Like most website operators, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s visitors use its website. From time to time, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s websites choose to interact with North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library in ways that require North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who create accounts at NorthTexasHistory.org to provide a valid E-mail address. Those who engage in transactions with North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library – by making a purchase for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may monitor the most popular parts of the NorthTexasHistory.org site. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s behalf or to provide services available at North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library website and have supplied your email address, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library and our products. We primarily use our website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library uses cookies to help North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library identify and track visitors, their usage of North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library website, and their website access preferences. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library’s sole discretion. North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Privacy Rights
Customers may request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to admin@NorthTexasHistory.org or write us:
North Texas Masonic Historical Museum and Library
ATTN: Privacy Officer
P.O. Box 860475
Plano, TX 75086-0475
