OUR MISSION

Mission: To be the leading provider of superior and unique products and services from sister cities throughout the world to socially responsible and ethical consumers with the final goal of producing a safer and healthier Earth.

                                    What Sister City USA is looking for

    We are looking for people like us that buy and sell products or provide services that consider the following criteria:

    1) How is the product made?
    2) Where is the product manufactured or grown?
    3) Who makes the product?
    4) How does it benefit both the consumer and the producer?
    5) What does it promote?

                                   Sister City USA Principles and Beliefs

    1) Healthy and organic products make healthier people.
    2) To produce goods and services not at the expense of people's
         health and well being, but in a ethical and socially responsible
         way.
    3) Suppliers of Sister City USA products believe that we have a
         moral and social responsibility to improving global peace and
         reducing poverty by contributing to local charities in our
         affiliated communities.
    4) That Sister City USA will contribute a portion of profits to
          charity.
    5) Good business between countries brings peace and prosperity.
    6) Learning about other cultures promotes appreciation and
         growth for both countries.
    7) That we as consumers make our own educated decisions not
         ones from Madison Ave.
    8) That we have a responsibility to protect and enhance our
         planet.
    9) Excellent service is not a premium but a part of good business.
  10) That Sister City USA products and services will open markets
          that previously were not available and give the consumer
          great choices for ethical and socially responsible products.
  11) Sister City USA products and services will change the way
          business is conducted today by putting a greater emphasis on
          the well being of all parties involve.
12) Lastly, to put an end to the phrase " It's not Personal its
         Business" - We believe you cannot put a price on a person.



Privacy Policy for sistercityusa.com

The privacy of our visitors to sistercityusa.com is important to us.

At sistercityusa.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit sistercityusa.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on sistercity..com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies
We also may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Las Vegas, you may see Las Vegas hotel advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about hockey). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.