We have created this security and privacy statement in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for our website
Security
The Adams Museum and House is very careful to protect our users’ information. When
our registration/order forms ask you to enter sensitive information (such as credit
card number), that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL – the industry
standard technology. Any credit card information we maintain on our servers is encrypted.
The Adams Museum and House takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously
and we will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy
Policy. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information or a list
of our customers to third parties. However, as described in more detail below, there
are limited circumstances in which some of your information will be shared with
third parties, under strict restrictions, so it is important for you to review this
Privacy Policy. We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our
firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and
dissemination practices for our website.
In order to process your merchandise orders we must ask you to provide us with information
about yourself and your credit card. This Privacy Policy describes the information
we collect and how we use that information.
We use the information we collect about you in order 1) to provide our services
for your transactions, 2) to provide customer service, and 3) to improve our products
and services. We give access to individually identifiable information about our
users only to those employees who require it to fulfill customer service requests.
This site contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such websites.
Notification of Changes
This policy may be revised over time. We will post the amended Privacy Policy prominently
on this website so that you can always review what information we gather, how we
might use that information, and whether we will disclose it to anyone. The original
date of publication of this Privacy Policy and the dates of any revisions are posted
near the bottom of the page at the end of this document.
Our Contacts with Our Members and Customers
We may communicate with customers on a regular basis via e-mail to provide requested
services, and we may also communicate by phone to resolve customer complaints or
investigate suspicious transactions. We use your e-mail address to confirm your
purchases. We do not provide methods for you to opt out of these communications,
but they will be primarily informational in nature rather than promotional. If you
have asked to be included on our mailing list we also use your e-mail address to
send you other types of communications that you can control, including information
about new products, services and special promotions.
Our Policy As It Regards Children
We do not anticipate that children will make any on-line purchases from this website
and it is therefore our policy that we do not allow minors (under the age of 18)
to submit any personal information to us.
The Information We Collect and How We Use It
All information is used internally ONLY, we DO NOT sell or distribute it to anyone
outside our business.
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your transaction as you move from page to
page and add or remove items from your shopping cart. These cookies "expire" after
a short period on time and are not used by us after you leave the Adams Museum and
House web site.
To purchase products from The Adams Museum and House you must provide your name,
address, phone number, e-mail address, and credit card details. We may also ask
you to send by fax or mail photocopies of the credit card you used for the purchase
and your drivers license – front and back – and your signature. We will provide
you with a fax number you may use. These steps are to protect you and your good
credit from unauthorized purchases which might be attempted by someone who has acquired
your credit card number and other personal information. Financial information that
is collected is used to bill the user for products and services only. In order to
protect all our customers against potential fraud, we verify with third parties
the information you provide. In the course of such verification, we receive personally
identifiable information about you from such services. In particular, when you use
a credit card to make a purchase from The Adams Museum and House we will use card
authorization and fraud screening services to verify that your card information
and address matches the information that you supplied in the order form and that
the card has not been reported as lost or stolen.
Our site may use a form for customers to request information, products and services.
We collect visitor's contact information (like their email address) and financial
information (like their account or credit card numbers for ordering). Contact information
from the form is used to send orders and information about our company to our customers.
The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the visitor
when necessary. Users may choose not to receive future mailings; see the choice/opt-out
section below.
Because of the way that the World Wide Web communication standards work, when you
arrive at the Adams Museum and House web site, we automatically receive the Web
address of the site that you came from. We also collect information on which pages
of our web site you visit while you are on the website, the type of browser you
use and the times that you access our web site. We use this information only to
try to understand our customers’ preferences better and to manage the load on our
servers, so as to improve our service and your shopping experience. We do not track
the Web sites that you visit after you leave the The Adams Museum and House site.
If you send us correspondence, including e-mails and faxes, we retain such information
in the records of your account. We will also retain customer service correspondence
and other correspondence we send you. We retain these records In order to measure
and improve our customer service, and to investigate potential fraud and violations
of our User Agreement. We may, over time, delete these records if permitted by law.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer
our website and to track our marketing efforts.
Disclosure to Third Parties
We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties except in
the limited circumstances described below:
1. We share information with companies that help us process the transactions you
request and protect our customers’ transactions from fraud, such as sharing your
credit card number with a service that screens for lost and stolen card numbers.
2. We may disclose information that we in good faith believe is appropriate to cooperate
in investigations of fraud or other illegal activity.
3. We disclose information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, levy,
attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process,
including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action.
Correct/Update Information
You may correct any personal information you have previously submitted to us by
logging on using the link at the top of this page and selecting the "My Account"
link.
Contacting Us Regarding This Statement
If you have any questions about this security and privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this website, pleased contact us:
Adams Museum
54 Sherman St.
Deadwood, SD 57732
Telephone: 605.578.1714
August 4, 2008