PRIVACY POLICY
You can visit most portions of audubon.org without telling us who you
are and without revealing any personal information. The only information
we collect from a typical web site visit does not identify you. Rather,
it is the name of your Internet service provider ("ISP"), the
browser and type of machine you are using, the web site that referred
you to us, the pages you request and the date and time you request them.
We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity
to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors.
Audubon does not sell or otherwise disclose such user information outside
the organization.
Personal Information Collected
In general, when you visit our Web sites and access information you remain
anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information
to us to view our site.
There are occasions, however, when we will ask for additional information.
We do this to better understand and respond to your needs, and provide
you with services that may be valuable to you. Audubon collects email
addresses and other personally identifiable data about you when such data
is voluntarily submitted. For example, personally identifiable information
will be collected in order for you to become a member of Audubon or to
register as an environmental activist online. Contact information from
order forms is used to send orders, invoices and information about Audubon
to you. Some of the activist functions of our site also require registration
of personal information. We use this information to track the usage of
these features and to help you gain access to the information you need
to most benefit the environment. All such information is collected and
stored in a manner appropriate to the nature of the data. Audubon makes
every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive
user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption
methodologies.
Finally, you may decide to send Audubon personally identifying information,
for example, in a message containing information about membership. We
will only use this information to identify you and to determine how to
respond to the electronic mail. We will not use this information for any
purpose other than to resolve the matter identified in the email.
Cookies
What are "Cookies". A cookie is a small text file sent to your
computer’s hard drive by a website’s server. Each time you
return to the site that "set" the cookie, the server retrieves
its cookie from your computer and thereby knows you are a previous visitor
who has returned. Cookies may contain information about your ISP, operating
system, browser type, screen resolution and number of colors, your computer’s
processor type, your ISP’s server, your Internet protocol address,
and what server you were last on. Other information can be added to a
cookie, but only information that you give to us.
Use of Cookies
Audubon uses cookies written by our site, but not to obtain information
on other Web sites that you may visit. Cookies help us by providing some
history about the parts of our sites that you have visited. This enables
us to help you navigate our site more easily, to determine what pages
are most attractive to our visitors, and to alert you to related pages
on our site that may interest you.
Audubon’s Use of Information
Personally identifiable information may sometimes be made available to
other non-profit organizations and occasionally to for-profit organizations
-- unless you request otherwise. Whether or not you choose to share your
information will have no impact on your interaction with us. If you would
not like to have your name traded with other companies, just tell us.
You can opt-out by contacting us via email at webmaster@audubon.org.
We will not provide any of your personal information to other organizations
if you elect to keep your record private.
Security of Your Credit Card Information
We have made every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission
of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection
and encryption methodologies. If you are still concerned about the safety
of your credit card information online, you may also submit contributions
or other payment to Audubon by mailing a check as directed by instructions
on the appropriate pages of our website.
Links to Third Party Sites
We provide links to third party sites. Because we do not control those
Web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these
third party sites. That another web site is linked to our site does not
constitute an endorsement by Audubon of the owner of the other site, the
content of its site, or its products or services.