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North America Dairy Sheep Association (NADSA) Privacy Statement

The Internet contains a wealth of information; unfortunately, it may also contain personal details about you that you don't want everyone to know. For example, your real name (lots of people on the Internet use aliases, alter egos or nicknames), street address, phone number, or e-mail address. When you go online, sites you visit may gather information about you without your knowledge. At North America Dairy Sheep Association, we strive to help our members, subscribers and customers protect their privacy while enjoying our services. We collect information from our members or subscribers during the registration process and, occasionally, at other times. North America Dairy Sheep Association's policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our users.

NADSA Privacy Policy

NADSA takes your right to privacy and the protection of your personal data seriously. In conjunction with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that went into effect on May 25, 2018, we wanted to update you on the NADSA Privacy Policy to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage and control your information.

NADSA is committed to serving the global dairy sheep community. As such, people have the opportunity to engage with NADSA in a number of different ways, and the personal information we collect differs depending on the way in which you are engaging with NADSA. To keep things simple, we will describe the NADSA audience as two separate groups: Association members and community members.

As an Association member, we collect contact information such as address, telephone number and email address. In the near future, you will also be able to choose to add additional personal information to your member account at www.northamericadairysheep.org, including payment information, birthday and relationships to other Association members.

If you are the owner of a registered NADSA Dairy Sheep, we also connect your Association member ID to the registration records of your sheep. We collect and store data related to the competition record, achievements and produce/offspring of the sheep you own, breed or compete with.

When you create an account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. Through our new website, NADSA will collect information to provide better services to all our users. When you’re not signed in to NADSA Member Services, we store the information we collect with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This helps us do things like maintain your language and content preferences across browsing sessions.

When you’re signed in to member services, we also collect information that we store with your member account, which we treat as personal information. Even if you don’t have a member account, you might choose to provide us with information — such as an email address to receive updates and information from NADSA, our corporate partners or our publications. Some of our email communications are provided by third party service providers. When you subscribe to our email newsletter, we collect information related to your IP address, device, browser, screen size and any links you click.

In some cases, NADSA contracts with third party service providers to help make business practices more efficient. These third-party service providers may collect your personal information on NADSA’s behalf. Third party service providers enter into contracts with NADSA, and these contracts include confidentiality requirements and the measures the third-party service provider takes to ensure that your data is protected.

It is important for you to know that NADSA does not release member or subscriber names to any outside organization except certain NADSA corporate partners who agree not to sell the list or make it available to any other organization. We do not sell our membership or subscriber lists to any other organization. In addition, we take extra measures to protect the data related to our youth (ages 18 and under) Association and community members. Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, NADSA does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our members or subscribers under 18 years of age.

Although members, subscribers or other guests under 18 years of age are allowed to participate in some contests and promotions, publication of contest winners’ names, ages or images for individuals under 18 requires parental or guardian consent.

How NADSA Keeps Your Personal Information Secure

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our Association and community members is of utmost concern to us. While we strive to protect your personal information, NADSA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we will make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted, we use industry standard, SSL encryption.

Your NADSA member account is password protected so that only you can access it and view the member information relevant to your account. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. NADSA will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call or email. Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords and any account information.

How You Can Manage and Control Your Personal Information

By using the NADSA website, newsletters and/or Association services, you signify your assent to NADSA's Privacy Policy. Your continued use of NADSA sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. While use of our services signifies your consent to the NADSA Privacy Policy, you have options regarding how to manage and control your personal data. Currently, you can update your personal information by contacting NADSA via email, mail or other communication methods. In the near future, you will be able to update your personal information by logging into your member account at northamericadairysheep.org. At any time, you can opt out of (unsubscribe from) email newsletters NADSA sends you regarding NADSA, our corporate partners or our publications. However, if you are an Association member, you cannot opt out of communication required to conduct normal business with NADSA.

The GDPR affords you the right to have your personal information deleted by NADSA upon request at any time. However, because of the historical importance of accurate registration and ownership records related to the integrity of the studbook, your Association member information will not be removed from records related to registered NADSA Dairy Sheep.

How You Can Control Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies.

Browser Controls: You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use www.northamericadairysheep.org, though your access to some functionality and areas of www.northamericadairysheep.org may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.

Email and Texting Scams

Unfortunately, the Internet can be used to spread false information about our Association or the dairy sheep industry. If you receive a questionable or inappropriate email or text that claims to be part of or affiliated with NADSA, a sponsored program or a marketing program, please be aware of the signs of an email or texting scam.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, phishing is “the act of sending an email falsely claiming to be an established legitimate business in an attempt to dupe the unsuspecting recipient into divulging personal, sensitive information such as passwords, credit card numbers, and bank account information after directing the user to visit a specified website. The website, however, is not genuine and was set up only as an attempt to steal the user's information.”

Overall, if an email or text looks suspicious or appears too good to be true, it probably is. Do not reply to these emails or texts with any information.

If you believe you may have received and/or fallen victim to this type of scam, hit the “spam” button in your email provider, and file a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation Internet Crime Complaint Center or the APWG. Please also alert NADSA to any suspicious email or text activity by e-mailing us. We will look into these issues with utmost seriousness and let you know if they are, indeed, fraudulent.

Important Facts

We do not release member or subscriber names to any outside organization except certain NADSA Corporate Partners who agree not to sell the list or make it available to any other organization. We do not sell our membership or subscriber lists to any other organization. We may send members or subscribers e-mail notifications of new features, services and topic-based news alerts. Only those members or subscribers who sign up for these announcements will receive them. Members or subscribers may edit registration information or cancel a membership or subscription at any time. We reserve the right to contact any member or subscriber at any time regarding membership and subscription renewals or other NADSA related problems or questions as well as any changes.

Youth (Ages 18 & Under)

North America Dairy Sheep Association encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the activities offered within this site. No information should be submitted to or posted at NADSA by guests under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian. Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, NADSA does not provide any personally identifying information, regardless of its source, to any third party for any purpose whatsoever from our members or subscribers under 18 years of age.

No information collected from members or subscribers under 18 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside NADSA unless it is directed to the parents or guardians of that particular youth. Any exception to this will be explicitly stated during registration for any contests or promotions (and in those cases, the information collected will be used only for the specific contest or promotion).

Although members, subscribers or other guests under 18 years of age may be allowed to participate in some contests and promotions, if such a guest wins, notification and prizes are sent to the parents or guardians identified by the youth. Publication of contest winners names, ages, or images for individuals under 18 requires parental or guardian consent.

We only allow members, subscribers or guests under 18 years of age to receive direct marketing communications from NADSA or to be sent our third-party offers (i.e. Corporate Partners) when they are directed to the parents or guardians. Additionally, only those youth under 18 whose parents or guardians sign specific consent forms will be allowed to be listed on NADSA's website.

Links To The Other Sites

Users should be aware that when you are on NADSA online, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control. There are links to other sites from NADSA's pages that take you outside our service. For example, if you "click" on a banner advertisement or an NADSA search result, the "click" takes you off NADSA's site. This includes links from advertisers, Corporate Partners and partners that may use NADSA's logo as part of a co-branding agreement. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data or solicit personal information. Please keep in mind that whenever you give out personal information online --- for example, via message boards or chat --- that information can be collected and used by people you don't know. While NADSA strives to protect its user's personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose online and you do so at your own risk.

NADSA's policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the Internet, and therefore NADSA's control and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

Linking to NADSA

NADSA encourages appropriate persons, firms and organizations (hereinafter referred to as "you") to place a link from their site on the Internet to northamericadiarysheep.org or another NADSA website. By linking to an NADSA site, you agree that: (1) You have no rights in or to NADSA trademarks or service marks by virtue of such link; (2) Such link does not confer to you any rights to distribute, publish or otherwise use copyrighted material of NADSA; (3) You have no rights in or to the trademarks or service marks of any third party displayed on an NADSA site; and (4) You will not use such link for any illegal, immoral, or improper purpose, nor will you have any material detrimental to NADSA on your site. You further agree that, upon e-mail or other notice to you from NADSA, you will immediately remove all links from your site to NADSA.

Security

The importance of security for all personally identifiable information associated with our members, subscribers or other guests is of utmost concern to us. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, NADSA cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. When credit card information is transmitted we use industry standard, SSL (secure socket layer 128 bit and 40 bit) encryption.

Remember to sign out of your NADSA account and close your browser window when you have finished your work. This is to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence if your computer is accessible to others or if you share a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café.

Your Acceptance Of These Terms

By using this site, you signify your assent to NADSA's Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our sites. Your continued use of NADSA sites following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.