Privacy Policy
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park
Updated: March 12, 2019. This Policy updates and overrides any preexisting policies found on any Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park web properties.
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park respects your right to privacy. This privacy policy (“Policy”) summarizes the types of information collected through Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s website (www.friendsofdevilslake.org), email, online membership and donation forms, and other web properties (collectively the “Site”), and mail and any other offline collection, and how we use such information. By visiting the Site, providing your information online or through offline collection, and/or receiving emails and mailings from us, you fully accept the terms of this Policy and the practices it describes. If you do not agree, please discontinue your use of the Site and unsubscribe from our email and mailing lists by following the instructions below. If you are signed up for email and mailing updates you may unsubscribe at any time — simply email fodlboard@yahoo.com, or mail us as directed below.
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park reserves the right, at any time and without prior notice, to make updates to this Policy. If we do so, we’ll make sure that updates are posted as described below. Updates are effective immediately upon posting. If you have questions regarding this Policy, please send us an email at fodlboard@yahoo.com and reference “Privacy Policy” in the subject line. You also may mail us as directed below.
What Information We Collect and How We Use this Information:
When you make a donation, sign up to be a member, purchase a product from us, register for a Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park event or program, subscribe to our email list, and/or engage with us online (e.g. filling out a form), Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park asks for personal contact information such as your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. We may use this contact information to provide you with a receipt or financial report; to contact you to clarify or obtain additional information about an order you placed, a donation you made, or an event or program you registered for; or to send you additional information about Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park. If you make a donation, we may contact you on occasion to offer you an opportunity to make another gift, or to invite you to participate in programs. You may also receive a personal call from a board member or member thanking you for your donation. You will always have the opportunity to opt-out of future communications from us. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park does not rent or exchange its list of members with other organizations. Personal contact information may be shared with certain vendors we engage (i.e., reputable companies we use for services such as shipping products or sending mail). Our vendors must agree to maintain the confidentiality of any personal contact information we provide them in order to perform their services. In addition, if you made a donation via an online fundraiser or third-party event, Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park may share your donation information with the fundraising host so the host can measure the success of its activities.
Email and Mail Subscriber and Donor Information
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park gives visitors the option of signing up for our email and mailing list in order to receive information, including, but not limited to, updates about our programs and efforts to support Wisconsin’s most-visited state park, and ways you can join us in providing support. Sign-ups require subscribers to provide their personal contact information that may include name, email address, mailing address, and other similar information. We store this personal information in a secure database. We use this information to communicate with you as described above. We also use this information to engage in our internal analyses and engagement/communication strategies, Site audits, fraud monitoring, and development of new features, that will improve the Site and allow us to assess how we are doing fulfilling Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s mission. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park also provides visitors the ability to support our work through an online donation portal. In order to do so, visitors must indicate the amount of their donation and provide us with their name, mailing address, email address, and other personal information. This information is stored in a secure database. We use it in order to: process and acknowledge your donation; engage in our internal analyses that will allow us to assess how we are doing fulfilling Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s mission; and, unless you direct otherwise by contacting us as directed below, recognize your donation above a certain threshold on Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s donor recognition rolls, including those printed in Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park publications. To complete a donation through our donation portal, donors also must enter their credit card information into fields that are securely encrypted and processed through our third-party credit card processing provider. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park does not itself store or have access to any credit card information you submit here to complete your donation. All credit card processing systems use industry recognized security standards and are PCI compliant. Donors additionally will be added to our email and mailing lists unless they direct otherwise by opting out or contacting us as directed below.
Reserved for Later Use.
Other Collected Information
Log Files
As is customary, Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park may collect additional information through our log files about your use of the Site. Our Site log files may record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address associated with the computer or device you use to access the Site, your browser and operating system, type of device, time and date of visiting the Site, the content you view, the length of your Site visit, and the links you use to access the Site, regardless of whether you sign up for email and mail updates or make an online donation. We use this information to address or help diagnose problems with our server, administer the Site, analyze trends, track visitors’ navigation of the Site, gather broad demographic information for aggregate use in order for us to improve the Site, and deliver customized personalized content.
Use of ‘Cookies’
Our Site may use cookies to store basic information and preferences, so we can customize and enhance your visitor experience. Cookies are pieces of data that websites transfer to your computer or device and are used for record-keeping purposes so that we recognize you when you visit the Site again. Use of cookies makes visits easier by performing functions such as saving your passwords and personal preferences regarding your Site use. Your browser is probably set to accept cookies from us. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings accordingly. If you refuse them, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them. To learn more about cookies, visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.
How We Share Your Information:
From time to time, we may have third parties perform services on Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s behalf, including assisting us with internal data processing and analyses, marketing/engagement/communication strategies, fundraising, constituent management, fraud protection, and other similar activities. Such parties will have access to your personal information only to the extent they need access to perform services for Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park and are required, as our agents, to maintain the confidentiality and security of such information. Otherwise, we will not share your personal information with anyone else, except if we are required to so by law, or, if we have a reasonable belief that such action is necessary to comply with a court order or other legal process served on Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park or the Site; to protect and defend our rights or property, including the Site; or to prevent fraud, injury, or harm to persons or property, including acting under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of our board, members, volunteers, visitors, or the general public. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park reserves the right to share any non-personally identifiable information in any manner we determine is reasonable or necessary, including sharing it with third parties to better assess how the Site is used and identify ways to improve it. We also will share this information with others in an aggregate form to analyze how the Site is used, including statistics such as the number of Site visits.
What Security Measures We Use:
All personal information provided to Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park is transmitted using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. SSL is an industry-accepted coding system that lets your browser automatically encrypt or scramble data before you send it to us. We also protect the personal information we have about you in our databases by placing it on a secure portion of our Site that is only accessible to authorized board members and agents of Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park. Unfortunately, however, no data transmission over the Internet is 100 percent secure. Although we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of such information. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park does not store in our database, nor do we have access to, the credit card information you submit through our online donation portal.
Other Websites and Third-Party Links:
Our Site may contain links to other third-party sites and platforms. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site or platform for which the Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park has no responsibility. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Site, and to read the privacy statements of every site or platform that collects your personal information. This Policy only applies to the information Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park collects through this Site and its emails and mailings.
Information from Children Under 13 or Between 13-17:
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park’s Site is not intended for use by children under 13 years of age, or children between 13 and 17 without parental or legal guardian consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, or children between 13 and 17 without parental or legal guardian consent. If you are under 13, or between 13 and 17 and do not have parental or legal guardian consent, please do not send any information about yourself to Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park has collected personal information from a child under age 13, or a child between 13 and 17 without parental or legal guardian consent, we will delete that information. If you believe that we might have any information from, or about, a child under 13, or between 13 and 17 without parental or legal guardian consent, please contact us by emailing fodlboard@yahoo.com, or as directed below.
Cross-Border Transfer Notice:
The Site is controlled and operated by Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park from the United States. If you are located outside of this country, you acknowledge and understand that any personally identifiable information you submit will be transferred to us here in the United States, the laws of which your country may consider inadequate for data protection. If you are not in the United States and voluntarily submit personally identifiable information to us, you consent to its general use as provided in this Policy and to the transfer and storage of that information in the United States. Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park does not intend to subject itself to the laws or jurisdiction of anywhere outside of the United States.
Changes to Policy:
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park reserves the right at any time and without prior notice to make updates to this Policy. If Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park decides to update this Policy, we will post an update date to the top of this page (www.friendsofdevilslake.org/fodl-privacy-policy/), next to the Privacy Policy link on our homepage, and anywhere else we determine is appropriate to ensure that individuals always know what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we share it. If Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park decides to use email and mail subscribers or donors’ personal information in a way that is different from what is reflected here at the time of collection, we also may notify them by including a note in one of our emails or mailings.
How to Unsubscribe:
You may unsubscribe from Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park email and mail updates at any time, and we will make that option readily available. Unsubscribe links are included at the bottom of every email communication that we send. If you are unable to complete your request through our automated process, please contact us by emailing fodlboard@yahoo.com and include “RE: Privacy Policy” in your subject line. You also may submit an unsubscribe request to us by mail by mailing the address below. Requests are usually completed within several business days. Once you have unsubscribed, Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park will put you on a “do not contact” list but we will retain your information for backup and archival purposes, including, without limitation, to maintain necessary records of donations.
Contact Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy and/or our practices, you can contact:
Friends of Devil’s Lake State Park
P.O. Box 209
Baraboo, WI 53913
You can also send an email to fodlboard@yahoo.com (include “RE: Privacy Policy” in the subject line).