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Thank you for visiting Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh online. We appreciate your patronage.

We are committed to providing quality content and programming for all of our visitors and to implementing reasonable measurers to protect and maintain your privacy. We have developed our privacy practices to allow our visitors, members and donors to manage their own online personal information. Please take time to review our policy, understand how you might be affected, and make an informed decision as to what type of information you are willing to provide, if any.

If you have questions or comments about the privacy of the information you provide online, contact Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh:

Email:  membership@carnegiemuseums.org
Mail:  
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA  15213
Attention:  Membership
                                                                                                                                            

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Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Online Privacy Policy

Last Updated October 29, 2002

The Information We Collect

This Privacy Policy only applies to the online collection of information and does not apply to information collected by Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh through other channels (i.e., mail, telephone or onsite registration at our museums).

Our websites will only collect personal information which you knowingly and voluntarily provide by, for example, sending emails, completing membership forms, registering for events or other programs, or responding to surveys.  By using Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh’s websites, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

The personal information that you supply will allow us to appropriately respond to your requests and to provide a variety of services at Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh online sites.  Personal information may include name, address, telephone number, email address, and other personal contact information.  Personal information regarding your interests will allow us to provide materials to meet your specific needs.  Museum personnel may, for example, use the personal information to customize offers and target communications.
 
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh may, from time to time, compile statistics on visitors to our web sites, including our members and potential members.  In these situations, the information that you provide within these pages may be used to aggregate statistical information to analyze visitor interest.  The information aggregated will not include any personal information as it relates to a single visitor.

If you make a purchase on-line from any Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh web page, we will ask you to provide only the information necessary to process your order.  For reasons of security, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh does not store credit card information permanently on any Web server.

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is the sole owner of information you voluntarily submit to us.  If at any time it becomes reasonably necessary, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh will release the personal information that you have provided to comply with a court order, or protect the rights, property or safety of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, its personnel, the users of its sites, or others.

Opting Out

Under certain circumstances we share information with reputable organizations that are not related to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.  At various points in our Member Center online information collection process, you are asked to indicate your willingness to allow us to share personal information collected online with other organizations. If you choose to “opt out”, then the personal information that you provide will not be shared or used outside of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Security

All information provided to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption.  SSL is a proven coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt, or scramble, data before you send it to us.  We also protect account information by placing it on a secure portion of our Site that is only accessible by certain qualified employees of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.  Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.  While we strive to protect your information as much as possible, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of that information.

Information Collected Automatically

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh may automatically collect information relating to visitors when they access our sites.  This information may include information on how you use our sites, what pages you have visited, or any errors that occurred while you were visiting our sites.  This information may be used by Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh to help us in developing content and improving our sites to create the best experience for our visitors.  In addition to information collected automatically, we may also utilize cookies, i.e. small files sent to your browser by our website when you visit.  Cookies can be used to track usage patterns, trends and visitor behavior, as well as to record other information regarding your visit.  For example, when you register on one of our websites, cookies allow us to save information so that you will not have to re-enter the same information the next time that you visit.  Information that we collect from cookies will only be used in aggregate form.

Information From Children

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh does not solicit personal information from children under the age of 12.  We are concerned about protecting children’s privacy and safety and will never intentionally ask a child 12 years old or younger to provide us with any personal information.  It is our intention to discourage children 12 years old or younger from providing any personal information.  Parents and guardians are asked to instruct their children not to provide any personal information in any requests they send to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.  In the event that such information is sent to Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, we will merely respond to the request, and we will not attempt to create a profile or otherwise retain the child’s information.

Changes To Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time.  Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh reserves the right to change it without notice, so you should review it periodically.  The date of the most recent version is posted at the top of the Privacy Policy page.