Who we are
Sweden Historical Society (“SHS”) is committed to maintaining robust privacy protections for its users. Our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service.
For purposes of this Agreement, “Site” refers to SHS’s website, which can be accessed at https://swedenhistoricalsociety.com.
“Service” refers to SHS’s services accessed via the Site, in which users can discover information about the Historical Society.
The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to SHS.
“You” refers to you, as a user of our Site or our Service.
By accessing our Site or our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages 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.
Information we collect
We collect “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information.” Non-Personal Information includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data, general demographic information we may collect, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, preferences you submit and preferences that are generated based on the data you submit and number of clicks. Personal Information includes your email, address, date of birth, and other contact information, which you submit to us through the registration processes for regattas, etc.
How We Use and Share Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, SHS) are called “first party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third party cookies”. Third party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. like advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why do we use cookies?
We use first and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes. Cookies are categorized as third-party or first-party depending on whether they are associated with the domain of the site a user visits. Third-party cookies are associated with a domain that is different from the domain of the site a user visits. This is described in more detail below:
Essential or Strictly Necessary cookies:
swedenhistoricalsociety.com
SHS sets a session cookie for analytics purposes. The statistics for this cookie provides information about visitor behavior on the Site, such as an overview of the number of page impressions and visits for individual pages. These statistics are never shared with any other parties and the cookie is deleted when the user leaves the Website.
Third party cookies:
calendar.google.com
This cookie helps embed and display calendars on the Site that are synchronized with Google calendars.
clients6.google.com
This cookie helps us embed and display images on the Site that are stored on Google Drive.
Advertising cookies:
The Site contains no advertising.
Do you use web beacons, Flash cookies, or Local Shared Objects?
No web beacons, Flash cookies or Local Shared Objects are used on this Website