Privacy Statement 

I Sites covered by this Privacy Statement

This Privacy Statement applies to the website with the domain myclimate.org.

Links to non-myclimate.org websites

The myclimate.org website may provide links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the myclimate.org website. myclimate does not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from myclimate.org’s. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites. The personal data you choose to give to unrelated third parties is not covered by the myclimate.org Privacy Statement. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal information. Some third-party companies may choose to share their personal data with myclimate.org; that sharing is governed by that third-party company’s privacy policy.

II Types of information we collect

When referring to "personal data", we mean information we collect from you, from which you may be personally identified. Typically, this may include your name, address, date of birth and e-mail address. Please be assured that we will not collect any personal data from your visits to our website unless you provide this information voluntarily. When you supply personal data to us through this website, it will be clear what we plan to use the data for. We will then use it only for such purposes.

Purposes for the collection of your name, address, e-mail and so on are as follows:

1. Answering your queries
   Where you send us personal data in the context of asking us a question or query (for example, about the company, or its products or services or their quality or availability), we shall use the data you provide in order to respond to your question. In some cases, it may be necessary to share your details with other third party data processors.
2. Fulfilling a contract/order
   We may use personal data you submit to us when ordering goods or services from us (as which carbon offset project you wish to invest in) for the purpose of fulfilling that order, and it may be necessary for us to share such data with third parties.
3. Future direct marketing
   Where you elect to receive such material from myclimate, we will from time to time send you information and/or offers about its goods and/or services which it believes may be of interest to you. At any time, however, you may unsubscribe from ("opt out" of) such future contact.

Purpose for the collection of your credit card information is as follows:

On this website also credit card information is collected. The company Datatrans AG (Zurich, Switzerland) collects this information. This company specialises in online payment transactions and runs a system enabling payments to be conducted quickly and with the highest degree of security.

III Keeping your information secure

myclimate is committed to protecting the information you provide us. We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal data secure. All personally identifiable information is subject to restricted access to prevent unauthorised access, modification or misuse. Please note, however, that we may release your personal data if required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or court order. We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data. SSL encryption is designed to make the information unreadable by anyone but us. This security measure is working when you see either the symbol of an unbroken key or closed lock (depending on your browser) on the bottom of your browser window.

IV Data Processors and data controller

myclimate collects and processes the personal data (name, e-mail, birth of date, address, offset purchases made and so on).

The data controller of the personal data collected through this website is myclimate.

The credit card information is collected, processed and controlled by Datatrans. This information is not processed by any third company.

V Use of cookies

Cookies are files or pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use cookies to collect other information during your visit to our website, such as the particular site areas you visit and the products or services you buy through our website. We collect this information to better tailor our website and our products to your interests and needs. Cookies may also be used to help speed up your future activities at our website. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Refusal of cookies at the website you entered may result in an inability to visit certain areas of the website or to receive personalised information when you visit the website.
You can find information on popular browsers and how to adjust your cookie preferences for example at the following website:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.htm

VI Inspection of data

The client has the possibility to inspect any data he is submitting to myclimate (and/or which myclimate passes on to their partners) and he may view and/or change his data at any time.

VII Changes to this Statement

myclimate reserves the right to adjust this privacy statement at anytime. Valid is the latest privacy statement published on this site.
If there are updates to the terms of this Privacy Statement, we will post those changes and update the revision date in this document, so you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.

Users of the the site myclimate.org agree that their data may be collected, saved and used according to the terms stated in this privacy statement.

VIII Contacting us

If you wish to raise any data protection issue with us, or exercise any of your legal rights, please contact us:

myclimate � The Climate Protection Partnership
Technoparkstr. 1
8005 Zurich
Switzerland
info@myclimate.org
www.myclimate.org

Rev. July 2006