The Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc., Privacy Policy

You are visiting the web site of The Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc.

The Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc., knows that you care how information about you is used and shared.  We appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. We are concerned about the privacy of our donors as well as that of our patrons, and we treat them in the same way. This notice describes our privacy policy.

By visiting the Schauer Arts and Activities Center Inc. web site, or the Center itself, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

The information we learn from our customers helps us personalize and continually improve your experience at the Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc.

Our postal address is:

Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc.

147 N. Rural St.

Hartford, WI 53027

We can be reached via e-mail at info@schauercenter.org.

You can reach us by telephone at 262-670-0560

This Policy is effective on March 28, 2006.

Here are the types of information we gather:

• Information You Give Us: We reserve the right to receive and store any information you enter on our Web site or give to us in any other way. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future visits for you, improving our customer service and communicating with you. For instance, we collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, information volunteered by the consumer, such as ticket reservations, name and address, telephone number, payment information (e.g., credit card number and billing address) and information volunteered on any order or subscription form.

• Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, as do many web sites, we use "cookies," which obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our site. For each visitor to our web page, our web server automatically recognizes the visitor’s computer IP address. We may not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at the Schauer Arts and Activities Center, Inc., site, if we cannot recognize you, but we do want you to be aware that these tools exist. We also gather aggregate (overall) information on what pages are accessed or visited by people who come to the web site.

• E-mail Communications: You will receive a confirmation email whenever purchasing tickets or other merchandise online.  You may also receive periodic emails notifying you of upcoming events.  If you do not want to receive these e-mails from us, please notify the Schauer Arts and Activities Center at info@schauercenter.org.

How is the information used?

• First and foremost, the information we collect is used to serve you. The information we collect is also used to improve the content of our Web page, used to notify consumers about updates to our Web site, used by us to contact consumers for marketing purposes, used to improve our services, and in other appropriate ways designed to fulfill the mission of the Center.

Does Schauer Arts and Activities Center Inc Share the Information It Receives?

• Information about our customers is an important part of our business, but we are not in the business of selling it to others. We may occasionally share customer information with local arts groups such as the Hartford Players. The only information we share is mailing addresses and excludes e-mail, credit card information, phone number and any other personal information.

• We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service. They will be required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and will be prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

• Information may be disclosed when legally required at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, used to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our web site and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our web site or facilities, etc.

• We may also, from time to time, collect information in the form of scholarship applications, etc. We understand that these may contain highly personal information, and it is our policy not to release that information beyond the purpose of the application. (For instance, an application may be shared with people on a committee to select the scholarship winner.)

How Secure Is Information About Me?

• We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

• We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

• We have reasonable and appropriate security measures in place in our physical and technological facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site. These measures are consistent with the sound standards and practices of organizations of this type and size.

• Our employee manual incorporates this Privacy Policy by reference, and it is our strict policy that no employee should ever use information possessed by the Center for any purpose outside of the specific duties of their employment.

It is important for you to protect yourself against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address, calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address.

If you supply us with your postal address you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new shows or upcoming events. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above, e-mailing us at the above address, or writing to us at the above address.

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.

Upon request we provide our customers and site visitors with access to the personal information that we maintain about them, including financial information (e.g., credit card account information) that we maintain about them, transaction information (e.g., dates on which customers made purchases, amounts and types of purchases) that we maintain about them, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, customer inquiries), contact information (e.g., name, address, phone number) that we maintain about them, a description of information that we maintain about them. Consumers can access this information by calling us at the above telephone number, or writing to us at the above address. Consumers can have this information corrected by calling us at the above telephone number or writing to us at the above address.

If you feel that the Center is not following its stated privacy policy, please contact us at the above addresses or phone number. You may also contact the state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection office, The Federal Trade Commission [by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357)] or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.

We hope this policy has addressed your questions or concerns. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact us!