Privacy Policy

OFRF’s purpose is to foster the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming practices. OFRF pursues this purpose by directly supporting research into organic farming practices through our grants program, and by promoting advancement of farm policy and institutional development--such as Cooperative Extension and land grant university resources--that will serve all farmers interested in organic farming practices.

OFRF’s website is intended to provide information about organic farming research, as well as farm policy issues pertaining to organic farmers and organic and sustainable farming practices. Our intended audiences include organic farmers, farmers interested in exploring organic farming practices, agricultural researchers, and individuals who actively support organic farming methods through their consumer choices and/or are simply interested in information about organic farming.

Privacy Policy Statement
OFRF has created this privacy policy in order to share our commitment to providing privacy to visitors of our site. If you have any concerns about our privacy policy or general questions about our website, feel free to contact us at info@ofrf.org , or by telephone or regular mail.

Gathering of Information
OFRF collects personally-identifying information, such as your name, street address, email address, telephone number and/or credit card information from our website only if you choose to provide that information to us.

There are certain actions and areas of our site that will require you to provide personal information:

1. Making a donation on-line;
2. Signing up to attend one of our fundraising events on-line;
3. Subscribing to our general email and/or mailing lists;
4. Subscribing to any one of our specialty email/mailing lists: the Organic Farmers Action Network (OFAN), the Scientific Congress for Organic Agricultural Research (SCOAR), or our Media mailing list;
5. Submitting a question or comment to us via email.

Acceptance Statement
By submitting information about yourself to our website, you hereby agree to the terms provided in our privacy policy. We are dedicated to providing privacy and security to our users, and will update this policy as necessary. Please review our privacy policy from time-to-time, as it may change from time to time.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Donations and Registering for Events
If you make an online donation or register for a fundraising event, your information will be added to our donor list and database, and you will be contacted about other OFRF activities, news, and/or fundraising campaigns or events.

Financial Information: All financial information provided to OFRF is transmitted using the latest SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL technology is an industry standard that automatically encrypts data before it is sent to us. Along with this security, we ensure that such personal information is stored securely and is only available by certain qualified employees. Our donation page displays the Verisign Secure Site Seal to assure you that our web site is authentic and that all transactions are secured. The credit card information provided at the time of donation is used only to process your payment and will be not be used for any other purposes.

Subscriptions

Conditions pertaining to all subscriptions
If you subscribe to any of OFRF’s email or regular mailing lists, you will be asked to submit complete contact information, including your name, email address and physical mailing address. However you may choose to opt for email-only contact. The additional information you provide is retained for internal tracking purposes. For example, in some cases (such as joining the OFAN list) your street and zip code information is important to match your information to federal districts, thereby ensuring that you are primarily sending messages to your designated elected officials. In other cases, we may choose to have the ability to identify to major funders the geographic distribution of our constituency.

If you join our general e-mail list, we will have a record of your e-mail address, physical address, and any other information you choose to provide. We may contact you by e-mail with general program information and updates, an on-line newsletter, fundraising letters and information about upcoming fundraising or other events.
If you join the Organic Farmers Action Network (OFAN) list, we will have a record of your e-mail address, physical address, and any other information you choose to provide. You will receive informational updates and action alerts on farm policy issues pertaining to organic farming.
If you join the Scientific Congress on Organic Agricultural Research (SCOAR) list, we will have a record of your e-mail address, physical address, and any other information you choose to provide. You will receive SCOAR’s semi-monthly newsletter intended specifically for individuals interested in this organic farmer-researcher interactive network.
If you join our media list we will have a record of your e-mail address, physical address, and any other information you choose to provide. You will receive OFRF press releases and other materials pertinent to journalists and members of the media.

How to Opt-Out or Unsubscribe from a Mailing List
If you choose not to receive emails from us, simply send an email to info@ofrf.org.

General Security

OFRF will never sell, trade, or share your personal information to any third-party agencies. Our web site has forms that require users to provide contact information such as name, address, email information, and similar information. This information is stored into our company database and is secured so that only authorized employees may access it. The email address provided will only receive the publications that are requested.

You should be aware that we use third-party vendors to provide services in our offline business operations. The information that you submit on this site may be provided to those vendors on a confidential basis so that those vendors can provide services (such as processing mailings, or processing credit card transactions) on our behalf.

Although OFRF does its best to protect your privacy on our site, you can do more to protect yourself. You have control over your own privacy. Think carefully before providing any personal information.

Evaluating Traffic on the Site
OFRF’s Internet Service Provider uses software that monitors IP addresses to analyze trends in traffic on our web site. OFRF also uses Google Analytics to track website traffic. Google Analytics uses a javascript to set a session cookie. Our ISP and Google Analytics gather aggregate information about visitors which is not linked to personally identifying information.

If you have any questions about your privacy or our website, our privacy policy , the security of your information at our website or your this website in general please direct them to webmaster@ofrf.org. Thank you for visiting OFRF and we hope to hear from you soon.

Privacy policy effective November 1, 2006.