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The Mississippi Agricultural Consultants
Association ("MACA") maintains
high standards for the protection
of privacy over the Internet. The
purpose of this statement is to
explain the types of information
MACA obtains about visitors to our
websites, how the information is
obtained, how it is used, and how
visitors can restrict its use or
disclosure.
The only information MACA obtains
about individual visitors to our
website is information supplied
voluntarily by the visitor. This
means that you can visit our websites
without telling us who you are or
revealing any information about
yourself--we DO NOT track where
you go on our sites, so you never
receive unsolicited emails from
us or our associate businesses.
To gauge the effectiveness of our
website, we do collect some non-individually-identifiable
generic information about our visitors.
Our web servers automatically recognize
a visitor's domain name (such as
.com, .edu, etc.), the web page
from which a visitor enters our
site, which pages a visitor visits
on our site, and how much time a
visitor spends on each page. This
information does not reveal a visitor's
identity. We aggregate this information
and use it to evaluate and improve
our website.
You can choose to provide individually-identifiable
information to MACA in a number
of ways through our website - by
requesting a project quotation,
sending us email, taking an on-line
poll, registering to receive news
or website update information, a
free analysis or other free service
or entering a contest or giveaway.
When visitors supply information
about themselves for a specific
purpose, MACA uses the information
for that purpose (such as to provide
the information the visitor has
requested). In addition, when visitors
use our websites to request information
or quotations for specific services,
we may use the individually-identifiable
information as we would use the
same information obtained off-line--for
example, to evaluate your service
needs and contact you regarding
additional services you may find
useful. You have the right to cancel
any service you sign up for (details
for canceling are included with
the sign-up confirmation email).
We do not sell or disclose individually-identifiable
information obtained on-line about
our visitors to anyone outside of
MACA, unless it is required by law,
or disclosure is necessary to protect
the safety of customers, employees
or property. If you provide individually-identifiable
information to us in the context
of an event MACA sponsors with another
company, such as a contest, or if
you register on a co-sponsored site
or feature, you may also be providing
the individually-identifiable information
to the co-sponsor.
While we do not disclose individually-identifiable
information obtained on-line about
our visitors to anyone outside of
MACA, including advertisers, those
signing up for services may receive
site-specific information regarding
updates, news, conferences, contests,
or other information which we deem
to be important to our visitors.
This may include commercial messages
as part of the email.
MACA is committed to safeguarding
customer privacy on the MACA web
site. We require our employees and
contractors to protect the privacy
of information about our customers
and expect our partners and suppliers
to do so as well. You can feel confident
that your individually-identifiable
information will be protected when
you access our web pages or communicate
with us directly through our web
site.
MACA's website may contain links
to other sites. We are not responsible
for the content or the privacy practices
employed by other sites.
To improve the services it can offer
you MACA may opt to expand its capabilities
for obtaining information about
users in the future. MACA will update
this privacy statement continually
to ensure that you are aware of
developments in this area.
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