What Information Do We Collect?

1. We collect information from you when you register with the site, place an order, respond to a survey or communication such as an e-mail, or participate in another site feature such as our blog, twitter, or other area of Common Good Market.
2. When ordering or registering, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information. You may however, visit our website anonymously.
3. We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information that we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase products, respond to a survey or marketing communication, or use certain features in the following ways:

1. To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are interested in.
2. To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
3. To quickly process your transaction
4. To administer a survey or other features
5. If you opted in to receive our e-mail newsletter, to be a member of our community or blog.
6. If you have not opted in to receive our e-mail newsletter you will not receive our e-mail newsletter.

How Do We Protect Visitor Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. When you place orders or access your personal information, we offer the use of a secure server. All sensitive/credit information you supply is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our database to be only access as stated above. Once the transaction is through the credit information is no longer accessible in our database nor is it stored.

Do We Disclose The Information We Collect To Outside Parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information without your permission, except as described below. The term “outside party” does not include commongoodmarket.com. It also does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as these parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site polices, or protect ours or other’s rights, property, or safety.

Do We Use Cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s system to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may contact a third-party service provider to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Each browser is a little different so look at your browser help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won’t have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.

How Can You Opt-out, Remove Or Modify Information You Provided Us?

You may opt out of any email subscriptions simply by notifying us that you wish to un-subscribe or by clicking on the un-subscribe link provided in all of our communications. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

If you have set up information using the “My Account” section provided as part of our e-commerce site, you can personally delete all of that information or request that we delete it for. Please note that we must maintain a record of all sales transactions in order to service that transaction and to meet our tax and other regulatory requirements.

Third Party Links

In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our site. These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).

Changes To Our Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.

Questions And Feedback

We welcome your questions, comments, and concerns about privacy. Please send us any and all feedback pertaining to privacy, or any other issues.

Online Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Terms & Conditions

Please visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your Consent

By using our website, you consent to our privacy policy

This policy was last modified on Oct. 10th, 2010.