Privacy Policy

Your privacy is extremely important to Wild Aware (WA)

  • WA does not ask you for personal information unless needed to register for our newsletter or a conference, event, or service.

  • WA does not sell or otherwise disclose information about our volunteers or supporters with anyone, except to communicate with our supporters through the secure software tools we use, to comply with the law, or protect WA’s rights.

Our privacy policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, and safeguard the personal information you provide and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site. This statement will be continuously assessed against new technologies, ethical practices, and the needs of our users.

  1. What Information Do We Collect? When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site. We collect and use your information to help understand our supporter needs and provide a tailored experience for how you interact with our brand. The information is only distributed to the services we use to help us execute this unique content experience for you.

  2. Personal Information You Choose to Provide We may request that you voluntarily supply us with personal information, including your e-mail address, postal address, home or work telephone number and other personal information for such purposes as correspondence or participating in an event. If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

  3. Website Use Information Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web site may utilize a standard technology called ‘cookies’ (see explanation below, ‘What Are Cookies?’) and Web server logs to collect information about how our Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is associated with you as an individual.

  4. How Do We Use The Information You Provide To Us? Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our activities and making events and services available to our supporters. You are allowed at any time to notify us of your desire to be removed from our mailing lists.

  5. What Are Cookies? Cookies are a feature of Web browser software that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site. Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies should make your online experience easier and more personalized.

  6. How Do We Use Information Collected From Cookies? We use Web site browser software tools such as cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users’ browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site to better meet the needs of our supporters. Cookies help us collect important business and technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Webserver logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture your individual email address or any personally identifying information about you.

  7. How Can You Access And Correct Your Information? You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us at info@wildaware.org.

  8. What About Legally Compelled Disclosure Of Information? We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.

  9. Permission To Use Of Materials The right to download and store or output the materials in our site is granted for the user’s personal use only, and materials may not be reproduced in any edited form. Any other reproduction, transmission, performance, display or editing of these materials by any means mechanical or electronic without the express written permission of the Company is strictly prohibited. Users wishing to obtain permission to reprint or reproduce any materials appearing on this site may contact us directly at info@wildaware.org