Privacy Policy For Historic Fruit Tree Working Group (HFTWG)

This Privacy Policy describes the information collected by HFTWG, (we, us, HFTWG), how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our website or mobile application or services or transacting business with us. By using our website or mobile application, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, and without prior notice, by posting an amended Privacy Policy that is always accessible by clicking on the “Privacy Policy” link on this site’s home page. Your continued use of this site indicates your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy.

You should check the Privacy Policy through this link periodically for modifications by clicking on the link provided near the top of the Privacy Policy for a listing of material modifications and their effective dates.

Regarding Protected Information (defined below), if any modifications are materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the Protected Information previously disclosed by you, we will obtain your consent before implementing such revisions with respect to such information.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In General. We may collect personal information that can identify you such as your name and email address and other information that does not identify you. When you provide personal information through our website or mobile application, the information may be sent to servers located in the United States.

Information you provide. We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website or mobile application or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, and telephone number, and, if you transact business with us, financial information such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information). We may also collect information about your interest, activities, and events.

Information about others. We may collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us, such as their name, address and email address. If you use our website or mobile application to reference other people or business entities, their information may be collected and stored.

Use of cookies and other technologies to collect information. We use various technologies to collect information from our website or your mobile device and about your activities on our website or mobile application.

Information collected automatically. We automatically collect information from your browser when you use our website or mobile application. This information includes usage data, text, images, videos, files ,and usage activity.

Cookies and Use of Cookie Data. When you use our website or mobile application, we may assign your device one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our website or mobile application and to personalize your experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your activity on our website or mobile application, such as the content you post or view, the time and date of your visits, and the other users you interact with. During your visits to other websites where we advertise, we (or third parties) may use certain data collected on our website or mobile application to show you the type of HFTWG advertisements likely to be of greater interest to you. Although you may not opt out of receiving advertisements generally, you may control the collection of data on our site used for targeted HFTWG advertising during your visits to other websites. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our website or mobile application. Other cookies may reflect de-identified demographic or other data linked to the registration data you have submitted to us, e.g., your email address, in hashed, non-human readable form. No personally identifiable information is contained in these cookies.

3rd Party Cookies for Serving Behavioral Ads. We reserve the right to serve our ads and third party ads on our site that are targeted to your interests (“3rd Party Behavioral Ads”). 3rd Party Behavioral Ads are served by 3rd party advertising services that use 3rd party cookies (cookies passed by others, not by us) to collect Non-Personal Information about your use of our website or mobile application and other websites. This information is your “behavioral data”. 3rd Party Behavioral Ads do not use your Personal Information. Instead, they associate your behavioral data on visited sites with your computer, so that the ads your computer sees on this site are more likely to be relevant to your interests. These advertising services may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on the service’s behalf. We will provide notice and the opportunity to opt-out of receiving 3rd Party Behavioral Ads.

3rd Party Cookies for Crediting Purchases To Affiliates. We reserve the right to use 3rd party cookies for purposes of crediting any purchase you may make on this site to one of our affiliate marketing partners that may have referred you to us. These cookies will only be used for purposes of crediting sales to the referring affiliate and not for other purposes such as serving behavioral ads.

Participation in Google’s Adsense Network. We reserve the right to participate in Google’s AdSense network for purposes of serving 3rd Party Behavioral Ads. Google uses DoubleClick’s DART cookie in its AdSense network. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie. For information regarding how to opt out, go to http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

In General. We may use information that we collect about you to:

  • deliver the products and services that you have requested.
  • manage your account and provide you with customer support.
  • perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others.
  • communicate with you by email, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or other third parties.
  • develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site and other sites.
  • verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes.
  • enforce or exercise any rights in our terms and conditions.
  • manage our business.
  • provide our advertisements to you when you visit other sites.
  • perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

Financial information. We may use financial information or payment method information to process payment for any purchases made on our website or mobile application, enroll you in a discount, rebate, affiliate program, and other programs in which you elect to participate, to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions, and otherwise as needed to manage our business.

WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

Personal information. We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated below or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information with:

Service providers: We may share your personal information, which may include your name and contact information (including email address), with third parties that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, member screenings, supporting our website or mobile application functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through our website or mobile application. We may also share your name, contact information and credit card information with our authorized service providers who process credit card payments. These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.

Business partners: When you make purchases on our website or mobile application or click-through our advertisements offered on third party websites, we may share personal information with the businesses with which we partner to offer you the applicable products, services or advertisements. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant's offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email address and other information to that merchant.

Other Situations. We also may disclose your information, including personal information:

In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies.

In connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Anonymized and non-personally-identifiable information. We may share non-personally-identifiable information we collect under any of the above circumstances. We may also share it with third parties to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our website or mobile application and on websites of third parties, and to analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine non-personally-identifiable information we collect with additional non-personally-identifiable information collected from other sources. We also may share anonymized, non-personally-identifiable information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investors, for the purpose of conducting general business and other analysis.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

There may be places on our website or mobile application where you may click on a link to access other websites that do not operate under this Privacy Policy. For example, if you click on an advertisement on our website or mobile application, you may be taken to a website that we do not control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect information, including personal information, from you and, in some instances, provide us with information about your activities on those websites. We recommend that you consult the privacy statements of all third-party websites you visit by clicking on the "privacy" link typically located at the bottom of the webpage you are visiting.

HOW YOU CAN ACCESS YOUR INFORMATION

If you have an account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information by logging into your account settings page. More information about how to contact us is provided below. If you have an online account with us, you also may terminate your account at any time by visiting the "Cancellation" page for your account. If you delete or disable your account, your personal and non- personal data will be deleted. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties' policies.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our website or mobile application because such information may be required in order for you to register an account; purchase products or services; participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate other transactions on our website or mobile application.

At any time you can choose to no longer receive commercial or promotional emails from us by submitting this request to support@HFTWG.app. You may be given the opportunity, in any commercial email that we send to you, to opt out of receiving such messages in the future. We request a reasonable time to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship email communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Please note that changing information in your account, or otherwise opting out of receipt of promotional email communications, will only affect future activities or communications from us. If we have already provided your information to a third party (such as a service provider) before you have changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change your preferences directly with that third party.

You can also control information collected by cookies. See Cookies above for information about declining or deleting cookies.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident using our website or mobile application to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email. Please refer to the Federal Trade Commission's website for information about how to protect yourself against identity theft.

We promise not to sell your personal information to any third party. We only use your personal information to provide you with the Services you use HFTWG for.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE ABOUT YOURSELF WHILE USING OUR SERVICE

We provide areas on our website or mobile application where you can submit information about yourself and others and communicate with others. Such communications are governed by our Terms of Use. We will not disclose your information to anyone other than the parties necessary to fulfill our obligations in providing Services to you under our Terms of Use.

CHILDREN'S ONLINE POLICY

We are committed to preserving online privacy for all of our website or mobile application visitors, including children. This site is a general audience site. Consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we will not knowingly collect any information from, or sell to, children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian who has discovered that your child under the age of 13 has submitted his or her personally identifiable information without your permission or consent, we will remove the information from our active list, at your request. To request the removal of your child’s information, please contact our site at support@HFTWG.app, and be sure to include in your message the same login information that your child submitted.

VISITING OUR WEBSITE OR MOBILE APPLICATION FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

This Privacy Policy is intended to cover collection of information on our website or mobile application from residents of the United States. If you are visiting using our website or mobile application from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. By using our services, you understand that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION FOR EUROPEAN UNION USERS

HFTWG will serve as the Data Controller and Data Processor. The contact information for HFTWG is located in the Contact Section at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. The HFTWG Data Protection Officer can be reached at the address in the Contact Section.

If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified via email of the changes. The personal data that we store and how we store it will always be included in our Privacy Policy. If your personal data is incomplete or incorrect, we will change it for you upon request. If you wish to have your private data deleted, we will delete it for you upon request. If you want to have some personal data blocked, we will do so upon request (just understand that HFTWG may not operate without personal information). We will make your personal data available to you upon request.

Please note that our data does not leave the United States.

The personal information we collect is necessary to utilize the features of HFTWG. Without providing personal information such as your name, we would be unable to bill you for the HFTWG services.

DISCLOSURE TO SUCCESSORS

If we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, or if we sell HFTWG, we reserve the right to transfer your Protected Information as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change in control. In the unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we reserve the right to transfer your Protected Information to protect our rights or as required by law.

NO RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of our website or mobile application.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we post changes to this Privacy Policy, we will revise the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check our website or mobile application from time to time to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies.

CONTACT

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact the owner and operator of our website or mobile application at:

HFTWG
Attn: Data Protection Officer
Email: wg@historicfruit.org

We will never share your personal information with anyone unless you ask us to. Read our Privacy Commitment.