Who we are

We are Share Our Beef. We are a farm to table direct beef sales company. Our website address is: https://www.shareourbeef.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We use contact forms to make it simple for you to contact Share Our Beef. We may collect personal data that is used to facilitate communication between us and you, as well as to improve our website and business. This information is not public, and we will never give, sell, or lease your information without your permission.

Newsletter Subscription

We use MailChimp to manage our email newsletter and mailing list. Any information you provide on this site for the purpose of subscribing to our newsletters is securely shared with our account at MailChimp. You can view, update, or delete your subscriber information by using the links in our newsletters. You may also unsubscribe at any time.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how people interact with our site. Google collects a variety of information when you use this and other websites. Google anonymizes this data and shares it with us so that we may better understand how people use our website. To opt out of Google Analytics tracking for this website please click here.

Payment Processing Providers

We use both PayPal and Square to process orders from our customers. If you make a purchase on our site, you will be directed to securely make your payment before being redirected back to our website. Relevant account information you have provided on our website may be sent to PayPal or square to facilitate the transaction. We do not keep your personal credit card information on our websites. It is only entered once you are in the secured portal of either Paypal or Square.

Who we share your data with

Share Our Beef does not share your data with third party marketers. If at some point in the future we partner with another organization and wish to share your data, we will ask you first. Further your data may be shared with third parties that help us in the day to day operation of our business and website as described above in this privacy policy. Finally we will share your data with law enforcement or government agencies if we are legally obliged to do so.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

You can contact Share Our Beef in the following ways:

Share Our Beef – PO Box 154, Elberta UT, 84626

Phone: 801-420-4952

Email: admin@shareourbeef.com

Additional information

How we protect your data

We take a multi-layered approach to protect our website and your data. We have a large variety of tools at our disposal to detect, understand and block threats to our website and your data. For obvious reasons, we will not discuss specifics here.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the unlikely event that our systems are breached and your data is compromised, we will follow three steps. 1. We will work with our website administrators and vendors to stop the attack. 2. We will make an assessment of the damage as quickly as possible. 3. We will notify affected users of our website as to what data was breached and what steps we will take to remedy the damage.

What third parties we receive data from

We may receive data from some third parties that is necessary for the operation of our website and business. These third parties are described above in this privacy policy, and include Google, MailChimp, and PayPal.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

When you make a comment or use our contact forms, your data may be passed through an automated spam filter.

Data you provide in the course of subscribing to our newsletters may be sorted and and profiled by MailChimp to provide us reports about how you open and use our newsletters.

Agreement

By using our website you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. If you disagree with this privacy policy, please do not use our website. This privacy policy is effective January 30, 2019