Overview: Thank you for visiting the National Civil War Museum and reviewing our privacy policy. The National Civil War Museum does not collect personal information about visitors to our Website unless you choose to provide that information to us. The National Civil War Museum does not sell, exchange or release your personal information to parties outside the Museum without your consent. Once we obtain your consent, we consider it valid until revoked by you.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically: If you visit our Website, we automatically gather and store the following information about your visit so that we can track the use of our Website in order to make improvements. This information is stored and used in the aggregate only, and is not used to contact you personally:

• The IP address from which you access our Website
• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account)
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our Website
• The date and time you access our site
• The pages, files, documents and links that you visit
• The Internet address of the website from which you linked to this Website

Security: We take reasonable precautions to ensure that all credit card transactions that occur on the web site are secure. When you submit your credit card for any purchase at the Smithsonian’s network of Web sites, that transaction is encrypted using “Secure Socket Layer” (SSL) encryption to prevent your credit card information from being seen as it travels over the Internet to our servers. We monitor network traffic to ensure that our site remains available to all users and to identify unauthorized attempts to access, upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized access is prohibited and punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.