Civil War Preservation Trust Privacy Policy
The Civil War Preservation Trust's website is intended to supply our viewer with information about battlefield preservation and the CWPT's mission. In the course of providing these online services, information may be exchanged between the CWPT, servers, online users and their browsers. In order to access certain material or services on this site, you may be asked to provide your name, address, and additional information. This privacy policy states the Civil War Preservation Trust's policy with regard to the personal information you provide.
Personal Information Collected
In general, when you visit our website and access
information, you remain anonymous. We do not require
you to register or provide personal information to
us to view our site. There are occasions when we will
ask for additional information. We do this to better
understand and respond to your needs, and provide
you with services that may be valuable to you. For
example, personally identifiable information will
be collected in order for you to become a member or
donate to the CWPT online. The CWPT collects personal
information from the following online items:
- Joining Online
- Donating Online
- Shopping Online
- Political Outreach
- Sign Up for E-mail Updates/Newsletters
- Junior Members Section
- Event Registration
Use of Information
To help achieve its mission, personally identifiable information is occasionally made available to other non-profit organizations and occasionally to for-profit organizations unless you request otherwise. While name and address information may be shared, the CWPT does NOT exchange phone numbers or email addresses. Whether or not you choose to share your information will have no impact on your interaction with the CWPT.
To choose confidentiality, please email info@civilwar.org or call 202-367-1861 with the subject heading "Membership Confidentiality." Please include your full name, membership ID number, and address.
You may also write us at:
Civil War Preservation Trust1331 H St., NW Suite 1001
Washington, DC 20005
We will not provide any of your personal information to other organizations if you elect confidentiality.
Information security
We take our users' privacy very seriously. When users submit personal data to the Civil War Preservation Trust, we take steps to ensure the information remains secure both during transmission and while stored offline. Some of these measures include an enterprise grade firewall and secured environment for the data storage. All sensitive donor information is stored in this manner and only accessed by authorized CWPT staff through a monitored and recorded login process using secure communication and password protection.
For our users' protection, this website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the standard of World Wide Web security, whenever financial transactions are being conducted.
Server log data
Our system gathers server log data which may include an IP address, the type of browser and operating system used, the time of day visited, the pages viewed, and search requests. We collect this data and use it for statistical purposes, helping us to ascertain, for example, the amount of interest in portions of our web site, and how to improve the navigation and content of our web site.
Links to Third Party Sites
While the CWPT is highly selective about which sites we provide links to, we do not control their websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies posted on these third party sites.
Due to the rapidly evolving technologies on the Internet, we may update this policy. All revisions will be posted to this site. A revised Privacy Policy will apply only to data collected subsequent to its effective date.