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PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the Florida Forestry Association online. This Privacy Policy describes how the Association collects, uses and discloses personal information of visitors to our website, users of our online services and others to whom we expressly provide that this Privacy Policy will apply.

THE INFORMATION THE ASSOCIATION COLLECTS AND HOW WE USE THIS INFORMATION

The Association only obtains personally identifiable information such as your name, email address and payment card or other information when you provide it voluntarily. For example, personal information may be collected from you to:

respond to your comments regarding membership, Event, our website, or other aspects of the Association;
register you for our mailing lists or as a user of online or mobile products or services we offer, or to register you for promotions or offers conducted through our website or mobile campaigns;
transmit payment information for online or mobile orders;
respond to other information submitted by you to our website or through any of our mobile campaigns.

This information will be used for the purposes for which you provide it. We may also use this information to communicate with you from time to time for other purposes, such as to create personalized promotions by combining your personal information with non-personal information about you, such as the amounts and types of purchases you make or any benefits you receive through our programs.

We may also use information you provide us for additional purposes as described under “Sharing of Personal Information.”

In addition to personally identifiable information about you, the Association may collect aggregated data or anonymized data that does not directly identify you. For example, we may automatically collect website use information, such as information about your Internet service provider, your operating system, browser type, domain name, Internet protocol (IP) address, your access times, the website that referred you to us, the Web pages you request, and the date and time of those requests.

CALIFORNIA’S DO NOT TRACK NOTICE

The Association does not support Do Not Track browser settings and does not currently participate in any Do Not Track frameworks that would allow any of our sites to respond to signals or other mechanisms from you regarding the collection of your personal information. However, our sites do not track any personally identifiable information on our sites unless you intentionally provide it to us (such as when you create an account, opt-in to our marketing lists, or make a purchase).

DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ARBITRATION CLAUSE AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER

You agree that any claim or dispute at law or equity that has arisen or may arise relating in any way to or arising out of this Privacy Policy will be resolved in accordance with the provisions set forth in this Dispute Resolution section. PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. IT AFFECTS YOUR RIGHTS AND WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON HOW CLAIMS YOU AND WE HAVE AGAINST EACH OTHER ARE RESOLVED. You agree that whenever you have a disagreement with the Association arising out of, connected to, or in any way related to this Privacy Policy, you will send a written notice to the Association (“Demand”). You agree that the requirements of this Dispute Resolution section will apply even to disagreements that may have arisen before you accepted this Privacy Policy. You must send the Demand to the following address (the “Notice Address”): Privacy Policy, Florida Forestry Association, 402 East Jefferson Street, Tallahassee, FL 32301. You agree that you will not take any legal action, including filing a lawsuit or demanding arbitration, until 20 business days after you send a Demand. If the disagreement stated in the Demand is not resolved to your satisfaction within 10 business days after it is received, and you intend on taking legal action, you agree that you will file a demand for arbitration with the American Arbitration Association (the “Arbitrator”). This arbitration provision limits the ability of you and the Association to litigate claims in court and you and the Association each agree to waive your respective rights to a jury trial or a state or federal judge. There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow this Privacy Policy as a court would. You agree that you will not file any lawsuit against the Association in any state or federal court. You agree that if you do sue in state or federal court, and the Association brings a successful motion to compel arbitration, you must pay all fees and costs incurred by the Association in court, including reasonable attorney’s fees. For any such filing of a demand for arbitration, you must effect proper service under the rules of the Arbitrator and notice to the Notice Address may not be sufficient. If, for any reason, the American Arbitration Association is unable to conduct the arbitration, you may file your case with any national arbitration company. The Arbitrator shall apply the AAA Consumer-Related Disputes Supplementary Procedure effective September 15, 2005 (as may be amended) and as modified by the agreement to arbitrate in this Dispute Resolution section. You agree that the Arbitrator will have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute you have with the Association. The Federal Arbitration Act allows for the enforcement of arbitration agreements and governs the interpretation and enforcement of the agreement to arbitrate.

You agree that you will not file a class action or collective action against the Association, and that you will not participate in a class action or collective action against them. You agree that you will not join your claims to those of any other person. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Privacy Policy, if this class action waiver is invalidated, then the agreement to arbitrate is null and void, as though it were never entered into, and any arbitration dispute at that time will be dismissed without prejudice and may be refiled in a court. Under no circumstances do you or the Association agree to class or collective procedures in arbitration or the joinder of claims in arbitration. The Association agrees that we will submit all disputes with you to arbitration before the Arbitrator.

WEBSITE COOKIES

Like many websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes to improve your visits to our websites. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the hard drive on your computer for record-keeping purposes. These cookies will allow the website to remember important information that will make your use of the website more convenient. For example, we track the total number of visitors to our websites on an anonymous aggregate basis. We also use cookies so that we remember you when you return to our websites.

You can use the options in your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or otherwise change your cookie preferences. Click on the “Help” section of your browser to learn how to make those changes. But remember, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our websites.

In addition to adjusting the appropriate settings in your browser, many advertising companies that may collect anonymous information for advertising targeting purposes are also members of the Digital Advertising Alliance or the Network Advertising Initiative, both of which provide an opt-out from advertisement targeting by their members. You can find more information on these opt-out capabilities on www.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org.

Our website uses third party cookies from Google Analytics for Demographics and Interest Reporting. This feature gives us insight into behavior information relating to visitor age, gender and interests on an anonymous and aggregate level. This will help us to understand browsing behavior to give you a better experience while visiting our site.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings Feature on Google. By clicking Ads Settings, you will be taken out of kfia.org to a page on Google where you can control the information Google uses to show you ads. In addition, you can use Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on to disable tracking by Google Analytics.

SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

The Association uses its best efforts to protect your personally-identifiable information and privacy. We do not sell, transfer or disclose your personal information to any third parties other than for the limited purposes described in this policy.

With your permission, we will send marketing information to you, such as information about Association events or news that might interest you. If you do not want to receive this information, you can contact us to opt out and we will not send it to you thereafter. Also with your permission, we may occasionally send marketing information to you on behalf of one of our business partners. On our website or elsewhere, we may ask if you want to receive marketing materials from our business partners. If you want to receive this information, we’ll send it to you. If you don’t want it, just tell us and you won’t get it. But remember, the Association will not share your personal information with any of its business partners. We will just send a mailing, e-mail, text message or similar communication on behalf of the business partner.

The Association sometimes contacts other companies for a variety of reasons, such as fulfilling orders, assisting with promotions, and providing technical services for our websites. These companies may have access to personal information if they need it to do their work. However, we will generally obligate these companies to use any personal information only for the purpose of performing their work.

We may, where expressly stated, post certain submissions on our websites. However, we will not include your full name or other personal information identifying you unless you have given us consent to do so

The Association does reserve the right to use or disclose any information as needed to satisfy any law, regulation or legal request, to fulfill your requests, or to cooperate in any law enforcement or similar investigation.

Finally, we may also share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you.

PRIVACY POLICY REGARDING CHILDREN

The Association is very sensitive to privacy issues regarding kids. We do not intend our websites to collect personal information from kids under the age of 13.

We urge parents to regularly monitor and supervise their children’s online activities. Although our website is not intended to collect personal information from kids under the age of 13, to review any personal information that your child may have submitted to the Association, to ask us to delete that information or to stop further use of the information, please submit this request on our Contact Us form.

OPTING OUT

If at any time, you want to correct the personal information we have about you, or if you want to change your preferences for contacts from us or on behalf of our business partners, visit our contact us page and tell us what you would like changed.

THE ASSOCIATION’S WEB SITE SECURITY

We take reasonable steps to maintain physical, technical and administrative security of personal information you provide to us. Although we take these steps to safeguard your personal information, no system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In addition, although we generally obligate third parties who support our websites and their related offers or other programs to use any personal information only for the purpose of performing their work, we do not control such third parties’ website or other security measures.

In the event you send the Florida Forestry Association an e-mail, please remember that the email is not necessarily secured against interception by another party. So if you do not want any sensitive personal information to be subject to this risk, please contact us by mail or telephone at:

Florida Forestry Association
402 East Jefferson Street
Tallahassee, FL 32301

850.222.5646

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Some of our websites offer links to sites other than those maintained by the Association. If you visit one of these linked websites, you are then subject to the privacy policies and other policies of the new website and are no longer protected by our policies. We are not responsible for, or able to monitor or control, the policies and practices of other companies.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, the Association may change this privacy policy. Thus, you should check here periodically to see if anything has changed.

LIMITATION TO ONLINE

This policy applies only to individuals who visit our websites or interact with us through any of our e-mail or mobile campaigns. It does not apply to information which we may collect by means other than through our websites and it does not apply to businesses which may use our websites.

INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Association, its affiliates, its providers, and its officers, directors, employees, attorneys, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, costs (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), and expenses that arise directly or indirectly out of or from: (1) your breach of this Privacy Policy; and/or (2) your activities in connection with the services and/or materials, programs, and features to which we expressly provide that this Privacy Policy will apply.