The Washington State
Horse Park is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy rights when
visiting any page of our Website, http://www.wahorsepark.org. To protect your
Personal Information, the Washington State Horse Park has created the
guidelines outlined below, which explain the kinds of information the website
collects, how it is used, the conditions under which it is made available to third
parties, how information is maintained and our compliance with the Children’s
Online Privacy Act. Your use of the website indicates your acceptance of and
agreement with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected
While visiting the
website, we may ask you to provide information that personally identifies you
("personal information") for purposes of interacting with the
website. Such personal information may include, but is not limited to, your
name, phone number, street address and e-mail address, age and gender. On any
page that collects personal information, we will specifically describe what
information is required in order to provide you with the product or service or
enter you in the promotion you have requested, as well as respond to your
inquiry or comment. This personally identifiable data is collected by means of
form interfaces on our website, into which the user must voluntarily enter the
information requested. If you place an online order or enter a commercial transaction
at this website, we will collect additional personally identifiable
information, including billing address and credit card information. We may also
collect personally identifiable information through purchase forms, surveys,
contests, emails we receive from you and your other interactions with our
website. You may browse the website without registering or providing any
personally identifying information.
IP Addresses
This website also
collects anonymous data that is not indicative of and cannot be traced to an
individual without the cooperation of their Internet Service Provider. This
data includes information about the user's remote IP address, referral data
(which page "linked" to the present request) and the browser
software's user-agent string. This information is accepted passively from the
HTTP headers that are sent from the user when requesting any file from the
server. Washington State Horse Park does log IP addresses for systems
administration, troubleshooting purposes and to determine website usage.
Cookies
The website uses
"cookies", which are elements of data that a website can send to your
browser, which may then be stored on your system. This element of data is a
piece of text, not a program. The website can only access the information from
a cookie sent by the website. We cannot access other cookies sent by other
websites or the information contained therein. Additionally, we cannot learn
your e-mail address or any other information about you through the use of a
cookie. The only way we would learn such information is if you specifically and
voluntarily submit that information to us, for example, through a registration
system, by entering a sweepstakes or promotion, etc.
Why does the Site use
cookies?
Washington State Horse
Park uses cookies to track usage of the website and further personalize your
experience when you are visiting the Website. By tracking usage, we can best
determine what features of the website best serve the users. Overall, the use
of cookies helps to give you a more personalized experience at the website. The
information is used to keep our website fresh and relevant to you, the user.
Cookies also allow you to avoid retyping your e-mail address on the website.
The information stored in a cookie is used to allow us to personalize your
experience on the website.
May I decline to accept a
cookie?
You may decline to
accept cookies sent by the website by selecting an option on your browser to
reject cookies. However, some portions of the website may require cookies in
order to provide you with the full set of features offered. Cookies enable our
server to know that you are a registered user. In addition, our registration
system may require that you accept the cookies from the website in order to
access that portion of the website.
Use of Personal Information
We believe in
protecting your privacy and will not share personal information with third
parties outside of Washington State Horse Park, except as described in this
Privacy Policy. We believe that we can enhance your experience on our Website
with the information you share with us. We use personal information about you
to improve our advertising and marketing efforts, to statistically analyze
website usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to personalize
the website's content, layout, and services. We also may use your personal
information, such as your e-mail address or mailing address, to contact you
regarding products and/or services that may be of interest to you, to respond
to an inquiry from you regarding the information that we have collected, to
respond to your comments and suggestions and to fill orders and complete
commercial transactions that you initiate with this website.
Washington State Horse
Park may match specific and/or aggregated personal information with third party
data to provide you with product and content offerings that interest you and
improve our advertising and marketing efforts. Washington State Horse Park also
may disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to
potential advertisers, partners, other third parties, our affiliate companies
and for other lawful purposes. For example, we provide our advertisers with
aggregate information about our users, such as statistics regarding the number
of website users that view their advertisements.
As part of your
experience on our website, you may receive communications from us related to
products and services that might interest you. While we believe these services
will enhance your experience at our website, you will at all times be able to
opt out from receiving these communications, either by specifically opting out
of these services or by deleting your profile from our database.
We have today, and
will in the future, have arrangements with third party service providers, such
as credit card processors, shipping companies, and fulfillment services, other
third-party vendors, or any partner who assists in the operations and/or administration
of this website.
When you sign up for a
service we offer on the Website, we may be required to share personal
information with that service provider in order to provide the service. These
third party providers are not permitted to retain or use personal information
for any purpose unrelated to providing the service.
We reserve the right
to disclose personal information when needed to comply with the law or a legal
process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to
identify persons violating the law, to investigate or assist in investigations
incident to misuse or abuse of this website, or in connection with the sale of
part or all of Washington State Horse Park.
Party Collecting the
Information
Information entered by
website visitors is retrieved directly by the Washington State Horse Park:
PO Box 278
Cle Elum,
WA 98922
This Privacy Policy
only addresses the use and dissemination of information that the website
collects from you. To the extent that you disclose any information to other
parties, whether through, for example, online auctions, chat rooms, personal
ads, or the like, through third party services or promotions offered on or
through the website or through other websites throughout the internet,
different policies may apply and Washington State Horse Park shall not be
responsible for the use or dissemination of such information.
Links to Other Materials
Third party sites
linked to and from the site are not necessarily under the control of Washington
State Horse Park. Washington State Horse Park shall have no
responsibilities or liabilities whatsoever for the content or privacy practices
of any such linked site or any link or linking program at any time. Washington
State Horse Park does not necessarily endorse companies (or related products or
services) to or from which the website is linked. If you decide to access any
of the third party sites linked to the website, you do so entirely at your own
risk. Washington State Horse Park hereby disclaims any rights to trademarks,
service marks, trade names, logos, copyrights, patents, domain names or other
intellectual property interests of third parties.
Children's Privacy
The Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”) applies only to websites of a
commercial nature, and while Washington State Horse Park is a nonprofit
organization, it considers COPPA to provide sound advice for any website that
is intended for use by children. For this reason, Washington State Horse Park does
not knowingly collect or solicit any personally identifiable information from
children under 13 years of age without verifiable parental consent.
In the event that we
receive actual knowledge that we have collected such personal information
without the requisite and verifiable parental consent, we will delete that
information from our database as quickly as is practicable. With respect to any
form interface that appears on a webpage at our website, no information will be
knowingly collected from any user under the age of 13. Where “age” or “date of
birth” is requested on the form interface, no information will be stored or
transmitted unless the response indicates that the user is 13 years of age or
older.
Providing personal
information is never a prerequisite for accessing the basic content or
resources on this website.
Maintenance of Personal
Information
The personally
identifiable information collected at this website may be indefinitely retained
and electronically archived. Please keep in mind that information collected at
this website may be different than that collected at or through other
activities, events, or functions related to Washington State Horse Park and the
use and disclosure, if any, of such information may vary and are not covered
under this policy.
Opting-Out
We respect your
privacy and ability to choose whether to share information with us and any
third party. You may choose to "opt-out" of sharing personal
information in several ways. When choosing to use certain features or services
on the website, you can choose whether to share optional personal information
in connection with the feature or service. If you receive communications from
us that you prefer not to receive, you may opt-out from receiving these
communications, either by specifically indicating this preference in a
communication to us via the Unsubscribe link or by deleting your registration
profile from our database. You may also opt-out altogether from providing
personal information to us by not registering on the website and thereby not
providing personal information. You may also choose at a later date to have
your name removed from our database. To do so, please follow the process
described below. Certain portions of the website and certain services provided
on the website, however, do require registration in order to access or use
these areas and services. If you choose not to register or provide certain
information, these areas will not be accessible to you.
Reviewing, Changing and
Deleting Your Personal Information
You may access all of
the personal information that we collect from you online and maintain by
e-mailing us at director@wahorsepark.org. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take
reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making
corrections.
Security
Washington State Horse
Park maintains industry standard encryption technologies to ensure the
security, integrity and privacy of the personal information that you provide
through the website. Please keep in mind, however, that no data transmission
over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit
using our website, and therefore, it is important to remember that you transmit
such information at your own risk. Washington State Horse Park does not assume
responsibility for use or disclosure of your information that are the result of
unauthorized or illegal access to our systems or to those of our vendors or
partners.
Contacting Us
If you have any
questions or comments about our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at director@wahorsepark.org.
Effective Date and
Changes
Understanding that
Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, any changes to this policy will be
promptly posted on this page, with an updated "effective date" posted
below. Washington State Horse Park reserves the right to modify the terms of
this policy at any time and in our sole discretion, by posting a change notice
to this page. Your continued use of the website following our posting of a
change notice will constitute binding acceptance of those changes.
This Privacy Policy
was last modified on March 9, 2016.