Thank you for visiting PBS Hawai‘i’s website, pbshawaii.org. PBS Hawai‘i is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of our online guests. We believe that maintaining the highest standards of privacy on the web is crucial to maintaining your trust in PBS Hawai‘i. For this reason, we want to inform our visitors about the types of information we collect and how we use that information.

Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which Hawai‘i Public Television Foundation (“PBS Hawai‘i”) collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (“You” or “Users”) of its website located at http://www.pbshawaii.org/ (the “Website”).

The Types of Information PBS Hawaiʻi Collects

• Non-personally identifiable information
  PBS Hawaiʻi may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you visit its Website. Such information may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you used, the type of browser and operating system you used, the date and time you visited the Website, the Internet address of the site from which you linked to the Website, and which pages you viewed on the Website.
• Web browser cookies
  PBS Hawaiʻi may use “cookies” to enhance your experience with the Website. PBS Hawaiʻi may also use cookies to measure aggregate web statistics, such as collecting the number of Users to the Website, the number of repeat Users and the most popular webpages, and for other purposes. PBS Hawaiʻi does not use cookies to track User activity on an individual basis. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, however, some parts of the Website may not function properly.
• Personally identifiable information
  PBS Hawaiʻi collects personally identifiable information, such as names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and credit card information, from Users when they voluntarily provide such information to us, including, for example, when Users join our mailing list or when Users donate to PBS Hawaiʻi via the Website.  (If you wish to donate to PBS Hawaiʻi but don’t want to submit your personal information through the Website, please feel free to call our Advancement department by telephone at 808.462.5045, or you can mail your donation to PBS Hawai‘i, Attn: Advancement, 315 Sand Island Access Road, Honolulu, HI   96819-2295.)

How PBS Hawaiʻi Uses the Information that It Collects
PBS Hawaiʻi uses Users’ personal information to better understand how Users use the Website so that PBS Hawaiʻi can improve the Website and its offerings. PBS Hawaiʻi also uses Users’ personal information for the purpose for which the Users provided the information, in other words, to add you to our email list, to respond to an inquiry or to process a donation. If you make a donation to PBS Hawaiʻi through the Website, we will automatically add you to our email list and you will start receiving the PBS Hawaiʻi newsletter, unless you opt out. PBS Hawaiʻi may contact anyone on our email list with information that PBS Hawaiʻi thinks will be of interest to you. If at any time you wish to stop receiving communications from PBS Hawaiʻi, please follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email PBS Hawaiʻi sends you, or send PBS Hawaiʻi an email at ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­email@pbshawaii.org and ask to be removed from PBS Hawaiʻi’s email list. If you sign up for the PBS Hawaiʻi newsletter via text, we will text you only in connection with you signing up and will not send you any additional texts without your prior consent.

How PBS Hawaiʻi Protects User Information
PBS Hawaiʻi adopts appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to help protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, but PBS Hawaiʻi cannot guarantee that your information is 100% secure. Your credit card information is not stored by PBS Hawaiʻi.

Sharing Personal Information
PBS Hawaiʻi uses third party service providers to help it operate the Website or administer activities on PBS Hawaiʻi’s behalf, such as collecting donations online. These third party vendors may have access to User information but they are required to protect the confidentiality of the information and to use it only for the limited purpose for which it was provided.

In addition, PBS Hawaiʻi shares personal information about our Users with Public Broadcasting Service (“PBS”) (http://www.pbs.org/). PBS Hawaiʻi will also share personally identifiable information about Users when required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws or to respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant. PBS Hawaiʻi will also share personally identifiable information if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of us or others.

PBS Hawaiʻi may also share personally identifiable information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. Moreover, PBS Hawaiʻi may share personally identifiable information about a User upon the User’s consent.

PBS Hawaiʻi may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personally identifiable information regarding Users with third parties.

Third Party Websites
PBS Hawaiʻi may provide links from the Website to other websites. PBS Hawaiʻi does not control the content or links that appear on these third party websites and is not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Website. These websites and services have their own privacy policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to or from PBS Hawaiʻi’s Website, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies. This Privacy Policy covers only information collected through the use of PBS Hawaiʻi’s Website. In addition, PBS Hawaiʻi does not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals.

Keiki Club and Children’s Privacy
If you sign up any child for PBS Hawaiʻi’s Keiki Club, you acknowledge that you are the parent or legal guardian of such child(ren) and are authorized to provide such information to PBS Hawaiʻi. If you send us a photograph of your child(ren) to be used for an on-air birthday greeting, you represent and warrant that you have the right to provide such photograph to us for these purposes.

We recognize that it is especially important that we protect the privacy of young children. For that reason, PBS Hawaiʻi only collects information about children via the Website from a parent or legal guardian. If PBS Hawaiʻi becomes aware of having information about anyone under 13 that was not provided with parental permission, PBS Hawaiʻi will promptly delete the information.

California Privacy Rights
If you reside in California and have provided your personally identifiable information to PBS Hawaiʻi, you may request information once per calendar year about PBS Hawaiʻi’s disclosures of certain categories of your personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to PBS Hawaiʻi at email@pbshawaii.org.

Changes to this Privacy Policy
PBS Hawaiʻi may update this Privacy Policy at any time. When it does, PBS Hawaiʻi will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. PBS Hawaiʻi encourages Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about what information PBS Hawaiʻi collects and how it uses that information. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of any modifications since your last visit.

Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use the Website. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Opt-Out / Contact Information
Donors may opt out of services by contacting email@pbshawaii.org or by calling 808.462.5000.

Contacting PBS Hawaiʻi
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about PBS Hawaiʻi’s Privacy Policy and PBS Hawaiʻi’s privacy and security practices and/or anything related to the website, please contact us at:

Phone: 808.462.5000
E-mail Address: email@pbshawaii.org