Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Friends of Boothe Park, Inc. is a nonprofit organization supporting Boothe Memorial Park & Museum in Stratford, Connecticut. The website helps visitors plan a visit, learn about the park, find events, donate, become members, volunteer, and stay informed.

You can contact us at PO Box 902
Stratford, CT 06615, by phone at (203) 381-2046, or by email at friendsofboothepk@gmail.com.

Information We Collect

We collect information you choose to provide when you use our forms, contact us, sign up for updates, donate, become a member, or volunteer. This may include your name, email address, phone number, mailing address, membership or donation details, dedication messages, volunteer interests, availability, signup source, and notes or questions you submit.

If online payments are enabled, payment details are processed through Stripe. Friends of Boothe Park receives transaction and supporter information needed for receipts, records, follow-up, and accounting, but we do not need full credit card numbers for our records.

Like most websites, we may also collect technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, referring pages, approximate location, dates and times of visits, and cookie or analytics identifiers.

How We Use Information

• To respond to questions, volunteer inquiries, membership requests, donation notes, and event-related messages.
• To manage donations, memberships, volunteer interest, nonprofit records, receipts, and follow-up communication.
• To send email updates through Mailchimp when you sign up to receive Friends of Boothe Park news, event notices, and volunteer updates.
• To process payments and help prevent fraud, chargebacks, misuse, or unauthorized activity.
• To understand how visitors use the website and improve content, navigation, accessibility, and visitor experience.
• To meet legal, tax, accounting, security, and nonprofit recordkeeping needs.

Services We Use

We use WordPress and website hosting tools to operate the site. We use Gravity Forms to collect form submissions. We may use Stripe for payments, Mailchimp for email updates, Google Analytics for website measurement, and ordinary email or administrative tools to manage responses and records.

These service providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and contracts with us. You can review their policies at Stripe, Mailchimp, Google, and Gravity Forms.

Cookies And Google Analytics

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. WordPress, Gravity Forms, Stripe, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, or other site tools may use cookies or similar technologies for site operation, form handling, payment security, email signup, analytics, and fraud prevention.

We use Google Analytics to understand general website activity, such as pages visited and how visitors move through the site. Google Analytics may collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can control cookies through your browser settings and learn about Google Analytics privacy choices, including the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Email Updates

If you join our mailing list, we use your signup information to send Friends of Boothe Park news, event notices, volunteer updates, and related nonprofit communications. We may use double opt-in or confirmation emails. You can unsubscribe by using the unsubscribe link in a Mailchimp email or by contacting us.

Payments, Donations, And Memberships

When Stripe payments are available, Stripe processes payment information and may collect payment method details, billing details, transaction data, device information, and fraud-prevention information. Friends of Boothe Park uses the information we receive to process gifts, memberships, receipts, acknowledgments, accounting, and donor or member follow-up.

Retention And Your Choices

We keep information for as long as needed for the purpose collected, including nonprofit operations, accounting, tax, legal, security, and recordkeeping needs. You may ask us to access, correct, update, delete, or stop using your information, and we will respond as appropriate based on the type of record and any legal or operational retention needs.

You may unsubscribe from email updates at any time. You may also disable cookies in your browser, although some site features may not work as intended.

Children And Sensitive Information

This website is not directed to children under 13. Minors should use forms with a parent or guardian. Please do not submit Social Security numbers, medical information, bank account information, passwords, or other sensitive personal details through general website forms.

Security

We use reasonable administrative and technical steps to protect information, but no website or internet transmission is completely secure. If you believe information submitted through the site has been misused, please contact us promptly.

Third-Party Links

The website may link to the Town of Stratford, social media pages, payment tools, email tools, event resources, PDFs, or other third-party websites. Those sites and services are governed by their own policies.

Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated date at the top of the page will show when the policy was last revised.