The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) respects your right to privacy and is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. We do not sell or rent any information you provide us through our website. We have created the following privacy policy to inform you about the ways in which we collect and use this information.

Because NRDC's BioGems website is designed to help you take action to save endangered wild places, many areas of the site require you to enter some identifying information. NRDC does not disclose this information to anyone except 1) to identify you, as described in the following three paragraphs, to those you contact through our website and 2) to manage our website and database with the help of service providers, who are subject to a non-disclosure agreement. Information you provide NRDC is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff. NRDC does not collect any information from you without your knowledge and permission.

Online Activism
To send a message to government officials and other decision-makers you must identify yourself by name, address and email address. NRDC includes this information when we send your message. This is necessary for your message to be effective, and in the case of many government officials it is required.

Postcards and "Tell Your Friends" Pages
To send a postcard or forward an action alert you must enter your name, your email address and the email address(es) of anyone you are sending it to. NRDC includes your name and email address when we send your message.

Other Places Information May Be Requested
In addition to information you enter when sending messages to friends and decision-makers from NRDC's website, you may submit information directly to NRDC for purposes including donating or entering a contest. NRDC will not disclose this information to anyone except in accordance with any rules you agree to as a contestant and, as described above, to manage our website and database with the help of service providers, who are subject to a non-disclosure agreement.

Reviewing and Updating Your Information
You can review and update the information we have on record for you by logging in to your BioGems Action Log and clicking on "Update your info." If it's your first time visiting the Action Log, you'll need to provide your email address on the log-in page so we can send you a password.

Communications from NRDC
When you become a BioGems Defender by taking action on NRDC's BioGems website, NRDC will send you news and action alerts via email. If you decide you do not wish to receive these updates you can unsubscribe by following the directions that appear in the emails or by contacting us at biogemsinfo@nrdc.org.

When you provide NRDC with your email address and mailing address we may contact you to ask you to become a member of NRDC. You can choose not to receive such requests by contacting our membership department at membership@nrdc.org.

Secure Transactions
When you donate to NRDC via our BioGems website your donation information is encrypted and transmitted via a secure connection. NRDC uses your credit card information only for the purpose of processing your donation. We will not disclose this information except as necessary to process your donation and we do not store it once your donation has been processed.

Cookies
NRDC does not collect any information from you without your knowledge and permission. If you check the "Please remember my info" box on one of our activism forms we will place a file called a cookie in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of information that a website can store on your computer and later use to recognize you. We will use the cookie only to recognize who you are when you return to the BioGems website in order to make it even easier for you to take action and view your action history than it would be otherwise. A cookie cannot be read by any website other than the one that set it up.

If after accepting the cookie on this site you change your mind, just go to your Action Log, click on "Update your info" and check the "stop remembering your info" box.