Privacy Statement

Earth Knowledge, Inc. (“Earth Knowledge,” “we,” “us” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy in providing the www.earthknowledge.net website (the “Website”).

This policy (“Policy”) describes our practices and policies with respect to information collected in connection with your use of the Website.

This Policy applies to information that we collect:

●       Through or in connection with the Website.

●       In email and other electronic messages sent through or in connection with the Website.

●       When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

●       Us offline or through any other means, including in connection with the use of our products or services, that do not include or link to this Policy;

●       Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By using the Website, or by providing information to us in connection with the Website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:

●       By which you may be personally identified, such as your name, e-mail address, phone number and other identifiers by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); and

●       That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your company’s name and address, geographic location and other information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website and general usage details.

We collect this information:

●       Directly from you when you provide it to us.

●       Automatically, as you use the Website, through the use of cookies, browser detection and other tracking technologies.

●       From third parties, such our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect in connection with the Website may include:

●       Information that you provide when interacting with the Website, including filling in forms or requesting products or services.

●       Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail address), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

As you interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your devices, browsing actions and patterns, including:

●       Details of your use of the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access when using the Website.

●       Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain or associate the information collected automatically with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

●       Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website.

●       Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

Please note that we do not respond to “do not track” requests.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

●       To present the Website and its contents to you.

●       To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.

●       To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

●       To provide you with notices about your account.

●       To notify you about changes to the Website, or any products or services we offer or provide though them.

●       In any other ways we may describe when you provide the information.

●       For any other purpose with your consent.

Children’s Privacy

The Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information in connection with the Website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at EK-Privacy@earthknowledge.net.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this Policy:

●       To our business partners, personnel, contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support the Website and our business.

●       To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

●       To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about users of the Website is among the assets transferred.

●       For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

●       With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

●       To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

●       To enforce or apply our terms of use, including acceptable use policies (see www.earthknowledge.net/terms-of-use).

●       If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of Earth Knowledge, our users or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

●       Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

Access from Outside of the United States

If you access the Website from outside of the United States, information that we collect about you will be transferred to servers inside the United States, which may involve the transfer of information out of your country of origin. By allowing us to collect personal information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of your personal information in accordance with this Policy.

European Users

We recognize that several countries and regions in Europe, including the European Economic Area (“EEA”), have established strict protections regarding the handling of certain personally identifiable information that we may receive from users of the Website in such countries and regions, including requirements to provide adequate protection of such information outside of such countries and regions. Where we collect personally identifiable information relating to individuals in such countries or regions, it will be transferred to our servers within the United States. 

Under European data protection law, in certain circumstances, you may have the following rights:

●       the right to request access to any personally identifiable information that we hold about you as well as related information, including the purposes for processing the information, the recipients or categories of recipients with whom the information has been shared, where possible, the period for which the information will be stored, the source of the information, and the existence of any automated decision making;

●       the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of any inaccurate personally identifiable information that we hold about you;

●       the right to request that personally identifiable information held about you be deleted;

●       the right to prevent or restrict processing of your personally identifiable information; and

●       the right to request the transfer of personally identifiable information directly to a third party where this is technically feasible.

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at EK-Privacy@earthknowledge.net.

Where the processing of your personally identifiable information is based on your previously given consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You may also have the right to object to the processing of your personally identifiable information on grounds relating to your particular situation.

We will collect, use and share personally identifiable information in the same manner and for the same purposes as set out in this Policy.

Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligations under this Policy or European law, you have the right to make a complaint to a European Data Protection Authority.

Governing Law

By choosing to use the Website, or provide information to us, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Policy will be governed by the laws of the State of Arizona and the United States of America. You also agree to abide by any dispute resolution mechanisms or limitations on damages contained in our Terms of Use, or other agreements that we have with you.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.

You may also contact us at EK-Privacy@earthknowledge.net to request access to or to correct any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure, such as encrypting and limiting access to such information. We also leverage certain data protection and leak prevention mechanisms available through our third-party service providers.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through or in connection with the Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Policy on this page, with a notice that the Policy has been updated upon accessing the Website. The date this Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically using the Website and this Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Earth Knowledge, Inc.

PO Box 30743

Tucson, AZ 85751

Email: EK-Privacy@earthknowledge.net

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