Privacy Policy

Who we are

GoodChange.Earth is a website of The Climate Economy Education Inc, a nonprofit for education (https://www.theclimateeconomy.com). Our GoodChange.Earth website address is: http://goodchange.earth. You can contact us at theclimateeconomy@gmail.com or +1 618 713 2896.

Effective Date: January 1, 2021 Policy Version: 1

We at The Climate Economy Education Inc are committed to respecting your online privacy and recognize your need to protect any personal identification information you share with us. Therefore we have established this privacy policy for our website.

Definitions

‘Nonpersonal Information’ (NI) is information that is in no way personally identifiable and which is obtained automatically when you access our website with a web browser. ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is not publicly displayed information that is personally identifiable to you and obtained for us to provide you with a product or service. PII may include information such as your name, address, phone number, and other related information that you provide to us. Our Privacy Policy tells you what PII we may collect from you, how we may share your PII, and how you can limit our sharing of your PII.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Generally you control the amount and type of information you provide to us when using our website. If you register as a member to use our website, you must provide personal information in order for us to provide you with various features and/or functionality of our website. As a member we collect and use your personal information in the following ways:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

At Member Registration

When you register for membership, we collect your name and email address, and if you choose to enter your location information. Do not share your contact information unless you are comfortable with that information being available on GoodChange.Earth. We do our best to secure that information but as a general rule you shouldn’t share any information online that you don’t want to be known publicly.

Online Forms

There may be online forms used on our website. The information you enter into these online forms may contain personal information. These include forms where you can enter information about your business or available job, and may include information such as your company name, physical address, email address, and phone number.

Mobile Application

If you use our mobile application, you may have to provide personal information in order to use it.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, as well as the name of the website to which you’ll go when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/proxy server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.

Google Analytics Privacy Policy

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our site, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our site, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use. http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Communications and emails

When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when registering as a member. We may also send you alerts regarding your use of our website. You can change contact preferences at any time through your account or by contacting us.

Sharing information with affiliates and other third parties

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your PII to third parties for marketing purposes. Other than as stated herein, GoodChange.Earth does not intent to transfer PII without your consent to third parties who are not bound to act on GoodChange.Earth’s behalf unless such transfer is legally required.

Community discussion boards

Our website may offer the capability for users to communicate with each other through online community discussion boards. We do not filter or monitor what is posted on such discussion boards. If you choose to post on these discussion boards, you should use care when exposing any PII as such information is not protected by our privacy policy nor are we liable should you choose to disclose your PII through such postings.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or text file stored in your computer or mobile device by your web browser. Cookies may contain text that can be read by a web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer; however, it may contain other information as well. By agreeing to accept our use of cookies you are giving us permission to place some or all the cookies described below on your device.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We may use cookies for:

Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
Signing in and identifying you as a member or user of our website
Personalizing content that you see on our website
Our website analytics
Remarketing our products or services to you
Navigating our website
Remembering your preferences and settings

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

Web Beacons

We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us understand the behavior of our customers and visitors. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside our website.

Who we share your data with

We do not share data knowingly with any third parties, and we use your information only for what’s outlined here for the purposes of everyone succeeding on GoodChange.Earth. While we cannot guarantee absolute privacy, we will address any issues to the best of our abilities as soon as possible.

Legally required releases of information

We may be legally required to disclose your PII if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms and Conditions; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other members; (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.

Disclosures to successors

If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PII to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PII according to the terms of this privacy policy as well as to any changes to this privacy policy as instituted by the new business.

Protecting the privacy rights of third parties

If any postings you make to our website contain information about third parties, you need to make sure that you have permission to include them in your posting. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings for which we are notified that such postings violate the privacy rights of others.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Retaining and Destroying Your Personal Information

We retain information we collect from you for only as long as we need such information for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Changing and Requesting Your Personal Information

You can change or update your personal information using facilities found on our website. If you need assistance with updating your PII or removing yourself from our mailing lists, send us an email with your request or contact us using our contact information found on our website. You may also request the type of personal information we have collected from you that is stored in electronic or paper format by our company.

Links to Helpful Information about How You Can Control Your Community Privacy Settings

GoodChange.Earth uses the BuddyPress community platform.

Do Not Track Settings

Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website does not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy policy. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites and provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal information.

Links to Service Partner Websites

We use Flipcause.com for managing volunteers, sponsors and donations. We also sometimes use Paypal.com for donations. We also use MakeProjects.com for Youth Climate Economy Ventures. While these parties are trusted partners, these websites are not under our control and have their own privacy policies.

Additional information

Protecting Children’s Privacy

We follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). For students under 13 enrolled in programs on GoodChange.Earth, we require parental oversight. Outside of manually-signed up student groups, we do not knowingly collect PII from a child under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that a child is accessing our website, we will delete the information soon after we discover it. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor have any liability to do so.

Our Email Policy

You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence from us. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business, in which case we will require at the minimum the same permission from you.

Our Security Policy

We have taken steps to build our website using industry-standard encryption and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal information. Unfortunately we cannot fully guarantee secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature.

Once we receive your personal information, we have security measures in place to protect against the loss or misuse of your personal information, though again we cannot fully guarantee against such loss or misuse. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.

Use of Credit Cards

We use third-party billing services and have no control over these services. We use our commercially reasonable efforts to make sure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.

International Data Transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy. Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available via the Internet around the world. While we have security measures in place, we cannot guarantee prevention of the use or misuse of such information by others.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PII in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PII in agreement with the privacy policy that was in effect when their information was collected. In all cases your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us using our contact information found at the top of this policy or on our website.