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Privacy Policy

Two Roots Media ("Two Roots") has the following Privacy Policy with respect to information gathered on Web pages hosted by Two Roots ("Service Pages").
The terms "we" and "us" refer to Two Roots.

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected on the Two Roots Web site or submitted to Two Roots at any time through any Service Pages.

Personally Identifiable Information-When visiting Two Roots' or any affiliated Web site and subscribing to Two Roots services through any Service Page, you may choose to supply Two Roots with information that identifies you personally. For Users, this information may include your name and contact information, gender, birth date, occupation and industry, shipping and billing information, credit card numbers and other payment information, behavior patterns, purchase history, and other information. We also collect prospect information from our Users, which may include name and contact information of individual(s) you think would be interested in our services.

Aggregate Information—We collect non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our Web Site and services, and share the aggregate data with advertisers and other third parties.


Collection of Personal Information from Children under Thirteen

Two Roots’ major target audience is the teenage segment; Two Roots does not specifically target children; however if there happens to be a child under the age of 13 that chooses to sign up or our service we will not knowingly:

Collect online contact information from a child under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent or direct parental notification of the nature and intended use of this information, which shall include an opportunity for the parent to prevent use of the information and participation in the activity. Where prior verifiable parental consent is not obtained, online contact information shall only be used to directly respond to the child's request and shall not be used to re-contact the child for other purposes.

Collect personally identifiable offline contact information from children under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Distribute to any third party any Personally Identifiable Information collected from a child under 13 without prior verifiable parental consent.

Entice a child under 13 by the prospect of a special game, prize or other activity, to divulge more information than is needed to participate in such activity.

The Way We Use Information

We use the information you provide about yourself or others to complete the transaction for which the information is intended. Such transactions may include: purchasing products, subscribing for a service, ecommerce; completing an order, shipping a product; replying to requests, comments, or questions; or contacting you if you have granted us permission to do so. Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we do not share this information with outside parties without your permission except to the extent that is necessary to administer the services we offer our Users or to comply in responding to subpoenas, court orders or other legal proceedings.

From time to time, we also use the information you provide about yourself or others to inform you of additions or improvements to the Two Roots services as well as conduct member surveys in order to improve our services. These communications will only be sent to the administrative account.

We may also use personally identifiable User information to provide targeted content and commerce opportunities to Users based on their demographic and behavioral information.

Finally, we never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways or for reasons unrelated to the ones described above without also providing an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Two Roots considers email transmitted via our service to be private correspondence between the sender and recipient. Therefore, we will not monitor, edit or disclose the contents of your private communications, unless the correspondence is submitted for publication.

Content posted to public community areas is publicly available, and Two Roots reserves the right to remove any publicly posted content that it deems to be objectionable.

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures reasonably designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

We use SSL: Secure Socket Layer encryption to secure personal identification. In addition, personnel who have access to our database are trained to maintain and secure all information.

How You Can Access or Update Your Information

Users can access their information by logging in to their password-protected User account and selecting to update their "Personal Info." Users can also correct factual errors in their personally identifiable information by sending us a written request that credibly documents and explains the error.

If you have submitted information on our site but do not currently have an account with us, you can access and correct the information that we collect and maintain by contacting us and requesting such information or correction.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.

How to Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us online privacy@tworoots.org or via postal mail: 427 Montana Ave. #9, Santa Monica, CA.


Advertising Sales Specific Terms and Conditions

We use third-party advertising companies to serve our ads on our Web site. These third-party advertising companies employ cookie and 1x1 pixel . gifs or web beacons to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads for their clients. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to our website and other websites. This information can include: date/time of banner ad shown, the banner ad that was shown, their cookie, the IP address. This information can also be used for online preference marketing purposes.

If you want to prevent a third-party advertiser from collecting data, currently you may either visit each ad network's web site individually and opt out or visit the NAI gateway opt-out site to opt-out of all network advertising cookies. Click here for the NAI gateway opt-out site. This site will also allow you to review the third-party advertising companies' privacy policies.

For more information on how our advertisers manage the privacy of information in conjunction with serving ads or users on our network, please contact them directly.

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