The Center for Plant Conservation is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you a safe online experience. This policy explains what types of information is collected by the Center for Plant Conservation’s website, www.saveplants.org, and how that information is used.
Names and Emails
Individuals that sign up to receive CPC e-communications voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as name and e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out,” either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages. If you wish to be added or removed from our mailing/emailing lists, please send an email to info@saveplants.org or write to CPC, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027.
IP addresses
The Center for Plant Conservation uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.saveplants.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies
www.saveplants.org uses functional “cookie” messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before. The “cookie” is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies let us take you to the information and features you’re particularly interested in. They also let us track your usage of www.saveplants.org, so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
We use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process your meeting registrations; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitors of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example).
The Center for Plant Conservation does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
www.saveplants.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.saveplants.org domain, and the Center for Plant Conservation is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
We will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.
This policy applies to all information received by The Center for Plant Conservation, both online and offline, on any Platform (“Platform”, includes the Center for Plant Conservation website and mobile applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.
To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.
We do list our donor’s names in our annual report. Donors not wishing to have their names listed may request that their name is not listed by emailing the Center for Plant Conservation office at info@saveplants.org or write CPC, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027.
Policy approved on October 22, 2021