Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden Terms, Conditions and Privacy Statement
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is committed
to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most
powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Web site and governs data collection and
usage. By using the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Web site, you consent to
the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden does not collect any personal information
about individuals�such as names and postal or e-mail addresses�except when such
information is knowingly provided.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is
automatically collected by Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. This information
can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and
referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the
service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden Web site.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable
information or personally sensitive data through any of Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden public message boards, this information may be collected and
used by others. Note: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden does not read any of
your private online communications.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden encourages you to review the privacy
statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your
information. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is not responsible for the
privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Fairchild
Tropical Botanic Garden and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden family of Web
sites.
Use of your Personal Information
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden collects and uses your personal information
to deliver services and information you have requested. Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you
of other products or services available from Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden may also contact you via surveys to conduct
research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services
that may be offered.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden does not sell, rent or lease its customer
lists to third parties. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden may, from time to
time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular
offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally
identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not
transferred to the third party. In addition, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis,
send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for
deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal
information except to provide these services to Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your
information.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden does not use or disclose sensitive personal
information, such as race, religion or political affiliations.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden keeps track of the Web site pages our
customers visit within the Web site in order to determine what information on
the site is most popular and useful to visitors. This data is used to deliver
customized content and advertising within Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden to
customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular
subject area.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Web sites will disclose your personal
information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good
faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the
law or comply with legal process served on Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden or
the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of users of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Web site uses "cookies" to help
you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed
on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs
or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and
can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to
save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have
returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden pages, or register with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden site
or services, a cookie helps Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden to recall your
specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of
recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping
addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so
you can easily use the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden features that you
customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers
automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting
to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not
be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden services or Web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden secures your personal information from
unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers
in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or
disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is
transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption,
such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Changes to this Statement
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will occasionally update this Statement of
Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Fairchild Tropical Botanic
Garden encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of
how Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden welcomes your comments regarding this
Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has
not adhered to this Statement, please contact info@fairchildgarden.org. We will
use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the
problem.
Rev. 09/10