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Privacy Policy

Updated: February 2026

The “The Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project” uses the following domain names for website purposes:

  • cultivatingtomorrowsorchards.org

What type of information do we collect?

When you visit the The Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project website, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the project website, and information about how you interact with the Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project website. This information is referred to as automatically collected “Device Information.”

How do we collect information?

When you contact Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems though our website (i.e., via a contact form, etc.), as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, phone number and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

Why do we collect such personal information?

We collect such Non-Personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and operate our services;

  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;

  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

 

How do we store, use, share and disclose our site visitors' personal information?

The Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.​

How do we communicate with our site visitors?

We may contact you to inform you of new services and events, send updates about our company, resolve a dispute, poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes, we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications, such as Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help Section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers

How can our site visitors withdraw their consent?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us using the contact information in our footer.

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

The logo for the project with an illustrated peach and apple, an insect flying away from the fruit, and text reading "Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards"

The Cultivating Tomorrow's Orchards: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems Project is made possible by USDA NIFA SCRI #2024-05413.

Contact Information:

Appalachian Fruit Research Station

2217 Wiltshire Road

Kearneysville, WV 25430

Research Partners:

USDA ARS

​Penn State University

Rutgers University

North Carolina State University

University of Georgia

Michigan State University

University of Massachusetts

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Minnesota

Cornell University

© 2026 Cultivating Tomorrow’s Orchard: Evolving and Enhancing IPM in Eastern Tree Fruit Systems. All rights reserved.

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