Privacy Policy

Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. (henceforth “UNC,” "us", "we", or "our") operates www.upstateniagara.com (henceforth the "Site").

This Policy also applies to our Upstate Farms site (www.upstatefarms.com), Valley Farms site (www.valleyfarmsdairy.com), Intense Milk site (www.intensecity.com), Bison site (www.bisonfoods.com), O-AT-KA site (www.oatkamilk.com) and our Upstate Farms Foodservice site (www.upstatefarmsfs.com).

This Privacy Policy page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site.

We use your Personal Information only for improving the Site. By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)

Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. developed our privacy practices based on guidelines and in compliance with the requirements established by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).

We refrain from selling or knowingly soliciting information from anyone under 18 years of age. If children under 13 submit personal information via our websites and Upstate Niagara Cooperative, Inc. discovers that the information is from children under 13, we will delete this information as soon as possible.

If a parent/guardian believes that we have information from a child under 13 years old, please contact us at: emailus@upstateniagara.com

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer's hard drive.

Like many sites, we use "cookies" to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site.

This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this data.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this Site to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.

Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Google Analytics features utilized by this Site:

  • Creates remarketing opportunities (delivering relevant ads) based on specific user behavior, demographic and interest data, and shares those lists with AdWords (a keyword-based advertising service by Google for businesses wanting to display ads on Google and its advertising network)
  • Uses demographic and interest data in our analytics reports
  • Creates Segments based on demographic and interest data, which let us isolate and analyze subsets of sessions and users

Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing: USA. Find Google's privacy policy here.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that alerts users to products or events they may be interested in.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of November 2016, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any further questions about privacy or security, please contact us by sending an email to: emailus@upstateniagara.com.

Information Collected and Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name, address and email. With your permission, we may send you emails about our products, promotions and other updates.