Privacy Policy

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at [email protected].

Our website address is: https://www.agribusinessinfo.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by and how it is used.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Registration and use information
When you register to use our Services by establishing an Account, we will collect Personal Data as necessary to offer and fulfil the Services you request.  Depending on the Services you choose, we may require you to provide us with your name, postal address, telephone number, email address and identification information to establish an Account.  We may require you to provide us with additional Personal Data as you use our Services.

Information about you if you transact as a guest
Certain limited Services are available without being required to log in to or establish an Account, also referred to as Guest Transactions.  We will collect Personal Data, information about any funding instrument used to complete a Guest Transaction, Device Information, Technical Usage Data, and Geolocation Information as necessary to provide the requested Guest Transactions.  If you are an Account holder and choose to make a Guest Transaction, we will collect information about the transaction and may associate it with your Account. If you are not an Account holder and choose to make a Guest Transaction, we will collect and store all the information you provide and use and share such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Why Do We Retain Personal Data?
We retain Personal Data to fulfil our legal or regulatory obligations and for our business purposes.  We may retain Personal Data for longer periods than required by law if it is in our legitimate business interests and not prohibited by law.  If your Account is closed, we may take steps to mask Personal Data and other information, but we reserve our ability to retain and access the data for so long as required to comply with applicable laws.  We will continue to use and disclose such Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How Do We Process Personal Data? 
We may Process your information for the following reasons:

To operate the Sites and provide the Services, including to:

  • initiate a payment, add value to an account, or pay a bill;
  • authenticate your access to an Account;
  • communicate with you about your Account, the Sites or the Services;
  • create an account connection between your Account and a third-party account or platform; and
  • perform creditworthiness and other financial standing checks, evaluate applications, and compare information for accuracy and verification purposes.
  • To manage our business needs, such as monitoring, analyzing, and improving the Services and the Sites’ performance and functionality.  For example, we analyze User behaviour and perform research about the way you use our Services.
  • To manage risk and protect the Sites, the Services and you from fraud by verifying your identity, and helping to detect and prevent fraud and abuse of the Sites or Services.
  • To market to you by delivering marketing materials about our products and Online Services and the products and services of unaffiliated businesses.  We may also Process your Personal Data to tailor certain Services or Site experiences to better match our understanding of your interests.
  • To provide personalized Services offered by us on third-party websites and online services.  We may use your Personal Data and other information collected in accordance with this Privacy Policy to provide a targeted display, feature or offer to you on third-party websites.  We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to provide these online services and/or work with other third-parties such as advertising or analytics companies to provide these online services.
  • To provide you with location-specific options, functionality or offers if you elect to share your Geolocation Information through the Services.  We will use this information to enhance the security of the Sites and Services and provide you with location-based Services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content.
  • To comply with our obligations and to enforce the terms of our Sites and Services, including to comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
  • To make it easier for you to find and connect with others, we may use your information you have shared with the Service to suggest connections between you and people you may know.  For example, we may associate information that we learn about you through your and your contacts’ use of the Services, and information you and others provide to suggest people you may know or may want to transact with through our Services.  Social functionality and features designed to simplify your use of the Services with others vary by Service.
  • To respond to your requests, for example, to contact you about a question you submitted to our customer service team.
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.

Where we send your data
We may share your Personal Data or other information about you with others in a variety of ways as described in this section of the Privacy Policy. In addition, our Consumer Privacy Notice provides specific information about the reasons why we share the Personal Data of certain United States residents with unaffiliated third parties.

We may share your Personal Data or other information for the following reasons:
With other members of the PayPal corporate family: We may share your Personal Data with members of our entities to, among other things, provide the Services you have requested or authorized; to manage risk; to help detect and prevent potentially illegal and fraudulent acts and other violations of our policies and agreements; and to help us manage the availability and connectivity of PayPal products, Services, and communications.

With other companies that provide services to us: We may share Personal Data with third-party service providers that perform services and functions in our direction and on our behalf.  These third-party service providers may, for example, provide you with Services, verify your identity, assist in processing transactions, send you advertisements for our products and Services, or provide customer support.

With other financial institutions that we have partnered with to jointly create and offer a product or service: We may share Personal Data with other financial institutions that we have partnered with to jointly create and offer a product, such as with Synchrony Bank in connection.  These financial institutions may only use this information to market and offer similar products unless you have given consent for other uses.

With the other parties to transactions when you use the Services, such as other Users, merchants, and their service providers:  We may share information with the other participants to your transactions, including other Users you are sending or receiving funds from, and merchants or their service providers when you use the Services to pay for goods or services. The information includes:

  • Personal Data necessary to facilitate the transaction;
  • information to help other participants (s) resolve disputes and detect and prevent fraud; and
  • aggregated data and performance analytics to help merchants better understand Users and to help merchants enhance Users’ experiences.

With other third parties for our business purposes or as permitted or required by law: We may share information about you with other parties for business purposes or as permitted or required by law, including:

    • if we need to do so to comply with a law, legal process or regulations;
    • to law enforcement authorities or other government officials, or other third parties pursuant to a subpoena, a court order or other legal process or requirement applicable to the corporate family;
    • if we believe, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of Personal Data is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
  • to protect the vital interests of a person;
  • to investigate violations of or enforce a user agreement or other legal terms applicable to any Service;
  • to protect our property, Services and legal rights;
  • to facilitate a purchase or sale of all or part of our business;
  • in connection with shipping and related services for purchases made using a Service;
  • to help assess and manage risk and prevent fraud against us, our Users and fraud involving our Sites or use of our Services, including fraud that occurs at or involves our business partners, strategic ventures, or other individuals and merchants, such as eBay, Inc.;
  • to credit reporting and collection agencies;
  • to companies that we plan to merge with or be acquired by; and
  • to support our audit, compliance, and corporate governance functions.

With your consent: We also will share your Personal Data and other information with your consent or direction, including if you authorize an account connected with a third-party account or platform.

In addition, we may provide aggregated statistical data to third parties, including other businesses and members of the public, about how, when, and why Users visit our Sites and use our Services.  This data will not personally identify you or provide information about your use of the Sites or Services.  We do not share your Personal Data with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent.

  • Choices Relating to Your Registration and Account Information
    • If you have an Account, you generally may review and edit Personal Data by logging in and updating the information directly or by contacting us. Contact us if you do not have an Account or if you have questions about your Account information or other Personal Data.

Choices Relating to Communication

  • Notices, Alerts, and Updates from Us: 
    • Marketing: We may send you marketing content about our Sites, Services, products, products we jointly offer with financial institutions, as well as the products and services of unaffiliated third parties and members of the platform through various communication channels, for example, email, text, pop-ups, push notifications, and messaging applications.  You may opt out of these marketing communications by following the instructions in the communications you receive.  If you have an Account with us, you may also adjust your communication preferences in your Account settings.  For messages sent via push notifications, you may manage your preferences in your device.
    • Informational and Other: We will send communications to you that are required or necessary to send to Users of our Services, notifications that contain important information and other communications that you request from us.  You may not opt out of receiving these communications.  However, you may be able to adjust the media and format through which you receive these notices.

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.

Cookies and Web Beacons
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://www.agribusinessinfo.com
.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to https://www.agribusinessinfo.com and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include…
Google Adsense

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on https://www.agribusinessinfo.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

We have no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. https://www.agribusinessinfo.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.