This policy discloses the privacy practices for the MuseumsUSA.org site.
In this privacy policy you will find answers to the following questions:
What is the site’s purpose, who are the operators of the site and how can you contact them?
What information does Stories USA, Inc. gather about you?
What does Stories USA, Inc. do with the information it gathers?
What measures has Stories USA, Inc. taken to ensure the security and integrity of your personal information?
What is the site’s purpose, who are the operators of the site and how can you contact them?
This site is owned and operated by Stories USA, Inc.
Our primary mission is to help museums and museum associations, particularly small museums,
to more effectively carry out their own mission through the use of information technology and the Internet.
We also help organizations that sell products and services to museums (referred to as museum vendors)
to find potential clients and provide information about their products and services to the museum community
in a standardized format.
Site visitors currently engage in the following activities that involves an exchange of information with the site:
Museum professionals and museum vendors submit requests for having their organization added to the respective listing and for having their existing listings updated. On matters regarding privacy on this site, you can reach the sites operators here:
Stories USA, Inc.
9719 Natalies Way
Ellicott City, MD 21042
Tel: 410-884-7081
Email: info@storiesusa.net
What information does Stories USA, Inc. gather about you?
Submitter Information: Site visitors that use the New Listing and Update Listing forms are required to identify themselves by providing at a minimum their Name and E-mail Address. They may optionally also provide their Phone Number, Position, and Organization. This information is collectively referred as Submitter Information and is required by Stories USA, Inc. in order to verify the legitimacy of the request.
Public Information: Except for the information included in the Submitter Information section, all information submitted by site users on the New Listing or Update Listing forms is deemed to be public. Public information submitted by one organization may be displayed on the MuseumsUSA.org web site on the organization’s Info Page or aggregated with information submitted by other organizations. Stories USA, Inc. might also provide this information to third-parties for display on their sites through data feeds.
Cookies: MuseumsUSA.org employs cookies to recognize individual users anonymously for these purposes:
To track -anonymously- the traffic patterns on the site; To track -anonymously return visits by the same individuals; Click-throughs: When a site visitor clicks a link to an external page, that activity is tracked for the purpose of measuring the traffic referred by the MuseumsUSA.org site to other sites. The information collected includes:
date and time of the click target URL organization that controls the target web site context of the click Tags/Web Beacons/Web Bugs: StoriesUSA, Inc. uses Tags (also referred as Web Beacons or Web Bugs) to more accurately monitor the web traffic on the site. Tags are small images included on each page which are named such that require them to be retrieved from a server each time a site visitor views the page.
What does Stories USA, Inc. do with the information it gathers?
Stories USA, Inc. may perform statistical analysis of user behavior in order to measure visitor interest in the various areas of the site. In this statistical analysis, information will be disclosed to third parties only in aggregate form.
What measures has Stories USA, Inc. taken to insure the security and integrity of your personal information?
Our users’ personal information is kept as secure as we are able, although like every other business entity, we cannot guarantee that this information will not be stolen. Passwords to access data at MuseumsUSA.org are only given to those trained to handle them safely. All StoriesUSA, Inc. staff members have signed confidentiality agreements that legally obligate them not to release e-mail addresses or any other information about visitors.
No personal information submitted by users is used for any purpose other than the stated reason for collection. Furthermore, no personally identifiable information is ever distributed outside of StoriesUSA, Inc.