Privacy Policy

Conservation Science Institute believes a visitor to our site is the one to best determine:

Whether -- and under what conditions –- a visitor should provide "personally identifiable information" (e.g. data that may be used to identify, contact, or locate a person).
Whether CSI should share such information with anyone.
Whether CSI may contact you by email.

If CSI needs to collect personally identifiable information, a visitor to our site will be alerted and given an opportunity to restrict our use of the information. Every visitor has the right to:

Know when CSI is collecting personal information.
Know what personal information is collected, and the purpose of collection.
Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not personal information will be provided to third parties.
Expect reasonable steps to be taken to protect personal information from unauthorized use.
Expect the opportunity to choose whether or not CSI may use the information to contact you.

You can visit most portions of conservationinstitute.org without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. The only information we collect from a typical web site visit does not identify you. Rather, it is the name of your Internet service provider ("ISP"), the browser and type of machine you are using, the web site that referred you to us, the pages you request and the date and time you request them. We use this information to generate statistics and measure site activity to improve the usefulness of the site to our visitors. CSI does not sell or otherwise disclose such user information outside the organization.

In general, when you visit our web sites and access information you remain anonymous. We do not require you to register or provide personal information to us to view our site. The only occasion, however we will ask for additional information is when you become a CSI member. We do this to provide you with services that may be valuable to you such as sending you the monthly newsletter, The CSI Report. CSI makes every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies.

You may decide to send CSI personally identifying information, for example, in a message containing information about membership. We will only use this information to identify you and to determine how to respond to the electronic mail. We will not use this information for any purpose other than to resolve the matter identified in the email.

What are "Cookies?" A cookie is a small text file sent to your computer’s hard drive by a website’s server. Each time you return to the site that "set" the cookie, the server retrieves its cookie from your computer and thereby knows you are a previous visitor who has returned. Cookies may contain information about your ISP, operating system, browser type, screen resolution and number of colors, your computer’s processor type, your ISP’s server, your Internet protocol address, and what server you were last on. Other information can be added to a cookie, but only information that you give to us.

CSI uses cookies written by our site, but not to obtain information on other web sites that you may visit. Cookies help us by providing some history about the parts of our sites that you have visited. This enables us to help you navigate our site more easily and to determine what pages are most attractive to our visitors.

We will not provide any of your personal information to other organizations -- unless you request otherwise. Whether or not you choose to share your information will have no impact on your interaction with us.

We have made every effort to insure the secure collection and transmission of sensitive user information using industry accepted data collection and encryption methodologies. If you are still concerned about the safety of your credit card information online, you may also submit contributions or other payment to CSI by mailing a check to Conservation Science Institute, P.O. Box 7924, Santa Cruz, CA 95061.

We provide links to third party sites. Because we do not control those web sites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites. That another web site is linked to our site does not constitute an endorsement by CSI of the owner of the other site, the content of its site, or its products or services.

In any section of the site that requests personal information, visitors 13 years of age and under are reminded to obtain permission from an adult before supplying the requested information. In addition, CSI does not actively advertise products in any section of the site intended specifically for children.

CSI welcomes comments and questions on this policy. We are dedicated to protecting your personal information, and will make every reasonable effort to keep that information secure. If you have any questions, please contact us. Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may occasionally update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site.

CSI's Privacy Policy