The selling and buying in Market is often anonymous and indifferent. If I pay cash, the seller may never know my name. If the sellers are not wearing nametags, I may never know their names. Most often we relate to each other as polite strangers.
The gifting and receiving in Co-Operation is personal and caring. For us to help each other, we need to know each other's names. We will may need to talk and meet with each other. Most often, we will relate to each other as friends.
This is why in The Gifting Earth, we use our real-names, home-towns, home-states, and postal zip codes as part of our membership profile. My name is Timothy Wilken and I live in Carmel, CA 93923.
The only information that The Gifting Earth makes public about you is your real-name, home-town, home-state, and zip code. Our system will never display your telephone number, email address, or postal mailing address.
You are the exclusive author of all information that appears in the about me field of your membership profile, as well as your posts of offered gifts or requested needs, and your public comments about gifting events you participate in. You are always in full control of what you choose to share with other members.
In addition:
- We use safe, secure technology including SSL and other privacy protection programs to keep your personal information secure on TGE.
- We will not sell, rent, or share your personal information to third parties.
- We share your personal information with other members of TGE in accordance with this Privacy Policy and only to help facilitate gifting and to allow members to contact you consistent with your expressed desire through settings.
- We give you choices about how you wish to be contacted in the Preferences section of your profile page.
- We will provide you with notice if our privacy policy changes and an opportunity to reject such changes.
- We let you change your personal information so that you can keep it up to date.
- We share your personal information with Internet Service Providers for our operations only to facilitate or outsource a TGE service or operation when absolutely necessary and under confidential restrictions.
- We disclose limited personal contact information to verified requests by law enforcement and government officials who conduct criminal investigations, and we require a subpoena for additional personal information.