Privacy Statement


World Clean Air Forest Initiative is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the World Clean Air Forest Initiative website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

World Clean Air Forest Initiative collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. World Clean Air Forest Initiative also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by World Clean Air Forest Initiative. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by World Clean Air Forest Initiative for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through World Clean Air Forest Initiative public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: World Clean Air Forest Initiative does not read any of your private online communications.

World Clean Air Forest Initiative encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from World Clean Air Forest Initiative so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. World Clean Air Forest Initiative is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the World Clean Air Forest Initiative and World Clean Air Forest Initiative family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

World Clean Air Forest Initiative collects and uses your personal information to operate the World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web site and deliver the services you have requested. World Clean Air Forest Initiative also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from World Clean Air Forest Initiative and its affiliates. World Clean Air Forest Initiative may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

World Clean Air Forest Initiative does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. World Clean Air Forest Initiative may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, World Clean Air Forest Initiative may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to World Clean Air Forest Initiative, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

World Clean Air Forest Initiative does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

World Clean Air Forest Initiative keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within World Clean Air Forest Initiative, in order to determine what World Clean Air Forest Initiative services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within World Clean Air Forest Initiative to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on World Clean Air Forest Initiative or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of World Clean Air Forest Initiative; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of World Clean Air Forest Initiative, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize World Clean Air Forest Initiative pages, or register with World Clean Air Forest Initiative site or services, a cookie helps World Clean Air Forest Initiative to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same World Clean Air Forest Initiative Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the World Clean Air Forest Initiative features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the World Clean Air Forest Initiative services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

World Clean Air Forest Initiative secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. World Clean Air Forest Initiative secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

World Clean Air Forest Initiative will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. World Clean Air Forest Initiative encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how World Clean Air Forest Initiative is protecting your information.

Contact Information

World Clean Air Forest Initiative welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that World Clean Air Forest Initiative has not adhered to this Statement, please contact World Clean Air Forest Initiative at andyp@wcafi.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.