Privacy Policy
Updated June 7, 2010
Mustard Seed Ranch of Tennessee operates mustardseedranchtn.org. It is Mustard Seed Ranch’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website(s). Because your privacy is critically important to us, we have a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Mustard Seed Ranch collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mustard Seed Ranch’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mustard Seed Ranch’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Mustard Seed Ranch may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Mustard Seed Ranch also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Mustard Seed Ranch does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Mustard Seed Ranch's websites choose to interact with Mustard Seed Ranch in ways that require Mustard Seed Ranch to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mustard Seed Ranch gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up account at MustardSeedRanchTN.org to provide a username and email address. Mustard Seed Ranch collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitors interaction with Mustard Seed Ranch. Mustard Seed Ranch does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Mustard Seed Ranch may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Mustard Seed Ranch may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Mustard Seed Ranch does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Mustard Seed Ranch discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Mustard Seed Ranch's behalf or to provide services available at Mustard Seed Ranch's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Mustard Seed Ranch's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Mustard Seed Ranch will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Mustard Seed Ranch discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Mustard Seed Ranch believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Mustard Seed Ranch, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Mustard Seed Ranch website and have supplied your email address, Mustard Seed Ranch may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with whats going on with Mustard Seed Ranch and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Mustard Seed Ranch takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitors computer, and that the visitors browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Mustard Seed Ranch uses cookies to help Mustard Seed Ranch identify and track visitors, their usage of Mustard Seed Ranch website, and their website access preferences. Mustard Seed Ranch visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Mustard Seed Ranch's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Mustard Seed Ranch's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Mustard Seed Ranch may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Mustard Seed Ranch's sole discretion. Mustard Seed Ranch encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.