Privacy Policy
Effective Date: January 1, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Project Green Fork (“we,” “our,” or “us”), a program of Clean Memphis, collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit our website.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://projectgreenfork.org. For any inquiries, you may contact us at:
Contact Information:
Phone: 901-235-2416
Email: info@cleanmemphis.org
Address: 3548 Walker Ave, Ste 102, Memphis, TN 38111
Information We Collect
Contact Form and Certification Form
When you submit a contact form or apply for certification, we collect:
- Your name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Any additional information provided in the form fields
This data is used solely to respond to your inquiries or process your certification application.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect:
- The data entered into the comments form
- The visitor’s IP address
- Browser user agent string (to help with spam detection)
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you use it. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Approved comments, along with profile pictures, are visible publicly.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract this data.
Cookies
- Comments: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login Page: We set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- Login Information: Cookies are used to save login details and screen preferences. Login cookies last two days, while screen option cookies last a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login cookies to two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.
- Article Editing/Publishing: A cookie stores the post ID of the edited article. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content
Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly. These external sites may:
- Collect data about you
- Use cookies
- Embed additional third-party tracking
- Monitor interactions with embedded content (including if you have an account and are logged in to the third-party site)
Donations
We use Little Green Light to process donations. Users are redirected to their secure platform to complete the transaction. Little Green Light’s privacy policy is available here: https://www.littlegreenlight.com/terms/#privacy. We do not store your payment information on our servers.
How Long We Retain Your Data
- Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for follow-up purposes.
- For users who submit forms, personal information is stored as needed to respond to inquiries or process applications.
Your Rights Over Your Data
If you have submitted a form or left comments, you can:
- Request an exported file of personal data we hold.
- Request deletion of your personal data, excluding data required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services.
Third-Party Services
- CDN: This service may log visitor IP addresses, user agents, referrer, location, and ISP information for up to 7 days. Files and images served via CDN may be stored outside your country. Stackpath Privacy Policy.
- Little Green Light: Donation information is processed through their secure platform.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to monitor website traffic and interactions. Google Analytics may collect:
- IP addresses
- User behavior patterns
- Device and browser information
To opt out of cookies used by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript from sharing information about visit activity.
Security
We implement industry-standard practices to protect your data but cannot guarantee absolute security. Data transmissions are at your own risk.
Changes to This Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy as needed. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
Thank you for visiting Project Green Fork.