Bennington Museum Store Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice    

Effective Date: July 1, 2023

This Privacy Notice Discloses the privacy practices for the Bennington Museum Store and our website: https://store.benningtonmuseum.org/ . This Privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:

• What information we collect;
• With whom it is shared;
• How it can be corrected;
• How it is secured;
• How policy changes will be communicated;
• How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.

Information Collection, Use and Sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We may only have access to collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact. We will not rent or sell any of the information you provide to anyone.

We will use the information given to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. No information that is provided will be shared with any third party outside of our organization, only information that is necessary to complete your request will be shared, e.g., to ship an order.

Unless otherwise specified we may contact you via email about special offers, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. To do so you may contact us via email or phone, you can find both on our website in the Contact Us section.

You can:

• See what data we have about you, if any.
• Change/correct any data we have about you.
• Have us delete any data we have about you.
• Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

Registration

You can view all products on our website at any time without registering. In order to ask questions and place an order you will be required to register and provide information such as name and email address.

Orders

When you order through our store we require that you give us contact information like name and shipping address. We also require that you give us a credit card number, exasperation, and CVV. This information is for billing purposes and to ship your order. We also require a billing address, credit cards processed with the wrong billing address can be declined. Contact information is also used if we have trouble placing an order we will contact you.

Sharing

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. Any information we share can never be linked to an individual person.

Security

We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information on our web site, your information is protected online and offline.

Anytime we ask you to provide sensitive information such as credit card data your information is securely transmitted. When providing payment information you can always verify this if the beginning of the webpages URL says “https” (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure). Also you can look for a closed lock on the bottom or top of the webpage.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need information to perform a specific job (e.g. billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies

We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving you time on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance their experience. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personal identifiable information on our site.

Links

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 uses to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statement of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Notification of Changes

Whenever changes are made to the privacy policy any policy before the new effective date will no longer be in effect. Customers who are a member and who are on our mailing list will receive an email notifying them of our policy update, also attached will be a copy of the new privacy policy.

Concerns Questions or Comments

If you have any concerns, questions, or comments you are always welcome to call (802-447-1571) or email (shop@benningtonmuseum.org) us any time. Please contact us immediately if you feel we are not abiding by this privacy policy.