We Respect Your Privacy

The National Elephant Center respects your privacy. Our privacy policy for this site follows, but the bottom line is that The National Elephant Center will not sell or share any of your personal information to any third parties. The National Elephant Center will gather personally identifiable information about you only when you provide it voluntarily for specific purposes such as signing up for an e-mail newsletter.

Web Site and E-mail Privacy Notice

We collect no personal information about you when you visit this web site, unless otherwise stated and unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. What we collect and store automatically is:

• The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g. 123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP),
• The date and time you accessed our site,
• The pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page), and
• The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site.
• We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes, such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this web site except when required by law enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

Comments Sent by E-mail

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other The National Elephant Center representatives who may be better able to help you. Except for messages sent in response to requests for public comments, or in the case of authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share your e-mail, or your e-mail address, with any other outside organizations.