Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Promise of Place is committed to your right to privacy and to keeping your personal information private. You can visit the Promise of Place website without telling us who you are or revealing any identifying information about yourself. However, because our website includes areas in which visitors can provide personally identifying information, we have developed this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and practices regarding information we collect about you.
This Privacy Policy governs the URL http://www.promiseofplace.org and certain electronic communications sent out by Promise of Place. This website is owned and operated by for the benefit of those interested in place-based education. Our headquarters is located at Shelburne Farms, Shelburne VT. Promise of Place reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason.
How We Collect Information About You
Information You Voluntarily Provide. Promise of Place collects and maintains certain personal information about you when you send us an e-mail or complete any of our online forms, such as when you request information from us, make a donation, subscribe to our online newsletter, request to become a member of our forum, or submit an event to our online calendar. Such information may include your name, mailing address, and e-mail address, and any other information collected in the forms.
Other Information. PromiseOfPlace.org also collects certain other information that cannot identify you personally when you visit our website. This information includes your IP address and your domain name. PromiseOfPlace.org logs these IP addresses and domain names, and aggregates them for system administration and to monitor the use of our site. We use the aggregated information to measure the number of visits to our site, the average time spent on our site, the number of pages viewed, and various other site statistics. This monitoring helps us to provide a more useful and engaging online experience to PromiseOfPlace.org visitors, and helps us to improve the quality of our content.
Promise of Place uses cookies in order to manage user accounts for our forum. Cookies are not used for any other reason on this site. A cookie is a small file that is sent out by a website, accepted by the user's browser, and placed on the user's hard drive. You can always set your browser to warn of cookies being placed, and then chose which cookies you want to accept (note that you may not be able to use our forum if you decide not to accept cookies). Promise of Place does not match any information gathered by cookies with personal information you may have voluntarily submitted to Promise of Place.
Ways Information About You Is Used
We may use the information you voluntarily provided to contact you regarding place-based education issues we feel you may be interested in, to keep you updated regarding Promise of Place programs, and to extend an invitation to you to support our programs. When we do so, our sole intent is to enlarge our community of educators and supporters. Every recipient of our electronic communications can quickly and easily "opt out" of future such communications by following the instructions on any electronic communication we send.
Promise of Place may share your information with its parent/partner organizations, where it will be used only for the purposes describe above. Promise of Place will never share your information with any other party.
Other
From time to time, Promise of Place may link to other websites not affiliated with Promise of Place. Promise of Place attempts to link only to those websites which also respect a visitor's privacy and the goals of Promise of Place. However, Promise of Place cannot be responsible for the content or policies of third-party websites. Please check with these third-party organizations or companies for their specific privacy policies. If you find inoperable links or are concerned about any of the sites that Promise of Place currently links to, please inform Promise of Place by contacting us at .
Security. Promise of Place uses generally accepted, industry-standard security systems, software, and encryption technologies to protect against unauthorized access to Promise of Place servers, equipment, and other components of our online presence.
Contacting Promise of Place. If you would like to contact Promise of Place about correcting information we might have collected, or if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us or write to us at Promise of Place, Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne, VT 05482.