Privacy Policy

Why does TCE / TCE Fund ask for my information?

To participate in some activities, you might be asked to provide some personal information. This could be in connection with any one or combination of circumstances, including but not limited to:

• sending personalized e-mail messages when participating in an online petition

• distribution of publications and informational materials, by mail and/or electronically

• sharing information from this site or from an e-mail alert with another person

• allowing TCE/TCE Fund to contact you in the future

• making a donation

What information does TCE / TCE Fund collect?

We do not collect personal information from visitors to this web site other than what you provide on a voluntary basis. Aggregate information about our website visitors, such as pages viewed, browsers used, and documents downloaded, is collected in our web server logs. Domain names or IP addresses of site visitors may also be collected but these addresses are not traceable to any individual. This aggregate information is used solely to help us improve our website.

Does TCE / TCE Fund use cookies?

Yes. A “cookie” is a tiny element of data that our site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your computer’s hard drive. This makes it faster and easier for you to sign online petitions and take other actions on our website. If you are concerned about your privacy and the use of cookie technology on the TCE / TCE Fund website, you may set your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. You may also set your browser to refuse cookies that our website attempts to send you. Using these settings or declining to accept cookies from TCE / TCE Fund may limit the functionality we can provide when you visit this site.

How will TCE/TCE Fund use the information I provide?

Whenever we ask you to provide personal information via this website or in an e-mail, we will make reasonable efforts to make the purpose of that request clear. If you do not want this information to be collected or used by TCE / TCE Fund, you can simply choose not to provide the information or otherwise “opt out” of the action or request for information. Under certain circumstances, opting out may prevent your participation in activities for which personal information is needed, such as involvement in online actions, distribution of publications, action alerts, notices of volunteer opportunities, member benefits, community events, etc. We make every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies. We do not sell or otherwise disclose such user information outside the organization.

How do I opt out or change my information?

Those who no longer wish to receive communications from the organization or who wish to change their information should contact us at:

TCE / TCE Fund
P.O. Box 42278
Austin, TX 78704
512-326-5655
info@TexasEnvironment.org

How do I know my credit card information is secure?

TCE / TCE Fund uses secure server software (SSL) that is the industry standard and is among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name and address, so that it cannot be read as the information travels over the Internet. 

Under the Fair Credit Billing Act, your bank cannot hold you liable for more than $50.00 of fraudulent charges. In the event of an unauthorized charge to your credit card you must:

• write to the creditor at the address given for “billing inquiries,” not the address for sending your payments, and include your name, address, account number and a description of the billing error,

• send your letter so that it reaches the creditor within 60 days after the first bill containing the error was mailed to you.

What do I do if I have questions that aren’t answered here?

If you have questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this website, please contact TCE / TCE Fund via the contact information provided above.

Other sites / policy changes

This website may contain links to other sites that are not managed or maintained by TCE / TCE Fund. The inclusion of a link to another site from our website or from another site to our website does not imply any endorsement of the other site’s privacy policies, practices or content. Your dealings with these sites are covered only by the privacy policies listed on those sites.

We reserve the right to revise this policy periodically. If we make substantive changes in the way we share, store, or handle personally identifiable information, we will notify web site users and visitors through prominent postings on the site and/or by e-mail. A current version of this policy will always be readily accessible on our website.

TERMS OF USE

By using the TCE / TCE Fund website, you are accepting these “Terms of Use.” If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please do not use our site. We reserve the right to modify or amend these Terms of Use from time to time without notice. If you continue to use our site after we post changes to these Terms of Use, it will mean that you accept those changes. If you are under 18 years of age, do not use this site unless you are an emancipated minor or have legal parental or guardian consent to accept these Terms of Use and are fully able to abide by them. TCE / TCE Fund does not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please don’t submit any personally identifiable information on this site.

Use of Materials on this Site

TCE / TCE Fund maintains this site for your personal information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse our site. It is in keeping with our mission to encourage public discourse and activism regarding conservation of the natural environment. Accordingly, unless particular materials are specifically restricted as noted on the web page, it is our policy to allow limited reproduction and distribution of the materials posted on our site as follows: You may copy, reproduce and distribute content from this site provided that: (1) the particular article or section is reproduced in its entirety in its original form; you may not edit or otherwise change the substance of the content, or change or delete any copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices; (2) all copies include a statement that the material was reproduced from a Texas Campaign for the Environment website; (3) the copies are distributed only for the non-commercial educational or public policy purposes of promoting conservation of the natural environment; and (4) the copies are distributed at no charge, or at most, at actual cost. Provided you comply with all of these conditions, TCE / TCE Fund grants you a non- exclusive, nontransferable license to use the materials on our site.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. However, your confidential use of this site cannot be guaranteed by TCE / TCE Fund, which shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer as the result of a breach of confidentiality with respect to information you transmitted to the site.

Outside Links

TCE/TCE Fund has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this site and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to this site, whether or not they are affiliated with the our organization. Such linked sites are for your convenience only and you access them at your own risk. We make no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or functioning of any such link. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute endorsement by TCE / TCE Fund of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless TCE / TCE Fund, its officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to this site; or (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Use. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms of Use and your use of this site.

General Provisions

The materials on this website are presented solely for promotional purposes in the United States. This site is operated under the supervision of our offices within the State of Texas. We do not warrant or represent that materials on our site are appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you choose to access our site from other locations, you do so at your own initiative and you are responsible for complying with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. You agree that this site shall be deemed solely based in Texas, and that this site shall be deemed a passive website that does not give rise to personal jurisdiction over TCE / TCE Fund, either specifically or in general, in jurisdictions other than Texas. These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed according to the laws of the State of Texas, as they are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within Texas. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to this site shall be barred permanently unless such claim or cause of action is brought within one year after it arises; any such claim or cause of action shall be brought only in the state or federal courts in the Western District of Texas, and you consent to jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating such actions. Whenever possible, each provision of these Terms of Use shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision is deemed prohibited or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of these terms. This is the entire agreement between us relating to your use of this site. These terms may not be modified by you, in writing or otherwise, unless agreed to in a written document signed by TCE / TCE Fund. These Terms of Use, and any rights and licenses granted here under, may not be assigned by you, but may be assigned by TCE / TCE Fund without restriction. TCE / TCE Fund has the right, in its sole judgment, to block access from a particular Internet address for violations of these Terms of Use. In addition, we reserve the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms of Use.