Agri-ville.com^® Privacy Policy

See Agri-ville Farms.com Terms of Use

As of January 1, 2007 Farms.com is the sole owner of Agri-ville.com

We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy lets you know how your personal information is processed and used. We promise that we will take steps to use your personal information only in ways that are outlined in this Privacy Policy.

What information are we collecting and how are we collecting it?

When a visitor requests a page from any Web site within Agri-ville.com, our Web servers automatically recognize that visitor's domain name and IP address. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. Every computer connected to the Internet is given a set of numbers that serve as that computer's "Internet Protocol" IP address.

This information is used to examine our traffic is aggregate. Our Web servers do not record e-mail addresses of visitors.

Farms.com is the sole owner of information collected on Agri-ville.com .  We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Farms.com also may undertake research about member's demographics, interests and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server logs or from surveys. We do this to better understand our users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Agri-ville.com may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners, no personally identifiable information will be shared, sold or rented, without your express permission.

In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as income level and gender), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

What other information do you request?

We may also request your e-mail address or mailing address for the purposes of conducting a survey or to provide additional services (for example, subscriptions to e-mail newsletters, announcement lists or information about seminars). Whenever we request the identity of a visitor, we will clearly indicate the purpose of the inquiry before the information is requested. We maintain a strict "No-Spam" policy that means that we do not intend to sell, rent, or otherwise give your e-mail address to a third-party, without your consent.

In addition, Agri-ville.com will not send you email that you have not agreed to receive. We may from time to time send e-mail announcing new Agri-ville.com services and to verify active e-mail accounts.

When you enter a contest or other promotion, we may ask for your name, address, and e-mail address so we can administer the contest and notify winners.

What are cookies?

Agri-ville.com will send a "cookie" to your computer for member login and customized settings for news, weather and market news. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. We use cookies to identify which areas of Agri-ville.com you have visited or customized, so the next time you visit, those pages may be readily accessible. Our advertisers may also use cookies to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. Agri-ville.com and our advertisers may use this information to better personalize the content, banners, and promotions that you see on Agri-ville.com.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites will be diminished and some features may not work as intended.

You can refuse the cookies or delete the cookies file on your computer using various widely available methods. In such cases, the ad serving system will serve up default ad campaigns, and our cookie analysis plans will lack the needed data. In addition, when we implement special subscriber benefits, cookied subscribers will have automatic access to them, but noncookied subscribers will not be able to access those areas. There are no other implications for accepting or refusing cookies from our web site.

Usage of a cookie is not linked to any personally identifiable information while on Agri-ville.com. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the user will be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.

Log Files
We use log files to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Log files are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Sharing
We may share aggregate demographic and interests information with partners, sponsors and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual.

We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We partner with other parties to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we Farms.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Meeting Rooms, Chats, And Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or newsgroups available to its members. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Users can unsubscribe from the weekly newsletter.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as postal or zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

If you are purchasing something from Agri-ville.com or an affiliate, we need to know your name, e-mail address, mailing address, credit card number, and expiration date. This allows us to process and fulfill your order and to notify you of your order status. This information may also be used by us to notify you of related product and services, but will not be shared or sold to third parties for any purpose.

Agri-ville.com Market Place affiliates use a shopping cart feature that safeguards this information by using industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encrypted servers. SSL codes the information transferred between you and the server, rendering it unreadable to anyone trying to intercept the information.

This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption protocols in the industry - SSL. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are in unsecured server mode.

In addition to using SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to
mayor@agri-ville.com

Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify your e-mail address. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.

How can you access, update or delete your information?

If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your e-mail address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavour to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer Support.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information listed in the Member Directory. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from our partners may send a letter to the mayor@agri-ville.com and place unsubscribe in the subject line.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Protection of Rights:
We may reveal your personally identifiable information to attorneys, private investigator organizations or law enforcement agencies if we believe that you have harmed or interfered with (or will imminently harm or interfere) other Agri-ville.com users or anyone else or violating (either intentionally or unintentionally) our Website Terms and Conditions of Use or infringing any of Agri-ville.com or Farms.com legal rights, or harming the legal rights, property, or health or safety of any other person.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example through e-mail, discussion lists, meeting rooms, chats or elsewhere - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Our postal addresses are:

Farms.com

1790 Dundas St.,
London, Ontario, Canada
N5W 3E5
Phone: (877) 438-5729
Fax: (519) 438-3152
mayor@agri-ville.com