Privacy Policy

Original: May 19, 2008
Updated: January 23, 2012 (updated launguage and page format)

Woodlawn Nature Center recognizes that privacy is important. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the programs, services and web sites offered by Woodlawn Nature Center, or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we may post separate privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.

Information we collect and how we use it:
Woodlawn Nature Center offers a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as free information available on several pages. In order to provide some services, we collect the following types of information:

• Information you provide - We may ask for basic personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password).
• Cookies - We may send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
• Log information - When you log in to a password protected area, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. These server logs may include information such as your web page request, internet protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
• User communications - We may retain communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, administer information, and improve our services.
  

Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Woodlawn Nature Center. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various pages. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

Woodlawn Nature Center only processes personal information for the purposes described in the applicable Privacy Policy and/or privacy notice for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include (but are not limited to):

• Providing our programs and services to users, including the display of customized content.
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services.
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network.
• Developing new information, services, programs and products.

Information sharing
Woodlawn Nature Center only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Woodlawn Nature Center in the following limited circumstances: We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Woodlawn Nature Center, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Woodlawn Nature Center becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non personal information. Such information does not identify you individually.

Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access of personal information to Woodlawn Nature Center's employees and / or board members, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve Woodlawn Nature Center. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

Data integrity
Woodlawn Nature Center processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.

Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Woodlawn Nature Center's web sites, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup tapes), or for which access is not otherwise required. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of this Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site.