terms + policies
Privacy
We value our customers and hold your personal information with the upmost in care and respect:

1. Your personal information, such as your name, email address, and any personal comments that you have added during checkout or through email communication will only be sent/given to Be Green, Be The Change (“BGBTC”) email address(es), or for uses for which you have specifically requested and/or given us permission.

2. Upon signing up for BGBTC Newsletter, you have the option to unsubscribe whenever you choose.  We will not ask why, nor will we cry (but we will miss you).  All of your information will be removed from our database instantly.

3. BGBTC will never share, sell, or give away your personal information to anyone, period.

4. Secure Shopping - BGBTC takes your security extremely seriously. All information submitted through the BGBTC website is absolutely safe.  The BGBTC store and shopping cart are secure, using the highest grade Secure Sockets Layer  (“SSL”) encryption.

Please feel free to send any questions about BGBTC’s Privacy Policy to customerservice@begreenbethechange.com.

Terms and Conditions of Use
You agree that you will hold harmless BGBTC and its officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, and volunteers from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this website or the information contained in this website or other websites to which it is linked.

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained on begreenbethechange.com, including - but not limited to - text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio and video clips, is solely owned by Be Green, Be The Change LLC.

Such information may be copied and reproduced in paper or electronic form for personal, educational, or non-commercial purposes provided that it is accompanied by, at minimum, a statement crediting www.begreenbethechange.com as the source. For any information contained on the BGBTC site that is attributed to another source, permission to reproduce must be obtained from the original source.

Disclaimer of Warranty
No warranties of any kind are made by BGBTC concerning this website, including, but not limited, to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the server that makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

Limitation of Liability
The information on begreenbethechange.com has been acquired from sources that are believed to be accurate and credible. However, BGBTC makes no warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of this information.

Legal Notices
This Legal Notice governs the URL begreenbethechange.com and certain electronic communications sent out by Be Green, Be The Change LLC. This website is for the benefit of those interested in interacting with our company and purchasing items through our online store. Be Green, Be The Change LLC is located in Cary, North Carolina.

BGBTC reserves the right to modify or amend this Legal Notice at any time and for any reason.

Links
Begreenbethechange.com will link to websites that are not owned or operated by Be Green, Be The Change LLC.  This is done to provide you with additional information that is felt beneficial to you, the customer. However, we cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies.

Security
You can shop at www.begreenbethechange.com online with confidence. We have partnered with Authorize.Net, a leading payment gateway since 1996, to offer safe and secure credit card and electronic check transactions for our customers.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway manages the complex routing of sensitive customer information through the credit card and electronic check processing networks (see an online payments diagram). The company adheres to strict industry standards for payment processing, including:

• 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for secure Internet Protocol (IP) transactions.

• Industry leading encryption hardware and software methods and security protocols to protect customer information.

• Compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard.

For additional information regarding the privacy of your sensitive cardholder data, please read the Authorize.Net Privacy Policy.

www.begreenbethechange.com is registered with the Authorize.Net Verified Merchant Seal program.

All the information that is stored on our server is password-protected and/or encrypted. We do not store your credit card number online or anywhere else. Our system forwards this information to Authorize.Net for processing, and we record only the type of card and the last four digits in case you later have a question about your order. This means that in the unlikely event that our server is hacked, your credit card number would never be at risk.

We review all of our online orders carefully. If any order appears to be fraudulent or erroneous, or if we have any questions, an actual human being will immediately contact you by phone or email to verify your order personally.

Sales Tax
By law we are obligated to collect 6.75% state sales tax on all orders shipped within the state of North Carolina. We do not charge sales tax on orders shipped outside of North Carolina, however your state may require you to pay a "Use Tax" on out-of-state orders. Check with your local tax authority for more information.

Contacting Be Green, Be The Change
If you would like to contact us about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this Terms of Use Policy, please e-mail us by clicking HERE.