Privacy Policy

Overview

We are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of consumers of its interactive products, services and of visitors to its site. Throughout cyberspace, we want to contribute to providing a safe and secure environment for consumers.

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you, as a welcome visitor, (1) what kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit; (2) how we may use that information; (3) whether we disclose it to anyone; and (4) the choices you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information. Finally, please note that this policy applies only to this web site that carry our copyright, and not to other companies’ or organizations’ web sites to which we link or are affiliated with.

We have clearly marked our web sites with our copyright so you know where this policy applies. We welcome comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information. Due to the evolving nature of the technologies that we use to communicate with you, we may occasionally update this policy. Any comments or questions regarding our privacy practices should be made to the contact form.

Copyright 2025, The Zero Waste Store, except as provided by the United States Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 and internationally as the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, except in cases of “fair use” by educational institutions or the press, for in which case, please cite accordingly. All other inquiries can be made via the author’s website. Thank you.

Us And Your Information

We collect personally identifying information during: (i) registration for certain interactive areas on our web site that carries our copyright. For each visitor to our web page, our web server automatically recognizes and we collect that visitor’s domain name (where possible). In addition, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, the e-mail addresses of those who make postings to our interactive areas, aggregate information about which pages visitors access, user-specific information about which pages visitors access and how much time is spent in particular areas, and information volunteered by the visitor, such as information provided in site registration forms, including but not limited to a visitor’s name, address, and phone number. We collect credit card information along with a billing address from users who then wish to pay us by credit card.

We may retain personally identifying information indefinitely. We also maintain publicly available user profiles as well, which may contain personally identifying information volunteered by its visitors.

We may use personally identifying information of its visitors to award prizes, track compliance with our Terms of Service, or for editorial and feedback purposes (to the extent that is explained when visitors provide the information). We may collect and disclose such material for use in promoting this website or its services or if we believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to enforce its copyright, to comply with the law, to comply with legal process, to operate its systems properly, or to protect the rights or property of itself, its members, its visitors, or others.

Other companies which advertise on our site, may collect information about you. We do not control collection or use of this information. You should contact these advertisers directly if you have any questions about their use of this information.

How We Protect Your Personal Information

We will take appropriate steps to protect the information you share with us. We utilize third-party companies (such as PayPal) for those users who utilize credit cards. Please refer to those other companies’ Privacy Policies when it pertains to your information’s privacy.

Updating Personal Information

You can help us maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any change to your address, title, phone number, e-mail address or data entries. If at any time you wish to modify your information or stop receiving communications from us, you can contact us through the contact form. Please include your e-mail address in the message, else go to the appropriate web service and edit the information yourself (such as forums or news).

IP (Internet Protocol) Addresses

We collect IP addresses for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you’re surfing the web. Web servers — the big computers that “serve” up web pages — automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When visitors request pages from us, our servers log their IP addresses. We do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information. This means that a user’s session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to others.

Cookies

What are cookies? Cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies make web-surfing easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases, and preferences while you’re at our site. The use of cookies is an industry standard — you’ll find them at most major web sites. By showing how and when guests use the site, cookies help us see which areas are popular and which are not. Many improvements and updates to the site are based on such data as total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies. If you accept the first tracking cookie from us, you won’t be offered as many afterwards.

Each browser accessing our website is given a unique cookie that is then used to determine the number of unique site visitors. An additional cookie lets our computers remember that you’ve registered, which allows us to speed up your future activities at our sites.

By using our website, you signify your assent to the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the site. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of of our website following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. You can utilize the contact forms with any further questions.

Credits

This Privacy Policy is a conglomeration based on Privacy Policies at Google.Com, CoolHomePages.Com and Yahoo.Com, all respective rights reserved.

Contests, Give-A-Ways & Raffles

Members of staff, partnered and sponsored content providers are not eligible to participate in any contests, give-a-ways or raffles that we organize in part or whole. Any participation will be ignored. However, affiliates may be eligible to participate provided that they do not contribute to related activities in any way.

Social Media

Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All copyrighted and trademarked audio, images and videos belong to their respective owners. We reserve the right to monetize all videos that we host, copyrights permitting.