PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated on April 30, 2024
CareOurEarth.com and its running entity Earth Scientific Press Limited (“CareOurEarth”, “Website”, “We”, “Us”, “Services”) are committed to respecting your concerns about privacy and valuing the relationship with you. We are committed to complying with all applicable personal data privacy laws and regulations. This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected on this Website. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect and use the information about you, along with your choices or rights with respect to that information. It also describes our measures to safeguard your personal information and tells you how to contact us about our privacy practices. This Privacy Policy includes the following sections:
- What Information Do We Collect?
- Information Collected Automatically
- Information You Voluntarily Provide
- Information Collected from Other Sources
- Sensitive Personal Information
- How Do We Use the Information We Collect?
- How Do We Share or Disclose the Information We Collect?
- How Do We Protect Personal Information?
- How Long Do We Retain Data?
- Your Rights and Choices
- Access, Update, and Correct Personal Information
- Children’s Personal Data
- Links to Third-Party Websites
- Updates and Changes to This Privacy Policy
- Other Things You Should Know
- Contact Us
Each time you visit and use this Website, this Privacy Policy will apply. Accordingly, each time you use the Website, you should check this Privacy Policy and review any changes from the last time you used the Website. You should also refer to our Terms of Use, which govern your use of this website and serve as a contract between us and you. By accessing and using the Website or Services, you represent and warrant that you have read, understood, and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not understand or disagree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, you should refrain from using the Website or Services.
- What Information Do We Collect
Information Collected Automatically
Like most website operators, CareOurEarth automatically gathers information of the sort that browsers automatically make available whenever you visit this Website. The information we collect in this manner includes IP addresses, domain servers, types of computers accessing the website, types of web browsers accessing the website, and the date and time of access (collectively, “Traffic Data”). These Data are anonymous information that does not personally identify you but provides us with information about what happens when you visit our Website or use our Services, along with the information about your device. We use this information to, for example, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better. We may also determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
Part of the information is collected using cookies and web beacons. A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and the visitor’s browser provides it to the website each time the visitor returns. A web beacon, also known as a pixel tag or clear GIF, is a small block of code placed on a website and e-mail, which is used to transmit information collected through cookies to our service provider’s servers. These web beacons enable our service providers to compile anonymous information about your browsing activity on the Site. For more information, see the section on “Online Tracking” below.
CareOurEarth may use cookies and web beacons to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, track and understand e-mail campaign effectiveness, and deliver targeted ads. If you are unfamiliar with cookies and web beacons, you can learn how to delete or control cookies at www.aboutcookies.org. For more information about how we use cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see here for detailed information.
Information You Voluntarily Provide
We may obtain certain personal information when you provide them through this Website for our services. The types of personal information we may collect include, without limitation, your name, e-mail address, username and password, and employment information.
- Registration:
When you sign up for a Service (whether via a free account as a registered user or a subscription), we collect your contact information to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a CareOurEarth account to provide their username, first name, family name, and email address. You may provide us with more information for your profile – like your career – but we don’t require that information to create your account. Once you have an account with us, we collect the information you provide for your public profile, so please keep that in mind when deciding what information you would like to include.
- User-Generated Content:
We offer you the ability to post content that other users can read (e.g., posts or comments), and you may provide us with information about yourself via content submission. For example, if you write a blog post that includes biographic information about you, we will have that information if you choose to publish the post publicly. Anyone with access to the Internet can read, collect, and use any personal information accompanying your posts. See the User-Generated Content section in our Terms of Service for more information. We do not have to publish any of your content. We will comply if the law requires us to take down, remove, or edit your content.
- Communication with Us:
We collect information from you when you communicate with us about a question or an issue via the Contact Us form or similar services or our business email addresses. This can include your name, contact information, information about your account, and any other information you choose to provide.
- Payments:
To process payments or contributions, we collect and use your payment information. This can include your name, address, telephone number, email address, credit or debit card information, and other relevant information. When you initially provide or update your payment information, we transmit it via an encrypted connection to payment gateway providers, including Stripe and PayPal. They use and process your payment information through their Privacy Policy.
The amount and type of information depends on the context and how you use our Services. You are not obligated to provide Personal Information, with the caveat that your refusal may prevent you from using certain Services.
Information Collected from Other Sources
We may get information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your CareOurEarth account through another service (like Google) or if you connect your account to a social media service (like Twitter), we will receive information from that service (such as your username, profile information, and friends list) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any available options.
We may also get information from third-party services about individuals who are not yet our users (but we hope they will be!), which we may use, for example, for marketing and advertising purposes.
Sensitive Personal Information
Sensitive Personal Information includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, criminal convictions and offenses, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data.
Sensitive Personal Information requires higher levels of protection. You are not required to provide sensitive personal information when you visit this Website and use our services. However, we may obtain part of your sensitive personal information in such situations as:
- you have already manifestly made the information public; or
- You have not disclosed the information in the public domain, but you may have declared the information to us when you submitted your contribution or contacted us via electronic communications.
In such situations, Sensitive Personal Data will be processed and protected according to relevant principles and our legal obligations.
- How Do We Use the Information We Collect
CareOurEarth analyzes traffic data and information gathered using cookies to help us better understand who uses the Website and how they use it. By identifying patterns and trends in usage, CareOurEarth can better design the Website to improve your experience and serve you with more relevant and engaging content and advertisements. From time to time, we may release traffic data and information gathered using cookies in the aggregate, such as by publishing a report on trends in the website’s usage. CareOurEarth does not attempt to link information gathered using cookies to personal information. In addition, CareOurEarth uses your contact data to offer and provide products, services, and information to you, including newsletters, and to communicate with you about and administer your participation in special events, programs, surveys, contests, sweepstakes, and other offers or promotions, to the extent permitted by law. We may use the information we obtain through the Website to display content on our Website, such as stories, product reviews, and photos. CareOurEarth also uses your profile information to customize and tailor your experience on the Website.
We also use this information to help diagnose technical and service problems, administer our Website, identify users, and gather demographic information about our users. We use clickstream data to determine how much time users spend on our website’s web pages, how users navigate through our Website, and how we may tailor our Website to better meet their needs. In addition, we may use the information we obtain about you in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
We may use third-party web analytics services on our Website, like Webtrends and Google Analytics. These service providers help us analyze how users use our Website. The information collected for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. These service providers may retain and use anonymized, aggregated data collected from users of our Website in connection with their businesses to improve their products and services.
- How Do We Share or Disclose the Information We Collect
Except under the limited circumstances below, CareOurEarth will keep your personal information private and not share it with third parties.
- Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors and need to know the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
- Disclosure in Connection with Services. CareOurEarth may disclose Personal Information to those who help it provide Services, including without limitation those who perform technical, administrative, and data processing tasks such as hosting, billing, fulfillment, and data storage and security.
- As Required by Law: We may disclose information about you when required by law or in response to a subpoena or court order.
- To Protect Rights and Property: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of CareOurEarth, third parties, or the public. For example, if we believe in good faith that there is an imminent danger of serious accident or death, we may disclose information about the emergency without delay.
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business or CareOurEarth’s assets by another company, or in the unlikely event that CareOurEarth goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party or successor organization. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy or a new privacy policy, if you are given notice of that new privacy policy, would continue to apply to your information, and the third party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with the Privacy Policy.
- With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us, such as the social media services you connect to your site through our publicize feature.
- Aggregated and De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our Services.
If we collect new information from our users or want to use it in ways not already established in this Privacy Policy, we will update this policy and obtain consent from users.
- How Do We Protect Personal Information?
CareOurEarth implements and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices, including administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, to protect the personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized access, use, alteration, destruction, loss, or disclosure.
All processing of personal data shall be conducted according to the data protection principles as follows:
- Personal data must be processed lawfully, fairly and transparently.
- Personal data can only be collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes.
- Personal data must be relevant and limited to what is necessary for processing.
- Personal data must be accurate and updated with every effort to erase or correct.
- Personal data must be kept in a form that allows the data subject to be identified only if necessary for processing.
- Personal data must be processed to ensure the appropriate security.
- How Long Do We Retain Data?
We store your personal information for as long as needed or permitted, based on the reason we obtained it (consistent with applicable law). This means we might retain your personal information even after you close your account with us.
When deciding how long to keep your information, we consider:
- How long we have had a relationship with you or provided a Service to you
- Whether we are subject to any legal obligations (g., any laws that require us to keep transaction records for a certain period before we can delete them)
- Whether we have taken any legal positions (g., in connection with any statutes of limitation)
Rather than delete your data, we might de-identify it by removing identifying details.
- Your Rights and Choices
CareOurEarth respects that data subjects have the following rights regarding the data processing and the data that is recorded about them:
- To request access regarding the nature of information held and to whom it has been disclosed.
- To prevent processing that is likely to cause damage or distress.
- To prevent processing for purposes of direct marketing.
- To be informed about the mechanics of automated decision-making processes, which will significantly affect them.
- Not to have significant decisions that will affect them solely by an automated process.
- To sue for compensation if they suffer damage by contravening the applicable privacy and other laws.
- To take action to rectify, block, and erase inaccurate data, including the right to be forgotten or destroy it.
- To request the supervisory authority (e.g., a privacy commissioner or a data protection officer) to assess whether any provision of the relevant privacy and other laws has been violated.
- The right to have personal data provided to them in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to have such data transmitted to another data controller.
- To object to any automated profiling that is occurring.
You have several options available when it comes to information about you:
- Limit the information you provide: If you have registered an account at this Website, you can choose not to provide the optional account information and profile information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services may not be accessible.
- Opt-out of electronic communications: If you do not want us to use your information for marketing purposes, you may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us by sending us an email with your name and email address. However, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.
- Please be aware that we can process an opt-out request only for a specific email address. So, if you have more than one email address or if you have changed your email address, your opt-out request may not be processed properly. If you believe you have opted out but continue to receive emails from us, please get in touch with us by one of the means listed under “Contact Us” below, and we will endeavor to resolve the issue.
- Access, Update, and Correct Personal Information
By using the Website, you represent and warrant that all information you provide in connection with your use of the Website and Services will be current, complete, and accurate. You will update that information as necessary to maintain its completeness and accuracy. Subject to applicable law, you may (i) have the right to access certain personal information we maintain about you and obtain a copy of that information, (ii) update or correct inaccuracies in that information, (iii) object to our use of your personal information, and (iv) delete your personal information from our database. To exercise these rights, please get in touch with us as indicated in the “Contact Us” section of this online Privacy Policy Notice. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information.
- Children’s Personal Data
Our Services are intended for a general audience and are not directed at children below the age of (16). We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information in a manner prohibited by law. Suppose we discover that this website has accidentally collected personal data from a child below the age of 16. In that case, we will remove that child’s personal data from its records as soon as possible. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected information from your child in a manner not permitted by law, contact us at admin[at]careourearth. com. We will remove the data to the extent required by applicable laws.
- Links to Third-Party Websites
CareOurEarth contains links to other websites for your convenience and information. CareOurEarth neither owns nor controls third-party websites. Accordingly, third-party websites are not obligated to comply with this privacy policy except for personal information provided directly by CareOurEarth. This Privacy Policy only applies to the Website and not to any websites of third parties, which may have data collection, storage, and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy.
Linked websites may have their privacy policies or notices. Before visiting or providing personal information to a linked third-party website, you should inform yourself of its privacy policies and practices (if any) and take those steps necessary to, at your discretion, protect your privacy.
- Updates and Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We are continually improving our services and products. The updates sometimes require us to collect new information or use what we already have differently—further, the laws regarding personal information and privacy frequently change. As a result, we must update this Privacy Policy periodically. Thus, CareOurEarth reserves the right, at any time, to add to, update, change, or modify this Privacy Policy in consistent with relevant laws and regulations simply by posting such update, change, or modification on this page. Any changes to this Online Privacy Policy Notice will become effective when those changes are posted to the Website unless we indicate the effective date of this Privacy Policy Notice (and any updates) at the top. Each time you use the Website, the then-current version of this Privacy Policy will apply. CareOurEarth encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy to ensure you are aware of any changes or updates to this Online Privacy Notice. Your continuing use of the Website after any change to this Online Privacy Notice constitutes your acceptance of the change.
- Other Things You Should Know
Information that you choose to make public is – you guessed it – disclosed publicly. That means that information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on our Website, and your “likes” and comments on other posts are all available to others – and we hope you get a lot of views! Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.
By registering for the Website and Services and by providing a contact name and email address through the Website or Services, you at this moment expressly consent, without limitation: (1) to receive electronic communications from CareOurEarth over the short term and periodically regarding the Website and Services, promotions, and other matters; and (2) to receive electronic communications from other users of the Website and Services. You may opt out of receiving electronic communications at any time by (a) following the unsubscribe instructions contained in each communication or (b) sending an email to us.
- Contact Us
If you have any questions, please email us at admin[at]careourearth. com. Earth Scientific Press Limited is the running entity of this Website and the data controller for personal data collected through means stated in this Privacy Policy. The company address is:
Earth Scientific Press Limited
608 Sai Sha Road,
Ma On Shan, NT,
HONG KONG