Light Green Media, LLC, the publisher of greenlight magazine, is a lifestyle media company. Through our print and electronic media, we strive to bring you fresh ideas, product insights and every type of earth-friendly information you need to live life to its fullest and take care of the earth.

Light Green Media, LLC is deeply committed to protecting your privacy and the security of the personal information you provide us when you access greenlight's online media. You have the right to know everything we know regarding the information we collect about you, including how providing this information benefits you, how we store and disseminate it, and how you can say "no" to any or all of the ways we use your information.

This policy explains what we do with your information online, and what you can expect from greenlight. By using this site, you indicate your acceptance of Light Green Media’s online privacy policy.

Children Under 18:

We care about the safety of children. We won't knowingly allow anyone under 18 to provide us with any personally identifying information. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet, to us or to anyone else. We encourage you to become involved in your children's online experience, and to share your interest in our sites with your young ones.

What information do you collect about me?

Light Green Media collects personal identifying information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us. We also may collect user-specific information on what pages are visited and volunteered information such as survey information and/or site registrations.

What's in it for me?

The information we collect allows us to notify you about updates to our web site, contact you with special offers of interest, and gives us the capability to customize your web site experience. In addition, when you opt-in, you may receive special email offers and notifications from reputable organizations who have been “greenlighted” by our management staff. We will send you these offers on their behalf, we won’t provide your email address to any outside parties.

What are "cookies" and what do they do for me?

In order to provide better service when visitors return to our site, Light Green Media may use cookies to store visitors' preferences and information about such things as what pages users visit and past user activity at a site. "Cookies" are tiny pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies are also used to ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, to customize Web page content based on visitors' browser type (Netscape or Microsoft Explorer, for example) or other information that the visitor sends. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies.

Cookies identify your computer but do not identify you personally. If you want to disable cookies, there is a simple procedure in most Internet browsers that allows you to turn off cookies. Please remember however, that cookies may be required to allow you to use certain features of our site.

With whom do you share information about me?

If you have opted in to receive email 3rd Party offers, you may occasionally receive special offers and notifications from other reputable business associates whose products or services we have “greenlighted” as being of potential value to you. We send you these emails on behalf of the sponsoring organizations. We do not share your email address with 3rd parties. If you do not want to receive these emails, please let us know by emailing us at remove@greenlightmag.com or writing to us at reader services, greenlight magazine, 944 Market St., Suite 821, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Transfers of Information for Legal Purposes

Light Green Media may need to disclose certain information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. If there is a change of control in greenlight magazine or in any of our online businesses (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise), or a sale or transfer of its assets, customer information could be sold or transferred as part of that transaction and your personally identifying information could potentially be used by the Purchaser or other recipient of said customer information.

Links

Light Green Media sites may, on occasion, contain links to other sites with information gathering practices different from our own. Visitors should consult privacy policies for all other sites as greenlight has no control over information submitted to or collected by such third parties.

Light Green Media sites may offer contest, sweepstakes or promotions sponsored or co-sponsored by third parties. These third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes or promotion. Light Green Media has no control over the third party sponsor's use of this information.

What if I don't want e-mail from greenlight?

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us please let us know by writing us at remove@greenlightmag.com or writing to us at reader services at: greenlight Magazine, 944 Market St., Suite 821, San Francisco, CA 94102.

May I see the information you collect about me?

Yes! Upon request we will provide our customers with access to the personal account information (e.g., customer number), account status (outstanding balance), and contact information (i.e., name, address, phone number) we have on file for you. You may access the information by emailing us at info@greenlightmag.com or writing us at: greenlight Magazine, 944 Market St., Suite 821, San Francisco, CA 94102.

Changes...

Light Green Media may need to change this privacy policy from time to time in order to address new issues, evolving technologies and changes on our sites. Light Green Media will post those changes so you will always know what information we gather and how we use that information. Please refer back to this policy regularly.

Rules for Submissions and Messages

Responsibility for what is posted in our discussion groups or other public forums lies with each user--you alone are responsible for the content of your messages, and the consequences of any such messages. We cannot and do not review every submission a user may make. We neither endorse nor guarantee the accuracy or propriety of any submission. We do, however, reserve the right, but do not assume the obligation, to restrict or prohibit your use of our pages or sites if we believe you are violating any of the terms of the agreement and to remove, edit, or relocate any submission as we see fit whether for legal or other reasons.

Member Conduct

You understand that all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages or other materials ("Content"), whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person from which such Content originated. This means that you, and not Light Green Media, LLC, are entirely responsible for all Content that you upload, post or otherwise transmit. Light Green Media does not control the Content posted and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such Content. You understand that by using a Light Green Media site, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable.

You agree to not use Light Green Media sites in order to:

• upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
• harm minors in any way;
• impersonate any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a Light Green Media official, forum leader, guide or host, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
• forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any Content transmitted through the Service or develop restricted or password-only access pages, or hidden pages or images (those not linked to from another accessible page);
• upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that you do not have a right to transmit under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as inside information, proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements);
• upload, post or otherwise transmit any Content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;
• upload, post or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or any other form of solicitation, except in those areas of the Service that are designated for such purpose;
• upload, post or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
• interfere with or disrupt the servers or networks connected to the Light Green Media sites, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the site;
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including, but not limited to, regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, any rules of any national or other securities exchange, including, without limitation, the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ, and any regulations having the force of law;
• "stalk" or otherwise harass another;
• collect or store personal data about other users;
• promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities, promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any act of cruelty to animals.
• use your home page (or directory) as storage for remote loading or as a door or signpost to another home page
• engage in commercial activities without the express written consent of Light Green Media, LLC. This includes, but is not limited to, the following activities:
• offering for sale any products or services;
• soliciting for advertisers or sponsors;
• conducting raffles or contests that require any type of entry fee;
• displaying a sponsorship banner of any kind, including those that are generated by banner or link exchange services
• displaying banners for services that provide cash or cash-equivalent prizes to users in exchange for hyperlinks to their web sites.

Rights

You acknowledge that Light Green Media, LLC acquires all Rights to use any posted materials as described above and that we do not violate any Rights you may have to materials you post. By submitting content to or through our sites, you grant us the non-exclusive right to reproduce, modify and distribute any posted materials as we see fit in any medium and for any purpose in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You also permit any other user to access, display, and print such content for personal use. You knowingly assert that any material you submit does not violate, plagiarize or infringe upon the right of any third party, including copyright, trademark or proprietary rights. If non-original content is included in your posting, you must obtain permission to distribute it from the content owner and attribute it to them.

We appreciate the opportunity to serve you!

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy statement or if you feel that this site has not followed its stated privacy policy, feel free to contact us. Our postal address is: greenlight Magazine, 944 Market St., Suite 821, San Francisco, CA 94102 and we can be reached via e-mail at: info@greenlightmag.com. You can reach us by telephone at (415) 773-2053.

Additionally, you may contact your state or local consumer protection office, The Direct Marketing Association's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, the Better Business Bureau, or The Federal Trade Commission by phone at (202) FTC-HELP (202/382-4357) and online at www.ftc.gov.

Note: This privacy policy applies only to Light Green Media, LLC owned and operated web sites.

Transfers of Information for Legal Purposes

Light Green Media may need to disclose certain information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. If there is a change of control in greenlight magazine or in any of our online businesses (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise), or a sale or transfer of its assets, customer information could be sold or transferred as part of that transaction and your personally identifying information could potentially be used by the Purchaser or other recipient of said customer information.