PRIVACY POLICY

The Museum of Western Art Foundation (“The Museum of Western Art,” “MoWA,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) provides this privacy notice to describe how we collect and process the personal information of individuals who visit our website, www.museumofwesternart.com (“Site”) or interact with us offline, such as through email or telephonic communications.

Information Collection

We collect the information you provide us through the Site and offline, including your name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, employment information, financial information, social media information, and any other information you choose to provide. We collect this information when you purchase an item through our online store, submit a membership application, apply for job opportunities, donate to MoWA, complete online forms, or interact with us for any other purpose.

We may also gather technical information including, but not limited to, browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Site, device type, and time and date of visit. We may also receive information about your current location if permitted by your browser settings. We may use cookies or similar technology to collect such information.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps

We share this information with Wix, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Wix, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Customer Accounts

If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.

This information may include your:

Billing and shipping address(es)
Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.

Emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

You’ve created a Customer Account
Your Customer Account password has been reset or updated
You’ve made a purchase
Your order has shipped
Information regarding you membership(s) order
Information regarding a donation placed online

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address

visitor data - for customers

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)
Email address
Name
Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

visitor data - website visitors

This website is hosted by Wix. Wix collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address

Wix needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Wix analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Information Use

We process your personal information, including for the following purposes:

To communicate with our members;
To fulfill member benefits, and provide sponsorship opportunities;
To confirm and process online transactions;
To create mailing lists;
To improve the Site, including to improve the features, tools, functionality, and content available on the Site and through MoWA;
To comply with the law; and/or
As otherwise disclosed at the time personal information is collected.

Where we intend to process your personal information for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was collected, we will provide you with information regarding the purpose for the processing, as well as other relevant information, prior to processing your personal information for the new purpose.

Information Sharing

We share your personal information, including with the following parties:

Third parties that perform services on our behalf, including those that carry out activities related to our membership services and events, and those that assist with our business operations, including data storage providers, software providers, employment relations providers, insurers and banking partners, and publishers;
Our business partners, including those that sponsor, host, or exhibit at our events, or other third parties for their own marketing purposes. Please visit the “Choices” section below for additional information;
As part of a corporate sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets including as part of a bankruptcy proceeding;
Pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required by law, or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties; or
With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.

We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.

International Visitors

This section applies to those that visit our Site from the European Economic Area or Switzerland.

MoWA processes personal information with your consent (e.g., when MoWA processes personal information to provide goods and services you request, such as to process donations you make).

On other occasions, MoWA may process personal information when it needs to do this to fulfill a contract (e.g., to process membership applications) or where required to do this by law.

If necessary, MoWA may also process personal information when it is in MoWA’s legitimate interests to do this (e.g., for customer service and fraud detection purposes) and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

Please be aware that the personal information we collect may be transferred to and maintained on servers or databases located outside your state, province, country, or other jurisdiction, where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your location. If you are located outside of the United States, please be advised that we process and store personal information in the United States.

You have a right to the following:

To request access to the personal information we hold about you;
To request that we rectify or erase your personal information;
To request that we restrict or block the processing of your personal information;
Under certain circumstances, to receive personal information about you that we store and transmit to another without hindrance from us, including requesting that we provide your personal information directly to another, i.e., a right to data portability; and
Where we previously obtained your consent, to withdraw consent to processing your personal information.

To exercise these rights, contact assistant@museumfowesternart.com. Please be aware that MoWA may be unable to afford these rights to you under certain circumstances, such as if we are legally prevented from doing so.

Additionally, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us. To do so, contact the supervisory authority in your country of residence.

Retention

We will process and store your information only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of the storage, or as permitted by law. The criteria used to determine the period of storage of information is the respective statutory retention period or as provided in our record retention policy. After expiration of that period, the corresponding information is routinely deleted, as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of a contract or the initiation of a contract.

Third-Party Links and Tools

We may work with third parties that collect data about your use of the Site and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. MoWA uses Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the Site and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our Site, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

The Site may provide links to third-party websites or apps, including our social media pages. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites or apps, and they are not covered by this privacy notice. You should review the privacy notices of other websites or apps that you use to learn about their data practices.

The Site may also include integrated social media tools or “plug-ins,” such as social networking tools offered by third parties. If you use these tools to share personal information or you otherwise interact with these features on the Site, those companies may collect information about you and may use and share such information in accordance with your account settings, including by sharing such information with the general public. Your interactions with third-party companies and your use of their features are governed by the privacy notices of the companies that provide those features. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy notices of any accounts you create and use.

Choices

To opt out of our e-mail marketing, you may use the link provided at the bottom of each marketing message.

Updating Your Information

You may review and update your communication preferences by contacting us through the information provided in the “Contact” section below.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

If we decide to change our privacy notice, we will post these changes on this page. We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of updates.

Contact

If you have questions, comments, or concerns about this privacy notice, please contact us at:

The Museum of Western Art, 1550 Bandera Highway, Kerrville, TX 78028

(830) 896-2553
assistant@museumofwesternart.com