We welcome teachers, school foodservice personnel, healthcare professionals, dairy farmers, dairy industry representatives, the media and the general public to the Midwest Dairy Association's Web site. This Web Site is owned and operated by the Midwest Dairy Association (referred to below as 'MDA,' 'www.midwestdairy.com,' 'we,' 'us,' or 'our'). By using this Web site you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the User Agreement.
MDA also recognizes the particular importance of protecting privacy where children are involved. To read our privacy policy regarding protections for kids under the age of 13, click here.
Personal Information Collection and Use
MDA is the sole owner of the personal information collected on this Web site. The Midwest Dairy Association will not sell, share, or rent personal information with any third parties other than as disclosed below. You are not required to provide any personal information in order to explore the Midwest Dairy Association Web site. However, there are two main areas where your participation will be limited if you do not provide personal information: 1)Newsletters and 2)Contact us. Although a user can submit personal information to MDA, MDA's website does not have a mechanism that allows users to disclose information publicly, such as a chat room or message board.
Newsletters
The Midwest Dairy Association Web site provides periodic newsletters to some of its audiences outlining the most recent developments in the dairy industry and other related activities. Each newsletter is tailored for each constituency (dairy farmers, teachers, healthcare professionals, etc.). The newsletter is emailed to those users who choose to subscribe to it. In order to subscribe to the newsletter, users must provide their first and last name, mailing address and email address.
Contact Us
Under the 'Contact Us' application, users may send us an email with questions or comments. In order to reply to the email, we ask that users provide their first and last name and email address.
Information We Gather Automatically
When you visit this site, certain non-personally identifiable information is automatically recorded by the standard operation of our Internet servers. Information such as the type of browser being used, its operating system, and your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that your Internet service provider assigns to your computer whenever you surf the Web) is gathered in order to facilitate our online operations and to assure an efficient online experience for you. We may use or share this information for security purposes, to generate group statistics about our user community or as required by law.
Normally, we do not link this automatically recorded information to any information that is personally identifiable to you or your household. However, we may use your IP address or other automatically recorded information, in cooperation with your Internet provider, to identify you if it is necessary to contact you or to bring legal action against you because you are violating the User Agreement for this site or may be causing injury to or interference (intentionally or unintentionally) with our company's rights or property, other users of this site or anyone else who could be harmed by your activities.
Linking
Any third party Web sites that you visit as a result of linking, searching, or surfing from our site may collect and record data about you. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other Web sites. This privacy statement applies solely to personal information collected by this Web site.
Security This Web site takes precautions to protect personal information collected. When you submit personal information to us via the Midwest Dairy Association Web site, we use accepted industry measures to safeguard personal information once we receive it. However, please be aware that no transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be fully secure. If you have any questions about the security at our Web site, please email us at webmaster@midwestdairy.com.
Access to Personal Information
You may request to review, update, or have deleted any personal information collected from you by the Midwest Dairy Association at this Web site. Just send us an email asking to review or update your personal information, or to have us delete your personal information. However, we reserve the right to retain personal information as necessary to comply with federal and state laws.
Notification of Changes
If we make any material changes to our privacy policy, we will post a notice of these changes on our Web site so our users are always aware of the changes. Regardless of any such changes, we will use your personal information in accordance with the version of this Privacy Policy in effect when you provided it to us, unless you consent otherwise.
Children's Privacy Policy
Midwest Dairy Association (referred to below as 'MDA,' 'www.midwestdairy.com,' 'we,' 'us,' or 'our') is committed to protecting children's privacy on the Internet. MDA is also committed to full compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which requires that we provide notice to parents and legal guardians regarding what information we collect, how we use such information, and what our disclosure practices are for such information.
As a general matter, the MDA website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personally-identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a child has provided our website with personally-identifiable information, we ask that a parent or guardian call 1-800-642-3895 or email us at midwestdairy@midwestdairy.com, and we will delete the information about the child from our files. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has submitted personally-identifiable information, we will delete such information from our records. At any time, a parent can contact MDA via the telephone number or e-mail address listed above to: (i) review any personally-identifiable information in the possession of MDA about their child; (ii) request that MDA delete such information; and (iii) refuse to allow MDA to collect any further personally-identifiable information regarding their child.
Contests, Events, and Programs
Occasionally, MDA sponsors contests, events, and programs for children. Some of these contests, events, or programs can be entered via online registration. No contest, event, or program will be conditioned on providing more personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate in the program. If a contest, event, or program for children under 13 can be entered online, we will require a parent or guardian's consent before any registration becomes valid. On each contest or event form, whether an online or paper registration, MDA will disclose the name and address of any third party that will collect or maintain the personal information of children under 13 years of age for use in conducting the contest or event and whether such third-party has agreed to maintain the confidentiality of such information. We will give parents or guardians the opportunity to consent to MDA's use of their child's personal information, while denying consent to share the information with third parties. MDA will delete all personally-identifiable information upon completion of the contest, event, or program.
Notification of Changes
If we make any material changes to our Children's Privacy Policy, we will post a notice of these changes on our Web site so that parents and legal guardians are aware of the changes.
If you any questions about this Privacy Policy or our use of your personal information, please contact us at:
Webmaster
Midwest Dairy Association
2015 Rice Street
St. Paul, MN 55113
651-488-0261
800-642-3895
webmaster@midwestdairy.com
Last revised: June 4, 2007