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Privacy

Protecting Your Privacy and Servicing Your Needs
Modern Farmer is a quarterly magazine devoted to the people, policy, issues, animals plant and technology of farming and food. We bring you the ideas, insights and information that inspire and enable people to improve their lives and the world around them. We value integrity, and we’re deeply committed to protecting your privacy and the security of the information you share with us.

We believe you have the right to know everything regarding the information we collect about you, how this information benefits you, and how you can say “no” to the use of any of this information.

This privacy policy applies to all information gathering activities of Modern Farmer Media, on and offline. The policy describes how we handle information provided to us or collected on Internet sites where this privacy policy is posted. It also explains how we handle information provided to us or collected on applications we make available on or through third-party sites or platforms, if it is disclosed to you in connection with your use, purchase or download of the application.

Children Under 13
We care about the safety of children. We won’t knowingly allow anyone under 13 to provide us any personal identifying information. Children should always get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as, their names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers) over the Internet to us or to anyone else. We encourage you to become involved in your children’s online experience and to share your interest in our sites with your young ones.

Information Collection
Modern Farmer Media collects personal identifying information (“PII”) from you when you visit our website(s), through e-mail, and through the use of our mobile applications. We also collect PII during transactions, sponsored events and contests/sweepstakes. PII includes your name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone and cell phone numbers, wireless service provider, and all other information that identifies you.

We may collect information about your interaction with Modern Farmer Media sites, applications and services. For example, we may use website analytics tools on our site to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser’s width and height. We may also use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons (described below); to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on our sites and services. Additionally, we may collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring website addresses.

When you receive newsletters or promotional e-mail from Modern Farmer Media, we may use customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information.

In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with Modern Farmer Media, information collected through one Modern Farmer Media site, application or service may be combined with information obtained through other Modern Farmer Media sites, applications or services. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies, such as Google Analytics.

How We Use Your Information
The information we collect allows us to customize the content and/or layout of our sites and applications for you and each other visitor. Plus, it enables us to notify you about updates to our websites and applications, contact you with special offers of interest, and customize your experience.

In addition, Modern Farmer Media may make certain PII and other information available to trusted third parties that work with us to provide products and services to our customers, that help us with marketing campaigns, or that intend to market products and services to you directly. These companies are obligated to protect the information they receive.

Your California Privacy Rights
As described above, from time to time, we make your PII available to third parties. If you do not want us to share your PII with other companies or organizations, you may opt-out of this information sharing by emailing us at customerservice@modernfarmermedia.com. This notice is designed to comply with California’s “Shine the Light” law, but the opt-out option is available to all of our users.

What if I don’t want commercial/promotional e-mail from Modern Farmer Media?
If you do not want to receive commercial/promotional e-mail or online newsletters that you have subscribed by emailing us at customerservice@modernfarmermedia.com or utilizing the unsubscribe option available on commercial e-mail communications.

Transfers of Information for Legal Purposes
Modern Farmer Media may need to disclose certain information to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena, or search warrant, in the course of a legal proceeding or in response to a law enforcement agency request. If there is a change of control in Modern Farmer Media (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise) or a sale or transfer of its assets, your information could be sold or transferred as part of that transaction and your PII and other information potentially used by the Purchaser or other recipient of said information.

You acknowledge that Modern Farmer Media may process and store your information in the U.S., and that as a result, U.S. governments, courts or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through the laws of the U.S.

Mobile Devices/Third Party Fees
From time to time, Modern Farmer Media may make mobile device application and mobile marketing campaigns available to you and may allow you to register for services that involve messages and/or e-mails being sent to your mobile device. You are responsible for obtaining access to the mobile device services and that access may involve third-party fees, including mobile carrier, text messaging, or airtime charges. You are solely responsible for those fees, including any and all fees associated with the use of the applications, delivery of the messages, e-mails or other materials to your mobile device. Please consult your mobile service provider’s pricing plan prior to purchasing or downloading any application or registering for any such service to determine the charges for sending and receiving text messages from/to your mobile device. You will be given the opportunity to opt-out of receiving text messages or emails to your mobile device at the time you register and with each message or email you receive.

Mobile marketing campaigns may involve your sending an e-mail from your mobile device to Modern Farmer Media or a third-party campaign operator. An e-mail or other response will then be sent to your mobile device. Opting to participate in a campaign is 100% your choice. When you engage in these mobile marketing campaigns, Modern Farmer Media and the third-party campaign operator may collect your cell phone number, the name of your wireless service provider, images that you send using your cell phone as part of the campaign, and other relevant information.

What are “Cookies” and “Web Beacons” and what do they do for me?
In order to provide better service when you return to our site, Modern Farmer Media may use Cookies and Web Beacons to store your preferences and information about such things as items added to your shopping cart, purchases you have made with us, what pages you visit, and past activity at a site. Modern Farmer Media may also employ Web Beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations of our sites. “Cookies” are tiny pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies are also used to ensure that you are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads and to customize webpage content based on your browser type (Chrome or Microsoft Explorer, for example). Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. Web Beacons – sometimes called single-pixel gifs or clear gifs – are used to assist in delivering cookies on our sites and allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include Web Beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

CookieDurationDescription
__cfduid1 monthThe cookie is set by CloudFare. The cookie is used to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address d apply security settings on a per-client basis. It doesnot correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.
__gads1 yearThis cookie is set by Google and stored under the name dounleclick.com. This cookie is used to track how many times users see a particular advert which helps in measuring the success of the campaign and calculate the revenue generated by the campaign. These cookies can only be read from the domain that it is set on so it will not track any data while browsing through another sites.
_fbp2 monthsThis cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.
_ga2 yearsThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat_gtag_UA_37678677_11 minuteGoogle uses this cookie to distinguish users.
_gid1 dayThis cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
_s30 minutesThis cookie is associated with Shopify's analytics suite.
_shopify_s30 minutes
_shopify_y1 year
_y1 year
ads1 day
cli_user_preference1 yearThis cookie stores consolidated information of consent of all categories in the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. This cookie is used to ensure the smooth functioning of the plugin with certain cache plugins.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary11 monthsThis cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary".
CookieLawInfoConsent1 year
csrftoken11 monthsThis cookie is associated with Django web development platform for python. Used to help protect the website against Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks
DSID1 hourTo note specific user identity. Contains hashed/encrypted unique ID.
fr2 monthsThe cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.
gadsTest50 years ago
GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY
GPS30 minutesThis cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location
IDE2 yearsUsed by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
ig_did2 years
ig_nrcb1 year
mid2 yearsThe cookie is set by Instagram. The cookie is used to distinguish users and to show relevant content, for better user experience and security.
test_cookie11 monthsThis cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies.
trx2 years
viewed_cookie_policy11 monthsThe cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE5 monthsThis cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.
YSCThis cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

If you want to disable cookies, there is a simple procedure in most Internet browsers that allows you to turn off cookies. Please remember, however, that cookies may be required to allow you to use certain features of our sites.

Third Party Advertising
We may use third-party advertising, data analytics and online targeting companies to serve ads when you visit our sites or use our applications. We may also provide certain PII and other information to these third-parties to allow them to more effectively target advertising to you. These companies are obligated to protect your information, but you may opt-out of this sharing through the process described here.

When advertisements are displayed to you on our sites and applications, one or more persistent cookies may be placed on your computer or device by us or a third party. Some of these third parties may use information (including PII) about your visits to this site and other websites and usage of applications in order to provide data and targeting recommendations based on which you may receive advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Visit: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads to change your ad settings or to permanently opt out click here.

Links
Modern Farmer Media sites may, on occasion, contain links to other sites with information gathering practices different from our own. Visitors should consult privacy policies for all other sites, as Modern Farmer Media has no control over information submitted to or collected by such third parties.

Modern Farmer Media sites sometimes offer contests, sweepstakes, or promotions sponsored or co-sponsored by third parties. These third parties may obtain PII that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. Modern Farmer Media has no control over the third-party sponsor’s use of this information. The Modern Farmer Media site will notify you at the time of requesting PII if third-party sponsors will be provided with such information.

Changes to the Privacy Policy
Modern Farmer Media may need to change this privacy policy from time to time in order to address new issues, evolving technologies, changes on our sites, or business practices. Modern Farmer Media will post those changes so you will always know what information we gather and how we might use that information. Please refer back to this policy regularly.

What about data security?
To ensure the security of your data – including address information and credit card numbers – Modern Farmer Media always uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our site. We have appropriate security measures that protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of information that we have collected from you.

We appreciate the opportunity to serve you!
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy statement or if you feel that this site has not followed its stated information policy, feel free to contact us at customerservice@modernfarmermedia.com.

Additionally, you may contact your state or local consumer protection office, The Direct Marketing Association’s Committee on Ethical Business Practices, the Better Business Bureau, or The Federal Trade Commission by phone at (202) FTC-HELP (202/382-4357) and online at www.ftc.gov.

Modern Farmer Media complies with all the stringent standards of ethical conduct set forth by the Direct Marketing Association.