Privacy Policy
At Capital Farm Credit (“CFC”), we recognize your expectation of privacy and confidentiality of personal financial information when seeking the assistance of outside professionals to obtain credit. We have taken great care in establishing and implementing policies and procedures and have committed to an ongoing review of those policies and procedures to protect your personal and financial information.
Your privacy is a top priority in all aspects of our business. Our employees are informed of their responsibility to protect your confidential information and are governed by strict standards of conduct, which prohibit unauthorized use of your information. Security procedures and internal controls are also in place to protect your privacy.
We do not give, sell or transfer any personal information to a third party and we limit the use and collection of all information to that which is necessary to maintain and administer financial services, provide excellent service and offer new products and services that may be of benefit to you
Information Collected and Stored Auotmatically
On the CFC website we collect and store information about your visit for security reasons, as well as for site research and enhancement. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits. Through the use of Cookies (a file placed on your hard drive by a website that allows it to monitor your use of the site), we automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
Through Google Analytics, we collect aggregate, not individual, demographic and general interest data about our users. We use this aggregate demographic and general interest information to better understand our users, for the purposes of providing better online services.
Information Collected from Emails and Web Forms
If you complete one of our forms or submit an email through our website, your information will be used as described at the point of collection. It will be seen and used by employees of CFC, but will not be provided to a third party. If you are not comfortable providing the requested information to CFC through emails or web forms, please contact us by calling 877-465-0665.
Security, Intrusion, and Detection
If you are using a security-enabled browser, the information you provide us is encrypted, making it extremely difficult to read, even if it is wrongly intercepted. CFC’s site uses industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of potentially sensitive information such as your name and address and critically sensitive information such as your social security number or account number.
If applicable, transactions with “CFC” are supported by industry-standard data encryption to ensure security. On this site, we collect personally identifiable information - such as name, address, SSN - only if specifically and knowingly provided by you.
For website security purposes and to ensure that this site remains available to all users, traffic on the site is monitored to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on our any of our websites is strictly prohibited, and may be punishable under the law.
Internet-based Advertising
CFC may participate in interest-based advertising using cookies, beacons and pixels, which are tracking technologies. The use of these technologies allows us to improve your user experience by personalizing advertising and content based on your actual or presumed interests and your browsing behavior across the internet, including both on and off our websites, over time, and across multiple devices. The information does not usually directly identify you (such as by name or email address) but may include assigning device IDs. Additionally, CFC engages with third-party advertising companies to assist us in serving ads specific to your interests; however, they do not collect or access information that directly identifies you.
You may control interest-based advertising by adjusting the settings of your browser(s) or on your device(s). In addition, CFC has chosen to work with service providers associated with self-regulatory industry associations that allow consumers to better control interest-based advertising. To learn more or to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from third parties who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising, visit the opt-out page on the DAA website at http://optout.aboutads.info .
Website Linking and Children's Privacy
Our privacy policy only addresses our activities from our website. This website is not directed at children nor do we collect any personally identifiable information from children. We may provide links to independent websites maintained by various federal agencies or other organizations, solely as a benefit to our customers. These other sites may have their own policies, which we do not control, and thus are not addressed by our policy. We do not endorse, approve or guarantee information, products, services or recommendations provided at any of the sites to which we have provided links.
We are not responsible responsible for the content or accuracy of any of these links sites, nor are we responsible for any loss or damage of any sort resulting from the use of a link on any linked websites. We are not liable for any failure of products or services advertised or provided on these linked sites. We offer these links on an "as is" basis. When you visit a linked website by using the link on our site, you will no longer be protected by our privacy policy or security practices. You should always familiarize yourself with the privacy policy and security practices of any website you visit.
We do not knowingly solicit data from children, and we do not knowingly market to children. We recognize that protecting children's identities and privacy online is important and that the responsibility to do so rests with both the online industry and with parents.