PRIVACY POLICY

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our website you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and website use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our website.

What Personal Information Do You Request?

We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your email address, postal address, home or work telephone number, and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence, placing an order, requesting an estimate, or participating in online surveys.

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received by mail and telephone.

WHat Data dO you collect when I visit your site?

Similar to other websites, our site may utilize a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the sites visited just before and just after ours. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?

We use personal information to help us design, manage deliver and improve events and programs. The information we collect helps us better support our organization’s activities and meet the needs of participants, provide better service and support, communicate with our audiences, and plan future events.  Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new programming, and special announcements we think you will find valuable.

You only receive email from us if you have opted in—unless we are sending a personal or individual email from someone on our team.  Our lists are only used to send you announcements and news they are carefully managed through a third party service. Every non-personal email we send also includes an option to unsubscribe.  

All this data is managed using  traditional standards designed to safeguard the security and privacy of all personal information provided by our users. You may at any time to notify us of your desire not to receive our communications.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are a feature of web browser software that allows web servers to recognize the computer used to access a website. Cookies are tiny pieces of data stored by a user’s web browser on the user’s hard drive.

PLEASE NOTE: As of this writing, we do not use cookies except for the G4 cookie. If this changes, we will provide an update here and in an email to our subscribers.

Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that website by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related web pages.

This makes it easier for a user to move from web page to web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies?

We use website browser software tools such as cookies and web server logs to gather information about our website users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our website and better serve our users. This information assists us in designing web pages and content and in enhancing their usability, utility, and accessibility,

Cookies also help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our website as they move from one page to another. Web server logs allow us to count how many people visit our website and evaluate our website’s visitor capacity.

We do not use these technologies to capture email address or any personally identifying information.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Occasionally, we may use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our website, new event, and special announcements. As a user of our website, you may notify us of your desire not to receive these offers at any time by clicking on a response box when you receive such an offer or by sending us an email request.

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?

When you send confidential personal information to us on our website, a secure server software to which we have subscribed or which we license encrypts your information before it is sent to us. The information is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our website. 

Other email that you may send to us may not be secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place before you transmit the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send confidential information such as Social Security, credit card, or account numbers to us through an unsecured email.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

Information Security
We employ encryption/security software to safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration, or destruction.

Evaluation of Information Protection Practices
Periodically, our teams review best practices and compliance with organization policies and procedures governing the security, confidentiality, and quality of our information.

Access, Training, and Expectations
We work to maintain high ethical standards, policies, and practices and are committed to the protection of user information. We limit as much as possible access to confidential information, only work with qualified third-party services, and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons, processes, and transactions.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us at admin@bostonbirdinffestival.org and including the email address associated with your account and a phone number, should we need to contact you. Please note: We may require verification of identity,

Do We Disclose Information to Outside Parties?

We may provide aggregate information about our customers, sales, website traffic patterns, and related website information to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this privacy policy.

What About Legally Compelled Disclosure of Information?

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

Permission to Use of CONTENT AND Materials

The right to download and store or output the content materials on our website may be granted for the user’s personal use only if requested. Any content or materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display, or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without our express written permission is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly.