Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to the Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences. Please take the time to read our policy regarding visitors who are age 13 and older. If you, your students, or members of your family are under 13, please take the time to review our Children’s Privacy Policy.

When you browse, read or download information

Visitors are not required to provide any information prior to or during use in order to fully access the content of our site. When you read or download from our site, we do not collect any personally identifying information about you. However, in order to serve our visitors better, we do collect statistics about visitors to each section of our site. These data includes the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your host server (usually your Internet Service Provider), what browser you used, and the date and time of your visit. We review these data in aggregate form and cannot use such information to identify you or allow us or anyone else to contact you as a result of your visit to our Web site.

When you send us e-mail

Electronic mail messages often contain personally identifying information about the sender (such as name, postal address, and telephone numbers). We may store such information in order to respond to your request or otherwise resolve the subject of your e-mail. If you ask to be informed of updates and the latest information from the Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences, we will add you to our mailing list.

When you submit a form

Our site contains web forms (for comments, inquiries, or surveys) that you may choose to fill out and submit to us. These forms may request personally identifying information (for example, your name, school name, address, and e-mail address). Such forms ask you for permission to be added to our mailing list and you may choose “no” without penalty.

When you ask to be placed on our mailing list

We do not sell or in any other way distribute to any organization outside the Sterling Hill Mining Museum the names or addresses or any other personally identifying information of the people who ask to be added to our mailing list.

When you request a product or service

We will not share the personally identifying information we collect from you with any outside organization or company unless we have your consent, we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested, or we are required to do so by law (for example, to respond to a court order).

When you link from our site to sites outside Sterling Hill

The Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences has links to other web sites that are part of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum. It also has links to web sites outside the museum that we believe may be of interest to you. When you link to one of the Sterling Hill sites, the privacy policy given here applies in full to those sites as well. When instead you link to a site outside our museum, the Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences cannot control their collection of personal information and this privacy policy will not apply. You may wish to review their privacy policies before using them.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are text files, sent from a Web server and placed on your computer's hard drive (sometimes without your knowledge or consent), that can contain information about your Web surfing habits or preferences. Generally, cookies can be read only by the computer that placed them on your computer. Their use is a normal Internet business practice and you'll find them used by many organizations that wish to customize your use of their site. However, many people fear that the information on the cookies could be correlated to an individual by name, and that that person's privacy, and perhaps anonymity, on the Web could be compromised. For this reason, the Sterling Hill Institute of Geosciences site does not use cookies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

From time to time the Sterling Hill Mining Museum may makes changes to this privacy policy. We will prominently display on this website any substantial change in the way we use your personal information.

This page was last modified on November 15,2005