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Effective date: July 04, 2018
PlantDreams ("us", "we", or "our") operates the http://plantdreams.org/ website (the "Service").
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from http://plantdreams.org/
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
PlantDreams uses the collected data for various purposes:
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
PlantDreams will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
PlantDreams may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Coming Soon
Hello, My name is Joe 'omni' Kneeland, and I'm the guy who built this site for people to share their goals, projects, etc and to support each other and work together towards progress using the tools in a spirit of community. The site is brand new! You are among the first of human eyes to lay upon it. I invite you to use it for free as a 'beta' user, and I ask that you please provide any feedback and bug reports (there are bound to be bugs at this point) by posting in the plantdreams forum. Suggestions for improvents are warmly welcomed:)
It was a long six months in Santa Barbara, California. I was living in my VW vanagon, stuck more or less because my son was there. I became part of an ad hoc guerilla crew who knew the ins and outs of creative survival techniques in the city. Non of us had jobs, all of us had ambition, and all of us had creative ideas for projects and productivity outside the normal realm of employment. We were not alone. In this particularly sunny city there are thousands of homeless people. One thing I notice time and again about the homeless and the generally unemployed peoples of the world is that most everyone is capable, and lives with a human need to create and contibute.
The thing about hope and spirit is that it needs an outlet.
Economics is shifting from a world where jobs rule the day to a world where we all need to create a path for ourselves that will ensure a sustainable development of our own design. That's when I got the idea for an online platform that will bring individuals together with coaches, entrepreneurs together with a team, and the inspired with those who know how to proceed.
Plantdreams isn't just for small business owners! Anyone can run goals and projects here :)
When we brainstorm with people who know us and our business, ideas come from not only other individuals but also from a 'group mind' which has powers beyond the lone ranger. Even as we talk about our goals and projects with our friends and family, in the mood of fishing for ideas and inspiration, we see how powerful this can be. Many have said that every successful entrepreneur has a mentor. Plantdreams is here to bring that together, along with friends and team mates, to support the dreams of all to a process of unfolding into reality.
First and foremost - use the site!
-post, track and share your:
-goals
-dreams
-projects
-promote yourself with a resume, portfolio, and/or directory listing.
-Join the conversation:
-with your friends, associates, clients, coaches, mentors, advisors, etc.
-comment on articles
-dialog in the forums
-provide free advice, and support anyone you can!
-hire freelancers, or find work on projects.
-contribute articles to the blog (must be an approved author)
-invite others to join the plantdreams community.
Also,
-give lots of feedback! your opinions and ideas are important :)
-link to plantdreams.org, promote the project in any way you can.
-write blog posts and comments about plantdreams, publish on other sites.
-use your plantdreams.org 'vanity url' to direct everyone you know to your profile.
This way they can encourage, support, and consult with you on your progress.
-promote your group / mastermind group also via the vanity url (i.e.-plantdreams.org/coachbiz)
Please support each other whenever you can! And please, support good things.
For technical support, kindly try a few searches and check the *documentation* before asking. The answer may already be there. If you still seek an answer, and think others might have the same question, post your question in the forum. That's also a great place to share your ideas for the project, report bugs, give suggestions for improvement, request features, etc.
If your post requests a reply, you'll likely hear from me within a day, two tops, often within an hour or two, sometimes never. Always as soon as I can if an inquiry is friendly and respectful. All inquiries are welcome and I look forward to hearing from you. You can also contact me directly, using the contact form or by sending a message to omni via plantdreams. Especially invited to contact me directly are all members (especially you), and any individuals who would like to explore strategic partnerships, investment opportunities, media inquiries, or other interesting and creative synergies.
If you use and appreciate plantdreams, please donate any amount you can. It did cost a considerable sum to build, and hundreds of hours have been and continue to be applied to the development. All for the sake of helping people like you attain their dreams, goals, and projects. Yours truly is buiding it because it's a vision coming true, and on a 'shoestring budget'. This is free for you (as a beta user) and always will be. Now is the time to nurture the seedling.
To help keep this young organism alive and thriving, please donate any amount of money.
Other ways to support the site and community inlude:
getting more involved | actively using the tools | tracking and sharing your progress
inviting others to plant their dreams | and | being part of the conversation.
Use PlantDreams to fund your project, hire freelancers to help on your projects, and manage your project from start to finish.
PlantDreams is a free, fast and simple online progress mapping & fueling application.
PlantDreams.org and it's agents are not liable for anything!
Clients - individuals with a dream.
Advocates - Helping indiviuals establish and maintain support.
Consultants - Experts available to assist on aspects of a mission.
Project Managers - To help teams keep organized for forward progress.
Coaches - Trained professionals who support the dreams of others.
Freelancers - Find work on PlantDreams community projects. Make your freelancer profile to attract clients.
[Company Name] PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by ____________. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At _____, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION __________ GATHERS AND TRACKS
________ gathers two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information _______ gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because _____ derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does ______ divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
__________ Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
Privacy Policy Sample
The following is a list of different policies which can be edited to remove the parts of the policy that are not needed. You should also add anything to this policy template that you may have on your site.
1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. __________ gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (both are free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
3. "E-mail this to a friend" policy
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. _________ may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
_________ may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
Privacy Policy Template changes
The policy clause about children below is becoming more important as it is nearly impossible to tell the age of any visitor. We recommend adding this sample line to all your forms that request information.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
________ tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. _______ does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
_________ sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. ________ uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
How the information you gather is used if relevent.
USE OF INFORMATION
___________ uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. _________ never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.
___________ creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
__________ uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
__________ operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by _______. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.