Privacy Policy
Last Updated: November 2009
The Faces of Farming website is owned and operated by the Tulare County Museum Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to financially supporting the Tulare County Museum and its educational programs. Information on this website is presented purely for educational and informational purposes. The Foundation strives to offer its website visitors the many advantages of Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this privacy policy. Please note this policy applies only to information collected by the Faces of Farming website online and does not impact information collected or used by FacesofFarming.com or its affiliates through other means.
How we gather information from users.
How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. You can visit many pages on our site without providing any information. Other pages may prompt you to provide information, such as when you register to submit a Faces of Farming profile, make a donation, request information or make a purchase.
Like most Web sites, FacesofFarming.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use "cookie" technology. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but doing so may limit your ability to access certain portions of the site or may require you to re-enter your user name and password. Additionally we may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect.
We will use your information only as permitted by law. Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. As one example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive. Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and educational partners, but cannot be used to contact you individually.
We also collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content. For example, we may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on FacesofFarming.com to communicate with you regarding our Terms of Service and privacy policy, products and services offered by FacesofFarming.com and other Tulare County Museum Foundation affiliates and partners, or processing e-commerce transactions. We reserve the right to share this information with other Tulare County Museum Foundation affiliates and educational partners, including but not limited to the Tulare County Museum and the Tulare County Office of Education. This policy does not apply to any affiliate's use of such information.
Personally Identifiable Information collected by FacesofFarming.com may also be used for other purposes including but not limited to site administration and troubleshooting. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our web hosting service and our newsletter provider, for example) may access such information.
As we continue to develop our Foundation’s charitable activities in support of the Tulare County Museum, we may partner with other affiliates. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary to give such information to law enforcement authorities. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
The Tulare County Museum Foundation and its Faces of Farming project are supported by donations and advertising revenue and a controlled program of e-mail marketing is an important element of our ability to continue charitable activities. We may sometimes permit our educational and promotional partners to e-mail you about services, features, products, special offers and unique content we believe might interest you. Should this occur, the Foundation would distribute any electronic messages; the Foundation will not sell or rent its mailing list or users personal information to a third party that would in turn email you directly.
Security.
The online transactions conducted on the Foundation website are protected by security features, including encryption, designed to prevent the unauthorized release of your personal financial data. We also monitor network traffic in an effort to make the website available to all users and to identify unauthorized attempts to access, upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to our systems.
While the Foundation has endeavored to create a secure and reliable website, please be advised that the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from this website over the Internet cannot be guaranteed. Accordingly, the Foundation and its education al partners, successors and assigns are not responsible for the security of any information transmitted via the Internet. You assume the sole and complete risk for using this website and must make your own determination as to these matters.
Unauthorized access is prohibited and punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements.
The Foundation (and the Faces of Farming website) expects its educational partners and third-party affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. However, third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a Faces of Farming website page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through the Faces of Farming website you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, websites, advertisements and features offered by other parties. FacesofFarming.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.
While on our site, our educational and promotional partners or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. Through features available on our site, third parties may use cookies or other technology to gather information. FacesofFarming.com does not control the use of this technology or the resulting information and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
A cookie gets entered by your Web browser into the "cookies" folder on your hard drive after you close your browser, and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Faces of Farming website. We use persistent and session cookies to analyze and enhance your experience on the website. The data that is collected is the property of FacesofFarming.com, and not that of any third party. FacesofFarming.com does not have access to the cookies that may be placed on your computer by third-party ad technology, ad servers or ad networks. Those parties that use cookies may offer you a way to opt out of ad targeting.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. Should you choose to voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on our site, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of FacesofFarming.com and this policy.
Children.
FacesofFarming.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe latimes.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting us.
We can be reached by contacting:
The Tulare County Museum Foundation
Attn: Faces of Farming
Address
Visalia, CA
Email:
Changes to this policy.
The Foundation reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.
Governing law.
This policy and the use of this website are governed by California law. Any claim related to the website or this policy shall be brought in a federal or state court in or nearest to Tulare County, California, within six (6) months after the claim arises. You agree no such claim may be brought as a class action. Users of the Faces of Farming website consent to the jurisdiction and venue of such court as the most convenient and appropriate for the resolution of disputes concerning this policy. Any legal proceedings shall be conducted in the English language unless otherwise prohibited by law. The Faces of Farming website is controlled, operated and administered entirely within the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please note the information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. You hereby consent to this transfer.
In the event case of any conflict between the terms of this policy and the terms of any electronic or machine-readable privacy policy (for example, a P3P electronic privacy policy), the terms of this written policy shall control.