Your privacy is very important to The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship.  The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship will not share any information gathered through the website with any other individual, group or government agency. 

Security
Personal information you give us is kept confidential and protected using industry-standard technology, such as firewalls and secure socket layers (SSL), a sophisticated Internet encryption technology that scrambles data as it travels from your computer to our web site's servers. 

Note: Personal information stored on our web server is securely encrypted and stored away from publicly accessible areas of the web site.  No transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network, however, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Although we make diligent efforts to safeguard your personal information once we receive it, we cannot warrant the security of information you transmit to us.

Information That You Voluntarily Provide
We do not collect personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide it to us. If you provide us with personally identifiable information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through our web site, we use that information only to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that you request.

Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information for the stated purpose. When a user clicks the "Submit" button on any of the Web forms found on the Site they are indicating voluntary consent to the use of the information they submit for the stated purpose. We do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.

How Information is Used
The information we collect is used for a variety of purposes (e.g., comments on proposed rules, license applications, to respond to requests for information about our regulations and policies and to fill orders). We make every effort to disclose clearly how information is used at the point where it is collected so that our users can determine for themselves whether they wish to provide the information.

Cookies
This web site employs cookie technology.  A "cookie" is a small piece of information that a web site asks your browser to store on your hard drive.  This information helps the web site "recognize" you instantly.  Cookies recall information you entered previously so you don't have to reenter it again.  If you prefer, you can disable cookies on your browser settings and still use the Site. 

E-mail Addresses
We do not sell, rent, exchange or otherwise share e-mail addresses to anyone outside The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship.  If this specific policy should ever change, we will first post the policy changes on this page and then notify you by e-mail about such changes, giving you the opportunity to opt-out of any e-mail address sharing programs.  However, within The Center for Social and Environmental Stewardship, we do use e-mail addresses collected from an assortment of web site transactions and interactions to send periodic communications about our work in general and about specific subjects that we believe may be of interest to you.

Interaction with Children
This web site may offer educational content to children under 13. No personally identifiable information is collected from them unless voluntarily submitted as a request for information or services. The information collected is used to respond to user inquiries or to provide services requested by our users.