Privacy Policy For Online And Electronic Use
The Kansas State Historical Society (KSHS) and Kansas State Historical Society, Inc. are committed to ensuring the privacy of its guests, customers, members, donors, and friends when visiting its online store. We do not collect personally identifiable information about individuals—such as their names and postal and/or email addresses—except when it is knowingly provided by such individuals. We believe that maintaining privacy on the Web is very important and we hope you will read this privacy policy carefully so that you will clearly understand both our commitment to you and your privacy and our method of collecting and using information. The terms of this privacy policy shall govern all interactions with KSHS through either the Society store web site or email. A link to the privacy policy can be found on the Society store's home page and on every page on the Society store site. By using the Society's Web site or communicating with the Society by email, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.
The online store will ask you to provide personally identifiable information necessary to fulfill your order that can include your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, and credit card number. This is the same information requested when you place an order by telephone or through the mail. For online orders, we also require your email address so you can receive order and shipping confirmation emails and so we can communicate with you if we have difficulty processing your order. When you make a purchase online in the KSHS online store, your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secured server at Bank of America. We may retain the personally identifiable information you provided with your order for our records, to facilitate customer service, and to inform you of our products and promotional offers.
This Web site automatically collects some non-personally identifiable information about you when you request pages through your browser. We place cookies on Web site visitors' computers to collect aggregate information for site traffic analysis, such as the number of visitors and the number of pages viewed. (Cookies are small files that reside in a visitor's browser.) You can set your Web browser to reject cookies, but you will not be able to place an items in your shopping basket online in the KSHS online store.
Cookies allow you to maintain the contents of your shopping basket as you navigate other areas of our site outside the KSHS online store. When you return to the KSHS online store, your shopping basket will retain the items you previously selected. If you reject the cookies and you leave the KSHS online store before making a purchase, you will lose the information in your shopping basket.
The KSHS online makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all of the transactions that occur on our Web site are secure. All credit card numbers submitted to the site are encrypted using "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) encryption. SSL technology is an industry standard for protecting sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
The Kansas State Historical Society may revise its privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy.
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