Memphis Botanic Garden has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: membg.org. If at any time you find this privacy policy unacceptable, you must immediately leave this website.
We respect your privacy. Any information we collect from you, including your email address, will simply be used to send you the information you have requested and/or communicate with you regarding an event, class, or other programming you have signed up for or purchased tickets for. We will not give or sell your personal information to any unaffiliated third party. If you give us your email and permission to send more information, you may opt out of receiving any additional email messages at any time, by unsubscribing from our email list.
Information Gathering
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our website by (1) identifying which parts of our site are most heavily used (2) to tailor site content to user needs and (3) to generate aggregate statistical reports. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that user sessions will be tracked, but the users will remain anonymous.
You need not provide Memphis Botanic Garden with personally identifying information (e.g., name, telephone number, email address, city and/or state of residence) as a condition of using our site. However, your failure to provide certain personally identifying information when asked will prevent certain features of the website from functioning or will prevent Memphis Botanic Garden from effectively responding to certain aspects of your requests. The website will collect only that personally identifying information that you affirmatively provide in response to a direct request.
We use a tool called “Google Analytics” to collect information about use of this site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our website. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to your browser on the date of your visit, instead of your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with any personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a “cookie” on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing your return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. Please refer to your browser settings for additional information on disabling cookies or visit Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Third Party Sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links within our site may connect to external sites outside of our domain as a convenience to you. If you use these links, you will leave the Memphis Botanic Garden website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and do not make any representations about them. Before visiting or providing personally identifying information to any third-party website, you should review its privacy policy and practices, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect your privacy.
Constant Contact
Constant Contact, Inc. licenses a permission-based e-marketing software platform to individuals and
organizations. They act as a service provider to these customers, most of whom are small businesses and nonprofits. Constant Contact helps our customers design email newsletters, share them on social
networks, manage lists of contacts and marketing preferences, and track email campaign results.
Constant Contact does not have a contractual relationship with recipients of the messages Memphis Botanic Garden sends with the Constant Contact software.
Constant Contact requires Memphis Botanic Garden to use their platform only for permission-based email marketing, in compliance with our Anti-Spam Policy (http://www.constantcontact.com/legal/anti-spam). If you believe you have received unwanted, unsolicited messages sent through Constant Contact (or purporting to be sent through our platform), please forward a copy of that message with your comments to abuse@constantcontact.com for review.
How to Opt-out of Emails from Memphis Botanic Garden
Any emails you receive through our platform include an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving
marketing emails from the sender or to change your expressed interests. If you wish to do this, simply
follow the unsubscribe, SafeUnsubscribe® and/or Update Profile links at the end of any email you receive
from Memphis Botanic Garden.
How to Find More Information
For more information about Constant Contact and how Memphis Botanic Garden uses our platform to
contact you, please see http://www.constantcontact.com/legal/about-constant-contact-faqs.
SimpleTix
Memphis Botanic Garden uses SimpleTix as its event ticketing & registration system. Your information, including Personal Information, may be stored through SimpleTix’s servers. By using the Service, you consent to SimpleTix’s collection, disclosure, storage, and use of your Personal Information in accordance with SimpleTix’s privacy policy available at https://www.simpletix.com/Privacy.php.
Copyright
Unless otherwise noted, all contents of the Memphis Botanic Garden website are copyright Memphis Botanic Garden Foundation, Inc. rights reserved.
Security
Memphis Botanic Garden has implemented and maintains reasonable security procedures and practices to protect against the unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction, or disclosure of your personally-identifying information.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Memphis Botanic Garden reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to change this Privacy Policy, we will post these changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it. Any such modifications become effective upon your continued access to and/or use of the site. It is your sole responsibility to check this website from time to time to view any such changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any changes, if and when such changes may be made to this Privacy Policy, you must cease access to this website.
Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action
Memphis Botanic Garden is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its relations with its board and staff members, without regard to age, citizenship status, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
Contacting the Homepage
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact Memphis Botanic Garden.
750 Cherry Road
Memphis, TN 38117
Phone: 901-636-4100
E-mail: info@membg.org
