Privacy Policy

To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.

At the GardenpathCoop.org site, you may order products, enter contests, vote in polls or otherwise express an opinion, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities.

The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected at these pages include but are not limited to: Name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

At certain parts of our site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to access rooms and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as your current IP#, the type of browser you are using (IE. Netscape, MS Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (IE. Windows, Linux, MAC) and the domain name of your Internet service provider (IE. AOL, Sympatico, etc).

We may use the information you provide about yourself to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, and services, to respond to your inquiries about our offerings, and to offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you.

We sometimes use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests or when we make changes to our subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an online newsletter, or to contact you about your account with us.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them your gifts or cards. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

The information we collect in connection with our online forums and communities is used to provide an interactive experience. We use this information to facilitate participation in these online forums and communities and, from time to time, to offer you products, programs, or services.

If you choose to submit content for publication (IE. a 'letter to our editor'), we may publish your screen name and other information you have provided to us.

We sometimes use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage, as well as to offer you products, programs, or services.

We may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Agents and contractors of GardenpathCoop.org who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for GardenpathCoop.org.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice.

Finally, the GardenpathCoop.org website will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Some of our sites contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the other sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

The GardenpathCoop.org website covered by this Privacy Notice sometimes may offer content (IE. contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or cobranded with identified third parties. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. GardenpathCoop.org has no control over these third parties' use of this information and is not liable for any information disclosed to another website that may or may not be directly linked to GardenpathCoop.org.

To enhance your experience with our site, many of our web pages including the login process uses cookies. Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites.

For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (Example: to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services. These cookies do not contain your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information. Logon cookies maintain your link to your account information in our database.

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. During the registration process and at any time during your access to your GardenpathCoop.org account information, you are viewing and accessing the information via a secure page using 256-bit encryption.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your account.

The site you are visiting is a business and personal blog website. Most of the content on this site should be considered as adult-oriented and may not be considered suitable for viewing by children. GardenpathCoop.org takes no liability for the unsupervised viewing by children and recommends that parents oversee their child's Internet Access through software such as CyberPatrol or other such monitoring programs.

If you have any questions or concerns about the GardenpathCoop.org Privacy Policy for this site or its implementation you may Contact Our Staff Directly.