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Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

The Green REsource Council recognizes the importance of protecting the personal information you provide at greenresourcecouncil.org and, therefore, we maintain the following privacy policy:

  1. Green REsource Council may gather the following types of information needed to process your transactions, fulfill your requests, and maintain our membership records:
    • Contact information you provide (for example, your personal and business addresses, phone and fax numbers, firm affiliations and titles);
    • Tracking information which our Web server automatically recognizes each time you visit one of our sites or communicate with us by e-mail (for example, your domain name, and what pages you visit); and
    • Information you volunteer, via applications or surveys (for example, education, designations, specialties, affiliations with other real estate organizations and general demographic data).
  2. Green REsource Council may use this information to:
    • Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites and other communications tools;
    • Notify you of updates to our sites;
    • Notify you of relevant products and services;
    • Notify you of upcoming events and programs;
    • Compile specialty directories about which you will be made aware; and
    • Track usage of our sites.
  3. Green REsource Council does not share, sell or trade e-mail addresses, but may provide you with on-line informational or marketing messages that have been approved by us. Green REsource Council will not share, sell or otherwise provide other information about you to third parties, except for:
    • Partners, exhibitors or other vendors for the limited purpose of contacting targeted groups of members, through marketing vehicles approved by Green REsource Council;
    • When required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the public; and
    • Some or all of the data collected during promotions or contests on the Site that is sponsored by third parties may be shared with the sponsor for the limited purpose of a one-time marketing follow-up by the sponsor. If information about you will be shared with a sponsor you will be notified prior to your participation in the promotion or contest and you can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest.
  4. Credit information that you and credit authorizers provide when you make payments by credit card or electronic check for products or other services via the Site will only be used to process the transactions you request. This information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting databases, but will never be sold, shared or provided to other third parties.
  5. Green REsource Council maintains security procedures and standards which we believe are as safe as today's technology permits. We test these procedures and modify them regularly as new technologies become feasible.
  6. Green REsource Council utilizes a strict Opt-Out policy for sending online notifications regarding services, products and programs.
  7. The Site may contain advertising placed by advertising networks pursuant to agreements between Green REsource Council and the advertising network. We do not control these advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our site, or their information collection practices; and Green REsource Council will not be responsible for the activities of these third parties. The advertising networks may use cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you click on the banner ads appearing on the Site. This information is collected by the advertising networks for purposes of measuring and reporting on the advertising to advertisers and Green REsource Council. The advertising networks may also aggregate the information for certain other statistical and reporting purposes.