Privacy Policy
Introduction
Farm Synergies is committed to securing your data with integrity, responsibility and transparency. Farm Synergies collects, processes and stores your data following its internal rules and procedures on data protection, with the exclusion of any single national system of law. This Data Protection and Privacy Notice describes what personal information we may collect, process, store, and ensure the protection of the provided data. It also set out the options for you to request access, correction, deletion and to object to your data being processed by Farm Synergies.
The Scope of Processing Activities
The data privacy and protection apply to the subscribers to Farm Synergies newsletters, and participants registering and attending events organized by Farm Synergies. Visiting Farm Synergies website, you may notice some links that may direct you to several social media websites, and other online platforms managed by third parties. The processing of personal data on the third parties’ platforms, including the social media platforms that host Farm Synergies pages, is governed by their policies.
Related request to your data
You may request confirmation of / access to your data if it is being processed or not. If that is being processed, you may request a correction or update of your data. You may request for deletion of your data. Thereafter, the requests for deletion of your data will be taken into account if:
- the data is no longer necessary for processing purposes, or
- you have withdrawn your consent to the data processing and there is no other legitimate basis for processing.
Data protection and privacy notice changes
Farm Synergies may, at its discretion, update this Data Protection and Privacy Notice, to reflect changes in our rules and practices. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enable the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to gather information about your visit and store identifying information about you on your computer.
By agreeing to accept cookies for our website within the terms of this privacy policy you are allowing us to use cookies with each visit you make to our website.
Overall website tracking
At Farm Synergies, we use website analytics to gather information on you and your interactions with our website. These include the following:
Your Personal Information – these are related “Personally identifiable information” we collect.
- IP addresses, Potential Age groups, Gender, Geographical location.
Interactions with our website information –
- How you reached or website whether it was from search engines, other websites or social media.
- Web pages you visit within our website.
- Website searches you do on our website.
- Your interactions with our website such as links or items you click on and ▪ Comments that you post on the website.
Device information (via Computer, Mobile Phone, Tablet) – this is information from the device you use to visit our website.
- These include Service provider, Language used, Browser, Operating system, screen resolution, and potential device name.
Website forms
We also collect information when you fill out our web forms (contact and subscriber) and comment on our website. We collect the following personally identifiable information on these two parts of our website:
- The IP address
- Your name
- Your e-mail address
How we use your data
Our main purpose for collecting your data is to provide you with the best overall experience when you visit our website. We use your data for the following purposes:
- For gaining information and interactions within the website to better understand the devices you use when visiting the website, what areas of the website are being visited, and how you interact with elements of the website.
- To interact with you and answer your queries, get feedback and post your post/article comments.
- As a way to provide you with the latest news at Farm Synergies via an email newsletter.
- We share your data with our website tracking service Google Analytics. This is because it provides us with a service for looking at your data and analyzing it to provide us with the necessary information for improving our visitor’s experience on our website.
Your rights with Farm Synergies
- You may request any information on your data. We will need proof of identity such as your passport page which has been notarized.
- You may at any time request that your data not be used for marketing purposes.
- We may keep the personal information that you request as long as it is acceptable within current laws.
- You are entitled to get any personal data deleted or corrected upon request. Moreover, you may also unsubscribe from the e-mail newsletter by using the link at the bottom of each email.
Security of your personal information
- We will take sensible technical and organizational security steps to ensure the prevention of data loss, unauthorized changes or misuse of your personal information.
- We implement a firewall on our website to prevent unauthorized access and malware.
- We understand that the transfer of information through the internet can be insecure. We cannot guarantee the safety of information over the Internet.
- If we believe there is a data breach, we will contact you within 7 business days via email.
- In the event of a data breach deemed to be a high risk to your data, we will contact the Data Protection Authority within 72 hours of the discovery of a breach.
Contacting us
If there are questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.