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AGRA FACTS/AGRA FOCUS Privacy Statement

Introduction

Agra Facts/Agra Focus is committed to respecting the legal requirements that exist regarding the personal privacy of the individuals who use this site and take out a subscription to the two publications. This privacy statement describes Agra Facts/Agra Focus’ current policies and practices with regard to personal data collected by through this site.

Definitions

The term "personal data" means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural or legal person, for example, the name, age, e-mail address or mailing address of the individual. The term "site" refers to the website located at www.agrafacts.com.

Notification of changes to this Privacy Statement

Agra Facts/Agra Focus is continually improving and adding new functionality and features to this site. These ongoing improvements, changes in the law or changes in technology may require changes to this privacy statement. Agra Facts/Agra Focus reserves the right to update or modify this privacy statement at any time. For this reason, we encourage you to review this privacy statement every time you use this site.

We will notify you of changes to this privacy statement by posting an updated or modified version of this privacy statement on this site. Your use of this site following any such change constitutes your agreement that personal data collected from or about you through this site after the revised privacy statement is posted will be subject to the terms of the revised privacy statement.

You may access the current version of this Privacy Statement at any time by clicking on the button marked "Privacy statement" at the bottom of each page of this site.

Order Forms

We request information from recipients of our publications on our order forms. Users have to provide contact information (such as name, company names, delivery address and email) and financial information (such as bank details). This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfil customer orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. Subject to the content of this privacy statement your personal data will be kept strictly confidential and there will be no commercial use of this data.

Information Collection and Use

We collect information from our users at several different points - this is for customer service and billing purposes. Agra Facts/Agra Focus is the sole owner of the personal information collected from this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others.

Data Integrity and Security

Agra Facts/Agra Focus takes commercially reasonable measures to maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of personal data in our databases and to protect the security of our databases. We keep your personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal reporting or document retention requirements.

Hyperlinks to other Sites

This privacy statement applies only to www.agrafacts.com. This site contains hyperlinks to websites that are not operated by Agra Facts/Agra Focus. These hyperlinks are provided for your reference and convenience only and do not imply any endorsement of the activities of these third-party websites or any association with their operators. Agra Facts/Agra Focus does not control these websites and is not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on any site you visit before using the site or providing any personal data about yourself.

Questions about our Privacy Statement

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or concerns about the way Agra Facts/Agra Focus processes your personal data, please notify us by email to rose@agrafacts.com and your data will be deleted or amended as required within 5 working days.

Plugins and Tools - Twitter Follow Button and Timeline plugin

On our website functions of the news service Twitter are included. Services are provided by Twitter Inc., Twitter, Inc. 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "re-tweet" feature, websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and shared with other users. This data is transmitted to Twitter. We point out that we as the operator of the website have no influence or knowledge of the transmitted data and their use by Twitter. For more information, please refer to the privacy policy of Twitter (http://twitter.com/privacy). You can change your personal privacy settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings.