ACS Privacy Policy

The American Cetacean Society is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. We maintain the following privacy policy to protect personal information you provide online.

If you visit our site to read or download information, we may collect and store the following information about you in order to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site.
• The pages that you visit while on our site.

We will notify you before we collect any personally-identifiable information about you (i.e. your name, email address, and contact information), and will not collect any information unless you choose to provide it to us. This information may be shared within our organization for the purposes of responding to any comments or questions you submit and/or providing follow-up information about our organization

We will not share your information with any third-party organization without your explicit permission to do so. Personal information you provide is stored in a secure location and is accessible only by designated staff.

Nowhere on our web site will we collect personally identifiable information from minors without first receiving the express written consent of their parent or guardian.

Most areas of our site are accessible without registration of any kind. Some of our services require some identification in order to be effective or, in certain cases, to be able to provide the materials. This includes, but is not limited to, our cetacean curriculum, and our newsletter, Spyhopper. Again, the information provided here will be kept confidential. You also have the option to opt-out if at any time you do not want to receive updates, announcements or other ACS related information in this manner.

This site contains links to other sites, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Please review their privacy policy before sharing any personal information.

The American Cetacean Society reserves the right to amend this policy at any time.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please feel free to contact us.