PRIVACY
POLICY
Last
modified May 2022
ATTENTION: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY THIS
COMPANY PRIVACY POLICY (“PRIVACY POLICY”), WHICH IS PART OF THE GROWMARK, Inc.
TERMS OF USE, BEFORE YOU ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, OR OTHERWISE USE THE www.eFastStop.com
WEBSITE (the “Website”).
The
Website is operated by GROWMARK, Inc., 1701 Towanda Ave., Bloomington, IL 61701
(“We” or “COMPANY”). This Privacy Policy describes the information collected
through Your use of the Website, how We use it, how We share it, how We protect
it, and the choices You can make about Your information.
ATTENTION: PLEASE READ OUR
PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WEBSITE. USING THE WEBSITE
INDICATES THAT YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN FULL.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE. You
acknowledge (a) that You have read and understood this Privacy Policy; and (b)
this Privacy Policy shall have the same force and effect as a signed agreement.
Unless explicitly stated
otherwise, any new features that augment or enhance the current Website shall
be subject to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is part
of the COMPANY Terms of Use (“TOU”), https://www.efaststop.com/Terms-of-Use . Any terms defined in the TOU shall have the same meaning in
this Privacy Policy.
If We have Your email
address, We may notify You of material changes to this Privacy Policy via
email. If We do not have Your email address, We will update this page to
reflect any changes to this Privacy Policy. Please review the Privacy Policy
each time You use the Website. BY USING THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY
THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THE PRIVACY POLICY.
I. Information
We Collect
We collect information from
You when You use the Website, contact or interact with us, sign up for Our
newsletter or other mailing list, use Our services, such as the MyFS software
and web applications (“MyFS Platform”), and voluntarily provide us with Your
comments and other content in connection with using the Website.
When You access and use of Our Website, We may collect from You: Your name, contact
information, including email address, telephone number, and physical address,
and any other information You voluntarily provide to Us.
When You access and use Our Website,
We automatically collect: information regarding You and Your device, including
Your device’s Internet Protocol address, the domain name of Your Internet
service provider, the domain from which You came, Your location, Your mobile
device information (e.g., device model and operating system version), Your page
visits, the Website features You use and the time of Your use, Your social
sharing activity, and aggregated information that cannot be used to
specifically identify You. Additional information collected is described in the
Analytics and Cookies sections below.
When
You access and use Our Website, We may collect information
about You from third-party sources, such as Our partners, affiliates, members,
or service providers acting on Our behalf. The Website may provide links to Our
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Vimeo, and YouTube pages. If You connect with
these websites through the Website, We may receive personal information about
You, and information about Your visit to Our Website
may be shared with these third parties (see the information sharing section below for more information).
When You contact us, We may collect: Your name, contact information, including email
address, company name, telephone number, street address (including city, state,
and zip code), and any other information that You voluntarily provide to us.
When You apply for a job,
We may collect information related to Your resume, cover letter, and any other
documents You voluntarily submit, Your name, address, phone number, email
address, information related to Your work experience and previous employment
(including employment dates, type of business, title, company name, and
responsibilities), information related to Your education (including the dates
of Your enrollment, school, major, degree, GPA, and highest level earned),
information related to Your certifications/licenses (including the name of the
certification/license, description, institution, effective date, and expiration
date), information related to Your geographic mobility (including Your
willingness to relocate and the location desired), information related to Your
professional memberships (including the name of the organization, Your
position/role, and the dates of Your membership), information related to Your
professional references (including the name of Your reference, the relationship
of that reference to You, the number of years You have known the reference, and
the reference’s email address and work phone/cell phone number), job-specific
information (including information related to how You heard about the position,
the name of Your employee referral (if applicable), Your current job type,
desired job type, the date on which You will be available, years of relevant
work experience, minimum salary requirements, whether You are currently or have
ever worked for the GROWMARK system, whether You will require sponsorship to
work in the country in which the position is located at any time, whether You
are currently 18 years of age or older, and whether You are a current employee
of a GROWMARK System Member Cooperative (and, if so, the name of the GROWMARK
System Member Cooperative for which You currently work)), gender,
race/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, and signature. The process
is run by a third-party service provider; information on third-party service
providers is described in the How
Information is Disclosed section below.
When You use Our MyFS Platform,
We may collect from You, or We may receive from a third party partner,
affiliate, member, or service provider information about Your identity,
including Your first/last name, username, password, name or the names of
property owners, rights holders, or other interested parties; contact
information including Your email address, phone number, mailing address, asset
information, including loan collateral, grain contracts, field locations,
carbon tracking, soil test results, and GIS information, and other material
relating to assets in which a relevant party retains an interest; financial
information such as information about loan products, liens, or other financial
products, interest rates, credit terms, credit card, or bank account
information; and commercial data, including invoices and documentation
generated in connection with transactions conducted through, or documented in,
the MyFS Platform and patronage information. We may also automatically collect
certain device/network information such as device identifiers, IP address, and
similar browsing, device, or network metadata.
Note: We may combine all of the
information We collect from or about You and use it in the manner described in
this Privacy Policy.
II. How We Use Your Information
We use
the information that We collect for several purposes, including:
· The
purposes for which You provided it;
· To
provide information and services to You, including requested quotes;
· To view and manage Your
invoices, payments, loans, contracts, and other accounts (e.g. via the MyFS
Platform);
· To
process and respond to Your inquiries and comments;
· To help
You locate dealers;
· To
interface with scholarship recipients, and sweepstakes and essay contest
winners;
· To contact You for market
research purposes and to use this information to customize the Website
according to Your interests;
· To display relevant
advertising across websites, and to tailor messages to You based on products or
services You previously viewed on Our Website, or those of Our members;
· To
administer, operate, and improve the Website or to further Our mission;
· To
personalize and enhance Your experience using the Website;
· To send
periodic emails. If You choose, the email address You provide may be used to
send You occasional news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
Note: If at any time You would like to unsubscribe from receiving future
emails, We include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each
email;
· To generate and review
reports and data about Our user base and Website usage patterns;
· To
analyze the accuracy, effectiveness, usability, or popularity of the Website;
· To
compile aggregate data for internal and external business purposes;
· To prevent fraud and abuse
of the Website and to otherwise protect users and visitors and Our business;
· To
assist law enforcement and respond to subpoenas; and
· To
perform other business activities as needed, or as described elsewhere in this
Privacy Policy.
· As
explained elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, personal information We collect may
be
processed by Our partners
in providing services related to the Website (such as administration services,
technical services relating to the maintenance, servicing, and upgrading of
software, hosting services, customer service, data migration services, payment
processing services, and analytical services, among others).
III. How
Your Information is Disclosed
Information may be
disclosed to third parties, including Our members and product and service
providers, in accordance with Our Privacy Policy. Please note that a user may
choose not to share certain information as described in the Analytics section
below.
A. Third Party Service Providers and
Business Partners. We
may use third-party service providers and business partners to perform
functions in connection with the Website, such as email marketing, site
analytics, social sharing, relationship management, functions related to
analyzing and improving the Website usefulness, reliability, user experience,
and operation, data storage, employment application collection and processing,
and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We also may share Your
personal information with these providers and partners for their direct
marketing and promotional purposes, and so they can provide services to You.
·
Add This. AddThis
allows users to share content across different Internet platforms. We use
AddThis to enable users to share via social channels, and to help us understand
how many people share content from our Service and what content is more likely
to be shared. AddThis may collect information such as Your IP address, device
type, browser type and language, unique IDs (such as a cookie ID), operating
system, information related to apps, screen resolution, preferred language,
date and time of Your engagement with the Service, information related to the
referring URL and the web search by which You arrived at the Service, Your
email address, geographic location data derived from Your IP address,
information related to Your social media accounts, information related to the
contents of the emails You send when You choose to share content through email
(as well as sender and recipient email address), and interest and online behavior
information. AddThis may use the personal data it collects for facilitating the
functionality of AddThis tools, facilitating marketing of products and services
to You by AddThis Publishers and Oracle Marketing & Data Cloud customers
and partners, enabling online behavioral advertising, personalizing messages
and recommendations, linking browsers and apps across devices, developing,
analyzing, and improving AddThis Tools and Oracle products, and syncing unique
identifiers, among other purposes. For more information on the information that
AddThis collects, please visit the AddThis privacy policy at https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/addthis-privacy-policy.html#section4. For information on how to opt out of the
collection and use of Your personal information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or http://optout.networkadvertising.org.
·
Adobe Fonts. Adobe Fonts hosts the fonts We use on the
Website. Adobe Fonts may collect information related to the fonts served, Web
Project ID, Web Project JavaScript version, Web Project type, embed type,
Account ID, service providing the fonts, server serving the fonts, hostname of
page loading the fonts, the time it takes the web browser to download the
fonts, the time from when the web browser downloads the fonts until the fonts
are applied, whether an ad blocker is installed and whether the presence of
that ad blocker affects pageview tracking, and operating system and browser
version. For more information, please visit the Adobe Fonts privacy policy at: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policies/adobe-fonts.html.
·
Campaign Monitor. We use Campaign
Monitor to disseminate electronic marketing materials. Campaign Monitor may
collect information from users subscribing to COMPANY’s newsletters and
otherwise receiving COMPANY’s promotional emails, including mobile phone
number, email address, email client type, IP address, Internet service provider
domain name, device information (e.g., device model, operating system, and web
browser version, language, and time zone), device location, and information about Your
interaction with an email. For more information, please visit Campaign
Monitor’s privacy policy, https://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies/#privacy-policy.
·
Constant Contact. We use Constant Contact to disseminate
electronic marketing materials. Constant Contact may collect information from
users subscribing to COMPANY’s newsletters and otherwise receiving COMPANY’s
promotional emails, including mobile phone number, email address, email client
type, IP address, Internet service provider domain name, device information
(e.g., device model, operating system, and web browser version, language, and
time zone), device location, and information about Your interaction with an
email. For more information, please visit Constant Contact’s privacy policy, https://endurance.clarip.com/privacycenter/?brand=ctct.
·
DocuSign.
We use DocuSign to validate identity and obtain electronic signatures for
agreements, applications, and other forms requiring acceptance by authorized
individuals. DocuSign may collect information from users subscribing to
COMPANY’s services or otherwise interacting with COMPANY requiring electronic
signature, including name, email address, mailing address, phone number,
electronic signature, billing information, products or services purchased,
physical location, and other transactional data. For more information, please
visit DocuSign’s privacy policy, https://www.docusign.com/company/privacy-policy.
·
Facebook. By clicking on the Facebook button on the Website, You will be
automatically transported to the official Facebook Page for COMPANY.
·
Facebook Connect. We use Facebook Connect to facilitate single
sign on for our users. By using Facebook Connect, We may be able to retrieve
Your full name, pictures, wall posts, friend information, and other available
Facebook content. For more information on what information may be available
from or collected by Facebook, please visit the Facebook data policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
·
Facebook Custom Audience. We use the Facebook Pixel to analyze user
activity on our WEbsite for remarketing and behavioral targeting. The Facebook
Pixel collects information when You perform certain activities on the Website,
and aids us in displaying Facebook ads to users who have visited our Website,
or Facebook users who share certain characteristics with visitors to our
Website. Facebook and other third parties may use cookies, web beacons, and
other storage technologies to collect information from the Website and from
other Internet websites, and use that information for the purposes of targeting
ads and providing measurement services. Facebook may track Your activity over time
and across websites. For more information about the data Facebook collects,
please visit Facebook’s data policy at: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
For specific information about Facebook Pixel, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/business/help/742478679120153?id=1205376682832142.
If You are logged into Facebook, You can opt out of the collection and use of
Your information for targeted advertising by visiting: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.
You can also visit http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN for more information about ad targeting and
exercising Your choice to opt out of the collection of information for ad
targeting.
·
Google Maps. Google Maps is integrated
with the Website, and Google may receive personal information in connection
with use of the Website, including search terms, IP address, and
latitude/longitude coordinates. Use of Google Maps features and content is
subject to the current versions of the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional
Terms of Service at https://maps.google.com/help/terms_maps.html. For more information, please see Google’s
privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
·
Google ReCaptcha. We use Google ReCaptcha to identify and
block potentially malicious or undesirable automated activity on portions of
our Website. When you use the ReCaptcha functionality, Google may collect and
process certain device and network information, as well as data collected from
cookies and similar technologies to perform validation activities and otherwise
operate the service. For more information, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy
at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
·
Google Tag Manager. We use Google Tag
Manager to deploy marketing tags. Google Tag Manager may collect information
related to tag firing, information contained in standard HTTP requests logs,
and information related to online identifiers, such as cookie identifiers and
IP addresses. For more information, please visit Google’s privacy policy at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
·
LinkedIn. By clicking on the
LinkedIn button on the Website, You will be automatically transported to the
official LinkedIn Page for COMPANY.
·
Snapchat. By clicking on the
Snapchat button on the Website, You will automatically be transported to the
official Snapchat Page of COMPANY.
·
Twitter. By clicking on the
Twitter button on the Website, You will automatically be transported to the
official Twitter Feed of COMPANY.
·
Twitter Ads.
We use Twitter Ads, which allows Twitter to collect and process certain device,
interest, and browsing information via a pixel tag or cookie. Twitter collects
this information to analyze user activity on our Website, for remarketing and
behavioral targeting, and in connection with ad measurement and analytics.
Twitter ads collects information when You access and use our Website, and aids
us in displaying ads to Twitter users who have visited our Website, who share
certain characteristics with visitors to our Website. Twitter may track Your
activity over time and across websites. For more information about the data
Twitter collects, and for information regarding how to opt-out, please visit
Twitter’s “How Twitter Ads Work” page at https://business.twitter.com/en/help/troubleshooting/how-twitter-ads-work.html; for specific information about your Twitter
privacy choices, please visit: https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/privacy-controls-for-tailored-ads; for Twitter’s privacy policy, please visit: https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
·
Vimeo. By clicking on the Vimeo
button on the Website, You will automatically be transported to the official
Vimeo Page of COMPANY.
·
YouTube. By clicking on the
YouTube button on the Website, You will automatically be transported to the
official YouTube Page of COMPANY.
B. Job Openings. We use a third-party
service provider, SuccessFactors, to collect information on the Careers Page.
If You are interested in
pursuing career opportunities, You can review and apply for job openings listed
in an online job board. If You elect to proceed, You will be seamlessly linked
to a website maintained by SuccessFactors. We
encourage You to read the SuccessFactors privacy policy, available at https://www.sap.com/about/legal/privacy.html, before providing any personal information.
When
You submit an application for employment, SuccessFactors may collect
information related to Your resume, cover letter, and any other documents You
voluntarily submit, Your name, address, phone number, email address,
information related to Your work experience and previous employment (including
employment dates, type of business, title, company name, and responsibilities),
information related to Your education (including the dates of Your enrollment,
school, major, degree, GPA, and highest level earned), information related to
Your certifications/licenses (including the name of the certification/license,
description, institution, effective date, and expiration date), information
related to Your geographic mobility (including Your willingness to relocate and
the location desired), information related to Your professional memberships
(including the name of the organization, Your position/role, and the dates of
Your membership), information related to Your professional references
(including the name of Your reference, the relationship of that reference to
You, the number of years You have known the reference, and the reference’s
email address and work phone/cell phone number), job-specific information
(including information related to how You heard about the position, the name of
Your employee referral (if applicable), Your current job type, desired job
type, the date on which You will be available, years of relevant work
experience, minimum salary requirements, whether You are currently or have ever
worked for the GROWMARK system, whether You will require sponsorship to work in
the country in which the position is located at any time, whether You are
currently 18 years of age or older, and whether You are a current employee of a
GROWMARK System Member Cooperative (and, if so, the name of the GROWMARK System
Member Cooperative for which You currently work)), gender, race/ethnicity,
veteran status, disability status, and signature. SuccessFactors may also
collect information related to the website You came from prior to submitting an
application.
The
personal information that You submit to SuccessFactors while online may be
accessed and downloaded by GROWMARK professionals located in the U.S., and used
for evaluating Your qualifications for the job for which You have applied and
other jobs that may suit Your experience and qualifications.
C. MyFS Platform. The MyFS Platform is
operated by GROWMARK on behalf of itself, its subsidiaries, and its GROWMARK
System Member Cooperatives. As part of the MyFS Platform, any information
described in the When You use Our MyFS Platform in Section 1 above may be shared with
GROWMARK automatically via integrations with a GROWMARK System Member
Cooperative website or otherwise provided by a GROWMARK System Member
Cooperative. GROWMARK may share such information, or information derived from
it via the MyFS Platform, with a GROWMARK System Member Cooperative to the
extent such information was processed in the MyFS Platform on behalf of the
GROWMARK System Member Cooperative. Note: this Privacy Policy applies only to
the processing of information via the MyFS Platform. This Privacy Policy does
not apply to a GROWMARK System Member Cooperative’s own processing of
information that may be collected from or processed through the MyFS Platform;
please see the GROWMARK System Member Cooperative’s privacy policy for more
information regarding the processing of such information outside of the context
of the MyFS Platform. Any payment-related information You provide through the
MyFS Platform may be shared with and may be stored by Our credit card processor,
Heartland Payment Systems. For more information about the information Heartland
Payment Systems collects, please visit the Heartland Payment Systems privacy
policy at: https://www.heartlandpaymentsystems.com/privacy-policy.
D.
Business Changes. If We become involved in a merger, acquisition,
sale of assets, joint venture, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization,
liquidation, dissolution, or other transaction, or if the ownership of all or
substantially all of Our business otherwise changes, We may transfer Your
information to a third party or parties in connection therewith.
E.
Subsidiaries, Affiliates, and member
cooperatives. We
may also share Your information with Our subsidiaries, affiliates, and member
cooperatives for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Our affiliates
will be required to maintain that information in accordance with this Privacy
Policy.
F.
Investigations and Law. We may disclose information about You to third
parties if We believe that such disclosure is necessary to:
· Comply with the law or
guidance and cooperate with government or law enforcement officials or private
parties;
· Investigate, prevent, or take
action regarding suspected illegal activities, suspected fraud, the rights,
reputation, safety, and property of us, users or others, or violations of Our
policies or other agreements with us;
· Respond
to claims and legal process (for example, subpoenas); and/or
· Protect
against legal liability.
G.
Aggregated Information. We may share aggregated information relating to
users of the Website with affiliated or unaffiliated third parties. This
aggregated information does not contain personal information about any user.
H.
Analytics. We use third-party analytics tools to better
understand who is using the Website and how people are using it. These tools
may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about Your use of
the Website and Your preferences and activities. These tools collect
information sent by Your device or the Website and other information that
assists us in improving the Website. This information may be used to analyze
and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better
understand Your online activity, among other things.
We use
SharpSpring to help us understand how users engage with the Website.
SharpSpring uses cookies to collect information such as email address, IP
address, device type and manufacturer, operating system version and name,
geographic location, screen resolution, and browsing information, including the
pages viewed, time spent on each page, and clickstream data, among other
historical traffic records. We use this information to improve the Website
performance, availability, and usability, and as otherwise described in this
Privacy Policy. Please see https://sharpspring.com/legal/privacy/ for information about how SharpSpring uses
this information, and visit https://sharpspring.com/legal/sharpspring-cookie-policy/ for information about how to manage Your
browser cookies.
We use
Google Analytics to better understand who is using the Website and how people
are using it. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and store information
such as Website pages visited, places where users click, time spent on each
Website page, Internet Protocol address, type of operating system used,
located-based data, device ID, search history, gender, age, and phone number.
We use this information to improve the Website and as otherwise described in
this Privacy Policy. Please see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites for information about how Google Analytics uses this
information, and visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout for information about the Google Analytics
Opt-out Browser Add-on. Google may track Your activity over time and across
websites.
I. Cookies
and Other Tracking Technologies
We, along with third
parties, use cookies, local storage objects, Web beacons, and other
technologies. These technologies are used for tracking, analytics, and
personalization and optimization of the Website.
Cookies
are small files that are transferred to and stored on Your computer through
Your Web browser (if You allow it) that enable the website’s or service
provider’s system to recognize Your browser and capture and remember certain
information. You can instruct Your browser to stop accepting cookies. But, if
You do not accept cookies, You may not be able to use all portions or all
functionality of the Website. Additionally, note that clearing cookies from
Your browser will remove opt-outs because they are stored in cookies.
. Persistent
cookies remain on the visitor’s computer after the browser has been closed.
. Session cookies exist only during a visitor’s online session and
disappear from the visitor’s computer when he/she closes the browser software.
Web beacons are small
strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web
page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data. You can
disable the ability of Web beacons to capture information by blocking cookies.
We use cookies and other
tracking technologies on the website to help us understand and save Your
preferences and interests, so We can personalize Your future visits and compile
aggregate data about website traffic and website interaction to offer better website
experiences and tools in the future.
Some of Our business
partners, such as Our analytics providers, advertising networks, and social
media connections, also use cookies and other tracking technologies on Our
website, some of which may track users across websites and over time.
IV. Security
We implement a variety of
security measures to protect the safety of Your personal information when You
enter, submit, or access Your personal information.
While
We take reasonable measures to protect the information You submit via the
Website against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification,
We cannot guarantee its absolute security. No Internet, email, or mobile
application transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Email or other
messages sent through the Website may not be secure. You should use caution
whenever submitting information through the Website, and take special care in
deciding with which information You provide us.
We cannot guarantee that
transmissions of Your personal information will be fully secure and that third
parties will never be able to defeat Our security measures or the security
measures of Our partners. WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION DUE TO TRANSMISSION ERRORS, THIRD PARTY ACCESS,
OR CAUSES BEYOND OUR CONTROL.
V.
Data Retention Policy, Managing Your
Information
We
will retain Your information for as long as You use the Website and for a
reasonable time thereafter. We may maintain anonymized or aggregated data,
including usage data, for analytics purposes. We may retain and use Your
information as necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve
disputes, and/or for the period required by laws in applicable jurisdictions.
Please note that some or all of the information We have collected may be
required for the Website to function properly.
VI.
Links to Other Websites or Applications
This
Privacy Policy applies only to the Website. The Website may contain links to
other websites or apps, or may forward users to other websites or apps, that We
may not own or operate, and to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. The
links from the Website do not imply that We endorse or have reviewed these
websites or apps. The policies and procedures We describe here do not apply to
these websites or apps. We neither can control nor are responsible for the
privacy practices or content of these websites or apps. We suggest contacting
these websites or app providers directly for information on their privacy
policies. Nonetheless, We seek to protect the integrity of Our Website, and
welcome any feedback about these linked websites and mobile applications.
VII.
Your Choices Regarding Your Information
You have choices regarding the use of information by the Website.