GoldBamboo Privacy Policy

General

GoldBamboo LLC, A Massachusetts Limited Liability Company which owns and operates the http://GoldBamboo.com web site cares about the privacy of each user that comes to our site. This confirms that GoldBamboo LLC, is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact GoldBamboo at privacy@goldbamboo.com. You can also contact us via regular mail at: GoldBamboo, 400 West Cumming Park Suite 4900 Woburn, MA 01801 or call us at (781) 932.4700.

If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php. TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with the Web site to resolve your concerns.

GoldBamboo recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of information we collect from our on-line community. We are committed to respecting the privacy of anyone coming to the GoldBamboo Site. It is our intent to balance legitimate business interests in collecting and using information received from and about you with your expectations of privacy. The following is the way we handle information learned about you from your visit to our website.

GoldBamboo strives to develop innovative services to better serve our users. We recognize that privacy is an important issue, so we design and operate our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we gather when you use Our services, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard it

Collective Data

GoldBamboo may deposit certain bits of information called "cookies" in a visitor's computer. Cookies are sent back only to the web site that deposited them when a visitor returns to that site. Cookies can tell us how and when pages in a website are visited and by how many people. This technology does not collect personal identifiable information; the information collected is in an aggregate, non-identifiable form. With the information we can learn through this technology, we hope to improve our sites.

Cookies

GoldBamboo uses cookies to improve the quality of our service and to provide content based on certain criteria. Additionally we track usage statistics to better understand how people interact with the site. Upon loading GoldBamboo a session cookie is sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser to our servers. A "cookie" is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website.

Third Party Cookies

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies.

Personally Identifiable Information

GoldBamboo collects Personal Information that you provide to us when you register as part of the GoldBamboo Community, or when you update your member profile. We use the Personal Information you provide to: personalize your user experience, respond to your questions, provide you the specific information you request, send you email updates for which you subscribe, and notify you about website updates and maintenance.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member information page or by emailing Customer Support at support@goldbamboo.com] or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

Information Collection & Use

Registration

In order to use portions of the GoldBamboo web site, you must first complete the registration form and/or create a user name and password. During registration you are required to provide an email address and optionally provide other information (such as name and age). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

You have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site.

GoldBamboo is the sole owner of the information collected on http://GoldBamboo.com. GoldBamboo collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.

Surveys or Contests

From time-to-time GoldBamboo may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code).

We use this information to classify your response as it relates to other members of the GoldBamboo community. We measure response rate to a particular survey and use the contact information to follow up with participants who have requested further information related to the survey or poll.

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms

Currently GoldBamboo provides community functionality in the form of comments and feedback specific to topic pages. You should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. GoldBamboo is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. GoldBamboo reserves the rights to terminate the accounts of visitors who are abusive, use profanity or in any other way behave in a manner inconsistent with the GoldBamboo Terms of Use (http://goldbamboo.com/static-1termsofuse.html)

Links to Other Sites

As a resource to our visitors, GoldBamboo provides links to other websites. We try to carefully choose websites which we believe are useful and meet our high standards. However, because websites can change so quickly, we can't guarantee the standards of every website link we provide or be responsible for the content of non-GoldBamboo sites.

• The sites displayed as search results or linked to by GoldBamboo's services are developed by people over whom GoldBamboo exercises no control. These other sites may place their own cookies on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information.
• GoldBamboo may present links in a format that enables us to understand whether they have been followed. We use this information to understand and improve the quality of GoldBamboo's search technology. For instance, this data helps us determine how often users are satisfied with the first result of a query and how often they proceed to later results.

Children

We do not specifically collect information about children. While health and wellness topics related to children are covered under the GoldBamboo site it is intended for research conducted by adults.

Information sharing

• We will not rent, share or sell your personally identifiable information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent.
• We may store and process personal information collected on our site in the United States or any other country in which GoldBamboo or its agents maintain facilities. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information among these facilities, including those located outside your country.
• In the event of a transfer of ownership of GoldBamboo, such as acquisition by or merger with another company, we will provide notice and give the users choice to opt out before any personally identifiable information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• We may share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched for "Anxiety" or how many users clicked on a particular sponsored link
• We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at security@goldbamboo.com

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Email this Page

When you use our email this page feature a link will be sent from your default email service to your friend, this information is not collected by GoldBamboo.