Potomac Conservancy collects no personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide this information to us. Such information that you may submit is restricted to that which is required to meet your request for information, services, or merchandise or to publicize or promote certain activities of our members and their respective organizations.
WHAT WE COLLECT AND STORE AUTOMATICALLY
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. Please note that this information does not identify you personally in any way.
We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
- The Internet domain (for example, “your_nonprofit.org”) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site.
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
- The date and time you access our site.
- The pages you visit.
- If you linked to our Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.
We use the information we collect in this fashion to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you. Our Web site logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.
IF YOU SEND US EMAIL OR FILL OUT ANY ONLINE FORMS
You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question. We will only use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request.
Any electronic commerce applications that we provide for program registration, membership, or merchandise are conducted using secure servers to protect your credit card information. Again, all information requested and provided by you in the processing of any of these electronic commerce transactions will only be used to respond to you and fulfill your request.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Web site has many links to external Web sites. In a few cases we link to commercial Web sites. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
