Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program does not read any of your private online communications.

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program and Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program collects and uses your personal information to operate the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program and its affiliates. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program, in order to determine what Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program pages, or register with Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program site or services, a cookie helps Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Sustainable and Organic Agriculture Program at LuK@ctahr.hawaii.edu. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.