Privacy Notice

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New England GROWS respects the privacy of its members and other visitors to its website. To this end we have adopted the following privacy policy, which applies solely to information collected by this website, www.newenglandGROWS.org.

Most information New England GROWS collects is used to help our registrants navigate our website and optimize their time at our annual green industry trade show. It is our general policy to only collect and store personal information that our members and visitors knowingly provide. If our privacy policy changes, we will notify all users by email or through an announcement on the website listed above.

Information Collection, Use, and Sharing

From General Users
New England GROWS does not collect any personally identifiable information from users browsing its website. Only aggregate data – such as the number of hits per page – are collected and used for internal and marketing purposes.

From New England GROWS' Registrants and Other Customers
In order to have full access to this website, a user must first complete the registration process. During this process a user is required to give certain information (such as name, address, phone number, email address). We will use your information to contact you with regard to the reason(s) you contacted us and/or about the services/programs on our site in which you expressed interest. Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about New England GROWS registration opportunities or other opportunities to engage in the green industry. Additionally, for some emails sent in HTML format by New England GROWS to its registrants and exhibitors through its listservs, we will collect more specific information regarding how the email is received. For example, we may monitor whether or not a recipient opens the email, clicks through links provided in the message, and/or responds to an email survey. New England GROWS only uses this information to better serve its community by providing the most relevant information.

Disclosures to Third Parties

New England GROWS incorporates information users provide into hardcopy lists of exhibiting companies and also sells lists of attendees of the tradeshow only to companies who request the list and who have exhibited at the current show. Users may elect to opt out of this opportunity during the online registration process by clicking on the opt-out box on the first page of registration ("Check here if you do not wish to receive information from related organizations."). Alternatively, users may contact New England GROWS at info@NewEnglandGROWS.org or 617-653-3009 to make this preference known at any time.

Credit Card Information

New England GROWS does not disclose credit card information provided by its registrants. When users choose to pay using their credit cards, New England GROWS submits the information to the appropriate clearinghouse.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Means of Redress

If any User suspects New England GROWS has handled its personal information in a manner that does not comply with this privacy statement, please contact us by e-mailing info@NewEnglandGROWS.org or by calling 617-552-3009.