At Dunwoody Nature Center, accessible from www.dunwoodynature.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy contains types of information that are collected and recorded by Dunwoody Nature Center (“Our”, “Us”, or “We”) and how we use it.
The Information We Collect
We may collect information about you by the following means:
- Directly from you, when you provide information to us or interact with us, including when you register or sign up to receive communications from us;
- Automatically from you, when you utilize or interact with our website; and
- From other third-party sources, such as our vendors, suppliers, contractors or partners.
We may also collect the following categories of information:
- We will collect contact information which may include name, e-mail address, company name, mailing address, and phone numbers.
- Employment information if you apply for employment with us or volunteer your services. We may collect employment information including job history and credentials or titles and organizations with whom you’ve worked.
- When you make a financial contribution online, we collect your name, contact information and standard credit card data. This information allows a third-party vendor to process and fulfill your donation and notify you of your donation status.
- Online user activity described in the next section; and
- Legally required information that may be required by laws that apply to us.
When you interact with the website, certain information about your use of our website is automatically collected. This includes:
- Usage details about your interaction with our website (such as the date, time, and length of visits, and specific pages or content accessed during the visits, search terms, frequency of the visits, referring website addresses);
- Device information including the IP address and other details of a device that you use to connect with our website (such as device type, operating system, browser type, and mobile network information);
- Location information where you choose to provide the website with access to information about your device’s location; and
- Information about your interaction with the website, including the pages viewed and how you reached our website.
We use ‘cookies’ and ‘web beacons’. These are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect from you for the following purposes, to:
- Provide our website to you;
- Respond to requests from you;
- Monitor the performance of our website (including metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns);
- Interact with you, including to notify you with updates regarding our organization and to inform you about important changes to this Privacy Policy;
- Manage, operate, and improve the website;
- Conduct audits, recordkeeping, and updating and expanding our organizational activities; and
- Comply with legal requirements and industry standards, detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal, and protect the rights of us, you, or others.
How We Share Your Information
- Vendors, and Service Providers. We may share information with service providers, contractors, and other third parties that assist us in furtherance of our goals and organizational mission and that we believe need the information to perform a necessary function for us (such as website operation, maintenance and hosting of our website, processing payments, accounting, auditing, and tax services, other professional services).
- We share information where necessary to comply with applicable law, to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government authorities or third parties, as permitted by law and without your consent when it is necessary to protect our employees, members, donors, or property; to enforce our Terms and Conditions; in emergency situations; or to enforce our rights under our policies.
- We work with third parties to provide credit card, bank, payment and other information processing services for donations that you make. For instance, if you choose to make a donation online, we will share your personal information with payment processing service providers.
- We may share information with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website and offerings.
- Your Consent. In addition to the other disclosures described in this section, we may also disclose your information as you expressly authorize us to do so.
How We Protect and Store Your Information
We maintain reasonable security measures to protect your personal information. However, no website, electronic storage, or other online system or service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
We do not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regard to the information that they share and/or collect with us. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Our Retention of Your Information
We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are material, we may provide a more prominent notice (including email notification of privacy notice changes). Nevertheless, you should review this Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure you are aware of the most recent version.
How to Contact Us
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
Opt-Out Choices
If at any time you no longer wish to receive communications from us, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the relevant email or email us at marketing@dunwoodynature.org.
Privacy Rights
Certain jurisdictions have specific legal requirements and grant privacy rights with respect to personal information, and we will comply with the restrictions and any requests you submit as required by applicable law. If you are seeking to exercise your rights under a law of a specific jurisdiction, please contact us using the How to Contact Us section above.
