Privacy Principles

This web site, http://konacloudforest.com/, is owned and operated by The Kona Cloud Forest. Our intention is to provide an informative tool for those interested in the activities offered through the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary and as a means of encouraging people to become more involved and aware of the importance of protecting tropical forests worldwide. We recognize that visitors to our web site may be concerned about the information that they provide to us and how we treat that information. The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary is committed to honoring our constituents' privacy preferences.

To this end, the Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary supports the following principles:

Consumer Choice

We believe that a visitor to our web site is the one to best determine:

  • When — and under what conditions — to provide "personally identifiable information" (e.g., data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate a person)
  • When such information may be shared with other organizations
  • When to remain anonymous

Informed Consent

When personally identifiable information is collected, we believe that a visitor to our web site has the right to:

  • Know when we are collecting personal information
  • Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of any such collection
  • Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will be provided to any third parties
  • Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from unauthorized use
  • Review the accuracy of personal information and update it

Privacy Policy

Your right to privacy is very important to us. We recognize that providing us with personal information is an act of trust. Therefore, we have created a privacy policy to protect your personal information. This policy covers all web sites owned or operated by The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary. We encourage you to take the time to read this privacy policy and our legal disclosure documents as well as those of any web site that you may visit.

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary by sending e-mail to comment@konacloudforest.com. Please reference this privacy policy in your subject line.

Following is The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary’s online privacy policy.

Your Personal Information

Personal Information Collected

In general, when you visit our web site and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our web site. There are occasions when we will ask for additional information. We do this to better understand and respond to your needs, and provide you with services that may be valuable to you.

What Information We Collect and How We Use That Information

Our request forms require users to give us contact information that may include name, e-mail address, format preference (HTML vs. plain text), physical address, interests, and similar information. We do not request or store sensitive information from our visitors, such as social security numbers.

Use of Your Personal Information

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary never shares your personal information, including your e-mail address or phone numbers, with outside organizations unless we have your prior consent.

E-Mail Sent to Us Containing Personal Information

You may decide to send The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary personally identifying information. We will use this information solely to determine how to best respond to the e-mail. We will not use this information for any purpose other than to resolve the specific matter identified in your e-mail.

Internet Protocol Address

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. We collect an IP address from all visitors to our web site. We use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our server, administer our web site, analyze usage trends, track users' interactions with the web site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the web site, and deliver customized, personalized content. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links to Third-Party Web Sites

We provide many links to third party web sites existing outside of The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary. Since we do not control the content or functionality of these web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third-party web sites. Any link from http://konacloudforest.com/ to such a third-party web site does not denote an affiliation with the web site or an endorsement of its viewpoint(s) or mission(s).

Security of Your Information

Security

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary does not ask for credit card information as a form of payment.

Cookies

What are "Cookies"?

Cookies are small files sent from a web server to your computer through your browser program. There are two types of cookies: non-persistent and persistent cookies.

A non-persistent cookie enables a web site to temporarily keep information on your computer as you travel from one page to another on our web site. This cookie is automatically deleted from your machine when you close your browser. Because these cookies are necessary to provide some functions, failure to allow such cookies may make some of the functions on our web site unavailable to you.

A persistent cookie is kept even when you close your browser. You can manually delete these cookies using commands specific to your browser and computer system. These cookies store information that would generally not change from session to session. They also contain information that would need to be reentered by you each time you visit the web site. For example, a common use of persistent cookies is to allow a registered web site visitor to enter the web site without having to specify their username and password.

Our Use of Cookies

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary does not use cookies to obtain information about other web sites that you may have visited. Cookies may be used to store some history about the parts of our web site that you have visited to help you navigate our web site more easily or to alert you to related pages on our web site that may interest you.

Our Compliance with Federal Law

Children's Guidelines

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary complies fully with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).

None of the web sites covered by this policy knowingly collect identifiable personal information from children under age 13. If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has provided us with any personally identifiable information, we will delete that information from our systems. We are unable to reply to information requests from children under the age of 13, if so identified. A parent or guardian must initiate any requests for information from children under the age of 13 on their behalf. We encourage parents to supervise children when they browse the Internet.

Spam

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary complies fully with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM Act). To this end, The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary:

  • Always offers recipients of e-mail a clear means of opting-out from the receipt of future messages
  • Always includes the Kona Cloud Forests physical address within the body of all our e-mail messages: Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary, Kailua-Kona, HI, USA.
  • Never uses false or misleading header information in any e-mail message
  • Never attempts to deceive e-mail recipients by using deceptive subject lines
  • Never uses automated means to harvest e-mail addresses from web sites or web services
  • Never generates e-mail addresses using programmatic methods
  • Never shares e-mail addresses with any other organizations

Questions?

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure.

If you have any questions, please contact us at comment@konacloudforest.com.

Any information that you provide to us on the web, in e-mail, and by fax or mail is covered by this policy.

Privacy Policy Updates

The Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary may occasionally update this policy so that it evolves with the rapidly changing technologies employed on the internet. All revisions will be posted to this web site and any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.

Last revised: March 1, 2005