Organic Connections Magazine (“Organic Connections,” “we” or “us”) respects your pri­vacy and has adopted poli­cies and pro­ce­dures to ensure that infor­ma­tion col­lected on our web­site about vis­i­tors (“you”) is han­dled respon­si­bly. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the pri­vacy prac­tices of www.OrganicConnectmag.com (“web­site”). Use of this web­site is also sub­ject to our Terms of Use.

This Policy outlines:

1. Does Organic Connections col­lect infor­ma­tion from children?
2. What per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion does Organic Connections collect?
3. Does Organic Connections col­lect anony­mous web­site user information?
4. Does Organic Connections dis­close infor­ma­tion to third-parties?
5. How do I update my com­mu­ni­ca­tions pref­er­ences or update the infor­ma­tion Organic Connections has about me?
6. What other infor­ma­tion should I know about Organic Connections’s data practices?
7. How can I con­tact Organic Connections?

1. Information from Children

This web­site is a gen­eral audi­ence web­site that is not tar­geted to chil­dren under the age of 13. The web­site does not know­ingly col­lect per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion from chil­dren under the age of 13. In order to com­ply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we ask that you not pro­vide per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion to us if you are under the age of 13. We urge par­ents and guardians to super­vise their children’s web­site browsing.

2. Information Collection and Use – Personally Identifiable Information

The web­site only col­lects the per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide to us. Personally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion includes data such as your name, street address, email address, or tele­phone number.

Registration
Visitors must reg­is­ter in order to use cer­tain fea­tures of our web­site. During reg­is­tra­tion, a vis­i­tor is required to pro­vide con­tact infor­ma­tion such as name, email address, and mail­ing address. We use this infor­ma­tion to con­tact you about fea­tures and ser­vices that we believe may inter­est you. Registration data may also include demo­graphic infor­ma­tion such as your gen­der or age, and sub­ject mat­ter pref­er­ences, so that we can effec­tively tai­lor edi­to­r­ial con­tent accord­ing to our vis­i­tors’ interests.

Requests, Orders and Customer Service
When a vis­i­tor asks us to pro­vide infor­ma­tion or a ser­vice, we request infor­ma­tion to enable us to respond to the vis­i­tor. This infor­ma­tion could include con­tact infor­ma­tion such as name, email address, and mail­ing address and, if applic­a­ble, finan­cial, pay­ment, or billing information.

Organic Connections Newsletters
If a vis­i­tor wishes to sub­scribe to any of our newslet­ters, we col­lect reg­is­tra­tion infor­ma­tion includ­ing the visitor’s name and email address and Subscribers may unsub­scribe from email com­mu­ni­ca­tions; please see the “Updating Your Communication Preferences” sec­tion below.

Announcements
We occa­sion­ally send reg­is­tered vis­i­tors email mes­sages about fea­tures on our web­site, pro­mo­tions, events, or other infor­ma­tion that may be of inter­est to them. To change your com­mu­ni­ca­tions pref­er­ences, please see the “Updating Your Communication Preferences” sec­tion below.

3. Information Collection and Use – Anonymous or Aggregate Data

Profile
Each time you visit our web­site, our web server receives infor­ma­tion from your com­puter such as your Internet pro­to­col (IP) address, domain name, refer­ral data (e.g., the address of the web­site you vis­ited before click­ing through to our web­site), and browser and plat­form type. We store this infor­ma­tion using cook­ies, log files or user pro­files admin­is­tered by a third party for us. A pro­file con­sists of infor­ma­tion we store about indi­vid­ual vis­i­tors that details their view­ing pref­er­ences. These pro­files do not con­tain infor­ma­tion that indi­vid­u­ally iden­ti­fies a vis­i­tor. Organic Connections may use pro­file infor­ma­tion to offer pro­mo­tions to users, improve or cus­tomize the con­tent of the site for a vis­i­tor, or direct cer­tain types of infor­ma­tion to a vis­i­tor. We may share aggre­gate pro­file infor­ma­tion (with­out indi­vid­u­ally iden­ti­fy­ing infor­ma­tion) with third parties.

Cookies
A cookie is a small data file stored on a visitor’s com­puter that con­tains infor­ma­tion about the vis­i­tor. We use both ses­sion ID cook­ies and per­sis­tent cook­ies. A ses­sion ID cookie ter­mi­nates once a vis­i­tor closes his or her browser. A per­sis­tent cookie is a small text file stored on the visitor’s hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cook­ies enable us to track and tar­get the inter­ests of our vis­i­tors so we can enhance the vis­i­tor expe­ri­ence on our site.

We use cook­ies to count the num­ber of vis­i­tors to our web­site; the cookie enables us to dis­tin­guish repeat vis­i­tors from new vis­i­tors. Persistent cook­ies can be removed by fol­low­ing your browser help file direc­tions. If vis­i­tors decline cook­ies, some por­tions of our site that depend on cook­ies may be inac­ces­si­ble or slower to access.

Log Files
Like most web­sites, we use log files to track vis­i­tors’ access to our web­site. This log file includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet ser­vice provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, plat­form type, date/time stamp, and num­ber of clicks. We use this infor­ma­tion to ana­lyze trends, admin­is­ter the site, track vis­i­tor move­ment in the aggre­gate, and gather broad demo­graphic infor­ma­tion for aggre­gate use. These anony­mous data are not linked to per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able information.

Clear Gifs (Web Beacons/Web Bugs)
We may employ soft­ware tech­nol­ogy called “clear gifs” (also known as “web bea­cons” or “web bugs”) that help us bet­ter man­age con­tent on our site by inform­ing us what con­tent is most pop­u­lar and most effec­tive. Clear gifs are tiny graph­ics with a unique iden­ti­fier, and are used to track the online move­ments of web­site vis­i­tors. Clear gifs are invis­i­ble on the page and are about the size of the period at the end of this sen­tence. Clear gifs are not tied to vis­i­tors’ per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able information.

4. Information Disclosure to Third-Parties

We do not dis­close infor­ma­tion from or about you except as described in this Policy.

Legal Requirements
We may need to dis­close infor­ma­tion col­lected from or about you as required by law, if we have a good-faith belief that dis­clo­sure is nec­es­sary to com­ply with a judi­cial pro­ceed­ing request, court order or legal process, to assert or defend our legal rights, to enforce our Terms of Use, to pro­tect us or oth­ers from vio­la­tion of legal rights, or to pre­vent harm to per­sons or property.

Non-Personal Aggregate Information
We may share aggre­gated demo­graphic infor­ma­tion with third par­ties such as foun­da­tions pro­vid­ing fund­ing, char­i­ta­ble donors, or third par­ties with whom we have mar­ket­ing alliances.

Service Providers
We share per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion on an as-needed basis with com­pa­nies that pro­vide ser­vices for us. For exam­ple, the com­pa­nies that oper­ate our web­site, main­tain our com­put­ers, and pre­pare our Postal mail­ings need access to the infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary to per­form their tasks. Likewise, the com­pa­nies that admin­is­ter fea­tures on our web­site, or that pro­vide pro­fes­sional or logis­tics ser­vices to us may receive infor­ma­tion about vis­i­tors in order to per­form their work for us.

Business Transitions
Your per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion and anonymized data col­lected about you may be trans­ferred in con­nec­tion with a busi­ness tran­si­tion — for exam­ple, if Organic Connections merges with another entity, is acquired by another entity, or sells a por­tion of its assets.

Public Postings

Our web­site pro­vides numer­ous oppor­tu­ni­ties for vis­i­tors to express their opin­ions and views, which are sub­ject to the stan­dards of con­duct in our Terms of Use. Content you sub­mit to these forums will be made pub­licly avail­able. For exam­ple, let­ters to the edi­tor, let­ters to Organic Connections’s advice colum­nist, state­ments made in an online dis­cus­sion forum or com­ment thread will be made pub­licly avail­able and attrib­uted to you, sub­ject to Organic Connections’s sole dis­cre­tion. You should be care­ful not to post any­thing that you do not wish to be pub­licly avail­able, such as your per­sonal con­tact infor­ma­tion or sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion. Once infor­ma­tion is made pub­licly avail­able on our web­site (no mat­ter how long it may remain avail­able), it may be copied or down­loaded by other per­sons, and Organic Connections has no con­trol over who may obtain the infor­ma­tion or what they may do with it.

Surveys & Polls
We occa­sion­ally con­duct sur­veys and polls. Participation in these is com­pletely vol­un­tary. Non-personal demo­graphic infor­ma­tion col­lected in sur­veys or polls will be used to mon­i­tor and improve the web­site. If a sur­vey or poll requests per­son­ally iden­ti­fi­able infor­ma­tion, that infor­ma­tion will only be used for the pur­pose dis­closed at the point of collection.

5. Updating Your Communications Preferences and Personally Identifiable Information

Visitors who no longer wish to receive pro­mo­tional com­mu­ni­ca­tions from us may opt-out by sub­mit­ting a request to “Website and email help” on our con­tact form.

6. Other Information

Security
We take phys­i­cal, tech­ni­cal and admin­is­tra­tive pre­cau­tions to pro­tect our vis­i­tors’ infor­ma­tion from unau­tho­rized access or use. Notwithstanding these mea­sures, no trans­mis­sion of data over the Internet or any other pub­lic net­work, or any online ser­vice, can be guar­an­teed to be 100% secure.

Links to Third Party Websites
This web­site con­tains links to third party web­sites that offer prod­ucts, ser­vices, and fea­tures that may be of inter­est to Organic Connections vis­i­tors. User-created con­tent such as com­ments or pro­file pages also may include links to or addresses for third-party web­sites. Organic Connections is not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy and secu­rity prac­tices of those third party sites; this Policy does not gov­ern those web­sites. We encour­age our vis­i­tors to be aware when they leave our web­site and to read the pri­vacy poli­cies and terms of use of each web­site that they visit.

Third-Party or Co-branded Features
Organic Connections peri­od­i­cally col­lab­o­rates with other com­pa­nies to offer spe­cial fea­tures through our web­site, such as our com­ment forums or jobs board. Because these offer­ings are not pro­vided by Organic Connections, they are sub­ject to the third party’s pri­vacy poli­cies and procedures.

Notification of Changes
If we update our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this web page and revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encour­age our vis­i­tors to review this Policy each time they visit our website.

International Users and Jurisdiction

This web­site is pub­lished in the United States. Information col­lected on this web­site is sub­ject to the laws of the United States, and US law shall gov­ern in any and all dis­putes, includ­ing pri­vacy or defama­tion issues. Your use of this web­site or sub­mis­sion of infor­ma­tion to us con­sti­tutes your con­sent to the trans­fer of that infor­ma­tion from your home coun­try to the US.

7. Contact Information
If you have ques­tions or con­cerns regard­ing this Policy, please con­tact us or send Postal mail to Webmaster, Organic Connections, 8500 Shoal Creek Blvd., Building 4, Suite 208, Austin, Texas 78757.