Privacy Policy for Shedd Aquarium Chicago
At Shedd Aquarium Chicago, accessible from sheddaquarium.org, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of information that is collected and recorded by Shedd Aquarium and how we use it.
If you have any questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information they share and/or collect in Shedd Aquarium. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or through channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information We Collect
The personal information that we ask you to provide, and the reasons why we ask you to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point of collection.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you send us, and any other information you choose to provide.
When you register for an account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, address, email address, and phone number.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through our partners, for customer service, to provide updates and other information related to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
Shedd Aquarium follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of their analytics. The information collected by log files includes IP addresses, browser types, Internet Service Providers (ISP), date and time stamps, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This data is not linked to any personally identifiable information and is used for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Shedd Aquarium uses cookies. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the user experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies article on the [Generate Privacy Policy](https://www.generateprivacypolicy.com) website.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Shedd Aquarium.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Shedd Aquarium, which are sent directly to users' browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that Shedd Aquarium has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third-Party Privacy Policies
Shedd Aquarium's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that the business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that the business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to ensure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children's Information
We are committed to protecting children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Shedd Aquarium does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child provided such information on our website, please contact us immediately and we will make efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.