Welcome to BigGreenCart.com! Please read this privacy policy (the “Policy”) carefully before using BigGreenCart.com (the “Site”).

THIS PRIVACY POLICY GOVERNS YOUR USE OF THE SITE, WHICH IS PROVIDED BY BIGGREENCART, INC., THE OWNER OF THE SITE, (THE “OWNER”). By accessing THE site, you are indicating your acknowledgment and acceptance of THIS PRIVACY POLICY. THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY THE OWNER AT ANY TIME IN ITS SOLE DISCRETION. YOUR USE OF THE SITE AFTER SUCH CHANGES ARE IMPLEMENTED CONSTITUTES YOUR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGES. PLEASE CONSULT THIS PRIVACY POLICY REGULARLY.

Coverage of this Privacy Policy

This Policy covers how the Owner treats personal information that the Owner collects and/or receives, including information that is related to your past use of the Site’s products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, your address, your e-mail address, your phone number, your credit card information and your shipping information and any other information that is not otherwise publicly available.

This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that the Owner does not own and/or control or to people that the Owner does not employ and/or does not manage.

Information Collection and Use

The Owner receives and stores certain types of information whenever you provide information to the Owner. Information that the Owner collects can be, but is not limited to: name and address, e-mail address, credit card information, shipping information and financial information, including Social Security numbers and Driver’s License numbers. This list is not exclusive and may be altered at any time without notice based on information that you supply voluntarily. You have the right to refrain from providing to the Owner certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Site’s features.

The Owner receives and stores certain types of information whenever you interact with the Site. The most significant information is stored in the form of cookies or small storage files that transmit your electronic identity to the Site that you visit. Like most Sites, the Owner uses cookies or other related forms/files to be able to identify you as a return visitor to the Site.

The Owner uses your information in order to process your credit card payment, to facilitate your viewing of the Site and/or to communicate with you. We also use your information to compile broad demographic and web site usage information about you in general that does not contain anything that could be used to identify you personally. The Owner may use your e-mail address to send periodic e-mail newsletters and/or promotional e-mail to you about services and products offered by the Site, if such communication has been requested by you. You will not receive any e-mail from the Owner unless you have requested it. You can indicate at any time that you do not wish to receive e-mail information from the Owner.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

The Owner does not rent, sell and/or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies, except to provide products or services you have requested, when we have your permission and/or under the following circumstances:

1. The Owner provides the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with the Owner under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help the Owner communicate with you about offers from the Owner and the Owner’s marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information;

2. The Owner responds to subpoenas, court orders, legal process and/or to establish or exercise the Owner’s legal rights and/or defend against legal claims;

3. The Owner believes it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent and/or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of the Site’s terms of use and/or as otherwise required by law; and/or,

4. The Owner transfers information about you if the Owner is acquired by or merged with another company or enters into a joint venture/partnership with another entity. In this event, the Owner will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

The Owner may set and access the Site’s cookies on your computer.

The Owner may let other companies that show advertisements on some and/or all of the Site’s pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies’ use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this Privacy Policy. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to the Site’s cookies.

Information Security

To protect the security of your information during transmission, the Owner uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

The Owner reveals only the last five (5) digits of your credit card number when confirming an order. To process an order, it is necessary to transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company.

To prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, it is important for you to monitor those who have access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

User Access to Information

When you access your account, there is a variety of information that you will see. This is designed to allow you to update any changed information and view the information that you entered previously. This information is sensitive and it is necessary to both protect this information and keep it current in order to have the best experience at the Site.

User Choices with Regard to Access of Information

You always have the right to refrain from providing information to the Owner. This may have an impact on your use of the Site, on the ease of your making purchases from the Site and/or taking advantage of certain unique features of the Site.

You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed in the "User Access to Information” section above. When you update your information, the Owner usually keeps a copy of the prior version for the Owner’s records.

Miscellaneous

The Owner may revise this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason whatsoever by updating this posting.

Last updated: April 17, 2008

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