We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website.

What We Collect and Store Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

1. The date and time you access our site.
2. The Internet domain (for example, "yourisp.net" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website.
3. The pages you visit.
4. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
5. If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website.

We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

If You Fill Out Personal Information on Forms
In a few areas on our Web Site, we may ask you to provide information that will enable us to verify whether you are entitled to access and use certain information, materials and services available from our Web Site, or to enable us to enhance your site visit. It is completely optional for you to participate. However, failure to participate may mean that you cannot access and use certain information, materials and services. For example, we request information from you when you:

1. Provide feedback in an online survey.
2. Register as a museum member.

In each of the instances above, we typically ask for your name, e-mail address, phone number, address, as well as other similar personal information that is needed to register or subscribe you to our services. On occasion, we may ask for additional information to enable us to provide you with access to and use of certain information, materials and services.

The Bishop Museum will make every effort to secure personal and sensitive information. All personal information gathered via our web pages will utilize SSL encryption technologies to keep your sensitive information from unwanted eyes.

If You Send Us E-mail
You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in e-mail with a comment or question. We use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Except for authorized legal investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations.

How We Use Information
The Bishop Museum only uses your personal information for specific purposes. Personal information you provide to us when using our Web Site, such as your name, postal or e-mail address or telephone number will be kept confidential and used to support your relationship with the Bishop Museum.

Links to Other Sites
Our website has many links to our partners, both government and private. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Disclaimer and Liability Notice
This website and the information it contains are provided as a public service by the Bishop Museum. This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for comparable purposes. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring. Unauthorized attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.

Restriction of Liability
Bishop Museum makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Bishop Museum.

Ownership
Bishop Museum shall have the unlimited right to use for any purpose, free of any change, all information submitted to the Bishop Museum via this site except those submissions made under separate legal contract. Bishop Museum shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in information provided to the Bishop Museum through this site.