This is the official website of the Rhode Island Horticultural Society. The following methods will be employed to inform, educate and collect further data from our users as interactive tool to increase our users understanding of our services and products:

1. Data Collection

For each visitor to our Web page, our Web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address.

We collect aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit.

The information we collect is used for internal review and is then discarded, and used to improve the content of our Web page only.

With respect to cookies: We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping cart, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, alert visitors to new areas that we think might be of interest to them when they return to our site, record past activity at a site in order to provide better service when visitors return to our site.

If you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at the above address.

2. Technological Breakthrough

From time to time, we make the e-mail addresses of those who access our site available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above.

From time to time, we make our customer e-mail list available to other reputable organizations whose products or services we think you might find interesting. If you do not want us to share your e-mail address with other companies or organizations, please let us know by calling us at the number provided above.

If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line.

Please provide us with your name and phone number. We will be sure your name is removed from the list we share with other organizations

With respect to Ad Servers: We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

3. Information Sharing

From time to time, we may use customer information for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our privacy notice. If our information practices change at some time in the future we will contact you before we use your data for these new purposes to notify you of the policy change and to provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses.

Upon request we provide site visitors with access to no information that we have collected and that we maintain about them.

Upon request we offer visitors no ability to have factual inaccuracies corrected in information that we maintain about them

With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site, We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.

4. Checks & Balances

If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us at the above addresses or phone number, The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at mgoldberger@the-dma.org, state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, state or local consumer protection office, The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.shtm.

5. Contact Information

The Rhode Island Horticultural Society can be contacted for more information about our service, products, policies and other opportunities that are available to our prospective customers.

For more information, send inquires to info(at)rihorticulturalsociety.org.