| Effective March 1st, 2021 www.greenaetwork.com is hosted in the United States. If you use Greenaetwork.com from the European Union, or any other region with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your personal data to the United States. The United States does not have the same data protection laws as the European Union and other regions. By providing Personal Information under this Privacy Policy, you consent to the use of Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the transfer of your Personal Information to the United States. To use Greenaetwork you must agree to this policy and Automattic Privacy Policy. Greenaetwork LLC and their designated administrators of that Network have access to all Network Data that is collected on a particular Network and are required to comply with applicable laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM) and not to use or disclose Network Data or Personal Information in a manner that violates this Privacy Policy. In particular, Greenaetwork and the designated administrators of that Network have access to each Member’s IP address, captured at the time of registration, for the purpose of blocking further sign ups from a particular IP address and otherwise preventing abuse on a Network, such as spam and malware. Please ensure you are comfortable with the accessibility of this data before becoming a Member of a Network. Your registration to become a Member of a Greenaetwork constitutes your acknowledgement and agreement that if you have voluntarily provided information to Automattic that causes your IP address to link to personally identifying information. Automattic’s obligations with respect to use and disclosure shall be the same as those that apply to any other Personal Information provided hereunder. The consent to the Greenaetwork Privacy Policy (excluding the Communication part such as Newsletter and Mailing List) is kept for three years from the moment you accept (opt-in). The renewal of consent will take place through our communication in which we will invite you to renew explicitly. |
| 1. DEFINITIONS |
| 1.1 Greenaetwork.com or Greenaetwork LLC or our website (also we or our or us)Digital platform which aims to become the global social network for sustainability. 1.2 User(s) or Greener(s) or Member(s)All the people who browse or use or join Greenaetwork.com, are Users also called “Greeners”. Visitor(s) or Non-Member(s): public or private User who exercises or does not exercise a business who chooses to browse Greenaetwork.com without registration. So-called Visitors are not registered on www.greenaetwork.com and subject to this Privacy Policy, if they share Personal Information. Business User(s) or Legal Person(s): public or private User who signs up to www.greenaetwork.com, choosing to access for free (Basic Subscription) or for a fee (Premium Subscription). For Business Users therefore we mean the so-called “legal persons” established in the form of a profit or non-profit association, a company or a public body registered on www.greenaetwork.com. So-called Business Users are registered on www.greenaetwork.com and subject to this Privacy Policy. Consumer(s) or Natural Person(s) or Individual(s): single private User who chooses to use the functions of Greenaetwork.com. The consumer is a so-called “natural person” subject to the current regulations on the protection of personal data. So-called Consumers are registered on www.greenatwork.com and subject to this Privacy Policy.The Consumer (which is basically a “natural person“) is subject to the current regulations on the protection of Personal Data like CalOPPA (California), GDPR (EU), LGPD (Brazil), and others. 1.3 Registration(s) or Membership(s) or Subscription(s)Any form of registration, free (Basic Subscription) or paid (Premium Subscription), that a User can make on www.greenaetwork.com to access specific services. As a rule, registration takes place by accessing the “sign up ” section of our website for which some data are required. In the event of technical problems and inability to register through the appropriate “sign up” section, the Greenaetwork can proceed with a manual creation of the profile for the User who requests it. Registration can be reached spontaneously through a search on www.greenaetwork.com or through Greenaetwork LLC marketing campaigns on other external platforms that connect to the “sign up” section of www.greenaetwork.com. In this case, the external platforms are to be considered “Other Services” or “Other Providers” so extraneous to www.greenaetwork.com. In fact, we advertise our products on other channels (so-called Sponsored Campaigns).You acknowledge that any data released by you on such external platforms (on which Greenaetwork.com is present as a guest right as you) are subject to the control and protection by the external platform (Other Service or Provider) itself. 1.4 Consent(s) or To consent or Authorization(s) or To authorizeVoluntary informed acceptance by a User and engaging in a particular event or process. 1.5 Profile(s) or Account(s)Identification data of a User, which allows access to an electronic service: e-mail, name and password in order to use the online service. 1.6 To choose or To prefer (and similar) or ChoiceThe User is free so not forced by anyone to join Greenaetwork.com and its Features. The use of our services is optional and free so not subject to physical and / or mental forcing. If you notice natural or legal persons who have suffered threats or retaliation in order to join any services or benefits offered by Greenaetwork.com, please report to info@greenaetwork.com or to the competent authorities in your country as soon as possible. 1.7 To share or To publish or To post (and similar)Any form or inserting, sharing, writing, typing, publishing, and posting personal or not personal information on a social network, such as www.greenaetwork.com. 1.8 Sensitive information or Personal DataAny information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. 1.9 Public or Publicly availableAny form or inserting, sharing, writing, typing, publishing, and posting personal or not personal information on a social network, such as www.greenaetwork.com by keeping a public privacy to your account or updates.All contents you insert on Greenaetwork.com get public if you do not set your privacy as private. 1.10 Profiling or Data ProfilationAny form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements (as defined by GDPR, Art. 4, nr. 4). 1.11 Processing or Data ProcessingAny operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction (as defined by GDPR, Art. 4, nr. 2). 1.12 Product(s) or Service(s) or Feature(s)Feature(s)All the sections and functions of www.Greenaetwork.com used directly by Business or Consumer Users (for example: News section, Magazines section, Achievements section, Greeners section, Events section, consumer badges, Messages, Advertising campaigns). The Features are concretely the products and services that Greenaetwork.com offers free or for a fee to its Users.Therefore, the services provided by external suppliers are excluded. 1.13 Form(s) or Survey(s) or Questionnaire(s) or Poll(s)Tool used by a subject who asks questions to obtain feedback from the participants to the form/survey/questionnaire. 1.14 AutomatticAutomattic is an external Provider. All personal information of Greenaetwork.com Users acquired and indicated in this privacy policy is also collected on the Automattic servers. 1.15 Partner(s) or Partnership(s)Legal persons with or without profit who carry out technical, editorial or media activities subject to a collaboration agreement with Greenaetwork LLC. 1.16 Other Service(s) or External Service(s) or Provider(s)Non-profit or with profit organizations outside Greenaetwork LLC that offer services to online businesses such as www.greeanetwork.com. 1.17 To opt-in and opt-outTo Opt-In choose to participate in something since the database would not include a person’s name unless the User opted in.To Opt-Out choose not to participate in something and to opt out. 1.18 DNT or Do Not Track or Do Not Track SignalConcept promoted by regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing internet Users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites. Currently, various browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari) offer a DNT option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header that sends a signal to websites visited by the browser User about the User’s DNT preference. You can usually access your browser’s DNT option in your browser’s preferences. 1.19 Newsletter Periodic information update sent to a specific target, such as users, customers or members, updating them on their activities. Born in paper form, today it is mainly sent by email, it can have informative, promotional and / commercial purposes. |
| INTRODUCTION |
| 2.1 OUR COMMITMENT TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY Greenaetwork LLC is committed to be transparent and clear about all uses of your data. As well, the language used in our policies will be as simple and understandable as possible by everyone.www.greenaetwork.com has only a language version, English. Anyhow, we’re working on translating our policies into other popular language to be more accessible to all. Our mission is to connect businesses, entities, institutions and individuals united by an active interest in sustainability, from environmental to social. To do so, it is our priority to ensure transparency about the data we collect about you, how we use it and the people or Providers we share it with. To improve our performance, we invite all interested parties to report any misunderstandings or unclear aspects by contacting us to info@greenaetwork.com. 2.2 YOUR FREE CHOICE TO JOIN GREENAETWORK.COM On Greenaetwork.com, Users can share their professional identity, interact with their network, exchange knowledge and information, publish and view relevant content. The content and data on some of our Features are viewable by non-members (so-called Visitors). If a User leaves www.greenaetwork.com that has this privacy policy, Greenaetwork.com may still maintain Personal Information that has been provided to Greenaetwork.com and be able to use that Personal Information in accordance with this Network-specific privacy policy.We will respond to any request made under this Section as soon as reasonably possible, but in any case, no later than 30 days following your request. Additionally, even if you update or remove Personal Information that you have provided to us, your Personal Information may be retained in our backup files and archives for a reasonable period of time for legal purposes.We will retain your Personal Information and the personal information we process for as long as your account status is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.To cancel your account:Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings > Delete Account 2.3 TYPES OF REGISTRATIONS Our Users can use Greenaetwork.com the way they prefer, with or without registration. You can register by inserting your data manually or by connecting through other web platforms.Greenaetwork.com might connect with other web platforms and get some information (Profile Name, E-mail Address, and Profile Picture) directly from your profile registered on another platform.You acknowledge that you are allowing Greenaetwork LLC to connect to your Profile on a different web platform and you understand that until your registration is not completed, Greenaetwork LLC is not responsible for your Personal Information (for the one on another website either). To join www.greenaetwork.com, there are three options: (1) as a Visitor: public or private User who exercises or does not exercise a business who chooses to surf on www.greenaetwork.com without registration. (2) as a Business User : public or private User with or without profit who signs up to www.greenaetwork.com, choosing to access for free (Basic Subscription) or for a fee (Premium Subscription). This category of profiles therefore include the so-called “legal persons” such as profit or no-profit associations, business-driven companies and public bodies, authorities and agencies registered on www.greenaetwork.com. (3) as an Individual: single private User who chooses to use the Features of Greenaetwork.com without any business purpose. The Individual (which is basically a “natural person“) is subject to the current regulations on the protection of Personal Data like CalOPPA (California), GDPR (EU), LGPD (Brazil), and others. If you are curious about the regulations on the protection of personal data, we recommend you to most updated as: California State | California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), 2020 European Union | General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 2016 Brazil | General Data Protection Law (LGPD), 2020 Visit our Help Center for more. Do you know other regulations on the protection of personal data that you think should be brought to the attention of Users? Report them to us with an email to info@greenaetwork.com 2.4 YOUR CHANGES TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION Click on you Profile Picture > Account Settings You may, at any time, update, correct, or delete certain categories of Personal Information that you have provided to us by signing in to your Network and updating the Personal Information. 2.5 PROFILE CANCELLATION AND TERMINATION Click on your Profile Picture > Profile Settings > Leave Greenaetwork A Member (Business or Consumer) may also request the deletion of any additional account information by contacting us at info@greenaetwork.com. Please note that certain categories of content that you may have posted, such as groups that you have created or discussions that you have started, will not be automatically deleted as part of this process. This is because other Members may still be using those groups and/or discussions and any changes may make them non-functional. If you wish to request deletion of these remaining content categories (such as groups & discussions), please specially contact Greenaetwork. Data retention We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Features. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of Greenaetwork.com. You can access or delete your personal data. More specifically, you can: Delete Data: you are free to ask us to erase or delete all or some of your Personal Information. Change or Correct Data: you can edit some of your personal data through your account or can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases. Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data. Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: you can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.For any request, contact us by e-mail to info@greenaetwork.com. 2.6 OUR CUSTOMERS Greenaetwork.com is an LLC headquartered in Pasadena, California, USA. Our direct customers (also called “end Users”) are those who register on the platform as Business Users (2) or as Individuals (3). 2.7 YOUR RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT At any time and without any reason, you have the right to withdraw your consent for the use of the personal data you have granted to Greenaetwork LLC. To cancel your account: Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings > Delete Account In this case, we may keep some general information intended as Data retention (year of birth, geographic area, gender) to continue improving our Features.Your name, your surname and your personal contacts will be deleted from our databases, and you can ask us for confirmation of this at any time, by emailing to info@greenaetwork.com. Likewise, you can contact the competent supervisory authority to carry out a more thorough investigation. Greenaetwork LLC promotes the rule of law and will not hinder surveillance or investigation by public authorities. |
| 3. Data Controllers |
| Greenaetwork LLC will be responsible for the processing of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with our Services; is entering into a License Agreement (this document) with Greenaetwork LLC. As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy (which includes our Cookie Policy and other documents referenced in this Privacy Policy) and related updates. |
| 4. Changes to Privacy Policy |
| Greenaetwork.com may occasionally update this Privacy Policy.If it happens, we will update the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Material changes must be noticed to the interested Users. If we make an update to this Privacy Policy that is materially less restrictive in our use or disclosure of Personal Information that we collected prior to the update, we will provide you with prior notice of the pending update and seek your consent by posting notice on www.greenaetwork.com or by contacting you using the email address in your Greenaetwork.com Profile. If the User objects to any changes, the User can close the account by clicking on Leave Greenaetwork in the profile settings or via email to info info@greenaetowk.com. To cancel your account: Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings > Delete Account You understand that if you continue to use Greenaetwork.com and its own services after we publish or notify about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about our collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information. So, we strongly invite you to always read our communications about Privacy Policy. Even if very boring, it’s in your own interest to be aware about the updates. |
| 5. Privacy Policy Applications |
| This Privacy Policy applies to Greenaetwork.com, and Greenaetwork.com-related sites, apps, communications and services (“Services”), including off-site Services and “Share with …” plugins, but excluding Services or Providers that state that they are offered under a different privacy policy. |
| 6. Agreement between Greenaetwork.com and Automattic |
| If you’re registered on www.greenaetwork.com, your Personal Data is on Automattic too. Automattic collects Network Data from Greenaetwork.com and its Members and general information about a User’s use of Greenaetwork.com. In addition, subject to this Agreement, Greenaetwork.com agrees that:such Greenaetwork.com Data shall not be used in a manner inconsistent with, or that violates or causes Automattic to violate;the use and disclosure of Greenaetwork.com Data shall: (a) comply with all applicable laws; and (b) be reasonably protective of each Member’s privacy rights;all Greenaetwork.com data shall be the property of the applicable Network Creator. Greenaetwork.com hereby grant Automattic a nonexclusive, worldwide, transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free right and license to: use, store, access, cache, publicly perform and display the Greenaetwork.com Data on or through the Automattic Platform and in all current and future media in which the Automattic Platform may be distributed; use and disclose the Greenaetwork.com Data and related analytics and metrics in an aggregate or other non-personally identifiable manner (including, for use in targeting advertising in a non-personally identifiable manner through and in connection with the Automattic Platform);use Greenaetwork.com Data for other purposes permitted by the Automattic Privacy Policy.Greenaetwork.com acknowledges that Automattic may receive requests from Users (or persons authorized to act on behalf of such Users) to modify or delete personally identifiable information relating to such Users on www.greenaetwork.com. Accordingly, Greenaetwork.com agrees that, within 24 hours of any email request by Automattic, Greenaetwork.com will: (a) delete all Network Data and personally identifiable information in its possession or control relating to a particular User as specified by Automattic; and (b) confirm such deletion in email notice to Automattic. |
| 7. Your data |
| Greenaetwork.com collects your Data provided by you, as an User. 7.1 REGISTRATION When you create your Account, you provide personal data such as name, surname, email address, sex, city, age, and a password. For registration purposes, we will ask you: Username to login (your email): required Profile name (your name and surname, or alias): required Address, city, and country: not required Sex: not required Date of Birth: not required Confirmation of age over 16 7.2 PROFILE When you register as an User, some information will get public: Profile name (your name and surname, or alias) Profile pictureAddress, city, and country: not required Greenaetwork LLC does not require more personal information than the ones above. It’s your own choice whether to share, publish or post sensitive information on your profile and to make that sensitive information public. We invite you to not post or add personal data to your profile that you would not want to be public or publicly available. To edit your Personal Info: Click on you Profile Picture > Profile Settings > Profile 7.3 FORMS, SURVEYS AND SIMILARS On www.greenaetwork.com, they can be used forms for different reasons:community purposes (for example: creating interactive contents or making Greenaetwork.com active)marketing researches (for example: promoting products/services, getting feedback from Users, running market researches). 7.3.1 Uses of forms by Greenaetwork.comGreenaetwork LLC can directly collect your personal data if acquired through Forms, Surveys, Polls and/or Questionnaires. The personal information of the participants/Users in Forms (and similars) may already be acquired by Greenaetwork LLC through the registration phase. In case of additional information, Greenaetwork.com will request a new consent for the specific purpose of the survey. Greenaetwork.com uses also forms for some Features like:report an issue: consents the Users to report technical problems or suspected contents found on www.greenaetwork.com. Your email is optional, not required.consumers’ badges: to make sure it’s really you to achieve a badge, Greenaetwork.com asks you to leave your email for verification purposes only. 7.3.2 Uses of forms by Business Users Business Users can directly collect your personal data if acquired through forms, surveys, polls and/or questionnaires. Business Users use our Feature to make independent surveys. The personal information of the participants in forms or surveys or questionnaires must be acquired by a specific consent policy for the purpose of the survey. We invite you to not join surveys which do not provide for a specific privacy policy for the participant to that survey if created by Business Users. You acknowledge that Greenaetwork LLC is only responsible for the only forms or surveys or questionnaires created and run by Greenaetwork.com so not by other Users. 7.4 POSTING AND UPLOADING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION Greenaetwork LLC does not track or collect directly or in an automated manner personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services. You don’t have to post or upload personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services. |
| 8. YOUR DATA USED BY OTHER MEMBERS |
| You and other Users might share content that includes information about you (as part of articles, comments, videos, events, podcasts, magazines and all Greenaetwork.com’s services. We also might collect public information about you, such as news and achievements, and make it available as part of our Services. 8.1 DATA IMPORTED FROM OR TO EXTERNAL SERVICES We receive personal data (including contact information such as email addresses) about you when others import or sync their contacts or calendar with our Features, or send messages using our Features (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Features, we may also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Member profiles. 8.2 OUR PARTNERS Greenaetwork.com does not receive personal data about you when you use the services of our partners.Also, Greenaetwork.com may share general reports and insights but it does not share its Users’ personal information with its Partners. 8.3 RELATED COMPANIES AND OTHER SERVICESTo offer some of its services, Greenaetwork.com relies on external applications or websites, which are considered “service providers” for Greenaetwork.com. These suppliers acquire some personal data of Users in order to better exercise their roles. 8.4 SERVICE USE Greenaetwork LLC tracks and collects log usage data for visits or use of our Services and Features, including sites, apps and platform technology by using services such as Google Analytics. Greenaetwork LLC does not access or collect data mentioned above through Automattic. 8.5 COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY Greenaetwork may use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (for example, device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. We also may allow some others to use cookies as described in our Cookie Policy. If you are outside the United States, we also collect (or rely on others who collect) information about your device where you have not engaged with our Services (e.g., ad ID, IP address, operating system and browser information) so we can provide our Members with relevant ads and better understand their effectiveness. You can opt-out from our use of data from cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for ad targeting and other ad-related purposes. Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Automattic and its partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking Users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our User base as a whole. Automattic may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. Automattic uses cookies for authentication and to remember User’s settings. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some Features or areas of our site may be limited.Third parties with whom Automattic partner to provide certain features on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity use LSOs such as HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 LSOs. 8.6 YOUR DEVICE AND LOCATION When you visit or leave our Services or Features (including some plugins and our cookies or similar technology on the sites of others), Greenaetwork.com may receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also may get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device may send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location. 8.7 MESSAGESWe may collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Features. When you get a new message, we can send you a notification by email or by using our internal notification panel on your Greenaetwork.com profile. 8.8 NOTIFICATIONSA User can manage autonomously notifications settings on the private Greenaetwork.com account to activate/deactivate (op-it and opt-out) notifications about messages, connections requests, mentions, new contents. |
| 9. HOW WE USE YOUR DATA |
| How we use your personal data will depend on which Features you use, how you use those Features and the choices you make in your settings. We may use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others. We may use your data to authorize access to our Services and honor your settings. 9.1 GREENAETWORK.COM FEATURES Connections: to stay in touch and up to date with businesses or consumers, you can “connect” with the profile who you choose, and who also wish to “connect” with you. Subject to your and their settings, when you connect with other Members, you will be able to search each others’ connections. We may use data about you (such as your profile) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you and others and enable you to invite others to become a Greener and connect with you. It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another Member to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., Name, Profile Picture, Date of Birth, Country), if you make them public and visible. You acknowledge that you decide which information to show or not to other Users. So, if your Data Information are public, other Greeners will be able to see your public Data Information. News, Magazines, Events and Achievements On Grenaetwork.com, you can get informed and stay up to date about News, Events and Achievements created by registered businesses and consumers. We may use the data we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Features and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to personalize our Services for you. Premium Features We sell Premium Subscriptions that provide our business customers specific tools to maximize the use of Greenaetwork.com. Greenaetwork.com may provide insights for Premium Users (only Business can be Premium Users) about visits to their profiles or number of interactions with their contents. Also, Premium Users may receive more general insights about ongoing trends on Greenaetwork.com.These information are anonymous so Business Users would not notice your profile name or other personal data when they get the above mentioned insights. 9.2 COMMUNICATIONS Greenaetwork.com may contact you through email, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your Greenaetwork inbox, and other ways through our Features, including text messages and push notifications;Greenaetwork.com may send you messages about the availability of our Features, security, or other service-related issues;Greenaetwork.com may send messages about how to use our Features, network updates, reminders, job suggestions and promotional messages from us and our partners. You may change your communication at any time: Main Menu > Click on your Profile Image > Profile Settings > Email Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.Greenaetwork.com also enables communications between you and others through our Features (for example: Invitations, Inbox, Teams and Messages between connections). 9.2.1 NEWSLETTER AND MAILING LIST Before giving your consent to the sending of any communication by Greenaetwork LLC, an activity for which we need some of your personal data, we ask you to carefully read the following points. It is very important that you are really up to date on the use of your data, on the methods to protect them and on the rights to exercise. The latest laws (such as Californian, European and Brazilian) are particularly careful and strict about the protection of personal data. This “Newsletter and Mailing List Policy” is in accordance with the following legal provisions: CAN-SPAM Act, a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have you stop emailing them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. For more information, read the Can-Spam Act: A Compliance Guide for Business GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation nr. 2016/679, European law that clarifies how personal data should be processed, including how it is collected, used, protected and shared. The objective of the GDPR is therefore to strengthen data protection for all persons whose personal information falls within its scope, giving them full control of their data. Since the newsletter subscription forms are data collection tools, it is mandatory to obtain the user’s informed consent before subscribing to the service. For more information, read the GDPR 2016/679 (Articles 13 and 14) How Greenaetwork will use your data provided for Newsletter and Mailing purposesWhen it collects your personal data that you have provided to Greenaetwork LLC to receive communications for informational or commercial purposes from Greenaetwork.com, Greenaetwork stores your data to profile its target. In carrying out this activity, Greenaetwork LLC does not share your data with third parties. By giving your consent to receive emails from Greenaetwork, you become aware that we can use your data to:(1) Communication activities (see the section below in this paragraph called “Communication Contents”);(2) Processing activities: any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;(3) Profiling activity: any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements. Communications contentsThrough so-called “Newsletter” emails, which sending is subject to your opt-in consent, Greenaetwork can send you content about:(1) Subscription to the Beta Version of Greenaetwork.com or its Apps and Features;(2) Subscription to the full version of Greenaetwork.com or its Apps and Features;(3) Updates on Features, Partnerships, Projects and Initiatives, and Insights regarding Greenaetwork LLC;(4) Commercial communications, such as offers and promotions of advertising space on Greenaetwork.com or its Apps and Features;(5) The trends of sustainability in the world and how Greenaetwork.com or its Apps and Features can be useful to be always active and updated. Our Contacts Greenaetwork LLC11680 Knollwood Dr 91103Pasadena, CA, United States info@greenaetwork.com Data retention The personal data you provide for the purpose of obtaining informational or commercial communications from Greenaetwork LLC will be kept indefinitely, until one of the following events occurs:(1) Deletion of your contact from our mailing list, by your or our choice;(2) End of Greenaetwork LLC’s use of Newsletter or similar services to inform about its products / services;(3) Closure of Greenaetwork LLC;(4) Other supervening impossibilities that prevent us from using the service and sending communications. Greenatwork LLC will keep some of your data (such as gender, geographic area, birth date) after your eventual cancellation. Portability of personal data At any time, you have the right to obtain your personal data collected by Greenaetwork in an electronic format that can be read by other devices. To request them, just send an email to info@greenaetwork.com. How to cancel from Newsletter Service At the bottom of each of our email newsletters, you will find a direct link to unsubscribe from the service which will remain active for 30 days from the sending of the Newsletter.Greenaetwork LLC undertakes to honor your cancellation request no later than 10 days from receipt of the request. How to verify your data we have access to As the owner of your personal data, you undoubtedly and definitively have the right to request from the controller access to and rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing concerning the data subject or to object to processing as well as the right to data portability. Please, contact us to info@greenaetwork.com .If you are really concerned about the use of your personal data, you can also contact the supervisory authority in your country. Newsletter service provider To offer the Newsletter service, free and accessible by all users (registered or not), Greenaetwork uses external platforms. 9.3 ADVERTISING Greenaetwork.com targets (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners, using the following data, whether separately or combined: (1) Data from advertising technologies on and off our Services, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and device identifiers;(2) Member-provided information (e.g., profile, contact information, date of birth, country);(3) Data from your use of our Services (e.g., search history, feed, content you read, who you follow or is following you, connections, groups participation, page visits, videos you watch, clicking on an ad, etc.), including as described in Section 8.5;(4) Information from advertising partners, vendors and publishers;(5) Information inferred from data described above. We will show you ads called sponsored content which look similar to non-sponsored content, except that they are labeled as advertising (for example, as “ad ” or “sponsored”). If you take a social action (such as Team Up!, Comments or Share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including the advertiser. Subject to your settings, if you take a social action on the Greenaetwork Features, that action may be mentioned with related ads. 9.4 INFO TO AD PROVIDERS We do not share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks. Greenaetwork uses Revive AdServer to track the number of clicks on the advertising contents and to analyse them through a specific report. 9.5 MARKETING In addition to advertising our Features, we may use Users’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Features. 9.6 DEVELOPING FEATURES AND RESEARCH Features Development We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Features in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Features, and help connect Greeners to each other and to cooperate. Other Research Greenaetwork.com’s goal is to create a more sustainable world opportunity for people who are sensitive about environmental and social issues and to make them feel more supported and successful. We use the personal data made available with your consent to research social, environmental and sustainable trends, such as interests and hobbies, job profiles and opportunities in the sustainability work sector that help us to understand what our Members need daily referring to their green habits, and how to facilitate them by Greenaetwork.com Features.In some cases, we may work with trusted third parties (such as Public Institutions, Universities or scientific committees or newspapers to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as aggregated data rather than personal data. Surveys Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Features, specifically located under Business Users’ News. You are not obligated to respond to surveys, and you have choices about the information you provide. 9.7 CUSTOMER SUPPORT We use data to help you and fix problems. We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs). 9.8 INSIGHTS THAT DO NOT IDENTIFY YOU As already described, we may use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. 9.9 SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIONS We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our Members, Visitors or others. |
| 10. HOW WE SHARE YOUR DATA |
| 10.1 OUR FEATURES Profile Your profile is fully visible to all Greeners and customers of Greenaetwork.com. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our website (e.g., Visitors to Greenaetwork.com or Users of third- party search engines). You can always change your privacy settings on your Profile Settings. Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings Posts, Team Up!, Follows, Comments, Messages Our Features allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, Team up!s, follows and comments.When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere. Members, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).In a Team, posts are visible to others in the group, or to all visitors depending from the Team settings as per the Team creator.Any information you share through companies’ or other organizations’ pages on our Features will be viewable by it and others who visit those pages.When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.We let senders know when you act on their message, subject to your settings where applicable.When you Team up or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile and photo if you provided it). 10.2 OTHER PROVIDERS ARE THIRD-PARTY SERVICES When you opt to link your account with other services, personal data will become available to them. For example, you may link your LinkedIn or Google account (specifically, by adding an Event from Greenaetwork to you personal Google Calendar) to share content from Greenaeetwork.com into these other providers, or your email provider may give you the option to upload your Greenaetwork contacts into its own service. Third-party services have their own privacy policies, and you may be giving them permission to use your data in ways we would not. We strongly invite you to read third-party services’ policies before authorizing them for the use of your Personal Data. We use others to help us provide our Features, Products and Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). These providers will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes. We need some third-party services to offer its Features. If you do not accept it, we kindly invite you to not register or to cancel your account. Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings > Delete Account 10.3 RELATED SERVICES We may share your personal data with our Partners to provide and develop our Features. We may combine information internally across the different Features covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Features be more relevant and useful to you and others. 10.4 LEGAL DISCLOSURES We may need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to:(1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Features;(5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Greenaetwork, our Members, personnel or others. We attempt to notify Members about legal demands for their Personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand. To learn more see our Team Up with Law Enforcement! in the Help Center. 10.5 CHANGE IN CONTROL OR SALEGreenaetwork LLC can also share your personal data as part of a sale, merger or change in control, or in preparation for any of these events. Any other entity which buys us or part of our business will have the right to continue to use your data, but only in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy unless you agree otherwise. |
| 11. YOUR RIGHTS AND YOUR OBLIGATIONS |
| 11.1 DATA RETENTION We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Features. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of Greenaetwork.com. If you decide to cancel your account, Greenaetwork LLC may choose to retain some of your data.Any data stored will not allow Greenaetwork LLC or third parties to be traced back to you. This is the reason why:(1) we will delete your name, surname and email;(2) we will keep your date of birth, gender and geographical area. Greenaetwork LLC keeps this data because it is useful for statistical purposes and analysis of the market to which we address. 11.2 RIGHT TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA You can access or delete your personal data. More specifically, you can:Delete Data: you are free to ask us to erase or delete all or some of your Personal Information.Change or Correct Data: you can edit some of your personal data through your account or can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases.Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data.Right to Access and/or Take Your Data: you can ask us for a copy of your personal data and can ask for a copy of personal data you provided in machine readable form.For any request, contact us by e-mail to info@greenaetwork.com. 11.3 EU RESIDENTS Users who are residents in European Union or in other regions, may have additional rights under their laws. If you live in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland and you notice some points in this Privacy Policy that are unclear, incorrect or misunderstood, we invite you to contact us to resolve them in accordance with the law of the country from which you are connecting. Greenaetwork.com was created for the protection of the planet and the promotion of legality. We are building a social network that we hope will be useful and genuine. For this, we are also building a list of countries with privacy regulations other than the US. If you want to help us, write to info@greenaetwork.com. 11.4 OTHER COUNTRIES OUT OF THE US AND EU RESIDENTS Greenaetwork founders are Italian and they fully understand the reasons and the importance of every single law. We’re building a specific section to be as clear as possible about Privacy Protections laws for people who live out of the United States and the European Union. This information will be soon available in our Help Center. 11.5 ACCOUNT CLOSURE Click on your Profile Picture > Account Settings > Delete AccountIf you choose to close your account, your personal data will generally stop being visible to others on our Features within 24-48 hours. We generally delete closed account information within 30 days of account closure, except as noted below.We may retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including eventual Law Enforcement requests), meet regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our Terms of Service agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. Greenaetwork will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.We will keep age and year of birth, country, sex for marketing purposes so we’ll delete definetely your Name (if provided), Surname (if provided), Profile Name, E-mail address, Profil picture. Your shared information with others Users after your Account ClosureInformation you have shared with others (e.g., through InMail, updates or group posts) will remain visible after you close your account or delete the information from your own profile or mailbox, and we do not control data that other Members have copied out of our Features. Teams’ content and ratings or review content associated with closed accounts will show an unknown User as the source. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache. |
| 12. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION |
| 12.1 SECURITY We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data, such as HTTPS. We regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. However, we cannot warrant the security of any information that you send us. There is no guarantee that data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. 12.2 DATA FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES We process data both inside and outside of the United States and rely on legally-provided mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders. Countries where we process data may have laws which are different from, and potentially not as protective as, the laws of your own country. 12.3 DATA PROCESSING Greenaetwork LLC has lawful bases to collect, use and share data about you. You have choices about our use of your data. At any time, you can withdraw consent you have provided by going to settings.We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent (where you have given consent), contract and “legitimate interests.” We may process your personal data for the purposes of our legitimate interests or for the legitimate interests of third parties, provided that such processing shall not outweigh your rights and freedoms. For example, we may process your personal data to: Protect you, us, or others from threats (such as security threats or fraud)Comply with laws that apply to usEnable or administer our business, such as for quality control, consolidated reporting, and customer serviceManage corporate transactions, such as mergers or acquisitions Understand and improve our business or customer relationships generally Enable us, Members, and Visitors to connect with each other, find jobs and economic opportunity, express opinions, exchange information, and conduct business Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, do not hesitate to contact us to info@greenaetwork.com. 12.4 DIRECT MARKETING AND DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS We currently do not share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. For more information, you can read the California Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as CalOPPA or CPPA) or visit our Help Center. 12.5 CONTACT INFORMATION If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please first contact Greenaetwork online at info@greenaetwork.com. If online is not possible for you, reach us by physical mail:Greenaetwork LLC11680 Knollwood Dr 91103Pasadena, CA, United States If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, please send us one more email. |