Donor Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. Bay County Historical Society is located at:

The Historical Museum of Bay County
321 Washington Avenue 
Michigan, 48708 
989-893-5733

It is the Bay County Historical Society's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.bchsmuseum.org (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "www.bchsmuseum.org"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, The Bay County Historical Society collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Bay County Historical Society's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Bay County Historical Society's visitors use its website. From time to time, The Bay County Historical Society may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Bay County Historical Society also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on http://www.bchsmuseum.org blog posts. The Bay County Historical Society only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to The Bay County Historical Society’s websites choose to interact with The Bay County Historical Society in ways that require The Bay County Historical Society to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Bay County Historical Society gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for the e-newsletter at http://www.bchsmuseum.org to provide an email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Advertisements

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Bay County Historical Society and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links To External Sites

Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

The Bay County Historical Society discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Bay County Historical Society's behalf or to provide services available The Bay County Historical Society's website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Bay County Historical Society 's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Bay County Historical Society will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Bay County Historical Society discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Bay County Historical Society believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Bay County Historical Society, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of http://www.bchsmuseum.org and have supplied your email address The Bay County Historical Society will send you a weekly email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with The Bay County Historical Society and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Bay County Historical Society takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

The Bay County Historical Society History may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. The Bay County Historical Society may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Bay County Historical Society does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, The Bay County Historical Society uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Bay County Historical Society uses cookies to help The Bay County Historical Society identify and track visitors, their usage of http://www.bchsmuseum.org, and their website access preferences. The Bay County Historical Society visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Bay County Historical Society 's websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Bay County Historical Society 's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to The Bay County Historical Society 's use of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Bay County Historical Society may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Bay County Historical Society 's sole discretion. The Bay County Historical Society encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Donor Privacy Policy

The The Bay County Historical Society (BCHS) greatly appreciates the contributions our donors make to sustain our mission. To protect the privacy of our donors, we maintain the following policies:

  •  BCHS collects and uses personal information such as name, address, phone number and email address when a donor voluntarily provides it to us.
  • BCHS keeps a record of each donor’s giving history. This information is kept on file for IRS purposes and is also used for internal analysis and record keeping and to acknowledge donations and inform donors about upcoming BCHS activities.

-         In addition, BCHS does not sell our donor lists to other organizations. When making a donation, donors may request BCHS list them as anonymous or not at all in our publications. Donors may request to not be solicited in the future. Donors may request to not receive informational mailings such as our newsletter.

For further information, please contact Jill Pfeiffer, Media & Outreach Coordinator at info@bchsmuseum.org or 989-893-5733.

 


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