Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

1. Commitment to Privacy

Ethical Ocean Inc. is committed to controlling the collection, use and disclosure of the personal information provided by its members. Any time you do business with Ethical Ocean, or with anyone acting as an agent on our behalf, you are protected by the rights and safeguards contained in this Privacy Statement.

2. Information Gathered by Ethical Ocean

In order to personalize your shopping experience, and ensure timely fulfillment of your purchases, Ethical Ocean collects the following information about you:

a) Information You Provide. We collect basic account, gender and contact information that you provide us during registration as a member in order to streamline the process of entering this information upon checkout, to communicate with you about your account and to provide you with information related to other Ethical Ocean services.

b) Automatic Information. Like most sites, we use "cookies" to obtain certain types of information automatically when your Web browser accesses ethcalocean.com. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website. Cookies contain a unique identification number that identifies your browser, but not you, to our computers each time you visit one of our websites. We use cookies to improve and personalize your shopping experience. Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet and computer and connection information such as browser type and operating system. You can reset your browser to either refuse to accept all cookies or to notify you when you have received a cookie. However, if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to use some of the features available on our websites.

3. Accuracy

It is your responsibility to enter accurate contact information in your personal account. Ethical Ocean will try to ensure that information about your transactions is accurate, complete and up-to-date. In the event you have questions about the accuracy of factual information we have collected about you, you will have access to that information in order to verify and update it

4. Ethical Ocean Does Not Sell or Share Personal Information

Information about our members is an important part of our business. Ethical Ocean does not sell or share personal member information with any third-party. Ethical Ocean may disclose information to third parties that does not uniquely identify you as a member, such as website traffic information statistics.

5. Security

Member information is stored in a database behind a firewall and is password protected to to protect your personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Access to all personal information is restricted to Officers of Ethical Ocean who are trained to respect privacy at all times. Passwords are never stored directly in our database ensuring that user accounts can never be accessed if our data is compromised. All personal data is transmitted and updated through encrypted protocols. Ethical Ocean never stores your personal financial information like credit cards numbers or bank accounts.

6. Access

Ethical Ocean gives you access to information about your account and your transactions within ethicalocean.com. From your account page, you can view the contact information that Ethical Ocean has on record, as well as a history of purchases you have made with your account.

7. Age Requirement

Ethical Ocean is intended for users who are 18 years of age and older. People under the age of 18, are not permitted to submit any personal information.

7. Policy Amendments

Ethical Ocean may, in its discretion, change, supplement, or amend this policy from time to time, for any reason, and without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person, by posting the modified Privacy Policy on the Ethical Ocean website. Ethical Ocean will never materially change our Privacy Policy to make it less protective of member information collected in the past without the consent of affected members. You may not change, supplement, or amend this policy in any manner. Each time you use the website, you acknowledge and signify that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by this policy as it reads at that time.