Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.nebraskafood.org.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We make some use of google analytics and facebook pixel tracking on the site.
Who we share your data with
Personal data is neither shared nor sold to any outside businesses. Customers who shop on the Nebraska Food Cooperative website will have access to product and contact information that is provided by producers. Likewise, producers who sell through the website will have access to the ordering and contact information of their customers.
People in administrative roles with Nebraska Food Cooperative will have access to extended member and product information in the pursuit of their tasks.
We use the PayPal payment gateway in order to ensure that no credit card information is retained by our website. Selecting the “Pay with PayPal” link will initiate a connection to the PayPal site with information related to that specific transaction.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see and edit their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. Users can request to have their membership “discontinued” on the website, however their historical activity will be retained until it is eventually purged.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
We use contact information and personal addresses to help us complete all sales that have been contracted through the website. In order to effectively serve customer and producer needs, all members, who are not discontinued, are required to maintain valid email and phone contact information. A member unsubscribing from all email lists will likely result in having their membership forcibly discontinued.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Our website uses strong SSL encryption to provide the basic level of security and data protection. User passwords are stored as hashes and are not retained. We have no way to recover lost passwords, and can only provide a mechanism for resetting them.