PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS OF USE

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on January 5, 2026.

Our Commitment to Privacy

Thank you for visiting the Mounts Botanical Garden website. This privacy policy was created to demonstrate the Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden’s (“Mounts Botanical Garden”) firm commitment to the privacy of its mounts.org website users. We have developed this privacy policy to ensure your information is protected. We do not share your information with third-party individuals. We are not responsible for websites linked to or from our website, nor the information or content contained therein.

This statement outlines our information gathering and sharing practices for Mounts Botanical Garden’s website, www.mounts.org, and how this information is used.

Acceptance of Terms

Please read this policy in full before using this site or submitting personal information by electronic or in-person submission. By using our site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. If you do not agree to these foregoing terms and conditions, do not access or use this website.

Information We Collect

Mounts Botanical Garden collects information about users to process your request and provide you with higher-quality communications. Users who sign up to receive e-communications voluntarily, register for our programs, purchase tickets, and members that register on the site, provide information for specific, limited purposes. You may always “opt out” at any time if you do not wish to receive our messages.

How Your Information May Be Used

We only use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; reply to your requests; fulfill ticket purchases; register for classes, workshops, or events; send email alerts; when you participate in a survey or contest; to process membership applications or donations; manage your account; etc. We monitor website visitor traffic patterns to guide our further development and improvement of the site itself and to determine the effectiveness of our website content, programs, and advertisements.

When you complete an online survey on our site, we may ask for contact information (e.g. your email address) and, sometimes, demographic information (e.g. your age, zip code, visitation history and preferences, income range, gender, family size). We use this information to better understand our visitors and potential visitors and to improve this website and our service offerings. We may also use your information to track visitors of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users’ needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.

Privacy

We endeavor to maintain strict security over all the information about the activity of visitors to this site. We do not share any personally identifying data about our website visitors with anyone outside the organization. However, we reserve the right to, without notice to you, share non-public personal information with companies, partners, and associates that work for or with us for the sole purpose of providing you with valuable services you’ve requested or already have through our website. These companies, partners, and associates may assist us in fulfilling your requests or processing your transactions. These companies, partners, and associates are contractually forbidden from disclosing or using our customer information other than to carry out the purposes for which the information was disclosed. These companies, associates, and partners are in no way authorized to sell, rent, or trade your personal information. While there are such contractual obligations in place, we cannot and do not guarantee that a third party could breach its obligation and use your non-public personal information in a way contrary to our policy.

We may also disclose information, including non-public personal information, in special cases when we have a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to legal requirements or comply with the legal process such as, but not limited to, situations when we are required to do so by federal, state, or local laws and regulations, or when we receive a subpoena or are ordered by a court to do so; (b) protect and defend our rights and privileges; or (c) act to protect the interests of our users or others. Additionally, we may, without notice to you, provide aggregate statistics about visitors to our website, such as volume, traffic, and related site information to reputable third party vendors, but these statistics will include no personal information.

Security of Personal Information

The security of your personal data is important to us, and we exercise reasonable care to protect your non-public personal information. This includes storing of personal information on our servers behind a secure firewall and ensuring all transmissions to other vendors use secure encryption technology. Once we receive your transmission, we maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. However, no data transmission over the internet or internet storage is 100 percent secure.

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Mounts.org uses “cookies” and similar tracking devices to help provide better services, understand site usage, and improve the content and offerings on our site.

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your personal device (such as a computer or mobile phone). They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you’ve done and told us before.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some you may not be able to use some parts of our website.

External Links Displayed on Our Site

Mounts.org includes links to external websites that are not operated by us. These links are there for your reference and convenience. We have no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. If you decide to access any of these websites you do so entirely at your own risk and we cannot be responsible for the privacy of the data you may supply to the linked sites, their security or cookie policy.

Modifications

We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove any portions of this policy. Notifications of changes in this policy will be made public on our website. By using this website you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit the page to determine the then current terms of use to which you are bound.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use

As a condition of your use of this website, you agree that you will not use this website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms and conditions of use. Actions that you agree not to take include, but are not limited to: (a) taking or attempting to take any action that grants you access to the website to an extent greater than authorized by Mounts Botanical Garden; (b) taking or attempting to take any action that results in an unauthorized modification, addition, or deletion to the website; (c) taking or attempting to take any action that violates the security of the website; (d) taking or attempting to take any action that would impose an unreasonable or excessively large load on the website’s infrastructure; or (e) knowingly providing false or misleading information to Mounts Botanical Garden. In addition, you are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this website any unlawful, inflammatory, pornographic, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, or profane material, or any other material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the law.

Indemnification

You hereby agree to indemnify, defend, and hold Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden, and all of its officers, directors, agents, employees, information providers, associates, licensors, and licensees (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) harmless from and against any and all liability and costs incurred by the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of any breach by you of the terms and conditions of this policy or any other policy contained on the website, or the foregoing representations, warranties and covenants, including, without limitation, attorney’s fees, and costs.

Accuracy of Information

Visitors to and users of the website are advised that information contained therein is believed to be accurate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Mounts Botanical Garden makes no representation regarding the completeness, accuracy, or timeliness of such information and data, or that such information or data will be error-free.

Opt-in/Opt-out

A user may choose to remove himself or herself from our mailing list by following the “unsubscribe” instructions stated on our email communications, or by requesting this directly.

Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden’s mailing address is 559 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach, FL 33415. Our phone number is 561-233-1757.

Ownership Notice

This website and all of the materials contained therein, including the HTML code, source code, and any other code used to generate any portion of this website, are the copyrighted property of Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden or of third parties who have licensed it to use their property. None of the content or data found on this website may be reproduced, republished, distributed, sold, transferred, or modified without the express written consent of Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden provided, however, that users may reproduce a single copy of any webpage for their personal use. In addition, the trademarks, logos, and service marks displayed on this website (collectively “Trademarks”) are registered and common law trademarks of Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden and/or third-party service providers. Nothing contained on this website should be construed as granting, by implication, estoppels, or otherwise, any license or right to use any of the Trademarks without the express written permission of Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden and/or the appropriate third-party service providers.