Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy for Online and Electronic Use

Flushing Town Hall (FTH) is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of its online guests, customers, members, donors, and friends. We do not collect personally identifiable information about individuals-such as their names and postal and/or email addresses-except when it is knowingly provided by such individuals. We believe that maintaining privacy on the Web is very important and we hope you will read this privacy policy carefully so that you will clearly understand both our commitment to you and your privacy and our method of collecting and using information. This privacy policy only applies to transactions made, and data gathered, on The www.flushingtownhall.org Web site and does not apply to any other web site. The terms of this privacy policy shall govern all interactions with Flushing Town Hall through either FTH’s Web site or email. A link to the privacy policy can be found on the home page and on every page on FTH’s Web site. By using FTH’s web site or communicating with FTH by email, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy.

Information Provided by Visitors

You may use FTH’s web site without submitting any personally identifiable information.

When you make a donation, purchase a membership or purchase tickets to any event online, FTH will ask you to create an account and ask you to provide personally identifiable information necessary to process and service your donation, Membership and/or order that may include your name, billing and shipping postal addresses, telephone number, email address, and credit card number. When you make a donation, purchase a Membership or purchase tickets to any event online, your credit card information will be temporarily stored on a secured server only for as long as necessary to process your payment. We will retain the personally identifiable information you provided for our records and to facilitate customer service. You may also be asked for additional information required to complete and service your request.

How Flushing Town Hall Uses Information Provided by Visitors

Flushing Town Hall never shares with third parties any email address you provide when you make a donation, purchase a Membership or purchase tickets to any event online, through the mail, in person, or on the telephone except as required by law.

Children Under Thirteen Years of Age

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under thirteen years of age.

Emails and Newsletters

Flushing Town Hall regularly sends email newsletters to our registered email subscribers. On occasion, FTH may send emails to individuals such as registrants and members who have provided us with their email address, informing them of FTH events or promotions we think might be of interest to them. FTH also sends promotional emails to customers and those individuals who have requested a brochure. Email recipients may always opt out of any email category at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in the email message.

Emailing Flushing Town Hall

FTH tries to respond to email messages requiring a response within seven business days. We try to respond to customer service inquiries related to a purchase within forty-eight hours. If you email FTH, your message and email address will be forwarded to the appropriate department within FTH. FTH may choose to save this information. FTH is pleased to hear from you. However, any message, material, business information, ideas, concepts, or other information sent to FTH by email will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

Data Security

Flushing Town Hall makes every reasonable effort to ensure that all of the transactions that occur on our Web site are secure. All credit card numbers submitted to the site are encrypted using "Secure Socket Layer" (SSL) encryption. SSL technology is an industry standard for protecting sensitive information as it is transmitted over the Internet.

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and administrative procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Third-Party Service Providers

Flushing Town Hall may engage reputable third-party vendors in order to help us manage our Web site and allow us to better service our visitors and customers. These may include third-party vendors engaged to analyze, for marketing purposes, the information collected on our Web site. FTH requires its vendors by contract to maintain the confidentiality and security of information to which they are provided access, and restricts the vendors from using the information in any way not expressly authorized by FTH.

FTH’s site may contain links to other Web sites such as our third-party vendors. Once you leave FTH’s Web site, this privacy policy will not apply.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact:

Shawn Choi
Director of Marketing and Community Engagement
schoi@flushingtownhall.org

Changes to Privacy Policy

Flushing Town Hall may revise its privacy policy at any time. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to review our current policy so that you will always know what information we gather and how we may use that information.