Privacy Policy

Donor Privacy Policy

Forgotten Harvest recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others (known collectively or individually as “Users”) who use www.ForgottenHarvest.org (the “Website”) value their privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and Websites offered by Forgotten Harvest, and details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Website.

 

Our Commitment To Our Donors

Forgotten Harvest respects your privacy. We guarantee that we will not share, sell or trade our donors’ personal or contact information with anyone.

This policy applies to all information received by Forgotten Harvest, both online and offline, on any Platform (“Platform includes the Forgotten Havest website and mobile applications), as well as any electronic, written or oral communications.

To the extent that any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information wlll only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.

Your use of the Website and any Personal Information you provide on the Website remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Forgotten Harvest Terms of Use.

Forgotten Harvest Privacy Policy applies only to Websites and services that are owned and operated by Forgotten Harvest. While other Websites may be displayed as links from within Forgotten Harvest, those sites are owned and operated by others, and they may have different privacy policies. When linking from Forgotten Harvest to other websites, if you have privacy concerns, we urge you to review the privacy policies of those site.

 

Information Collection and Use

General

  • Forgotten Harvest does not require that you register in order to view its products.
  • Forgotten Harvest collects Personal Information when you register with Forgotten Harvest, when you visit the Website, when you make a purchase, or any time you provide information to Forgotten Harvest about yourself. Forgotten Harvest may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.
  • Forgotten Harvest automatically receives and records other non-personally-identifying information (“Non-Personal Information”) on our server logs from your browser even if you do not register with Forgotten Harvest, for example, your IP address, Forgotten Harvest cookie information, and the pages you visit.
  • Forgotten Harvest uses Non-Personal Information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, improve our services, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

 

Information Sharing and Disclosure

  • Forgotten Harvest does not rent, trade, or share Personal Information with third parties except to provide products or services you’ve requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
    • We use other third parties such as a shipping company to fulfill orders, a credit card processing company to bill you for goods sold on our website, and an email service provider to send out emails on our behalf. When you make a purchase on our website or sign up for our email list, we will share the necessary amount of personally identifiable information as necessary for the third party to provide that service, including your name, address, credit card information and email address. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes.
    • We provide Non-Personal Information to interested third-parties for purposes of understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Website.
    • We use both your Personal Information and certain Non-Personal Information to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing User preferences and trends.
    • We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, or legal process served on our Website.
    • We may share Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Forgotten Harvest”s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
    • In the event Forgotten Harvest, LLC goes through a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email of any such change in ownership or control of your Personal Information.
  • Keep in mind that any Personal Information, or comments that you voluntarily disclose on the Website, for example on comment pages, or on the blog forums, becomes publicly available. Your account name is displayed to other Users when you send and/or post messages through the Website. Please note that any comment or other content you post or send to the Website becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. Your messages and other information you make available in public areas of the Forgotten Harvest website will be seen by people and organizations not related to or controlled by Forgotten Harvest, and may be used by others to contact you.
  • If you use a blog on www.Forgotten Harvest, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these blogs, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these blogs.
  • We post customer news and/or events on our website which may contain personally identifiable information. We do obtain the customer’s consent via email prior to posting the news and/or event to post their name along with their news and/or event.

 

Cookies and Web Beacons

  • A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site and we do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information.
  • We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We use session cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie expires when you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your Internet browser’s “help” file.
  • We set a persistent cookie to store your passwords, so you don’t have to enter it more than once. Persistent cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.
  • If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as the shopping cart and design scoring pages, will be limited.
  • Forgotten Harvest does utilize tracking technology to better understand site traffic patterns and use. However, none of the information collected via tracking technology is personally identifiable information.
  • The use of cookies by our partners, affiliates or tracking utility company is not covered by our privacy statement. We do not have access or control over these cookies. Our partners, affiliates, tracking utility company and service providers use session ID cookies to make it easier for you to navigate our site, in order for you to use the shopping cart, etc.
  • If you click on a link to a third party site, including on an advertisement, you will leave Forgotten Harvest and go to the site you selected. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personally identifiable information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as Forgotten Harvest. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any other service provider from whom you request services.
  • Forgotten Harvest may use web beacons in connection with e-mails sent to Forgotten Harvest users, to let us know whether and when the email was opened. No Personal Information is transmitted through web beacons.

 

Confidentiality and Security

  • We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personally identifiable information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
    If you have any questions about security on our Website, you can send us an email at info@Forgotten Harvest.
  • We limit access to Personal Information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with Personal Information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).