Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the Audubon of Martin County, Inc. Website and reviewing our privacy policy. How we handle information we learn about you from your visit to our Website depends upon what you do when visiting our site.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you visit our site to read or download information, we will automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:
- The name of the Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you are connecting from a university's domain);
- The IP address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you are using the Internet) from which you access our site;
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to our site;
- The country and state from which you access our site;
- The pages you visit and the information you request; and
- Search terms used to get to our Website from an external search engine and terms used on our site using our search engine.
This information does not identify you personally. We do not store any personal identifiers. The information collected is part of a systems log file, and is only used internally for site management purposes.
This information is primarily collected to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
If You Send Us Personal Information
You do not have to provide personal information to visit our Website. If you choose to provide personal information, such as by sending an email or submitting a form, we will use the information you provide to respond to you.
Please do not send us sensitive information, such as your credit card number, via email. It is possible that during transmission of your email this information may be intercepted by a third party. We cannot guarantee its safety while in transit.
We use personally identifiable information to further our members' protection and to provide better service. This may be to correct broken links that you have identified or provide additional information that you have requested.
We may transfer personal information to a third party only in the following cases:- To a bank which must receive payment for a transaction that you initiated;
- To a company that is contracted to assist us with specific services, including electronic commerce or donations, and which agrees not to sell or use personal information for other purposes;
- To legal authorities if we suspect that you are attempting to change or otherwise damage this Website, or you are using it in violation of Federal or local laws;
Audubon of Martin County, Inc. does not collect information for commercial marketing purposes.
Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)
A cookie is a small file that a Website transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the Website that provided it, and no other Website can request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.
The Audubon of Martin County, Inc. blog (http://blog.audubonmartincounty.org/) Website uses session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through the site. If you do not wish to have session or persistent cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off in your browser. However, this may affect the functioning of the sites. The main Audubon of Martin County, Inc. Website (http://audubonmartincounty.org/) does not use cookies of either type.
Links to Other Sites
Our Website has links to other organizations, corporate Websites and government Websites. Once you access another site through a link that we provide, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site. The privacy policies and procedures described here do not apply to any external sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any site you link to from ours, especially if you share any personal information.
Website Software and Plug-ins
It is possible that our site will provide you an opportunity to go to a software manufacturer's web site so you may download a related plug-in that will enable your browser to show you a part of our web site. This prompt occurs because your browser needs capabilities provided by these plug-ins. Our system does not read or place anything on your hard drive when recognizing your browser's capabilities. While plug-in(s) may be needed to view or interact with some content, you retain control and choice about conducting the download. At the time that we create and post the web pages that require these software plug-ins for viewing, they are provided by their manufacturer for download and use free of charge. We cannot guarantee, however, that the plug-in will remain free, or that the manufacturer will not collect personally identifying information about you when you elect to download the software from their site. If you choose to visit the manufacturer's website to obtain the plug-in, please carefully review their posted policies for details about personal privacy and use of downloaded plug-ins.
Social Media
Audubon of Martin County, Inc. participates on open forums offered by third-party commercial social media sites in order to increase public participation and collaboration with our organization. Please note that while we encourage candid conversation and frank exchanges of ideas, Audubon of Martin County, Inc. does not control or endorse the comments or opinions provided by visitors to these social media sites, and cannot attest to the accuracy of the information provided by these sites.
Website Security
For site security and to ensure this service remains available to all users, this site employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Except for authorized law-enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
We use virus-protection measures on our computer systems and regularly update the software. These are computer security measure that, in addition to maintaining our computer systems, also ensure that all files that we develop and/or post on our Web server is virus-free.
