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privacy policy
The Saginaw
Bay Symphony Orchestra
respects its customer's right to privacy and is committed to
protecting their personal information to the highest level
of confidentiality. Under federal law, we are required to
provide this notice, describing our practices concerning the
personal information we collect and disclose about our
customers. We have also included information about the
parties who receive personal information from us as we
conduct the business of the Orchestra. If you have any
questions or concerns about this notice, please contact
Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra at (989) 755-6471.
Information Collected
It
is necessary for Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra to collect
personal information about our customers in and for the
conduct of its business as follows:
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We collect any personally
identifying information, such as your name, street
address, email address, telephone number, credit card
number and expiration date that you provide to us for
purchasing tickets to our concerts and special events.
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We collect any personally
identifying information, such as your name, street
address, email address, telephone number, credit card
number and expiration date that you provide to us from
ticket order forms that are mailed in from our
customers.
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We collect personal
information and email addresses through our web site if
you provide it to us.
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We collect names and
addresses from ticket stubs filled out for drawings at
some of our special events. This information may be used
for future promotional mailings.
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Names, street addresses and
telephone numbers are collected and entered on our
database to track ticket purchases and/or contributions.
Such information is used only for the purpose of
creating mailing lists for season brochures, quarterly
newsletters, year-end solicitations and for
notifications of other events throughout the year.
Credit card information is not maintained on our
database.
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We collect Social Security
numbers of our musicians from Forms W-9 for the sole
purpose of reporting amounts paid to the Internal
Revenue Service and are not used for identification.
Social Security numbers shall be kept confidential and
shall not be disclosed to anyone for any purpose.
The Saginaw Bay
Symphony Orchestra will not disclose any information
collected from the above and will protect any personal
information that you share with us.
If you visit our web site
at
www.saginawbayorchestra.com
to browse, read, or download ticket order forms:
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We
automatically collect and store: the name of the domain and
host from which you access the Internet; the Internet
protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the
browser software you use and your operating system; the date
and time you access our sites; and the Internet address of
the site from which you linked directly to our site.
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We use
this information only as anonymous aggregate data to
determine the number of visitors to different sections of
our sites, to ensure the sites are working properly, and to
help us make our sites more useful. We do not use it to
track or record information about individuals.
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We do not use persistent
"cookies"
or tracking mechanisms that collect personally identifying
information on our web site. Our web site uses session
cookies to anonymously collect a visitor's IP address and
the date and time of the visit. Session cookies are
temporary files that are erased when you close all browsers.
We use these session cookies for site management purposes.
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If you provide us with your
personal information and email address through our web site,
we will not sell it to or share it with third parties.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our web site contains links to other
sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the
privacy practices or content of those sites. We encourage
you to read the privacy statements of each site that
collects information from you.
Saginaw Bay Symphony
Orchestra's privacy policy applies solely to
information collected on our web site.
Parties who
receive information from us
Except as
required by law or as herein described, we do not share or
disclose information with other parties.
SBSO does not sell, or
rent its mailing lists. SBSO may elect to send our customers
mailings from other groups, but these mailings will
originate with SBSO in most cases. In order to best serve
all of our customers and
conduct the operations of the Symphony, personal information
may be exchanged with similar organizations at the request
of individual customers. Further, SBSO will provide account
and personal information to authorities and government
agencies when legally requested.
Changes to
this Privacy Policy
Our
privacy policy may be modified from time to time to comply
with applicable laws or to conform to our current business
practices, without prior notice to our customers. We
will post any changes to this policy on our web site.
E-mail us at
info@saginawbayorchestra.com
with questions or comments regarding our privacy practices.
Last Revised: December 20, 2005
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