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Back to: Rocky Mountain Institute--Home Page Printer-Friendly Version Rocky Mountain Institute Privacy Statement Why A Privacy Statement? Rocky Mountain Institute respects your individual privacy. That is why we have adopted this Privacy Policy, which embodies our commitment to the protection of your privacy through adherence to fair electronic information practices. This Privacy Policy puts you, the individual, in control of how your personal information is processed, and you have our promise that we will not electronically process your personal information in any way that is incompatible with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy protects your privacy by: Informing you about: • the types of personal information Rocky Mountain Institute collects about you through its Web sites; • how it collects that information; • the general purposes for which it collects such information; • the choices and means by which individuals may limit its use and disclosure. Empowering you to choose: • whether and how certain personal information you provide is used (where such use is unrelated to the uses for which you originally disclosed it); and • whether and the manner in which a third party uses certain personal information you provide (where such use is unrelated to the uses for which you originally disclosed it). Assuring you that Rocky Mountain Institute: • takes reasonable precautions to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction; • implements reasonable policies and procedures to ensure that personal information is kept only for the purposes for which it has been gathered; • uses reasonable measures to ensure that we have accurately and completely recorded the personal information you have provided; and • provides you reasonable access to your personal information as well as procedures for correcting or modifying that information where appropriate. Information About Rocky Mountain Institute Rocky Mountain Institute is a nonprofit organization based in Old Snowmass, Colorado, United States. Our principal activity is Environmental Research and Consulting. Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of Rocky Mountain Institute. Our privacy policy covers Rocky Mountain Institute and its web site: Rocky Mountain Institute 1739 Snowmass Creek Road Old Snowmass, Colorado 81654 United States www.rmi.org Providing Visitors With Anonymous Access You can access our web site home page, www.rmi.org, and browse our site without disclosing your personal data. Services and Links of Our Web Site Our web site enables you to communicate with other visitors by posting information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data. For example, when posting an entry in our Discussion Groups you are given the option of including your name and e-mail address. If you choose to include your data with your posting you are automatically notified when someone responds to your posting. Automatic Collection of Information We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals. We do not use cookies (defined below) to store personal data nor do we link non-personal information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals. Cookies associate a unique code with a particular IP address. They cannot pass on private information such as an email address without the user's intervention in the first place. However, it is possible to link the information stored in a cookie, or otherwise automatically logged, to personal data about individual visitors. Cookies may be used for a number of reasons such as registration and password storing, or for creating logs of visitor interests and preferences. Cookies may also be used to ensure the security of a visitor's information during a session and link personal data to the correct visitor. Cookies can either be temporary or persistent—for example a temporary cookie may be used by a web site during a visitor's session in order to link a visitor to a "shopping bag" so that the visitor can purchase a number of items rather than having to purchase each item separately. An example of a persistent cookie might be one that a web site attaches to a specific visitor so that when the visitor returns to the web site, the visitor does not need to complete the logging-in process. Data Collection and Purpose Specification We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services while filling out a Donation Form or shopping in our on-line Bookstore. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations. We may collect and use the personal data for the purposes of thanking our donors for their contribution over the web site and recording our bookstore web site sales. If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose by calling RMI at (970) 927-3851. Children's Privacy We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page, or at those sites on our web site where we collect personal data. Disclosure and Visitor Choice We do not disclose your personal data to other organizations. Confidentiality/Security We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data: • primary personal data (such as name and contact details) • identifiers (such as credit card details) We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from: unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification, unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation. Access to Personal Data You can ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you, by sending an email to webmaster@rmi.org or by calling (970) 927-3851. We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week—although we may before require proof of your identity—we will provide the information without any charge. We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data erased. We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data. Privacy Compliance There are no national laws or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization. There are no global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure. Self Assessment Procedure Name or designation of the privacy policy person or service: Rocky Mountain Institute 1739 Snowmass Creek Road Old Snowmass, Colorado 81654 United States www.rmi.org Privacy Support If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact: Rocky Mountain Institute Attn: Webmaster 1739 Snowmass Creek Road Old Snowmass, CO 81654 Phone Number: (970) 927-3851 Fax Number: (970) 927-4510 E-mail address: webmaster@rmi.org Table of Personal Data Collected and Purposes for Which They are Used Primary Personal Data/Business Information Tech Admin of the web site R & D Customer Admin Marketing Trading in Personal Data Name – – – X – Gender – X – – – Address – – – X – E-mail Address – X – X – Phone/Fax – – – – –   General Information Inquiries | Privacy Statement | Report Technical Problems ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE: Abundance by Design™ rmi.org is published by Rocky Mountain Institute. 1739 Snowmass Creek Road | Snowmass, CO 81654-9199 | Ph: 970.927.3851 Copyright 1999–2006. 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