Privacy Policy

Neighborhood Fruit has established this Privacy Policy to explain to you how your information is protected, collected, and used. This Privacy Policy is incorporated in the Terms of Use (TOU) of the website available at http://neighborhoodfruit.com/tou, and must be read in conjunction with the TOU. Nothing in this Privacy Policy varies the requirements of the TOU.

1. Information We Collect and How We Use It
There are four categories of information that we collect from you: “private information,” “public information,” “transaction information,” and “tree information.” Each of these categories is described below, including a discussion of how we collect the information and how we use it.

a) Private Information:

a. Email Addresses:

b. Contact Information: We sometimes collect your address and/or phone number when you post a fruit listing. If you have fruit to offer, your address information will be used to generate a map showing the approximate, but not precise, location of your home. In this way, your exact address will not be revealed until you initiate a transaction (see Transaction Information, below).

c. Personal Information: We sometimes collect other personal information, such as first and last name for account registration and authentication purposes.

d. Web Logs: Our web logs collect standard web log entries for each page served, including your IP address, page URL, and timestamp. Web logs help us to diagnose problems with our server, to administer the Neighborhood Fruit site, and to otherwise provide and improve our service to you.

e. Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. Like most websites, this site uses cookies to keep track of your activity on the site and enhance your experience on the site. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the site.

f. Information Collected by a Google Analytics Program: Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. Google Analytics will collect anonymous data that is primarily used to optimize our website for our visitors, however we will also use this data for marketing purposes. An example of how this data could be used for marketing purposes would be to tell potential advertisers how many visitors we get to the website and how they arrive at our website. This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as your name, phone numbers, address, email, social security number, bank account numbers, or credit card information. Google Analytics collects the following types of information from users:

Your account information is password-protected. Maintaining security of your password is your responsibility.

b) Public Information:
“Public information” is information that you choose to make available to other Users through your postings on the Neighborhood Fruit website or entries in our monthly Fruit Label Contest. Public information might include your Username (which you create yourself), comments that you post in a forum, blog, or fruit listing, designs you submit to the Fruit Label Contest, or any other information you post about yourself, your fruit trees, and so on. It is your choice to post or send this information at your discretion, and you may choose to remain anonymous and provide minimal details to the public. Please do not post any personal information on Neighborhood Fruit that you expect to keep private. You may choose to keep your identity and email address hidden from other Users of the website, by using our Anonymous Contact feature.

After completing a transaction, Users can rate each other using our rating system. Your ratings of other Users, and their ratings of you, become public information. If another User rates their transaction and posts comments about you that contain personally identifying information about you, please notify us at http://neighborhoodfruit.com/contact, and we will remove this information.

c) Transaction Information:
When a Fruit Grower and Fruit Seeker make a connection for the purpose of giving or receiving fruit, certain information will be shared between the two parties. The information that is shared with another party to your transaction is called “transaction information.” By entering into a transaction to give or receive fruit, you consent to the sharing of certain information with the other party to the transaction. Transaction information might include names and contact information for each party, the address of the party offering fruit, details about the yard or residence where fruit is to be collected, agreements regarding waiver of liability, and date and time of fruit pick-up.

Transaction information is otherwise kept private and not shared with other Users or third parties, with the exceptions described below in Section 5.

d) Tree Information
Neighborhood Fruit is collaborating with the San Francisco Urban Forest Mapping Project [http://www.urbanforestmap.org/], to capture information about urban forests and inner-city carbon sequestration. When you create an account with Neighborhood Fruit, we will ask you for details about each fruit tree on your property. We will share the information about your trees with the San Francisco Urban Forest Mapping Project, but we will not share your name, contact, or other private information with the Project. If you do not want your tree information to be shared with the San Francisco Urban Forest Mapping Project, you have the option to opt-out of sharing it.

2. We Do Not Collect or Store Credit Card and/or Other Billing Information
We do not collect or store credit card and/or other billing information. When you initiate a transaction that requires a fee, you will be routed to PayPal, a service outside of Neighborhood Fruit’s website. PayPal will collect and process your credit card and/or other billing information. In that situation, PayPal’s User Agreement and Privacy Policy apply to you, and Neighborhood Fruit’s Privacy Policy and TOU do not apply.

3. Changing and Removing Your Information
You may access, control, modify, or remove most of your personal information on Neighborhood Fruit by using the Edit function of “My Account.” Information will be updated immediately. Users who wish to deactivate their Neighborhood Fruit account may do so by contacting Neighborhood Fruit at http://neighborhoodfruit.com/contact.
However, where you make use of the communication features on the site, such as forums, blogs, or the rating system to share information with other individuals on Neighborhood Fruit, you generally cannot remove such communications.

4. Information We Store
All account information, fruit listings, forum postings, and similar content are stored in our database, even after "deletion," and may be archived elsewhere. Our web logs and other records are stored indefinitely. Our web logs and other records may be deleted at a time of our choosing and at our discretion.

5. Circumstances in Which Neighborhood Fruit May Release Your Private Information
Neighborhood Fruit may disclose information about its Users if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. Neighborhood Fruit may also disclose information about its Users to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: enforce our Terms of Use; respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Neighborhood Fruit, its Users, or the general public.

6. Archiving and Display of Neighborhood Fruit Listings by Search Engines and Other Sites
Search engines and other sites not affiliated with Neighborhood Fruit, such as Google or Yahoo, may archive or otherwise make available Neighborhood Fruit listings.

7. Possibility That Others Could Obtain Personal Information About You
Although we make good faith efforts to store information in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. It is remotely possible for others (including unauthorized users or "hackers") to obtain personal information about you due to your use of the Neighborhood Fruit’s Services, and that the recipient may use such information to harass or injure you. Please carefully select the type of information that you post on the website or release to others. We disclaim all liability, regardless of the form of action, for the acts or omissions of others who gain access to your personal information (including unauthorized users or "hackers").

8. Age Considerations
Pursuant to Neighborhood Fruit’s Terms of Use, you must be 18 years or older to use this site. Therefore, this Privacy Policy makes no provision for individuals under 18 years old. Neighborhood Fruit does not knowingly collect any information from persons under the age of 18. If Neighborhood Fruit learns that a posting is by a person under the age of 18, Neighborhood Fruit will remove that post. Similarly, if Neighborhood Fruit learns that an account was registered by a person under the age of 18, Neighborhood Fruit will close that account.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated by Neighborhood Fruit from time to time. Neighborhood Fruit will provide notice of materially significant changes to this Privacy Policy by posting notice on the Neighborhood Fruit site. We encourage you to refer to this Policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current Privacy Policy.

10. Effective Date of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of April 7, 2009.

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