Privacy Policy

Privacy and Acceptable Use Statement

Thank you for visiting the Keep Local Farms web site and viewing our privacy policy. Keep Local Farms program is a partnership between the New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative with the Cooperative Development Institute, Vermont Dairy Promotion Council and the New England Dairy Promotion Board. The website is maintained in order to provide you with information about our work, and to enable you to interact with us, on-line. The information we receive depends on what you do when you visit our site.

This Privacy Statement describes the treatment of information you provide through our website, and the limitations placed on your use of the information and technology we provide at the Keep Local Farms website.

  • Contents
  • Overview
  • Personal Information
  • Cookies
  • Collection of Personal Information
  • Clicking to Other Websites
  • Security and Confidentiality
  • Limitation of Use of materials on the Website
  • Change of Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Overview

Keep Local Farms website has several features. In addition to providing descriptions of our goals, information about farm activities, farmer profiles and how we help farmers in the Northeast, the website gives you the opportunity to take action including the option to provide direct financial support to Keep Local Farms through the New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative with the Cooperative Development Institute. The New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative is a farmer member driven cooperative incorporated in New Hampshire. Contributions are not tax deductible – Keep Local Farms and the New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative are not non-profit entities and contributions are not tax deductible.

Throughout this statement of policies and agreements, you will see the terms “Keep Local Farms,” “we,” “our,” and “us” – these terms refer to Keep Local Farms program the trademark name of the program supported by the partners – New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative with the Cooperative Development Institute, New England Dairy Promotion Board and the Vermont Dairy Promotion Council. You will also see the terms “you,” “your,” and “yours” – these terms refer to visitors to and users of our Website.

Personal information

If you are just browsing at our website, we do not ask you to submit personal information. If you choose to identify yourself by sending us an email, signing up for our mailing list, providing a direct contribution, registering for a promotion or by filling out some other form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website – we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested.

If you choose to subscribe to a feature such as online reminders, or new services and updates on the site, you may unsubscribe at any time. Keep Local Farms program does not collect information for commercial marketing. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information to anyone.

Cookies

A “short term cookie” is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from Keep Local Farms web server and is stored temporarily in your computer’s memory. Keep Local Farms may use long or short-term cookies to keep track of a user’s status while they are conducting a transaction, to provide more personalized services and to better administer our website. You, the user can control the use of cookies and has the ability to disable this function, although it may not enable you to view some sites that require cookies for secure logins, online shopping carts, etc. This is solely for the purpose of enhancing the shopping experience and is not used for any other purpose.

Please check your computer or software manual for specifics on how cookies work on your particular computer. It is possible to block cookies from being loaded onto your computer. Please note, however, that blocking cookies can affect the performance of websites, including loading time, with your computer.

Collection of Personal Information During Transactions

At certain sections on our website, you may be asked to submit personal information. This includes, but may not be limited to, your name, address, zip code, telephone number, organization name and e-mail address. In addition, to make an on-line contribution to Keep Local Farms, we may ask you to provide credit card or other billing information. Your personal information will be used only internally by Keep Local Farms to provide you updates on information you have requested or for transactions.

You do not have to disclose any personal information if you do not want to. You can always decide not to use those web-site services or features that require such information. Our interest is to offer you convenient online services that match your interests – the choice is yours.

We make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy and Acceptable Use Policy whenever we ask you for personal information. Keep Local Farms hires third parties to provide certain administrative services – such as processing credit card transactions, preparing address labels, managing databases, sending promotional materials and sending mailings – which requires Keep Local Farms to provide third parties with access to certain information. All third party service-providers are to hold personal information in strict confidence. Although we believe these other companies are upstanding and will treat your personal information responsibly, we don’t own or control them.

Keep Local Farms will disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law, subpoena, court order or legal process.

Finally, we may share aggregate, statistical and other non-personal information with our partners, (New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative, New England Dairy Promotion Board and Vermont Dairy Promotion Council) and other third parties. For example, we may share the number of visitors to the site and what State’s these visitors may be from. These aggregate statistics will not include personal information.

Clicking to another website

The Keep Local Farms website contains links to many other websites and other public sector resources. In a few cases, we link to private organizations, with their permission. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Security and confidentiality of information?
Keep Local Farms and the partners take very seriously the integrity of the information and systems that we maintain. We have built in layers of security for all information systems under our control so that information will not be lost, misused or altered.

Limitations on use of Information

Keep Local Farms owns the materials and technology, or has the right to use the materials and technology, included on the Keep Local Farms website. No one outside Keep Local Farms and it partner organizations (New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative with Cooperative Development Institute, Vermont Dairy Promotion Board and New England Family Dairy Farm Cooperative, may use any of the material or technology for any purpose, including personal financial gain or other inappropriate activity.

Change its website policies?

Keep Local Farms may add features or services to our website from time to time. This may include changing the use of information or collecting different types of information. In conjunction with these changes, we will endeavor to edit this policy in a timely fashion to explain the new practices. PLEASE check these policies occasionally to find out if there are any changes

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or acceptable use policy, please contact:

Keep Local Farms
10 Harlan Drive
Barrington, NH 03825

Phone : 877-388-7381