1. Our Policy
This Privacy (“Policy”) covers The SNOW Museum’s treatment of personal information or personally identifiable information (both “Personal Information”) that may be collected or submitted when the web-user (“you”) are using the The SNOW Museum’s website or services. This Policy does not apply to companies that The SNOW Museum does not own or control, or to individuals that are not under The SNOW Museum’s supervisory control. Please understand that whenever you voluntarily disclose Personal Information online this information cannot be made one-hundred percent secure and, in some cases, that information can be intercepted, collected and used by others. However, we work hard to protect your information at all times, and protect your information in several ways. Your information is stored on a secure server that The SNOW Museum’s web provider, Percepticon Corporation, and its authorized personnel can only access. Additionally, we encrypt your information to prevent third parties without authorization from intercepting your information when it is in transit to us.
2. How We Collect Your Personal Information
While using The SNOW Museum’s website, you may submit Personal Information when contacting us, donating, or applying to get involved. Depending on the service or process, the Personal Information you may be asked to provide is your:
- Name
- Postal Address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Credit or Debit Card Information
- Age
- Gender or other demographic information
- Location information
Personal Information may also be collected, or your IP address logged, when you visit The SNOW Museum’s website. Your IP information allows us to understand how you use our site and to enable us to make changes to oursite in order to improve your experience. Information regarding your computer, your connection to our website (such as your browser type, operating system, and platform) and your user history (including, but not limited to, your session information, page errors and the length of your visits to specific pages within our website) may also be collected.
3. Our Use of Cookies
The SNOW Museum uses cookies to remember certain user information. Cookies are electronic identifiers that are transferred automatically to your computer through your browser that allow our computers to save certain information you provide us and store information about you so we can recognize you when you visit our website in the future. You may, at any time, disable or refuse to accept cookies by changing the preferences or settings on your web browser. If you choose to disable cookies, you will still be able to use our website.
4. How We Use Your Personal Information
The SNOW Museum may use the Personal Information you provide for purposes such as: fulfilling a donation made by you; customizing the advertising and content yousee; receiving a contact message; improving the content and overall look and feel of our website and services, contacting you, conducting research, providing anonymous reporting for internal and external clients, contacting users regarding changes to our website or business, and customizing the content that you see on the The SNOW Museum’s website. The SNOW Museum may also retain the details of transactions or payments made with us or the partners affiliated with our website.
5. How Your Personal Information is Disclosed
It is The SNOW Museum’s policy not to disclose, sell or rent your Personal Information to any individual, business, government entity or outside parties except: (i) to provide news or information you’ve requested through us; (ii) in response to a validly-issued subpoena, court order, or other legal process; (iii) when necessary to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal action; or (v) where you request The SNOW Museum to do so. From time to time, The SNOW Museum may use return email addresses to answer the email we receive from you. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose, unless consensually given for newsletter sign-up.
Your Personal Information will not be collected for use that is in violation of the law, or unrelated to the that discussed in this Policy,unless you are also provided an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
6. Web Statistics & Shared Data
We collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad demographic information for reporting and sponsorship purposes. From time to time, we may use this information to better design our website and to share with select advertising partners, sponsors, and/or affiliates; however IP addresses are not linked to Personal Information. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our newsletter form, but we will not disclose to these partners, sponsors and/or affiliates anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals.
7. Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. For that reason, we do not collect information provided by users under the age of 13, nor do we solicit information from users under the age of 13.
8. Scope of this Policy; Third Party Websites
Although this policy applies to the all information obtained by you for the purpose of accessing or using content controlled and owned by The SNOW Museum, it does not apply to businesses or entities that are not owned or controlled by us.
This website contains links to other third party websites. Please be aware that The SNOW Museum does not claim any responsibility for the privacy practices of these third party sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to take reasonable precautions when sharing your personally identifiable information on third party websites.
9. Opt-In Policy
You may “opt in” to receive newsletters, promotional offers and other useful information from us. To unsubscribe from our mailings (except important system and content update information), please contact us, or click ‘Unsubscribe’ in your most recently received mailing.
10. Amendments
The SNOW Museum reserves the right to amend this policy at any time. The SNOW Museum will contact registered users by e-mail, and shall also post a notice of changes on its web site, when and if the terms of this policy are amended.
11. Contact
You may contact The SNOW Museum directly by e-mailing at info@TheSNOWMuseum.org should you have any questions regarding this policy.