Privacy Policy

Florida Oceanographic Society
890 NE Ocean Boulevard
Stuart, Florida 34996
 
We can be reached via e-mail at info@floridaocean.org or by telephone at 772-225-0505.


We will not sell, share or trade our donors' names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations. To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.


For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's IP address (where possible), but not the e-mail address.
 
We collect only the IP Address, but not the e-mail address of visitors to our Web site, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations, name and address, telephone number, fax number.
 
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web site, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Website.
 
With respect to cookies: We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart.
 
If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us an e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number or writing to us at the above address.
 
From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our Web site to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our Web site periodically.
 
Customers may prevent their information from being used for purposes other than those for which it was originally collected by e-mailing us at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.
 
Upon request we provide site customers with access to unique identifier information (e.g., customer login number or password) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, communications that the consumer/client has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them, a description of information that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by e-mailing us at the above address or writing to us at the above address.
 
Upon request we offer clients the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, financial information, unique identifiers, transaction information, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to the site.
 
Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.
 
With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial information, we redirect visitors to a secure server. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.