Privacy Policy

Our Commitment To Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy the following notice explains the information we collect, how it is used, how it is safeguarded, and how to contact us if you have any concerns.

What Information Is Collected:

Online Purchases
When you make a purchase from the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, we require your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, email address and credit card information to process your order. Your credit card information will be used only as needed to process your transaction.

Online Memberships and Donations
When you purchase a Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh membership or make a donation to Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh online, we ask you to provide us with the information we need to process your membership and/or to acknowledge your contribution. This information includes your name, billing and shipping addresses, telephone number, email address and credit card information. Your credit card information will be used only as needed to process your transaction.

Online Surveys
From time to time, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh may invite you to participate in surveys posted on our website or sent to you by email. You may decide whether or not you wish to complete such surveys, which may ask about your background, opinions or similar questions. We use this information to help us better understand our audience, which in turn allows us to better meet your needs and interests.

Online Contests
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will occasionally offer visitors the opportunity to participate in online contests or sweepstakes. If you choose to enter, you will need to provide your name and e-mail address so that we may contact you in connection with the contest. We may also request that you provide us with certain other information, such as your zip code, and state of residence.

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh E-News
As a service, the Children’s Museum offers visitors to our website the opportunity to subscribe to one or more of our online newsletters. If you choose to subscribe, you will receive these newsletters. You may subscribe or unsubscribe at any time by following the E-News instructions.

Children Eighteen Years Old and Younger
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh does not solicit personal information from children. Visitors sixteen years of age and under should remember that they are required to obtain an adult’s permission before submitting any personal information to this or any other Web site

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’s policy on the use and disclosure of the information it collects on the the Children’s Museum website:

The Children’s Museum uses the personal information you provide to us for internal purposes, such as filling and tracking your order, analyzing trends and collecting statistics. The Children’s Museum may also compile and provide aggregate statistics about our visitors, customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to third parties, but these statistics will not include any personally identifying information.

The Children’s Museum may release account information when such release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law; enforce the terms of any of our user agreements; or protect the rights, property and safety of the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the users of its site or others.

If you have provided us with your email address, we may send you emails in order to inform you of events or activities at or related to the Children’s Museum that we believe may be of interest to you, or to alert you about sales or other promotional events at the Children’s Museum of Pittsbugh online store. If you do not want us to use your email address to contact you for these purposes, you may send an email message containing your name and postal address to hi@pittsburghkids.org.