The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is dedicated to protecting your privacy. The museum does not sell, share, rent, trade, swap, or otherwise disclose customer/donor/volunteer/staff information to any outside party. SBMM also has a policy of not sending mail on behalf of other organizations.
You have the right to opt out from the museum’s mail/email list by verbal or written request at any time. By using this website, sbmm.org, you hereby consent to SBMM’s privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Confidentiality Statement
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of its members and donors. SBMM values the trust you place in us by giving to the organization and takes very seriously the responsibility to safeguard the integrity of the information provided.
Data Collected, Usage, and Tracking
While using SBMM’s website, sbmm.org, you might be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("personal data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address; first name and last name; phone number; address, city, state, province, ZIP/postal code, and cookies and usage data.
SBMM may also collect information on how the website (sbmm.org) is accessed and used ("usage data"). This usage data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of SBMM’s website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Additionally, SBMM uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on the website (sbmm.org) and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze SBMM’s website.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the website.
Examples of cookies used include:
- Session Cookies – SBMM uses session cookies to operate the website.
- Preference Cookies – SBMM uses preference cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies – SBMM uses security cookies for security purposes.
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain sbmm.org.
- To notify you about changes to sbmm.org.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on the website when you choose to do so.
- To provide customer care and support.
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we SBMM can improve sbmm.org.
- To monitor the usage of sbmm.org.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to SBMM, please note that SBMM transfers the data, including personal data, to the United States and processes it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
The security of your data is important to SBMM – but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100 percent secure. While SBMM strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, SBMM cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Legal Requirements
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website, sbmm.org.
- Protect the personal safety of users of sbmm.org or the public.
- Protect against legal liability.
Service Providers
SBMM may employ third party companies and individuals (“service providers”) to facilitate the website, sbmm.org, to provide the website on SBMM’s behalf, to perform website-related services, or to assist SBMM in analyzing how the website is used. These third parties have access to your personal data only to perform these tasks on SBMM’s behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
SBMM may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of the website, sbmm.org. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of SBMM’s website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on SBMM’s website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy and Terms web page at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Links To Other Sites
SBMM’s website, sbmm.org, may contain links to other sites that are not operated by SBMM. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. SBMM strongly advises you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. SBMM has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
SBMM’s website, sbmm.org, does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("children").
SBMM does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian, and you are aware that your children have provided SBMM with personal data, please contact SBMM. If SBMM becomes aware that it has collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, SBMM takes steps to remove that information from its servers.
Social Media Policy
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum welcomes dialogue with the public. Please be aware that all comments on SBMM’s social media sites and channels are subject to public disclosure laws and will be screened periodically for the following:
- Potentially libelous comments.
- Obscene or explicit comments.
- Hateful or mean-spirited comments.
- Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language.
- Plagiarized material, or material that violates intellectual property rights.
- Private, personal information published without consent.
- Commercial promotions or spam.
- Comments that are off-topic or that link to material that is off-topic.
- Comments that embed images from external sources.
- Comments that violate any law.
The opinions expressed by visitors to SBMM’s social sites and channels are not the comments of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum and do not reflect the official views and positions of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact SBMM’s Marketing Department at marketing@sbmm.org. Comments on SBMM’s social media sites and channels are screened periodically during standard business days.
Photography/Videography Release
In entering the museum, guest(s) agree to participate in the documentation of any performance, presentation, or other activity associated with the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Guest(s) to the museum authorize SBMM to record, re-record, and photograph their likeness, performance, voice, and artwork. SBMM may edit and adapt the guest(s)’s participation as it deems appropriate. Unless staff are notified by the guest(s). SBMM guest(s) waive the right to inspect or approve the photographs, footage, artwork, or other materials owned by SBMM before they may be duplicated, distributed, broadcast, exhibited, or used.
If you have questions about SBMM’s photography/videography policy, please email marketing@sbmm.org.
Changes to this Policy
The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum may need to change this policy from time to time in order to address new issues and reflect changes on the website, sbmm.org. All changes will be posted here.
Questions regarding this policy should be directed to SBMM's Marketing Department by emailing marketing@sbmm.org.
You may also contact SBMM by United States mail at:
113 Harbor Way, Ste 190
Santa Barbara, CA 93109