Thank you for visiting the Asian Art Museum’s website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. The Asian Art Museum is committed to protecting your privacy. The museum's privacy policy statement describes the types of information we gather in connection with your use of the museum's website and the steps we have taken to safeguard such information. By using the museum's website or communicating with the museum by e-mail you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information Provided by Visitors

The museum does not collect personally identifying information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Information volunteered by you through your filling out of our optional online feedback form and "contact us" form is used to help us enhance our website and services, and may be shared with the Asian Art Museum staff and contractors for that purpose.

Information Collected Automatically

The museum collects limited nonpersonally identifying information that your browser makes available automatically whenever you visit a website. This information includes the internet address of your computer or network, the date, time, and page you visited on our site, your browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last webpage you visited before clicking on a link to our site).

We use the aggregated information from all of our visitors to measure server performance, analyze user traffic patterns and improve the content of our site.

We sometimes track the keywords that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but we do not track which terms a particular user enters.

Information Sharing

If you choose to provide personal information to the museum through this website, the museum will use that information for museum-related purposes only.

Cookies

We use "cookies" (small files that reside in a user's Internet browser) to gather information when providing users with personalization services. We use information gathered through cookies to improve the quality of our service and not to track any personal information.

The use of cookies is a standard practice among internet websites. Most internet web browsers' settings may be customized to accept limited cookies or to reject cookies entirely. However, some features of the website may not function properly without cookies.

E-mail Communications

ASIANotes
ASIANotes is our free monthly e-newsletter on news and special events at the museum sent to subscribers via e-mail. To subscribe to the e-newsletter, you will need to provide your e-mail address on our website, which will be stored on a secure server. You have the option to unsubscribe anytime with the REMOVE link on the bottom of any e-newsletter.

“Forward to a Friend” feature
If you use the “Forward to a Friend” feature in ASIANotes, your friend’s e-mail address will not be retained on our website or used in any way by the museum.

E-mailing the museum
If you e-mail the museum, your message will be forwarded to the appropriate department and responded to in a timely manner. However, any information you submit may be saved by the museum and will be considered non-confidential.

Links

The museum uses link and search capabilities to navigate publicly available information from dozens of agencies that are not part of our website and over whom we exercise no control.

The privacy policies and procedures described here do not necessarily apply to those sites.

We suggest contacting these sites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.

Site Security

The museum monitors network traffic and takes other appropriate security measures to identify and protect the museum's website from unauthorized access, alteration, damage or destruction of data.

Policy Changes

Please note that the museum may revise this privacy policy at any time. Such revisions may be in response to changes in the law, policy, or other factors. We encourage you to review our current privacy policy periodically by visiting this site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Asian Art Museum
200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 581-3500
pr@asianart.org

Effective date: July 1, 2005