Your privacy is critically important to us. At the Historical Society of Princeton, we have a few fundamental principles:
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.
In our Mobile App, we will not access your phone contacts, view or take photos, listen to or record audio, track your location, or read or modify your USB storage.
In our social networking and mobile application products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what is visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our Privacy Policy which incorporates these goals:
The Historical Society of Princeton operates a website as well as a mobile application (the “App”) on behalf of our patrons. It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Website and App.
Website Visitors and Application Users
Historical Society of Princeton 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 Historical Society of Princeton’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our Website and App.
The Historical Society of Princeton also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Such information can include location data and information of end users. The Historical Society of Princeton does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to the Historical Society of Princeton Website and users of the Historical Society of Princeton App choose to interact with Historical Society of Princeton in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Historical Society of Princeton gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a social network at the Historical Society of Princeton to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with the Historical Society of Princeton are asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, the Historical Society of Princeton collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor interaction with the Historical Society of Princeton. The Historical Society of Princeton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Website-related and App-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Historical Society of Princeton may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its Websites and users of its App. For instance, the Historical Society of Princeton may monitor the most popular pages on the Historical Society of Princeton site and may monitor activity on its website for the purpose of grant-reporting. Historical Society of Princeton may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Historical Society of Princeton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Historical Society of Princeton 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 Historical Society of Princeton behalf or to provide services available at Historical Society of Princeton Websites and Applications, 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 Historical Society of Princeton Websites and App, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Historical Society of Princeton 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, Historical Society of Princeton discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Historical Society of Princeton believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Historical Society of Princeton, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Historical Society of Princeton Websites or App or have supplied your email address, Historical Society of Princeton may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what is going on with Historical Society of Princeton and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs 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. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time. Historical Society of Princeton takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor computer, and that the visitor browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Historical Society of Princeton uses cookies to help Historical Society of Princeton identify and track visitors, their usage of the Historical Society of Princeton Websites, and their website access preferences. Historical Society of Princeton visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Historical Society of Princeton Website, with the drawback that certain features of Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads
Historical Society of Princeton does not have ads on its Website or Mobile App.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Historical Society of Princeton may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Historical Society of Princeton’s sole discretion. Historical Society of Princeton encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Historical Society of Princeton account, you should also check your social network 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.
