In order to use this Web site, you must first complete the registration form.  During registration you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest. 

 

You are required to provide some demographic information (such as job title) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience on our site. 

 

The Scher Group is the administrator of the information collected on The Green Industry Hub and will share some of this information with the website’s co-owners. The Scher Group collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site in order to perform proper assessment and training, to control content on the message boards and to avoid improper use of the website resources.

 

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). 

 

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders.  If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. This information will not be shared or resold.

 

 

If you apply for a product or service requiring financial information] on our site, we require that you provide certain personally identifiable information, including your name, address, phone number, credit card number.  This information is necessary to process your application and to contact you.

 

We provide you the opportunity to participate in contests and 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 notify contest winners and award prizes, to monitor site traffic or personalize the site (in the case of anonymous information collected in surveys), to send participants an email newsletter.

 

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

 

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address.  We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site.  The Scher Group stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. 

 

Your friend may contact us at memberservices@greenindustryhub.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

 

 

Because a large part of this website is dedicated to training and assessment, usage and activity data, as well as the scores, will be collected. This information will be used to increase your credit total toward accreditation and other accomplishments. If you are an employee and your company paid for your subscription, your supervisor will have access to your test scores, assessments and other site-related activity.

We will occasionally send you information on contests, products, services, special events, and promotions. You can sign up for these emails on our registration page. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications.  Please see the “Choice and Opt-out.”

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you.  Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe.  Please see the “Choice and Opt-out” section.

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.  We will also send you a reminder when your subscription is about to expire.

 

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.

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password.  We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

We store information that we collect through cookies, log files, clear gifs, [and/or third party sources] to create a “profile” of your preferences.  We tie your personally identifiable information, and your purchasing history, to information in the profile, in order to provide educational credit, as well as tailored promotions and marketing offers, and to improve the content of the site for you. 

 

We share do not share your profile, financial information or test scores with other third parties.

We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners, sponsors and advertisers.  This information does not identify individual users.

 

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information. 

We do not Share Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties, except as described above for employers who have purchased your subscription.

 

 

We use an outside shipping company to fulfill orders, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes. 

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 to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site

We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information.  For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference on our order form.

 

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files.  This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. 

 

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. 

 

We do link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information for educational course attainment, game and test scores, skills assessments and other activities to document your progress and success.

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site for several reasons, such as to make it easier for you to log on, and to help you find your place in uncompleted courses. 

 

We use session ID cookies persistent cookies. Session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site and expire when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.

 

We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once.  Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. 

 

If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use most areas of our site, such as training, forums, contests or surveys, will be limited.

 

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our site.  We have no access to or control over these cookies, but require them to agree to acceptable privacy terms, including the prohibition of adware and spyware. See “Third Party Advertisers.”

 

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by The Green Industry Hub only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. However, we require the highest ethical standards of our advertisers. You can read our advertising policy here.

We employ a software technology called clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site by informing us what content is effective.  Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users.  In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by clear gifs to our customers’ personally identifiable information.

 

To learn more about our advertising company’s use of clear gifs, please go our advertising policy page here.

 

We use clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened by recipients.  This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.  If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see “Choice and Opt-out.”

Some ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by a third-party adservers from companies such as DoubleClick. We share Web site usage information about users in the aggregate form with advertisers and other third parties for the purpose of targeting our advertisements on this site.

 

Some advertisers use cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow them to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that it collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable. 

 

For more information about our third-party advertisers, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please click here.

 

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by The Scher Group. Please be aware that we, The Scher Group, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. 

 

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. 

 

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

 

Co-branded sites

While operated and administered by The Scher Group, this site is a jointly owned by The Scher Group, Advanstar Communications (publishers of Landscape Management magazine) and PLANET.

 

Bulletin Boards/Chat Rooms

If you participate in the message forums on this site, 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.  We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose such information in the Forums. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use these services in a manner inconsistent with your Terms of Use.

 

 

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 our Customer Support at support@schergroup.com, or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

The security of your personal information is important to us.  When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). To learn more about SSL, follow this link.

 

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 memberservices@greenindustryhub.com

 

 

In the event The Scher Group goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred.  You will be notified via email, and a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days, of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

 

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, with a link from the homepage, and from 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.

 

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: memberservices@greenindustryhub.com  or call 800-745-7219, or write to:

The Scher Group

6401 Davis Industrial Parkway

Suite B

Solon, Ohio 44139