Sustainable Harvest International™ has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our solemn and firm commitment to your privacy. In using our site, we want to provide a safe, secure experience. We will use our best efforts to ensure that the information you submit to us remains private. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the sustainableharvest.org website.

Information Collection and Use
sustainableharvest.org is the sole proprietor of the information collected on this site. We will not sell your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number to any third party.

Security
Our website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When you submit sensitive information via our website, your information is protected using SSL encryption. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer, a protocol developed for secure transactions across the Web. It uses a form of key pair encryption, where the information can be encoded by the browser using a freely available public key, but can only be decoded by someone who knows the corresponding private key. In short, SSL makes it very difficult for your information to be stolen or intercepted while being transferred.  Our Credit Card transactions are maintained by eTapestry.  All information sent to eTapestry is encrypted, which protects it against disclosure to third parties.

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. The company, Sustainable Harvest International is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by our website, sustainableharvest.org.

Choice/Opt Out
Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. Donors and constituents may also request that SHI remove their name and contact information from mailing lists that are to be traded or shared.  As stated above in the Information Collection and Use terms, SHI never sells its contact lists.

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database, to cease future communications, to no longer utilize our service, or to simply opt-out of list trading or sharing:

1. Send email to: shi@sustainableharvest.org
2. Send mail to the following postal address: Sustainable Harvest International, 779 North Bend Road, Surry, Maine 04684 
3. Call (207) 669-8254

Privacy Commitment Changes
Should we decide to change our privacy commitment for sustainableharvest.org, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we gather, how we might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. If, at any time, you have questions or concerns about sustainableharvest.org's privacy commitment, please feel free to e-mail us at: shi@sustainableharvest.org or call 207.669.8254.

Terms of Use

These terms of use apply to the entire website owned by Sustainable Harvest International (sometimes hereinafter referred to as "SHI"). Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using this website. By using this website, you signify your assent to these terms of use. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you may not access or otherwise use the site. SHI reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms at any time. Please check these terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.

Copyright Status
Most information on this site is in the public domain. Unless otherwise stated, these documents may be freely distributed without modification and used for non-commercial, scientific, educational or personal purposes. We request that you notify us of use in any non-commercial, scientific, educational documents. You may encounter documents or portions of documents contributed by private companies or organizations. Other parties may retain all rights to publish or reproduce these documents. Commercial use of the documents on this site may be protected under U.S. and foreign copyright laws.  In no event shall materials from this website be used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from SHI.

Intellectual Property
This website is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to U.S. copyright laws, international conventions and other laws. Unless otherwise indicated, the Content, including, but not limited to, graphic images, buttons, layout, trademarks, logos, text, and other materials contained in this website are the exclusive property of the Sustainable Harvest International, and/or its related, affiliated and subsidiary organizational units, or its third party licensors.

Disclaimer of Liability
For documents available from this site, SHI does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed.

Disclaimer of Endorsement
SHI does not endorse or recommend any commercial products, processes, or services. The views and opinions of authors expressed on the website do not necessarily state or reflect those of SHI, and they may not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Some SHI pages may provide links to other Internet sites only for the convenience of our users. SHI is not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor does SHI endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other Internet sites.