Privacy Policy

Historic Savannah Foundation respects your privacy on the Internet. As part of our company operations, we gather certain types of information about our contacts, and we would like to explain the types of information we assemble, what we do with it and how to correct or change your information.

What Information is Collected?

As part of the process in visiting this website or providing your contact information to Historic Savannah Foundation, you will be asked to provide an e-mail address and other information, as appropriate. This information may or may not be required, depending upon the action being taken. In some instances Historic Savannah Foundation may require an e-mail address for enrollment into a promotion. In all instances, an opt-out option will be offered.

Information You Give Us

Our Services may include features that permit you to enter contact information and other information about you. We collect and store any information you enter on our Services. This includes:

  • Information provided in connection with your creation of an account, including your First Name, Last Name, City, State, Email Address, and Phone Number, as well as your interests
  • Information provided in connection with a donation you make or merchandise you choose to purchase through our website, including your First Name, Last Name, City, State, Email Address, and Phone Number
  • Email address information when subscribing to our email bulletins
  • Information you provide when you interact with us via social media, including any posts, pictures, videos and messages which you submit to us either via our social media sites (including by use of hashtags associated with us) or our site

When you engage in a financial transaction on our website, Historic Savannah Foundation does not process or store credit card information. When submitting a donation or payment, donors and customers are connected with a third party online payment platform, Blackbaud, which processes the credit card transaction and sends us confirmation of payment only. Blackbaud uses industry-standard encryption and secure web pages for transmission of credit card information to keep your information secure, accurate, current, and complete. For more information on Blackbaud, please visit their Privacy Policy. Historic Savannah Foundation does store the names, addresses, and phone numbers of donors and customers for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities.

Cookies

In addition to information provided by visitors to our website, Historic Savannah Foundation monitors incoming and outgoing web traffic data for diagnosis of server problems for web administration purposes and uses this data to collect general demographic information about all visitors to our site. This information allows us to ensure that we provide the most desired information to our visitors. As an important part of providing quality service, Historic Savannah Foundation uses cookies to store and track information.

A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, or be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. Historic Savannah Foundation will access only those cookies that we have generated.

Confidentiality

Historic Savannah Foundation will not sell or release identifiable visitor information to any third party without your permission and will limit disclosure of information to the following, where we believe in good faith that it is required to do so in response to a Subpoena or other legal process; where reasonably required to do so in order to maintain, update or otherwise implement Historic Savannah Foundation data security measures, equipment, technical operations, etc.; or where reasonably necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities to preserve and/or enforce Historic Savannah Foundation’s rights.

Historic Savannah Foundation makes all efforts to protect the confidentiality of all visitors and will never knowingly allow access to this information by any third party. We have made a significant investment in our server, database, backup and firewall technologies to protect information assets. These technologies have been installed as part of a complex security architecture and protocol.

Information Uses

Historic Savannah Foundation uses visitor information to deliver promotions and to monitor, analyze and report campaign results internally. This data is in a non-personally identifiable aggregate form designed to analyze general trends and usage patterns.

Opt-Out Provision

Historic Savannah Foundation will offer an opt-out in all e-mail transmissions and will follow up with timely removal of requested information from our database. This information could include name, title, company, address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address or other information that has been offered.

Policy Changes

Historic Savannah Foundation reserves the right to change this policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued participation in our website offers following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.