Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to vanderbiltmuseum.org and Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum include vanderbiltmuseum.org, Vanderbilt Museum, Blackbaud, Inc., https://www.blackbaud.com/ and https://47321.blackbaudhosting.com/47321/. The Vanderbilt Museum website is a museum information and services site. By using the Vanderbilt Museum website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Vanderbilt Museum may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– Mailing Address
– E-mail Address
– Phone Number
If you purchase Vanderbilt Museum’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Vanderbilt Museum’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
If you choose to pay via credit card, then Blackbaud stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. For more insight, you may also want to read Blackbaud’s Privacy Policy (https://www.blackbaud.com/company/privacy-policy/north-america) or Blackbaud’s PCI-DSS compliance statement (https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/47655).
Vanderbilt Museum collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Vanderbilt Museum may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Vanderbilt Museum and its affiliates.
Vanderbilt Museum does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Vanderbilt 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 unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Vanderbilt Museum may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Vanderbilt Museum, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Vanderbilt Museum may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Vanderbilt Museum or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Vanderbilt Museum; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Vanderbilt Museum, or the public.
Vanderbilt Museum may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Vanderbilt Museum, in order to determine what Vanderbilt Museum services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Vanderbilt Museum to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Website flow and user behavior is tracked using Google Analytics and cookies. What pages are visited is tracked. What links are clicked is tracked.
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Vanderbilt Museum. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Vanderbilt Museum website.
The Vanderbilt Museum website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Vanderbilt Museum pages, or register with Vanderbilt Museum site or services, a cookie helps Vanderbilt Museum to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Vanderbilt Museum website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Vanderbilt Museum features that you customized.
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 Vanderbilt Museum services or websites you visit.
We have integrated various tools from different companies into our website, which allow us to evaluate user behavior or to establish links with other websites.
The controller has integrated the component Google Analytics (with anonymisation function) on this website.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website a data subject has come to a website from (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.
As IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or other states in agreement with the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by a Google server in the USA. On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google.
In addition, this website uses the Analytics feature UserID to track interaction data. This User ID will be additionally anonymized and encrypted and will not be linked with other data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.
In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics.
In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/ The following link provides a further explanation of Google Analytics https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.
Our website also uses Google Analytics performance reports relating to demographics and interests and reports on Google Display Network impressions. You can disable Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the ads on the Google Display Network by visiting the ad settings at this link: https://adssettings.google.com.
This website uses Google Tag Manager. Through this service so-called website tags can be managed centrally via a user interface. Google Tag Manager only implements tags. No cookies are used and no personal information is collected.
For each third-party data collection, Google will provide a respective privacy policy: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/
However, Google Tag Manager will not access these data. If deactivation has been implemented for certain domains / websites or cookies, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags as far as they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
With your consent, we will use Facebook’s “tracking pixel”. This pixel can be used to track user behavior after they have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook and / or Instagram ad. This allows us to record the effectiveness of Facebook and Instagram advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and, if necessary, to take optimization measures. The tracking of users who have landed on our website after clicking on one of our Facebook and Instagram ads can remain active up to 180 days.
The data collected in this way is anonymous for us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, about which we will inform you to the best of our knowledge.
Facebook may connect this data to the Facebook account and also use it for its own advertising purposes, according to its data usage policy.
If you want to disable cookie storage for Facebook, you can do so via your browser settings.
Your data is shared with MailChimp for marketing purposes. MailChimp does not use the data. By entering your personal information in a signup form, you agree to receive email communications from Vanderbilt Museum via MailChimp. MailChimp’s privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Vanderbilt Museum secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Vanderbilt Museum uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL Protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Vanderbilt Museum does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
From time to time, Vanderbilt Museum may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Vanderbilt Museum or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Vanderbilt Museum, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in the newsletter, or by sending an email to info@vanderbiltmuseum.org asking to be removed from receiving emails.
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Vanderbilt Museum reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Vanderbilt Museum welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Vanderbilt Museum has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Vanderbilt Museum at:
Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum
180 Little Neck Road
Centerport, New York 11721
Email Address:
info@vanderbiltmuseum.org
Telephone number:
631-854-5579
Effective as of December 23, 2019
The Vanderbilt Museum and Planetarium will be open during Winter Break -- Saturday, December 21st through Wednesday, December 31st from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
The Museum will be closed on Christmas Eve (Tuesday, 12/24), Christmas Day (Wednesday, 12/25), and New Year's Day (Thursday, 1/1/25).
