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Community for a Sustainable World (CSW)
Our purpose is to support and develop sustainable self-reliant communities around the globe.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) sets out the privacy policies and practices for Community for a Sustainable World ("CSW") with respect to how CSW collects personal information. It also describes how CSW maintains, uses, and discloses personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to information collected from you by CSW via this website (www.communityforasustainableworld.com) or "the Site", as well as any other applications or services that display this policy (collectively, the “Services”), and other places where or means by which we may collect personal information. This Privacy Policy also sets out how you can access certain information that CSW may collect about you. In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information or opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent or can be reasonably ascertained from the information or opinion as further defined under applicable privacy laws, including, but not limited to, Your Contacts and other personal information collected through the Services.
Please note that the Site may contain links to other third party websites that are not controlled or operated by CSW. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third party websites, and CSW is not responsible for the content of such third party websites or the privacy practices of such third parties. Therefore CSW encourages you to request and review the privacy policies of any third parties before disclosing your personal information to such parties or when visiting such third party websites.
Privacy Policy & Terms of Use
What type of information do you collect?
CSW receives, collects and stores any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, CSW collects the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools, such as Google Analytics, to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. CSW also collects personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
How do you collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on the Site, create and register an account on the Site, sign-up for email notifications and/or fill out a form on the Site, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
Why do you collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
To provide and operate the Services;
To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
How do you store, use, share and disclose your site visitors' personal information?
Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
How do you communicate with your site visitors?
CSW may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes CSW may contact you via email or telephone.
How do you use cookies and other tracking tools?
Like many websites, CSW utilizes “cookies” to maintain a record of your visit to the Site and your use of the Services. A cookie is a small text file that is transferred by a web server and stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. It can only be read by the server that sent it to you. This information does not identify you personally and you remain anonymous unless you have otherwise provided CSW with personal information.
Cookies help us to improve the Site and Services, and to deliver more personalized service by enabling CSW to estimate audience size and usage patterns; to store information about your preferences; to speed up your searches and to recognize you when you return to the Site or use the Services.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you would prefer to prevent your computer from accepting CSW's cookies, you may follow your Internet browser’s steps for doing so. Please note, however, that if you do disable cookies from your browser, you may not be able to access certain sections of the Sites or the Services.
How can your site visitors' withdraw their consent?
BY SUBMITTING PERSONAL INFORMATION TO CSW OR ITS SERVICE PROVIDERS AND AGENTS, YOU AGREE THAT CSW MAY COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND YOU CONSENT TO THE USE, DISCLOSURE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND AS PERMITTED OR REQUIRED BY LAW. Subject to legal and contractual requirements, you may refuse or withdraw your consent to certain of the purposes identified herein at any time by contacting CSW at the email address provided below. If you refuse or withdraw your consent, you acknowledge that CSW may not be able to provide you or continue to provide you with certain services or information which may be of value to you.
Attn: Director of Operations
info@communityforasustainableworld.com
Privacy policy updates
CSW reserves the right, in CSW'’s discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time, and from time to time, without prior notice to you. However, CSW will treat your continued use of the Sites and Services following such revision as your acceptance of the revised terms. All revisions will be posted to the Sites and will apply to any personal information collected on or after the date posted. CSW will obtain the necessary consents required under applicable privacy laws if it seeks to collect, use or disclose your personal information for purposes other than those to which consent has been obtained unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
This Privacy Policy was last updated May 23, 2018.
Questions and your contact information
CSW welcomes questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. Requests for access and correction of your personal information, and questions or comments should be directed to the CSW directly via email at:
Attn: Director of Operations