This Privacy Policy contains information about how Farm Welfare Consulting processes your personal data. We advise you to read our Privacy Policy carefully before agreeing to our processing of your personal data. 

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1. Key Concepts

Personal data is information that can be used independently, or together with other information, to identify, localize or contact an individual. Examples of personal data include name, e-mail address, telephone number, photographs, citations and IP address. Processing of personal data includes all types of personal data handling, including collection, analysis, registration and storage.

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2. Personal Data Controller

The Personal Data Controller determines the purpose of the processing of personal data and decides what personal data will be requested. The Personal Data Controller has the ultimate responsibility for your personal data being processed in accordance with applicable governing laws, including those of the United States and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Farm Welfare Consulting is the Personal Data Controller. Farm Welfare Consulting is a private company located in the United States. 

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3. Information We Collect

When you are in contact with us, you may be requested to submit personal information, such as your email address. We will only collect and handle data that could be regarded as sensitive information with your consent. In such cases, we will delete the information as soon as the need for its storage is achieved, such as participation at an event.

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4. Use the Data and Information

The data/information we collect is used for the following purposes: To communicate and share information related to farm animal welfare; To respond to your inquiries; To send out requested materials or otherwise fulfill what we undertook in return for you submitting your information.

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5. Legal Basis For Handling Your Personal Information

We do not always need your specific consent to process your personal information. For example, an e-mail contact from you generates information about you automatically (your e-mail and IP address). We do have a legitimate interest in saving this information in order to process your requirements. But we will ask for your consent if we want to have regular contact with you in connection to our activities, or if we want to collect and save other information, especially sensitive information or information from third parties. Your consent can be withdrawn at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us.

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6. Consent to Email Correspondence and Continued Communication

By agreeing to our processing of your personal data for the purposes stated above, you agree: That we process your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy; That we may contact you via e-mail regarding our consulting services. 

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7. How Long Your Data is Kept

We only process personal data for as long as it takes to fulfill the purpose of its collection, after which we delete the data. If you have an active dialogue with us, your data is stored for 24 months from the latest interaction; then we clear the data we have registered about you. An active dialogue means having interacted with Farm Welfare Consulting, or representatives from Farm Welfare Consulting, via telephone, or emails, by registering via a form, during the last 24 months. If you have agreed to the processing of your personal data in connection with your acceptance of regular mailings to you, then we continue to process your personal data until you unsubscribe to mailings. We will then be unable to contact you by way of the previously registered contact information. If you are employed by a company we process your data until (1) you have terminated your employment with the company, or (2) the company no longer has an active relationship with us. Once a relationship has ceased, the storing and processing of your data will be handled according to the terms described in the two paragraphs above. If you terminate your employment with the company, you are responsible for notifying us at the specified contact details, and we will clear your data immediately.

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8. Who Can Access the Data

Submitted data is available to a limited number of people within Farm Welfare Consulting who work with communications and provide consulting services.

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9. Where the Data is Stored

The data is stored either on our own servers or on behalf of Farm Welfare Consulting partners with whom we have a personal information agreement. This is necessary in order to ensure our normal business efficiency. The personal information agreements detail how the information is protected against unauthorized access, destruction and disclosure.

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10. Your Data Rights

You are entitled to receive a complete extract of the data we have about you. You may also request us to correct incorrect data or delete data about you. You are entitled to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time. If you withdraw your consent, we will delete all data we have about you. If you are unsatisfied with how we handle your personal data, you have a right to make a complaint to the applicable governing authority. If you wish to withdraw your consent or request a registry extract, correction or deletion, you are welcome to contact us.

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11. Cookies

A cookie is a small file that stores internet settings. Almost every website uses cookie technology. It is downloaded by your internet browser on the first visit to a website. The next time this website is opened with the same user device, the cookie and the information stored in it is either sent back to the website that created it (first-party cookie) or sent to another website it belongs to (third-party cookie). This enables the website to detect that you have opened it previously with this browser and in some cases to vary the displayed content.

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Essential cookies, also referred to as “strictly necessary” cookies, ensure functions without which you would not be able to use this website as intended. These cookies are used exclusively by Farm Welfare Consulting and are therefore so-called first-party cookies. They are only stored on your device during the current browser session.

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Our website uses analytics cookies, such as those by Google Analytics, to collect information as to how users interact with the website and its content. Farm Welfare Consulting uses this information to help us measure and improve the performance of our website, ensuring that the website creates added value for its visitors. These cookies collect information in a way that does not directly identify anyone, including but not limited to the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited.

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You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that by doing so you may not be able to use the full functionality of the website. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

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12. Contact Details

If you have questions regarding our processing of your data, please contact us at the following:

Mail:  Farm Welfare Consulting, 401 Cedar Lane, Rockville, Maryland USA  20851
Email:  martinzerfas@farmwelfareconsulting.com
Phone:  +1 240 380 6908

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The foregoing Privacy Policy was last updated January 6, 2026
 

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