<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/privacy-policy">https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/privacy-policy</a>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Missouri Botanical Garden Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Missouri Botanical Garden website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Collection of your Personal Information
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Missouri Botanical Garden also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Missouri Botanical Garden. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Missouri Botanical Garden for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Missouri Botanical Garden Web site.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Missouri Botanical Garden public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Missouri Botanical Garden does not read any of your private online communications.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Missouri Botanical Garden so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Missouri Botanical Garden is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Missouri Botanical Garden family of Web sites.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of your Personal Information
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden collects and uses your personal information to operate the Missouri Botanical Garden Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Missouri Botanical Garden also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Missouri Botanical Garden and its affiliates. Missouri Botanical Garden may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Missouri Botanical Garden may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Missouri Botanical Garden may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Missouri Botanical Garden, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Missouri Botanical Garden, in order to determine what Missouri Botanical Garden services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Missouri Botanical Garden to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Missouri Botanical Garden or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Missouri Botanical Garden; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Missouri Botanical Garden, or the public.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Use of Cookies
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Missouri Botanical Garden Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Missouri Botanical Garden pages, or register with Missouri Botanical Garden site or services, a cookie helps Missouri Botanical Garden to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Missouri Botanical Garden Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Missouri Botanical Garden features that you customized.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Missouri Botanical Garden services or Web sites you visit.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Security of your Personal Information
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Missouri Botanical Garden secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Changes to this Statement
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Missouri Botanical Garden encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Missouri Botanical Garden is protecting your information.
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Contact Information
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: inherit; font-family: source-sans-pro, sans-serif; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(30, 30, 31); white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Missouri Botanical Garden welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Missouri Botanical Garden has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Missouri Botanical Garden at&nbsp;<a style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: var(--sr-link-color); text-decoration-line: underline;" href="mailto:mike.latzel@mobot.org">mike.latzel@mobot.org</a>. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.