Privacy Policy

Privacy and Cookie Statement

Green Sword takes the issue of privacy very seriously and we are committed to protecting and respecting our users' privacy. This Privacy and Cookie Statement sets out our current data processing practices. If you have any queries or concerns regarding these practices, you should contact the.

The Information We Collect

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• Registration: When you register with Green Sword, we ask for your name, email address and postal code. We usually also capture your IP address at the time you register.
• Emailing an Article or Message Board Post: If you use our recommendation service to email an article or post to a friend, you will need to provide us with your friend's email address. Green Sword will automatically send this person a one-time email, attaching the recommended article as well as inviting them to visit and register with our site. We will not use these email addresses for any other purpose.
• Optional Services: We may also ask for additional information when providing special, personalised services. If you don't want to give us the information requested, you certainly don't have to, but you will not be able to take advantage of such offerings. On occasion, we may also ask you for other personal information in connection with surveys, sweepstakes or other promotional offers running on our site but again, your participation in these features is purely voluntary.
• Information We Automatically Track: While on our site, we automatically log certain information about how you're using our site. This information may include the URL that you just came from, your IP address and the pages you visit while on our site.

If your browser is set up to accept them, we also use a feature known as a "cookie." Cookies contain bits of information that Web sites transfer to your computer's hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences on a particular site such as ours.

Green Sword may place a pixel on pages on our site. This enables us to record in our server logs that a specific user id has visited a particular page. This data allows us to analyse and determine our audience's behavioural characteristics, which helps us to optimise our site. Only anonymous, non-Personally Identifiable Information is collected, and it cannot, by itself or in combination, be tracked to a specific individual.

At Green Sword, cookies are used the following ways:

• To automatically access your previously stored account information.
• To estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

Most browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can configure your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you've received one. If you reject cookies, though, you will not be able to use certain features of our sites including viewing or posting on our discussion boards. For more on managing cookies, we encourage you to read the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK's discussion on what you can do.

Where Your Information is Stored

The information outlined above may be processed and stored outside the United States of America and Europe. By using our site, you consent to this transfer. Green Sword takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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Our Use of This Information

• More Customised Service: Green Sword collects personal information to provide you, the user, with the best and most personalised Web experience possible. In short, by knowing a little about you, Green Sword can deliver more relevant content while at our Web site and thus, provide you with a more efficient, customise and seamless experience when using our service.
• Internal Research: Cookies and the other information we automatically track are used to help us better understand how our audience uses our site as well as for internal research on users' demographics and interests. Each browser accessing Green Sword is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine usage patterns, and to help in targeting content and ads based on user interests.
• To Confirm Your Registration and Contact You: Once you've registered, we will send you a confirmation email acknowledging your new account to the address that you supplied us. We may subsequently email you about our various products and services, or other products and services we feel may interest you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Green Sword does not give, rent, lend or sell individual information to any third party. Furthermore, we will not disclose any information about individual users, except as described below.

• Green Sword Community: On our boards (and anywhere else on our site), you are publicly identified by your user or screen name. If you choose your full name as your username, you have voluntarily disclosed that information to the Green Sword community. Similarly, any information you provide in your public profile is for public consumption. The same is true for any personal identifiable information (such as an email address) you include in any message board posts. Also, if you choose to email a reply to a message board post (as opposed to posting the reply on the boards), your email address will be revealed to whoever opens and reads the email. Other users may also use this function and email you a response to a message you've posted on our boards. While you will be able to see the sender's email address, the sender will not be able to see yours. However, should you respond to the message, you will have disclosed your email address to the message's recipient(s).
• Current or Prospective Advertisers/Partners: We only provide aggregate, non-identifiable information to our current and prospective advertisers and business partners.
• Our Parent Company: As previously mentioned, the information we collect from our users is processed and stored by our parent company, ETM.
• Third Party Service Providers: We may employ the services of third party providers to aid us in certain aspects of our operations (such as the distribution of our email products or conducting a survey for us). Depending on the services performed, some of these providers may be provided with user information. These contractors would be subject to confidentiality agreements which limit their use and disclosure of all information they obtain through their relationship with Green Sword to related business only, consistent with this policy.
• Legal Requests: Green Sword may disclose your personally identifiable information to protect the rights and property of Green Sword as well as to comply with any applicable law or valid legal process. This includes, but is not limited to:
  • Requests by Government Agencies. We will disclose any information we have in our possession to law enforcement or government officials in response to any inquiry or investigation or if in our sole discretion, we believe it is necessary or appropriate in connection with any investigation or activity that is or may be illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.
  • In compliance with the Data Protection Act. Pursuant to the Data Protection Act of 1998, we will disclose your information:
    • Where the disclosure is required by or under any enactment, rule of law or by the order of a court.
    • Where the disclosure is necessary:
      • For the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings);
      • For the purpose of obtaining legal advice; or
      • For the purpose of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.

Security

Green Sword is committed to protecting your personal information. All information that you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Access to personalised areas of the site is password-protected for your privacy and security. While we do our best to protect your personal information, Green Sword cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and/or any account information. If you need to change your password, please follow the steps outlined below.

Other Data Processors

Many of our partners link from our site to areas on their own sites. If you follow these links from our site to theirs, you should be aware that these other sites have their own privacy and data processing practices. Green Sword has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding a site and its privacy policies, check that site.

Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Green Sword's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Changes to this Privacy and Cookie Statement

Green Sword may amend this Privacy and Cookie Statement from time to time. If we make any substantive changes to this policy, we'll announce it on our site.

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