Notice of Section 508 Compliance: Accessibility

The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (AGI) is committed to making its websites accessible to all AGI customers and employees. All of the agency websites are undergoing review and redesign as necessary to ensure that they meet or exceed the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Thank you very much for your patience through this continuing redesign process. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement, please contact the web content coordinator via: (334) 240-7100.

Notice of Non-discrimination

The Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries (AGI) prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs.) Persons with disabilities who require alternative means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact AGI at (334) 240-7100.

We provide employment & services without discrimination

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries (ADAI) website and reviewing our privacy statement. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The Internet domain (for example, "somecompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
   The date and time you access our site;
3. The pages you visit; and
4. If you linked to the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors - to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors are using. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail to the Secretary or someone else or by filling out a 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 locate for you the information you have requested. We treat e-mails the same way that we regard letters sent to the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries. We are required to maintain many for historical purposes, but we do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you. Moreover, we do not give the information you provide to private organizations.

Links to Other Sites
Our website has links to many other government agencies. In a few cases we link to private organizations. Once you access another site through a link that we provide you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Website Security
Information presented on the ADAI website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

1. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
2. Except for authorized law enforcement activities, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
3. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

If you have any comments or questions about the information presented here please forward them to webmaster@agi.alabama.gov