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The
Foundation for Conscious Evolution (FCE), owner and proprietor
of the EVOLVE website, is committed to maintaining your confidence
and trust, and respects your right to privacy. As owner and proprietor
of EVOLVE, FCE will not share, sell, or otherwise transfer your
personal information with any third party without your explicit
written consent. This includes to EVOLVE Partner Organizations who
elect to invite their members to engage in the services that EVOLVE
offers.
To participate
in the interactive features of EVOLVE, you are required to register
personal identity information on this site. Our commitment to maintaining
the privacy of this information is as follows:
Personal
Contact Information
When you register yourself on the EVOLVE website you are
required to provide your name, city, state, country, and email address.
Other information on the registration form (telephone,
sectors, etc.) is optional.
When you
become a member of EVOLVE or enroll in an online
education program (such as Gateway to Conscious Evolution, for example)
you are also required to provide your phone number and street address,
along with the information listed as required in the registration
form. This is required to complete the financial transaction associated
with membership and enrollments.
All personal
contact information collected will be kept private from all parties
except designated staff of FCE and the website development team
for EVOLVE. No personal information will be supplied to third party
individuals or organizations without your prior consent except as
compelled by law (see the final section).
E-commerce,
Donations and Order Forms
Our site will use an order form when customers purchase merchandise
from us, enroll in courses, or make donations. We collect customers'
contact information (like their email address) and financial information
(like credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form
is used to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Financial
information that is collected is used to bill the user for the merchandise
or donation. Contact information and financial information are kept
private and are used for no other purpose than what is indicated
above.
Any financial
information provided by users is sent via a secure server and encrypted
for user protection. FCE does not store or retain credit card numbers
after a purchase has been completed. FCE uses the industry standard
SSL security protocol to encrypt all information you submit. This
protocol ensures that sensitive data, such as credit card numbers,
addresses, phone numbers, etc. cannot be read or intercepted in
transit. FCE encourages all users to upgrade to 128-bit encryption
to ensure privacy on financial transactions.
Public
Forums
This site may make the use of chat rooms, forums, message boards,
resource listings and/or news groups available to our users. You
must register in order to participate in these forums. Please remember
that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public
information and, as such, you should exercise caution when deciding
to disclose your personal information or the website links and/or
contact information for any third party. Your commitment to integrity,
accuracy, honesty and the privacy of individuals and organizations
other than your self or your own is what make the services offered
viable and available for your use.
Be aware
that individuals may "trawl" our website to collect email addresses
of other users. FCE strongly condemns this practice, and reserves
the right to bar individuals who violate any implicit or explicit
legal terms of use from using our website.
Opt
In / Opt Out
When you register on this site you are given the option to elect
to receive email notices from EVOLVE. You may choose to change the
setting for this at any time by opening your personal profile page,
choosing the ìedit profileî link, and changing your opt in / opt
out setting. This setting is the responsibility of each user and
will not be changed at any time by FCE staff and its website development
team.
We may also
offer you the option to elect to receive email notices from EVOLVE
Partner Organizations. If you choose to do so, this will not result
in any personal information being transferred to a Partner Organization.
You may choose to not receive email notices from EVOLVE or Partner
Organizations at any time.
Website
Privacy Policy
EVOLVE servers may record the numerical Internet protocol (IP) address
of the computer you are using; the browser software you use and
your operating system; the date and time you access our site; and
the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly
to our site. We use this information to measure the number of visitors
to different sections of the site, to diagnose and correct system
errors, and to improve the site. We do not connect this information
to your name or identity.
Cookies
When you register on our site (including enrolling in a course)
we will place a file called a cookie in the browser directory of
your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information
that a website can store on your computer and later use to recognize
you. We will use the cookie only to recognize who you are when you
return to the EVOLVE site so that we can make it even easier for
you participate in its features and services. A cookie cannot be
read by any website other than the one that set it up.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. Any financial
information provided by users is sent via a secure server and encrypted
for user protection.
Other
websites
The EVOLVE website contains many links to other websites, and many
websites contain links to the EVOLVE website. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of any such linked sites.
More
Info
If you would like more information about your online privacy rights,
visit the Electronic
Frontier Foundation's website.
Compelled
Disclosure
If we are required by law to disclose the information that you have
submitted, we will attempt to provide you with notice (unless we
are prohibited) that a request for your information has been made
in order to give you an opportunity to object to the disclosure.
We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given
us an email address, or by postal mail if you have entered a postal
address. We will independently object to overly broad requests for
access to information about users of our site. If you do not challenge
the disclosure request, we may be legally required to turn over
your information.
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