As the Bridgerland Audubon Society(BAS), we recognize the importance of privacy to visitors of our Web site. This privacy policy explains what type of information is collected, or may in the future be collected, from you when you visit our Web site and how that information may be used.
BAS collects personally-identifying information (such as your name, e-mail address, address, telephone number and/or credit card information) from the BAS Web site only if you choose to provide that information to us.BAS asks visitors to provide certain personal information when they register for the BAS Discussions or Chat Forums, when they request a transcript of BAS programs, when they e-mail a page of the BAS Web site to another person, when they make a purchase from the BAS Online Shop, and when they register for any online contests. BAS also may ask visitors to provide personal information in other limited circumstances specified at the time the information is gathered. Any information that you post when participating in the BAS Discussions or Chat Forums becomes public. The right to determine what is published is held by BAS and its volunteers.
Like all other Web servers, BAS’s Web server automatically creates log files for each visitor who accesses our site. These “access logs” allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors. The access logs do NOT record a visitor’s name, address, phone number, credit card numbers, or any other personally-identifying information. Rather, they contain some or all of the following information:
- The Internet Protocol Address (IP Address) of the machine which accessed our Web site.
- The date of the visit.
- The time of the visit.
- The path taken through our Web site.
- The browser being used.
- A list of files downloaded or viewed.
- The amount of time spent reading or listening to files.
- Any errors encountered.
Cookies
BAS also uses ‘cookies’ to collect information. A cookie is a string of characters that can be written to a file on the user’s hard drive when the user visits a Web site. Only the Web site that set the cookie can read it, and it can only be used as a record keeping device to store information that the site already has. It cannot, for example, be used to read other information from the user’s hard drive.
BAS uses cookies to track users’ activity through the site in order to improve the site’s architecture, to offer the user interactive features that would not be possible without them, and to recall specific information to save the user time during subsequent visits to the site. For example, cookies allow BAS to remember your media player (e.g., Real Audio or Windows Media) preference. BAS Discussions and Chat Forums, the BAS Online Shop, and other interactive features also use cookies. Our sponsorship service vendors, which serve sponsorship messages onto our site, and vendors that measure the use of bridgerlandaudubon.org, may also use their own cookies. If you wish to prevent certain or all cookies from being set to your hard drive you may disable them in your browser’s preferences, although your browser might then be unable to accommodate certain functionalities on bridgerlandaudubon.org.
Use of Information
The use of personally-identifying information is limited to the following: responding to user e-mails; listing name and location (city, state and/or country) information provided by users when publishing user e-mails or other submissions; fulfillment of transcript orders; fulfillment of BAS Online Shop orders; contest management; editorial purposes such as contacting users for an online survey; sending communications, including marketing and promotional communications, from BAS or associated contributing members to users who have ‘opted in’ to the receipt of such communications; other internal BAS or other contributing members purposes; and other purposes specified at the time the information is gathered.
Any information that you disclose when participating in the BAS Discussions or Chat Forums may become public. Moreover, by participating in the BAS Discussions and Chat Forums, the e-mail address you provide for such purpose becomes available to any third parties accessing our Web site and as a result, you may receive unsolicited e-mail from such third parties.
In addition, if you send an e-mail, story idea, essay and/or other submission (“Submission”) to BAS through our Web site, we may print that Submission, or an excerpt from it, on the BAS Web site or otherwise publish it in any other medium, together with your name and location (city, state and/or country) if you provide that information to us.
Personally-identifying information collected by BAS is not provided to outside parties except BAS officers, BAS service vendors (such as transcript fulfillment service, the BAS Online Shop fulfillment service, and BAS’s email list manager), and other third parties when the user specifically consents to such distribution. In these circumstances, the information is provided for the sole purpose of — and only to the extent necessary for — delivering the requested transcript or goods to the user, delivering communications from BAS to users who have ‘opted in’ to the receipt of these communications, or serving other internal BAS purposes.
BAS also may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law or with legal process, (b) protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the BAS Web site, or (c) protect the personal safety or property of BAS Web site users, the public or BAS and its volunteers/employees.
If you do not want your personally-identifying information to be collected or used for any of these purposes, you can simply ‘opt out’ according to the process described below.
BAS uses non-identifying aggregate information to analyze use of and better design the BAS Web sites and to share with third parties in aggregate form only as appropriate. For example, we may tell a third party that a certain number of users accessed a particular audio stream on our Web site. However, we will not disclose any information that could be used to identify those users.
Security
BAS has in place what we believe to be appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Credit card information provided to the BAS Online Shop is protected against unauthorized use by encryption and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security features, which scramble your personal information so that only your web browser and our Web site’s server can decipher it.
Children
Under 13: You cannot register for the contest or enter materials into the Discussion section. If we discover that we have collected any personally-identifying information from a child under the age of 13, we will remove that information from our database as soon as possible.
13-17: Participants between the ages of 13 and 17 must obtain permission from their parents or guardians before registering for the Contest or entering questions on our website.
Corrections to Personal Data; Opting Out
Please Contact Us to
a) correct or update any personal information in the BAS database that you state is erroneous,
b) opt-out of future communications from BAS or
c) request BAS to make reasonable efforts to remove your personal information from the BAS Online database, thereby canceling your BAS Discussions registration. The user understands that it may be impossible to delete personal information entirely because of backups and records of deletions.
Links to other Sites
It is important to note that the BAS Web site contains links to other sites that may not follow the same privacy policies as the BAS Web site. For instance, clicking on a National Audubon or ProjectFeederwatch.org notice on bridgerlandaudubon.org will take you to an entirely different site. These sites may use cookies, collect data, and use the data in ways that bridgerlandaudubon.org would not. BAS is not responsible for the privacy practices or any information or materials on these other sites. Please visit these sites if you wish to review their privacy policies.
Media – Images, Audio & Video
Participants in Bridgerland Audubon activities consent that any photograph, video, or digital image in which they appear may be used without compensation to participants for the purposes of publicity or advertising, such as catalogues, flyers, and news stories. If participation in images is not desired, please notify photographers or event leadership.
All text, when posted, becomes property of Bridgerland Audubon Society. BAS uses best efforts to post media whose owners have given permission to use, for educational purposes, without reimbursement. Media is obtained from authors, public domain sources, creative commons sources or supportive individuals and institutions. We seek to attribute all media properly and appreciate your generous contributions. If you hold rights in any media that we have not attributed correctly, please notify us immediately. We will update the attribution or remove the image as directed.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy Terms
BAS reserves the right to change this policy. Any changes to this policy will be posted to this page as soon as reasonably possible, so please check this page periodically. Use of the BAS Web site constitutes consent to any policy then in effect. Please make sure that you read BAS’s Terms of Use to understand additional terms and conditions which apply to the use of our Web site.
If you have any questions or comments concerning our privacy policy, please Contact Us via e-mail or send a letter to:
Bridgerland Audubon Society
PO Box 3501
Logan, UT 84343-3501
Notices to California and EU Residents
In this notice, BAS is providing additional information and choices to California residents. We are providing this information voluntarily. The law that requires additional notice – the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) – does not apply to non-profit entities like BAS.
This website is intended for use in the United States. If accessed by members of the EU, note that we will accept your data as if you were accessing from the United States.
However, if you request removal, we will remove your personal data as described above.
Your California Privacy Choices
We offer California residents the ability to make the requests listed below. However, in certain circumstances we may decline your request, including, but not limited to, circumstances where fulfilling a request may interfere with the exercise of freedom of speech or other rights provided under other applicable laws. If we deny your request, we will communicate our decision to you. You will not be penalized for making a request.
Information. You can request information about how we have collected, used and shared your personal information during the past 12 months. We have also made this information available to California residents without having to request it.
Access. You can request a copy of the personal information that we maintain about you.
Deletion. You can ask us to delete the personal information that we collected or maintain about you.
List of Third Party Marketers. Under California’s Shine the Light law, BAS users who are California residents may request a notice identifying the categories of personal information that we share with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, and such third parties’ contact information.
How to Submit a Request
To request access to or deletion of personal information:
Contact us
Email webmaster@bridgerlandaudubon.org or president@bridgerlandaudubon.org
Identity verification. We will need to confirm your identity and California residency to provide a substantive response to your request.
Authorized agents. California residents can empower an “authorized agent” to submit requests on their behalf. We will require the authorized agent to have a written authorization confirming that authority.
Writing credit: NPR Privacy Policy:
http://www.npr.org/about/privacypolicy.html and https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy
Last modified: May 5, 2021