Privacy Policy
New American Dream 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, trade or share your personal information with one exception.
Our Break the Bottled Water Habit campaign is done in partnership with Corporate Accountability International, and the names and email addresses of those users who pledge to Break the Bottled Water Habit will be shared with them and opted into both's email lists. If you prefer to opt out of this arrangement, click here (note that if you are already on the email list of New American Dream or Corporate Accountability International, your name will not be removed from those lists, it will simply not be shared with the other organization).
The Whats and Wherefores
New American Dream 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 New American Dream 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.
We do 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. If you check the box on our login form that says "Remember Me", you are agreeing to place a cookie onto to your hard drive. This cookie is used to store your login to the site so you may be logged in automatically when you return. The cookie is also used to track your participation in certain campaigns, such as email campaigns and petition campaigns. This information is provided so you may track your interaction with the New American Dream.
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 using a shared computer and are concerned about protecting your personal information, simply do not check, or if you have already checked it, uncheck, the box labeled "Remember Me".
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 create a password. We ask for your email as your username because 1) it is unique to you and 2) it is easy for you to remember. We require a password because even if you choose to give us no further personal information, the site is highly interactive and there are several areas where a person might "spoof" (pretend to be you) your identity and cause offense or embarrassment. We also ask for your name so we can communicate with you more effectively and you zip code so we can tailor our content, campaigns and alerts to your locale. We never share this information.
If you purchase any item from the New American Dream, you will be required to enter your name and address. This is solely for shipping purposes and will not be revealed to other users of the site; unless you choose to make it public by editing your site profile. Through this profile you may choose to make your city and state public—this will allow other site users to see it when viewing your public profile. No other parts of your address will ever be made public.
The New Dream community is designed to connect like minded individuals. To do this users may create personal profiles that introduce themselves to other users of the site. Profile information as well as a first name or handle and photos are displayed to people in a user's public profile, to support the function of the site as social networking community where users can meet new people.
A user's name or handle is used when a user invites a friend via email to join the site, when a user requests to add another user to their network, and when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service. A user's email address is not shared or displayed with other users of the site. Users within a personal network may communicate with each other through the site, without disclosing email addresses.
We may also use a user's email address to send newsletters, action emails and campaign updates, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by accessing their email/contact preferences.
Demographic Data
All demographic data requested is optional. The only data that would ever be displayed in your public profile are your age (calculated when you input your date of birth) and gender you may choose to keep that information private. Any other demographic data will only be used internally and in the aggregate to help us mold our campaigns and offerings— none of this data will ever be shared.
Invite a Friend
If you elect to use our invite feature to invite a friend to our site, we ask you for your friend's email address. New American Dream will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site. The site uses this email address for the purpose of sending the email and to automatically add the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation, if it is accepted. New American Dream does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The friend may contact us to request the removal of this information from our database.
Public Forums and Profiles
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through e-mail, or in your public profile- that information can be collected and used by others. In short, by posting personal information online that is publicly accessible, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
Other Usage of Profile Information
By answering any of the descriptive questions in the "tell us about yourself" section of your user profile, you agree to allow this information to be posted in your public profile. Also, you grant New American Dream permission to use these repsonses throughout it's website. The responses will be attributed to your user handle or name if the make public box is checked next to these. Also if you have chosen to make your location (city and/or state) public, that will be included in the attribution. If you have not checked the box to allow your name and/or location information to be used publicly, the responses will be attributed to "anonymous member".
Your Consent
By using the site, you agree that New American Dream 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
webmaster@newdream.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.
Check back for updates to the privacy policy.