Field To Market is strongly committed to your right to privacy and to taking steps designed to secure your personal information. To earn your trust and confidence in our commitment, the intent of this policy is to fully disclose our privacy practices to you. We will only use your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The Field to Market website is owned and operated by Field To Market, which is located at 1628 Sts. John Road, Keystone, CO 80435. We encourage you to read the Field To Market privacy policy, so you understand what types of personal information are collected and how this information may be used. Field To Market is committed to collecting and using your information only in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

Field To Market collects personal information necessary to provide you with customized services and to allow you to use the resources available on our including the creation and maintenance of a "Production Account." Personal information includes, but is not limited to, name, email address, geographic location, production size, production type, and any other information that itself identifies or, when tied to the above information, may identify you as a specific individual. The information you provide when registering for a user account stays entirely with Field To Market, will only be used in aggregate for reporting purposes but will not identify your individual farm operations to any one other than the registered user. Your email address will never be shared with any third party for any reason.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies in several ways (and thousands of other websites are currently using them too!). Cookie files are used to better understand how you go through our website so we may tailor your experience at our website. Cookies are also used to tell us whether you have visited our website previously, and to help us determine whether you came to our website from a particular Internet link. Cookies can also be used to help you to save and retrieve passwords and other information and preferences you use on our website, saving you from having to re-enter this information upon every visit to our website. Cookies cannot and will not be used by us to retrieve any personal information about you from your computer that you have not previously and voluntarily provided to us. However, cookies may also be received when you link to our partners' websites or when you view and we do not have control over how they use this information. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. However, most of our features will not function if you do not accept cookies. For more information on cookies, including how to opt-out of ad-serving cookies, see Cookies.

Web Beacons. Web beacons are small strings of code that are placed in a Web page. They are sometimes called "clear GIFs" (Graphics Interchange Format) or "pixel tags." To target our Internet ads on other websites, we may use Web beacons provided by our outside advertising company on pages of this site in conjunction with ad-serving cookies. The information used in targeting our ads is not personally identifiable. We may also use Web beacons on our website for other purposes, for example, to learn how visitors use our site. IP Addresses. When you connect to our website, we record your IP addresses and information on the type of operating system (e.g. Windows98) and browser software(e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer) you are using. This helps us to diagnose problems with our servers and for system administration. Your IP address is also used to help gather aggregated demographic information. Chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. We make chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to you. Please remember any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Please see Terms and Conditions of Use.

Any information we collect may be shared with our research division on an aggregate basis only. In addition, we may from time to time hire a third party to act on our behalf for projects such as market research surveys, and measurement index research, and we will provide aggregate information to these third parties specifically for use in connection with these projects. The information we provide to such third parties will be protected by a confidentiality agreement that will obligate the third party to use such information solely to complete the specific project.

In addition to the circumstances described above, we may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, as requested by other government or law enforcement authorities, or in the good faith belief disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable, including (without limitation) when we have reason to believe disclosing the information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing interference with our rights or properties, whether intentionally or otherwise, or when anyone else could be harmed by such activities.

At any time, you can view, update, or delete all of the information contained in your account by logging in and following the appropriate links. Your account log-in can be easily accessed by visiting our website at http://www.fieldtomarket.org/. In addition, you can update or delete such information by emailing ftmwebsite@keystone.org.. However, even if you delete or change some personal information in our registration database, it may still be stored on our databases (including those kept for archival purposes).

This privacy policy was last updated on January 08, 2009.