The Florida Holocaust Museum Privacy and Security Policy describes the following:

This Web site is owned and operated by the Florida Holocaust Museum located at 55 5th Street South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701. Your privacy and the security of your personal information when using our Web site are of the utmost importance to us. At the Florida Holocaust Museum, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe.

As we gather certain types of information about users of our Web site, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

By using the Florida Holocaust Museum’s Web site, you consent to the terms and conditions of this privacy and security policy. Florida Holocaust Museum reserves the right to modify our policy from time to time. A revised policy will apply to information collected after the date the policy is changed and posted. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those 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.

The Florida Holocaust Museum adheres to the standards of the ePhilanthropy Code of Ethical Online Philanthropic Practices available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

The Florida Holocaust Museum is accredited by the American Association of Museums and receives operating and special project support in part from: State of Florida, Department of Education; Department of State, Division of Historic Resources, Bureau of Historical Museums, Division of Cultural Affairs; State of Florida Commissioner of Education Task Force on the Holocaust; Pinellas County Arts Council; City of St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. The Museum adheres to the American Association of Museums Guidelines for Museums on Developing and Managing Individual Donor Support and other ethical guideline.

Florida Holocaust Museum operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

Florida Holocaust Museum has implemented security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the credit card and other information under our control. We use high-grade encryption and the https security protocol to communicate with your browser software.

We use PayPal credit card transaction services. The Florida Holocaust Museum does not receive nor store customer credit card numbers or financial account information. VeriSign Inc.’s secure transaction-processing makes it extremely difficult for anyone to intercept or access the credit card information you send to make an online purchase or donation. Please see PayPal Privacy Statement:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/ua/policy_privacy

After placing an order or donation on our Web site, you should receive a confirmation e-mail that reviews your entire order, membership request or donation. It should include the costs of the purchase or donation, your customer information, and product information. Be sure to save or print this e-mail as well as any other e-mail correspondence from the Florida Holocaust Museum for your records. If for any reason you do not receive an e-mail confirmation, send an e-mail requesting confirmation to

Tip for Safe Online Shopping and Giving: We recommend that you use credit cards, not debit cards, to purchase or make donations online. Also, check your credit card bills carefully for several months after purchasing or donating on the Internet. Look for purchases or donations you did not make. If you find any, immediately contact the credit card company and file a dispute claim.

VISA offers zero liability:
http://usa.visa.com/personal/security/zero_liability.html

For more tips about safe shopping online, see the American Bar Association’s Safe Shopping Online Web site: http://www.safeshopping.org/

The Florida Holocaust Museum upholds the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ Donor’s Bill of Rights

Florida Holocaust Museum gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to e-mail a friend and to participate in polls and surveys.

• Information we gather through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to help our sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.

Since Florida Holocaust Museum derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships, donations and grants, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our services available. Under no circumstances does Florida Holocaust Museum divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Florida Holocaust Museum employees must uphold a high standard of conduct to maintain our customers’ and visitors’ privacy. Preserving your trust is one of our core values. To keep information confidential and appropriately protected, we have policies that limit access to your personal information to only those employees who need it to perform their jobs and provide services to you. We also maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal standards to guard your personal information.
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
   
   We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Florida Holocaust Museum gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
   
   
2. "E-mail this to a friend" Service
   
   Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their e-mail address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the e-mail. The information is not used for any other purpose.
   
   
3. Polling
   
   We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. Florida Holocaust Museum may use a system to "tag" users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
   
   
4. Surveys
   
   Florida Holocaust Museum may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our Web site content to our audience. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
   
   

Consistent with the Federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

The FCC provides a special web site, KidzPrivacy, for helping children, parents, and site operators understand the provisions of COPPA and how the new law will affect them. Resources available on the Web site include guides for businesses and parents, and "safe surfing" tips for kids.

Florida Holocaust Museum tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Florida Holocaust Museum does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).

Florida Holocaust Museum sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our Web site users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better Web site for you.

We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Florida Holocaust Museum uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

Florida Holocaust Museum uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls and surveys. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Florida Holocaust Museum never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular user enters.

Florida Holocaust Museum creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Florida Holocaust Museum uses the information described above to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our sponsors better understand our audience's demographics. This is essential to keeping our service available. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviate the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.

• Updating e-mail and mailing addresses

To subscribe to receiving e-mail or printed materials from the Florida Holocaust Museum, send an e-mail request with your name, address and e-mail address to

To opt out of (unsubscibe) receiving e-mail or printed materials from the Florida Holocaust Museum, send an e-mail request with your name, address and e-mail address to

To update your e-mail address or mailing address, send an e-mail request with your name, address and old and new e-mail addresses to

If you want to reduce the amount of direct marketing you receive, you can write to the following agencies (be sure to include complete information on each name, address, and telephone number you’d like excluded from these lists):

• For materials received by mail:
  Mail Preference Service
  Direct Marketing Association
  P.O. Box 9008
  Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
  
  
• For phone solicitations:
  Telephone Preference Service
  Direct Marketing Association
  P.O. Box 9014
  Farmingdale, NY 11735-9014
  
  
• For e-mail solicitations:
  E-mail Preference Service
  www.dmaconsumers.org/emps.html

For more information about Internet privacy issues, please visit EPIC’s Web site:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/internet/

EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values.

Some of the sites included as links herein will let you leave our server and are not under our control. Access to any other Internet site linked to Florida Holocaust Museum's Web site is at the user's own risk and we are not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice or statements made on these linked sites. We do not make any representations whatsoever concerning the content of those sites. The fact that we have provided a link to a site is NOT an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by us with respect to such site, its owners, or its providers; we are providing these links only as a convenience to you. We have not tested any information, software, products or services found on these sites and therefore cannot make any representations whatsoever with respect thereto.

There are risks in using any information, software, products or services found on the Internet; and we caution you to make sure that you completely understand these risks before retrieving, using, relying upon, or purchasing anything via the Internet.

The Florida Holocaust Museum and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. The information contained in any article or graph within our Web site hereof is based on sources, which we believe to be reliable, but we cannot warrant its accuracy or completeness. Such information is subject to change.

This Copyright Policy will be governed by and be interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of Florida, United States of America, notwithstanding any principles of conflicts of law. The state or federal courts located in Pinellas County, Florida, shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any cause of action arising out of or related to the content or use of this site.

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