Privacy Policy
We self-certify compliance with:
Adopted: April 2012
At American Carbon
Registry, an enterprise of Winrock International Institute for Agricultural
Development, an
Notice: Information we collect and
how we use it
ACR collects and uses personal
and other information in a number of ways.
Registration with ACR
When you sign up for
a particular service that may require registration, we ask you to provide
personal contact information such as your name, address, telephone number and
email address. This information may also include basic account information for
billing or other purposes.
Information for Processing from
Other Business Organizations
ACR may receive
information from other business organizations such as our clients for the
purpose of providing services to these organizations. Some of this information
may be non-public personal information or confidential account information.
Generally, we process this information on their instructions and subject to
confidentiality provisions.
Information
Automatically Logged
A number of ACR
applications use web server logs and similar tools to help diagnose problems
with the server, to administer the website, and to enhance security or
authenticate users. Server logs are analyzed by a commercial tool to provide
simple access demographics, including “New vs. Returning Visitors,” “Top
Visitors,” “Top Geographic Regions,”, and other statistical reports.
User Communications
When you send email
or other communications to ACR, we may retain and use those communications in
order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our
services.
Cookies
Our systems may use cookies to keep track of the state of your session and may
also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. No personal
information is stored in cookies. If cookies are disabled, certain applications
in the protected portion of our systems may not work properly.
Other Purposes and Sharing
It is ACR’s policy
not to use or disclose confidential or non-public information received from
clients or end-user customers except in connection with the provision and
improvement of ACR services. Such uses or disclosures may include, for example,
those that are usual, appropriate, or acceptable to carry out the ACR service
for which the information was given or a transaction related thereto, to
maintain accounts, to provide confirmations and statements, to provide access
to data services, and for record keeping purposes. In addition to the uses and
disclosures set forth above, ACR may use information you provide or it
otherwise receives for:
· auditing, research, and
analysis in order to maintain, protect, and improve our services;
· ensuring the technical
functioning of our network;
· satisfying any applicable law,
regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request;
· enforcing applicable Terms of
Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof;
· detecting, preventing, or
otherwise addressing fraud, security or technical issues; or
· protecting against harm to the
rights, property, or safety of ACR, its users or the public as required or
permitted by law.
Sharing of Aggregated and
Non-Personal Information
We may share with
third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal or de-identified information.
Such information does not identify you individually or compromise any aspect of
confidential information or transactions.
International Users and Location
of Data Processing
ACR processes
personal, confidential, and non-public information on our servers in the United
States of America and [in other countries] where data protections may differ
and in some cases be less adequate than those found, for example, in the U.S.
or the European Union. In some cases, we may process such information on a
server outside your own country. Individuals outside the
Links to Other Websites
Our websites may
contain (resource) links to other websites. ACR is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such websites. Users linking to other
websites are encouraged to verify the privacy practices of the other websites.
Choice: Options Concerning
Information We Collect
ACR will not collect
or use information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy
Policy without your consent. You can decline to submit personal information to
any of our services, in which case ACR may not be able to provide those
services to you.
Administrative and Marketing
Communications: We Do Not Share with Third Parties for Their Marketing Purposes
It is the policy of ACR
not to disclose confidential or non-public information to third parties for
their direct marketing purposes.
ACR will not share
your information with third party advertisers.
ACR may from time to
time, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, use personal, confidential, or
non-public data to inform a customer or accountholder about products and
services that ACR expects may be of interest to them. Individuals may object to
any such data being used for such marketing purposes by contacting us in
writing at the address indicated below.
Clients and end-user
consumers consent to receiving administrative and related electronic
communications related to our relationship.
Onward Transfer: Vendor and
Supplier Information Sharing
ACR may disclose
information to third parties such as vendors and suppliers who may act as our
agent and with third parties on whose behalf we are collecting such information
where such sharing is required by our business relationship. Such sharing
occurs subject to appropriate confidentiality obligations. We require our
vendors and suppliers to agree to process such information based on our
instructions and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. You acknowledge that APX, Inc. is the
technology provider for ACR, and will access and use data as necessary to
provide services, and such access and use shall be in accordance with this
Privacy Policy.
Access: Your Right to Know and
Correct the Information We Hold
ACR strives to ensure
that personal information is kept accurate and up to date. ACR kindly requests
its clients and end user customers to assist ACR in complying with this
obligation by informing ACR of any changes to their personal information.
Clients and end-user customers have the reasonable right to request details of
the personal information that ACR holds and to request the deletion or
modification of any inaccurate personal information held by ACR. Requests to
access, modify, or delete such personal information should be sent in writing
to the address indicated below.
Security: Our Efforts to Protect
Information
ACR takes reasonable
precautions to protect personal, confidential, and non-public information. ACR
has established an information security program setting forth standards for
maintaining administrative, technical and physical safeguards to govern information
in our care, custody, or control.
It is
No data transmissions
over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do
so at your own risk. Despite our efforts, we cannot guarantee that information
we process may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of
our security measures. In the event of a security incident, we will notify our
clients or end-user customers in accordance with applicable law.
Questions and Enforcement
ACR regularly reviews
its compliance with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any
questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or ACR’s treatment of
personal, confidential, or non-public information by contacting us through this
website or by writing to us at the address indicated below.
When we receive
formal written complaints at this address, it is ACR’s policy to contact the
complaining user regarding his or her concerns.
ACR will cooperate
with relevant data protection authorities in the investigation and resolution
of complaints.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If in the future we
change this Privacy Policy, we will post the new policy on this website. If
this policy is somehow materially less restrictive or protective of your
privacy than the current policy, we will not apply the less protective aspects
of the revised policy to information you have previously provided to us without
first obtaining your consent. If we have a way of contacting you
electronically, we will do so in the way you have instructed us to obtain your
consent. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy in the future. Your
continued use of this website following a change in the Privacy Policy
represents consent to the new policy to the fullest extent permitted by law.
We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.
Contacting ACR
You can contact ACR through our website or as follows:
by emailing ACR@Winrock.org
or in writing at:
American Carbon Registry
204 E 4th Street
North Little Rock, AR 72114
USA