Effective Date: March 25, 2019
Oklahoma FFA Association and Oklahoma FFA Foundation Privacy Policy
The
Oklahoma FFA Association (the “Association”) and the Oklahoma FFA
Foundation (the “Foundation”), collectively referred to as “FFA”, are
committed to respecting the privacy of FFA members and stakeholders. Our
privacy policy governs the collection and use of personal information,
whether gathered by our staff, from program participants, from website
visitors or through correspondence, and it reflects our approach to
gathering and disseminating data. Our policy is to only use data
collected for purposes that are integral to furthering the mission of
FFA and agricultural education.
Who We Are
The
Oklahoma FFA Association is an organization with a mission of developing
the potential of students for premier leadership, personal growth and
career success through agricultural education. FFA is an integral
component of agricultural education at local, state and national levels.
The Oklahoma FFA Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization with a
mission of building partnerships with industry, education, government,
other foundations and individuals to secure financial resources that
fund FFA activities, recognize member achievements, develop student
leaders and support the future of agricultural education. Both the
Association and the Foundation collaborate closely with allied
organizations within the framework of the National Council for
Agricultural Education.
Information Collection and Use
Personal
information is collected via a number of websites that are either
operated by FFA or by authorized vendors. Examples of these websites
include, but are not limited to, FFA.org, Shop FFA and online event
registration tools for the national FFA convention and the FFA
Washington Leadership Conference program.
Personal
information collected is utilized for the purpose of transacting
business such as merchandise sales, membership services, fulfillment of
magazine subscriptions and conduct of programs offered by FFA such as
national proficiency awards and American FFA Degrees. Personal
information is not shared with third-party entities unaffiliated with
the Association or the Foundation without an individual’s express
consent.
Email Subscriptions
Recipients
of Oklahoma FFA Foundation e-mail messages have the option to
unsubscribe from any mailing list or all FFA marketing email. This may
be done on the subscription page or
via links at the bottom of all FFA marketing email messages. Those who
choose to unsubscribe will not receive further email of that type or
from the Association or the Foundation at all if Unsubscribe from all
lists is indicated.
Coordination with the Educational Community
Strong,
supportive relationships between the Association, Foundation, state FFA
associations, state FFA foundations and others in the agricultural
education community are critical to our success. Given the importance of
these relationships, FFA seeks to remain fully aligned with our
stakeholders’ privacy concerns. FFA will only utilize data provided by
members and stakeholders to further the educational mission of FFA and
agricultural education. In addition, personal information obtained on
official FFA membership rosters, registrations and directories, (i.e.,
roster-derived data) provided by local schools and state associations
will only be used for FFA donor campaigns upon written permission from
the respective state supervisor of agricultural education for each state
in which a donor activity is to be conducted.
Privacy of Children
FFA
provides additional privacy protections when children visit the website.
We do not knowingly collect, maintain or store personal information
from or about children under the age of 13 without a parent’s and/or
legal guardian’s consent, except in limited circumstances authorized by
law and described in this notice. If
you are under the age of 18, please read this privacy policy with a
parent or legal guardian. If you are under the age of 13, your FFA
advisor and the Oklahoma FFA Association must have your parent’s or
legal guardian’s consent before collecting any personal information.
Information
collected from children consists of membership roster data including
name, home address, age, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, birthdate,
gender, ethnicity, race, residence type, high school graduation year,
grade level and t-shirt size. This information, which may be shared with
state associations and local chapters, is used to help students
complete applications for awards and recognition, create participation
portfolios, deliver the FFA magazine to students’ home addresses and
notify students and their parents and/or guardians of opportunities
supportive of the educational mission and objectives of FFA. We do not
require a child to disclose more information than is reasonably
necessary to participate in the foregoing activities. We do not disclose
information collected from children to unaffiliated third parties.
Parents
and legal guardians may review personal information we have collected
about their child, request deletion or refuse to allow further
collection or use of the information. To do so, please contact Oklahoma
FFA Association, 1500 West 7th Ave, Stillwater, OK. 74074. (405) 743-5498
Information Security
In order
to protect against loss, misuse or alteration of information collected,
FFA ensures that appropriate security measures are in place at all
physical facilities where data is stored. User data is stored, both
physically and electronically, according to the requirements specified
by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, and any applicable
state or federal laws.
Browser Cookies
A
“cookie” is a unique data set or “signature” deposited on a user’s
computer hard drive by the website that the user is accessing. The
websites of FFA utilize browser cookies for the purposes of caching user
credentials for faster login, retaining shopping cart data for up to 30
days prior to sale, allowing faster return access to the site,
providing relevant marketing and promotional information and allowing
access to certain functions that might otherwise be inaccessible.
Cookies from our websites are not linked in any way to personally
identifiable information.
In
addition to the cookies we deliver to your computer, certain third
parties may deliver cookies for a variety of reasons, for example, web
analytics or to follow up on purchases. Other third parties may deliver
cookies for the purpose of tracking your online behaviors across FFA
websites and/or nonaffiliated websites and delivering targeted
advertisements.
FFA does
not have access to, or control over, any cookies of third-party service
providers or advertisers. However, you have choices about the collection
of information by third parties on our websites. If you would like to
opt out of having interest-based information collected by certain
entities during your visits to this or other sites, browse to http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
You will be directed to an industry-developed website that contains
mechanisms for choosing whether each participating entity may collect
and use data for online behavioral advertising purposes. It may be that
some of the third parties that collect interest-based information on
this website do not participate in the industry-developed opt-out
website, in which case the best way to avoid third-party tracking of
your online behaviors may be through your browser settings and/or
deletion of cookies. Please consult the “Help” section of your browser
for more information.
Disclaimer
All
information presented on FFA websites is presented in good faith and is
believed to be correct. However, FFA makes no representations or
warranties as to the completeness or accuracy of this information.
Contacting FFA
Questions
regarding this privacy policy can be directed to FFA by regular mail,
e-mail or phone. Additionally, stakeholders may prevent their
information from being used for purposes other than those for which it
was originally collected by contacting us. Upon request, we offer
stakeholders the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact
information, unique identifiers and communications that they direct to
our site. Stakeholders can have their information corrected by
contacting us through the following:
Mail:
1500 West 7th Ave
Stillwater, OK. 74074
Telephone: (405) 743-5498
Policy Updates
From time
to time, customer information may be used for new, unanticipated uses
not previously disclosed in this privacy policy. If our information
practices change at some time in the future, those changes will be
posted on all affected websites to notify users of the changes and
provide an opportunity to opt out of the new uses. Those concerned about
how their information is used should check the websites periodically.