Privacy Notice
This privacy notice explains what personal data farmcreditarchive.org collects, how it is used, with whom it is disclosed, and what choices you have concerning your data. It also addresses personal data that may be contained in materials you submit to the site. Please review it carefully.
What personal data does farmcreditarchive.org collect?
We collect any data that you provide to us in a comment submitted through the site (which includes at a minimum your name and email address, as well as any other information you choose to provide). We also collect personal data that you provide in connection with submitting materials to the site. This data will include your name, address, telephone number, and email address, as well as any additional information you choose to provide.
How does farmcreditarchive.org use my personal data?
We may use data submitted in connection with your comments in order to respond to you. Or we may quote you on the site (e.g. “Tom from Wyoming says ‘Farmcreditarchive.org was very useful for my research.’”).
Data that you provide in connection with submissions to the site will be retained so that we can contact you if we have questions about the materials you submit. In addition, if other researchers contact us with questions about material that you submitted to the site, we may disclose your name and email address so that they may address their questions to you directly.
To whom will farmcreditarchive.org disclose my personal data?
We will not sell, rent, or give your personal data away to third parties for commercial or marketing purposes.
We may disclose your name and email address to researchers who contact us with questions about materials you submit to the site. If maintenance of the site is turned over to a service provider or a to a successor of the Farm Credit Council, data submitted to the site will go with the site. Providers of IT services to the site (e.g. web hosts) may in some cases have access to data submitted to the site, but we do not allow them to use your data for their own purposes. We will also disclose your data if required by law.
What choices do I have about how my data is used?
There are certain mandatory fields that must be completed to send us a comment or submit materials. Apart from this minimal identifying data, anything else you send is up to you.
What about personal data relating to other people that is included in materials I submit to the site?
When you submit materials to the site, you are responsible for obtaining all related authorizations or consent needed in order to provide these materials.
If individuals contact Farmcreditarchive.org asking that materials you have submitted be taken down, because their personal data is included we will either redact them or take them down, and we reserve the right to refuse further submissions from you in the future.
Whom may I contact if I have more questions?
Please submit a comment through the site with your question, and we will do our best to answer it.