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Terms of Use

What is collected:

  • We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile. We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

  • Commenting on a forum on our website will show your username and content contribution to the general public.

  • Information collected through shops sales or emails is used internally by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum to complete transactions. Information collected through the above-mentioned transactions can include name, email, phone number, address, item(s) purchased, and billing details.

  • Users can be removed from our website or forums if users do not follow the terms of use or code of conduct.

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We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • To provide and operate services provided to visitor/user;

  • To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  • To be able to contact our visitors and users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;

  • To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

  • User information collected through restonmuseum.org is not sold to outside sources. ​

  • Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

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How collected information is stored:

  • Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

  • All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. Payments are processed by Stripe, and square and therefore your information can be stored in their records, our email which alerts us of transactions made, etc.  

  • If you email us through our website, information submitted can be stored on our email and potentially printed and filed in our paper records. 

  • Information collected can potentially be stored on services we use such as stripe, bloomerang, square, our email, or printed and kept as a hard copy in our files.

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Other

  • We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our organization, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

  • Our website is tracked on google analytics, addthis, and sharthis which can collect cookie information. 

  • If you do not wish for us to collect this information, please contact us at info@restonmuseum.org or send mail to 1639 Washington Plaza Reston VA 20190.

 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on our website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If you have any questions please contact us at info@restonmuseum.org

Code of Conduct

We want all visitors to restonmuseum.org to feel welcomed and to be treated respectfully. All users of our website must adhere to the following code of conduct:

  • Users must not be rude to, mean to, harass, or threaten other users including the creators of our website.

  • Users must not use profanity or inappropriate language. 

  • Users must not use restonmuseum.org for advertising purposes including commenting or linking to outside content 

  • Users must be honest.

  • Users must be respectful.

  • Users must not upload or link to inappropriate content including inappropriate. information, pictures, and/or outside websites. 

  • Users must be over 18 to participate in the online forum or purchase items off of our website. 

  • Users must not conduct illegal activity on restonmuseum.org including infringing copyright, divulging confidential information, or misrepresent one's identity. 

  • Users must not compromise the security or integrity of restonmuseum.org or any of the users of our website.

  • Users must not post or transmit spam.

  • Each user may only create one account, users cannot create multiple accounts.

  • Users must not post copyrighted material unless it belongs to you.

  • Users must not sell, sublicense and/or otherwise commercialize any Website material

  • Users must not engage in any data mining, data harvesting, data extracting or any other similar activity in relation to this website, or while using this website.

  • This community is a supportive and inclusive space and the discussions and comments here are meant to stimulate conversation. Let others have their say, just as you may, and treat them as you yourself would want to be treated. Don't be abusive or attack or harass others.

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If the above guidelines are not adhered to, users may be removed or banned from restonmuseum.org or from using any of the forums or interactive content on our webpage restonmuseum.org. Any comments deemed inappropriate or that do not adhere to the above guidelines can be removed at any time by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum. We strive to preserve freedom of expression as much as possible. 

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If you feel someone if not following the code of conduct listed above please email info@restonmuseum.org with the relevant information.

If you have any questions please contact us at info@restonmuseum.org.

 

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Privacy Policy

  • restonmuseum.org (“our website”) is owned and operated by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum. All visitors to and users of our website, by visiting or using our website, are acknowledging that the Reston Historic Trust & Museum owns restonmuseum.org, its content and url. 

  • These Terms set forth the terms and conditions under which you may use our website and services as offered by us. Our website offers visitors a chance to learn about and participate in Reston history; purchase tickets, memberships, merchandise; make donations and other services provided by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum. By accessing or using our website or our service, you approve that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms.

  • All visitors and users of restonmuseum.org must follow the terms of use, code of conduct, and privacy policy.

  • Contents, logo and other visual media created by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum and provided on restonmuseum.org is the property of the Reston Historic Trust & Museum and is protected by copyright laws.

  • Restonmuseum.org may be used for browsing, participating in an online forum on our website, purchasing tickets or merchandise, making donations or other services provided by the Reston Historic Trust & Museum.

  • In order to participate in any online forums on our website, purchase merchandise or receive our services, you must be at least 18 years of age, or of the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, and possess the legal authority, right and freedom to enter into these Terms as a binding agreement. You are not allowed to use this website and/or receive services if doing so is prohibited in your country or under any law or regulation applicable to you.

  • All visitors and users of restonmuseum.org may contact the Reston Historic Trust & Museum through our website.

  • We reserve the right to terminate a visitor or users use of our website if our policies our not adhered to.

  • If a visitor or user shares content on our website, by sharing it, they are giving the Reston Historic Trust & Museum permission to share this content with other users (example – posting on our online forum).

  • The restonmuseum.org is not responsible for third party websites that are linked to on our website restonmuseum.org. Any outside links provided on our website are not an endorsement of these sites, companies, organizations, or individuals.  

  • You are solely responsible for protecting your own account password and other account information.

  • In these Website Standard Terms And Conditions, “Your Content” shall mean any audio, video, text, images or other material you choose to display on this Website. With respect to Your Content, by displaying it, you grant Reston Historic Trust & Museum a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute it in any and all media.

  • Purchases or participating on our website is for personal use only.

  • Users must not use restonmuseum.org for advertising purposes including commenting or linking to outside content. 

  • When buying an item, you agree that: (i) you are responsible for reading the full item listing before making a commitment to buy it; (ii) you enter into a legally binding contract to purchase an item when you commit to buy an item and you complete the check-out payment process. The prices we charge for using our services / for our products are listed on our website. We reserve the right to change our prices for products displayed at any time, and to correct pricing errors that may inadvertently occur. Additional information about pricing and sales tax is available on the payments page. The fee for the services and any other charges you may incur in connection with your use of the service, such as taxes, shipping charges, and possible transaction fees, will be charged on to your payment method.

  • For any undamaged product, simply return it with its included accessories and packaging along with the original receipt (or gift receipt) within 14 days of the date you receive the product, and we will exchange it or offer a refund based upon the original payment method. In addition, please note the following: (i) Products can be returned only in the country in which they were originally purchased; and (ii) the following products are not eligible for return: commemorative bricks, memberships, and ticket sales. 

  • You hereby indemnify to the fullest extent Reston Historic Trust & Museum from and against any and all liabilities, costs, demands, causes of action, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney’s fees) arising out of or in any way related to your breach of any of the provisions of these Terms.

  • If you do not accept these terms, do not use our website.

  • We reserve the right to modify this term of use policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on our website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If you have any questions please contact us at info@restonmuseum.org

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