Greenpeace believes you have a fundamental right to privacy
on the web, and we work to protect your security online
as vigorously as possible.
This policy governs all pages hosted at greenpeace.org.
It does not apply to pages hosted by other organisations
to which we may link and whose privacy policies may differ.
For the purposes of this policy, the term "supporter"
refers to someone who has given a financial donation via
our secure server. "Cyberactivist" refers to someone
who has joined one or more of our cyberactivist mailing
lists.
We do not collect personally identifiable information on
our web site unless you voluntarily choose to give it to
us via an electronic mail message, a phone call, by signing
up as a supporter or a cyberactivist, or by postal mail.
Even when you choose to give us information, we keep it
confidential, and we bind suppliers who work with us by
these conditions as well.
We do not sell or rent web-generated mailing lists or other
personally identifiable information outside Greenpeace.
Greenpeace does not share or otherwise disclose its cyberactivist
lists to other organisations.
We do not provide mailing lists to outside agencies unless
they agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We will never send you unsolicited materials as a result
of participating in a cyberaction.
If you sign up as a cyberactivist or participate in an
online action such as signing a petition, sending an e-mail,
letter, or fax, you may be given the option to participate
in future on-line actions, to receive news of actions results,
to receive a newsletter or further information, or to be
invited to contribute to Greenpeace. You will always be
given the option to decline any or all of those choices.
If you become a supporter of Greenpeace you may be given
the option to participate in on-line actions or to receive
a newsletter or further information. Again, you will always
be given the option to decline.
When participating in an online action, you are not always
anonymous to our target. Corporations and Governments which
receive e-mail or fax communications via our cyberactions
will sometimes respond to your personal e-mail or physical
address if you have provided these. If you believe your
private information has been gathered or disclosed by one
of our targets as a result of participating in a Greenpeace
action online, please contact us.
We maintain some records of individuals who contact us
for further information or help in case we need to contact
them later or provide further information to them in the
future. However, we do not provide this information to anyone
else unless you give us your permission, and we do not use
this information for other purposes.
Our site is hosted on a variety of servers. Information
collected for fundraising purposes is collected on a server
we own and maintain. The main server is housed with a hosting
company whose privacy policies conform to our own. Information
in our website logs is not personally identifiable, and
we make no attempt to link that information with the individuals
that actually browse the site. The server collects information
about the date and time in which our web site was accessed
and the internet address of the server from which you linked
to our site. We may also track, anonymously, a user's movement
within the site. We use this data to improve our site performance
and to evaluate traffic statistics, such as the times of
day and days of week at which we see peak traffic, and to
assess the relative popularity of different areas of the
site.
A cookie is a tiny element of data that our site can send
to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive.
Our web site uses cookies to customise certain options.
For example, when you choose a language we store a unique,
anonymous and encrypted amount of data that allows our servers
to keep track of your choice, so you get that language the
next time you return to our site. This small amount of information
does NOT contain any private information stored on your
computer. You may set your web browser to notify you when
you receive a cookie, or to disable cookies altogether.
We do not use cookies to track your content choices.
We are committed to providing our supporters and cyberactivists
with ways of monitoring and amending the information you
provide to us, and are currently developing the tools to
do so.
Our Join page uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL): a security
protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet.
The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate
in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering,
or message forgery. It encrypts all of your personal information,
including credit card number, name, and address, so that
it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet.
While on a secure page, such as our giving form, the lock
icon on the bottom of Web broswers such as Opera, Netscape
Navigator, and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked,
as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'.
You can learn more about SSL at:
http://home.netscape.com/security/techbriefs/ssl.html
While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information
online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information
off-line. All of your information, not just the sensitive
information like a credit card number, is restricted to
our offices. Only employees who need the information to
perform a specific job (for example, our donation officers)
are granted access to personally identifiable information.
Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers
when they leave their desk. When they return, they must
re-enter their password to re-gain access to your information.
Furthermore, all Greenpeace employees who handle membership
information are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy
practices. Our employees are notified and reminded about
the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do
to ensure our supporters' information is protected.
Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable
information on are kept in a secure environment, behind
a locked door.
If you have any questions about the information we maintain
about your supporter details please contact supporter-services@ams.greenpeace.org
Our security measures and this policy are reviewed on a
regular basis. If you have any questions relating to this
policy, please address them to:
Brian Fitzgerald
New Media Department
Greenpeace International
Keizersgracht 176
1016 DW Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+31 20 523 6222
or write to supporter.services@greenpeace.org
May 2002
