Privacy Policy

Who we are

This Privacy Policy describes the North Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts privacy practices and governs how we collect and use your personal information. The North Shore Garden Club respects your privacy and has instituted policies intended to ensure that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. Our website address is: https://northshoregardenclub.org.

Personal Information

“Personal Information” identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. When you use the website to make donations, purchase pay dues, or request assistance or are registered as a member the website services collect Personal Information, including:

• Name
• Postal address (including billing)
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Credit card and other payment data
• Transaction history

How We Use and Share Information

We use information about you and your visit to operate and improve the website, process payments and donations, and respond to your inquiries. We will not share your personal information with third parties unless you have given us permission or it is necessary to fulfill your requests for services, or as required by law.

How long we retain your data

For users who register on our website, 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. Members may see the information shared by other members. Members’ information is retained indefinitely.

Media

If you are a member of North Shore Garden Club you may have the opportunity to post photographs, comments, and other content that may contain personal information in the Members Area of the website. By submitting by submitting this information on the Website, you give us permission to publish this information on the Website. Please remember that by posting information or photographs on the interactive portions of our Website you are making this information available to other North Shore Garden Club members.

Cookies

“Cookies” may be used in connection with this site. A cookie is a small amount of identifier data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. By using cookies, information is potentially collected without your express knowledge. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies but permit you to change the setting to refuse cookies or to be alerted when cookies are being sent.

Web browsers may offer users of our sites the ability to disable receiving certain types of cookies; however, if cookies are disabled, some features or functionality of our sites may not function correctly.  For more information on how to disable cookies, please visit your internet browser’s “help” menu or you can visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. 

If you visit our login page, 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.

The website contain links to other sites. The North Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts’s privacy practices may differ from these other sites. The North Shore Garden Club of Massachusetts is not responsible for the privacy policy of any website linked to from this site.

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.

Changes to this policy

The North Shore Garden Club reserves the right, in its sole discretion and without any obligation, to modify or correct any error or omissions in any portion of this website. From time to time, we may use visitor information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice.

If North Shore Garden Club information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to the websites to notify you of these changes. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at periodically.

If you have questions reguarding this privacy policy, please contact us.

Last updated September 4, 2024