Privacy Policy

  • Our website address is: Kusamurabonsai.org

  • Our club believes privacy is important and does not share or sell any information collected on this site - with a couple of exceptions as described below. Because we use WordPress to manage our website it, and our hosting company collect IP addresses and perhaps other information from visitors. We're interested in where visitors come from but we don't monitor this closely and we do not share this information outside a few members in our club.

  • When you become a club member we ask for postal and email address so we can send you our newsletter and other info. Our members like being able to contact each other – which is why we also have a Club Directory, visible only to other club members. Your name will be visible in that directory. Your mailing address and phone number will not be in the Club Directory. We do our best to ensure that one outside the club has access to the Club Directory.

    In the past our club directory included member email addresses but when we put the directory is online we decided to hide them. We will probably make email addresses visible in the future, but only after asking permission.

    Club officers have member phone numbers, postal mail and email addresses so that they may contact you as needed. 

  • If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. You might not want that. Our system cannot reliably remove that information for you.

  • If you use our Contact Us page to contact us then obviously we ask you for your name, email address and other info on that form so we can reply to your question. That information is sent to our webmaster as email. Generally those emails are replied to and then deleted in a few days. Occasionally we may need to ask other club members to assist in replying to you. In that case your email will be shared with a few people - but only within our club.

  • All websites will automatically place cookies on a visitor's browser to enable essential functions. We cannot disable these. You can remove them manually from your browser.

    We have provided a "Cooky Preference" link in the page footer to allow you to opt in to any additional cookies we may use.

  • Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

    These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. We strive not to use anything that will track users, but it's not always something we can control.

  • If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

  • Any contact information you share with us via the "Contact" form will be seen only by one, or at most a few, club members if required to act on your question or request. It will not be shared with anyone outside the club.

  • By not collecting much information, and being a non-profit organization, we hope there's little incentive for corrupt use of our site. We'll find out.

  • In the event we discover there has been a data breach of our site, we will act as appropriate to determine the extent of the breach and issue notification to those affected.

  • None that we're aware of.

  • None

  • We are not subject to the CCPA law