Creative
Discovery Museum Website
Online Privacy Policy
The Creative Discovery Museum has created this privacy statement in
order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following
discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for
this website: tnaqua.org.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server,
and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify
you and your shopping cart.
Cookies
On the Internet, a cookie is a piece information that a Web site transfers
to a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. As a user moves
from page to page at the Creative Discovery Museum Website, a cookie
is the only way that we have of knowing who you are. An activity on
one page may depend on what you selected on a previous page. We use
a cookie to keep track of your selection. Without cookies users may
be asked to provide the same information repeatedly or some activities
would not function at all.
The use of cookies is common on the Internet. Most major Websites
use cookies. The Creative Discovery Museum uses cookies only when
appropriate. We never use cookies to retrieve information from your
computer that was not originally sent in a cookie from us. We do not
use information transferred through cookies for advertising purposes.
We never share cookies information with any third parties for marketing
or other purposes.
Registration Form
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information
(like their name and email address). We use customer contact information
from the registration form to send the user information about our
company. The customer's contact information is also used to contact
the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future
mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.
Links
This site contains links to other sites. The Creative Discovery Museum
is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other
Web sites.
Order Forms
Our site uses an order form for customers to request information,
products, and services. We collect visitor's contact information (like
their email address) and financial information (like their account
or credit card numbers). Contact information from the order form is
used to send orders and information about our company to our customers.
The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with
the visitor when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future
mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below. Financial information
that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services.
Surveys and Contests
From time to time we conduct online surveys on our site. Our online
surveys ask visitors for contact information (like their email address)and
demographic information. We use contact data from our surveys to send
the user information about our company. The customer's contact information
is also used to contact the visitor when necessary. We also use the
demographic data collected to tailor our visitors' experience at our
Website, showing them content that they indicate an interest in. Users
may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section
below.
We periodically run contests on our site in which we ask visitors
for contact information (like their email address). We use contact
data from our contests to send users information about our company.
The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor
when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see
the choice/opt-out section below.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups
available to its users. Please remember that any information that
is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should
exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse
and alteration of the information under our control. When you place
orders our system makes use of secure server software. The secure
server software (SSL) encrypts personal order information you input
before it is sent to us. Furthermore, all of the customer data we
collect is protected against unauthorized access.
Children's Guidelines
The Creative Discovery Museum encourages parents and guardians to
spend time online with their children and to participate in appropriate
activities on the Internet. No information should be submitted to
or posted at the Creative Discovery Museum Website by guests under
13 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
The Creative Discovery Museum does not distribute to third parties
any personally identifiable information without prior parental consent.
We do not entice by the prospect of a special game, prize or other
activity, any child to divulge more information than is needed to
participate in the activity.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications
from us at the point where we request information about the visitor.
This site gives users the following options for removing their information
from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer
receive our service.
l. You can send email to newsletter@tnaqua.org
Correct/Update
This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying
information previously provided.
1. You can send email to newsletter@tnaqua.org
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices
of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
Webmaster
Creative Discovery Museum
P. O. Box 11048
Chattanooga, TN 37401-2048
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