Privacy Policy
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Your privacy is critically important to us, so at The Urban Birding Festival’s website we have a few fundamental principles. If you find content on The Urban Birding Festival website you believe violates our Privacy Policy, please contact us immediately.
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
The Urban Birding Festival
The Urban Birding Festival operates a website at http://theurbanbirdingfestival.org. It is The Urban Birding Festival’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data (PD) please contact us.
WEBSITE VISITORS
Like most website operators, The Urban Birding Festival collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Urban Birding Festival’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Urban Birding Festival’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Urban Birding Festival may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Urban Birding Festival also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on articles published. The Urban Birding Festival only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
PERSONALLY-IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
Certain visitors to The Urban Birding Festival’s websites choose to interact with The Urban Birding Festival in ways that require The Urban Birding Festival to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Urban Birding Festival gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a newsletter at http://theurbanbirdingfestival.org to provide an email address.
Those who engage in transactions with The Urban Birding Festival — by registering for events, for example — are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Urban Birding Festival collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Urban Birding Festival. The Urban Birding Festival does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
AGGREGATED STATISTICS
The Urban Birding Festival may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, The Urban Birding Festival may monitor the most popular pages and articles on the OakParkArtLeague.org site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spammers. The Urban Birding Festival may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Urban Birding Festival does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
BUSINESS TRANSFERS
If The Urban Birding Festival, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Urban Birding Festival goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Urban Birding Festival may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
ADS
Any Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Urban Birding Festival and does not cover the use of cookies by any such advertisers.
COMMENTS
Comments and other content submitted via the Akismet anti-spam service are saved on our servers unless they were marked as spam positive, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
PROTECTION OF INFORMATION
The Urban Birding Festival discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that
(i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Urban Birding Festival’s behalf or to provide services available at The Urban Birding Festival’s websites, and
(ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Urban Birding Festival’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Urban Birding Festival will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Urban Birding Festival discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Urban Birding Festival believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Urban Birding Festival, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of The Urban Birding Festival website and have supplied your email address, The Urban Birding Festival may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Urban Birding Festival and our services. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Urban Birding Festival takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
EMAIL COMMUNICATION
The Urban Birding Festival sends a newsletter and occasional nonprofit marketing updates that we believe will be useful to individuals that subscribe to our website or blog, or request updates. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every email. We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
COOKIES
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Urban Birding Festival uses cookies to help The Urban Birding Festival identify and track visitors, their usage of The Urban Birding Festival website, and their website access preferences.
The Urban Birding Festival visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Urban Birding Festival’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Urban Birding Festival’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their own privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your PD.
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realize that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor have any liability to do so.
USE OF YOUR CREDIT CARD
You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Urban Birding Festival may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at The Urban Birding Festival’s sole discretion. The Urban Birding Festival encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a The Urban Birding Festival account, you should also check your membership dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.