About: Privacy Policy

The Brooklyn Museum is deeply committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We do not collect personally identifiable information about individuals—such as names and postal and/or e-mail addresses—except when it is knowingly provided by said individuals. This Privacy Policy only applies to transactions made and data gathered on the brooklynmuseum.org Web site and does not apply to any other Web site. The terms of this Privacy Policy shall govern all interactions with the Museum through either the Museum's Web site or e-mail. By using the Museum's Web site or communicating with the Museum by e-mail, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement.

From November 25, 2008, to January 11, 2009, the Brooklyn Museum is running a media campaign that identifies visitors to our Web site for targeted advertising for the Gilbert & George exhibition. If you'd prefer to opt out, we ask that you delete the Zedo.com cookie in your browser's settings after leaving our site.

Information Provided by Visitors

When You Register
You may use the Brooklyn Museum's Web site without registering or submitting any personally identifiable information. However, in order to have access to certain options, such as our Commentary Feature and the Museum's e-mail newsletters, you must register with us online.

If you decide to register with us online, you will be asked to provide personally identifiable information that may include a user name and password, your name, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number. Online memberships are processed through a secure server, NetSolutions.

When You Make Purchases Online at the Brooklyn Museum Shop
The information you provide on the online order form (your name, address, telephone numbers, credit card information, and e-mail address) is used for billing purposes, to fill the order, and to reach you if we have trouble processing your order.

Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed the Brooklyn Museum Shop through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information.

The Brooklyn Museum does not sell or give out customer information obtained from our online store.

When You Make a Donation or Purchase a Membership Online
The Museum will ask you to provide personally identifiable information necessary to process and service your Membership and/or donation that may include your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, e-mail address, and credit card number. When you make a donation or purchase a Membership online, your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secure server NetSolutions. We will retain the personally identifiable information you provided for our records and to facilitate customer service.

How the Museum Uses Information Provided by Visitors
The Brooklyn Museum uses the information you provide to fill your online order, facilitate customer service in the Brooklyn Museum Shop or in the Membership department. If you decide to utilize our PatronMail option, the Museum will use your information to provide you with updates about exhibitions, programs, and special offers available to you.

Any personally identifiable information voluntarily provided by you will be used for the purpose(s) for which the information was provided and may be shared with other carefully screened reputable organizations or companies whose products and services might interest you but whose privacy policies may differ from the Brooklyn Museum's. Your personally identifiable information will not be disclosed or used for purposes other than those specified without your consent, except as authorized by law.

Opting Out
If you prefer not to have your personally identifiable information shared this way, you may indicate this at the time you provide the information. If an "opt-out" option is not offered, or you decide after you have provided this information that you do not want us to share your information with any other organization, you may send us an e-mail at requesting that we not share your personally identifiable information with third parties for marketing purposes. We cannot, however, remove your name from any third-party list; you will have to contact them directly.

E-mail Communications

Newsletters
If you sign up for or subscribe to an e-mail newsletter, discussion list, or special interest alert, you will receive the information that you have requested; you have the option of unsubscribing or removing your name from the list at any time. By providing this information, you may receive occasional e-mail messages from the Brooklyn Museum or other organizations, for marketing and promotional purposes.

E-mails
The Museum tries to respond to e-mail messages requiring a response, including customer service inquiries related to purchases in the Museum Shop, within one week. If you e-mail the Museum, your message and e-mail address will be forwarded to the appropriate department within the Museum. Any message, material, business information, ideas, concepts, or other information sent to the Museum by e-mail will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. Your e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose but to contact you if needed.

Brooklyn Museum Commentary Feature (The Posse)
It is required that you provide your e-mail information in order to be a member of the Brooklyn Museum Posse. The e-mail address you provide will not be used for any other purpose but to contact you if needed. Your submissions (commenting, tagging), when using the Posse, must follow our comment guidelines and may be edited for clarity. We reserve the right to decide not to post your comments. You may be contacted regarding your comments. Your comments may be reused.

Information Collected Automatically

Cookies
We do not store any information about you that we gather from using cookies on our Web site. A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from our Web server when you visit our online Brooklyn Museum Shop; it is stored on your computer's hard drive. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our Web site. We use cookies only to keep track of the items in your shopping order. If you choose to reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Brooklyn Museum Web site but you will not be able to build a shopping order. See the Brooklyn Museum Shop Privacy Policy.

PatronMail
If you sign up for our PatronMail newsletter or special interest alert, you will receive the information that you have requested; you have the option of unsubscribing or removing your name from the list at any time. Any information you choose to provide regarding special interests may be used for marketing and promotional purposes. For further inquiries regarding PatronMail's Privacy Policy please see Patron Technology's Privacy Policy.

Terms of Usage

Unless otherwise noted, all content copyright © 2004 the Brooklyn Museum. Some rights reserved. Non-commercial use of text and images, with attribution, is permitted under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

Copyright and other proprietary rights may be held by individuals or entities other than, or in addition to, the Brooklyn Museum. The Museum does not warrant that the use of materials displayed on this Web site will not infringe on the rights of third parties, such as artists or artists' heirs holding the rights to these works. For works of art from other museums, institutions, or owners reproduced on this site, contact the institution or owners credited in the work's caption.

See Rights and Reproductions for information on licensing text or images for reproduction.

Changes to Privacy Policy

The Brooklyn Museum may revise its Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy so that you will always know what information we gather and how we may use that information.

Third-Party Links

The Brooklyn Museum's Web site contains links to other Internet sites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors, and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, the Brooklyn Museum is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of such Web sites. Once you leave this Web site the Privacy Policy will not apply.