GFAI Privacy Policy
GFAI Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to gfai.org and the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois! We thank you for visiting to learn more about our Privacy Policy, which will help you understand the information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have.
When we talk about “Grain and Feed Association of Illinois” or “GFAI,” the “we,” “our,” or “us” in this policy is referring to Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, the organization that provides the App and the App Services. When we talk about the “App” or “App Services” in this policy, we are referring to our mobile apps and event platform. Our Services are currently available for use via a web browser or web applications specific to your desktop or mobile device.
We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy rights and we created this Privacy Policy to give you (the user, the client, the customer, or the customer of our clients or vice versa) notice of how your private information will (and will not) be used by us in connection with our website and apps (together with its subdomains, content, and services).
The Purpose
Please review the Privacy Policy of Grain and Feed Association of Illinois.
Since it is important to us that you understand what information we collect and what we may do with that information. Our policy can be summarized with the below points:
By using this app or website you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You signify your assent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this mobile app or submit any personal information. Please take time to read our Privacy Policy to be sure you are informed about how your information may be used.
What We Collect
What Is “Personal Identifiable Information” (or PII)?
(PII) stands for Personally Identifiable Information and is data that directly or indirectly identifies you.
What personal data might we collect or ask for?
Only personal data that you provide in the app through registration of the event, or through membership systems, event systems, CRM systems, or any system of record that GFAI uses.
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois may ask for this data in order for you to get the most out of the app, beyond browsing, or for the purposes disclosed to you at the time such PII is collected. This information is up to you to enter and share.
When using the App, you may provide us with personal data, personal data includes all personally identifiable information (PII) and data that directly or indirectly identifies you such as your name, email address, login, phone number and address. You control how much information you provide to us. We may use this data to prepopulate certain fields in the App. To benefit or to access the app, you might need to provide us with your email, username, and password.
When using the App, you can also decide to create social profiles that display your name, job title, company, links to your social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn) and activity. In addition, you can fill out a text form “About Me” or some similar designated area that allows you to provide additional information about yourself as well as respond to posts, comments, survey/poll responses and any other App related functions or features that may be available to you. It is up to you how much additional information you want to share with us, other attendees and the public.
We collect limited personal data from you through your use of our App or Website. The only personal data we actively collect from you beyond which you have provided is through your registration, or app login would be non-personally identical data such as your mobile device ID #, your operating system, your browser type, carrier provider, language, geographic region, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the App or Website, as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view.
For what purpose do we process your personal data?
Besides the reasons above, we might process your personal data for the following purposes:
With whom might we share your personal data?
We do not share your personal data with third parties unless necessary. These are common cases of sharing data:
What Isn’t Personal Information?
The information we gather from your app or website activity that doesn’t identify you personally could be: your IP address since we do not relate PII data to your IP address, your device ID #, operating system, browser type, carrier provider, language, geographic region, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the app as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view. We may do this by assigning your computer cookies which may collect information about how you use Grain and Feed Association of Illinois; we may use standard Internet tools, such web analytic tools or cookies, which collect non-PII and track your use of our website.
Do I Have A Choice?
Yes, while you’re not required to provide PII to access the mobile apps, some of our features may not be available to you if you choose not to create an account with us or, at other times, not to provide requested information. If you would like to be removed from a list provided to us to pre-populate lists in the app, please contact us at [email protected] to be removed.
Do We Use Analytics?
We may provide some non-personal information to our service providers who help us understand how you use the mobile app. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois actively protects your usage anonymity and does not distribute personally identifiable information when analyzing data habits.
For example, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois may record the frequency and scope of your use of the mobile app, the duration of your sessions, information about the device on which you have installed the Application, the pages that you visited via the mobile app, information that you have read, content that you reviewed or created, profiles that you viewed or clicked, your contact with other users and third parties, the IP address and the name of the domain that serve you to access the mobile device if online, and the geographic region of the mobile device or system that you are using to access the mobile app. Other data includes your device ID #, operating system, browser type, carrier provider, language, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the app, as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view.
Do We Use Cookies?
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our websites and apps to help collect data. Cookies collect non-personal information. Cookies allow us to store your preferences and settings, improve upload process, remember you on future visits, enable you to sign-in, combat fraud, and analyze how our websites and online services are performing. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois apps use other identifiers, such as the mobile ID in apps, for similar purposes.
We also use web beacons to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. Our websites may include web beacons and cookies from third-party service providers.
You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons. Your browser and other choices may impact your experiences with our products.
Public and Social Info
There are some features you may choose to use within the app which may be public through the app.
Please note that the login you choose will be used to identify you when you use the mobile app. Your name or username might be included along with any information you submit for posting. Here are some examples:
Public Postings
Comments, photos, and videos which you submit or comment on are considered public information and may be copied or further distributed by others. If you submit any personal or PII for display in public areas, other people who visit the mobile app may see it. Alternatively, if the option exists, you might want to disable the location settings on your camera or phone.
Connecting with Social Media
If you link your account to third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or third-party social media plug-ins and applications, you are allowing us to have access to both PII and non-PII from your social media profile. That PII may be publicly viewed and may possibly be used by other members of these sites.
Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors, and Exhibitors Listing
GFAI may provide a list to populate what attendees are in attendance, what sponsors are sponsoring, exhibitors that are exhibiting, and what speakers are speaking. The data provided by GFAI is used to prepopulate the app such as the conference agendas, session speakers, attendee lists, speaker list, exhibitor lists, and sponsors list. Not being listed will not allow others to network or connect with you at the event. Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors, and Exhibitors can contact GFAI to be removed from lists within the app.
Clicking Through
If our apps contain links to integrations with other sites, whose information practices may be different than ours, then before you click through to another site, you should read that site’s privacy notice, since we have no control over and take no responsibility for information that is submitted to or collected by other sites.
Is There Anything Else I Need to Know?
Non-US Users
Your information will be stored in the United States. By using the app you consent to your information being collected, used, and transferred as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Information transferred to or stored in the United States may be subject to access requests from U.S. governments, courts, law enforcement officials and national security authorities in the United States according to United States laws.
13 and Up
If you are under the age of 13, we’re sorry, but you can’t register on our app. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois will never knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, his or her parent or guardian may contact us for the purpose of deleting this information at [email protected]
Changing Our Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change. We will prominently post a notice on gfai.org/privacy when there are material changes in the way we handle PII. You should periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.
Responsibility
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois is not responsible for situations in which an end user misplaces their mobile device, shares their login credentials with third parties, or chooses to post information to third party networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois reserves the right to transfer Personal Information to any successor in interest to the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois organization.
Security Measures
While Grain and Feed Association of Illinois has security measures to help protect the information under our control:
Retention and Deletion
We keep your personal information only so long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected, for the products and services that you are using, or to meet any legal requirements.
Gfai.org Website Visitors
This section describes the information that we may collect from our website Visitors. To the extent you visit the Site or use one of our Apps, this Section may apply to you as well.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or information that you have submitted to us or if you would like to do any of the following:
Welcome to gfai.org and the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois! We thank you for visiting to learn more about our Privacy Policy, which will help you understand the information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have.
When we talk about “Grain and Feed Association of Illinois” or “GFAI,” the “we,” “our,” or “us” in this policy is referring to Grain and Feed Association of Illinois, the organization that provides the App and the App Services. When we talk about the “App” or “App Services” in this policy, we are referring to our mobile apps and event platform. Our Services are currently available for use via a web browser or web applications specific to your desktop or mobile device.
We are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy rights and we created this Privacy Policy to give you (the user, the client, the customer, or the customer of our clients or vice versa) notice of how your private information will (and will not) be used by us in connection with our website and apps (together with its subdomains, content, and services).
The Purpose
Please review the Privacy Policy of Grain and Feed Association of Illinois.
Since it is important to us that you understand what information we collect and what we may do with that information. Our policy can be summarized with the below points:
- We take protecting your information seriously
- We will rarely collect information on you, but you control how much you share about yourself
- We do not collect information from children under 13 years of age
- We will not sell or lease your personal information, but we may share with our vendors and suppliers in connection with the services you are seeking
- If we use a third party to assist us, they will be bound to protect your information
- In certain legal situations, we may be compelled to disclose your personal information, but we will let you know if that occurs
- If you are outside the United States, you understand and agree that we may store your information in the United States
- The rights and options available to users
By using this app or website you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You signify your assent to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use this mobile app or submit any personal information. Please take time to read our Privacy Policy to be sure you are informed about how your information may be used.
What We Collect
What Is “Personal Identifiable Information” (or PII)?
(PII) stands for Personally Identifiable Information and is data that directly or indirectly identifies you.
What personal data might we collect or ask for?
Only personal data that you provide in the app through registration of the event, or through membership systems, event systems, CRM systems, or any system of record that GFAI uses.
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois may ask for this data in order for you to get the most out of the app, beyond browsing, or for the purposes disclosed to you at the time such PII is collected. This information is up to you to enter and share.
When using the App, you may provide us with personal data, personal data includes all personally identifiable information (PII) and data that directly or indirectly identifies you such as your name, email address, login, phone number and address. You control how much information you provide to us. We may use this data to prepopulate certain fields in the App. To benefit or to access the app, you might need to provide us with your email, username, and password.
When using the App, you can also decide to create social profiles that display your name, job title, company, links to your social profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn) and activity. In addition, you can fill out a text form “About Me” or some similar designated area that allows you to provide additional information about yourself as well as respond to posts, comments, survey/poll responses and any other App related functions or features that may be available to you. It is up to you how much additional information you want to share with us, other attendees and the public.
We collect limited personal data from you through your use of our App or Website. The only personal data we actively collect from you beyond which you have provided is through your registration, or app login would be non-personally identical data such as your mobile device ID #, your operating system, your browser type, carrier provider, language, geographic region, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the App or Website, as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view.
For what purpose do we process your personal data?
Besides the reasons above, we might process your personal data for the following purposes:
- to diagnose and fix issues
- to respond to queries or requests submitted by you
- to administer or otherwise carry out our obligations in relation to any agreement you have with us
- to provide you with information about the event that you are attending
- to enable App features such as “check-ins”, surveys/polls, push notifications, private in chat messaging, agenda sessions, exhibitors, recommendations, speakers and locations
- to prepopulate App fields such as conference agendas, attendee lists, exhibitor lists and location information
- to facilitate social sharing functionality
- for analytics and market research purposes to improve our services, develop new products, and launch services for other purposes
- to send emails or push notifications in relation to the event
- to process complaints and handle disputes
- to anticipate and resolve problems with any products or services supplied to you
- to comply with any applicable law and assist law enforcement agencies under any applicable law, when Grain and Feed Association of Illinois has a good faith belief that Grain and Feed Association of Illinois cooperation with the law enforcement agencies is legally mandated or meets the applicable legal standards and procedures
- to enforce or notify changes in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
With whom might we share your personal data?
We do not share your personal data with third parties unless necessary. These are common cases of sharing data:
- Attendees – Other users of the App will be able to see limited information such as your profile, contact info you share, and social sharing activity. Apart from your first and last name and company, we do not actively share your personal data within the app. As an attendee, you have the option to remove or update your contact info. Attendees can be classified as Users, Sponsors, Exhibitors, Speakers, or Staff.
- Our Service Providers – We engage our trusted third party service providers for push notification services, email hosting, server hosting, and analytics providers to help us analyze and improve our Services.
- Business transactions – We may transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information collected in connection with capital financing, merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider. The use of your Personal Information following any of the foregoing events should be governed by the provisions of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time such Personal Information was collected.
- Compliance with applicable law – We may share information in its possession with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We will access and disclose any Personal Information collected to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of Grain and Feed Association of Illinois or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.
What Isn’t Personal Information?
The information we gather from your app or website activity that doesn’t identify you personally could be: your IP address since we do not relate PII data to your IP address, your device ID #, operating system, browser type, carrier provider, language, geographic region, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the app as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view. We may do this by assigning your computer cookies which may collect information about how you use Grain and Feed Association of Illinois; we may use standard Internet tools, such web analytic tools or cookies, which collect non-PII and track your use of our website.
Do I Have A Choice?
Yes, while you’re not required to provide PII to access the mobile apps, some of our features may not be available to you if you choose not to create an account with us or, at other times, not to provide requested information. If you would like to be removed from a list provided to us to pre-populate lists in the app, please contact us at [email protected] to be removed.
Do We Use Analytics?
We may provide some non-personal information to our service providers who help us understand how you use the mobile app. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois actively protects your usage anonymity and does not distribute personally identifiable information when analyzing data habits.
For example, Grain and Feed Association of Illinois may record the frequency and scope of your use of the mobile app, the duration of your sessions, information about the device on which you have installed the Application, the pages that you visited via the mobile app, information that you have read, content that you reviewed or created, profiles that you viewed or clicked, your contact with other users and third parties, the IP address and the name of the domain that serve you to access the mobile device if online, and the geographic region of the mobile device or system that you are using to access the mobile app. Other data includes your device ID #, operating system, browser type, carrier provider, language, device type, screen size, and the date and time of your visited the app, as well as information about your ISP, referring URL, the search term that led you to the mobile site or mobile app, and the type of content you view.
Do We Use Cookies?
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois uses cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies to provide our websites and apps to help collect data. Cookies collect non-personal information. Cookies allow us to store your preferences and settings, improve upload process, remember you on future visits, enable you to sign-in, combat fraud, and analyze how our websites and online services are performing. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois apps use other identifiers, such as the mobile ID in apps, for similar purposes.
We also use web beacons to help deliver cookies and gather usage and performance data. Our websites may include web beacons and cookies from third-party service providers.
You have a variety of tools to control cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, including browser controls to block and delete cookies and controls from some third-party analytics service providers to opt out of data collection through web beacons. Your browser and other choices may impact your experiences with our products.
Public and Social Info
There are some features you may choose to use within the app which may be public through the app.
Please note that the login you choose will be used to identify you when you use the mobile app. Your name or username might be included along with any information you submit for posting. Here are some examples:
Public Postings
Comments, photos, and videos which you submit or comment on are considered public information and may be copied or further distributed by others. If you submit any personal or PII for display in public areas, other people who visit the mobile app may see it. Alternatively, if the option exists, you might want to disable the location settings on your camera or phone.
Connecting with Social Media
If you link your account to third-party social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or third-party social media plug-ins and applications, you are allowing us to have access to both PII and non-PII from your social media profile. That PII may be publicly viewed and may possibly be used by other members of these sites.
Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors, and Exhibitors Listing
GFAI may provide a list to populate what attendees are in attendance, what sponsors are sponsoring, exhibitors that are exhibiting, and what speakers are speaking. The data provided by GFAI is used to prepopulate the app such as the conference agendas, session speakers, attendee lists, speaker list, exhibitor lists, and sponsors list. Not being listed will not allow others to network or connect with you at the event. Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors, and Exhibitors can contact GFAI to be removed from lists within the app.
Clicking Through
If our apps contain links to integrations with other sites, whose information practices may be different than ours, then before you click through to another site, you should read that site’s privacy notice, since we have no control over and take no responsibility for information that is submitted to or collected by other sites.
Is There Anything Else I Need to Know?
Non-US Users
Your information will be stored in the United States. By using the app you consent to your information being collected, used, and transferred as set forth in this Privacy Policy. Information transferred to or stored in the United States may be subject to access requests from U.S. governments, courts, law enforcement officials and national security authorities in the United States according to United States laws.
13 and Up
If you are under the age of 13, we’re sorry, but you can’t register on our app. Grain and Feed Association of Illinois will never knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, his or her parent or guardian may contact us for the purpose of deleting this information at [email protected]
Changing Our Policy
This Privacy Policy is subject to change. We will prominently post a notice on gfai.org/privacy when there are material changes in the way we handle PII. You should periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we share it.
Responsibility
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois is not responsible for situations in which an end user misplaces their mobile device, shares their login credentials with third parties, or chooses to post information to third party networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Grain and Feed Association of Illinois reserves the right to transfer Personal Information to any successor in interest to the Grain and Feed Association of Illinois organization.
Security Measures
While Grain and Feed Association of Illinois has security measures to help protect the information under our control:
- Grain and Feed Association of Illinois tries to protect your personal information and ensure the security of your communications on our systems, by maintaining physical, organizational and technological safeguards (appropriate to the sensitivity of such information) designed to protect it against unauthorized use, disclosure or access of the personal information we collect on our mobile apps. However, we cannot ensure or warrant that any information you transmit to us will stay safe and secure and you do so at your own risk.
- Your information may be stored in whole or in part on equipment or in facilities leased or licensed from others. Although Grain and Feed Association of Illinois tries to keep your information safe, it relies on the statements of those vendors regarding the safety and security of their storage equipment and services as part of its evaluation. By using our mobile apps, you agree that Grain and Feed Association of Illinois is not responsible if the storage equipment and services provided by others aren’t working like they are supposed to.
- If you’re outside the United States, your information will be sent to and stored in the United States, where our servers are located. By using our mobile apps, you agree to the information collection, use, and sharing practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Retention and Deletion
We keep your personal information only so long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected, for the products and services that you are using, or to meet any legal requirements.
Gfai.org Website Visitors
This section describes the information that we may collect from our website Visitors. To the extent you visit the Site or use one of our Apps, this Section may apply to you as well.
- If you contact us by email or by filling-out a form, we may keep a record of information you provide, such as contact information and correspondence
- We may collect Usage Data reflecting your behavior on the Site
- We may use session and persistent cookies, both first-party and third-party, to collect information about your visits to the Site
- For marketing campaigns collected through the website, you will have the ability to be removed from future email marketing campaigns.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or information that you have submitted to us or if you would like to do any of the following:
- Remove personal information that you have already sent GFAI or posted within the app so that you can correct or update it or delete your personal information from our files. In most cases this can be updated by you the user.
- If your child under 13 has sent us personal information, delete that personal information from our files
- If you believe that your privacy has been compromised by any person
- Report any violation of this Privacy Policy