate once you exit or close your browser, to track visits to our Website. Persistent cookies store non-personally identifiable information about you on your computer. Cookies make using a site more convenient. One example is the use of a cookie to retain the contents of your shopping cart while you continue to shop. Additionally, cookies are used to collect cumulative usage information concerning the numbers and frequency of visitors to individual pages and to a site overall. This data is generally used to help improve the usability and appearance of the site.
Should you wish to remove persistent cookies from your hard drive, you may go to your internet browser and follow the cookie removal instructions. You may also set your browser to refuse all cookies or alert you to their presence. Please note, if you choose to disable cookies through your browser, you may not be able to add items to your shopping cart or complete an order online.
Cookies are for aggregate use and do not collect personally identifiable information. This Website does not combine information collected through cookies with other personally identifiable information gathered about you.
Personal Information
Personally identifiable information is collected in
the course of processing account registrations and product orders. Personal
information may include name, shipping address, billing address, email address,
phone number(s), and credit card information. Other information may be gathered
relating to satisfaction surveys as well. Our Website allows visitors to
contact us directly with questions or comments regarding our products and other
website-related issues. In this process we maintain data files to insure quick
replies and implementation of improvements based on these questions or
comments.
When you provide personally identifiable information to this Website, whether through the placement of an order or upon registration of My Account, organicbug.com employs Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) technology. All information you supply us is encrypted prior to transmission across the internet; then decoded after its arrival on our secure server for processing. SSL encryption makes personal information extremely difficult for others to intercept.
Uses of Information
Contact information from the e-commerce transaction
is used to contact customers with information pertaining to order status and
shipping alerts. Financial information that is gathered during check out is
used for processing orders on our Website. All email communications regarding
sales orders and shipping alerts refer to credit card numbers only by their
final four digits.
One-time registration to activate My Account on our Website allows future expedited checkout among other benefits. The personally identifiable information you register with us including, but not limited to, your name, shipping address, billing address, phone number(s), email address, and credit card information is stored in our database and accessible only to you each time you visit our Website and sign in using your username and password to access your personal account.
If you subscribe to our email Updates or if you provide your email address to us, we will automatically send you email Updates. These emails are provided as a courtesy to inform you about new products, specials and promotional offers. There may also be informative articles pertaining to health and well-being. To opt-out of our email Updates, you may find an easy-to-use unsubscribe link at the bottom of each email we send.
Information Disclosure
Forever Green Gifts does not disclose your personal
information to any other companies, persons or agencies, except for the
following purposes:
Service Providers—Outside companies and individuals may be contracted by Forever Green Gifts to perform services on our behalf. This may include, but is not limited to, operating and maintaining our Website, processing orders, sending email, filling and packing orders, mailing packages, delivering packages, data entry and analysis, market consultation and assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer service. These companies and individuals are only given access to the specific personal information which is needed to perform their respective services, but they are prohibited by law from using it for any other purpose.
Affiliates and Partners—Sometimes we email offers to selected groups of customers on behalf our affiliated companies and other nonaffiliated partners. These offers are sent by Forever Green Gifts, not by our affiliates and partners.
When any part of our Website links you to other websites, it is important you understand those websites operate under their own privacy & security policy. We recommend thorough examination of the privacy & policy statements posted on our affiliate and partner websites to become aware of their procedures for gathering, using and disclosing personal information.
Legal—We reserve the right to disclose personally identifiable information to comply with applicable law regulation, legal process, or governmental request; enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements or protect the rights, property, or safety of Forever Green Gifts, its customers, employees or others.
Within the scope of our business practices, we may buy or sell subsidiaries or business units. Customer information is often one of the transferred business assets but shall remain subject to the terms set forth in our Privacy & Security Policy.
Children's Privacy
Forever Green Gifts encourages parents and guardians
to monitor and further participate in their children’s online activities. No
personal information may be submitted to this Website by children under 13
years of age. Children under 13 years of age are not allowed to subscribe to
email Updates or register for Personal Accounts. Forever Green Gifts does not
knowingly collect personal information from visitors to our Website under 13
years of age. Users under 18 years of age may use our Website only with the
involvement of a parent or guardian.
We are happy to answer any questions or concerns regarding this Agreement. Please contact us via email at info@forevergreengifts.net, by phone:, or by mail: Forever Green Gifts, , , NY
Should you disagree with our Terms of Use Agreement, our Privacy & Security Policy, or any changes regarding the same, your sole legal recourse is to discontinue use of this Website immediately.
Last modified: January 2009