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.
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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.