EFFECTIVE: MAY 3, 2018
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Naturally Bay Area, Inc., a California 501(c)(6) corporation (“Naturally Bay Area”) values the trust that you place in us when you use our affiliated websites. Naturally Bay Area collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of its naturallybayarea.org website and any derivative or affiliated websites on which this Privacy Policy is posted (collectively, the “Website”). BY USING OUR WEBSITES, YOU ARE ACCEPTING THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT AND OUR TERMS OF USE, AND YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, AND RETENTION OF INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT.
Naturally Bay Area reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such changes to this page. You understand that you have the affirmative obligation to check this Privacy Policy periodically for changes, and you hereby agree to periodically review this Privacy Policy for such changes. The continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes an acceptance of those changes.
PRIVACY
Naturally Bay Area believes that every User should know how it utilizes the information collected from Users. The Website is not directed at children under 13 years of age, and Naturally Bay Area does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age online. Please note that the Website may contain links to other websites. These linked sites may not be operated or controlled by Naturally Bay Area. Naturally Bay Area is not responsible for the privacy practices of these or any other websites, and you access these websites entirely at your own risk. Naturally Bay Area recommends that you review the privacy practices of any other websites that you choose to visit.
Naturally Bay Area is based, and this website is hosted, in the United States of America. If User is from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law and User is registering an account on the Website, visiting the Website, purchasing products or services from Naturally Bay Area or the Website, or otherwise using the Website, please note that any personally identifiable information that User provides to Naturally Bay Area will be transferred to the United States. Any such personally identifiable information provided will be processed and stored in the United States by Naturally Bay Area or a service provider acting on its behalf. By providing your personally identifiable information, User hereby specifically and expressly consents to such transfer and processing and the uses and disclosures set forth herein.
THE INFORMATION NATURALLY BAY AREA COLLECTS
Naturally Bay Area may collect personally identifiable information from Users in a variety of ways. Personally identifiable information may include, without limitation, (i) contact data (such as a User’s name, mailing and email addresses); (ii) demographic data (such as a User’s zip code, age and income); (iii) financial information collected to process purchases made from Naturally Bay Area via the Website or otherwise (such as credit card, debit card or other payment information); and (iv) other information requested via the Website. If a User communicates with Naturally Bay Area by e-mail or otherwise, posts messages to any forums, completes online forms, surveys or entries or otherwise interacts with or uses the features on the Website, any information provided in such communications may be collected by Naturally Bay Area. Naturally Bay Area may also collect information about how Users use the Website, for example, by tracking the number of unique views received by the pages of the Website, or the domains and IP addresses from which Users originate. While not all of the information that Naturally Bay Area collects from Users is personally identifiable, it may be associated with personally identifiable information that Users provide Naturally Bay Area through the Website or otherwise.
Naturally Bay Area may use “cookies” or “web beacons” to track how Users use the Website. A cookie is a piece of software that a web server can store on Users’ PCs and use to identify Users should they visit the Website again. We may also use these technologies to monitor traffic, improve the Websites, and make it easier to use and more relevant. Users may adjust their web browser software if they do not wish to accept cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to decline cookies, some features of the Websites may not work or may not work as designed. Naturally Bay Area may use third party advertising networks to serve advertisements on the Website. The cookies received with banner advertisements served by these networks are used to collect and build anonymous behavioral profiles by these companies to deliver targeted advertisements and tracking referrals, and Naturally Bay Area generally does not have access to this information. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices on any website not operated by us to which our Websites links or that links to our Websites.
We use third-party analytics services on the Websites including Google Analytics. These analytics service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use our Websites, compile reports about activity on Websites, and provide us other services. The technologies may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, any referring website, and other information. We do not use these analytics service providers to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.
Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection, disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Statement, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.
HOW NATURALLY BAY AREA USES INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Naturally Bay Area may use personally identifiable information collected through the Website for the specific purposes for which the information was collected, to process purchases and sales of products or services offered via the Website, to contact Users regarding products and services offered by Naturally Bay Area, its parent, subsidiary and other related companies and its trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners, and otherwise to enhance Users’ experience with Naturally Bay Area and such affiliates, independent contractors and business partners. Naturally Bay Area may also use information collected through the Website for research regarding the effectiveness of the Website and the business planning, marketing, advertising and sales efforts of Naturally Bay Area, its trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners. Naturally Bay Area may also use certain contact information provided by Users as part of publicly available directories and member-only directories.
Marketing Emails: By providing us with an e-mail address, you acknowledge that we may use your e-mail address to communicate with you. While you cannot opt-out of receiving notifications and other service-related communications regarding your account or your transactions, you can opt-out of receiving promotional and other marketing emails from us by using the “unsubscribe” feature in our marketing e-mails.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
Naturally Bay Area may disclose personally identifiable information collected from Users to its parent, subsidiary and other related companies, trusted affiliates, independent contractors and business partners who will use the information for the purposes outlined above, as necessary to provide the services offered by Naturally Bay Area and to provide the Website itself, and for the specific purposes for which the information was collected. Naturally Bay Area may disclose personally identifiable information at the request of law enforcement or governmental agencies or in response to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to establish, protect or exercise Naturally Bay Area’s legal or other rights or to defend against a legal claim or as otherwise required or allowed by law. Naturally Bay Area may disclose personally identifiable information in order to protect the rights, property or safety of a User or any other person. Naturally Bay Area may disclose personally identifiable information to investigate or prevent a violation by User of any contractual or other relationship with Naturally Bay Area or the perpetration of any illegal or harmful activity. Naturally Bay Area may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from Users to investors and potential partners. Finally, Naturally Bay Area may disclose or transfer personally identifiable information collected from Users in connection with or in contemplation of a sale of its assets or business or a merger, consolidation or other reorganization of its business.
SECURITY OF INFORMATION
Information about Users that is maintained on Naturally Bay Area’s systems is protected using industry standard security measures. However, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and Naturally Bay Area cannot guarantee that the information submitted to, maintained on or transmitted from its systems will be completely secure. Naturally Bay Area is not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures relating to the Website by any Users or third parties.
CORRECTING, UPDATING, ACCESSING OR REMOVING PERSONAL INFORMATION
If a User’s personally identifiable information changes, or if a User no longer desires to receive non-account specific information from Naturally Bay Area, Naturally Bay Area will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update and/or remove that User’s previously-provided personal data. This can be done by emailing a request to Naturally Bay Area at info@naturallybayarea.org. Additionally, you may request access to the personally identifiable information as collected by Naturally Bay Area by sending a request to Naturally Bay Area as set forth above. Please note that in certain circumstances, Naturally Bay Area may not be able to completely remove a User’s information from its systems. For example, Naturally Bay Area may retain a User’s personal information for legitimate business purposes, if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, for account recovery purposes, if required by law or as retained in Naturally Bay Area’s data backup systems or cached or archived pages. All retained personally identifiable information will continue to be subject to the terms of the Privacy Policy to which the User has previously agreed.
CONTACTING NATURALLY BAY AREA
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact Naturally Bay Area via any of the following methods:
Naturally Bay Area, Inc.
268 Bush Street, #3643
San Francisco, CA 94104
415.276.6593
info@naturallybayarea.org
