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Terms and Conditions
Welcome to the new Malabar Farm Web
Site! Our goal is to make your experience informative, educational, and fun!
Website Privacy Policy February 2002
This is the Malabar Farm Website at www.malabarfarm.org Our postal address is:
Malabar Farm State Park
Business Office
4050 Bromfield Road
Lucas, OH 44843-9745
Our telephone number is: (419) 892-2784
Malabar Farm Foundation
P. O. Box 303
Lucas, OH 44843-0303
Our e-mail address is: Sybil.Burskey@dnr.state.oh.us
Information We Collect About Visitors to the Malabar Farm Parent Website at www.malabarfarm.org
When visitors enter our website, our web server recognizes the domain name of their ISP (Internet Service Provider). We cannot
recognize individual users, but we do know if visitors are connecting to our website from popular ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, MSN, or if they are connecting from a private company network. On an aggregated basis, we track various
tallies of website traffic. For example, we track referring pages. This is where visitors come from before they reach the Malabar Farm website, such as selecting our website from a listing in a search engine. We also track the
number of visitors to our site every month. We keep track of which pages visitors see most often. We cannot, however, trace this information to individual visitors. We use the aggregate information we collect to improve the
content, navigation, and performance of our website. We do not share this information with third-parties.
Registration and Memberships.
We encourage all visitors at our web site to register with us. Registration
greatly increases are ability to communicate with you. There is no cost associated with membership, however, all registered members enjoy many benefits, including discounts on merchandise available from our online store as well as
our retail store (located in the Big House).
How We Use Registration Information.
Upon registering as an adult, we will ask you for basic information, including your name, address, telephone, and email address. You can
elect not to provide this information, or be selective in how you will allow us to use your information.
Specifically we use the e-mail addresses we collect for these specific purposes:
To confirm receipt of an online purchase, or to correspond about an order
To e-mail an Online Newsletter you have requested
To send you e-mail announcements of Malabar Farm products if we have your permission
To identify the author of postings to our Message Boards
To answer Customer Service Inquiries
To answer general questions or inquiries
Information gathered from the website will be used for internal purposes and will not be shared without permission.
Our Malabar Farm Messageboard Policy
Our Message Board, which we call the "Malabar Farm Forum", is open exclusively to registered members of the Malabar Farm website. We reserve the right to edit or delete messages
which we deem to be inappropriate for any reason. The opinions expressed on our Message Boards do not necessarily represent the views of Malabar Farm Foundation.
Online Games and Promotions.
Malabar Farm Foundation
develops various web-based programs designed for the enjoyment of our online members and guests. These are mostly quizes and other multiple-choice games designed to test your knowledge.
Online Polls and Questionnaires.
We also will generate topical polls, which are also designed for the enjoyment of our online members
and guests. When you participate in one of our Polls, we tally and report results on an aggregated basis. We cannot track the responses of individual participants. These are informal Polls offered for you to share your opinion with
others. Malabar Farm Foundation does not endorse Poll results, nor do we make claims of any statistical validity.
Changes in our Policy
We reserve the right to change our privacy policy without notice and suggest that
you check back periodically to review for possible changes. We are very conscious of privacy issues and do our best to respect our customers' wishes. As technology permits, we will continue to employ whatever programs and/or
services are available for the purpose of enhancing security and privacy at our web site.
We encourage you to contact us with your suggestions and comments regarding privacy and security issues.
February, 2002
MalabarFarm.com for Children
Purpose Statement
MalabarFarm.or includes a special area designed to help educate children and students about Malabar Farm, Louis Bromfield, Sustainable Farming, as well as a host of
related topics. The website is repleat with entertaining games and activities designed to make a child's experience as fun as it is informative.
The goal of our "Kids" area is provide content that is specifically
oriented to youth. To help us, we encourage Parents and Teachers to take an active role in the development and management of this area. To this end, we are soliciting volunteers to perform various administrative duties, including
the monitoring and maintenance of the "Kids" member forum, moderating online "live" chats, collecting and posting content (text, images, and multimedia), and coordinating special events.
Privacy at the "Kids" area of MalabarFarm.org
Malabar Farm Foundation is especially interested in protecting your child's online safety and privacy. That's why we encourage parents to participate in their
children's online activities to the fullest extent possible. We also protect children's privacy by screening all postings to our public community areas and removing any personally identifiable information your child my
inadvertently post at our web site.
We adhere to the The Children's Privacy and Protection Act
The Children's Privacy and Protection Act (COPPA), effective as of April 2000, was established by Congress to protect
children's online privacy. COPPA requires that children's Web site operators adhere to specific guidelines regarding the collection and handling of personally identifiable information about children. For more information about
COPPA and your child's rights to online privacy, visit the FTC's Kids Privacy Web site for parents at www.ftc.gov
COPPA Compliance by Malabar Farm Foundation
Malabar Farm Foundation has always protected the privacy of
children. We do not advertise to children, nor solicit children for any marketing information. We never knowingly release the names of subscribing children to third parties. This policy applies to both our offline and online
business practices.
In regard to COPPA, the Malabar Farm Foundation Web site does not collect any personally identifiable information from children. We do not knowingly provide any information about children to third
parties. We do, however, register our online subscribers to provide certain subscriber-only features at the Web site.
Registering Children at our Web Site.
To register subscribing children, we require parental
approval. For a child to register, he/or she must include a Parent email, to which our authorization is sent. Upon the Parent's approval, we will then register the child and recognize their screen name and password. For information
or help about registering children at our website, please contact us at the address or email above.
Malabar Farm uses children's E-mail addresses for very specific purposes. First, we will use the addresses to receive and
acknowledge the submission of letters, poems, stories, and artwork to our Web site. (All material we receive is moderated, or reviewed before public posting. We will never cite the source of any published submissions by E-mail
address.) Secondly, we will use children's E -mail addresses for personal editorial replies to inquiries we cannot answer in a public forum on the Web site.
Only Parents may add, modify and delete their child's child screen
names, passwords, or E-mail addresses. This is accomplished at the Parent Administration Area within the "Kids" area.
Online Games and Contests for Children.
To enhance a child's experience at our website,
we will regularly offer computer-generated games and other education-oriented activities. When used in connection with a contest, which may be sponsored by a school or teacher, it is necessary to capture participant information
including names, citys, ages, and email addresses. At the time of online registration, parents will have the opportunity to determine what information about their child will be used in connection with a game. Whatever elections
they make, they will be honored for all games.
As the MalabarFarm.com web site expands, we will continue to encourage children to create and submit their own content and participate in our unique community activities. In
turn, this will require increasing supervision of the site's content. We encourage Parents, Teachers and Children to play an active role in monitoring and maintaining our web site. For information about how to volunteer for these
services, please contact Malabar Farm Foundation at the address above.
About our Web Master.
MalabarFarm.org was created, designed and installed by Joseph Leonard, a Mansfield native.
The Malabar Farm Foundation staff manages all the content right from their office, using a specially designed administrator website.
This makes it much easier to update pages with time-sensitive information. For more information about our website design, please email Mr. Leonard.
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