National Heritage Museum is committed to protecting your privacy and giving you a safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the National Heritage Museum web site.  By using the National Heritage Museum web site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In connection with your joining the National Heritage Museum as a member, making purchases on our web site, and other activities, National Heritage Museum may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, credit card number, e-mail address, home or work address or telephone number.  National Heritage Museum also may collect anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences and interests.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by this web site.  This information can include:  your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.  This information is used by National Heritage Museum for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the National Heritage Museum web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data on National Heritage Museum public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

Other Web Sites

National Heritage Museum is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on web sites outside of the National Heritage Museum web site.  National Heritage Museum encourages you to review the privacy statements of web sites you choose to link to from National Heritage Museum so that you can understand how those web sites collect, use and share your information.

Use of your Personal Information

National Heritage Museum collects and uses your personal information to operate the National Heritage Museum Web site and deliver the services you have requested.  National Heritage Museum may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from National Heritage Museum and its business partners.  National Heritage Museum may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

National Heritage Museum may share personally identifiable data with trusted partners to provide customer support, or arrange for delivery of products or services you have requested.  All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to National Heritage Museum, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

National Heritage Museum does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.  National Heritage Museum 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 personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number, credit card number) is not transferred to the third party.

Except as described above, National Heritage Museum will not disclose your personal information, unless required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:  (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on National Heritage Museum or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of National Heritage Museum; and, (c) protect the personal safety of users of National Heritage Museum or the public.

Page Tracking and Use of Cookies

The National Heritage Museum web site uses “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience.  A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.  Our cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by our web site.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time.  For example, if you personalize National Heritage Museum pages, or register with the National Heritage Museum site, a cookie helps National Heritage Museum to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.  When you return to the same National Heritage Museum web page, the information you previously provided, such as billing addresses or shipping addresses, can be retrieved, so you can easily use the National Heritage Museum features that you customized.  This also gives us information on what features of our web site are popular.

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 National Heritage Museum web site.

Security of your Personal Information

National Heritage Museum uses standard techniques and procedures to do its best to secure your personal information 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

National Heritage Museum will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. National Heritage Museum encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how National Heritage Museum is protecting your information.

Contact Information

National Heritage Museum welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.  If you believe that National Heritage Museum has not adhered to this Statement, please contact National Heritage Museum.  We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.