Privacy

This privacy policy pertains to the use of the EthicL web site at http://www.ethicl.com ("The Site") and provided by the EthicL Inc., 12 Desbrosses St, Suite 34, New York, NY ("EthicL"). This privacy policy covers how EthicL treats personal information that EthicL collects and receives. People under 18 are not permitted to use the EthicL service on their own, and so this privacy policy makes no provision for such use of the site.

EthicL is strongly committed to protecting your privacy. Personal information is collected, used and disclosed only as described in this Privacy Statement and within the legal regulations of your country. When you register, you agree to data relating to you being collected, disclosed and used as outlined below.

Collection of Data

We collect personal data in order to provide you with a user-friendly, safe and personalized experience. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for this purpose. In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional. You always have the option not to provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature. Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial information, such as, but not limited to, credit card details if you are registering using an email account at certain email services, or registering to sell on the Site. We use this financial information to help verify your name, address, and other information. We may also use this information to charge you for your use of our services, described further in the Sell section of the site. EthicL collects personal information when you register with EthicL or use EthicL services or to post content on EthicL. When you register we ask for your email address and certain optional information such as biographical information, business desciption, supported causes and personal information. If you choose to buy or sell on the Site, we collect information about your buying and selling behavior. If you establish a seller account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, including but not limited to a billing address, phone number, a credit card number, a credit card expiration date or a bank account number and bank address. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you. We automatically collect and process certain information based upon your use of the Site. We use this information to conduct internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, serve and protect you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the Site or not), browser information, and your IP address.

We use data collection devices such as "cookies" on certain pages of the Site. "Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing you with personalized information on the site. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie. We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently while you are using the Site. Cookies can also help us provide information which we tailor to your interests. Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session using the Site. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on the Site and you may be required to re-enter your password more frequently while you are using the Site.

Use of Data

We may use information in the files we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site, for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, research, and anonymous reporting, to resolve disputes, provide customer support, troubleshoot problems and enforce our Terms & Conditions and policies. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User Names.

If you send an email using the forwarding service to an email address that is not registered in our community, we do not use that email addresses for any purpose other than to send your email. We do not rent or sell these email addresses. We generally discard the email addresses some time after they have been used to send your email.

Disclosure

Our policy is that EthicL will never sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that we may disclose your personally identifiable information.

EthicL Community: Your User Name is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to the public. Therefore, if you associate your name with your User Name, the people you have revealed your name to will be able to personally identify your EthicL activities. Although our pages are coded with robot exclusion headers, individuals and corporations may illegally attempt to automatically collect your email address from the Site. Further, we may send out notices to you or other community members regarding suspicious activity or policy violations on the Site.

Search Engines: For others finding you via the internet it is inevitable that we organize our website in a way so that search engines as for example "Google" can generate information of our registered users when scanning our website. The following data is collected: user name, store name, store description, item titles and descriptions. If you wish your data to be deleted or if you cancel the contract we delete your data immediately. As a general rule, your data in internet search engines is deleted within 60 days. We do not have any influence upon when your data is deleted and can therefore not be held liable for this.

Legal Requests: EthicL cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties, to enforce laws and third party rights, such as intellectual property rights and laws relating to fraud. In such events, we will disclose information as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to the investigation, such as name, city, state, zip code, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, and buying and selling history. Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from fraud and unethical activities, we will not otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement, other government officials, or other third parties without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

We cannot ensure that all of your communications with EthicL and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For example, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable information or communications with EthicL will always remain private.

Announcements

We might send you a welcome/confirmation email when you sign up for our services. We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account by emailing from the email address you signed up with.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use EthicL products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of the EthicL service. EthicL uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Access your information when you "sign in"; keep track of preferences you specify while you are using EthicL's services; estimate and report our total audience size and traffic; conduct research to improve EthicL's content and services. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

Account Information

You can change your EthicL Account Information at any time. We may send you certain communications relating to the EthicL service, such as service announcements and administrative messages, that are considered part of your EthicL account. You can delete your EthicL account at any time from your account page; however, please note that your identification, billing and contact information may remain in EthicL's records for some period. We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. Your EthicL Account Information is password-protected. In certain areas, EthicL uses SSL-encryption to protect data transmissions. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on your member account page or by emailing our Customer Support or by contacting us by postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about our SSL, follow this link. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at Customer Support.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.

Questions

If you have questions or suggestions you can contact us at Customer Support.

Recall of consent

You can recall your consent at any time. Please send your recall to: EthicL Inc., 12 Desbrosses St, Suite 34, New York, NY or to Customer Support. For technical reasons, it is only possible to use our service if you consent to all of the above stated points. If you do not consent to one or several points of the Privacy Statement or if you recall your consent to it, we cannot give you access to our services.


Effective as of July 1, 2008