New England Farm Guide Privacy Policy

Who operates this site

This policy applies to New England Farm Guide at https://www.newenglandfarmguide.com, including the farm directory, maps, guides, account features, saved farms, forms, and newsletter. Questions can be sent to newenglandfarmguide@gmail.com.

Information we collect

We may collect these limited categories of information:

• Information you choose to send, such as contact messages, listing updates, reviews, or newsletter sign-ups.
• Account information needed for sign-in and saved-farm features.
• Basic site activity and technical information used for security, analytics, debugging, and performance.
• Approximate location signals, such as a town search or browser-provided location if you choose to use a near-me feature.

Google Sign-In

If you choose to continue with Google, we use Google Sign-In to authenticate your account. Depending on what Google provides and what you approve, we may receive your Google account ID, email address, name, and profile image.

We use that information only to sign you in, maintain your session, show basic account details, protect your account, and connect account features such as saved farms. We do not request access to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, or other private Google content.

How we use information

We use information to operate the site, provide account and saved-farm tools, respond to requests, send emails you asked to receive, improve listings and maps, prevent abuse, fix errors, and understand which pages and features are useful.

Cookies and analytics

We may use cookies, local storage, analytics, and similar tools to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure site performance, and protect the service. You can control cookies through your browser settings. Some account features may not work if required cookies are blocked.

When information is shared

We share information only when it helps us provide the service, when you ask us to, or when it is necessary for legal, security, or safety reasons. For example, trusted service providers may help with hosting, authentication, database storage, email delivery, analytics, spam prevention, or support. They are allowed to use the information only for the work they do for us.

We do not sell personal information or use Google Sign-In data for advertising.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in the email. You can sign out of your account at any time. You can also ask us to access, correct, delete, or stop using your personal information, subject to reasonable legal, security, and operational limits.

Retention and deletion

We keep information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, including account access, saved farms, support, security, backups, and legal compliance. To request deletion, email newenglandfarmguide@gmail.com.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational safeguards for the size and nature of the service. No website can promise perfect security, but we work to keep account and site data protected.

Children

New England Farm Guide is a general-audience farm planning site and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the site changes. The date above will show the latest version. If a change is important, we will make reasonable efforts to make it noticeable.