Green Collar Media collects personally identifying information and data about individuals, their company, and the companies demographics ("personally identifyinginformation and data") including (i) when you provide information to Green Collar Media, such as when you register or sign up for any of our products such as publications, subscriptions, e-mails, contests, newsletters, memberships, RSS Feeds, content delivery via SMS text or other technologies, webcasts, White Papers, online seminars, conferences and other communications with Green Collar Media, (ii) when you register or sign up on the Green Collar Media site or when youregister for any other Green Collar Network products, your information will be known to Green Collar Media and (iii) from time to time we may add other information that we collect from third party sources to enhance the information that you provided to Green Collar Media.

Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by Green Collar Media. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. Green Collar Media reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifying information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our Web sites.

The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes including the following:

• to improve the content and design of the Green Collar Media Web site
• to enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to the site
• to help advertisers, potential advertisers or marketers assess the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns
• We may create and use aggregate customer data to understand more about the interests of our customers and may use the data to offer goods and services we believe may be of interest to our customers, on behalf of Green Collar Economy, its sister Green Collar companies, or select organizations.
• Postal addresses, and other personally identifying information and data will be used to promote Green Collar Economy and other Green Collar products and services and may be rented and/or licensed to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the personally identifying information and data are rented and/or licensed for use and the users are required to target their offers carefully.
• E-mail addresses of Green Collar Media subscribers are used for re-qualification purposes. These e-mail addresses may also be used to collect feedback by members of our editorial or research team, to promote Green Collar Media and they may be rented to other firms and/or licensed for promotional purposes. When you provide your email address to us, you agree to receive email from Green Collar Economy and its sister properties. We allow users to "opt-out" of receiving e-mail from outside firms, however, when e-mail information is collected and with each e-mail use of the user's address you can individually "opt-out" of receiving further e-mail from outside firms and Green Collar Media. If a user does not choose to "opt-out" at the time the e-mail address is collected, or does not respond to the questions concerning how we may use their email address, the address may be rented and/or licensed for use to outside firms. Offers for which the e-mail address is rented and/or licensed for use require the users to target their offers carefully.

Users who later decide they want to change their preferences may do so by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Personal identifying information submitted on portions of our site developed with outside third parties may be shared with those third parties, and the information will be governed by those parties' privacy policies as well as Green Collar Media's. Green Collar Economy, its parent companies or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties.

Green Collar Media users should be aware that when they disclose personal identifying information (e.g., user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and E-mail address) in discussion forums, chat rooms or other areas that are publicly accessible by others, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. Green Collar Media is not responsible for any information that you provide in the above areas.

In the event that the ownership of Green Collar Media or any of its products are sold or transferred, all lists and data which contains personally identifying information and data including for example user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and e-mail address, will be transferred to the new owner.