Privacy Policy

Dutch Meadows, LLC Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you better understand how we collect, use and store your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from dutchmeadowsfarm.com (the “Site”). This policy applies to you whether you are a customer of our website, or whether you’re simply visiting this website. By visiting our website or making a purchase, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
   
   - “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
   - “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
  - Google analytics, which tracks the source of website traffic, behavior on our website, and other information about site visitors.
  - Ecommerce technology from Grazecart.com (see Grazecart’s privacy policy here: https://grazecart.com/privacy-policy, which allows us to store customer’s order history, billing address, etc. All credit card information is stored securely on Stripe.com and is not accessible to us directly.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number.  We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

Dutch Meadows does not personally handle or store your credit card information. Your credit card is securely stored with Stripe.com. Please refer to Stripe’s privacy policy for more information. https://stripe.com/us/privacy

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for delivery or shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).  

Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
Communicate with you; Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

COOKIES
When you use and access our website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes: to provide analytics, to store your preferences, and to enable advertisement delivery including behavioral advertising. We use Google Analytics and Cookies to improve our service, the user experience, and for analyzing how our website is used. Google analytics will collect your IP address to track your approximate location. Other information collected by Google Analytics is mostly anonymous traffic data including browser information, device information, and language. This information is used to provide an overview of how people are accessing and using our website. We might use your data to automate decisions such as presenting you with targeted messages based how your were referred you to our website.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.  We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site--you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:
   FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/setti...
   GOOGLE - https://www.google.com/setting...
   BING - https://advertise.bingads.micr...

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to the United States.

DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at dave@dutchmeadowsfarm.com or by mail using the details provided below:

 694 Country Lane, Paradise, PA, 17562, United States