ibuydifferent.org is committed to protecting your privacy. The bottom line is: We will not give your personal information to anyone without your consent, except if required by law as described below. We will never sell or trade your personal information.

The Whats and Wherefores: ibuydifferent.org has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information-gathering and dissemination practices for the ibuydifferent.org Web site (the "site").

Personal Information: We will release specific information that we have collected from you to comply with valid legal processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, or in special cases such as a physical threat to you or others. We will never use or sell information we collect about you for any purpose other than those outlined below. Any cookies placed on your computer will not be used or sold for commercial purposes.

IP Addresses and Cookie Technology: We use your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the site. Your IP address is used to gather broad demographic information. On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of "cookie"—known as a "session" cookie—to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies are kept in your browser's memory and are removed after your browser session is over. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the Site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of "persistent" cookies — another type of cookie that, when used, is stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites.

To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished visiting a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to identify and/or reject cookies. These settings are usually located under "Tools" on your browser toolbar.

What Information We Collect and Why: When you register for the Site we ask you to create a username and give us your zip code. The username is just so we have a way of identifying you on the Site so we can measure the actions you're taking and let you know how much good you're doing for the world. The zip code will be used solely as a way to track impact over a geographical area and not for any commercial purpose.

If you choose to start a group in our action center you will be prompted to fill out a form that will request your email address. This address will be used solely to reply to your request to start a group and then be automatically deleted from our database.

Your Consent: By using the site, you agree that ibuydifferent.org may collect and use the information described above. If we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes on this page so you are always informed about what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Your continued use of the site after a change has been posted will constitute your agreement to such change in the privacy policy.

Links: The site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Security: This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. If users have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of the site, or your dealings with the site, you can email us at bedifferent@ibuydifferent.org. site visitors may remove or change their information in our databases and stop all future, direct communications from us by emailing us at the address provided above.

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