It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://vanderbrohearboretum.org (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “VDBA”.) We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Who we are

Van der Brohe Arboretum (a.k.a., Vanderbrohe Arboretum, Van der Brohe Arboretum & Bird Sanctuary, VDBA)

Arboretum grounds are located at 3800 Lincoln Ave., Two Rivers, WI 54241

Please address correspondence to:

John S. Durbrow, Director
Van der Brohe Arboretum
9601 Lakeshore Rd
Newton, WI 53063

1.920.726.4850
director@vanderbrohearboretum.org

Our website address is: https://vanderbrohearboretum.org

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We use WP Forms lite and therefore store no correspondence in our database. Individual emails are stored at our Bluehost account. You must consent to this before submitting a contact form.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

VDBA uses Google Analytics with Anonymous IP tracking enabled. This means that we cannot determine your exact location when you visit our website. You can choose to turn off this tracking by clicking the cookie icon at the bottom right of any page.

Who we share your data with

We do not knowingly share your information with anyone for purposes of remarketing or advertising. 

Google, Inc. | Privacy Policy

We use Google for our Analytics tracking to measure interest in our project.

Osano, Inc. | Privacy Policy

We use Osano to deploy our privacy and cookies choices we make available to you.

WordFence/Defiant | Privacy Policy

We use Wordfence to provide you with a safer browsing experience. Wordfence may store information about your visit such as your IP address.

BackupBuddy/iThemes Stash | Privacy Policy

We use BackupBuddy/iThemes to store backups of our website, which includes public comments. Backups are stored securely on iThemes servers.

MailChimp | Privacy Policy

We use MailChimp to send emails to anyone who has requested to be added to our mailing list. This is voluntary. We do not share or sell our mailing list.

BlueHost/Endurance | Privacy Policy

BlueHost is our website hosting and email provider. BlueHost may collect raw data about your visit including IP addresses. 

PayPal, Inc | Privacy Policy

We use PayPal for our financial transactions. We do not personally or knowingly store any sensitive financial information ourselves.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Google tracking information is stored for 26 months.

Emails you send us via our contact forms or by replying to the emails we send using MailChimp are stored indefinitely.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You may request to have any/all of the emails you’ve sent us deleted by contacting us.

You may unsubscribe from our email lists by visiting this link: https://vanderbrohearboretum.us19.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=41fc2cf29f8db4d32be0183a5&id=f2df2598f1

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Backup Buddy Privacy Policy

Backups

Per the functionality of this plugin, backups of your website files and/or database are created and stored locally on your server and/or remotely on 3rd party servers based on the settings of this plugin. Archives can include, but are not limited to, file and database assets, including hashed passwords, 3rd party data, uploads and user information. These backups are stored to provide critical functionality of this plugin.

Cookies

Cookies are used to handle importing and restoring backups.

Plugin Settings

Some plugin settings ask for an email address or login credentials to 3rd party services. This is stored to provide functional features to the plugin.

Recent Activity

This plugin tracks dates, times and actions of successful and unsuccessful backups and remote data transfers. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

Logging

This plugin logs some personal information such as email addresses, usernames, database and server information. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

How long we retain your data

Backups

Backup retention is completely up to the website owner. This can vary from less than one minute to indefinitely.

Cookies

Cookies used during the restore/import process expire after 24 hours.

Plugin Settings

Settings are retained indefinitely until they are changed or removed manually.

Where we send your data

Backups

Backups are not automatically sent to remote destinations automatically, however backups can be configured to be sent to third-party servers.

How we protect your data

Backups

Backup zip files are stored with hashed file names to prevent filename guessing and directory browsing is disabled.

What third parties we receive data from

Backup Destinations

Backups can be sent to third-party destination servers, including but not limited to:

Links to third party privacy policies have been included.