Roots of Our Policy

Just as our heirloom apple trees have deep roots, our commitment to your privacy runs deep. This policy explains how we cultivate, harvest, and protect your personal information when you visit our farm, website, or engage with our products.

Freshly updated: July 31, 2025

What We Gather From the Orchard

Like carefully picking ripe fruit, we only collect what's necessary:

• Fresh Picked Info: Name, email, phone—the basics you share when contacting us or visiting the farm stand.
• Orchard Footprints: How you browse our website (pages visited, time spent—like tracking which apple varieties get the most attention).
• Digital Cookies: Not the edible kind, but small data bits that help your experience blossom (you can opt-out of non-essential ones).
• Farm Visit Notes: If you join our tours or workshops, we might note preferences (like your favorite goat for future visits).

How We Preserve Your Information

We use your information like we use our harvest—responsibly and with purpose:

• To respond to your inquiries (like a friendly wave across the pasture).
• To send seasonal updates (only if you've signed up for our newsletter).
• To improve our farm and website (pruning what doesn't work).
• To comply with agricultural regulations (because even farms have paperwork).

Sharing the Harvest

We don't sell or trade your information at the farmers' market. We might share with:

• Farm Helpers: Trusted vendors who help with our website or operations (under strict confidentiality fences).
• Local Authorities: Only when required by law (like reporting a runaway goat... just kidding).

Any sharing is done with the same care we use when introducing new goats to the herd.

Your Pasture Rights

You have rights over your information, like our goats have rights to fresh grass:

• Peek in the Barn: Request what information we have about you.
• Fix the Fence: Correct any inaccurate information.
• Clear the Field: Ask us to delete your information (unless we need to keep it for legal reasons).
• Change Grazing Patterns: Opt-out of communications anytime.

About Those Digital Cookies

Our website uses cookies (sadly not the edible kind). Essential ones keep the site running (like keeping the barn doors working), while others help us understand visitor patterns (like tracking which fruit pages are most popular). You can manage these in your browser settings.

Guarding the Henhouse

We protect your information like we protect our chickens from foxes—with sturdy digital fences (encryption), watchful eyes (monitoring), and secure storage (our digital barn). While no system is 100% predator-proof, we work hard to keep your data safe.