Privacy Policy for Overdevest Nurseries.com website
     
Our Commitment to Privacy
  Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest-quality services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our customers in general. This Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and our members' needs.
 
What Information Do We Collect?
  When you visit our Website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Website.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide
If you choose to register with us, you may need to give personal information. For example, you may need to provide the following information:

----------Name
----------Mailing address
----------E-mail address
----------Home phone number
----------Other personal information (i.e., magazines you subscribe to)
----------Opt-in email lists

E-mail Information
In addition to providing the foregoing information, if you choose to correspond further with us through e-mail, we may retain the content of your e-mail messages together with your e-mail address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

2. Website Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Website utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our Website is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Website, and the Websites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.
 
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
  Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and service offers are developed and managed under our traditional corporate standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers' personal information. You will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an e-mail request at info@overdevest-nurseries.com.
 
What Are Cookies?
  Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Website. They are small pieces of data that are stored by a user's Web browser on the user's hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user's transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
 
How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
  We use Website browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Website users' browsing activities in order to constantly improve our Website and better serve our members and/or website visitors. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Website to better meet the needs of our members, prospective members and website visitors.

Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Website and evaluate our Website's visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual e-mail address or any personally identifying information about you.
 
Notice of New Services and Changes
  Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Website, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an e-mail request at info@overdevest-nurseries.com.
 
Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?
  We may provide aggregate information about our customers, Website traffic patterns and related Website information to other wholesale growers, trade industry organizations, member organizations, etc. This information will never include any personally identifying data.
 
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?
  We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so; in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
 
What About Other Websites Linked to Our Website?
  We are not responsible for the practices employed by Websites linked to or from our Website nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Websites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Website.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Website to another Website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Website, including Websites which have a link to our Website, is subject to that Website's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
 
Your Consent
  By using our Website you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
   
Revised: November 15, 2002