Privacy Notice
The following discloses the information
gathering and dissemination practices for the Texas Farm Bureau and affiliated companies
(“TFB”), and specifically, for the Bio Fuel for Thought website (the “Website”),
currently located at www.biofuelforthought.com.
We reserve the right to modify the
information contained herein at anytime without prior notice.
If we do make changes to our privacy policies, we will modify this
page accordingly. Check this page periodically
for amendments. This Website and all
information and materials on it are provided to you "as is" without warranty of
any kind.
YOUR USE OF THIS SITE, OR YOUR PROVISION TO US OF ANY
PERSONAL INFORMATION CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THESE TERMS AND ANY SUBSEQUENT
CHANGES TO THESE TERMS; DO NOT USE THE SITE OR PROVIDE INFORMATION IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE WITH ALL OF THE TERMS.
Our Commitment to Safeguarding Your Privacy
This
privacy policy is being provided to you to inform you of our practices and procedures
regarding the safeguarding and sharing of non-public personal information.
Non-public personal information is personally identifiable financial information
about you, your family, or your household that we may obtain directly from you,
that we may obtain as a result of our business dealings with you, or that we may
obtain from any other source.
We
do not engage in the practice of disclosing your non-public personal information
to non-affiliated third parties other than, as necessary, to provide quality services
to our members. For instance, we do
not sell your name, address or telephone number to telemarketers or to direct-mail
solicitors. We do not engage in “list
selling,” and we do not offer your personal information to publishing houses, retailers,
or coupon companies.
Normal Browsing
As with many websites, we collect certain information,
even when you are not logged in. When
you browse, read, or download information from the Website, data is collected by
TFB, including but not limited to your IP address, URL request, browser type, and
date and time of your request. Unless
you affirmatively provide additional information to us, we do not collect or store
personally identifiable information such as name, mailing address, email address,
phone number, or social security number.
We collect the IP addresses of visitors, time of access,
browser type, and web pages visited. We
collect this information on an aggregate basis only.
For example, we track which pages are most popular among visitors
as a whole. We do not track information
on which pages an individual user visits.
We do not collect any other information without your knowledge and permission.
Information We Collect and Use
TFB does not request, collect or store
other personally identifiable information unless you provide such additional information
to us. Information that is provided
to us may be used to perform research, improve usability of the site, or in other
activities related to TFB’s services.
In addition,
TFB does not sell or rent to third parties any information acquired about visitors
to this Website through their use of this Website.
During
the course of reviewing your application for membership, we collect your name, address,
telephone numbers, family members’ names, and social security numbers.
It is important for us to collect and use this information to properly provide,
administer and perform services on your behalf.
We could not provide optimum service to you without collecting and using
this information.
Disclosure of Information
We
regard all of your personal information as confidential.
Therefore, we do not disclose any non-public personal information about our
members or former members to anyone except as permitted by law.
In the course of conducting our business dealings, we may disclose to other
parties certain information we have about you.
These disclosures are only made in accordance with applicable laws, and may
include disclosures to regulatory or governmental authorities.
Furthermore, certain disclosures of information will be made to Farm Bureau
personnel authorized to have access to your information for the purpose of administering
your membership and providing services to you.
We
may disclose the following categories of information to companies that perform services
on our behalf or who provide services to our members as a membership benefit:
•
Information we receive from you on applications or
other forms, such as your name, address, social security number, or Texas Farm Bureau
membership number.
•
Information about your transactions with us, our affiliates
or others.
Those
entities with which we share personal information are required to maintain the confidentiality
of that information. We do not authorize
these parties to use or disclose your personal information for any purpose other
than for the express purpose of performing work on our behalf, providing you a membership
service or as required or permitted by law.
All data stored on our servers may be accessed by our
system administrators. In the event
that we are required by law (including a court order) to disclose the information
you submit, we will provide you with notice (unless we are prohibited) that a request
for your information has been made so that you may object to the disclosure. We
will send this notice by email to the address you have given us. We prefer to independently
object to over-broad requests for access to information about users of our site,
but we cannot assure you that we will be able to do this in all cases.
If you do not challenge the disclosure request yourself, we may
be legally required to turn over your information.
How We Maintain the Confidentiality and Security of Your
Information
We
carefully restrict access to non-public personal information to our employees, our
affiliates and subsidiaries. The right
of our employees and our affiliates and subsidiaries to further disclose and use
the information is limited by our employee handbook, applicable law, and non-disclosure
agreements where appropriate. We maintain
physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with Federal and State
law to guard your non-public personal information.
This Website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration
of the information under our control. However,
your confidential use of this Website cannot be guaranteed by TFB.
TFB shall not be responsible for any harm that you or any person may suffer
as a result of a breach of confidentiality in respect to your use of this Website
or any information you transmitted over the Internet to this Website.
Contact Us
If
you submit personal information, such as your email address, to us by following
the “Contact Us” link located throughout the Website, we will use that information
to respond to your question or request for information. We will not share your information
with third parties without your explicit permission.
You can also contact us by writing us at the following address:
Texas
Farm Bureau
7420
Fish Pond Rd.
Waco,
Texas 76710
Cookies
TFB uses “cookies” in connection with this Website.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on a visitor’s computer
hard drive that allows TFB to record how many times a user or computers within a
user’s network of computers has visited the Website, the number of times various
pages of the Website have been accessed and other similar information. You
may disable receipt of cookies using features of your web-browser that disable such
cookies.
Posting
Posting or updating content is a public action, and all
content may be publicly visible. Identification
of all contributed content may include, but is not limited to, display of your visitor
personal name or IP address. All content
may be retained for restorative, archival, or research purposes by TFB. Editing
or deleting content may alter the displayed state of the content, but will not permanently
delete the content from the Website.
Disposal of Your Information
We take steps to safely and
securely dispose of your personal information.
Other Websites
Material on this Website may link to
independently run websites outside of the
www.biofuelforthought.com
domain. TFB is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such websites.
We encourage you to read the privacy
policies of any websites you visit from this website.
Additional
Information
If
you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Notice, please
feel free to contact us any time through this Website or by writing us at the following
address:
Texas
Farm Bureau
7420
Fish Pond Rd.
Waco, Texas 76710