Effective Date: September 17, 2026
The Maritime Museum of San Diego (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information when you visit sdmaritime.org, purchase tickets, make a donation, subscribe to communications, contact us, or otherwise interact with our website and related services.
1. Information We Collect
- Information You Provide: When you purchase tickets, make a donation, sign up for newsletters, submit an inquiry, or otherwise interact with us, we may collect information such as your name, email address, phone number, billing information, and other information you choose to provide.
- Automatically Collected Information: When you use our website, we may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and interactions with the website. Optional analytics and marketing technologies are used according to your cookie preferences.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies for necessary website functions and, with your consent where applicable, for analytics and marketing. See our Cookie Policy for more information and details about managing your preferences.
2. How We Use Your Information
We may use the information we collect to:
- Process ticket purchases, donations, registrations, and other transactions.
- Provide customer support and respond to inquiries.
- Operate, maintain, and improve our website and services.
- Send newsletters, promotional emails, and other communications when you have chosen to receive them.
- Understand how visitors use our website through analytics.
- Measure the effectiveness of our marketing and advertising.
- Protect the security and integrity of our website and services.
- Comply with applicable legal obligations.
3. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with service providers that help us operate our website and provide services, including ticketing, payment processing, email communications, analytics, marketing, website hosting, and other business operations.
We may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, or security of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, our visitors, or others.
4. Cookies, Analytics, and Marketing
We use Google Analytics through Google Tag Manager to help us understand how visitors use our website. We also use the Meta Pixel to help measure the effectiveness of our marketing.
Optional Analytics and Marketing cookies and technologies are controlled through our cookie consent system. You can accept or reject optional cookies, choose individual categories, and change your preferences through the cookie settings on our website.
For more information, see our Cookie Policy.
5. Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, or to object to or restrict certain types of processing.
You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications by using the unsubscribe link included in those messages. You may also manage optional cookies and tracking technologies through the cookie settings on our website.
To ask a question or make a privacy-related request, contact us.
6. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to help protect personal information. However, no method of transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
7. Third-Party Services and Links
Our website uses third-party services for functions such as online ticketing, payment processing, email communications, analytics, and marketing. These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
Our website may also contain links to websites operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites.
8. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, services, or applicable requirements. The current version will always be available on our website.
9. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, contact us.