Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the website of Beth Hatefutsoth - The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora.
Beth Hatefutsoth is very concerned with the protection of privacy for all its website visitors and customers. We do not gather personal data about our visitors - such as their names and postal and/or email addresses - except when it is knowingly and willingly provided.
Beth Hatefutsoth utilizes standard logs through its web server to collect certain anonymous information about its visitors.
IP address
The Internet Protocol (IP) address is usually associated with the place from which our visitors access the Internet. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We may use our visitors’ IP address to collect information for aggregate use in our statistics and analyze trends.
Links
The website of Beth Hatefutsoth contains links to other sites for our users’ convenience. Please note that Beth Hatefutsoth is not responsible for the privacy policies of any other sites, whether linked to ours or not. Our visitors should read the privacy statements of each and every website that gathers personally indefinable information.
Security
Beth Hatefutsoth takes great care to ensure that all transactions that occur on our website are secure. All credit card numbers submitted to the site through our various “Search Orders” are encrypted using “Secure Socket Layer” (SSL) encryption.
Emails
If you email Beth Hatefutsoth, your message and email address will be forwarded to the appropriate department within the museum. Beth Hatefutsoth may choose to save this information.
Newsletters
Registered visitors may subscribe or unsubscribe to an email newsletter at any time by informing us directly.
Personally Identifiable Information
Beth Hatefutsoth strives to respect the privacy of our visitors. Personally identifiable information - such as your name, address and e-mail address is collected from voluntary forms such as our Registration Form, various Search Orders for information from our Family Name, Jewish Community, and Genealogy databases, LDS microfilms collection, and Visual Documentation Enquiry Form.
Beth Hatefutsoth does not sell, rent or share personally identifiable information with other parties. The personal information submitted to Beth Hatefutsoth is limited to employees who reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to our visitors or in order to accomplish their tasks.
Beth Hatefutsoth cannot accept information from persons who are under 14 years old, without first obtaining express parental consent.
For more information about the policy of our website please read our Disclaimer. Please note that the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center has its separate bylaws and disclaimer .